The Master's Gift

When the Master bestows the gift of Naam on a disciple, all barriers to God-realization are removed. The Lord, described as imperceptible and unknowable, becomes perceptible and knowable for the disciple. Following the path of spiritual practice under the Master's directions, he goes within, travels through the inner regions and enjoys divine bliss. Kabir explains that this state is not attained through hands or feet, nor are the inner visions experienced through eyes or ears; the disciple enters these regions in his spiritual body and not in the physical one, sees with his spiritual eye and hears the Melody with his spiritual ear. Thus blessed by the Master, the disciple is indeed fortunate, for he is freed from the bondage of matter and attains the state of everlasting bliss.

 

My Master in his mercy
Gave me the rare gift
Through which the Unknowable
I have come to know.

Without feet I walk,
Without wings I fly,
Without beak I peck
The pearls of divine bliss;
Without eyes I see,
Without ears I hear.

My Master in his mercy
Gave me such a rare gift
That the Unknowable
I have come to know.

Where there is neither sun nor moon,
Where there is neither day nor night,
In that land now dwells my soul.
Without food I eat,
I feast on nectar divine;
Without water my thirst is allayed.

My Master in his mercy
Gave me such a rare gift
That the Unknowable
I have come to know.

Here I now live in contentment,
There my joy is perfect and supreme;
To whom and how can I narrate
The state of my everlasting bliss?

My Master in his mercy
Gave me such a gift
That the Unknowable
I have come to know.

Says Kabir: My entire being
I sacrifice at my Master's feet;
And I marvel again and again
At this disciple's good fortune.

 

K.S., II:21
Satguru soi dayā kari dinhā

 

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