Exploring the Anurag Sagar's Cosmic Conspiracy of Kal, And Further Below, the Origin of the Anurag Sagar (Ocean of Love), India's Most Gnostic Scripture
The Cosmic Conspiracy of Kal Niranjan, the Gnostic Demiurge, the Negative Power
The Kal said to Kabir:
I will do something there so that nobody will believe in Your
Shabda [Word].
There I will create such karmas and illusions that nobody will find
the way out.
In every single home I will create the ghost of illusion, and deceiving
the souls, I will make them forget.
All humans will eat flesh and drink wine, and all kinds of flesh will
be the favorites.
0 brother, Your Devotion is difficult — Nobody will believe it, I’m
telling You!
That is why I say: ‘Don’t go into the world now!’”
Kabir said:
At that time I told Kal, “I know your deceptions and tricks.
HYMN
Making the souls firm in the true Shabda, I will enable them to
remove your illusions.
I will make them recognize all your tricks, and by the strength of
Naam I will liberate the souls.
Those who remember me in thought, word and deed, focusing their
attention on the Elementless,
Such souls will go to the Immortal World, putting their feet on your
head.
COUPLET
Any brave and wise soul will finish your ego.
And very happily that soul will be convinced of the true Shabda.”
Hearing this Kal felt defeated and started to think of deceptions.
The Anurag Sagar Granth (Scripture) from the Closing Chapter
By speaking the Anurag Sagar Granth, I have explained to you the Secret of the Inaccessible. I have described the Drama of Sat Purush, and the deception of Kal. Only the connoisseurs will understand the ways of living and the Word of Discrimination. One who will accept the Word after testing it, will know the Path to the Inaccessible…
The Union of Surat and Shabda - when one gets Shabda, he reaches the realm of the Saints. It is the play of the drop and the ocean. What else can one say?
After meeting the Satguru, one understands the play of Shabda and Surat. It is the union of the drop and the ocean. What else can one say?
Giving up the qualities of mind, one should follow the Path of the Master. Such a soul goes to Sat Lok and derives Happiness from the Ocean of Happiness.
Understand the jiva as the drop, and the Naam of the Satguru as the ocean, Says Kabir with proof: Dharam Das, understand this!
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ABOUT THE ANURAG SAGAR TRANSLATION - The Origin of the Anurag Sagar (Ocean of Love)
Sant Bani books published an English translation of the Anurag Sagar in 1982 based on the Swami Yugalananda edition. From the introduction to this translation Russell Perkins writes: "Our text is from the edition published in Bombay in 1914 by Swami Yugalananda, who says in his Hindi preface that he used forty-six different versions of Anurag Sagar, thirteen of them hand-written, in preparing his edition, and that he carefully and painstakingly collated all the versions and compared all variant readings in order to arrive at the present book. This edition was specially recommended by Sant Ajaib Singh as the basis for the English translation, as it is the only text available based on this kind of careful scholarship."
The Anurag Sagar is volume two in a vast granth or collection of scriptures known as the Kabir Sagar (Ocean of Kabir). All eleven volumes of the complete Kabir Sagar were compiled, translated and published back in 1914 by Swami Yugalananda.
Background Information on Swami Yugalananda, The Great Scholar of Dharam Das Kabir Writings
Yugalananda was also known as "Shri Yugalanand Bihari", "Kabir Panthi Yugalanand Bihari" or "Bharat Pathik". Swami Yugalananda was born into a Kabir panth family, eventually became a collector of books, did much traveling around India and neighboring countries assiduously attempting to create critical editions of various Kabir publications by gathering together as many diverse copies of various Kabir related texts as he could, and was very much interested in reforming the Kabir panth. By Kabir panth (the Path of Kabir) here I'm specifically referring to the Dharamdasis (the Sant Dharam Das line of Masters), as only they recognize the Anurag Sagar and the other Kabir Sagar books as scripture. The other Kabir panth sects don't use those.
Yugalananda claimed that over time, unqualified leaders (“mahants”) had altered or distorted many original manuscripts. He aimed to revise and purify the scripture to restore authenticity, sourcing from the best available copies, especially one from Shri Ugranam Sahib. He worked to safeguard doctrinal integrity through textual criticism and editorial reform. His effort shaped how Kabir Sagar and related Sagar books are presented and studied within devotional contexts. He has become the authoritative, honest go-to-source for Kabir texts. His redaction approach influenced the Kabir Panthi community’s standardized edition of the Kabir Sagar volumes widely used today.
He is well-known for his translation and compilation of Kabir Sagar, Anurag Sagar, and other key Kabir Panthi texts. He was a prolific author who is credited with writing forty-two books, including Kabir ki Sakhi (1898) and Anurag Sagar (1914), published in Bombay by Shri Venkateshwar Press.
At the time of the publication of the Kabir Sagar volumes in 1914, Yugalananda, also known as Swami Yugalanand Bihari, for a time apparently served as the Acharya (spiritual head, guru) of a Kabir Ashram: Kabirdham (Kabir Dharma Nagar) located at Damakheda, a major center of the Kabir Panth in Chhattisgarh. In some of his other Kabir-related publications however, I've noticed that the signatures included in his introductions mention him being located at a Kabir Ashram in Bombay: "Kabir Ashram, Khagsiya Station, Yours sincerely, Bilaspur, C.P.Shri Yugalanand Bihari, Kuchar Bhawan, Rashtriyashala Road..., Vile Parle, Bombay... (Acharya Kabir Ashram)."
A list of all forty of the books included in the eleven volume set called, The Kabir Sagar, the Swami Yugalananda edition published in 1914:
Gyan Sagar
Anurag Sagar
Ambu Sagar
Vivek Sagar
Sarvagya Sagar
Gyan Prakash
Amar Singh Bodh
Bir Singh Bodh
Bhopal Bodh
Jagjeevan Bodh
Garud Bodh
Hanuman Bodh
Lakshman Bodh
Muhammad Bodh
Kafir Bodh
Sultan Bodh
Niranjan Bodh
Gyan Bodh
Bhavtaran Bodh
Mukti Bodh
Chauka Bodh
Kabir Bani
Karma Bodh
Amar Mool
Ugra Geeta
Gyan Sthiti Bodh
Santosh Bodh
Kaya Panji
Panch Mudra
Atma Bodh
Jain Dharm Bodh
Swasamved Bodh
Dharm Bodh
Kamal Bodh
Shwaans Gunjar
Agam Nigam Bodh
Sumiran Bodh
Kabir Charitra Bodh
Guru Mahatmya
Jeev Dharm Bodh
