***Salvation while living*** The first vani which I would like to talk about is “Jite ji mukti”. The biggest misunderstanding about salvation among seekers is that they will get mukti (salvation) after death. Their masters promise them paradise after their death. So let us see what kabir says about it. **Hindi Version** Sadho bhai jeevat hi karo aasa Jeevat samjhe jeevat bujhe, jeevat mukti nivasa Jeeyat karam ki phans na kaati, mue mukti ki aasa Tan chute jeev Milan kahtu hai, so saab jhuti aasa Abahon mila so tabahon milega, nahi to jampur vasa Door door dhonde maan lobhi, mite na garbh tarasa Saadh sant ki kare na bandgi, kate karam ki phansa Sat gahe satgur ko chinhe, satnaam bisvasa Kahe kabir sadhan hitkari, hum sadhan ke dasa **English Version** O friend, rely only on that which you get while living. Learn while you are living, while living realize Him. While living attain the state of liberation. O friend, rely only on that which you get while living. While living you did not shatter the shackles of karmas. Yet you expect to gain salvation after death! O friend, rely only on that which you get while living. Those who say after death your soul will merge in God Only give you false assurances. Whatever you gain now will be with you hereafter Or you’ll become a citizen of Yama’s domain. O friend, rely only on that which you get while living. The deluded wander seeking God in remote and distant places, but it does not end the agony of their visits to the womb. Only if they adore the saints will the noose of their karmas be cut. O friend, rely only on that which you get while living. Know the truth, hold onto it, Realize the true master and build faith in the true name. The saints o Kabir are my benefactors and I their slave. In another vani kabir says **Hindi Version** Jeevat mukt soe mukta ho Jab lag jeevan mukta nahi, tab lag dukh sukh bhukta ho Deh sang na hovai mukta, mue mukt kahain hoe ho Tirathbasi hoe na mukta, mukt na dharni soe ho Jeevat bharam ki phans na kati, mue mukti ki aasa ho Jal pyasa jaise nar koi, sapne phire pyasa ho Hoe ateet bandhan te chute, jahain icha tahan jaee ho Bina ateet sada bandhan mein, kitahon jani na payi ho Avagaman se gaye chutike, sumiri naam abinasi ho Kahe kabir soe jan guru hai, kati bharam ki fhansi ho **English Version** He alone is liberated who gains liberation while living. Until one attains salvation in his lifetime, He will continue to suffer both pleasure and pain. If while living in the body liberation is not attained, How can one after death obtain salvation? He alone is liberated who gains liberation while living. By spending one’s entire life in holy places liberation Cannot be had, nor by making bare earth one’s bed. While living, if a man fails to cut the deadly noose of delusion but looks forward to liberation after death, He is like the thirsty man who thirsty remains Even after visions of water in his dreams. He alone is liberated who gains liberation while living. He who becomes detached, who gains freedom from his bonds, he can, while living, go where he likes. He who is not detached, who is chained to his bonds, Cannot go beyond his ties. He alone is liberated who gains liberation while living. Through the practice of the everlasting one’s name he has severed the chain of coming and going--- Such is my master; he has delivered Kabir from delusion’s deadly noose. He alone is liberated who gains liberation while living. **Explanation** *Most religions, holy books and paths promise salvation after death, after the soul leaves this world of matter. But the saints neither attach importance to such promises nor give similar assurances to their disciples, for they say that a worldly person will not turn into a holy man after death, nor an illiterate person become a great scholar. They tell their diciples to rely only on what they achieve while living and while living reach the region of liberation----the region from where they will not be required to return to this world of birth and death. The spiritual heights a man attains while living will be his even after death. In these two poems Kabir says that the inner regions of bliss that the Saints speak of are to be reached through spiritual practice during one’s lifetime. The shackles of karma, which keep man tied to the circle of transmigration, must be broken while living. A person who is born within the bonds of karma, who lives in them, strengthens them through his good and bad actions and also dies in them, will not suddenly become free from them through the agency of death. Kabir says that if a man breaks the bonds during his lifetime, he will while living become free to go to the inner spiritual regions at will and reach the state of liberation. But in order to attain this high state a devotee must give up his delusions; try to realize what is true, seek the association of a perfect Master and undertake the practice of Nam under his directions.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 10:45:28 +0000
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