786… Advice to a seeker… My favorite quote from the movie meetings with remarkable men is “may God curse those who don’t know, and presume to show the way to others.” The way of God Realization cannot be learned in books. In the west there are tooooo many spiritual guides who learned their teaching from books written by people who DID NOT KNOW THE WAY…. Now these people are guiding others with information they got from book learning. The true way in any esoteric school involves a Master-disciple relationship. This relationship is all-important because God must teach God. The living LIGHT that comes from the master to the disciple is God. That which receives the teaching in the disciple is God. The path is an exchange of light in varying degree. The Master acts as the transmitter of the Divine Light of God directly to the heart of the disciple…

In Sanskrit the word Guru means “remover of darkness.” The only thing that can remove darkness is LIGHT… I was taught by God. In the Holy Quran it says, “Fear Allah and Allah will teach you.” Try to find a living master and receive direct transmission of the Divine Light directly…love and light—sufi….

taken from my book “Branches of Wisdom.”….