Divine Light is the First Realization

Saint Kabir illuminated Earth with His physical presence from the period of 1398 to 1518 A.D. This pada is related to the light form of Omkar. It is linked with the eternal light. Kabir Sahib calls it as 'Noor.'
Just in the beginning he states -

"Aval Allah Noor Upaiya, Kudrat ke sab bande.
Ek Noor te sab jag upajiya kaun bhale ko mande."

Initially the divinity expressed itself in the form of Light. Rishis of the Upanishads state- "Eko Hum Bahutasyat." And that light multiplied to form the universe. But just in the beginning it manifested it in illuminated form.
And with this light, God created this entire Existence: Animals, birds, plants, insects, humans and various other forms of this Existence.
"Ek Noor te sab jag upajiya kaun bale ko mande."
And he asks a wonderful question to all - If we all had common ancestors or parents, which were in the form of Light, then whom shall I call good and whom bad? All the divisions based on religions, castes stand no-where. Whom will you call as superior and whom as inferior? Besides, with this statement of Saint Kabir, the scientists also agree that before life came into being, there was light. For an example: when there was no life on Earth initially, Sun originated in this solar system. The scientists say - 10,000 million years ago Sun came into existence. And the Earth is like a small baby, which came just 4,000 million years ago. Millions of years ago, there was no life on Earth. Only 600 Million years ago the first life form was born on Earth. Water beings, trees were formed initially and gradually the life forms developed. Humans are the most recent creation on Earth. It is just 1 lakh year old creature.
I had read a story. Once, a lover and his beloved were seating at the seashore. They were talking to each other. The girl asked to her lover - For who is this sea? The boy replied: For you my darling, who other than you. The girl further inquired - This Sky, this moon is for whom? The lover replied - O my love, all this for you. And the writer further writes - seeing this, I went to them and said - my friends, when you both were not born even then there was this Earth, this sky, the moon and everything was still there. But it is the tendency of human mind to consider everything for him, which is nothing but just ego. The human race has arrived just 1 lakh year ago only, but this earth existed even before that. And at that time it was for whom?
The modern scientists are also agreeing on the fact stated earlier by Kabir Sahib - first there was light and from that light the life was formed. Even today, somehow the entire life is connected to the light source. Imagine if the sun gets cold today then for how long with the life on earth sustain.
Kabir Das rightly says -

"Loga baram na bulyo bhai.
Khalik Khalak Khalak me Khalik,
Pur rahiyo sab thai."
All the dualities are our illusions. All the dualities of form and the formless are just created by us, but they actually do not exist. In actuality, there is only oneness.

"Anahalak Hoon Har Jism me Ruh-sa Hoon.
Meri Jaan Tujme bhi me hi basa hoon.
Suraj, ye Chanda, Ye tare, ye panchi.
Hanse koi samjo ki me hi hasa hoon.
Kahi koi aangan kisi jal se bheege.
Samjo ke badal ban me hi barsa hoon.
muje chahe kuch bhi ab kahe le jamana.
Samundar hoon dikhata bale katra-sa hoon.
Muji se hai roshan ye sari khudai.
Bale deh me hoon par aakash-sa hoon.
Kabi apne murshid me bola tha me hi.
Magar aaj dikhata Siddhartha sa hoon."

This means:
"I am the Truth. I live as soul in everyone. O my beloved, I dwell in you also. Sun, moon, stars, and birds: whenever they smile I smile in them. When a courtyard of any house receives water, in fact I rain over there. Let the world say as it likes, but I am the sea, although I look like a drop. The whole creation is illuminated by me. Although I am in a body, I am like sky. Some time ago I had spoken through
my Master, but now I have found expression in Siddhartha."
Where is the difference? Guru Nanak says - "Guru Guru Eko Bekh Anek", which means, the masters come in many forms but the essence within them is one and the same. The Godliness in them is the same. Sometimes it speaks in the form of Mahavir, Buddha, sometimes as Dadu and sometimes as Osho. All the Masters are medium of the Divine to reach us.
"Khalik- Khalak khalak me Khalik"
Khalik is the term used for God and Khalak stands for His creation - the world. In the Khalik is Khalak. In the God is the world and vice versa too. The divine is in world and the entire world is in divine. There exists the formless in the form and in the formless are various forms existing. The sun is one of the biggest forms but it is also surrounded by the formless space on all sides. And so is true about mankind which is also engulfed by space. And do not consider it that this space is filled with air only. It is filled with Divine sound and Divine light also. We are protected by the Divine from all sides. And not does it only exist around us, it is also in us. We are made of it. Inside our form is the formless being of God in the way of light, sound.
Kabir thus continues to say-

