BANGKOK (THAILAND)
(15th July 1994)
Great masters have described human life as a rare opportunity for the soul to seek communion with its source, God. They say, one is not fortunate to take birth as a human being again and again.
Human life has been proclaimed as superior to that of any other creature. No doubt there are several factors common to man and animals, birds, etc. the superiority of the human being lies in the matter of God-knowledge. It is said:
NIDRA, BHOJAN, BHOG, BHAY,
YEH SAB PASHU SAMAN,
GYAN ADHIK IK NARAN MEIN,
GYAN BINA PASHU JAAN
Like man, even animals sleep, eat, procreate and fear. The speciality of human life lies in the fact that it is man who can seek Go-knowledge. To realize God should, therefore, be our aim. We must be thankful to the Almighty for blessing us with this opportunity; we must see that it does not slip form our hands.
True happiness flows from the realization of God. Whether we talk of Satyug (Golden Age), Treta (Silver Age) or Dwapar (Bronze Age), only those found salvation that realized God and remembered it wherever they stayed, whatever they did. Others remained deprived of this bliss in spite of the fact that they to lived in Satyug, Treta or Dwapar. Whether we talk of Lord Rama, Lord Krishna, Hazrat Mohammed, Jesus Christ or from Guru Nanak Dev Ji to Guru Gobind Singh Ji, all had to face during their own times, people guided by the feelings of hatred, jealousy, enmity and violence. Such people were not different in their appearance; only action separated them from the devotees of God. Blessed were only those who sought to know God. Everybody may be hungry, but only those are able to remove their appetite who do take food.
We describe our times as kalyug, the Black Age, the worst of all the times. But so far as truth is concerned, time makes no difference. Truth was always the same and continues to be the same. Even the method of realization of the truth has not found any change with the passage of time. The devotees of God belonging to different ages, who are remembered even today, realized God only with the kind blessings of Satguru, the True Master and the same holds good even today.
Man has always been advised to seek God-knowledge, because it helps him to get rid of all kinds of misunderstandings and prejudices and then makes the journey of his life easy and smooth. This finds relevance even today. The happiest man on the earth is the one who is blessed with God-knowledge:
NAAM DHAN JIS JAN KE PALLE,
SO HI SACHE SHAH
You are the wealthiest, the noblest and the highest in real sense, provided only that you are blessed with True Name, the ultimate truth, the knowledge about God.
Men of wisdom further say:
SUT DARA AUR LAKSHMI, PAPI KE BHI HOYE;
SANT SAMAGAM HARI KATHA, TULSI DURLABH DOYE
Even a sinner finds son, wife and wealth but the company of saints and opportunity to praise the Almighty, which are more valuable, are rare to be found. Today we recall Kabir Ji, Meera Ji and other great saints with reverence. We do not recall with the same respect the kings and monarchs having huge wealth and other resources. Saints are remembered because what they earned or amassed, that is, God-knowledge was meant for the soul. Thus, they could manage to take their wealth with them even after death; while others had to leave everything here because whatever they earned or amassed was meant for the body that does not go with the soul.