Salvation During Life and Seeing For Yourself, by Sant Tulsi Sahib
"I offer myself in adoration to the Saints,
Who have bestowed on my soul the power to see."
"In this life the concept of salvation all describe;
To meet the Lord by dying while living, none discloses.
They all speak of the goal of salvation after death;
How to attain it while living, no one says.
"Were they to reveal the method of attaining release while living,
Then alone would Tulsi be convinced of their words.
While living, no one crosses the bourn to the other side;
"After death no one returns to this side to tell the truth.
How have the scriptures made assertions without experience?
They know not of the state of the one who has died.
Not a bit do they speak of the other side;
Yet on this side, they teach us how to attain salvation.
"One who sees not is called blind by the world;
Still people seek truth from priests and study scriptures.
All their accounts are mere hollow conjectures;
"They dole out falsehood, not by seeing,
but by reading.
One who has seen, his evidence I accept as true;
He who speaks without seeing, speaks but untruth.
After death no one returns,
nor does he send any letters.
"Who speak, after seeing with their own eyes,
And teach the method of salvation during life,
Are of the stage and stature of Saints,
For they reveal the quintessence of the soul."
(Book of Ghat Ramayan, by Sant Tulsi Sahib)
"With ears one hears, with eyes one sees;
without seeing, how can discrimination arise?
If you have not seen with your own eyes,
how can you accept another’s words as true?"
(Book of Muhammad Bodh, one of the sections of the Kabir Sagar)
