NAQSHBANDI SUFI BRIJ MOHAN LAL

CELEBRATING SAMADHI DAY OF

SUFI BRIJ MOHAN LAL A BENEDICTION

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CONTENTS 1. PRODUCTION TEAM 2. ONE WORD –TAOSHOBUDDHA 3. SUFI BRIJ MOHAN LAL – PICTURE 4. EK LAMHA – ONE MOMENT TAOSHOBUDDHA 5. SHRINE SUFI BRIJ MOHAN LAL 6. SHRINE SUFI SHAH BAHAUDDIN NAQSHBAND 7. TAOSHOBUDDHA AT THE SHRINE 8. SHAH BAHAUDDIN NAQSHBAND THE PRECEPTOR 9. INTRODUCTION TO MOHAMMAD AL BAQUI BILLAH 10. SHRINE MOHAMMAD AL BAQUI BILLAH 11. PARABLE OF SUFI BRIJ MOHAN LAL 12. SUFI BRIJ MOHAN LAL- A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 13. SPIRITUAL COMMANDMENT 14. TRANSCENDANCE O ROOH 15. ETERNAL BELOVED – SWAMI ANAND NEELAMBER 16. TO MEDITATE – SWAMI DHYAN YATRI 17. TEARS OF BLISS – MA PREM SUTRA LISTEN TO AUDIO MEDITATIONS OF TAOSHOBUDDHA ON YOU TUBE ACCOUNT ‘TAOSHOBUDDHA01’ AND ON TOTAL BHAKTI.COM ACCOUNT ‘TAOSHOBU’

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ONE WORD When truth manifests itself there can be no better song! No better melody!

Today truth manifests itself as a tribute to Naqshbandi Sufi Master Brij Mohan Lal in commemoration of Samadhi day on Jan 17th. The sun rises every day. Some say it is same old. Sun is consciousness that lends its light of awareness to the entire cosmos. It is in the light of the sun that everything gets illumined.

Master is like the sun that has once illumined continues to share its light even after it is no more. Consciousness cannot be destroyed.

It always is. Only you have closed your doors and windows. Open all your windows and doors and come under this sun of awareness.

This present work is an introduction to the realm of the Naqshbandi Master. On Jan 17th 1955 he entered Samadhi. And on Jan 20th the same year his mortal coils were enshrined. Since then the shrine has become the source of illumination to thousands who visit the shrine and are connected with the master in one way or the other.

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In preparation of this work many have contributed. Each one of these contributors is growing in awareness.

Swami Anand Neelamber is the Chief Editor of ‘MEDITATION TIMES TM a Downloadable e magazine on the web site ‘www.http//taoshobuddhameditations.com’ and scribd.com. Swami Dhyan Yatri and Ma Prem Sutra have their own contributions – the work of awareness as a beacon light.

This present work is the production of Sufi Lakshmi Sahai. He is the son –in-law of Sufi Brij Mohan Lal. It is a benediction to have something in your hand as the work from Sufi Lakshmi Sahai.

So Much for now!

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NAQSHBANDI SUFI BRIJ MOHAN LAL 1898 - JAN 17TH 1955

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#k lMha #k lMha jae gujra hE tere saw, Da ja@ ijNdgI me< merI bn ke nUr tera. ijNdgI hae pEgame muhBbt, duAa hE yhI merI rb se lMha lMha. ALlah hU ALlah hU ALlah hU, lMha lMha ALlah hU ALlah hU. Taoshobuddha ONE SOLITARY MOMENT THAT HAS BEEN SPENT IN THY COMPANY MAY SPREAD IN MY LIFE AS THY LIGHT DIVINE! AND MY LIFE AND LIVING MAY BECOME A MESSAGE OF LOVE AND HARMONY! SUCH IS MY PRAYER EACH FINITE MOMENT! ALLAH HOO! ALLAH HOO! ALLAH HOO! LAMHA! LAMHA! ALLAH HOO! ALLAH HOO! ALLAH HOO!