"Khalik khalak Khalak me khalik pur rahiyo sab thai."
Once a Sufi saint said to me - What does Pak-Kalama means?
I replied - "What I have read is very simple and clear enough. "Lailla-Illallah" There is nobody to be worshipped except the Divine. The saint said - If for a while I agree to what you say, just tell me, if there is nobody except the divine that can be worshipped, but then there has to be something besides the divine, which in not supposed to be worshipped. So, just tell me one such thing. On listening this, I said this is very difficult as there is nothing besides the divine. On hearing my reply the saint laughed aloud and said - This is not the
true meaning of Pak-kalama. And on my insistence he stated its true meaning - There is not a creature which is not divinely. "Illah" also means a creature.

"Mohammadur Rasul Allah." What does Mohammed stands for? Mohammed means the one in whom the light of divine has descended. Initially, Mohammed sahib's name was Hazrat Aslam, as was Gautama Buddha's name Gautama Siddhartha. But when He became enlightened He was renamed as Buddha. Similarly after attaining to enlightenment Hazrat Aslam became Mohammed. "Mohammadur Rasul Allah" And the one in whom His illumination descends becomes His mirror. The term "Rasul" does not only stand for a Paigambar, but also for a Mirror. And in such a person for the first time you see the glimpse of God.
"Khalik khalak Khalak me khalik pur rahiyo sab thai."
Once Guru Nanak went to Makka and kept His legs facing towards the Kabba. The people around were astonished by this act. In shock, they asked Him what He was trying to do. You are placing your feet towards the God. Guru Nanak said in amazement: Just move my legs in that direction where there is no God. The story says that in whatever direction His feet were moved, the Kabba too moved in the same direction. This is a symbolic story. But what it points is very true that even in the smallest atom is God.

"Mati Ek Anek Bhant Kar Saji Sajanhare.
Na Kuch Poch Mati ke bhande na kuch poch kumbare."

There are five elements which constitute towards the formation of humans. Tulsidas says -
"Kshiti jal, pavk, gagan, sameera,
Panch rachit ye adhama sharira."

It means that the five basic elements - earth, water, fire, sky and air combine together to form the body. The entire world is made up of these constituents.
Similarly, Saint Namdev says -

"Ekal Mati kunjar chiti banjan hai bahunana re"
Like a potter makes a variety of articles or utensils from the same mud, God has created this entire world or nature out of the same five elements.
Saint Kabir further elaborates -
"Na Kuch Poch Mati ke bande na kuch poch kumbare."
Remember it clearly there is no lacking in the clay, or in the potter. You may have heard of Malik Mohammed Jaisi who has written Padmavat. He was disabled and used to walk in a crooked manner. When he entered the court of the King, all the ministers seeing his walking style started laughing. At this, Jaisi asked them - Whom are you all laughing at - me or the Divine who has made me?
From His experience says saint Kabir -
"Na Kuch Poch Mati ke bande na kuch poch kumbare.
Sab me sacha eko soi, tis ka kia sab kuch hoi."
There is one Ultimate truth that resides in each of us. You may name it Ram, Govind, Krishna or as you like. And through Its will only are all things possible.
From His exploration and insight Kabir guides us by stating -
"Humkum Pachane so eko jane banda kahiye soi."
The one, who knows the Ultimate Law, knows the oneness of all beings and only he is a human being. We are born as men and women, but we have to evolve as human being. One who knows the Divine hyme, is a human.
"Alakh Alakh na jai lakhia Guru Gud deena meetha.
Kahe kabir mere sankha nasi sarab niranjan deetha."

He is saying a wonderful thing - that it is not possible to see God. "Alakh Alakh na jai lakhia Guru Gud deena meetha." But my Master has revealed to me that secret. What is that hidden mystery? It is of Omkar -- the soundless sound. It is the Divine light. And on being blessed with this secret, Meera bai rejoices with joy and says:

"Maine Ram Ratan Dhan Payo."
I am blessed with the wealth of Omkar - the Divine Name.
And Sunderdas being in gratefulness to His master sings:
"Humare Guru Deeni ek jari."
My Master gave me a secret root.
Kabir says that my Master has given me a Gur- a secret. And once the secret is revealed what happens?
"Gunga keri sarkara, khaye aur muskaye."
The seeker becomes like a dumb who can enjoy the taste of delicious sweet but cannot explain it what is it like.
Kahe kabir mere sankha nasi sarab niranjan deetha."
And since now I have known the sound and light form of divine, I am able to see it around my all sides.

