The Ocean of Love - The Anurag Sagar: Prologue
The Ocean of Love - The Anurag Sagar of Kabir
I. Prologue
INVOCATION
SATYA SUKRIT, ADI ADLI, AJAR: ACHINT PURUSH, MANINDER, KARUNAMAI,
KABIR, SURTI YOG SANTAYAN, DHANI DHARAM DAS, CHUDAMANI NAAM, SUDARSHAN
NAAM, KULPATI NAAM, PRAMODH GURU BALA PIR, KEWAL NAAM, AMOL NAAM,
SURAT SUNCHI NAAM, HAKK NAAM, PAK NAAM, PRAGAT NAAM, DHIRAJ NAAM, UGRA
NAAM, GRACE OF GOD, THE GRACE OF THE LINEAGE OF FORTY-TWO
INCARNATIONS.
MANGLACHARAN: HYMN OF GOD'S GRACE
First of all I salute the Satguru, Who showed me the Inconceivable God
Who, lighting the lamp of the Master's Knowledge and opening the veil,
made me have His darshan. With Master's grace I have achieved Him, to
achieve Whom, scholars worked very hard. His form cannot be described;
His soul is the nectar in which I have absorbed myself.
INVOCATION The names listed here after Dharam Das and Chudamani are
the names of their successors in the Kabir-panth line; the invocation
in its present form was inserted after the time of Ugra Naam, and is
not an integral part of the poem.
SATGURU Master of Truth or True Master. Exoterically, it refers to any
Master, such as Kabir, who has descended from the fifth plane or Sat
Lok, or who has merged with the Positive Power or Sat Purush. In this
sense it is used throughout the Anurag Sagar as a synonym for Kabir.
Esoterically, it refers to the Master Power manifesting on the level
of Sat Purush, as distinguished from the same Power manifesting on the
lower inner planes as the Radiant Form or Gurudev, and on the physical
plane as the Guru. This trinity of Satguru/Gurudev/Guru is roughly
analogous to the Buddhist Dharma Kaya/Sambhoga Kaya/Nirmana Kaya, or
three "bodies" (forms or manifestations) of the Buddha.
INCONCEIVABLE GOD Agam Purush. Refers specifically to the seventh
inner plane, the first (partial) expression of the Absolute God or
Anami.
DARSHAN To have a look at, or to get a glimpse of, someone-usually
someone holy. The darshan of a genuine Master is in itself a valuable
spiritual practice.
Gurudev is Perfect
The Master is an Ocean of Grace, He showers grace on the miserable
ones. Rare are those who know His secret: He manifests Himself in
those who recognize Him.
Who deserves it?
HYMN
Only the connoisseur, who will test the Shabda
And listen to the teachings with full attention
And within whom these teachings will dwell, only he will understand
this.
He within whom the Sun of Knowledge will manifest and remove
the darkness of attachment -- only he will understand this.
I am telling you this Anurag Sagar (Ocean of Love) -- only rare
saints will understand.
Without love one cannot achieve it
COUPLET
Any learned saint who thinks over my words and has love in his heart
will achieve Nirvana.
THE SIGNS OF A LOVER
Dharam Das said:
0 Satguru, folding my hands I beg You, please clear up this doubt
of mine:
How do I recognize the one within whom love manifests?
What does a lover look like? Without love the jiva cannot be
liberated --
O my God, tell me about that love, and give examples to explain
it to me.
Examples of a lover's qualities
The Satguru said:
0 Dharam Das, I will explain to you the qualities of the lover; listen
attentively so that you may recognize him.
Example of the deer
Intoxicated by the music, the deer runs and comes to the hunter.
He doesn't have any fear, not even when he sacrifices his head.
Hearing the music he sacrifices his life --a lover should do the same.
Example of the moth
A lover should be like a moth when it goes near light.
Example of Sati
O Dharam Das, listen to more examples and manifest the Satguru's
Shabda.