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SHRINE HAZRAT SHAH BAHAUDDIN NAQSHNABD. HE INITIATED THE NAQSHBANDI SUFI ORDER IN THE PRESENT FORM! 1318-1389 BOKHARA

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TAOSHOBUDDHA AT THE SHRINE SHAH BAHAUDDIN NAQSHBAND

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he Naqshbandi Sufi order, which traces its lineage back to Hazrat Ali, Hazrat Abu Bakr and other masters or the central figures in early Islam derives its name from that of a 14th century Central Asian mystic named Bahauddin al-Naqshbandi. Born in 1318 AD, in the village Qasr-i-Hinduvan (later renamed Qasr-i Arifan) near Bukhara, he experienced profound

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visionary revelations in his youth. Became a brilliant Islamic scholar before the age of twenty!

He made the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca three times and became a greatly venerated holy man during his life time. Visitors from across Central Asia came to Bukhara to see the sage, seek his advice, and receive teachings in the school he had established. Following his death in 1389, Sheikh Bahauddin al-Naqshbandi was buried adjacent to his school, directly upon the site of an ancient pagan temple.

The Naqshbandi Sufi order is one of the oldest living traditional Sufi orders. The early members of the order rejected outward shows of religious expression and concentrated upon the inner spiritual life while engaged in the affairs of the world. With followers throughout Central Asia, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, the Naqshbandi Sufis, as both travelling merchants and mystics, played a major role in the introduction of Islam across Asia. Believing that piety is better expressed by social activity than retreat from the world, the Naqshbandi masters often became actively involved in politics. By the 15th century they had become the dominant Sufi order in much of Central Asia and actively

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influenced politics from China to India to the Middle East. Today the Naqshbandi Order is the foremost Sufi order in the world and is experiencing an unprecedented period of growth, not only in its traditional heartlands of Central Asia, Turkey, the Middle East and South Asia, but in nations of the Western world, particularly the United States and Great Britain.

It was from Hazrat Amir Kulal that Bahauddin received his fundamental training on the path and whose company he kept for many years. Still more significant, however, was the instruction Bahauddin received in the method of silent dhikr from the Ruhaniya of Abdul Khaliq Gijadwani (Ruhaniya refers to an initiation dispensed by the spiritual being of a departed preceptor). Although he was a spiritual descendant of Abdul Khaliq, Amir Kulal practiced vocal dhikr, and after Bahauddin received instruction in silent dhikr (dhikr khafi), he would absent himself from Amir Kulal's circle of followers whenever they engaged in dhikr of the tongue. This separation of Bahauddin from Amir Kulal's circle may be thought of as marking the final crystallization of the Naqshbandiya, with silent dhikr, received from Abdul Khaliq Gijadwani and ultimately

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inherited from Hazrat Abu Bakr. This later established as normative for the order.

hm ouda OvahI vhMa duiNaYaaYae dU< YaI< OYaal ASTaae Mauhal ASTaae JauNaU< Once you are ready to thread along the inner journey one has to severe all relations with the outer and more so with lower emotion. It was considered all such connections are impediments along the path. This was the belief then. It was Azizan Ali Ramatini who made certain changes in the technique. And thus made the path easier for the aspirants! It was he who said that from now onwards the master also has certain responsibility in this process of transformation.

Earlier it was the aspirant who has to do all efforts in this process. But from now onwards 80% is the responsibility of the disciple and the remaining 20% is the responsibility of the master. But this could not be brought into practice until later. It was only Bahauddin Naqshband who brought this into practice. He broke the tradition of khanquah - the commune or ashram. He used to initiate people even during the travels, and also en mass. Even those who had

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no inner preparation, Bahauddin used to initiate them. Something like this never happened before.

While visiting the sick he used to give them a technique to practice. To these he used to give the most intricate techniques, which were forbidden up to now. This surprised even his disciples in the inner circles - the khalifas. They all felt these state they attained with so much efforts. And now the master is sharing these with all and sundry without any reservation. Had Bahauddin not made such changes in the system the humanity would have remained deprived of this inner treasure? Another Naqshbandi master Sufi Raghuber Dayal said man attains much through service to God through the creation. And greatest service is that of time. Devote your time in the service of the Eternal.