See the two contradictions-
On the one hand he says - it is not possible to see the divine. But it is only till the time when the secret is not opened by the Master. And once the Master opens it up it is seen everywhere. Whatever is, is just the divine. Once you see the Divine Light within, you can see it everywhere. Divine Light is the First Realization.

In Search of Elixir

Someone asked from Kabir sahib that how will you feel at the time of your death? Kabir sahib replied-

Jis marni se jag dare mero mann anand,

Kab marihu, kab bhetihu puran parmanand.

I am waiting for the death to come because death is a Samadhi. You do Dynamic meditation, Kundalini medi-tation, Sanjeevani meditation for your whole life. This does not make any difference that which meditation you do, you say that we are unable to meditate, unable to do Samadhi. But death is a natural Samadhi. For life long you try to do it but while death you easily enter into it. As a matter of fact death is really very blissful. This is a fiction that death is sorrowful. Why this fiction did come? It is because of pain associated with the disease which precedes death. Pain is not due to the death. God has made the incident of birth and death so blissful. The priests have said that death is painful. Where is the pain in death? The pain is due to the disease which is before death. Pain is due to the disease. When your death begins, from where your consciousness contracts, from where your senses stop functioning – eyes stop watching, ears stop hearing, from there is the beginning of bliss. People say that when a child is in mother’s womb, he is in trouble. But as a matter of fact you can’t find the greater blissful atmosphere than this. A child lives in such a blissful state for 9 months, that there is no limit of his bliss. This is God’s arrangement. Similarly God has arranged death very blissfully, really blissfully. You consider death to be sorrowful due to your fiction. You consider death to be painful. Osho is leaving his body, he is smiling, and His consciousness is contracting slowly. Amrito, His doctor, asks, “Will you like to go?”. Osho replies, “Yes!” He smiles and closes His eyes and the matter ends. Where is the pain in that? You just smile and matter ends.


So this is the fiction that death is sorrowful. First fiction is that everything comes to an end with the death. Nothing comes to an end. Second fiction is that death is sorrowful. Even this is the fiction. Death is not sorrowful. A research has been done in a hospital in London that if people are explained beforehand then they go into death with a smile.


Likewise there is fiction that child delivery is painful. If the matter is explained properly that child delivery is blissful, research has been done that women have delivered the child blissfully. The fear gives the pain. Similarly death is not sorrowful. It is blissful. If you know the Divine Elixir within, for you death is not sorrowful. In Oshodhara in the forth program you know the Amrit, you know the eternity within you, on that day you succeed conquering the death. You have been conditioned that death is sorrowful. Therefore you are not ready to welcome death. What is meditation? It is de conditioning. What is Samadhi? It is de conditioning. In Samadhi you realize that death is blissful.


The other fiction is that death is fearful. No, death is not fearful. Then why is this fiction there? Death is associated with a graveyard. And what does graveyard mean? Burning corpses, barking dogs, screaming jackals, this is the association. There is a place in India, Sirsa in Haryana, I was conducting a program over there and while conducting I asked who gets scared from death, just raise your hand. Nobody raised his hand. I thought they have not understood my question. So I asked it in other way that how many people are not afraid of death. Then everyone raised their hand that they are not afraid of death. I was surprised that there is such a city in India where people are not afraid of death, but what is its secret. There was a lawyer who said that if you want to know the secret then tomorrow we would like to take you to some place. I said that I would definitely like to come to know this secret. They took me to the place called Shivpuri. There were flower blossoming all around. There was a beautiful garden. Children were enjoying their picnic. I said, “This is a beautiful place. Which is this place?” The lawer said, “This is Shivpuri. This is the graveyard of Sirsa. Children come here to enjoy their picnic. This is the most beautiful place of Sirsa. When I was a kid even I used to come here to enjoy my picnic.” I understood the secret. If you are going for a picnic then there is no need to get scared. Then a thought came into my mind that the most beautiful place in every city should be the graveyard. We must make graveyards the most beautiful place in every city, where people will go for picnic.


