BOOK THREE

 

Amrit

 

Nectar or the Water of Life

 

Amrit

 

AMRIT or Aab-I-Hayat or Maha Ras is the elixir of life, for whoever partakes of it gets everlasting life and escapes forever from the otherwise interminable round of births and deaths.  The sages and seers wandered in quest of It, but nowhere in the wide world were they able to find it.  Is it then a chimera or mirage? The saints in reply have repeatedly said that Amrit is something real and solid.  It is the Water of Immortality, which lies hidden and buried within the depths of the soul, encrusted with the dust of ages, and may be deved into even now and rediscovered, if one has the patience to do as he is bidden.

In the scriptures of the various religions we come across references to the sacred Water of Life.  The Muslim divines describe It as Abd-I-Haiwan or Aab-I-Hayat and always suggested Its use to the world-weary pilgrims.  It is also called Chasma-I-Kausar.  The Hindu scriptures cann It Mansarover or the Pool or Nectar (Amritsar), which if tasted would grant life everlasting.  In the Vedas we read of It as Soma Ras, which granted Cosmic Awareness or Universal Consciousness to the Rihis and the Munis who partook of It in ages long ago.  The saints generally call It amritsar or the pool or the fount of Nectar.  Christ often spoke of It as the Water of Life.

And let him that is athirst come, and whosoever will,

Let him take the Water of Life freely. 

Whosoever drinketh of the water than I shall give him

Shall never thrist; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. 

                                                                                 CHRIST

In the Holy Bible, it is stated that Christ used to bring the dead to life.  At one place, he is said to have administered this Water of Life to a Samaritan lady.  Form all this it is abundantly clear that Christ freely made use of this Water of Life in treating the ills of mankind.  And very often he refers to the Voice of God as well.

For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be reaised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.  *3

                                                                                          ST. PAUL

When the dead shall hear the Voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.  *4

                                                                                 CHRIST

By these means, he is said to have redeemed no less than one hundred forty and four thousand souls.  *5

The Rishis and Munis or the holy men of ole and even the saints in comparatively recent times tasted of the Water of Life and made their followers drink from the great fountainhead, and it is possible even today to partake of this Water with the grace and kindness of some Master-saint.