Because of all such changes in the system this came to be known as Naqshbandia. Along with any technique or dhikr Bahauddin used to inscribe certain impressions on the heart of the person that worked like hypnosis. And now the person cannot think of anything else. This is called inscriptions. And these work very deep in the human heart. This made his master Hazrat Amir Kulal says that you are Naqshbandi now -

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one who makes Bahauddin sings:

impressions.

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ecstatic

AJab Yah iSaliSala Saalare hk ka ik le JaaTae hE< prde Mae< hrMa tk.

AJAB YEH SILSILA SAALARE HAQ KE KI LE JATE HAIN PARDE ME HARAM TAK O what a unique system of transcendence is this you are being taken to the most inner most sanctum secretly and silently!

(REFERENCE:

LEAVES TAOSHOBUDDHA)

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MUHAMMAD AL-BAQI BILLAH THE FIRST NAQSHBANDI MASTER TO SETTLE IN INDIA IN PREPARATION FOR THE THIRD MILLANEUM OR THE ADVENT OF NAQSHBANDI SHEIKH AHMAD FAROOQUI AL MUJADDADI ALIF THANI SIRHINDI

SHRINE MOHAMMAD AL BAQUI BILLAH PAHAR GANJ, OLD RAILWAY STATION, DELHI, INDIA

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Introduction to Baqi Billah: ALlah Agr TaaE)Ik n de #Nsan ke bs ka kam nhI<, )Ejane muhBbt Aam hE #r)ane muhBbt Aam nhI. ALLAH AGAR TAUFIK NA DE INSAN KE BAS KE KAAM NAHI FAIZANE MUHABBAT AAM HE IRFANE MUHBBAT AAM NAHIN!!

IF ALLAH DOES NOT MAKE YOU CAPABLE REMEMBER IT IS NOT IN THE HANDS OF THE FINITENESS OF MAN ORDINARY LOVE IS COMMON BUT THAT LEADS TO DUALITY AND CONFLICT ETERNAL LOVE OR LOVE DIVINE IS NOT COMMON!!

ONLY AN ENCHANTED HEART IS FILLED WITH THIS ENERGY –THE SUBLIME AND SANCTIFIED!!!

BIRTH AND LIFE:

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e was born in 972 H. in the city of Kabul in the land of Ajam which was a colony of the Sultanate of India. His father was the judge Abdu-s-Salam. He went to India in the first

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instance on personal business. There he was attracted to an attraction from God's attraction.

He left this worldly life behind and sought spiritual knowledge from the Master of the century. He kept company with masters and saints, until he himself became an ocean of intellect and a saint of spirituality. He travelled continuously until he reached the city of Samarqand. There he connected himself to the Master of his time, Muhammad Khwaja alAmkanaqi (q). He received from him the Way of the Naqshbandi Order. In a very short time he received what most seekers require a lifetime to receive. He was elevated also through the spiritual care of Ubaidullah al-Ahrar (q). His honor became known everywhere. His sheikh, Muhammad Khwaja al-Amkanaqi, authorized him to take followers and to train them in the conduct of the Order. He ordered him to go back to India.

He predicted, "You are going to have a follower who will be like the sun." This prediction was for Imam Rabbani Ahmad al-Faruqi (q).

JOURNEY TO INDIA AND WORKS: Baqi Billah was the first Naqshbandi master to come to India. And latter settled in New Delhi. His shrine is in old Delhi behind Pahar Ganj railway

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station inside the Mohammaden cemetery. I have given the picture depicting the outside view of the cemetery, and the actual shrine. The gate has the

OUTSIDE VIEW OF THE SHRINE BAQI BILLAH EIDGAH RAOD PAHAR GANG ROAD BEHIND PAHAR GANG RAILWAY STATION NEW DELHI, INDIA

inscription of Baqi Billah. Inside anyone can direct you to the shrine. Lucky are those who can pay the visit to the shrine. And those who cannot reach there for such aspirant meditation considering the picture as shrine will work. This is my trust. This work is the link between you and the master. Only you have to be available.

