EXCERPTS FROM DISCOURSE part 2
14. Our Sojourn in this world is an equally short and temporary one, and we also need to build only temporary conection. We are not to stay here forever. One day we have to leave family, friend and possesions. Even our own body will remain behind little do we know on what day the angels of death will summon us. “there have been countless mighty rules in this world. They use to speak of “I” and “MINE” but when they died, they took away with them not a single straw”. We must therefore, turn out back on the outside world and retire “within” to obtain deliverance from its agony and affliction.
Life is like an emptydream. There is nothing real about it. Jut a blossom does not last for long so does not life.
We pass our lives fruitlessly liek a wageless laborer, who works hard. The whole day and come home empty handed. The real aim of human life reamins unattained. Thus we loss both, this world and the next. Futile is human birth without “NAM” realization. “if a man knoweth not his self during histime. He cannot even imagine the ills that may be in store for him after death.
It behoves us all to sing the praise of the Lord. The real chanting is not with physical voice but by going “INSIDE” and contacting sweet melody. “By recitation the cannot be known; in delusion are all sects; by Guru’s grace is God realized and the tongue tasteth. The nectar of his Bliss.
The human form which our most precious gift and which we have obtained after wandering through the eighty four lac species is the top of all creation. It is wish to put it to appropriate use and rise above the domain of KAL “who knoweth not NAM, he is blind and deaf; for what doth he come into the world” There are two ladders; the ladder of EIGHTY FOUR which leads down and the ladder of NAM that leads up. The one usher us into darkness and delusion, and the other into light and refulgence we must jump from the former to the latter and hold it firmly. It is through this ladder that with devotion and love we can ascend to higher realms and ultimately return to our Eternal Home.
15. REPEATEDLY have the stressed the uniqueness of NAM without NAM the chain of birth and death does not cease “NAM” can be contacted only with the help of one who proficient in it and is indeed a true master.
The physical body performs its functions only so long as the soul resides within it. In fact everything in existense is entirely dependent upon soul for its life and activity. Form, beauty and color all owe themeselves to its spark. When the soul departs, the eartly remains possess neither value nor purpose in a fleeting moment the individual possess beyond mortal ken and becomes altogether a stranger to his near and dear ones. They hasten to consign him to fire or earth “NAM is the antidote for all ills, and all sins doth it wash away.
Death ovetakes all. Blessed are those who die daily while living; that is to say, they have learned to vacate the body during their lifetime through SURAT SHABD YOGA and to contact the Master within.
16. This supreme creator, the final cause one whithout a second, is NAM SHABD or SACK(truth) be comprehend with intellect, for intellect is limited and he is limitless. He is beyond the reach of MIND and reasoning which actually bar spiritual progress by raising senseless doubts and misgiving. No man ever achieved spiritual progress by a process of logic. “Neither by contemplation nor by intellectual discourse can we realize him.” The only way to do so is to seek a true master, and follow his instructions implicity. Once we contact NAM, we leave the PHENOMENAL WORLD with it’s pain and sorrow behind and enter into the world of Bliss. There is no substiture whatever for Nam. All other methods – recitals, penances pilgrimages – are utterly futile. They keep us comfine to the domain of duality and illusion and its ETERNAL WHEEL, In Kalyuga, Nam alone doth sustain. Save nam all else is false and vain.
Those who have found the Master, learned the secret and contacted nam “within” during their lifetime, are the one who have truly justified their existence. “In every heart abident the Lord; black is none, but worthy of worship is he. Who in himself hath made him manifest”.
The inestimable wealth is within all of us but can be gathered only after learning the technique from a Perfect Adept and practicing it with love, faith and humility. “none is poor, BHIKKA; everyone hath got rubies in his bundle. But how to open the knot he doth not know, and therefore is he a pauper.” Furtunate indeed are those who have cultiate love for “NAM” and have turned their back or the world.” All worldly people are prisoners awaiting the stroke of death; save for that rare brave, who hath his body in prison but his soul in heaven.
17. he who created the soul and the body resides within each being. He is Eternal and Unchangeable. He an realized by contacting Nam, which constantly resound at the eye focus “gather the wealth of nam which none can steal. Nor fire can burn, nor even wind can carry that wealth is never lost”. It is the only way to end pain and suffering, and earn lasting bliss.
Their end is Darkness and Despair. They make false prefenses and hold out alluring promises they constantly keep us in the mirage of wealth lust and Pleasure of Power and Position. Only to lead us head long into the valley of death. The sole escape from their clutches is through the intervention of a perfect adept. He discloses the secret of vacating the “nine doors” of the body. Concentrating the attention in the tenth – at the eye center – and contacting Nam, the Heavenly Music, hearing which we get rid of all vices and the play of passion.
A life of piety and virtue is possible only when we rise above the Nine Portals of the body. So long as we remain within their domain and influence, no matter what we do, we cannot conquer the Mind and the sense. It is a little use cleaning the utensil again and again if we put nothing into it. The pious life has a meaning only if it can achieve salvation, this can happen only if with the Grace of the Lord, we meet a living master and learn from him the technique of contacting Nam this factor determines wheather we take to the path of kal(the negative power) or that of Dayal (the Merciful Lord)
18. Mind and its ingenuity fail to point the way for its beyond Minds reach. The only way to perceive him is by resigning to his will, by obeying the HUKUM* and treading The path of Shabd. The Hukum or Shabd is within all of us and can be contacte at the Eye Focus “By hukum all forms are made, by Hukum all living being are created. By hukum is gratness achieved. By hukum are made the high and low. By hukum are pain and pleasure set down by Hukum are other made to continue in the Eternal Wheel. If one understand the hukum, he will not speak in conceit.” Nothing can happen without hukum. No one can die or be killed, even in the midst of flying bullets, unless it is so destined.
In order to perceive them, one has to lose consciousness of the outside world, become alive or Super Conscious within and contact Nam, the Heavenly Melody is continuously rever berating in the part of the body the eye we do not hear it because our attention is derected downward and outwards. We become awake when we go in at the eye center. The Sweet Melody is constantly coming there directly from the house of God.
When we lose our way in dense forest on a dark night and are without a guide, we try to listen for some wound so that we may follow it and reach a habitation. In view of the pitch darkness and the unknown place we also look for a light to enable us to reach the place. Likewise, in our Spiritual Journey, God provide Divine Light and Sound to lead us safety home from this labyrithine world. “Inside is the Flame and in flame is Sweet Melody that inspireth in us love to the true Lorn”. When we carry out the instructions prescribed by the Master with faith and loving devotion, we are so on illuminated inside and contacting Nam, Listen to the heavenly music by following which we reach its source of origin. By Practising Nam, doubts and darkness disappear and the light of a million suns shines forths.”
It is imposible to advance even an inch on the Spiritual Path without the Guide who is well versed in this science. We cannot realized him by recitals, denaces pilgrimages and charities. These have doubltless their own merit but are utterly unable to release us from the dondage of birth and death. No man can enter spiritual regions so long as his mind lingers upon things of the Outer world are concerned, and wake up within to attain the subtle ones. True liberation can come only when we learn the way from and Adept and “go within”. This is the path of all the saints.
*HUKUM – means “His Order” , “His Wil” it also means “SHABD”
