True Worship - Maharaj Charan Singh

The Lord is all-powerful and no one can oppose or change his divine will. The Lord approves of one form of worship alone, and that is devotion to the Name. Guru Amar Das says:

Without Nam there can be no true worship;

The whole world is in delusion¹.

By getting entangled in futile illusions, worldly people continue to roam, one lifetime after another, from one cell to another in the prison-house of transmigration. Other than union with the Name, there is no way out. Guru Nanak says:

He who ignores the path of Nam

And goes some other way

Will bitterly repent his choice

When the hour of death arrives²

If we do not follow the path of Nam-bhakti, devotion to the Name, but follow other paths, we are bound to repent at the time of death for foolishly wasting our time. Guru Amar Das further says:

Without Nam

There is no admittance

To the Lord’s court;

You will be harassed

By the messengers of death³.

Unless we practice listening to the inner music of the Name or Word, we cannot enter the kingdom of God. Those who do not follow this path will have to submit to tortures by the angels of death. Soami Ji says:

In no uncertain words

The Master urges you, O brother;

To attach yourself to the unstruck melody,

For there is no way other than that of Shabd;

Wtihout the Shabd there is no liberation

From the vessel of the body⁴.

© "The Path" by Maharaj Charan Singh, published (2000) by Radha Soami Satsang Beas, Dera Baba Jaimal Singh, Punjab 143204. Reprinted with permission

Foot notes

1. Adi Granth, Guru Amar Das, p. 910.
2. Adi Granth, Guru Nanak, p. 1153.
3. Adi Granth, Guru Amar Das, p. 754.
4. Soami Ji, Sar Bachan Poetry, 20:10.

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