His sheikh, Muhammad Khwaja al-Amkanaqi did not make any changes in the technique or tariqat,

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however he instructed Baqi Billah to bring even the ordinary ones into the fold. Make this spiritual awareness available to the people who are still not on the path, was the trust and the instruction of his master. Once Baqi Billah visited a master who told him it is good that you have brought so many into this fold. Nearly half of these are incapable on their own. Transform these people. Bring the light divine or noor into their hearts so that it begins to shine with the Light Absolute and can kindle up the dark being.

Sheikh Amkanaqi asked him not to look at the inner capacity of the individual. This way you will never find aspirants. Had Baqi Billah not brought such relaxations in the tariqat a vast cross section would have remained deprived of this inner treasure. Amkanaqi said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am sending you to a distant land whose very texture is soaked in spirituality. It is the land sanctified, nourished and nurtured by such forces from times immemorial. A land which is ready to explode any path! A land whose very being is not only ready but has the capability to infuse life even in a dead heart. I am sending you to INDIA. India has been the University of Meditation and the BEACON

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LIGHT not only now but from TIMES IMMEMORIAL. It has created many Buddhas.

He moved back to India and stayed in the city of Delhi, which he filled with faith and knowledge and secrets and lights. Through him the Naqshbandi Order was spread with great swiftness throughout the Indian Subcontinent and millions of people were connected to him through his various Khalifas. All nations in the Subcontinent were attracted to his knowledge and his ENERGY FIELD or tawwajzoh and to the Prophetic Characteristics dressing him. It became known throughout the Indian Subcontinent that anyone coming to him and looking in his eyes, or sitting in his proximity doing dhikr, would enter a state of Self-Effacement and intoxication, through which he could reach a state of Annihilation, in a single meeting. By this miraculous power he attracted millions of people, until this Naqshbandi Order was on the tongue of every person during his time.

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PARABLE OF SUFI BRIJ MOHAN LAL hjarae< sal nrigs ApnI benUrI pe raetI hE, bfI muiZkl se haeta hE cmn me< dIdavr pEda kae$.

Thousands of years humanity laments over its saga of misery, misfortune, despondency and calamity. Only then, some where someone is born to resurrect the erring humanity out of such throes. And thus brings serenity and harmony.

FIRST THE PARABLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C;

sar AaEr Asar yh s<sar sar AaEr Asar kI imlaEnI hE, THIS WORLD OR THE LIFE IS A COMBINATION OF ESSENTIAL AND NON ESENTIAL!!!

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et me take you once again to the Sufi realm of Tasawwuf. And thus to the realm of Sufi Brij Mohan Lal!

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Tasawwuf is the soul of a Sufi. Tasawwuf aims to purify the heart from lust, calamities of the tongue, anger, malice, jealousy, love of the world, love of fame, greed, ostentation, vanity, deception, etc. At the same time it aims to adorn the heart with repentance, perseverance, gratefulness, love of Allah, hope, abstention, tauheed, trust, love, sincerity, truth, contemplation, etc.

Studying the life of the Prophet, the scholars who propagated the science of Tasawwuf understood that a requisite for approaching Allah was abandonment of the common pursuits of the world. They often wore wool because of its simplicity and low cost. In Arabic the word for wool is suf and thus, those who wore it became known as the Sufis. Since wool comes from animals and animal symbolizes innocence Sufi represents innocence.

Another possible derivation of the word comes from the root word safa, which means "to clean." Because the scholars of Tasawwuf focused on cleansing the heart, they later became known as the Sufis.

Sufi Brij Mohan Lal a Naqshbandi Sufi visited this planet from April 1898 to Jan 17th 1955. Many came to him and attained fruition. His shrine is at Lucknow, UP in India.

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To commemorate the anniversary of the final merger of this consciousness into the ultimate I take you through the energy field of this master.

Whenever any master enters the unfathomable existence tremendous energy is released. And if you are available to this energy field then you can be enlightened that very moment.

This is an effort. And there can be no better way to celebrate this day. I say celebrate! Yes indeed celebration is the only way to pay our homage to such a master. A master is beyond body and the mind. He lives in the consciousness beyond all finiteness. He may look like you. Walk and talk like you! Yet still he is much more than you. And this difference renders him as the master. Life may come and disappear. It is only the consciousness of such beings that can transform your consciousness even after they are no more.

