God,
Godway and Godman Bhadra Sena Man has, ever through the ages, been the teacher of man,
in all spheres of life. Homogenity is
the law of nature. Like attracts
like. And it is more so in matters
spiritual than in anything else. In
this respect even the angels cannot be of any avail since man is better placed
than angels themselves. Men of God have appeared in all times and in all
places. They talk of God. They demonstrate God, in life and in
spirit. God-filled in themselves, they
come reveal God to those who hunger and thirst for God. Theirs if the path of God and of nothing
else. The Path Godward is God-made. It is eternally the same, from the beginning of time. It knows no variableness. It is god Himself who comes in the garb of
man to reveal His Path to the aspiring souls; no matter to what region they
belong and to what church they owe their affiliation. The East and West make no difference to them, nor castes and
creeds, nor faiths and beliefs. The
Path of the Masters has been, is still, and shall ever be the same for all who
wish to tread it. God made man in His own image and this life-breath is
surging through and through the very fibres of the tabernacle of the flesh in
which he dwells. By the law of
similarity, man unwittingly lives, loves and has his very being in Him. He is above, so below. A part cannot by its very nature be
different from the whole, the parent-stock, no matter how different it may
seem. God-in-Abstract is a mere abstraction. Nobody has ever seen God-in-Absolute nor can
anybody see Him as such. He is unique
in Himself, Imageless and hence Nameless.
How can the lesser the greater comprehend, when He is attributeless,
indefinable and ineffable? But being and becoming are two phases of the
God-power. As pure existence,
consciousness and bliss ( Sat-Chit-Anand),
this power cannot be conceived of, much less comprehended, on the human
level. But the God-into-Expression
Power of the Godhead, the cosmic soul of the universe, can be realized by the
spirit of God in man _ the atman, or
the human soul – because they are of the same essence. In spite of the variety in nomenclature due to linguistic
differences, all are at one, so far as the essence or essential nature of the
life-giving, life-sustaining and life-saving grace of God is concerned. All the religions agree that this Divine
Grace is characterized by Light and Sound.
The entire manifestation of the Unmanifest is the result of the
interplay of this primordial twin-principle of sounding flame or flaming sound,
which is one and the same thing. As we come from God, we can go back to Him the same
way. The God-way is an inner path. It can be traversed by the spirit alone when
freed from all limiting adjuncts of the body and the bodily senses, the mind
and the intellect. Even the pranas (vital airs) can be of little
avail in this context. “When man bursts
his mortal bounds, the Boundless stands revealed.” There is a regular practical process of self-analysis and
inversion whereby one, while still in the body, can rise above bodily
consciousness. This is called transcendence, or slipping from the
material world without into the non-material world within through the Saving
Life-lines provided by God for those who would like to reach Him. He
whom I worship lies beyond the bounds of comprehension, To the
seeing eye the temple of worship is only a symbol of the real temple. The human body is verily the temple of God and God truly dwells
therein. God is ever present within each one of us. He can be approached and experienced directly by anyone who seeks
Him sincerely. He is as close as
breathing and as near as our own limbs- nearer than our jugular vein. All that one needs is a “baptism of the
spirit” and a “holy communion in silent spiritual union with Him.” This is Dwijas or the second birth, birth of the
spirit as distinguished from the birth of water. This momentous and wholesale transformation is brought about by a
Godman, in the cave in the mount of transfiguration within. The human life-principle needs a living
contact through a living Adept, for life comes from life alone. No man has, so
far, been able to save himself by himself.
The Godman is the prime factor in the whole process. God’s Light may burst forth anywhere in the world. It may do so in the mountainous terrain of
the Himalayas, on Mount Sinai, on the shores of Galilee, in the burning sands
of the Arabian desert or in the plains of the Punjab. But one thing is certain: that the radiance of a Godman spreads
throughout the world and it is hailed and acclaimed by humanity at large with
one voice for His message is to all mankind and not confined to the people of
the place where he is born and brought up. A Godman then is God’s elect. He is the Hadi or the
Guide with a divine mandate to save the jivas
or the mindridden embodied souls piteously yearning for God and raising
their hands in prayer for their deliverance. He is like a light-house which
helps save all ships regardless of the national flags they may be flying. Coming to the present times, we trace the growth of Sant Mat or the Path of the Masters,
from Kabir and Nanak to Tulsi Sahib, Swamiji Maharaj, Baba Jaimal Singh Ji and
Hazur Sawan Singh Ji Maharaj. After the
passing away of the great Master Sawan Singh in 1948, the mantles changed and
the work of regeneration and reintegration undertaken by Hazur is now being
carried on by Maharaj Kirpal Singh Ji, who has his headquarters in the
metropolitan town of Delhi. In the name
of his spiritual mentor, he is freely distributing his spiritual largesse to
the people all the world over through many branches in the East and in the
West. His is a mission of Vishva
Dharma ( World Fellowship of Religions ), based on the universal love born
of the Light of Life kindled in the heart of man. Dedicated to the cause of spiritual upliftment of mankind, he has
founded a common forum at Sawan Ashram, Delhi, form where leaders of all
religious faiths and beliefs place before huge audiences the one basic Truth
clothed in so many religious garbs. His
loving humaneness has won him the esteem of all the religious-minded people all
over the world for they find him an echo of their own heartbeat. He believes in the supremacy of soul-force
as the sole panacea for all the ills of the world in this atomic age when
nations are precariously pitched against each other on a promontory, playing
antics in a deadly race of total annihilation. |