One Sound and One God Manifest In All
-- Book of Amar Mul
The Anurag
Sagar represents one of several books of conversations between Sant Dharam Das
and Guru Kabir. The Anurag Sagar (Ocean of Love) has been published in English
but the other texts of this Ocean of Kabir are generally only available in
Hindi. Hopefully, over time, all of these great spiritual classics will be made
available to seekers and devotees around the world in several languages. The
books of Sukh Niddhan and Amar Mul have been discussed in, "Sant Kabir,
Mira Bai, Shaikh Farid, Bhikan, and Surdas", Edited by O.P. Ralhan, Anmol
Publications, New Delhi.
From this
book, below is an abstract of Amar Mul.
[Chapter
Nine] The Sat Guru [Kabir] explains that all sense of duality is due to Maya
[illusion], that when man knows himself he becomes himself, and when he realizes
himself he unites with God. Until he knows himself he weeps and cries, and
wades through the swamp of delusion.
The Light of Knowledge shines forth
when God abides in the heart.
Then Karma and Dharma are obliterated;
then there is neither coming nor going.
As it was, so it is,
and all intervening delusion disappears.
All apparent contradictions are reconciled
in the Fullness of Knowledge.
God himself is the Word that cannot be uttered,
and himself the Word that speaks to all;
himself is Formless and himself is all the forms;
he is both Nirguna [beyond attributes] and Saguna [with
attributes].
Dharam Das is warned that he must first
purify his own heart and mind before
he can so preach to others that they
can obtain Mukti [liberation/salvation, jivan mukti]
and escape from the toils of transmigration.
All reasoning and religious writings
are the work of Maya;
what is required is devotion
and Tattwa-gyana, (the Knowledge of Essentials).
All delusion is removed through meditation.
The Sat Guru
explains that he was once in Satya Loka [First True Plane or Heaven], or rather
beyond it, and that he then saw what is indescribable; that the form of Purusha
was wonderful, to be imagined, not described; that the abodes in Satya Loka
were innumerable and that in all Hansas [souls] was discernible the one Word.
In the Loka of Kabir he saw the forms of many Kabirs, but looking again he saw
that it was but one form multiplied. In the light of the true Shabda all is
one, there is no second.
The people
of the world are taught by means of stories, but for those who understand, all
such stories fall far short of the Truth. All apparent distinctions are the
creation of the mind. He who knows the letter thoroughly suffers no duality to
enter into his mind. The only difference between God and Jiva is this, that the
latter is the reflection of the former.
[From
Chapter Ten] The Sat Guru tells how once when he was in Satya Loka Purusha
appeared to him and said,
Kabir, you
and I are one; entertain no thought of duality.
I am in you
and my form is in all the earth.
There are
eighty-four lakhs of species and I live in all.
Beside me
there is no second. All creation is delusion.
All the
countless gods and sages, even Brahma himself, are entangled in delusion.
Dharam Das
rejoins,
0 Guru, this
is your statement. Is there not need of a second witness?
The Sat Guru
replies that he made this statement in the Treta age,
and that
Madhukar, Brahmin, is the second witness.
He
continues,
Kabir is in
all bodies; the speaker is Shabda.
There is one
form and one Shabda.
There is
only one form, and one Shabda.
There is
only one form, one Shabda and one Purusha [God], manifest in all.
He who knows
One is one; the second is this world.
Dharam Das
asks how it is that Jivas [souls] fail to realize their
unity with
God?
The Sat Guru
replies,
All the
Jivas came from Satya-Loka undefiled and devoid of Karma.
The clouds lift
up the water from the ocean and rain down pure water, but in contact with the
earth the water becomes impure.
Then is the
Jiva embraced by Maya; the body at birth is defiled by Karma.
As the air
purifies the impure water, so does Gyan [Gnosis, Knowledge or Acquaintance] remove
Karma and the purity of the Jiva is restored.
Knowing
itself, it separates itself from the water and being disembodied reaches the
Durbar [The Abode, Satya Loka].
The Atma
[soul] mingles with Paramatma [God], as the rivers flow into the ocean.
Only in this
way can Paramatma be found.
The Atma
without Shabda is blind and cannot find the path.
He who sees,
Atma-Raam is present everywhere; all he sees is like himself, there is nought
else beside God.
'I am he, I
am he; the true, Kabir.'
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