Only then the inward journey can really be possible.

In one of the letters to his daughter Sufi Brij Mohan Lal wrote: yh s<sar sar AaEr Asar kI imlaEnI hE, What does this mean? The world as you see is always through the tint of your understanding of the cosmic phenomena. Man sees things as he or

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she is not that as the things are. You see the world and its phenomena according to your cognition.

The world is the blend of ‘Saar’ or essential; and ‘Asaar’ or non-essential. To see the things in their true perspective is not a function of gross and the mind. From the tint of the mind or the gross you can only see the conflict.

From the realm of the mind you cannot see the chord of harmony within each event. You will never come to know why things happen the way they really happen. Your cognition cannot envision the harmony and coherence between these discordant events and disharmony.

Autumn, spring, winter, summer all has meaning in the scheme of the existence. So too life has to undergo all such seasons. No intelligence can really envision the rationale and coherence of the events as these happen in life. There is no way to explain this. Only a mystical insight can really explain this.

Remember you are a post man in the scheme of the existence. Everyday postman brings mails for you and the others in the area. He may bring news pleasant for one and unpleasant for the other at the same time. This happens on a daily basis. Can a postman really be blamed for all this? No! Indeed not! He is delivering what each one of you has done in the past. In fact he is delivering

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according to you past doings. He is delivering all that your doings have really deserved for.

Flowing with such an understanding is called the essential. And the reverse is the non essential. In case your understanding and association leads you to choose the essential your inwards journey begins or continues. And when you choose the non-essential you move towards the realm of conflict, duality, and pain. In that case you are far from the fruition.

Such is the case of the vast majority and your so called religious and Sunday Church Goers. Inward journey is a moment to moment state of awakening and flowing with the cosmic law, the Hukum as Nanak calls this. Or Dhamma as Buddha calls this. Or what Sri Aurobindo echoes in his â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Epic Savitriâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: There is a power within that knows beyond our knowing!

We are not aliens nor as strangers join We are bound to each other by a causeless force.

Savitri: Sri Aurobindo From the writings of the Sufi I have chosen to take you to the energy field of the master.

I can go on endlessly with examples from around you to explain. But this is not the methodology of a master. I am simply sharing with you an insight.

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Now it is up to you to decide and lead your life according.

My energy field surrounds you.

For any further explanation feel free to contact me at the e mails on your screen.

Only this much for now! May you grow in awareness?

SUFI BRIJ MOHAN LAL

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A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

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ufi Brij Mohan Lal a Naqshbandi master was born on Ramnavmi (a day when according to Hindus Rama was born) in the year 1898 in a family of Naqshbandi Sufi Masters. His father Sufi Raghuber Dayal (Chacha Ji) and uncle Sufi Ramchandra (Lala Ji) both were Naqshbandi masters.

Before the advent of Sufi Ramchandra the Naqshbandi nisbet was confined basically with the seekers of Islamic community. This was the time of ‘tassubi’ or spiritual narrowness, division on the basis of religious beliefs and many atrocities in the name of religion. There was division and ignorance as far as spirituality or ‘roohaniyat’ is concerned. However with this the nisbet came to Hindus beyond the narrowness of religions and religious belief.

Spirituality is beyond religions and narrowness of any kind. Almost one hundred years ago a forecast was made by Naqshbandi Master Hazrat Naim Ullah Shah Bahraichie, UP India. This was mentioned to Sayadina Hazarat Kutub-i-alam Abul Hasan Naseerabadi. Who in turn mentioned of this to his khalifa Sufi Ahmad Ali Khan (Khalifa Sahib) Kayamganji. The forecast meant:

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‘I am witnessing the lack of interest among the Muslim community as far as roohaniyat is concerned. I am also seeing two people will come from alhe hinud or Hindu Religion. They will be true inheritor of this spiritual treasure. Do not hesitate in giving them this wealth.’

This was mentioned by the master of Sufi Naim Ullah Shah to him. He waited no one came. When he was leaving the world he mentioned of this to the next master Sufi Ahmad Ali Khan. Sufi Ahmad Ali Khan too waited lifelong for these two people.