This too is a fiction that death is a fearful thing. But how can one be free from these fictions of death? Awareness is required to get rid of these fictions. But if you want to eradicate darkness by fighting with it, then it is a very difficult matter. The other way to eradicate darkness is to light a lamp. If you fight with darkness then you will not be able to win. The only way out is to light the lamp, and darkness will simply go away. The darkness of thousands of years will not say that it exists for thousands of years, so how can it go with the small light of a candle. It will just disappear. So you will have to go towards the amrit within you. You will have to do the journey of amrit. At present you are just going outside. All your senses are moving outwards. They are moving towards death. Every moment we are moving towards death, whether we know it or not. Our whole journey is outwards. Eyes look outwards. Ears hear outwards. Skin touches outside. Nose smells outer fragrance. Every moment we are moving towards death. We are not living life at all, as life is within.


‘Subah hoti hai, sham hoti hai, umra yuhi tamam hoti hai’.

We are spending our days but that is not life. We will have to move towards amrit. Kabir says –

“Kahan sunan kachu nahi, nahi kuch karan hai”.

What should be done to know this amrit, to know this life.

“Kahan - sunan kachu nahi.”

What conversation should be done? Mandukya Upanishad says-

‘Na yen aatma pravachanena labhye.’

Self realization cannot be attained from discourses.
From discourse wisdom arises but self realization cannot be attained. A search will arise. A quest will arise. Only that much will happen. A thirst for amrit will arise within you.
The first duty of the seer is to arouse thirst for amrit within you. There are many kinds of people in this world, very intelligent, very brilliant, but the thirst for amrit does not rise. There is something lacking in their intelligence, their wisdom. The position of Prime Minister attracts them more. The throne of President magnetizes them more. The thirst for amrit does not arise. The people who run the state, who run the world are definitely very wise, but not intelligent. There is a lot of difference between intelligence and being wise. Kabir was not literate. He says-
‘Masi kagaj chhua nahi.’
He has not touched pen and paper. He is not wise, but he is very intelligent, not at all wise.



Listen what Kabir says-

‘Haman hai ishq mastana, haman ko hoshiyari kya,

Na pal bichude piya hamse, na bichade hum piyare se,

Unhi se neh lagi hai, haman ko intezari kya,

Jinke dur priyatam hai, bhatakte dar - badar phirte,

Hamara yaar hai hummein, haman ko bekarari kya.’

There is no smartness, no cunningness in Kabir sahib.

‘Kabira ishq ka mara, dui ko dur kar dil se,

Jo chalna rah nazuk hai, haman se bhoj bhari kya.’

You will not be able to go within by carrying heavy weight of holy books. With this the inner journey will become very long, very long. This is the journey of amrit. This is not a small journey.

‘Dhoondta phirta hun main Iqbal apne aapko,

Aap hi goya musafir, aap hi manzil hu main.’

On has to go within.

‘Ab tak toh hui guftagu gairon se magar,

Ab tak humse hamari na mulakat hui.’

You have to meet yourself within. What you think you are, you are not that and what you don’t think yourself, you are that. You consider yourself as body, but you are not the body. Body will get destructed. But, you are not destructible, you are consciousness, know it. The distance is very long but you give your hand in the hand of the master.

‘Tujhko malum bhi hai kitne janam beet gaye

Bada e talakhiye ayyaam ko peete peete.

Phir bhi tishnagi teri nahin bujhne payi.’

Your thirst has not quenched.

‘Aao jeene ka saleeka main batata hu tujhe.’

Come, I will make you drink wine. Once you will drink this wine, you will get rid of outside liquors.

‘Aao peene ka saleeka main batata hu tujhe

De mere hath mein hath aur chal mere saath.

Aao chalne ka salika main batata hu tujhe.

Ishq ka pehla kadam hi hai
naviye manzil.

Aao jeene ka salika main batata hu tujhe.’

This is the journey of amrit. It will definitely take some time. It is the journey of love. It is the journey of loving yourself. It does not take much time if it is journey of loving others. How long does it take to say – I love you? But if you have to love yourself, you have to love your amrit. You have to write letter to yourse. Then the matter is difficult.

You might have heard this song by Jagjit Singh-

‘Pyar ka pehla khat likhne mein waqt toh lagta hai,

Naye parinde ko udhne mein waqt toh lagta hai.

Jism ki baat nahi hai,unke dil tak jana hai, apne dil tak jana hai,

Lambi duri tay karne mein waqt toh lagta hai

Pyar ka pehla khat likhne mein waqt toh lagta hai.’

