Diary 1963 - Murshid Sam's Living Stream

Diaries 1963May 23, 1963Beloved One of God:I am taking advantage of your letter of the 20 th to make my own permanent records. For whilethere have been communications to others concerning history and claim, these have been disjunctive.Ultimately I shall have to have a biographer, knowing exactly why I am functioning here ratherthan in parts of the world where I might be seated on a throne and receiving encomiums and fortune.Khidr. In 1925 this Messenger of God came to me and offered me the gifts of Poetry and Musicand whatever anybody else says, these are now in my keeping. Besides that he invariably conferslongevity. And yesterday I rather shocked my Yoga teacher by walking in with two fifty-pounddumb-bells these being the heaviest handy and he fell out of his chair. ”Sam!” I said “Breath.” Butthis was actually the first effort to demonstrate on the physical plane the actual responsibilities carriedon universally.Because of the manifestation of Khidr to me, into regalia, Pir-o-Murshid game me long instructions.The dream-nonsense about his having real Khalifas is a denial of what he said both to me andto Pir-o-Murshid Hasan Nizami in New Delhi. Besides he instructed me to go over all his constitutionsfrom the very beginning. Which I did. And after his death, there was another esoteric constitutionwhich removed the very basis of position by spiritual attainment. There were two ways inwhich one could be promoted. (a) By Sama or Zikr or Sound, (b) by States and Stage, which is to sayin Arabic, hal and makam. And there has never been any Sufism that was any different and I do notbelieve there will be any Sufism different. Other spiritual lines, yes, but not Sufism.The visits of various members of the Khan family to both Pakistan and India were related tome, with the total absence of any manifestation of progress in state and stage. My final spiritual experiencein India in 1956 when I was alone at the Khankah not the Dargah, of Nizam-ud-din Auliya,corroborates the above. And when I completed my first tour last year this time with Pir-o-MurshidHasan Sani Nizami I said: “This means in effect, that I am the successor of Pir-o-Murshid HazratInayat Khan.” He said, “Yes.” But the same stand had been taken previously by Pir-o-Murshid’s ownspiritual brothers (disciples of either Mohammed Moudani or Hasan Nizami) previously at Hyderabad,Deccan.This was before I was given the full confirmation of “Sufi” in Salarwala. But actually Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan gave me this sobriquet. He did not change my name or anything but told meto look up some papers and when I looked up those papers I saw he had meant that I was to take thename of “Sufi” but I dared not tell anybody.Tanasukh of Dara Shikoh. These two go together. I do not know if I am the reincarnation ofthis Moghul Prince or was instructed by him before coming to incarnation and it does not matter.When Abdul Latif challenged me for not being a Murshid I, finally exhausted, gave in and said, “Allright, I am a Murshid and you are my first mureed.” I gave him instructions and within a few hoursthis 70 year old man had the spiritual realization and came back dancing: “I have a real Murshid! Ihave a real Murshid!”