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 T    Y
By Sant Kirpal Singh, Chicago, 19 November, 1972
I can address you as ‚dear children‘, you see. I amglad to know you are students o religion, too, andthis very, this most important subject, which con-cerns our own very sel. Te word religion means –‚re‘ means back, ‚ligio‘ to bind. o bind back our soulsto God, the word religion means that. And ‚yoga‘ theword also comes rom the word ‚yuj‘ – that means tounite our sel to God. Te social bodies came intobeing only to teach this, how we can contact our sel with God – the ultimate goal o all religions, outerorm o religions. So knowledge is the same or theEast and the West – that makes no dierence.Tere have been so many yogas – and there is only one task – to know God. So ultimate goal o all yogasis absorption into the Brahm, absorption into God.Tere are so many yogas. Tere is Hatha Yoga, thereis Prana Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Gyhan Yoga (etc.), andthe ultimate goal o all yogas is to absorb our sel into God – to be one with Him. So the end o allYogas, as Shankara puts it, is ultimate. Tey aim atthe Samadhi, in which we can have some experienceo God. Tere are two kinds o Samadhi: one is inertSamadhi, the other is conscious Samadhi. You‘ll ndin many cases, that people have inert Samadhi. (Forexample) they are put under ground or days togeth-er and they again come back. Tat is not consciousSamadhi. Tere is another kind o Samadhi, whichis a higher orm o it, that is called ‚conscious Sama-dhi‘, in which you remain conscious, within you. SoHatha Yoga enables us to keep the body t – eachYoga has its own scope. Prana Yoga can prolong yourlie. In ordinary we take about eight to ten breaths inone minute. I you have recourse to the Prana Yoga,then in that case you control your breathing inside(i.e. reduce its requency) and can prolong your lieas long as you can. Tere is Bhakti Yoga, the Yoga o devotion. In that Yoga one man has to orm somehypothesis. Tat is not ultimate rising into Brahm– unconditioned state o. So you know, Paramhan-sa Ramakrishna was a ollower o the Bhakti Yoga– ideal Bhakti Yoga in the East – and worshipped Godas ‚Mother‘. He saw ‚Mother‘ all around – in and out.So he could not rise into the unconditioned state o mind. So he came to his Guru, who was called o-tapuri. He told him “I see ‚Mother‘ all around, but Icannot rise above this duality. How can that be pos-sible?“ Ten otapuri stuck with some glass here be-tween the two eyebrows and gave him a boost, so herose into Samadhi.Ten comes the Gyan Yoga, also called Jnana Yoga.In this also you‘ll nd you cannot have more thandips into the beyond, you cannot remain there allalong. So in that case, you nd in the eastern phi-losophy, there are sheaths, bodies covering the soul.Tere are ‚Ana-mai-kosh‘, ‚Pran-mai-kosh‘, and ‚vi-gyan-mai-kosh‘ is also a kosh, a sheath – it is not theultimate goal. Shankara was the one to preach, „it isall unconditioned state o, we can rise into it“, butRamanuja did not agree with him. He did not appre-ciate that but gave right to Vasisht (Advaita) Yoga, inwhich you can say, you can be drenched with the allconsciousness Samadhi, but not unconditioned stateo mind. Ramakrishna and all these, they all point tothe (necessity o) rising above body-consciousness,and they came up.Patanjali organized all Yogas in a system at degrees.So he ultimately evolved two things rom there – onething is, that soul can be above body-conscious-ness, the second thing is, that it can ocus its ener-gies, without having recourse to the arduous ways o pranas. In pranas they have to control their breath-ing. So he (Patanjali) came up to that goal, that evenwithout pranas you can rise above. So ull realizationor true Samadhi is not a matter o transcending thephysical body, though it is a rst step – the ABC o the beyond starts when you rise above body-con-sciousness. Where the world philosophies end, there
