Extract from Prakashmani Gita:

Translated from Hindi by Mahant Shri 108 Jagdish Das Shastri
Edited by Dr. J. Das, Kabir Association of Canada

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Panth Shri Hajur 1008 Prakashmani Saheb was a great scholar of spirituality and was the second Acharya (head) in line Shri Kabir Dharm Sthan Kharsiya, and 16^th in line from Shri Dharamdas whand he wrote several great literatures since the first disciple Dharamdas. This Gita is a theological explanation of the inner path to reach God realization in this life.

Satguru came into the world to remove bondage from the souls. Those who had positive and good thoughts and pure hearts came close to Him. He showered his grace on them and freed them from the worldly bondage. Whenever the devotees called for him, he appeared and, with the power of the Word, alleviated their suffering and taught them the essence of all knowledge. We need to take refuge in the Satguru who is the manifestation of the Word.

All the souls in the world desire to know their real nature. The soul that resides in all of us is called Jiva. But what is Jiva? Jiva is the destination, or the object of meditation. He is Himself the meditator, the act of meditation and the object of meditation, which is a state of non-duality. He is thus the knowledge and the guru. He is immortal and is the Inner Light of every living being, as the Light of Consciousness. I bow down to Him. His Word is like the boat that takes people across this worldly ocean. Who created that boat?  Kabir Saheb. Again I bow down to him. I pray to his Light that destroys all the darkness of ignorance. With his power, the water of his washed feet brought life to the dry branch of a banyan tree.

Again I bow down to him.

When a devotee performs his devotion with pure thoughts, then Satguru bestows on him the gift of God's name (initiates him into the secret of the Name). The devotee then attains liberation (moksha). It is, therefore, the duty of the devotee to serve the Satguru and have all his karmic bondage and fear of birth and death removed.

Devotee: O Satguru, Ocean of Compassion! Please explain to me the significance of Nij Nam, by which the Sar Shabd (Essence of the Word) would manifest in my heart.

Satguru: Nij Nam is that which enlightens a person. It is for the welfare of the soul. It is also called Sar Nam and Adi Nam. It is the means by which the soul obtains liberation. Though there are many names, one does not obtain salvation through them. But when one meditates on Nij Nam and realizes it in the depth of his heart, he is assured of salvation.

What is Nij Nam? Nij means the Self or Atma (Soul). Nam is the reality of the Self. Atma is Sat which means Eternal Existence. Sat also has the attribute of making the devotee realize his own "form" i.e. to know himself. Therefore, those who want salvation must rely on Satnam. The Sat Shabda (Eternal Word) appears by reciting the Name over and over, and when combined with meditation the Word becomes steadfast in his heart. When the name is always in the devotee's heart, it removes the sins of many births. He then becomes pure and can do perfect devotion to God.

A diamond just taken from the mine is rough and lacks brilliance and beauty when compared to a cut and polished diamond. In the same way the devotee who attains the Name and recites it, is likened to the diamond that is cut and polished. When you wash clothes with soap and clean water all the dirt is removed. In the same way, with the recitation of the Name, the mind of the devotee becomes pure. It then becomes easy for the mind to concentrate on Sat Purush (God) and merge into the Ocean of God Consciousness or Shabda. Just as a drop of water merges into the ocean, in the same way the consciousness, which originated from the Shabda (Word), merges into the Shabda again. When you take a drop out of the ocean, the drop is not the ocean, but has the same qualities as the water of the ocean. The drop by itself is a very small quantity, but when it merges into the ocean, it becomes the ocean. In the same way, the soul feels separated from God and limited in power, but when it merges into God, it becomes one with God, as there is then no separation. Devotion to the Word is the stairway and destination to the immortal residence. To obtain it, devotion to the Word is the only proper way.

“All the saints state that when someone ties the knot with God using the Sat Shabda (Eternal Word), then death does not break that knot”

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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