Be like the woman who burns herself with her dead husband, and
while burning doesn't move her body;
One who leaves her house, wealth and friends, and in the pain of
separation, goes alone;
She doesn't stop even when people bring her son before her, and try
to catch her in attachment --
When people say, "Your son is weak and will die, and without you
your home will be lonely" --
When people say, "You have plenty of wealth, come back home" --
She is in the pain of separation from her husband and nothing
attracts her.
SHABDA The Sound Current; also called Naam or Word. The projected
Creative Force of the Positive Power or Sat Purush, ultimately
responsible for the entire creation and present in each individual in
the form of Light and Sound, which can be seen and heard, and which
are the agency that pulls the individual back to his/her essence, Sat
Purush.
JIVA The soul when bound and forgetful. The liberated fully-conscious
soul is called atman, but the two terms are often used interchangeably.
SATI It is a curious paradox that Kabir, who uses sati as an image of
absolute faithfulness and love here and elsewhere in his poetry,
should have resolutely opposed it in practice; but it is the
difference between the ideal and the reality. These lines explicitly
portray a wife so identified with her husband that she has no ability
to live on a plane where he is not, and so follows him in death,
voluntarily, joyfully, and despite the conventional wisdom of friends
and relations - exactly as a true devotee feels about God. But the
ugly reality of the custom as it became a Hindu law was something
else: a terrified widow, forced by public opinion to burn herself and
going along with it because she literally had no future - when her
husband died, she lost her identity and became a non-person. Far from
urging her to live, her neighbors and friends forced her to die; and
if she somehow evaded her fate, she became an untouchable. All
Masters, including Kabir, opposed this vicious custom; but they also
continued to use the ideal as a poetic image of the love of the true
devotee for God.
HYMN
People try to persuade her in many ways but the determined woman
doesn't listen.
She says, "My condition is such that I have nothing to do with
wealth and property.
In this world, one lives for a few days, and in the end none is our
companion
So, dear friends, understanding this I have caught hold of my
husband's hand."
COUPLET
Thus with determination she climbs the funeral pyre, and taking her
husband in her lap,
She becomes Sati, repeating the name of the Lord.
Qualities of the real lover
O Dharam Das, understanding the reality, I am telling you about
love.
Those who meditate on Naam in such a way that they forget their
family,
Who do not have the attachment of son and wife, and who
understand this life as a dream, are real lovers.
Brother, in this world life is very short, and the world doesn't help
at its end.
In this world woman is loved the most; not even parents are loved
so much.
But the woman for whom one lays down his life doesn't help at the
time of death.
She weeps for her own self and at once goes to her parents' home.
Son, kinsfolk and wealth are dreams, so my advice to you is to
achieve Sat Naam.
Nothing goes with us in the end - not even the body which we love
so well.
Who can release us from Kal?
Brother, I don't see anyone who can release us at the end time,
Except One - Whom I will describe - loving Whom your purpose
will be served.
The Satguru is the only one Who can get us released; believe this as
true.
What does the Satguru do? Defeating Kal, He takes the soul to the
Motionless Plane, where Sat Purush is. Reaching there, one finds
infinite happiness and is freed from coming back to this world.
HER PARENTS' HOME Note the difference between the attitude of the
woman pictured here and that of the sati described above. This is a
far more realistic description, obviously of a society where sati was
not forced.
SAT NAAM The Expression of Existence; The True Name given to the
Primal Sound Current as it comes into Being at the stage of Sach Khand
as Sat Purush or the Positive Power. Sometimes used in this book as a
synonym for Naam or Shabda, the Sound Current as a whole.