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the religion starts. Tis ABC starts rom there, whenyou rise above body-consciousness.o bring this attention beyond is a very intricate way.Some people without proper guidance may be lost.So or that reason Tey (the Masters) have given outthat we should have some such course, that we may rise out o this bondage. You nd Hatha Yoga, PranaYoga, Bhakti Yoga and Jnana Yoga are not ultimaterelease, I would say, rom the present bondage, noteven step by step. We want something which canhelp us through. Prana Yoga can only lead us to thecertain stage. Jnana Yoga can only give us a dip intothe beyond, it does not mean staying there all along.Tat is why Ramanuja did not appreciate the view o his predecessor. He gave out Vasisht Yoga (Advaita),which says that you can have access to the beyond,but not remain there unconditioned always.Tere comes the Sound current, which is the highestorm o Yoga, which is the natural yoga. Tis yogacovers all these problems which other yogas have.Tis is most natural and easiest o all yogas, whichcan be exercised by the old, the young and every-body. So Masters o this yoga teach us, that the Abso-lute God, though ree rom attributes in His prime- val state, projected Himsel into orms and is giventwo primal attributes: Light and Sound. When Godwanted, „I am one and wish to be many“, there was vibration. Vibration results in two things: Light andSound. So God is Light and God is Sound Principle.God is ‚Music o the spheres‘. God is called the ‚Nada‘and the ‚Voice o God‘. So there are two outwardexpressions o the God-into-expression Power, out-ward aspects, I would say, o the God-into-expres-sion Power, which is called ‚Word‘. „Wordless cameinto being, it was Word“. „Te Word was in the be-ginning. Word was with God and Word was God“.Whole creation came into being aer that. So thatGod-into-expression Power is called ‚Word‘ and inall other terminologies they have called „Namelesscame into being, called ‚Naam‘“. „It was ‚Ashabda‘,came into being and is called ‚Shabd‘“. So that is thecause o all creation, controlling all creation and per-meating all creation. All this is maniestation o thatPower. So all scriptures with us today speak o this– this is natural yoga. It is called Word. It is calledby the Mohammedan Saints as ‚Sultan-ul-Azkar‘, theking o all meditations. It is called ‚Nada‘, it is called‚Kalam-i-Quadim‘ in their terminology.„In the beginning was the Word“, as I just submitted,„Word was with God, Word was God, and all creationcame into being aer that“. So that ‚Nameless One‘ or‚Shabdless One‘ – Absolute God, you may say – whenit came into being, that Godpower, that came intoexpression, that is called ‚Word‘, ‚Naam‘ or ‚Shabd‘, or‚Kalam-i-Quadim‘. Tat power has two aspects: Lightand Sound. So this is what Christ said, this is alsowhat others say, that ‚Shabd‘ is the cause o all crea-tion. Tis creation comes into being by ‚Shabd‘, goesback into ‚Shabd‘ and again restarts a new creation.So ‚Shabd‘ is a power – rom ‚Shabd‘ the Light wasborn. All Masters say, here and there: „When Godsaid, ‚I am one and wish to be many‘, there was Light,then urther ollowed by Sound.“ So rom Shabd alsocreation came. Shabd is the real essential core o all.Shabd is the direction power, agent o God, cause o all creation.You‘ll nd that in scriptures. Shamaz a-brez tells us, „Creation came into being rom ‚Saut‘.“‚Saut‘ means sound, ‚Saut‘ in Arabic word or ‚Word‘,– „and rom ‚Saut‘ spreads all light.“ Moses, you see,he heard the commandments o God admidst thun-der and fame. I am quoting you reerences. Zoro-aster spoke o the same thing. He said, ‚Unstruck re‘,‚Sarosha‘ to light and sound. aoism also speaks o the same thing ‚Creative Verbum‘ and ‚Divine Light‘.So ‚Nada‘ it is called, ‚Udgit‘, the music o the otherside, it is called ‚Akash Bani‘, the sound coming romabove, it is called ‚Shabd‘, ‚Naam‘, it is called ‚Saut‘. Somany names were given to it: Bang-i-Asmani, Nida-i-Asmani, Sarosha, ao, Jyoti, Prakash, ajall – allmean the same thing: light and sound. When Godcame into expression, there was vibration and vibra-tion results in two things: light and sound, and lightand sound are the way back to Absolute God. Youcatch the ray o the sun, where will you be led? o thesun, rom where it emanates.All other yogas have their own scope, as I submitted,and this is the yoga which has the ultimate goal – totake you back to the Absolute God. In the revelationo John you will nd, „His eyes were as the famingo re, his voice has the sound o many waters. His
