Salvation During Life and Seeing For Yourself, by Sant Tulsi Sahib

 

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)

What Mystics Mean by the Word "Meditation" - Meditation vs. Meditation

 

What Mystics Mean by the Word "Meditation" - Meditation vs. Meditation 

There is always value in pondering the wisdom of various sages. “Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death.” (Gospel of Thomas, saying one) In the case of Thomas, the goal of the pondering is discovering an existence beyond the body, beyond this world, and so one leaves behind -- transcends -- doctrine, information, theology and mind itself as one enters into the spiritual domain, becoming a gnostic, a mystic, a knower of that experience for one's self.  

I always avoid using the word meditation in connection with contemplating the meaning of verses as evangelical Christianity uses that word to mean that, and at the same time is utterly opposed to the mystical definition of meditation, which is direct experience of the spiritual dimension. When I use the word meditation, it's about this: 

"Give ear; withdraw your souls from all that appears but is not truly real; close these eyes if yours, close your ears, withdraw from actions that are outwardly seen; and you shall know the reality of Christ and the whole secret of your salvation." (Acts of Peter)

"Be still and know that I am God." (Psalm 46:10) 

Evagrius of Egypt wrote: “The offspring of pure prayer is swallowed up by the Spirit. From this point on, the mind is beyond prayer, and prayer has ceased from it now that it has found something even more excellent. No longer does the mind actually pray, but there is a gaze of wonder at the Inaccessible Things which do not belong to the world of mortal beings.”

“When I have gone to the Light, preach to all the world and say to them: ‘Do not cease seeking day or night and do not let yourselves relax until you find the Mysteries of the Kingdom of Light, which will purify you and make you into pure Light and lead you into the Kingdom of Light.’ (Pistis Sophia)

"I am inviting you into the exalted, perfect Light. Moreover as for this Light, when you enter it you will be glorified ... you will become ... the way you first were when you were Light." (Trimorphic Protennoia, Nag Hammadi Library)

“Thus as a result of recollecting all these things the impulses of the mind are extended from the sphere of material things towards those impulses which are without limit, that is to say, wonder at the New World, and the faculty of vision which belongs to contemplation [of God]. For when the vision of the mind is mingled with the Light…., all its impulses become infinite. For none of the Visionaries or ‘Gnostics’ is able to distinguish the identity of the mind as a result of the vision of that glorious Light that is seen ….. for all the innermost chambers of the heart are filled by that blessed Light….”. (Joseph the Visionary)

"The stage when the mind is silenced and swallowed up in the light of the vision of lofty and sublime contemplation; the mind is mingled with the divine visitation." (paper on, Joseph Hazzaya [the Visionary] and the Spiritual Itinerary) 

“Blessed are those who have approached the divine Light, who have entered it and been absorbed by it, mingled in its brightness.” (Saint Symeon)

A parallel of the initiation saying in Thomas [saying 17] in the Mandaean scriptures: “Thou hast showed us that which the eye has not seen, and caused us to hear that which the human ear has not heard. Thou has freed us from death and united us with Life, released us from darkness, and united us with Light…. Thou hast shown us that which the eye has not seen, and caused us to hear that which the human ear has not heard.” (“Canonical Prayer Book of the Mandaeans”, E.S. Drower)

“We speak without tongue,

we see without eyes,

we hear without ears,

we walk without feet, and

we work without hands.”

(Guru Nanak)

Kabir Says: And what if the talk of paradise is just hearsay? You better check out the place yourself.

Kabir Says: And what if the talk of paradise is just hearsay? You better check out the place yourself.

Let’s go! Everyone keeps saying,

As if they knew where paradise is,

But ask them what lies beyond

The street they live on,

They’ll give you a blank look.

If paradise is where they’re heading,

Paradise is not where they’ll end up.

And what if the talk of paradise is just hearsay?

You better check out the place yourself.

As for me, says Kabir, if you’re listening,

Good company’s all I seek.

The above poem is from the Kabir Poet Blog: 

https://kabirpoet.blogspot.com/2016/04/good-companys-all-i-seek.html

The Time Before Death

Friend? hope for the Guest while you are alive.

Jump into experience while you are alive!

Think... and think... while you are alive.

What you call "salvation" belongs to the time

            before death.

If you don't break your ropes while you're alive,

do you think ghosts will do it after?

The idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic

just because the body is rotten --

that is all fantasy.

What is found now is found then.

If you find nothing now,

you will simply end up with an apartment in the

          City of Death.

If you make love with the divine now, in the next

life you will have the face of satisfied desire.

So plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is,

Believe in the Great Sound!

Kabir says this: When the Guest is being searched for,

it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest

that does all the work.

Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.

-- Kabir, The Kabir Book

"If anyone becomes a son of the bridal chamber, he will receive the light. If anyone does not receive it while he is here, he will not be able to receive it in the other place. " (Gospel of Philip)

The Kabir Sections of the free Sant Mat Radhasoami E Library online: 

Kabir, Kabir Panth: The Bijak, Anurag Sagar (Ocean of Love), Kabir Sagar, Sakhis, Songs of Kabir, Songs of Kabir in the Adi Granth, Many More Online E Books Relating to Guru Kabir -- Sant Mat Radhasoami Books, The E Library: Kabir Section: https://SantMatRadhasoami.Blogspot.com/2019/01/kabir-and-kabir-panth-bijak-anurag.html

Anurag Sagar Studies Page, where you can read the Anurag Sagar online -- Guru Kabir's "Ocean of Love", one of many sacred texts composed and used by the Dharamdasi branch of Kabir Panth and Sant Mat: https://www.SpiritualAwakeningRadio.com/anurag-sagar

Various Kabir Blogs from India

 

Kabir Poems (translated by Sabita Das): 

http://anahad-naad.blogspot.com 

 

Kabir Blog (Sant Kabir Das): 

https://santkabirdas.blogspot.com 

 

Kabir Blog (Kabir Poet): 

https://kabirpoet.blogspot.com 

 

The Benefits of Being Mentored by a Living Teacher, Spiritual Master - Light and Sound on The Path

 

The Benefits of Being Mentored by a Living Teacher, Spiritual Master - Light and Sound on The Path

"We have so many scriptures, and since these scriptures describe the experiences of the soul which are beyond the human intellect, it is all the more necessary to seek the guidance of somebody who has undergone those experiments and experiences himself, and who can explain to us the true import of these scriptures. As these scriptures describe the realms and experiences which are beyond our intellect, our saints, seers, and prophets have often explained them in allegories, parables, and symbols. What often happens is that whatever is meant to be allegorical and symbolic we take to be literal; and whatever is to be taken as literal, we take to be symbolic. And it is in this respect that we cannot understand the true import of our scriptures. It is absolutely essential that for understanding our scriptures in their true import, we must go to the lotus feet of one who has traveled into the spiritual realms beyond, who has crossed the astral, the causal, and the supracausal plane, and who has achieved communion of the soul with the Creator. Only such a personality can explain to us the true import of these books. Spirituality is not a matter of mere knowledge; it is a matter of experience." - Darshan

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