i want to tell you about my "faith". i am white american male. i served in us army in afghanistan. after i converted to islam. then i realized my faith, was part hindu, part sikk, part buddhist part sufi. i think of myself loosely as a sufi. but i am much more than those words.
i am glad to meet you.
i have greatest respect for the Sufis, they are just like we Krsna bhaktas of the Gaudiya sampradaya or branch.
yes, free thinking is spiritual, religiosity is merely practice and control
my base is Naqshbandi....
but i see as you...spiritual not religious
yes! Alhamduli'lah!
You are leading a most interesting life of a spiritual warrior
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god is within us. Creative Force is 'god'. creating is worship. sharing creations is devine.
for me anyway
(picture placed of tamohara dasa in hospital uniform, Security Forces Hospital, Riyadh, 1998)
you are my brother!
this makes me so happy!
lol very good.
do you know what Taqwacore is?
no sir.
taqiya i have heard
what is your first language?
pretty much just english, littel French, im from winnipeg, canada
your good self?
english arabic portuguese pashtu punjabi urdu farsi tagalog
1 moment...
for real!!! Wow!! amazing!
for you...
you are a multicultural super-hero!
i love to learn
so tell me something, you have cross cultural expereinces
i too. what is important to know?
only english and port are still good. some arabic. i was in a Car Vs. Train accident a few years back that blurs them all together. they are still there just mixed up a bit
Tdasa;
sorry to hear that happened , it must have bee trying. i hope your health is good and you are happy in your prayers
i found that emphasizing that which is in common brings people together around spiritual talks
in Arabai, i preached the value of chanting Allah's names on beads, as we also do only hare krsna
everyone respects the power of the Names of godhead!
my family has military roots, but not me, just healthcare and hare krsna movement
i feel your soul......so i will share something special. a truth. watch this 1hr video, and understand it is 99 truths to sell you 1 lie. the lie is brief so it is still a good tool. the lie is a man named drunvelo melkezidic. he is mentioned breifly in the video but ignore that. the rest is spiritual goldmine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CsedWlIntQ
Tdasa;
will chek out the references and get back. here is my home web site, by the way... https://puredevoteeseva.ning.com/
i still meditate on the 99 names of 'allah' and my montra is astagfurullah, and "break your ego, you dont need it"
i will check it out, TY!
love it!
ok, yes, Vedic culture and history goes back also millions of years...
just watching video, very nice so far...
there is history of advanced civilization that gopes back millions of yewrs, including artifacts etc. what we have been told by Christian schools is total hogwassh, really
its metephore, sadly taken literally rather than esoterically
do you know Rabia Al-Basri?
sorry, no, not well read in arabic literatures, just some Mahfouz and rishdie!
he is sufi i take it.
she was the first female sufi saint
my mother
oh! wow! nice!
!! hare krsna!
you are fortunate indeed!
may i prove worthy
Tdasa;
i take your dust
May Allah smile on you!
if thats cool...
may we reside together in nothingness and sigularity
Tdasa;
ah cha! Very mystical, my friend. Therein lies peace, indeed...
then we are one, but i am yewt doing this task of trying to free society and myself, so there is unlimited work to be done...
Rābiʻa al-ʻAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya (Arabic: رابعة العدوية القيسية) or simply Rābiʻa al-Basrī (Arabic: رابعة البصري) (717–801 C.E.) was a female Muslim Sufi saint who is highly regarded and has been conferred the status of Half-Qalander. One day, she was seen running through the streets of Basra carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When asked what she was doing, she said,"I want to put out the fires of Hell, and burn down the rewards of Paradise. They block the way to God. I do not want to worship from fear of punishment or for the promise of reward, but simply for the love of God." She prayed: "O God! If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell, and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise. But if I worship You for Your Own behalf, don't withhold from me Your everlasting Beauty.”
Tdasa; Wonderful story!
ours is acinya bheda abheda tattva, ie that we are all one, yet we retain identity
acintya
yes! we are one but have identity!
Tdasa;
even in liberation, there is a snese of the servant and the served, of male female, God and jiva soul, and so there is a dance.
exactly!!!!!!
there is balance to be found for you. respect for 'adversity' as a component of balance.
you are a liberated soul, i can hear this
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islam can be ugly...appreciate its uglyness as a form of beauty if it is a balance to good in this perception. value everyhting as a necessary part of our creation. there is no bad and good, but still right and wrong. wo right! but contently love and respect wrong
that is a peaceful conclusion! ~(>,' )
i never preach to you...i feel your chachra
Tdasa;
i am learning to live with the fact that all is confused down here, but underlying all this is god, so there is peace at last.
pls know i only love and that is motive for advice maybe
Tdsa;
lol! you are also sensitive, and wise!
im dancing this hard line because my godbrothers are too soft... thats a fact
TIME is our restraint here. nothing has happened BEFORE.....nothing will happen tomorrow or in the future. it all is and has been and will be. shed the constraints of TIME. they are a shackle of this perception only!
Tdasa;
fools sometimes need a kick in the pants is my current way of thinking...
yes, good point
but am i ready for transcendence, or is my duty to stay at a lower platform for the sake of differentiating right and wrong for helping the innocents?
you are amazing brother. the will is within you
i feel the same
but am i ready for transcendence, or is my duty to stay at a lower platform for the sake of differentiating right and wrong for helping the innocents?...WOW...you really do understand!
Tdasa;
Please excuse me, i must take a break now?
that is the question! you just brough supreme delight to my soul!
haha! thanks!1
cya later!
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hare krsna
masalam
sending sincere best wishes and yes, some love
maasalaama
my amazing friend. it is good to find you again.
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