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countenance was as the sun shineth in its strength.“Tese are reerences o those who have experience o the Beyond, o that power which came into expres-sion. „And I heard a voice o many waters, as a voiceo great thunder. And I heard the voice o harpers,harping with their harps.“ Tese are reerences givento whether Christians or Indians, French or Chinese,whether in central Asia or anywhere. Tose who wentwithin (all said the same), this is the basic teachingo all. In the East, too, you nd it given in the Upan-ishads. „Tere is a Sun o Mahabrahmand, the mac-rocosm. From there proceeds the sound.“ Tis wasthe secret teaching, which was given to Krishna, theson o Devaki, by Ingresh Rishi – it is the oldest one.Tese have been the basic teachings o all (Masters).Guru Nanak said so, „Tere is inside light and romthere proceeds the sound. I you come in contactwith that, it will take you to the ultimate goal romwhere all this God-into-expression Pow-er cameinto being.“ Te same is also said by Paltu, anotherSaint. „Tere is a light within you, rom there a soundproceeds. Who can hear it? Only he who goes into aSamadhi, who rises above body-consciousness.“ Sorst step is to rise above body-consciousness, andthere are ways and ways or that.Prana system is a way, but that is a hard work‘s way.Everybody is not t or that. You have to do Kum-bakh – and this is not natural. And in Bhakti Yoga,you have to have some hypothesis to start with, andyou cannot rise above duality. In Jnana Yoga youcan only get dips into the Beyond, you see, becauseJnana is also a sheath over the coverings o the soulas given by the scriptures. So i there is a sheath, howcan there be rising into unconditioned state? So thenatural way back to Absolute God, in which there isno hypothesis, no drawing o inerences – it is a di-rect contact with the God-into-expression Power, thetwo aspects o which are light and sound. ‚Nad Up-anishad‘ is purely or this Sound Principle that gives„First a murmuring sound resembling that o wave o the ocean, the all o rain, the running rivulets. A-erthis the ‚Bhervi‘ will be heard intermingled with thesounds o bells and conchs.“ Now you‘ll nd why thisbell ringing stands in our churches? Why in temples?Why there is light lit in the outer churches, templesand other places o worship? Tey are raised aer themodel o manbody. emples are dome-shaped; thereyou light a candle. Whoever enters, he rings the bell.And churches are long, nose-shaped – there you havealso got light and bell ringing going on regular ring-ing. And now you will nd the dierence betweenthe two: in the church the bell is ringing on all along(at certain times), whereas in the temples those whoenter they ring the bell, you see. Tese are symbolsstanding or God, two aspects o the God-into-ex-pression Power, which is called Light and Sound.And the true temple o God is manbody, in whichwe reside. We are now conscious entities, a drop o the ocean o All-Consciousness. We are spirit in man.As spirit is eternal, why can we be araid that we willdie! So manbody is the true temple o God which isconsidered to be the highest in all creation. It is nextto God. Koran says, „When the manbody was set up,angels were asked to bow down beore the manbody.“Te only way back to God you can have in man-body only. And this is a golden opportunity that wehave got, and all Masters said as I reerred to you. Imean to say, Prophet Mohammed heard this celestialsound – music, which ultimately assumed the shapeo Gabriel orming itsel into Word. And you know,those who pay pilgrimage to Mecca, they rst go and visit the cave Hira where Prophet Mohammed sat orsix years to hear the sound? He began to have mes-sages rom the higher (planes) when he was in tunewith that Sound Principle and Light. So you knowBaha U‘llah? You heard his name? He was a mystic,but he passed all his lie in jail. He had reerences tothe ‚Flaming Sound‘ or the ‚Ringing Radiance‘ as theouter expression o the God-into-expression Power.So there are two powers within us, you see. Socrates,you know, said, „I heard a sound which took me intothe new world.“ Plato also reerred to it as the ‚Musico the Spheres‘. Pythagoras reerred to it as ‚Musico all Harmonies‘ and ‚ruth clothed in Light‘. Simi-larly Zoroaster had the same thing. Upanishads say the same thing, Buddhist say the same thing. Whentowards his last days Lord Buddha called or all hisdisciples, he asked them, „How to attain a DiamondSamadhi?“ All reerred to the light and sound andultimately Lord Buddha gave out, „Let the cominggeneration know that the intrinsic hearing is the
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