Subud Books

Subud Publications International

– New English translation with Indonesian text

Some of the topics covered are:

Changing one’s name. Marriage and sexual relations. Can we avoid absorbing low forces and negative influences? The way to avoid a crisis. The difference between symptoms of illness that are purification and those that are not. Bringing order to the forces within us. The need to help others. Will mixing money and enterprises with a spiritual way hold back the development of the soul? Concerning money.

Concerning the souls of our relations. The three realms you have to pass through in order to be free of the low forces; what spiritual purification means? What happens in worship when the soul is awakened? The soul follows the nature of the vessel. The ways in which our inner self does not always match our outer self. Why people who claim to know God in fact do not. Men and women helpers should meet together regularly.

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The effect of the desires of arrogance, greed, envy, and acceptance, and why we need them. How the low forces manipulate us. How possessing a perfect human soul manifests outwardly. Generosity and charity are the outer aspects of the worship of God. If you write a book about Subud it is your image, not the image of Subud.

Why people have lost touch with the power of God that is within their individuality. The fragrance of the soul. The consequence of suicide. The need to surrender in practice not just in theory. The example of Abraham and his son; the surrender of Jesus. Do not be quick to imagine you have reached your goal. Why there is no method in Subud. When to use your thinking and your heart and when not to. Why Jesus was called a son of God.

Why you do not need mantras. The difference between movements made in the latihan and those that come from the desires. Why Bapak says that in Subud we should not only emphasise or expect healing. The need to follow the example of the prophets. Why the prophets were represented as goatherds. The nature of each of the four desires that reside in the heart and thinking. The story of Abraham and Ishmael as an example of someone having an animal soul.

Why we cry when we come into the world, and cry when we leave it – Adam asked to live an extra thousand years. Comparing people today and those of long ago to different qualities of gold. Do not say Subud is a religion or teaching from Bapak. The need for helpers not to feel superior. Why the duties and responsibilities of helpers are heavy. The real meaning of ‘good works’. Murder as an example of what wrong use of our heart and mind does to our inner self.

(New English translation with Indonesian text).