UNIFYING HUMAN RACE

- By: Prof. (Smt.) Raj Vasdev Singh

Let us make this earth a liveable planet. This echoing slogan compels us to think; "What is wrong with this planet? Is Nature really indifferent to man or we are unnecessarily thinking as to what man has made of man?"

The answer is very obvious. Nature is bountiful and its provisionary store never gets exhausted. The various elements of nature have been serving the needs of mankind endlessly. The earth has been producing vegetables, fruits and food grains since time immemorial but its fertility is never finished. Similarly, the air, the water, the fire, the sound – all these elements of nature have been a perennial source of energy for every creature of this planet.

Now, the question arises: "Why this world is considered full of fever and fret, tears and fears, disloyalties and betrayals, disillusions and depressions?" The answer is simple and fundamental. The misconception about the purpose of life and the misuse of the divine gifts is the main cause of the sufferings and miseries of mankind. The lust for more and more makes man vicious. He has forgotten that he was sent to this planet to realise the eternal and absolute Truth and live truthfully, but ignorance has thrown him into the mesh of sensuous pleasures, which are transitory in nature. The pomp and show, power and pelf, has made him spiritually crippled and morally bankrupt. There is overall degradation of human values. Consequently, the noble emotions of love, humility, sincerity, purity, compassion and selflessness are over-shadowed by the wicked forces of hatred, jealousy, ego, selfishness and pride.

The misconceived religion with all its superstitions, rites and rituals has caused more harm and destruction to mankind than the world wars. A common man is lost in the mushroom growth of cults, faiths and sects. Parrot-like monotonous, mechanical repetition of memorised and crammed up scriptures by barren hearts do not enlighten the human mind. Certainly such erring religion is a treasonable violation of allegiance to one God-monotheism and His worship.

Oneness of Origin

To unite humanity and to establish one world family, we have to know our origin, our creator, our father, One and the same for all. On perceiving the omnipresent, omniscient, immortal, eternal Truth (God), one becomes God-conscious. An enlightened man is, therefore, ever under the holy spell of his reverential fear that deters him from going astray, protects him from being inhuman and turns him into a humble, resigned and God-fearing being, who surrenders and merges his will into ‘The Divine Will’ and lives truthfully. With his God consciousness, one can well understand and realise the meaning of a true Hindu, a true Mohammedan, a true Christian and above all a true human being.

The knowledge and realisation of one origin eliminates all the differences of caste, colour, creed or nationality:

AWAL ALLAH NUR UPAYA, KUDRAT DE SABH BANDE;
EK NOOR TE SABH JAG UPJIA, KAUN BHALE KO MANDE
                                                                                                - Adi Granth

God, the eternal, manifested His light in the entire mankind as Divine Creation; when the whole world had its origin in the Supreme Light of the One, then who is superior and who is inferior?

Realisation of True religion is the only thread that can unite the scattered humanity. True religion is free from artificiality and fabrication. It is not merely an oral profession, it is a living essence. It is highly practical realisation. Nirankari Mission enables man to know and practice ‘True Religion’.

Nirankari Mission believes only in hunanism because the Creator never puts the seal of any particular religion of the world or caste while giving life to a child. Such dividing signs are only man-made. It provides universality of outlook. This universal relationship creates the spirit of oneness. No one seems foreigner, every human being is seen as a part of the single body. As the Holy Bible also reminds:-

                                    "Thou shall love the Lord, thy God with all thy heart and all thy soul and with all th6y mind.
                                     Thou shall love thy neighbour, as thy self."

It is very easy to follow scustomary and ritualised religion but too difficult and a lifelong process to be a true devotee of God.

Sultan Bahu, a Sufi Punjabi saint also writes:

MAJBAN WALE DARWAJE UCHE,
RAH RUBANAN MORI HU

Meaning there by that a true saint has to pass through a hole to enter the kingdom of
God and he passes through this small hole by minimising his ego, pride, selfishness and desires. The followers of ‘Isms’ and sects believe in following certain religious rites and rituals, ceremonies and customs. Hence their gate is wider but leads them to nowhere.

To imbibe the spirit of the scriptures, one has to go to the Lord Master (Satguru) and first see God and then eulogize (worship) Him. Nirankari Baba Gurbachan Singh Ji has rightly said, "Mere discourses and sermons will do us no good. Books cannot give us enlightened life, though they can give us knowledge." A true saint can mould our life to a partivular pattern. When we are told that mere reading or reciting scriptures will not solve the problems of spiritual living, this does not mean that we do not believe in the perfection of the past prophets or holiness of scriptures. Nirankari Baba has clarified it emphatically:

                                        "All prophets had enlightened the mankind whenever and wherever they were.
                                         We must follow them in spirit, not in rituals or symbols."

True Religion

Nirankari Mission warns mankind that narrow-mindedness and short-sightedness combined with sectarianism, communalism, fanaticism will lead to destruction of human values. If human values disappear from the world, man will be considered no better than beasts. His beastly living style will turn this planet into a hell. The devil will reign and the angels suffer. So it is high time to revive the spirit of true religion - the religion that teaches universal love, selflessness, self-surrender and service to mankind leading to spiritual living.

The message of love has been delivered by each great spiritual master but it is pity that men hate on another in their very name. In fact the followers of the ‘Isms’ forget that by confining their universal masters to a particular sect, ignorantly, they are minimizing their esteem and honour.

Nirankari Mission declares that the one who realises the Formless God, Nirankar, is a Nirankari. It believes in only one God, one human race, one sweet language of love appealing to every heart. It revives, reconstructs and revitalizes the essence of Truth in its orginal form. It is unifying the humanity under one banner of Truth. God is within and without us. So, for union with God, not the ways but only the hint is required.

It is only the perfect Lord Master who dispels ignorance and enlightens the souls with the Divine-knowledge. Hence this mission of truth is unconventional.

The bond of Truth is the strongest unifying force transcending all barriers of castes, colours, race and nationalities. Hence Nirankari Mission is unifying the human race as one human family, under the parentage of one God.