Light is Always Within Us - Sant Kirpal Singh

Light is Always Within Us - Sant Kirpal Singh

"Light is always within us. When the mind is settled, we see that Light. When this state is developed, we see it everywhere, even with open physical eyes. You see the dark veil, and the Light within that. In the Light you see the blue sky and the golden center shining resplendently -- in the still pose of mind; and when you try to make and use your own efforts, your mind's still pose is disturbed, and you lose it. We need not make any efforts. Our clutching will stand in the way and retard our progress. We should, however, make effortless effort. 

"Sit fully devoted and fully absorbed with the inner gaze fixed, losing all sense of effort -- as effort involves a taint of ego -- leaving all to the Master within."  (from an unpublished book of Kirpal Singh on meditation practice)

Mystic Verses of Kabir - Light and Sound on The Path (Sant Mat, Radhasoami)

 

Mystic Verses of Kabir - Light and Sound on The Path (Sant Mat, Radhasoami)

Open your eyes of love, and see Him who pervades this world, 

consider it well, and know that this is your own country.

When you meet the true Guru, He will awaken your heart;

He will tell you the secret of love and detachment, and then you

will know indeed that He transcends this universe.

This world is the City of Truth, its maze of paths enchants the

heart:

We can reach the goal without crossing the road, such is the

sport unending.

Where the ring of manifold joys ever dances about Him, there is

the sport of Eternal Bliss.

When we know this, then all our receiving and renouncing is

over;

Thenceforth the heat of having shall never scorch us more.

He is the Ultimate Rest unbounded:

He has spread His form of love throughout all the world.

From that Ray which is Truth, streams of new forms are

perpetually springing: and He pervades those forms.

All the gardens and groves and bowers are abounding with blossom;

and the air breaks forth into ripples of joy.

There the swan plays a wonderful game,

There the Unstruck Music eddies around the Infinite One;

There in the midst the Throne of the Unheld is shining, whereon

the great Being sits --

Millions of suns are shamed by the radiance of a single hair of

His body.

On the harp of the road what true melodies are being sounded!

and its notes pierce the heart:

There the Eternal Fountain is playing its endless life-streams of

birth and death.

They call Him Emptiness who is the Truth of truths, in Whom all

truths are stored!

There within Him creation goes forward, which is beyond all

philosophy; for philosophy cannot attain to Him:

There is an endless world, O my Brother! and there is the

Nameless Being, of whom naught can be said.

Only he knows it who has reached that region: it is other than

all that is heard and said.

No form, no body, no length, no breadth is seen there: how can I

tell you that which it is?

He comes to the Path of the Infinite on whom the grace of the

Lord descends: he is freed from births and deaths who attains

to Him.

Kabir says: "It cannot be told by the words of the mouth, it

cannot be written on paper:

It is like a dumb person who tastes a sweet thing--how shall it

be explained?"      (Songs of Kabir, Rabindranath Tagore)

Go thou to the company of the good, where the Beloved One has His

dwelling place:

Take all thy thoughts and love and instruction from thence.

Let that assembly be burnt to ashes where His Name is not spoken!

Tell me, how couldst thou hold a wedding-feast, if the bridegroom

himself were not there?

Waver no more, think only of the Beloved;

Set not thy heart on the worship of other gods, there is no worth

in the worship of other masters.

Kabir deliberates and says: "Thus thou shalt never find the

Beloved!  (Songs of Kabir, Rabindranath Tagore)

"He who realizes this Essence of the Word has no need to observe religious fasts, bathing in holy rivers, daily religious rituals, prayers in the morning and evening, and of going on pilgrimages. Such a realized person is indeed in direct contact with God, and has arisen above all the daily religious observances." (Brahm Nirupan of Kabir)

Image: Based on Kabir art from, The Anurag Sagar, Sant Bani Books

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The Rule About Not Sharing One's Inner Experiences in Sant Mat, by James Bean

The Rule About Not Sharing One's Inner Experiences in Sant Mat, by James Bean

Generally the sharing of inner mystical experiences isn't done in Sant Mat. That's true in all branches of Sant Mat. The view is that doing so would add much contamination, beliefs, pressures, expectations. The idea is to keep one's own inner life pure without mental baggage about what "should" or shouldn't be experienced, and for people to not be in competition with one another. One person's experience isn't necessarily identical to someone else's as we are all unique individuals somewhere along the Path of Inner Space and just need to focus on our own authentic experience. And there's also the issue of possible phantasmagoria being generated by the mind. The goal of the Masters in this Path of Sant Mat mysticism is for initiates to have genuine and spiritual experiences without the mind conjuring up images.

Each person's spiritual or mystical experiences are unique to themselves based on the amount of time spent in mediation, how accurately they follow the meditation instructions, the depth of their focus or concentration, and karmic background/mental impressions from past lives/samskaras. Each person needs to focus on their own experiences and progress without being contaminated by the beliefs or expectations of others, or be discouraged if their experiences aren't as wonderful as someone else's are alleged to be, or get egotistical if they have great experiences. I appreciate the master's approach of not seeking a revival tent or carnival atmosphere where people would be eager to "share" about experiences, making the whole thing into a corrupt farce of public bragging and false mental beliefs, which of course would interfere or subvert one's authentic process of inner seeing and hearing.