Mystic Verses of Sant Dadu Dayal: Recognize the Path to Your Beloved, O Traveler

Mystic Verses of Sant Dadu Dayal: Recognize the Path to Your Beloved, O Traveler

While alive one can transcend bodily qualities,

While alive one can be liberated,

While alive one can shed all karmas.

That truly is called liberation.

While alive once can cross over the uncrossable,

While alive can one go to the other shore,

While alive one can find a universal Master

And can attain discrimination and wisdom.

If the meeting is not accomplished while alive,

If contact is not made while alive,

If the Lord of the Universe is not found while alive,

Then one is simply drowned.

Only while living is one freed, says Dadu;

There is no liberation after death.

If one were to be freed after death,*

Then all would come under that freedom.

(*Since death is common to all people,

all would then be said to be equally free after death.)

Some say one can secure an abode

in paradise after death;

They preach liberation after death.

They are indeed making the world insane, O Dadu.

The Path Towards God (Satya-Raam)

Recognize the path to your Beloved, O traveler,

and take the route of the anguished lover in separation.

One who treads as the living dead

crosses the impassable ghat.

Keep the Master’s grace on your head

and reflect on his pure teachings.

Develop love and devotion with endearment

and keep the thought of the Creator always before you.

Try to merge yourself into God, like water into water.

Fix your mind within by following the path

of the Sound Current.

A yearning will arise; make then an intense

and anguished call.

Repeat the Name of your Beloved day and night,

again and again.

Watching, carefully place your foot;

the path is like the edge of a sword.

With care in thought, word and deed,

you shall cross to the other shore, O Dadu.

Prayer of Dadu

My life is for the sake of Your Name, O Lord.

All my means are nothing by Your true Name.

Your Name alone is my charity, virtue,

penance and pilgrimage,

And this alone is my service and worship:

Such, indeed, is my vow.

My Vedas and holy scriptures, as well as purity

and discipline, are Your Name alone.

This alone is my knowledge and contemplation;

there is nothing else.

By the Name alone do I control lust and anger

and transcend bodily limitations.

Say it openly – concealed and revealed – God is my all.

Eternally redeemed and redeemer of all is Your Name;

You alone are my support.

Dadu has merged with it in perfect unison;

By holding to the Name, he has crossed

the ocean of the world.

-- from Panch Vani Granth of Sant Dadu Dayal

Mystic Verses of Sant Dadu Dayal: We are Influenced by the Company We Keep -- Satsang

Mystic Verses of Sant Dadu Dayal: 

We are Influenced by the Company We Keep

Something becomes sweet when mixed 

with sugar, it becomes salty when 

mixed with salt.

Such is the nature of humanity, O Dadu.

This is our trait, indeed.

In the company of the unholy, a barrier 

is created, and the taste of piety and 

devotion [bhakti] disappears;

In the company of the holy, bliss 

is generated, and overfilled is one 

with joy.

If the company of the holy one 

is obtained, the divine fruit 

of immortality does it bear.

But if the company of the unholy 

is obtained, the fruit of poison 

does it yield, says Dadu.

In the assembly of a Saint, noble 

thoughts arise,

Whereas by sitting in the assembly of 

worldlings, knowledge parts company 

with the body, O Dadu.

The company which does not arouse piety 

and devotion, wherein the Lord 

is not talked about,

Whereby blemishes of sensuality are not 

shaken off, by what measure can that 

be called a *Satsang?

Commentary

In the company of worldlings, mankind loses love and devotion for God along with his entire spiritual qualities, whereas in the company of Saints he develops love, devotion and spiritual wisdom, and enjoys the fruit of divine bliss. To increase love and devotion for God and to wash off the impurities of the mind are the basic functions of Satsang.*

* Satsang: True Association; Being in the Presence of the Eternal Truth of the Positive Power (God, Sat Purush), and other souls on the Path;

("Encyclopaedia of Saints of India, Volume 25: Sant Dadu Dayal", Bakshi and Mittra, Criterion Publications, New Delhi)

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