KAL Literally, "Time" or "Darkness"; the name of the Negative Power,
or that aspect of the One God that flows downward and is responsible
for the creation and maintenance of the causal, astral and physical
planes. A very large part of Anurag Sagar is concerned with Kal, who,
as explained below, is one of the sixteen sons of the Sat Purush or
Positive Power, and who fell from grace and favor through demanding
the sovereignty of the three worlds. He is the "father" of Brahma,
Vishnu and Shiva, and sends his incarnations into the world from time
to time both to maintain justice and redress wrongs, and also to
mislead seeking souls and prevent them from leaving the confines of
the three worlds. Kal is not necessarily evil - a careful reading of
Anurag Sugar will show that, given the fact of the lower creation, his
work is necessary - yet neither is he good: he is most certainly not
God, yet he demands to be worshiped as though he were. Because he does
his best to keep individual souls from leaving the lower creation, he
is the ancient foe of the Saints, or incarnations of Sat Purush, Whose
work is precisely to help souls leave the lower creation. In the
Jewish Christian tradition, he is in some ways analogous to Satan, in
others to the "priestly' conception of Yahweh in the Old Testament
(not, however, to the prophetic use of that name which refers to a God
of mercy and love). The Gnostics called him the Demiurge, and
understood him very well. Perhaps the closest analogue in Western
literature is William Blake's "Urizen" who like Kal, functions as the
great law-giver (compare Kal's other name, "Dharam Rai") using his
laws to trap humanity, and who demands to be worshiped as God.
Although Kal is often referred to in Anurag Sagar as "unjust," that is
from the perspective of Sat Purush and Kabir: within the context of
the worlds that he has made, he is absolutely fair and just, demanding
"an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," and getting it. Since
within the framework of the Rule of Law and the condition of the lower
worlds, we cannot avoid sin, it is true that we get exactly what we
deserve according to the Law of Karma; but since the ultimate Reality
of the human condition is that we are children of Sat Purush, "drops
of His essence," Kal, seen from that perspective, prevents us from
realizing our full personhood and thus is monstrously unjust. Our mind
is related to Kal in the same way as our soul is related to Sat
Purush.
MOTIONLESS PLANE Avichal, all the spiritual creation from Sat Lok
upward.
Who can reach the Motionless Plane?
HYMN
One who will climb the Path of Truth believing my words,
Like the warrior who marches ahead in battle and doesn't worry about
what is behind --
So become like the warrior and the Sati, and take the Knowledge of
the Path from the Saint.
Take refuge in the Satguru and, developing Mritak, rid yourself of
Kal's pain.
Rare are those who deserve it
COUPLET
Kabir says this, after reflection: Only the brave one who does this
can achieve the Beloved.
WHO IS A MRITAK?
Dharam Das said:
0 my God, tell me the qualities of mritak, so that the fire which is
burning in my mind may be extinguished.
O cloud of nectar, explain to me - how can this life die?
Examples of Mritak
Kabir said:
Dharam Das, this is a complicated thing.
Only a few can learn this from a perfect Master.
Example of bhringi
Those who serve the Saints as Mritak, ultimately -- grasping Shabda
-- achieve the Path to God.
Just as the insect who, coming in contact with bhringi, develops its
body.
Bhringi attacks the insect with its sound, and one who catches that
sound
Is taken by the bhringi to his home, where he turns it into his own
form.
The insect who catches the sound of bhringi, itself becomes bhringi.
Rare are the insects who catch the sound of bhringi at the first
attempt.
Some catch it at a second attempt, some at a third, and sacrificing
their body and mind they become the form of bhringi.
The insect who doesn’t catch the sound of bhringi remains as an
ordinary insect forever.
O Dharam Das, the disciple should receive the knowledge from the
Master as the insect receives the sound from bhringi.
How does one achieve the quality of bhringi? One who is determined to
accept the teachings, I make him My own form: The jiva who has no
duality realizes Me. One who believes the words of the Masters, only
he becomes the bhringi. When the crow merges itself into Shabda and
leaves all her desires, she becomes a hansa.
What is a hansa?
