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Sant Tulsi Sahab says:
The path given to you is the highest goal. Tend it with great care. This secret path is not achieved merely by talking about it. This path is the inner mystery, and one should carefully tread its course.
Now today we do not have the living Prophet Muhammad with us. Who then was Prophet Muhammad, one may ask. Prophet Muhammad was the light of God, and he was the messenger, the prophet of God. He was also a fakir and great sage. Where then would we find the light of God according to the teachings of
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Sant Kabir Sahab says:
My prophet (the Divine light) lives in my eyes. When I focus between my eye brows I see the light of the Divine. I live in this inner space of my heart, therein resounds the celestial music of the stringed instrument. My Beloved is always with me and takes me to the Palace of the Divine Sound.
Amir Khusro, a Muslim poet, writes:
With the blessing of my teacher Khwaja I went to the Ganga River. There I saw the great Guru Swami Ramanand. He blessed me with his grace, and my heart became pure. The radiance of God manifested in my purified heart.
How can we see this inner light? The answer: Only when you have the grace of a pure spiritual teacher. Khwaja Sahib, a Muslim fakir, says that just as Muhammad went from Mecca to
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