This World is a River and the Name of God is the True Boat - Light and Sound on The Path
This world is a river and the Name of God *
is the true boat.
Be not slack on this occasion,
at this opportunity, says Dadu.
What is the use of living for ten million
years?
What is to be gained by being immortal?
Without the Nectar of love and devotion to
God,
What worth is there in life, O Dadu?
Eaten by rust day by day,
iron is slowly reduced to dust.
Without God – the philosopher’s stone – life,
like iron, is simply lost somewhere, says
Dadu.
Through contact with the philosopher's
stone,
iron transforms its nature;
Through contact with one’s Beloved,
one is likewise converted into gold, says
Dadu.
-- Sant Dadu Dayal
* Simran, Repetition of Names of God
"In order to cut our mind’s pull outside in this physical world, the Masters require us to use a physical help, and that is in the form of these Holy Names which we repeat. Because it is only by a physical intrusion that we will be able get the mind out of its outward pull in this world.
"So, therefore, to get our attention away from everything outside and focused within, it is very important for us to do the repetition of the Holy Names.
"That is why the Masters keep repeating again and again and encouraging us to do our Simran. Time and again, They tell us that we have to keep on doing our Simran. Because it is this which is the first step of the ladder to go within. It is only with the help of Simran that we will be able to get the attention of the soul focused again at the Eye Center." (excerpted from, Simran Is The Most Important Step That The Masters Prescribe, by Baba Ram Singh, January 1, 2022, Satsang Discourse)
