IN THE
UNIVERSE IS UTTER DARKNESS
If
one were to withdraw his mind from sensual pleasure and were to attach himself
to the Sound Current, he would go
back to Sach Khand. Then there would
be no more coming and going. All this is within one’s self and whoever “Goes In” according to the instruction
of a Master reaches his Home.
Seeing
the world its true light, swami Ji observes
that there is nothing but utter darkness
and misery in this world. It is indeed a place where the blind and leading the
blind. The slogan “eat, drink, and be
mercy” is altogether confusing and in reality no one is happy in this wide
world.
The
deadly five enemies of human being viz.
Lust, anger, avarice, attachment, pride or egotism perment us no rest or
peace. Luzt pull us down to the
animal plane. Those given to sensual pleasures severely undermine their health
and repent their folies ever afterwards. Anger
burns up all that is noble. It tears down and annihilates every fine
quality of mind and soul. It is consuming fire born of the ries of destruction.
Anger is truly the sapping and the consuming passion. Avarice binds us to material
things and clouds our vision to all higher values. It ties us to baser things
of earth. Pety, love and kindness gradually disappear. The
greedy person has no end to his wants and desires and nothing can ever satiate
him. He constantly run after a mirrage pride
or egotism is a malignat kind
of selfishness and is the most sturdly and masterful of the bemeful five. It
has also the greatest longevity. It is the last surrender. Its fundamental
assumption is its own infallibility. Thus lust degrades and hardens and
petrifies; attachment seduces and procrastinates; and egotism distorts and
decives.
The
vegetable have one active tattwa(
Element) which is water; the insect* has two viz. Air and fire; the birds
have three viz. Water, air and fire; in the higher animal there are four of
them viz. Earth, water, air and fire; while in man all five element viz earth,
air, water, fire and ethere are active the larger the number of active element
a living entity has, the higher it is in the scale of evolution, and naturally
the greater is the onus involeve in killing it. Or, in other words, the karmic load that ones has to carry on
killing is in direct proportion to the active element present in a living being
ther fore saints enjoin a completely vegetarian dient on their followers. Besides, food of animal origin drags one down
to the animal planes and bars spiritaul progress.
The
human form is the only privileged one to realize the Suprem being and one gets
in again after countles age spent in other forms. Yet, even here, the mind and
sense overpower the soul.
Thereupon
he himself began grope his way, thinking that he would reach and go out of the
main gate. When, however, he actually neored the only exit, in response to an
itching sensation on his head, he lifted his hand and scratched, and thus
passed the exit in the meantime. Every time he neared the gat the same thing
happened and he thus remained in the maze for ever. We mortals behave exactly
in the same fashion, every time we get the gift of a human form instead of
utilizing it for God – Realization, we turn to sensual pleasures and once gain
go down into the laby rinth.
The
saint exhort man to rise above the nine
portals of the body and urge him to concentrate his attention at the eye
center. There he can contact the sound, with the help of which he can go up. Guru Nanak says the same thing “Close the nine doors, still the wayward
mind and go to the tent door. There are the Anhad Shabd resounds incessantly day and night”. Now, one may ask,
why do we not hear it? Guru Nanak says that
one can hear it only with the help of a perfect Master. It is the Shabd which liberates us, which
supports . all creation, all regions and continents, and the sun, moon and stars. The Master directs us to withdraw our attention and to
concentrate it at the eye center. Where we can contact and even tually merge in
the sound current. But without a perfect Master even when we thicnk we are
turning to Spiritual practice, we
follow paths which are blind alleys. Neither renunciation, nor penances, nor
learning, nor pilgrimages can ever bring true Bliss. These practices are like
churning water, which can bring out nothing. Going within and contacting Nam,
is like churning milk and producing butter.
Swami Ji says that the worldly man is
indeed unfortunate, for all his attention is centered in the world. How can
master take him up, and bundle of filth that he is? To Shabd he is not united.
Every thought of the world and the worldly pleasure immediately pulls him down,
away from the eye center.
The
more one devotes himself to Shabd, the
more he is purified. But if he takes to counting beads or performing
austerities, little do they help him. It only develop egotisim.
Nam is not to be found in books. Even if we
read all holy scriptures but do not follow the path of Surat Shabd, we are like the “withc”
bird which parrot – like, imitates all sounds.
Swami Ji tells us that if we want to
treads the Spiritual Path, we must
learn the technique from an Adept, then
go within and unite with the Shabd or
the Sound Current. Gradually lose
all sensation and be hold radiant light within “It is now time” says Swami
Ji that you should begin to get yourself detached from the world and
practise the method of Surat Shabd for
there is no other way Guru Nanak also
says the same thing “without shabd all
is darkness inside; neither do your secure your objective nor do you cease your
coming and going.”
*there
are two type of insect, those which fly having air and fire as the two element
iin them; and the ones that crawl, as the ant whose active element are earth
and fire.