No one came. So when it was the time for Sufi Ahmad Ali Khan to leave the finite realm he spoke to his chief khalifa, Sufi Maulana Fazl Ahmad Khan, who became the next Naqshbandi master: ‘Maybe my master had seen your reflection through me. And this forecast is for you. Take care and be ever aware about this forecast. Maybe these people will come to you.’

All along Sufi Fazl Ahmad Khan waited. The destined time of the meeting was coming closer. It was rainy night! Thunder and lightning! Amidst such an atmosphere when serenity prevailed amidst turmoil indicating that at the center of cyclone exists tremendous serenity. The destined meeting happened! Sufi Ramchandra came in the company of the master wading through the external turmoil. This was followed by his younger brother Sufi Raghuber Dayal. These were

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the two destined ones about whom the forecast was made nearly one hundred years ago. The entire system of roohaniyat is based on such forecasts or wisharads.

Thus came the dawn of a new era in Naqshbandi order of Sufis. I will not go into details for now.

However you can go to the upcoming book of Taoshobuddha â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Leaves from a Sufi Heart vol. 3â&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

Now about the birth of Sufi Brij Mohan Lal! Sufi Brij Mohan Lal was born to the parentage of Sufi Raghuber Dayal and Sufi Jaidevi. Before the birth his mother Sufi Jaidevi was of quite advanced age.

And she had no children. It was then decided by the family of his mother that she be carried to a Hindu holy place Rameshwaram in South India for pilgrimage. It was the belief of Hindus that if someone goes to this place with any wish it is granted.

While arrangements were being made for this pilgrimage the Sufi master Hazrat Fazl Ahmad Khan happened to come by. Seeing all the arrangements he enquired. He came to know that the arrangements are being made for the pilgrimage as the parents have no child. Seeing and hearing this grand master Sufi Fazal Ahmad Khan said:

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‘The grace and the kayanat or existence is not confined to any place. The God that is there in Rameshwaram is here too.’

Saying this he asked for some water in a bowl.

Looking at the water he cast a loving glance and asked the water to be given to the daughter (the mother). Thus he transferred his energy field in the water.

This is a mystical way of the masters. No human intelligence can ever understand this. This can only be understood when you are beyond mind and its dualities. This is how advanced souls are brought into the world. Furthermore, after the water was given to Sufi Jaidevi he asked the family to wait for the blessing of Allah.

Thus pregnancy happened and after ten months Sufi Brij Mohan Lal was born to this family. When 4-5 months had passed and there was the fear of miscarriage the message was sent to master along with the family servant. The master sent a note with the messenger back. The message read: ‘When God has accepted the prayers of this humble servant there should be no fear of any kind. Allah is gracious and benevolent. I will be blessed with a grandchild. I name him Brij Mohan Lal.’ Thus Sufi Brij Mohan Lal is the outcome of the grace and the blessings of a master. Such beings

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come into existence as the promise of the Lord. It is for the protection and transformation of erring humanity that Totality assumes human form. So that the journey of transcendence may continue!

Later one day when Sufi Brij Mohan Lal was still a little child Sufi master told Sufi Ram Chandra: ‘Look! The entire upbringing and training of this child is your responsibility. This child will be my Khalifa or descendant. And when God will enquire as to what did I bring from this world—I will definitely present you and this child as my offering as gift to Allah.’

Thus the entire upbringing of Sufi Brij Mohan Lal was carried on by his uncle Sufi Ramchandra.

Thus continued the upbringing, and training! By the time Sufi Brij Mohan Lal grew up in spiritual stature Sufi Fazal Ahmad Khan was no more.

Instead the uncle master – the fellow disciple Sufi Shah Abdul Ghani Khan was alive. It was Sufi Shah Abdul Ghani Khan who conferred the status of khalifa and the master onto Sufi Brij Mohan Lal. Thus continued the life! And time came for the continuation of the role that Sufi Brij Mohan Lal was to play in the process of transformation of human consciousness.

Journeying like this life continued to unfold many pages from the scripture of the soul. Along the

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path many came, got transformed and attained to fruition.

