Balyani Know Yourself Pdf

[Prometeo Archuleta]

The first translation of this work (Know Yourself) appeared in English in 1901, using language that strongly echoed the King James Bible, which has become a hinderance to many readers. This new translation is in modern English.

The text uses the vocabulary of Sufism, but the issues confronted are common to people everywhere. The translator has provided useful background information in an unobtrusive way at the end of the book.

When this secret is revealed to you, you will know that you are not other than God but that you yourself are the object of your quest. You do not need to pass away. You have not ceased nor will you cease to exist, without time and without moments, as we have already mentioned. You will see His attributes as your attributes, your exterior as His exterior, your interior as His interior, your first as His first and your last as His last, without any doubt or uncertainty. You will see your attributes to be His attributes and your essence to be His essence, without your having to become Him and without His having to become you in the least degree.

It is like when someone who previously did not know something, knows it. The unknowing being does not vanish to be replaced by another, nor is there a mixing nor interpenetration of the being of the ignorant person and the one who knows: ignorance simply disappears.

Many people confuse finding God and finding Yourself as two separate journeys, it is made very apparent by this book that this is simply not the case. Many people believe that God is an external being a million miles away. This book teaches us that us, that this is simply not the case.

This wonderful book states that the two journeys are actually the same journey. The book makes it clear time and time again, that if we discover who we truly are inside, we will also discover who God is. It also makes it clear that we do not need to change ourselves dramatically or to kill our egos to achieve this.

We simply need to remove the veil of Ignorance that shrouds our eyes from seeing the truth. If we remove the ignorance of ourselves, as being these separate lowly individuals and realise we are part of the fabric of nature itself/God. We immediately become enlightened to who we truly are, our only ignorance is our insistence on viewing ourselves as powerless separate individual entities. If we wake up to the fact, that we are deeply connected with the Universe and God itself, then we immediately stop viewing ourselves in this destructive ignorant manner. This brings us back to a previous point, that our ONLY AIM must be removing the ignorance of who we truly are. If we find ourselves, we also find God as a side effect.

Due to the risk of this post, becoming hard to comprehend and losing its narrative and message. I am going to start simply today and explain the basic quote that this book was inspired by. This book is not for the faint of the heart, as its teaching is brutally Direct and to the point. It does not focus on techniques or methods, the focus of the book is on direct realisation of the very unity of all existence. The key premise being here that if you have this realisation, you immediately become enlightened to who you truly are. No further techniques are required.

This particular quote was attributed to the Islamic Prophet Muhammad and is taken from the Hadith. Now, the book is an explanation by Balyani/Arabi of the inner meanings behind this particular quote. This post would appear as heresy or blasphemy to some people. But it is abundantly clear, the message Muhammad was trying to get across here. Finding God is not about trying to connect with some distant angry deity up in the sky who is a million miles away. It dismisses such notions. God is closer to us than our jugular vein. Allow me to add another quote from the Holy Quran to emphasise this very point.

So there we have it, Muhammad was conveying here that if we wish to Find God, we must know Ourselves. As the Quran emphasises, God is not some distant figure or man in the clouds. He is inherently within us, God is the very Inner Self we are seeking to reconnect with. Therefore, If we strive to go within and connect with our Inner Self, we then Know ourselves and we also Know God as an end result. The two are not separate journeys, if we strive to find God, we must find ourselves first.

Again, God is the first and last, which means God is the start of creation and the finish of creation. God is the Apparent and the Hidden, which means God is Seen and is also Invisible. He has the knowledge of everything, meaning God is the intelligence of the universe and nature itself. God therefore is the One and the Absolute Reality of all existence, hinting that we must also be intrinsically part of the Oneness of God if we are to exist.

There is no division or separation in these terms. Our only ignorance and foolishness is to believe we are these separate lowly molecules cut off from God or creation itself. There is Only One Reality and that is God, so by knowing who we are, we therefore also know God.

You will find enlightenment is knocking at your door. This saying alone teaches us who we truly are. Meditate on the line or recite it back to yourself, if you truly realise the inner depth of these words. You will be close to full self realisation.

Do not praise your own faith exclusively so that you disbelieve all the rest. If you do this you will miss much good. Nay, you will miss the whole truth of the matter. God, the Omniscient and the Omnipresent, cannot be confined to any one creed, for He says in the Quran, wheresoever ye turn, there is the face of Allah. Everybody praises what he knows. His God is his own creature, and in praising it, he praises himself. Which he would not do if he were just, for his dislike is based on ignorance.

Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you - indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you. Be in yourself a matter for all forms of belief, for God is too vast and tremendous to be restricted to one belief rather than another.

Whoever builds his faith exclusively on demonstrative proofs and deductive arguments, builds a faith on which it is impossible to rely. For he is affected by the negativities of constant objections. Certainty(al-yaqin) does not derive from the evidences of the mind but pours out from the depths of the heart.

It is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in every object of worship, and pursued in the unseen and the visible. Not a single one of His creatures can fail to find Him in its primordial and original nature.

My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the pilgrim's Ka'ba, And the tablets of the Torah, And the book of the Koran. I follow the religion of Love: Whatever way love's camel takes, That is my religion, my faith.

My heart can be pasture for deer and a convent for monks, a temple for idols and a Kaaba for the pilgrims. It is both the tables of the Torah and the Koran. It professes the religion of Love wherever its caravans are heading. Love is my law. Love is my faith.

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