Book I / IV – (ii)

Hari Ras: Where It is

In the sacred books of the various religions – the Vedas, the Smritis, and others – much praise has been bestowed on the Naam or Hari Ras. Water, water everywhere! But you have not a speck of it. You can see and taste its sweet elixir, if you invert. It is the Water of Life which is found in the temple of the body, and we can get to It by recession and withdrawal from the sensory plane. Emerson, the great American philosopher, advises us to tap inside. Though this enlivening Spirit Current pervades everywhere, yet we cannot see It until we develop our Divya-Chakshu, the Inner Eye or the Single Eye as Christ calls it. For developing the inner vision we have to go inside, and this is why the sages and the seers always tell us to invert into the chamber of the mind. By reading the scriptures, we may develop a love for the Science of the Soul but cannot know Its practical working nor have a taste of It.

The study of the Vedas cannot give Hari Ras; entangled in mind and matter, one talks and talks, the ignorant abide in darkness ever, the devotee of the Master knows the Truth and sings of Him. 

Guru Amar Das, Majh M3

Hari Ras is all-pervading and is ever rich in Its fullness everywhere, in all the regions high and low. Its sweet strains also reverberate on all sides. But the unfortunate can have no access to It.

Hari Ras is all-pervasive but the unfortunate cannot have a taste of It.

Guru Ram Das, Sri Rag M4

Hari Ras is in the Temple of the Body:

When the light of His feet abides in the heart, one tastes of the Hari Ras.

Guru Arjan, Sorath M5

Break through the bondage of delusion, then shalt thou see the wonder of wonders and drink the nectar.

Guru Nanak, Maru M1

Hari Ras is in Dasum Dwar (the tenth door) and when a soul rises above the nine portals of the body and transcends body consciousness, then it tastes this elixir:

The body is the temple of God, you can deal in the commodity of Hari Ras.

Guru Ram Das, Kalyan M4

Nine are the portals of the body and all end in a cul-de-sac with no way to real happiness, the tenth alone leads to a delectable plane where one may partake of the Water of Life. Grant me, Thou the Merciful One, the Gift of the Elixir of Life through the Word of the Master.