June 1998, it was well past midnight at the Ponsonby mosque where I was sitting in a most common and uncomfortable meditation posture tolerating a slight back pain contemplating silence, patiently searching and seeking the truth, awaiting enlightenment .
By this stage in life, I had done everything I possibly could in terms of intense studies for years, rituals and sacrifices, purifying diets, attending lectures and ongoing Yogic exercises with mind control to the extreme level.
What possibly could I do? I asked myself . Any minute now! I’m thinking. Silence, silence and more silence. My mind was serene and my heart’s desire for the supreme was inevitable.
Hours later as I am getting ready to conclude the session with the least expectations, I heard someone saying “How much do you believe in your perfection?” who is that I thought? Has my prayers got answered? I turned around noticing Grand master Mike, standing at the door with a warm, loving and assuring smile watching me. This might sounds like a beginning a fairy tale story for fiction writers but this is exactly how it happened. This was a turning point in my so called “spiritual journey”. All those lifeless scripts that had filled up my mind suddenly became alive. My perception of them of course has uplifted and changed for good. Furthermore, I must add that i thought I had mastered the knowledge and with a few spiritual experiences I have arrived. Then I realized that there is a big difference between knowing the truth and being the truth. He (G.M.Mike) simply lived the knowledge that I have had gathered for years and would always remind me that “ being is needed”, just Be. If you want the salvation, be the salvation, if you desire the perfection, then simply be the perfection. Knock and the door shall be open, but if you go and knock on the wall, no door shall be open. Only if you knock on the door, the door shall be open. And then you realise there are no doors to knock and you are the door. You are the receptivity. You are the answer. You are the solution. You are the salvation. You are the creator of every moment of your life. Why go on knocking around and about? Celebrate every breath that you take, you have eternal life, celebrate your being, your existence. You have been told in many great scripts that “The kingdom of heaven is within you”. When do you think you will believe in that? How far travelling is needed to reach there? And there are no distance to travel, except within. You are there in your supreme being awaiting you and yet, you go on knocking. Purity is what is you are made of. Right this very moment, you are your purest being. Respect and celebrate your existence right now, without requiring any profound knowledge, or so called extra ordinary spiritual experiences, right now you are as perfect as ever that you can be. This is your birthright. “Purity” that’s what you are. And don’t let life’s conditions or others to change your opinion about yourself and your attitude towards life. Life is fantastic and absolute and pure light. Don’t settle for anything less, anything less is only a creation of your own imaginations. Every thing happens for perfection as he always reminds us. I happened to have the honour to live with G.M.Mike in the past, and what fascinated me the most wasn’t the so called miracles that I experienced while living with him, but his astonishing attitude in times of challenges in life. In my life I have met and got to know many great men and women in the field of mind, and we have all enjoyed their amazing and inspiring speeches, but these fantastic energetic moods have lost it’s warmth and magnets, in times of life challenges, as if it was heavily relied and depended on outside conditions (of course, if there are such a thing as outsiders). But in the case of master Mike, believe you me I have seen him how truly lives his words and instead of fighting, he truly dances through life challenges, as if the attitude has it’s own magic elixir to completely regenerate the whole new fabulous outcome in any situations. You are purity. You are an amazing being. You have not been let down by God but your own imaginations. Come and meet him, this might be a good opportunity to catch up with your true self.
Saeed

