The Message of Saints - Maharaj Charan Singh

Every saint brings from the house of the Lord only one message. Every saint comes to preach the same truth, the same reality, the same spirituality. They say there is one God, and that our soul is of his essence. We can escape from the wheel of death and rebirth only when we merge in the Lord. The Lord dwells in the temple of the human body. It is only in the human form that we can realize him. The obstacle between us and the Lord is our mind. It is because of our mind that we do not see God within ourselves. This obstacle can be removed only by means of joining our soul with the divine melody. Both the sound current and the Lord are within us. The way to him is also in the human body. It is only by being in the company of the saints that we can know the path within and succeed in bringing the soul in touch with the transcendent music.

In the Bible this Shabd is called the Word or Logos; Christ also calls it ‘living water’. He says, "But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life¹." Guru Nanak calls the Word or the Name ‘elixir’ or ‘nectar’, and Muslim saints call it the ‘water of life’, for by getting it we gain life eternal and free the soul from the prison of the body.

© "The Path" by Maharaj Charan Singh, published (2000) by Radha Soami Satsang Beas, Dera Baba Jaimal Singh, Punjab 143 204. Reprinted with permission.

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