COUPLET
He who leaves the path of the crow and dwells on the true Shabda
within, eating pearls --
Who gives his life to Sat Purush by following the Path shown by the
Masters -- is a hansa.
More examples of Mritak
Hear 0 Saints, the nature of Mritak; rare are those who practice the
Path of God.
SAT PURUSH The True Being; the first full expression of the Absolute
God. Called also the Supreme Father or the Positive Power, He is the
Lord of Sach Khand and is the highest form of God that can be called
personal. Also called Sat Naam.
MRITAK Literally, "dead while alive"; refers to being totally detached
from the world and aware of God, as a dead person would be.
BHRINGI This curious phenomenon, which is apparently natural history
and not mythology, is commented on by Sant Kirpal Singh Ji as follows:
"Bhringi (an insect) after almost killing a keet (another insect)
revives the latter to life by bestowing its powerful attention on it.
The keet when charmed back to life is no longer a keet but becomes a
bhringi-being saturated with the life impulse of the latter. In just
the same way Kabir says that one who does Simran and gets firmly
engrafted therein will have new birth and new life quite distinct from
the old sensual life he has been living hitherto."
(The Way of the Saints, pp. 121-22)
HANSA A mythological swan which lives on pearls and is used by Masters
as a symbol of the liberated human soul (as, for example, in the term
paramhansa, which means literally "great swan").
Hear more attributes of Mritak:
Mritak serves the Satguru.
Mritak manifests love within him, and receiving that love the jiva
gets liberation.
Example of the earth
The earth hurts no one -- you be like that.
Some put sandalwood on her, some throw dirt on her -- still she
hates no one.
Mritak also hates no one -- He is very happy even when opposed.
Example of the sugar cane
Listen to more attributes of Mritak, and step on the Path shown by
the Master only after testing and understanding it:
When the farmer makes jaggery out of sugar, he cuts the sugar cane
into pieces;
Then it is crushed in the press and the juice is heated in the
cauldron.
After boiling the juice jaggery is made, and boiling the jaggery,
raw sugar is obtained.
Heating the raw sugar, refined sugar is obtained.
When sugar again burns herself, rock candy is obtained.
Kabir says: From rock candy, sugar candy -- which is liked by everyone
-- is made.
In the same way, if the disciple bears all his sufferings, with
Master's grace, he can easily cross the Ocean of Life.
Who can develop the qualities of Mritak?
HYMN
Dharam Das, to develop the qualities of a Mritak is hard; only a
brave soul can do it.
The coward cannot bear to hear it. He runs away and feels as if his
body and mind are burning.
Only those disciples who are looked after by the Master can board
the boat of Master's Knowledge.
And this is true: that one who gets that knowledge, definitely goes
to his eternal home.
Only Mritak is a Sadhu
COUPLET
Only he who becomes Mritak is a Sadhu and only he realizes the
Satguru.
He removes all illusions and even the gods depend on him.
Who is a Sadhu?
O Dharam Das, the path of the Sadhu is very difficult. He who lives
as Mritak is a perfect Sadhu.
He who has controlled the five organs of senses and drinks the nectar
of Naam day and night is a Sadhu.
Controlling the organ of seeing
First of all control the eyes, and meditate on the Naam received from
the Master.
Seeing the Beautiful Form of God is the only worship for these eyes;
he should not desire any other.
One who understands "beautiful" and "ugly" as the same, and doesn't
look at the body, enjoys happiness forever.
Controlling the organ of hearing
His ear should be fond of hearing good words, and should not like to
hear bad words;
But he who bears both -- good and bad words -- likes the Knowledge of
the Master to remain in his heart.
Controlling the organ of smell
The nose is controlled by pleasant smells, but the clever saints keep
it in their control.
Controlling the organ of taste
The tongue wants pleasant tastes: sour, sweet and delicious tastes.
But the Mritak does not know any difference between tasty and tasteless
things.
He does not get excited even if he is brought the Five Nectars.
