Diary 1963 - Murshid Sam's Living Stream

Diaries 1963July 23, 1963Dear Ram:This is really the diary entry for Sam is keeping a diary, and before going into that, there aretwo little incidents.The other day Sam spent a morning with his life-long friend and said, “Everything can besummed up in one sentence: All Tragedies Are Comedies—no matter how you look at them, theybecome funny, rather than sorrowful. The friend agreed, and it is only by accepting that premise thatone can write at all.The other was that in meditation, Sam was shown to go out into the park on a walk which wasdone in a spiritual fashion. There are many spiritual ways of walking. Anyhow, Sam carried one ofPapa’s books and he opened it, and Papa explained that “Ramdas means servant of God.”Now this is what Mohammed called himself—Abdallah, which means Ramdas, exactly thesame. And Mohammed said, “I am the servant of God. Call me nothing but Messenger and Servantof God.” But the so-called Muslims say: “I bear witness that Mohammed is the Messenger of God.”They do not bear witness that Mohammed was the servant-of-God. Then, contrary to his teachings,they elevate Messenger to make it greater than king or emperor or Prophet or anything. That is notwhat Mohammed said. Nor what he did either.In Pakistan, everywhere Sam found a division between those who acclaimed Mohammed asMessenger-of-God and those who acclaimed him as Servant-of-God. And they make the word Rassoulmean what it never meant in Arabic. But Sam was shown that when he returns to Pakistan, he isto reclaim Mohammed Abdallah, which is the same as Ramdas.In the past weeks, some strange things happened. All the people here who have consulted Samand told him their problems ignore him, and all the people in Pakistan who do the same practicethat he suggests and all the practices have been successful. They all depend on practicing the presenceof God and nothing else. So the people there accept and even since the last report, Sam is nowregarded as a great Sufi Murshid and this seems so strange. So Sam decided no more to “help” thepeople here who are in trouble, but to depend on that faculty which is prajna in Sanskrit and kashfin Arabic, which means the awakening heart.Looking back on the past, Sam has had a lot of what he thought were inspirations and alwayssomebody interfered, and there is no need to go into this now. So he began doing other things, withouttelling anybody at all, and there are now so many stories, that one has to shorten them as muchas possible.