Stay With God
De Simple Silence.
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[modifier] The Breaking Of God's Silence
« God in the Beyond-Beyond state is likened to a soundless, shoreless Ocean. The « Whim » of God for knowledge of Himself (« Who am I ? ») manifested as Sound. This Oceanic Sound is of God and is God and contains, and is, His experience of Power, Knowledge, Bliss. The emergence of this Sound through what is called the « Om-Point » or Its Creative Utterance produced the worlds of Mind, Energy and Matter. This Primal Oceanic Sound is the Root of all forms and creatures and men and they are continuously connected with It and derive their life from It. When one closes one’s lips and expresses sound a « m-m-m » is produced. This « m-m-m » is the foundation or ground of all spoken words and contains all feelings as when it expresses pain and anguish or joy and happiness, or all thought when expressed during thought and is capable of containing the whole of a question and its answer. This « m-m-m » is a « drop » of faint sound of the Oceanic Sound, the « M-m-m » or « Word » of God separated from the Ocean by seven shadows of separation. If the whole physical universe was a huge bell, the sound of it in comparison with sound of the Oceanic Sound would be as the furthermost point of audibility of an ordinary bell. This sound-drop is not different from the Oceanic Sound — it is that Ocean and can never be anything but Ocean — but it experiences itself as a drop because of separation. This separation is not a separation by division, but a separation through impression. (As words are expressions of this drop — « m-m-m » separated from the Oceanic « M-m-m », so are sense actions expressions and experiences removed from Oceanic Experience : seeing and seen from Oceanic Sight, hearing and heard from Oceanic Hearing, smelling and scent, tasting and flavour, touching and touch from corresponding Oceanic Faculties.) This Original Oceanic « M-m-m » is called Brahm-Nad (Sound or « Word » of God) or Unhud-Nad (Limitless Sound or « Word »). It is continuous and is the eternal Root and continuous Cause of all causes and effects. It experiences All-power, All-knowledge and All-bliss ; but the drop « m-m- m », although of the same « substance » and not in anyway different from the Oceanic « M-m-m », and although continuously connected with It, feels, because of its separation through seven shadows of separation, most weak, most ignorant and most unhappy — even though at times it asserts strength, knowledge and happiness. In this present age when words through accumulation and accretion, have become meaningless and all My previous words in the form of Precepts are neglected and distorted, I maintain Silence. When I break My silence and speak, it will be this Primal Oceanic « M-m-m » which I will utter through My human mouth. And because all forms and words are from this Primal Sound or Original Word and are continuously connected with It and have their life from It, when It is uttered by Me It will reverberate in all people and creatures and all will know that I have broken My silence and have uttered that Sound or Word. The effective force of this Word in individuals and their reactions to It will be in accordance with the magnitude and receptivity of each individual mind. And the reaction will be as instantaneous and as various as the reaction of people in a room through which a cobra suddenly and swiftly passes, when some would nervously laugh, some lose control of their bowels, and some feel great courage or reasonless hope and joy. » --- AVATAR MEHER BABA
[modifier] Dreaming And Dreaming
Meher Baba
When you sleep and dream you experience association with people, speaking with them and doing actions in relation to them, see all manner of objects in your surroundings, and feel happiness or unhappiness in regard to them all. Where do all these people and objects come from ? Not from outside yourself but from within you. You create them for your own experiencing — and no one but you sees, knows about and experiences what you are seeing, knowing and experiencing. They exist only for you.
In like manner, you are sitting in this room seeing these other persons and the objects in the room, and, in like manner, no one but you is seeing them and experiencing them — that is, seeing and experiencing them as you are seeing and experiencing them. They exist solely for you and have come from nowhere but from within you — you have created them for your experience of them.
What is called your « awake-state, » your daily life with all its associations and experiences is only you dreaming and in your dream creating all the persons and objects in that dreaming for your experience of them ; what is called your dreaming when asleep is but another dream within this dream.
When you awake from your asleep-dreaming into your awake dream you know that the asleep-dreaming was only a dream. When you awake from your awake-dreaming you will know that you were the sole creator of both the dreams, and all the people, objects and situations contained in them — that they existed only in you and were for no one but you and were nothing but dream experiences of your own dreaming ; and that you alone have Real Existence.
WHEN REAL LIGHT APPEARS THIS DARKNESS WHICH YOU THINK IS LIGHT DISAPPEARS.
[modifier] Sweep The Pavements
But because the Word of God may not be denied – the words of His Word : « Love One God and thy neighbour, » « think, speak and act truthfully, » and « have compassion on all things » – not only did lovely Art become lost to us – lost along symphonic horizons and among boudoir pianos and mulish metrics – but Nature herself, ever loving and dutiful to God and weeping for His dear Son pierced by arrows and thorns and bruised by stones, revolted : assumed new forms of terrible disease ; rained floods, burnt the lands with drought ; gave earth’s choicest soils back to the oceans and poisoned the last drops of the divine springs of human affection – so that the tender word now only growls in our throats, and love’s glance freezes in our eyes or bulges belligerency, and our no-parents-children sweep the pavements with their eyelashes looking for God.
[modifier] Tears Of Compassion
--Oh, in the dawn I heard the news being bandied about, « Today is being spread the feast for the Tavern-keeper’s son. » I would sweep the floor of the tavern with my eyelashes if there was any chance of being invited.
And I heard (in my dreaming, which O fool, I fondly imagine is waking) the sound of great drops of water splashing, and saw a fountain glorious in the sun, and knew (or was told) « These are the tears of compassion of the Perfect Master. »
Francis Brabazon. Meher Baba Foundation. © 1977 Francis Brabazon