He does not refuse food without salt, and lovingly accepts whatever
is served him.
SADHU One who has reached Daswan Dwar or the third plane; a very high
soul. In popular usage, a wandering monk, usually wearing saffron or
yellow robes; but that is not usually its meaning in Anurag Sagar or
in other writings of the Masters.
"GOOD" AND "BAD" The paradox here is that "good" and "bad" as we
normally understand them, are dualistic and have meaning only in
reference to Kal's worlds; but in Sant Mat, "good" means "that which
leads us towards God" and "bad," "that which keeps us away from God."
In this couplet, the first line refers to "good" and "bad" in the
second, esoteric sense; the second line to their outer, dualistic
sense.
Controlling the male genital organ
This organ is wicked and very sinful. Lust is conquered by only a few
ones.
A lustful woman is the mine of Kal. Leave her company and become the
Knower of the Guru.
Controlling lust
Whenever the wave of lust comes one should wake himself up.
He should put his attention into Shabda and, keeping quiet, should drink
the Nectar of Naam.
When he merges into the Elementless, lust will be finished.
The god of lust is a robber
HYMN
Lust is a mighty, dangerous and pain-giving negative power,
Which made the gods, munis, yakshas, ghandharvas, indulge in sex.
All of them were plundered -- only a few who remained determined with
the quality of their knowledge were saved.
Those who have the Light of the Satguru's Knowledge and are with Him,
have the secret of the Path.
The ways of escaping from lust, the robber
COUPLET
Enlighten your inner Self with the Lamp of Knowledge.
Meditate on the Satguru Shabda and the thief of darkness will run away.
Example of the anul bird
With the grace of the Master the jiva is called "Sadhu," and, becoming
the anul bird, goes back to his eternal home.
Dharam Das, understand these words: I am telling you about the anul bird,
Who lives in the sky and is supported by the air day and night.
She performs the sexual act through the eyes and in that way becomes
pregnant.
She lays her eggs in the sky, where there is no support:
The egg is nourished while falling; in the sky it is hatched and the
young bird takes birth;
It is on the way that it opens its eyes, and on the way that it gets
its wings.
When it finally reaches the earth it realizes that this is not its home -–
Realizing that, it flies back to where its parents live.
The anul bird doesn't come down to bring the baby back -- it itself
goes home, treading the path.
Many birds live in this world, but very few of them are anul birds.
Birds like that are rare, and rare are the jivas who merge themselves
in Naam.
If the jiva can practice this path, he can go back to Sat Lok,
triumphing over Kal.
When does a Sadhu become like an anul bird?
HYMN
When he goes only in the refuge of the Satguru and keeps only one desire
-- of Naam;
When he keeps himself in the service of the Satguru day and night, and
has no desire for wealth and property;
MALE GENITAL ORGAN Kabir's wording here is characteristically blunt
and does not take into consideration twentieth-century sensibilities.
Compare Matthew 19. But what does the word "sinful" mean when the
Masters use it? According to Kirpal Singh, "The Masters give a very
simple definition of sin as 'forgetting of origin' (Godhead)." [The
Wheel of Life, p. 37] Once this is understood, the point is obvious:
nothing makes a male forget his higher self any more quickly or deeply
than his aroused genital organ.
"LUSTFUL WOMAN" As the context implies, woman when acting as sex
object or when seen as sex object by man under the control of his
genital organ.
NAAM Name; here used as a synonym for Shabda or Sound Current, the
primordial creative Power of God which is also the essence of each
individual. In this sense, it is the exact equivalent of the Greek
term Logos (English "Word") as used in the New Testament, particularly
in the first chapter of the Gospel of John, where the concept is
described in great detail. Naam can also mean "name" in the usual
sense, just as "Word" can mean "word" in the usual sense: the Saints
use the terms Dhunatmak and Varnatmak to distinguish between the two,
the former term referring to the Sound Current or creative force, the
latter to names that can be spoken in human speech. The opening
passage of Tao Te Ching makes the same distinction.
