God is Oneness

Beloved friends,
Today, we shall have a talk on Saint Rajjab’s song “Santo aave jaye so maya.” By birth Rajjab was a Pathan. He was in love with a girl. There were celebrations going on for Love Marriage. Osho has narrated this incident beautifully. He was a wonderfully dressed bridegroom. Having a crown on his head, he was moving ahead, seated on a horse proceeding for the marriage. On the way Saint Dadu was passing by. Seeing Rajjab, he recognized his old disciple of earlier births. Looking in eyes of each other, something transpired and, Dadu said –
“Rajjab Te Gajjab kiya, Sir par bandha mor.
Aaya tha Haribhajan ko, kare narak ki thor.”
Meaning: O Rajjab! You are doing a strange thing. You had incarnated on this planet for a divine living. But you are making arrangements for going to hell.
Hearing these words, Rajjab got down from the horse and grabbed the feet of Saint Dadu. It was an old relation. Surprised to this action, Dadu explained that his intention was not this. All he meant was not to get entangled into it, not to. get caught into it. Rajjab replied: “Why to start it at all? Earlier the better. He held Saint Dadu’s feet. He never left it. Residing in the feet of his Master, the Ultimate reality was revealed to Him. On the basis of his own experience of the Truth are these lines. Let us explore them.
“Santo Aave Jaye so Maya.”
Hindus believe that God comes in the form of incarnations. He comes in the face of Rama, Krishna, Kalki, Buddha and so on. But Rajjab says that these are just waves. The entire ocean doesn’t come in these minute waves. All that comes and goes is the part of illusion. What exists forever is the Ultimate. The divine can’t be contained in frame of time. It is beyond it.
“Aadi Ant Mare Nahi Jeeve, So Kinhu Nahi Jaaya.”
It is not marked by any beginning or end. It is infinite without a start or end.
“So Kinhu Nahi Jaaya”
It does not require a womb to be born through. It is self-created. Similar are the words of Guru Nanak Dev ji, sharing His experience after merging into the Divine.
“Ek Omkar Satnam, Karta Purakh, Nirbau, Nirvair, Akalmurat,
Ajuni Saibum, Guru Prasad.
Aad Sach, Jugadi Sach,
Hai Bhi Sach Nanak Ho si bhi sach.”
Rajjab says:
“Lok Asankhi Bhaye Ja mahin, So Kiun Garabh Samaya.”
How is it possible that the creator of the planets, solar systems, and the entire universe can condense into a womb for its birth. No, the concept of incarnations is just fictitious.
Rajjab says:
“Bajigar Ki Baji Upar, Yeh sab Jagat Bhulaya.”
The world is just like a magic show. Like spectators we are lost into it. However, one is able to see, feel and know the entire essence of the creation. It is all composed of that Divine.
As Kabir Says –
“Bajigar Dank Bajai, Sab Khalak Tamashe Aai,
Bajigar Swang Sakela, Apne Ranga Rave akela.”
As ever witnessed in a magic or monkey show, the trainer plays the instrument and the monkeys dance accordingly, but at the end of the show, the monkeys return back to the call of the trainer. When the show ends the magician leaves alone
Saint Ravidas explains it beautifully –
“Kahe Ravidas Baii Jag Bhai, Bajigar so Preet Ban Ai.”
Meaning: Life is a game. And if you want to know its secrets, then you have to be in friendship with the magician.
That Magician is Govinda, the Divine.
Further, Saint Rajjab explores:
“Sunna Swaroop Sakal Avinashi, Panch Tatva Nahi Kaya.”
How is the Divine? It is Shunya, the Zero experience. It is nothingness. How can that formless be contained in a small form. It is “Akal”, beyond time. It is “Avinashi”, it cant be destroyed. Neither the 5 components – air, fire, space, earth, water can together form it. But yet it exists in each.
Rajjab says:
“Tyo Avtar Apar Asti Ye, Dekhat Drishti Bilaya.”
Meaning: The hypothesis that the unfathomable divinity incarnates in human form is a big lie in as much as all these so called incarnations vanish in no time.
Rajjab lived in the time span of Akbar. In those days, to deny the existence of incarnations required great courage. And Rajjab was a man of dare devilry. He also adds that none can take you to the Ultimate. Guru is also a helper. He is also only a support. But initiative has to be taken by you. None can get salvation for you. The belief that God himself will come and make you free is wrong and wont lead you anywhere.
RamakrishnaParamhansa was a devotee of Goddess Kali. He used to worship Ma Kali, and meditate on her. Once, Swami Totapuri came to his place. On inquiring about his spiritual growth, Ramakrishna replied: “It’s good till the time I see Ma kali but in a while she disappears and when I am out of it, I am left with frustration and disgust again. On this, Totapuri replied: “ Bliss can be eternal only if is independent of anybody else. You have to leave Ma kali for that. You have to destroy her.” Ramakrishna asked: “How can I leave or destroy Kali?” To this he answered: You are the one contemplating on it. So you can also destroy it. When she comes, just destroy it with a sword. He agreed and entered into meditation but as soon as Ma kali appeared, he forgot everything. On his arrival back, Totapuri was furious and said he would not waste his time if he was not interested. This time they planned that as Ramakrishna gets lost in imagination of Ma kali, he would make a cut on his forehead with a glass. When this incident took place, with the cut of glass on forehead blood started shedding and there was pain which reminded Ramakrishna to kill Ma Kali. That is how he was actualized and nothing remained. In that nothingness everything was engulfed. Thus merging into Totality, door to Godliness was opened to Him.
Rightly says, Rajjab – just merely by watching with awareness on your beliefs they get shattered and what remains is the Reality.
Rajjab further says:
“Jyon Mukh Ek Dekh Dui Darpan, Gahla Te Ta Ggaya.”
Meaning: As face is one, but in mirror it can look two or more. Similarly God is one, but people have described Him in many ways depending on their experiences.
It is said that the world is a reflection. As we think or imagine, things happen accordingly
Once, five blind men touching elephant tried to describe it. First one touched the tail and said that it’s like a rope. Another one touched its trunk and said that it’s like a snake. Next one touched its ears and describes it like a fan and so on…
So it’s just how we see things they appear to be. It is simply how we see it, and how much we see it, and only that much we can understand. But it doesn’t mean that divine is that much only. It is beyond all limitations.
Rajjab says:
“Jan Rajjab Aisi Vidhi Jane Jyo Tha Tyo Thehraya.”
Rajjab says, like him you all also have to know a technique by which mind becomes silent. There is peace, serenity. You don’t have to run to know the ultimate. It is here and now. But it is only through a Living Master that one can know the secret of Omkar by which all running haywire comes to a halt.
To know Om, and to be still into it is Sahaj Yoga.
Hari OM Tat Sat.