This journey of amrit will definitely take time. But if someone gets help of a guide, if one gets a Kamil murshid, then a thirst will arise within you, which will inspire you for search. This search will definitely take you to witnessing, to Sakshi, to meditation.

What is sakshi? What is meditation? Meditation is the search of amrit. Guru Gorakhnathji says –

‘Maro hey jogi maro, maran bada hai meetha.’

It is a very sweet death, how –

‘ As marni maro jis marni Gorakh mar deetha.’

But die in such a way, die while alive, so that you can see that amrit within. This art of dying is meditation.

‘Kahan sunan kuch nahi, nahi kuch karan hai,

Jeete jee mar jaye, bahuri nahi maran hai.’

What happens during death? The senses contract and move inwards from outwards, and then you come to know about your imminent death. Six months before, anybody can come to know about his death. There are techniques of knowing it. But a person definitely comes to know at least 5-6 hours before. How do doctors make out? They see that words are not clear while patient is speaking. When they show him fingers and ask can you see, he replies no. The focus is moving now. Then they understand that senses of watching are contracting. Similarly you immediately come to know from the touch. But he says that I can’t feel the touch. Consciousness is contracting from the skin. It is contracting from the feet, this is meditation. So you can do this act while alive. Bring your consciousness within slowly and gradually. This is meditation. What does meditation mean - ‘Maro hey jogi maro’. Guru Amardas says – ‘Jeevit mariye, bhavjal tariye’. The trap of this world is Bhavarjaal. What do you need to do in it? You have to move inwards and drink the elixir of life.

What is the Goal of Life?

The spiritual journey is the journey from complain to gratitude. There are three stages: first one is of a worldly person, second is of a seeker and third one of the saint. Worldly person means one who always lives in complaint. Seeker means one who sometimes lives in complaint and sometimes in gratitude. Partly complaint and partly thankfulness and saint is the one who always lives in thankfulness. This can be the deciding factor of your life that whether you are worldly person, or a seeker or a saint. Always live in gratitude.
I always tell to my own people that thank the person who has done well for you and even thank the person who has been bad to you. Because if he would have wished to do wrong he could have been worse to you but thank him for not being worse. If you live in this state of gratitude then you are a saint, you are the one who is intoxicated in the Divinity.


There was a disciple of Gautam Buddha named as Purna. He attained enlightenment. Gautam Buddha told him to go out and spread the divine message. Purna replied, “I do not want to go but if it is your order then I will have to go.” Gautam Buddha asked, “Where will you like to go?” Purna replied, “If you permit me, I would like to go to Purniya?” Purniya is a place in Bihar. It is named after Purna which was previously at the bank of river Koshi. The river has shifted 100 kilometers eastward from there. Gautam Buddha said, “What are you saying? Do you want to go to Purniya? Don’t you know that people over there are so wicked? Ram’s in laws place Janakpur was nearby, but even he did not go there. Mahavir’s birth place was in Vaishal, but even he did not go
here, I myself have gone to Vaishali, but never dared to go to Purniya. The people over there are so cruel. Then why do you want to go to Purniya?”
Purna replied, “That is why I wish to go there. Where my master could not go, I must go to spread his message. Only then can I be a disciple. I must go there.” Gautam Buddha said, “I can allow you to go there, but there are two-three questions, which I would like to ask. There are many cruel people there. If somebody abuses you, insults you, then what will you do?” Purna replied, “Then I will thank them, that they are only abusing me, not hitting me”. Buddha asked, “If they hit you, then what you will do?” Purna replied, “Then I will thank them that they are only hitting me, not killing me.” Gautam Buddha asked, “If they kill you then what you will do?” Purna said, “Then I will thank them. Even otherwise death will take place one or the other day. I will thank them for giving me a chance for dying while walking on the path of spirituality. Gautam Buddha said, “ If you have so much of gratitude within, then you can go for sure.”


Remember that living in this state of gratitude is spirituality. Living in this state of gratitude is saintliness. In Osho Dhara people ask me that what is our destination, meditation or Samadhi. My reply is no. Then they ask me, “Is it ultimate knowledge?” I reply no, not even that. Then they ask me, “What is our destination?” I tell them that the destination is saintliness and saintliness means living in sumiran – divine remembrance with gratitude. This should be your destination. Remember that complaint is there where you are and gratitude is there where you want to reach. So go on increasing your gratitude and always remember one thing. I am telling you one secret of prayer. God does not give you what you wish. God gives you what you need. So be thankful in every situation.