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MESSAGE FROM ALLAH Most mystics and religious seers, like Guruji, claim that revelation is a form of knowledge that is inspired or given by a god. In this story, Guruji describes a revelation that he had from Allah, the name of God in the Islamic religious tradition. The setting and other historical details of the experience may astonish even the religious believer.
rn 1965, there was a terrible war between India and 1 Pakistan. The leader of the Pakistan Army was a Sikh or a Hindu Moslem and he came from an ancient tradition of violence. Since my faith is founded upon ahimsa or the doctrine of nonviolence, I felt badly about the war between the peoples of my homeland.
At the height of the war, I was staying at a friend's palace in Kashmir. One night, I could not sleep, thinking about the war and being troubled by its outcome. So I went outside and walked in the beautiful, walled-in gardens of the palace where many flowers and vines grew.
Nearby, in the hills, I could hear shots and at one point, someone came from the palace and told me that it was not safe to walk outside. When I went inside to my room I meditated, hoping to find peace from my troubled mind and the world around me.
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