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one has tucked in his girdle a precious ruby;
But alas! he knows not how to untie the knot to
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Mystery of Death - The Light of Life
get at the ruby and hence goes abegging.
"God," says the sage of Dakshneshwar (Ramakrishna Paramhans), "is in all, but all
are not in Him." Guru Nanak tells us of the way out - way to unravel the great mystery
and to acquire mastery over everything else - "By conquering the mind, you conquer
the world" is his simple device. The mind as at present is torn between countless desires
of diverse nature, pulling in different directions. It has, by degrees, to be reintegrated
and made whole - an undivided whole - with the love of God surging in every fibre of
its being; for then alone it would become a willing instrument to serve the spirit instead
of dragging It down and without, as it does now, into tight bottleneck corners, here,
there and everywhere and at all times. Unless this hydra-headed monster is trained and
tamed it, like the sea-god Proteus, continues playing wild antics, under different guises
and various shapes, putting on, chameleon-like, the varying ground-colours of its own
choosing. So long as it keeps attached to the earth and all that is earthly, it keeps
waxing in power and strength derived from the mother-earth. It has, therefore, to be
lifted high into the air and held aloft, as Hercules did with Antaeus, to get rid of the
giant, who was invincible as long as he maintained his contact with the mother-earth
from whom he derived his strength. Once the mind gets in touch with the Divine
Melody that comes wafting from above, it is lifted up, losing for good all interest in the
down-pulling sense-pleasures of the world. This gradually leads to a virtual death of the
body that is now left far below as well as of the mind that goes up some way to merge
in chit-akash - its native habitat, the great storehouse of memories from times
immemorial and from where it descended with the blowing down of the vital airs
(pranas) on the pure consciousness, wrapping it with a two-fold covering (mano-mai
and pran-mai koshas), constituting the mental apparatus befitting the soul for
functioning on the earth-plane, through yet another covering - the physical covering
(ann-mai kosh) of the body fitted with gross sense-organs, so very necessary in the
world of sensations.
While confined, cabined and cramped in the magic box of the body, we are not
chained to it though all the time we think and act as fettered prisoners, for we do not
know how to unhook the indwelling spirit in the body and how to rise above it. All the
Masters from ages past have been telling us with one voice 'to go within and look
inwards' for the beacon light, the 'Light of Life' uncreated and shadowless, All-
luminous in Its own luminosity, the only ray of hope and deliverance in the enveloping
darkness of the murky prison-house in which we dwell. Of this it is said:
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And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehendeth it
not.
-St. John
Take heed that the light which is in thee be not darkness.
-St. Luke
It is this light which is acclaimed as the 'day- star' that serves as 'a lamp unto the feet'
of the faithful, enrapturing both the mind and the spirit which alike are unwittingly
attracted and begin drifting upward into realms of higher consciousness, super-
consciousness, along the lighted current of life, the Audible Life Stream (Shabd),
carried as it were on the wings of the Divine Music springing from the holy Light,
metaphorically described as pegasus, the white winged horse of the gods or barq (the
lightning) that is said to have carried the Prophet to heaven (almiraj).
The great Masters in all times, and in all climes, speak of this unique and wonderful
house, the human body, the veritable temple of God in which dwell the Father, the Son
and the Holy Ghost. Unless the Son (the human spirit) is, by the grace of some God-
man, baptised with the Holy Ghost (the Power-of-God made manifest in the flesh by a
God-man), the prodigal Son, wandering among the wonders of the wondrous world
without, cannot by himself find his way out of the labyrinth, to the Home of his Father
(God), for the eternal and fundamental law is: "It is in flesh (clayey mould) and through
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