By R. N. Banerjee
On 26th of Jaunary 1994, I was blessed with Gyan or god-knowledge by Satguru Baba Hardev Singh Ji .
To my extreme delight, the contents of the Gyan tallied entirely with my personal conceptions of and conclusions about God, and creative forces. For the last five years, I was engaged in a pursuit of knowledge to know the truth about man, animals, other living beings, material objects, tangible and intangible energies, the universe and its creation, the mind and the universal mind, etc . the pursuit was simply a spontaneous inner urge to know and was totally unrelated with either my academic studies or professional work . For the investigation, I had to go deep into different branches of knowledge such as material, mental and life sciences, philosophy, metaphysics and also some scriptures.
With the investigation, which was conducted by scientific and logical methods, I came to the conclusion that a single creative force was working from within of everything. It was unseen, silent, intangible but expressing the infinite ideas and patterns of some Great Thinker. Behind the creative force, the existence of some non-material and mental qualities were also evident, such as goal-oriented purpose, infinite and all-knowing intelligence, perfect technical skill, knowledge of all the laws and principles which operate everything in the universe, interrelation of all, infinite consideration to provide everything in the universe, interrelation of all, infinite consideration to provide everything for the created objects and creatures . These are all mental and intangible qualities, which cannot pertain to material things, tangible energies or even creatures. Evolution itself does not possess intelligence; it requires intelligence and goals to happen. All these qualities can be possessed only by a central and one Thinker and He must be God. To carry on His creative process from within everything, maintain and sustain the created, He has to be everywhere, all the time. He has to be omnipresent and omnipotent. To be thus, He must be a spirit and hence formless, invisible. This was my intellectually derived conception of God. As it was the same as the spiritual knowledge (Gyan) I attained, I was highly delighted that I had concluded rightly.
Prior to attaining this God-knowledge, God had existed in my head as one intellectual entity. With God-knowledge, it began to penetrate my heart and gradually become a whole time obsession and awareness. I was thinking about God almost all the time save occasions when I would concentrate deeply on work or some subject. I began to find actual evidence of God in everything and in all processes around me and in me.
With the passing of a year, I have fully realised that I have nothing really which I can call my own. I have not created my body, the most mysterious and complex brain, the life-process within me, my consciousness; even my sense of " I " is not my own. These are God-given. So, man has no base anywhere or anything to build his mansion of Ahankar or Ego upon. Everything we got, get, use and consume, is because God has created these and these reach us because God-directed forces work to bring them to us.
The other discovery was the effect of "Simiran" or God-remembrance on my mind. The mind of man works by association. Repetition of the words "Ek Tuhi Nirankar" or Thou alone exist reminds us of the presence of God, connects or individual mind with the Universal Mind. It also induces considerable physical and mental relaxation and most likely helps creative thoughts to enter our consciousness. Many unexplained observations and knowledge became clear and explained, totally unsought and appeared as sudden revelations. So, if any thought or problem baffles one, he can resort to Simran, but the solution cannot be forced out it will appear all of a sudden. It also dispels worries and other negative thoughts considerably. Every night when I go to sleep, I do continuous Simran in my mind and do not know when I fall asleep.
God is always with us; we are totally integrated with Him. Then why we fail to be aware of His presence? It is because civilized and social human beings develop some sophistication’s which cover their natural instincts and subject themselves to various beliefs and social conditioning, which are contrary to the truths in God-mind. To protect these beliefs in social and other forms of interests, they build a wall of inhibition on the way of unconscious instincts reaching our consciousness and thus we lose contact with God. From personal experiences I have observed my awareness of God varying from day-to-day, and that is due to the degree of inhibition I am exerting on my unconscious mind.
We need God-knowledge to dispel these beliefs and free ourselves from social conditioning which are contrary to God-mind. Only then we can regain our contact with God-mind. Only by knowing God and being in contact with Him we can know our true identity that we are His creation and thus integral parts of this universe and so have a definite purpose and a role to play in life which is different for every person. This individuality and uniqueness can be known be an individual by establishing personal contact with God. None else can do it for him because none else is built with the capacity to know the exact uniqueness of the other individual.
The right direction to know what is our role in life can give us the satisfaction of becoming really and truly successful in life and enjoy our lives.
God-knowledge is absolutely essential. It gives us the knowledge is who we are, what we are and where lies our destiny. Becoming a Nirankari has given me the full realisation of this truth.