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• From: Gogiya (@ palo5.pacific.net.sg) on: Fri Nov 21 10:57:24
  
  The Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh
  O SON OF SPIRIT!
  
  There is no peace for thee save by renouncing thyself and turning unto Me; for it behooveth thee to glory in My name, not in thine own; to put thy trust in Me and not in thyself, since I desire to be loved alone and above all that is.
  
  
  
• From: Gogiya (@ 57.73.12.98) on: Tue Nov 25 05:49:07 EST 2003
  
  ""Regard ye not one another as strangers.....Of one tree are all ye the fruit and of one bough the leaves.....The world is but one country and mankind its citizens ........Let not a man glory in that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind."
  :- Baha'u'llah
  
  
  
  
• From: Gogiya (@ 57.73.12.98) on: Sun Nov 30 02:26:23 EST 2003
  
  The Promised Day is Come
  The Three False Gods
  This vital force is dying out, this mighty agency has been scorned, this radiant light obscured, this impregnable stronghold abandoned, this beauteous robe discarded. God Himself has indeed been dethroned from the hearts of men, and an idolatrous world passionately and clamorously hails and worships the false gods, which its own idle fancies have fatuously created, and its misguided hands so impiously exalted. The chief idols in the desecrated temple of mankind are none other than the triple gods of Nationalism, Racialism and Communism, at whose altars governments and peoples, whether democratic or totalitarian, at peace or at war, of the East or of the West, Christian or Islamic, are, in various forms and in different degrees, now worshiping. Their high priests are the politicians and the worldly-wise, the so-called sages of the age; their sacrifice, the flesh and blood of the slaughtered multitudes; their incantations outworn shibboleths and insidious and irreverent formulas; their incense, the smoke of anguish that ascends from the lacerated hearts of the bereaved, the maimed, and the homeless.
  The theories and policies, so unsound, so pernicious, which deify the state and exalt the nation above mankind, which seek to subordinate the sister races of the world to one single race, which discriminate between the black and the white, and which tolerate the dominance of one privileged class over all others--these are the dark, the false, and crooked doctrines for which any man or people who believes in them, or acts upon them, must, sooner or later, incur the wrath and chastisement of God.
  "Movements," is the warning sounded by `Abdu'l-Bahá, "newly born and worldwide in their range, will exert their utmost effort for the advancement of their designs. The Movement of the Left will acquire great importance. Its influence will spread."
  Contrasting with, and irreconcilably opposed to, these war-engendering, world-convulsing doctrines are the healing, the saving, the pregnant truths proclaimed by Bahá'u'lláh, the Divine Organizer and Savior of the whole human race--truths which should be regarded as the animating force and the hallmark of His Revelation: "The world is but one country, and mankind its citizens." "Let not a man glory in that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind." And again: "Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch." "Bend your minds and wills to the education of the peoples and kindred of the earth, that haply ... all mankind may become the up-holders of one order, and the inhabitants of one city.... Ye dwell in one world, and have been created through the operation of one Will." "Beware lest the desires of the flesh and of a corrupt inclination provoke divisions among you. Be ye as the fingers of one hand, the members of one body." And yet again: "All the saplings of the world have appeared from one Tree, and all the drops from one Ocean, and all beings owe their existence to one Being." And furthermore: "That one indeed is a man who today dedicates himself to the service of the entire human race."
  
  
  
• From: Gogiya (@ palo5.pacific.net.sg) on: Mon Dec 15 08:49:30
  
  "I will pray for you that you may be illumined with the Light of the Eternal."
  
  
• From: Gogiya (@ ) on: Wed Dec 31 17:05:31
  
  Religion is the greatest instrument for the order of the world and the tranquillity of all existent beings. The weakening of the pillars of religion has encouraged the ignorant and rendered them audacious and arrogant. Truly I say, whatever lowers the lofty station of religion will increase heedlessness in the wicked, and finally result in anarchy.
  :-Baha'u'llah.
  
  
• From: Rohit (@ cpc1-nfds4-3-0-cust212.nott.cable.ntl.com) on: Thu Jan 1 11:27:07 EST 2004
  
  >>Truly I say, whatever lowers the lofty station of religion will increase heedlessness in the wicked, and finally result in anarchy.
  
  Then immidiately start learning the cognitive theories explaining the psychological aspects of moral judgement for humans, entailing the three main progressive stages of human morality:
  
  1. Pre-conventional morality: Involves compliance with rules to avoid punishment and gain rewards.
  
  2. Conventional: Involves conformity to rules that are defined by the authority or society (or religion).
  
  3. Post-conventional: Involves moral reasoning on the basis of individual principles and conscience.
  
  Though requires much higher level of intellectual development, the third stage is the one ultimate stage for humans to master and to be used/taught to shape the moral code and judgement of the whole society. ;-))
  
  
  
• From: Gogiya (@ 57.73.12.98) on: Mon Jan 5 17:00:13 EST 2004
  
  The cornerstone of Bahá'u'lláh's teachings is the establishment of the spiritual unity of humankind, which Bahá'ís believe will be achieved by personal transformation and the application of clearly identified spiritual principles revealed by Bahá'u'lláh. Bahá'ís also believe that there is but one religion, and that all the Messengers of God-among them, Abraham, Zoroaster, Moses, Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad-have progressively revealed its nature. Together, the world's great religions are expressions of a single, unfolding Divine plan. Human beings, not God's Messengers, are the source of religious divisions, prejudices, and hatreds.
  
  
• From: Gogiya (@ holmes.mmm.com) on: Sat Feb 7 14:27:35
  
  God is one.
  
