“Understanding and Awareness are the Best Basis”
Q: Show us an extraordinary act so we believe in you.
A: There are so many hidden points in what you have just said. First, who asked you to believe in me? Nobody expects you to accept or deny me. Your acceptance or denial will influence your own life. Secondly, suppose that I would perform an extraordinary act, but are you going to believe in me? No, that is not the right way; knowledge and belief are born from love. [You will not] really know something and someone, unless your mind and heart are filled with love. Thirdly, in case an extraordinary act would be the cause of one’s knowledge and belief, such belief would be extremely shaky, unstable and unfounded for there are so many people who are capable of performing extraordinary acts – like so many magicians, fakirs and witches. But can we accept them as a wise person and guide we believe in? It is possible that one could fly into heavens but be not able to teach one single word. Animals are also endowed with amazing capabilities of foreknowing and energy-generating, but is this a good reason to believe in them or take them as a mediator between the Lord and yourself?!!! If you also practice asceticism and do special exercises for a while, and work on your breathing or such other performances, you will witness amazing and odd phenomena. Yet are these phenomena going to confirm your existence as a divine teacher, an enlightened person aware of life’s mysteries? Of course, not!
Pay attention to the base and foundation of every move. Understanding and awareness are the best bases. Understanding is born from thinking and thinking is an offspring of love…
“Unstable Foundation”
Q: Would you please, at least, tell us whether what is told about your divine power is true? That would be an enough good reason for me.
A: Here we are again with the first reasoning. You have to ask this [question] from yourself or to prepare yourself to see in case there is something to see…
“The Miraculous Faith”
Q: How can we get prepared to experience divine wonders?
A: The Lord teaches through His Spirit. God’s Spirit has the role of a flute player and the divine teacher is like a flute. When we draw the Lord’s attention to ourselves, only then the divine music – teachings of mysteries, miracles, etc… - will be played. The Lord’s elect have no will and power of their own. The Divine Spirit will not play any music unless He is stimulated. When the flute player grows enthusiastic, when he desires or he deems necessary he plays and reveals the divine music through this flute –the divine teacher…
Let love fill your eyes and give you sight to see the unseen. Believe and let your faith be out of love and not based on compromise or rationality. Then you will also hear the unheard.
“Doubt and Denial – Escaping from the Truth”
Q: Some believe you are insane or a wizard. Why should they believe so?
A: If I would use the opposite medicine you would use to cure the same illness, we shall, naturally, take each other for insane. It is not your fault to call me mad for you realize the way I act, think or move is contrary to your expectation. Since you take yourself as a wise person, you will naturally call mad and insane whoever moves and thinks unlike you.
We say, “Every pain and troubles are rooted in this ‘I-ness’ and its different forms. Then, destroy it.”
Those who call us mad believe that one has to care for this “I-ness”, develop it, give it importance and pamper it. They say, “‘I’, ‘my profits’, ‘my life’, ‘my future’, me, me, me.” While we say, “He, He, He…”
But those who call me sorcerer and wizard want to relieve their conscience and actually assert themselves and maintain their claims.
They hear my teachings and get impressed and see that others are impressed as well. They observe changes and evolutions, awakenings and cries and are thus faced with divine power and holy teachings. However, they think if they accept these teachings, the colossal palace they have built in their conceit will collapse and their false and superficial rightfulness will be denounced. They believe accepting teachings of God’s Spirit jeopardizes their profits…Since they cannot deny the righteousness of God’s Spirit’s teachings, the modifying power of the word of God and the manifestations of divine power, they try to brand Him as wizard, insane, heretic, and deviator in order to soothe their guilty conscience and to somehow preserve fabrications and phantasms of their ego.
They see the divine power yet because it goes against their egoistic aspirations they attack the person and individuality of the teacher. They calumniate him and investigate his personality. They ignore that there is nothing within his being but the flow of divine teaching. The outer appearance of a flute matters less than the melody one can hear from it; the only thing that matters is the flute player and his creative power.
There is no use to know about the person a divine teacher was or is. Listen carefully to his teachings for his teachings are what matter most. The sound of a lute is more important than the instrument itself. If we pay attention to the instrument, we have, willingly or not, denied the beauty of its melody; and if we pay attention to the person of master and surrender to and obey his individuality we have probably committed idolatry and blasphemy.
What I am just telling are not an apology. The Lord’s will and divine power are needless of defense. I have nothing to defend and what I have is the Lord and He is the best protector and defender. To defend Him is funny and meaningless…
Know that blasphemy and God’s worship are so thinly apart. Try not to impose your opinions, assumptions and expectations to the Lord. Let Him guide [you] and lead your life through any path He wants, in any way He judges best and by any method He considers proper. If you set guidelines for Him, He will leave you to your own for you have disrespected His boundless greatness and humiliated Him.
The Lord guides and leads, provides for daily foods [of His servants], gives messages and saves by ways and means and forms He wishes. How dare we to set Him directives, to guess or foresee His methods?! The Lord is unpredictable and so are His matters. Do not ever close any door to Him; leave open every door, every window and every opening so He may enter from any door He wishes. However, He often enters from the door you did not expected at all.