Life is a moment. That which blossoms one day must dissolve into the vastness of the existence.

Life comes and life moves to the beyond. Life is vast and beyond all finiteness. No one is greater than life. Life is the embodiment of God on earth.

That which comes into life must exist one day as well. No one can escape this.

Ordinary human beings are at the mercy of the coincidence. It is only the man of awakening really knows what life is. A man of awakening is beyond both life and death. Life comes death comes. One unfolds into the other. Life/death is the door to beyond. Life and death are like a door sign which has on one side written ‘Life’ and ‘Death’ on the other side.

As an individual you have to go beyond both life and death only then you can one day attain to fruition.

Then came the January 6th 1955 when the Sufi Master set for the final journey full of awareness and understanding that time has now come for the final transcendence and dissolution into the vastness of the existence. His program for journey to Mumbai (Bombay then) began. Along the journey many came to seek his blessings. To everyone he gave the hint for the final journey. At

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the same time he veiled the cognition of all those who visited him en route.

Such things are kept a secret from ordinary human consciousness.

Ordinary human consciousness has not yet transcended beyond his life and death. First the aspirant has to transcend beyond individual life and death. And then he goes beyond the cosmic dissolution and evolution. Or simply cosmic life and death! Only an individual who has experienced cosmic life and death in the moments of solitude can really witness soulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s journey to the life beyond. And such secrets can only be revealed to such a person.

I had experienced this when during my visit to India I met my uncle Sufi Master Sufi Omkar Nath.

During this meeting a hint was given that this is our last meeting. But I could not reveal this to anyone. When such secrets are revealed you are plunged in the ocean of bliss and serenity full of gratitude. A master is not body. The body must undergo its metamorphosis. But the rooh is ever indestructible. Rooh is the incarnation of the whole or Allah as noor within the finiteness of the body.

His (Sufi Brij Mohan Lal) program for the return journey was not published in the monthly magazine. And no one could notice this. It was only after the demise that it was noticed that the

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Sufi did not allow his return program be published. When someone is no more how could he plan anything then? His return journey was to be planned by others. This is the reason it was not published.

On January 17th, 1955 he reached the city of Mumbai early in the morning. And in the evening congregation amidst disciple his discourse had the message of forgiveness. He spoke of ‘forgiveness’ in the light of a Hindu Scripture – Ram Charit Manas. The talk centered the understanding of the one who is beyond narrowness. Generally it is not easy for anyone to forget and forgive. We seem to forgive only on the surface and deep down the seed of forgiveness never grows in the barren soil. The story narrates the fierce battle between the demon king Ravana and Ram was over as Ravana was slain. Now, Ravana is no more. And with this all enmity also vanished. But such is not the case. We continue to nourish and nurture the seeds of acrimony even after the person is no more. Thus you continue to live in the graveyards of the putrefied emotions.

Ravana’s dead body lay in the battlefield. He is still counting for the final journey of the rooh or the soul. Rama went close by. And in a flash the soul of Ravana dissolved in the vastness of Rama.

As this happened the soul or rooh of Sufi Brij Mohan Lal left the finite existence to merge in Totality! Fruition happened.

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Totality merged into totality.

It took nearly three days before the body was brought to the city of Lucknow in UP, India where he lived and where his Shrine now exists.

When the body was brought to the central railway station in Lucknow seeing the congregation all the gates were opened. The congregation included young and old; male and female; and people from all faiths. A leading local national news paper ‘THE PIONEER’ published the article as ‘Kabir Relived’ to commemorate the advent of the event.

After the cremation according to Hindu rites the mortal coils were enshrined. The place where the mortal coils are enshrined thousands of people gather during special occasion and always for the grace of the Sufi. The shrine complex is a place of pilgrimage for thousands of seekers world over.

The present structure of the shrine complex has undergone many stages of transformation. In its present form it houses the shrine complex with shrines of Sufi Brij Mohan Lal his consort Sufi Shakuntala Devi; his son Sufi Omkar Nath and his consort Sufi Shyam Wati. The complex also houses the second son Sufi Devendra Nath of the Sufi Brij Mohan Lal. Sufi Devendra Nath continues to guide the aspirants visiting the shrine complex.

