V.

The Kingdom of God

The culminating point of the spiritual journey is the Kingdom of God, to which the spirit is gradually led by the Radiant Form of the Master. It is not something external, for all beauty and glory lie within the human soul.

Of this Kingdom, it is said that:

The Kingdom of God cometh not with observation, the Kingdom of God is within you.


In the Holy Quran, the Kingdom of God is referred to as Maqam-i-Mahmud or the praiseworthy station –(17:81). It is the Buddha Land of the Buddhists, a sublime state of conscious rest in omniscience, called Nirvana. 
Through the Grace of the Master, the spirit then regains the Lost Paradise, the Garden of Eden, from which it was forced out:

In flesh, at first was the guilt committed;
Therefore in flesh it must be satisfied.


Having paid the wages of sin through suffering, the process of Karmic reactions is finally liquidated by the power of Naam or Word. Protected and enfolded by the Power of God as manifested through the grace of the Master, the spirit forges ahead unhampered, and finally comes face to face with the Reality. This state of blissful beatitude is spoken of variously as the New Jerusalem (where the Christ-Power appears once again); Maqam-i-Haq (the Abode of Truth); or Sach Khand (the Immortal Plane); a place where there is no sorrow, no taxation and no vexation.