The
Seat of Naam or Word The
body is the Temple of God, for God made man in His own image. But it is only after the spirit, through the process
of inversion, gets concentrated between and behind the two eyebrows that one
can hear the divine melody. Guru Nanak,
when questioned by the yogins (those engaged in yogic exercises like Pranayam,
etc.) about this music, tole them: O yogi, you may have the
figt of the Divine Link only if you transcend the body. *73 This Divine Link is
essentially musical in character and has a great magnetic force which pulls the
Spirit upward to spiritual realms, as Spirit, Word and God are of the same
essence. When like attracts like, the
Spirit is irresistibly drawn out of the bodily raiment. Maulana Rumi therefore says: If I were to give thee a
little account of the divine strains, all the spirits would leave their
respective bodily abodes. Christ too speaks of it: When the dead shall hear the
Voice of the Son of God, they that hear shall live. *74 This heavely Harmony is already
within each one of us, and we culd distinctly hear it if we could by leaving
the outgoing faculties through repetition of certain name or names, withdraw
the spirit from the sensory plane. The
reverberations of this music make us self-absorbed and self-intoxicated. One dyed in the Naam is ever
absorbed within and gets eternal bliss.
*75 GURU
NANAK All the intoxicants of the
world produce but a passing inebriation and a momentary forgetfulness; but a
spirit dyed in the color of Naam or Word is ever-engrossed in the Sound
Princile arising from the Deep Silence of the Soul and experiences an
everlasting bliss which is inter-minable: The intoxication of the
Naam, O Nanak, works round the clock. GURU
NANAK Naam is the Life Principle that
works through all that lives and its withdrawal means disintegration,
dissolution and death: I live when I listen to
Naam's music and I did when I forget it.
*76 GURU
NANAK Again, O my Beloved, I do live when
I contact the Naam, without that there is no life, my Master has instilled this
in me. *77 GURU
NANAK So
long as this inner contact of the spirit with the Naam which is latent in each
one of us is not established, there is no way out for the spirit and it gets no
peace. |