This shows that God really does Encompass and Fill all God’s creatures, including human beings.
And it is the reason why the Spiritual Association of SUBUD can bring together people from every nation and from every religion.
And in SUBUD. even though the Members come from different races and religions, they feel they are part of one family.
This shows that in reality you all come from the same race – the human race – not from this race or that race.
This is the race that God originally Created:
‘I Have Created One Race Of Human Beings, Namely Adam And Eve.’
So, who made the different races, who made skin this colour or that colour?
Bapak’s complexion is not white and it is not black, it is not red and not yellow, it is a mixture of those four colours – namely, brown.
Bapak has understood and felt that … well, he is an Indonesian of the Javanese race, a Javanese, but looking from the Spiritual viewpoint, Bapak has seen that his ancestors came from Rome, from the Mediterranean.
But after a few generations had lived in Java, in Indonesia, Bapak saw that … [inaudible]
That is how it is.
So it is human beings themselves who made this race and that race, and so on, not God.
God Created only one people, one race.
For that reason, Brothers and Sisters, you will not be able to return to God unless you can unite the different races within your body to make one race.
It is the same in religion.
That is why every religion is willing to receive anyone into that religion regardless of their race.
For in religion it is told that the only one who can worship and who can come before God is a complete human being.
That is why religions spread their teaching to every corner, every part of the world – even sending missionaries into the jungle – so that human beings will realise that there is one God for everyone, one God for one people: the human race.
Therefore do not worship trees or rivers, the sea or mountains; worship the One God that is the God of the human race.
And the name Susila Budhi Dharma, which we abbreviate to SUBUD, is a name that we created. I say ‘we’, because collectively all of us created that name.
For if we did not have a name how would people refer to us?
Even for you as an individual, if you were nameless what would people call you, how could people talk to you?
So of course we needed a name. And we created the name whose meaning reflects what we Receive in the Latihan – Susila Budhi Dharma.
Susila refers to a way of behaving and to a character that is humane. To act in a humane way means to help others, to care for others, to respect others, to value other human beings.
Budhi means that the Power of God Resides or Manifests within every human being, within each one of you.
This is what Bapak was describing to you earlier, how, after God had Created the Angels, God Willed His Will into every entity so that human beings would be able to find their way to God quickly.
And Dharma, Brothers and Sisters: Dharma means to let go, Dharma means to release, Dharma means to surrender absolutely to God’s Power.
That is our way, our way of worshipping Almighty God, so that we can get closer to God’s Leadership, get closer to God’s Guidance and Teaching for us.
So the name SUBUD – Susila Budhi Dharma – is not about knowledge that you will acquire.
It is a name that refers to you; it is the name of our Spiritual Association.
Therefore, if you lived well before you joined SUBUD and now life is hard for you, do not blame SUBUD. Don’t do that.
SUBUD is not to blame, because SUBUD is your own name, showing that this Spiritual Association is called Susila Budhi Dharma and with the meaning that Bapak just described to you.
(THE WONDERFUL VISIT OF BELOVED BAPAK... TO SOUTH AFRICA... Part XIII... Concluding BAPAK'S TALK TO SUBUD JOHANNESBURG - March 14th 1967... Insha Allah... God Willing... Monday 2/28/11... the birthday of Tzi-Tzi Darling's Beloved mother... Contessa Vera Quarta Turin...! May she Live Blissfully... in the Glory... of SUBUD Heaven...)
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