Amrit: Its location

 

The divine ambrosia can be had by inversion and not anywhere in the world outside.  One can find It only if one transcends into the spiritual regions above the physical body.  A draught of the Water of Immortality is enough to grant life everlasting to the individual.  In order to reach the Haui-I-Kausar or the pool of nectar, one has to dig deep into the human self.

The human body is the temple of God wherein dweel both the soul and the Over-soul.  This temple has quite a number of instruments through which the Self within works in the physical plane without.  These instruments may be likened to doors and windows through which the soul and the mind go out into the world in search of worldly pleasures.  But the soul itself is imprisoned in the body and knows no way to escape thereform.  The body has nine visible portals: two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, mouth, rectum and the generative organ.  So long as the spirit remains absorbed in the sensor pleasures, it cannot have an access to the Heavenly regions and therefore, cannot taste the elixir of life.  Besides these nine outlets there is a hidden spring-door behind the center of the eyes.  When the spirit, by means of concentration, is gathered up at this center, it becomes qualified for ingress into higher realms with all the spiritual heritage therein.

A whore of spirit that delights in the nine sense organs does not get to the wondrous Reality,

Kabir therefore saith: all the nine chambers lie deserted--Essence is only in the tenth.  *35

                                                                                          KABIR

The nine portal lead to naught--nectar may be sipped at the tenth.  *36

The Master manifests the Water of Life at the tenth gate,

And listening to the Divine Music, one is led to stillness absolute.  *37

                                                                                 GURU RAM DAS

There is hardly any need now to search without, when the Master has shown the Reality within;

The Unending Music swells in the tenth chamber,

There one realizes the ambrosial Word.  *38

                                                                                 GURU ARJAN

The nectar of Divine Harmony is in the human body, and whoever delves for it, gets it within.  All outer activities on the plane of the senses, like pilgrimages, penances and fasts, rites and rituals, from and formularies, are of no avail.  In this Path, one has to lose himself before he can rediscover himself.

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall sve it.  *39

                                                                                          CHRIST

It means that one can have life eternal only when one learns and practices the art and science of death-in-life by rising above the body-consciousness at will.  This is the only Way to get the Water of Immortality and there is none besides it.

The Naam or the Word is the bestower of all gifts,

And It ever abides in the human body.  *40

                                                                                 GURU ARJAN

Everyone is endowed with the Water of Life,

None but the destined one can drink It.  *41

                                                                                 KABIR

The fountain of Amrit is bubbling over,

One can have a taste of It through the Word of God.  *42

Like musk in the deer is hid the nectar within,

And like the deer a mad search is made without.  *43

                                                                       GURU AMAR DAS

 

A Sufi saint says,

Beloved is in the house and I make a search in the world,

With a spring of crystal water within, I go athirst.

Inside the head, there is an inverted well with an opening behind the eyes.  A current of nectar issuing forth from the well is coming into the body; but the unfortunate spirit ever busy in the outer pursuits of the world, is not destined to have a taste of It and so continues in sorrow.

Everything of any value is in the body and nothing is without.  Whoever has, through the grace of the Master, found the treasures within, is indeed blessed and enjoys true happiness both within and without.  He drinks the ambrosial showers as they fall and is ever ina state of blissful intoxication.  The Way to It, however, lies through some Master-saint, and the spirit, torn away from her source ever since the day of creation, is once again reconciled with her Creator and lives in perpetual peace and beatitude.

Everything is within and nothing without,

He who searches without is yet in ignorance.

He who finds it within himself through a Master-soul,

Ever lives in a state of bliss and beatitude.

The Amrit falls down in a big shower,

And the mind enjoys the Sound Current.

Night and day he lives in perfect satiety,

And sings the praises of God.

The aeons of separation come to and end, and the blighted tree once again blossoms forth.

Gifted with right knowledge, he revels in Naam,

All ahil to the Master! That brought this about.  *44

                                                                                 GURU ARJAN

The pool of nectar lies in the folds of the mind; it is only when the mind grows still that it becomes manifest.  A contact with Naam grants eternal life.

O Nanak! drink within the elixir of life as a pure gift of the Guru,

He alone takes in the divine drink, who is destined from above.  *45

                                                                                 GURU ANGAD

The mind must first be purged of all ills, before one can receive the life-giving ambrosia.

Through instructions of the Master, the mind becomes pure,

And then the sacred pool comes to view.  *46

                                                                       GURU AMAR DAS