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Shlomo Kalo was born in 1928 to a Jewish family in Sofia, Bulgaria.
At age 12 he was already active in an anti Fascist underground.
Three years later, under Nazi occupation, he was exiled and imprisoned in a concentration camp in Somovit.
At age 18 Kalo won a prize in a poetry contest. He studied medicine in Prague, where he worked as a journalist.With the establishment of the State of Israel and the outbreak of the independence war, he was sent as a foreign volunteer to Holomotz to train as a pilot, then immigrated to Israel at the age of 21.
In 1958 he was awarded an MSc in microbiology by the Tel Aviv University.
For 26 years and until his retirement in 1988 he worked as director of medical laboratories.
On the fifth of January, Sunday, in the year 1969, at 12 o'clock noon, Shlomo Kalo won Enlightenment following which a sharp turnabout occurred in his life.
By then Kalo was one of Israel's promising writers. Yet his writing, which had earned him praises and a scholarship, had also taken such a distinct turn. That very same year he established "D.A.T Publications" (D.A.T - Initials of "Know Your Self Always" in Hebrew; also reads as "knowledge") and published its first book. The book titled "God and the Way to Him" was a collection of verses from the Bible, the New Testament, The Koran and Bhagavad-Gita.
In the first years of D.A.T Publications, Kalo published a succession of Hebrew translations of spiritual classics such as Bhagavad Gita, Shankara's Viveka Chudamani, Buddha's Dhampada, Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, Zen Koans and more.
Not until ten years after that "sharp turnabout" did Kalo publish his first original spiritual work "The Self as Fighter". Having read the book, a small group of young people approached Kalo and asked him to become their spiritual guide. This formed the basis for the D.A.T spiritual School.
Addressed by his disciples as "The teacher / Master"1, Kalo does not receive any benefits from them, not to mention money or any form of "donations". He rarely consents for interviews by the media and does not promote his spiritual School at all.
| "The fundamental points in the teachings of the D.A.T spiritual School are: adherence to values - not to lie, not to chase lucre, not to commit adultery 2; absolute trust in God,whose name is Love, and that whoever wins Enlightenment is awakened to see and to know himself as an inseparable part of Him, still being in flesh. The principle is - a sincere and persevering effort to live these ideals in one's heart, mind and deeds, at all times always, under all circumstances." |
| "Absolute trust in God: An exhaustive answer to any question; A perfect remedy to any sickness; An absolute solution to any problem." (The Master. Dec. 1, 2000) |
| "God - Infinity, Freedom, Love - as Reality" |
| "He who has won, by God's grace, Enlightenment, is awakened to see and to know himself as an inseparable part of the eternity of the luminous reality, that is God, whose name is Love: dead to the world, alive to God. He who has won Satori or Nirvana: dead to the world, dead to God." |
| "Enlightenment : The body stretches like a string, heat emanates from the area of the heart until no clothing is tolerable. The appetite vanishes. There is a complete detachment from all dependence to the transient." |
| "Yediot
Aharonot" (Passover 1997) "Kiyufim"
column
"At the time of the awakening there is no trace of 'fear',no 'throbbing of the heart' and no time limit. Happiness alone. True happiness, pure, endless which only he who has experienced it knows it. The Enlightened one is the absolute happiness itself. Freedom he is, Infinity, Eternity, Love. Physically the body stretches like a string, heat emanates from the area of the heart. The appetite vanishes. The sexual drive seems ludicrous. The 'I' has ceased dying. The Enlightened one is a living teaching of impeccable moral." |
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December 2, 1992 , at the rise of the HIV epidemic, an add
was published in "Yediot Aharonot", Israel's major daily newspaper,
which read:
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Another
was published in the same newspaper November 3, 1993.
It read:
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| Starting
October 18th 1996,
the following message from Kalo was spread among disciples and friends
of the
School:
"The situation has been decided. And it will be translated in the field4. And will surprise everyone, Arabs and Jews alike, and the world. There will be pain but not perdition. Put your trust in God, do not lie, do not commit adultery3, do not chase lucre - and the pain shall aspire to zero." |
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March 16, 2000, having read a translation of Shlomo Kalo's "THE DAY IS
COMING", a representative of the Vatican radio asked to interview the author.
The author read the following message which was recorded by Radio Vaticana
to be broadcasted during the Pope's visit in Israel.
"The Pope's asking forgiveness from the Jewish people is the most important Christian act in the past two thousand years, a symbol of renewed hope, a sign of true faith, an unequivocal proof of pure Christian love. As a loyal son of my people and those who identify with me, we are asking at this unique moment which will not return, the forgiveness of the Christian world and of His Holiness the Pope, for having treated them in a distorted way which has never testified anything but benighted ignorance. We hope that complete repentance will bring all peoples and nations closer to God and will earn them the grace of His redemption." | |
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On June 12, 2002, the following message, titled "About The Situation", was spread among disciples and friends :
The world is a holy creation, which by its nature does not tolerate uncleanness just as the depths of the sea would not tolerate a diver without proper equipment. The equipment required for life on a holy creation, which by its nature does not tolerate uncleanness, is adherence to values. The more this equipment wears out and becomes defective the more life in the world becomes a disaster and a holocaust. The precise list of values, adherence to which prevents disaster, keeps away holocaust, guarantees life, is specified in all the well-known holy scriptures. About 14 years ago, in an interview to a newspaper, it was suggested to the inhabitants of this land, as well as to the entire world, to do everything within their power not to lie, in any way, in any aspect and in return, peace and prosperity were promised, if a third of them persevered. This was not done and the ten righteous men who are supposed to redeem Sodom from the holocaust have not been found. And the results speak for themselves. | |
| General- | This page is a translation of the original text to be found in the Hebrew version . |
| 1- | "HaMore" In Hebrew. see Hebrew source |
| 2,3- | The Master's "LO LIN-OF" is translated as "not to commit adultery" just as in the Ten Commandments "LO TIN-AF" would usually be translated as "Thou shall not commit adultery". It should be pointed out though, that in both original Hebrew texts there is no "commit" to suggest an emphasis on the deed of adultery rather than on the thought / intention or on both. Click for Hebrew source of 2 or Hebrew source of 3 |
| 4- | The original "Yetoorgam Bashetach" is translated here literally. meaning close to "be Implemented", "be translated into.." see Hebrew source. |
D.A.T.
publications 
An
interview with the Master