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This is a real spiritual sojourn where Sufi Prabhat Mohan and others also stay. And one can really sojourn in the serenity that the energy field of the master has created. The energy field pervaded the entire cosmos. Only you have to be open and ready to feel this tremendous energy field.

Let us go into a peace invocation before we sit in meditation. This part is contained in the audio available on You Tube â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Taoshobuddha01â&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Or you can choose your own peace invocation according to your cognition. I am the link between you and the Sufi Brij Mohan Lal. Alham dil Allah!

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SUFI BRIJ MOHAN LAL (1898-1955)

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Spiritual Commandment Whatever is the object of your desire?

Go absorb yourself in that beloved, Assume its shape and qualities.

If you wish for light, prepare yourself To receive it; if you wish to be far from God, Increase your egotism and drive yourself away.

And if you wish to find a way out of this ruined prison, Do not turn your head away from the beloved, But bow in worship and draw near.

RUMI MASNAVI I: 3605-7

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t was Naqshbandi master Ibd Khaliq Gijadwani who coined the following phrases which are now considered the principles of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order as spiritual commandments. Over the period of time certain principles are added to it. Bahauddin Naqshband added three. Another one â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Always choose to be Happyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; was introduced in this category as the works of another Naqshbandi master Shakuntala

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Devi. Thus there are twelve such commandments.

These form the basis of meditation techniques.

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CONSCIOUS BREATHING (Hosh dar dam) ALWAYS CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY YOUR STEP (Nazar bar qadam) JOURNEY HOMEWARD (Safar dar watan) SOLITUDE IN THE CROWD (khalwat dar anjuman) 6. ESSENTIAL REMEMBRANCE (yad kard) 7. RETURNING (baz gasht) 8. RECOLLECTION (yada dasht) 9. NIGAH DASHT 10. WUQUF-E-ZAMANI 11. WUQUF-E-ADABI 12. WUQUF-E-QULBI

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TRANSCENDENCE OF ROOH!

cmn hae cmn me< inralI i)ja hae xqaAae se #k coeR nv bn gya hae jha< @en mStI me< hae %skI ccRa vhI< hE vhI< hE vhI< merI duinya.

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ETERNAL BELOVED SWAMI ANAND NEELAMBER

What shall Neelambar sing of the eternal beloved?

Whose songs forever echo in his being?

Anon and evermore the enchanting melodies Reverberate throughout the entire cosmos.

The whole spectrum of nature is filled With the wondrous whispers of the beloved!

Neelambar sings: Even silence is a song Of the eternal beloved!

Who can hear this chant of ecstatic rapture?

In the inner sanctum of stillness He alone can see the beloved Pervading in all quarters!

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TO MEDITATE SWAMI DHYANA YATRI

I think of deathâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hypocrisy, That parting gift that life bequeaths Of preachers, prophets and even priests Who pauperize us with beliefs?

Oft guided by their private tastes And fuelled by a founding faith They claim to know our final fate And feed the fear our minds create.

Religiously, they understand The market says supply - demand And so conceived, the master plan To sell acres of a promised land!

Our guilt, greed and passions are The secret salesmen of a war That helps the sickness to the cure: Prescriptions from a vast dogma!

Now, I am not an atheist, Or some religious heretic I do believe love exists perennially In everything, feel it within.

But often in a timeless haste We end the journey at the gate And seek to buy, when we should wait To search ourselves: to Meditate.

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TEARS OF BLISS! MA PREM SUTRA Tears come to my eyes…

As I feel thy grace sublime now and ever I welcome them…

‘Cause these create grooves in my consciousness.

Also these prepare for still higher flights!

They are not tears of sadness…

Instead tears of gratitude Gratitude for the existence…

Gratitude for this opportunity…

I was called “a confused buyer”…

Confused…because I was not looking within…

I was not searching... Nor was I? I stumbled upon this presence…

And I could no longer be the same…

LOVE! ONLY THIS MUCH FOR NOW! BY SUFI LAKSHMI SAHAI