the message
of god
There are two worlds - the first is the world, which we can see, touch, hear, smell or taste - this is called “Maya”. The second is the Living Presence of the One Formless God, the Force, the Spirit of Nature - this is called “Naam”. When we bring the Force into our lives we enrich them. If we live only in the realm of the physical senses, without the Naam, we are only half-alive. The whole of Gurmat is a way of life bringing the Naam into our everyday lives. The only command in the Sikh faith is “Jap”. This means Repeat, Remember, Awake! Love, Understand, Act! It is easy to understand the importance of Jap if we think of what happens if we don’t do it. We are slaves to the fashions of the present whatever they might be, we forget the Source of Life, we are asleep to the Spontaneous Harmony of Nature from the dancing of the stars to the hymn singing of the birds. When we Jap we say “Yes” to God, we say “Yes” to Life; when we refuse to Jap, we say “No!” to God. The choice is ours. The consequences are ours. Gurmat is natural religion. Naam fills our world like fire in wood or perfume in a flower. God is the Life of life, the Soul of the cosmos, the Vital-Breath of life. The bridge between the world and the Naam is the Guru, the “bringer of light”. The Guru says that this way is from the first breath. The path of universal Grace is the natural religion existing at all times and places. |