ANUL BIRD Mythological bird. All Indian scriptures are full of
references to creatures like these, and Anurag Sagar is no exception.
These examples and stories are told to illustrate a human
psychological point, and should be understood as parables, not
lectures in biology. Sant Kirpal Singh has written that the Master
"makes frequent use of such concepts and doctrines from ancient Hindu
lore; but He refers to them not in a spirit of scientific truth, but
often as a Divine poet, who employs allusion and mythology to drive
his point home." [Jap Ji, p. 94]
When he forgets son, wife, and all the enjoyments and keeps himself
attached to Satguru's feet. [Then he becomes like an anul bird.]
What does the Master give to such a Sadhu?
With the grace of the Satguru he gets relief from the unbearable pain
and achieves Sat Lok.
How does one get to the Motionless Plane?
COUPLET
By remaining in the Master's remembrance, in thought, word, and
deed, and by obeying the orders of the Master --
Master gives one who does this the gift of liberation and merges
him in Naam.
The greatness of merging in Naam
As long as the jiva doesn't merge himself in Naam, he wanders in
this world.
When he contemplates on the Formless and merges into Naam, all his
doubts go away.
If he merges into Naam even for a moment, Its greatness cannot be
described.
Everybody talks about Naam but rare ones achieve the formless Naam.
Even if one lives in Kashi for ages, without the Essential Shabda he
will go to hell.
Nimkhar, Badri Dham, Gaya or Prayag -- even if he bathes in these
holy places,
And goes to all the sixty-eight places of pilgrimage, yet without
the Essential Shabda illusion cannot go away.
What can I say further about that Naam, repeating which the fear of
Yama goes away?
What does one get who receives Naam:
One who gets Sat Naam from the Satguru goes to Sat Lok climbing the
rope of Naam.
Dharam Rai bows his head to him whose soul merges into the
elementless.
What is the Essential Shabda?
The Essential Shabda is a bodiless form.
The Essential Shabda is beautiful, wordless.
The body has elements and nature: The Essential Shabda is elementless
and bodiless.
In all four directions Shabda is talked about -- only the Essential
Shabda can liberate the souls.
The Naam of Sat Purush Itself is the Essential Shabda and the Simran
of Sat Purush is the Essential Shabda's recognition.
One who merges into It without doing the Simran by tongue -- even Kal
is afraid of him.
The path of the Essential Shabda is subtle, easy and perfect; but only
the brave can follow it.
SAT LOK The Region of Truth; the fifth inner plane, first completely
spiritual plane, and seat of Sat Purush. This is the stage to which
perfect Masters or Sants take their disciples; Sat Purush Himself
takes them further into the Absolute. Guru Nanak referred to this
plane as Sach Khand; the Sufi Masters as Mukam-i-Haq. It is the Court
of the Saints.
KASHI Also called Benares; the holiest of all Hindu cities, and the
lifelong home of Kabir. It was widely believed that anyone who died in
Kashi would be liberated; consequently, devout Hindus from all over
India tried to reach Kashi during their last illnesses. It is said
that Kabir, to expose the hollowness of such beliefs, deliberately
left Kashi just before He died, and went to Magahar, about which it
was widely believed that anyone who died there went to hell.
HELL In the terminology of the Masters, "hell" can refer either to a
particularly difficult incarnation on earth, to the cycle of births
and deaths in general, or to certain stages of the astral plane where
particularly heavy karma is worked out. In no case is it eternal or
everlasting; and when the karma is worked through, the individual is
free to try again. See Kirpal Singh, The Wheel of Life, pp. 42-44.
YAMA The death-god; another name for Kal.
DHARAM RAI The Lord of Judgment or Law; another name for Kal, often
used in Anurag Sagar.
