The Ship

I

The water in the ocean of life¹ is filled with bodies and everything what is created. But my tenement is on the verge, not touched by all this². Everybody enjoys this Ana³, they swim and jump into it on their own initiative, not knowing that they poison themselves⁴.

Five Names did You, Kirpal, create, all are the One Shabd⁵, but the secret in the Kali Yug⁶ lies hidden in the essence of Your Name⁷.

II

The Time⁸ has found its favour in this play, but the Master admonishes us, to finally make use of the opportunity to return into our True Home⁹ and to go on board of the ship¹⁰, which ferries us across without doubt. The Master’s ship¹¹ is safe and the golden opportunity to reach the other shore.

Five Names did You, Kirpal, create, all are the One Shabd, but the secret in the Kali Yug lies hidden in the essence of Your Name¹².

III

Yet another ship¹³ sails for Him, it is the ship of the son¹⁴, which pulls those souls out of the water, who thought they could reach across by themselves¹⁵. This ship is small, but it sails under His banner.

Five Names did You, Kirpal, create, all are the One Shabd, but the secret in the Kali Yug lies hidden in the essence of Your Name¹⁷.

IV

The Master comes with an order of the Almighty to initiate the longing souls. The Khalsa¹⁸, however, has His allowance. Khalsa is the form of Gobind¹⁸. Speaking frankly I am derided and threatened¹⁹! The Time²⁰ finds favour in this play. In this Kali Yug Kal²¹ has a lock on the souls, but a seeker can outrun him with Your Name²².

This is the secret of Kirpal²³!

Five Names did You, Kirpal, create, all are the One Shabd, but the secret in the Kali Yug lies hidden in the essence of Your Name²⁴.

V

Some become One with Kirpal²⁵, because the Khalsa under His banner holds aloft the banner²⁶. Nations are welcomed to escape from their destiny²⁷, but the disciples know none of that²⁸. Rituals and communities take place and the seekers after Truth are smothered²⁹ by a cowardly superiority of those initiates who are on the way.

That is the way religions arise! Many wells have been dug that way and become pitfalls. Why to start everything over again³⁰? Go home now, oh Jiva! Return into your True Home³¹.

Five Names did You, Kirpal, create, all are the One Shabd5, but the secret in the Kali Yug lies hidden in the essence of Your Name³².

VI

Listen to the silence of your heart and ask for the Name of the Almighty and you will realise that this Name is the name of Kirpal. Kirpal, all Merciful, only for the soul alone³³.

Five Names did You, Kirpal, create, all are the One Shabd, but the secret in the Kali Yug lies hidden in the essence of Your Name³⁴.

VII

Nanak speaking of Himself said He was the fool of fools! Because He Himself realised not until the end, that the Almighty Kirpal comes at the end of the Kali Yug to take along all souls back home.

You Kirpal alone are! You were and will ever be for all times³⁵.

Bhai Jamal

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Explanations: 1) Universal Mind. 2) Freed from the ego by the Grace of the Master. 3) The substance of Anand-mai Kosh. 4) The forgetfulness. 5) The five Sounds of the Master-Saints are the same in the essence, They are the One Holy Word. 6) The Iron Age (the darkest one). 7) Kirpal is the One, Who is called the Absolute, therefore His Being is contained in everything and only now the disciple can merge into the Absolute, only when this Power manifests Itself. 8) Kal – Maha Kal or the Time. 9) Sach Khand, the first pure Spiritual Plane. 10) The Satguru-Ship / Naam. 11) Without Naam and the Master in His Shabd form there is no way back Home, the Sound Current alone leads the soul back Home and lets us cross safely the ocean of life – birth and rebirth. 12) See 7). 13) The Gurumukh, the mouthpiece of the Guru or the Khalsa. 14) Christ says, I and my Father are One – the Saints have an order, the Khalsa has the allowance to connect souls with the all-pervading Shabd. 15) Maha Sunn. 16) True Disciples or Khalsas do not assemble masses of people around them, they know that it is better to bring only one soul nearer to the Almighty than to found religions or institutions. 17) See 7). 18) The Pure One in whom the Light is fully manifested. There are 5 Khalsas, the disciples of Guru Gobind Singh, who wanted to give their head for the Truth, when Guru Gobind Singh asked for that. But instead Guru Gobind Singh gave them the full Spiritual Blessing. 19) Just as a crown of thorns was put on Christ’s head. Kabir says: When I say the Truth they want to kill me. 20) Kal and Maha Kal love the play of Maya. 21) The binding Power of creation, the will of God that is projecting itself downward. 22) An honest seeker after Truth always comes to the place where the Master-Power works, so that he may come in contact with Naam or the Light and Sound Principle. 23) The unique opportunity to merge into the Almighty. 24) See 7). 25) Those who have full confidence into the competency of Kirpal, they attain the last Goal in this life, immersion into the Absolute. 26) The True Disciple always refers to the competency of his Master and of the Almighty Power within him, because the disciple proclaims to the world how great the One Shabd-Guru is. 27) Walls made by men are removed peacefully, borders and political systems resolved. 28) Those who only proclaim themselves, steeped in selfishness, do not see the Grace of Oneness. 29) Outwardnesses become more important through the darkness of the ego than the life in Naam. Each one who has a clear view of Kirpal is called an impostor or a false prophet. 30) To cross the ages. 31) Sach Khand. 32) See 7. 33) Whoever has a true yearning in his soul to meet God, Kirpal will appear to him and show the soul the way to reach the goal in one birth. Otherwise the play of creation is lost. 34) See 7). 35) There is nothing except for Kirpal, the Absolute and His Manifestation.

Comment: 30 December 1999