A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE MYTH WHICH UNDERLIES THE COSMOLOGY OF THE BIJAK.

By: RKUK

 Extract from The Bijak of Kabir by: by THE REV. AHMAD SHAH 

In the beginning there was One Essential Being, Sat Purush, and “the True Person, who exists alone, without passions.

Of his own will he created the universe out of nothing. To rule the universe he created six Brahmas, his ** holy sons," Onkar, Sahaj, Ichchha, Sohang, Achint and Achchhar. To each was given a world and souls to populate it.

Sat Purush found that the six Brahmas failed to preserve discipline in the universe. He therefore proceeded to create a seventh son, whose origin was as follows:--

AchcHhar was sitting where all was water, when Sat Purush brought deep sleep upon him. When Achchhar awoke, he saw an egg floating on the waters, and began to meditate upon it. Suddenly with a loud noise the egg burst in two and there came forth a being of furious aspect, whom Achchhar named Niranjan, (called also Kal and Kal Purush).

This being, though naturally of an ungoverned temper, engaged in devotion (bhakti) so meritorious, that he was able to ask of Sat Purush the boon of the sovereignty of the three worlds (loks). The boon was granted with the condition that he should make a polite request for the necessary materials to the Tortoise (Kumarji) in whose keeping they were.

Niranjan however was far from conciliatory and the result was a fight with the Tortoise, in the course of which Niranjan cut off three of the sixteen heads of the Tortoise and thence there poured forth the necessary materials, the Sun, Moon, Earth, etc.

The Tortoise thereupon complained to Sat Purush, who decreed that Niranjan should never enter his lok or see his face.

Niranjan though now possessed of the material elements, could not make man. He therefore swallowed the three heads of Kumarji and began again to perform Samadhi (trance or meditation), at the end of which he asked for bij-khet (a field to sow in). Sat Purush created for him a woman; but she kept her eyes fixed on Sat Purush rather than on Niranjan and only with great difficulty was persuaded to become Niranjan's wife. There was here a kind of testing: so long as she concentrated her mind on Sat Purush, Niranjan had no power over her; but gradually Niranjan's fascination overcame her and she became entangled in the world and separated from God. The issue of the union was Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh. After their birth Niranjan became invisible: the woman remained. She is Maya.

Brahma then asked his mother “Who is my father?" She answered “You have no father." Brahma, unconvinced, set out in search of him. Brahma, however, was destined to be the creator of this universe; the woman accordingly formed a girl and sent her after him to persuade him to return. He told the woman that he had seen his father, and received the answer, “That is untrue; therefore you shall beg from door to door."

Vishnu was then asked whether he had seen his father, and answering "No" received as his reward the sovereignty of the three loks.

Mahesh, asked in his turn, returned no answer and was told he would be an ascetic.

The woman then created three daughters to be wives to her sons : Niranjan at the same time created the four Vedas : but all were drowned in the ocean. The three sons therefore churned the ocean and recovered both women and Vedas. The latter were absorbed in Saraswati, who was assigned to Brahma, while the other two women were given to his brothers.

Brahma then created the present world, and men began to worship the three brother-gods. It is said that, of the four kinds of created beings, Andaj-Kliand (oviparous) were made by the woman, Pindaj Khand (mammals) by Brahma, Ukmaj- Khand (insects) by Vishnu, and Stliawar (vegetable and minerals) by Mahesh.

Gradually the woman realised that her three sons were shutting her out from the attention of mankind. She therefore created three more daughters, who originated thirty- six kinds of music and sixty-three tunes and so fascinated the world that all began to believe in the mother (Devi).

The souls of men were thus distraught and they cried to the Sat Purush, who in answer sent Kabir into the world to teach men to look beyond Niranjan and his progeny to the One, the Sat Purush himself.

This messenger of the Sat Purush is known by different names in the four ages ; thus in the Satyug he is Sat Sukrit : in the Tretayug, Munindarji : in the Dwaparyug, Karunamai Rishi ; and in the Kalyug, Kabir Sahib.

The Root of the true Religion of Kabir.

Ishwar (God)	Satya Purush.
Achariya (Manifester)	Kabir Sahib
Shastar (Scriptures)	Parakh.
Guru (Guide)	Swansan Ved.
Marg (Way or path)	Nirvan.
Cbal (Mode of life)	Satoguni.
Maktidwar (Gate of salvation)	Sar Shabd.
Lok (Abode)	Satya Lok.

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