SIMRAN Remembrance; in the writings of the Masters, refers to
Remembrance of God through the repetition of His Five Basic Names, as
given in the form of a mantra by the Master at the time of initiation.
This repetition is done "without tongue" (see next line) - that is,
mentally - and is one of the three basic meditation practices of
Shabda Yoga. It is also a means of keeping in a state of remembrance
at all times even when not sitting in meditation, and a protection
against Kal.
RECOGNITION This is a very interesting line. The first half is an
explicit declaration of the esoteric identification of the Naam (i.e.
Name( of God with Shabda; the second half says that the ability to
"recognize" -i.e., hear and be pulled up by -the Sound Current is
dependent on the completion of Simran. This refers to the way in
which the spiritual practices of Shabda Yoga lead to one another.
It is neither a word, nor a simran, nor a japa. It is a perfect thing,
achieving which one can conquer Kal.
The support of the soul is in the head, and now I will tell you of the
recognition of Shabda.
One who gets connected with the Unrepeated Repetition gets to see the
infinite-petaled lotus.
When he reaches the astral door, he [ultimately] goes to Agam and Agochar
[by way of] the True Path.
His inner Self - where Adi Purush resides - gets enlightened.
Recognizing Him, the soul goes to Him - and He takes the soul to its
origin.
The soul is of the same essence as Sat Purush and is also called Jiva
Sohang.
Dharam Das, you are a wise saint. Recognise that Shabda which gives
liberation.
The method of meditating on the Essential Shabda (Naam) --
The way of practicing Master's Path
HYMN
Repeat the Unrepeated and with the grace of the perfect Master,
test it.
Keeping the wing of mind at rest, see the Shabda; and, climbing the
mind, finish your Karma.
Reach the place where the Sound is produced without tongue and the
rosary beads are moved without hands:
Merging into the Essential Shabda, go to the world of immortality.
COUPLET
The glory of the Inconceivable is limitless -- millions of suns and
moons cannot vie with one hair.
The radiance of one soul is equal to the light of sixteen suns.
The jubilation of Dharam Das:
O God, I sacrifice myself at Your Feet. Removing my pain, You have made
me happy.
Hearing Your words I am as happy as a blind man given eyes.
Kabir said:
Dharam Das, you are a pure soul, who, meeting with me, have removed
your pain.
Just as you have loved me, leaving your wealth, home and sons,
In the same way, the disciples who will do this and, with determination
will attach their mind to Master's Feet,
And will manifest love within themselves for Master's Feet,
sacrificing their body, mind and wealth on the Satguru
They will be most dear to me, and no one can ever stop them.
The disciples who won't sacrifice everything, and keep fraud in their
hearts while showing love on their faces,
How can they go to Sat Lok? Without manifesting Master within they
cannot achieve Me.
Dharam Das' confession of gratefulness:
All this you have done, my God; I was very dirty.
Showering grace on me You Yourself came to me and, holding my hand,
have saved me from Kal.
JAPA Repetition of a mantra, usually orally, which distinguishes it
from Simran - although the two words are sometimes, as here, used as
synonyms. This line means that the ultimate Path of the Sound Current
is above all Simran or Japa, because only those who have completed and
gone beyond that practice can walk it.
UNREPEATED REPETITION Ajapa jap, often used in Sant Mat to refer to
the Sound Current or Shabda.
ADI PURUSH Original Person; another name for Sat Purush.
SOHANG "I am you." Its use here as a name for the soul emphasizes the
identity of the soul and God referred to in the first part of the
line; its coupling with jiva underlines the irony of the soul's bound
and forgetful condition when seen in the light of its true nature.
KARMA The law of action and reaction, based on desire and I-hood,
which causes continual wandering in the cycle of birth and death
(transmigration) throughout the three worlds (physical, astral,
causal) ruled by Kal, and which governs the fate or destiny of each
life. Actions done in one life (whether in thought, word, or deed)
form the basis of the karma of subsequent lives.
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