“This Music within us, unstruck and unending, is perpetually there. If we can lean to hear it, we will drink of the Nectar of Eternal Life. All our desires and ambitions will at last be transcended, and we will achieve salvation. Even while living in this world and meeting its obligations, the mind will grow impervious to its temptations and desires, and will remain in a state of complete equipoise. One then leads a life which goes beyond the realm of duality. One is no longer worried by heat or cold, praise or blame, pleasure or pain. One’s consciousness is forever absorbed in the world within, and its Music is heard perpetually. Such absorption, indeed, is of the true nature of the soul. Looking out at the world, one sees only the Creator in all objects of creation, and one no longer has any craving for any of the objects of this world. As the Koran says, ‘La illah-il-Lilah – there is no god but God.’ The Ish Upanishad tells us that the world we see is an aspect of God. In the Gurbani it is said:
‘The world you see is the form of the Lord;
Behold the Lord in all ITs forms.’
Dadu Sahib is singing the praises of this unstruck, unending Music within. He tells us that his soul has drunk of this Nectar. Once we have partaken of it, we are no longer prisoners of this world. We become the denizens of the heavens. The Tenth Guru of the Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singh, always had with him a hawk. A hawk is not chained to the earth; its element is the heavens, and it soars there in all its grandeur. We too can be transformed into hawks by the alchemy of Naam and inherit the Celestial Kingdom. The Master have their own ways of bringing home their message. Nothing that they do is without spiritual significance. Whoever comes to them, be one ever so impoverished in soul, is transformed until one can soar hawk-like to the highest heavens. At present we are prisoners of this earth and live the life of worms. But such is the alchemy of the celestial Music that if we hear it, we turn into hawks and become princes and princesses of the aerial regions.”
(Darshan Singh. “Streams Of Nectar”. Science of Spirituality 1993. Pp. 208-209)
Darshan Singh – son of Kirpal Singh, initiate of Sawan Singh and childhood friend of Charan Singh – expresses himself beautifully here. Once we have a taste of the Divine Nectar – are immersed in the karma-free river of Eternal Light and Sound and enveloped in the Unstruck Celestial Music, the Harmony of All Harmonies – we are enfolded in Divine Love, dyed in the color of the Lord, saturated in ITs Essence. When this happens, we are lifted up and in – transcending the physical, astral, causal and mental bodies or sheaths, and – and transported to our True Home – the Eternal Reality – the Kingdom of Heaven within. Only the Spiritual Shabda Current can do this for us. It is a gift of the Eternal One to all souls. And this is a wonderful gift!
All my appreciation and blessings in the LightSong of Eternal Love,
Michael Turner
http://spiritualfreedomsatsang.org