  
• From: Gogiya (@ palo5.pacific.net.sg) on: Thu Mar 18 06:08:20
  
  All men are equal if the hearts are pure!
  
  
• From: Gogiya (@ palo5.pacific.net.sg) on: Thu Mar 18 07:31:07 EST 2004
  
  Bahá’u’lláh
  The Reluctant Prophet
  An edited translation of the following article was printed in the weekly color insert of "Dainik Bhaskar", India's largest newspaper - reaching an audience of over 13.1 million.
  
  
  
  
  A Prisoner and an Exile
  August 31, 1868. It was a swelteringly hot, humid stench that met Bahá’u’lláh on the shore of prison city of ‘Akká. Surrounded by Turkish soldiers, he made his way up the black muddy beach towards the sea gate. Exhausted, humiliated, tortured, exiled, slandered, betrayed by his own brother - and now imprisoned in the most desolate penal colony of the Turkish Empire. An angry mob had gathered to revile, curse and taunt him. It was not the first time he had been pelted by a mob on his way to prison.
  
  
  
  A Prince in Deed
  Born in 1817 to wealth and nobility, eldest son of a leading Minister to the Royal Court of Persia, Bahá’u’lláh had inherited a care-free life including a vast estate, position and wealth. But from the earliest years there was much about this youth which did not fit the image of a spoiled young prince. Eschewing comforts and diversions of the privileged, he became renowned for generosity, compassion and a magnetic character.
  
  Only 22 years of age when his father passed away, Bahá’u’lláh was immediately offered his father’s position as Minister. Surprisingly, he refused the post. When asked about this refusal, the Prime Minister replied “Such a position is unworthy of him... His thoughts are not like ours. Let him alone.”
  
  
  
  The Break of Dawn
  Five years later a millennial light broke on the somber horizon of Persia. From the city of Shiraz, an eloquent youth, known to history as the Báb, put forward the impossible claim that he had been sent by God to prepare for the coming of a great Universal Teacher whose Cause would unite the fragmented spiritual heritage of humankind. A passionate wave of inquiry swept across the land and the panicking clergy quickly denounced the Báb as a dangerous heretic. He was arrested, imprisoned in a remote mountain fortress and finally executed under dramatic circumstances. His followers and admirers were hounded out and slaughtered or bludgeoned into silence. Shocking friends and family, the young nobleman, Bahá’u’lláh, immediately arose in the face of great danger to champion this new Cause - abandoning rank, title, lands and wealth.
  
  It was October 1852 in Tehran and Bahá’u’lláh was surrounded by brutal soldiers. For nine years he had championed the Báb’s Cause and for this he was now on his way to prison. The soldiers half-heartedly restrained a howling mob which pelted him with insults and stones as he stumbled forward towards the dreaded subterranean prison known as the “Black Pit”. As a special torture Bahá’u’lláh was freighted with a unique set of chains - fifty kilos of cold iron - tearing his clothing, cutting through flesh, pressing against and bending bone itself. Four long months he endured the black extremes of human cruelty. It was into this place, a place of unyielding darkness and agony, that the finger of God reached out and touched - placing a new light into the world of man.
  
  “...though the galling weight of the chains and the stench-filled air allowed Me but little sleep, still in those infrequent moments of slumber I felt as if something flowed from the crown of My head over My breast, even as a mighty torrent that precipitateth itself upon the earth from the summit of a lofty mountain. Every limb of My body would, as a result, be set afire. At such moments My tongue recited what no man could bear to hear.”
  
  
  
  A Sacred Mission
  Released from imprisonment, Bahá’u’lláh was a changed Being - charged with a divine mandate and galvanized with an overwhelming vision of the earth as one homeland of a united human race. And when he spoke, many recognized his voice. “Bend your minds and wills to the education of the peoples and kindreds of the earth...” “Noble I made thee, wherewith dost thou abase thyself?” “Let not a man glory in that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind.”
  
  Assailed by forces of fanaticism and ignorance, Bahá’u’lláh was banished from his native land to Baghdad and thence to Constantinople, Adrianople and finally to the Turkish prison city of ‘Akká, in modern-day Israel, where he remained incarcerated and in whose neighborhood he passed away in 1892. “I have been, most of the days of My life, even as a slave, sitting under a sword hanging on a thread, knowing not whether it would fall soon or late upon him.”
  
  Over the course of forty years of exile and imprisonment, Bahá’u’lláh expounded, in over a hundred volumes, the elements of His Faith. He proclaimed his Cause to the kings and rulers of both East and West. He addressed the Pope, the Caliph of Islam and the Chief Magistrates of the Republics of the American continent. In numerous epistles he boldly challenged them to abandon petty selfish concerns, warning them of the consequences of failing to appreciate the forces of a newly rising World Order. At times he described, with chilling accuracy, their impending downfall, such as in these words to Napoleon III: “Hath thy pomp made thee proud? By My Life! It shall not endure...” “For what thou hast done, thy kingdom shall be thrown into confusion, and thine empire shall pass from thine hands...”
  
  
  
  The Reluctant Prophet
  Such, in brief, were the life and teachings of Bahá’u’lláh; Sage, Saint, and modern-day Prophet. Although Bahá’u’lláh is widely known for his visionary and liberal teachings, what is not well known is the degree of his personal sacrifice required to make this mark in human history.
  
  Were it not for the cold, how would the heat of Thy words prevail,
  O Expounder of the worlds?
  Thou seest the hearts are filled with hate, and to overlook is Thine... When the swords flash, go forward! When the shafts fly, press onward!
  O Thou Sacrifice of the worlds.
  
  
  
  

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