There Shall Be No Darkness – Siri Singh Sahib Yogi Bhajan
The Age of Aquarius is setting in with vigor, and the technology of Sikhism was created for the Age of Aquarius. For 3,000 years man has been told to find the Guru. In Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, everywhere. Take any religion, and the subject is simple: Man has to find Guru, and without Guru there is no way. Even Siri Guru Granth says that if there are a hundred moons and thousands of suns, without Guru there is only darkness. But there is one thing, which Guru Gobind Singh made clear. He did something miraculous for mankind. Siri Guru Granth is the Guru, “Guru Granth Ji Manio, Pragat Gura Ki Day”. “The embodiment of the body of the word of God is the Shabad Guru, and that was something which was explained in a simple language of Guru is, you do not have to find it - Guru is.”
Now where the Guru is, there shall be no darkness. If man can make an effort to take the word of the Shabad Guru, the Siri Guru Granth and make that word his own, he becomes Nanak. The language will be that of Nanak, the projection will be that of Nanak, the impact will be that of Nanak, because his words will vibrate exactly the orientation, permutation, and combination of that micro-consciousness and the psyche which was Nanak’s, which is, and shall always be. And that is what he means by, “Aad sach, jugaad sach, hay bhee sach, Nanak hosee bhee sach.” Nanak confirms that it shall be true. There shall be no duality, no disconnecting of the self to go through the cycle of change into finding and questioning oneself ending in a lot of tragedies.
Some leave everything to get to the jungles, some surround themselves with everything, some recite, some bathe, and some do other things. It doesn’t work. It only works when Guru is. Up until Guru Gobind Singh, Guru has to be; after Guru Gobind Singh, Guru is. So as a Khalsa, we don’t have to find the Guru. We have the Guru. We just have to acknowledge it. Once we acknowledge it, we have to accept it; once we accept it, we have to understand it; once we understand it, we have to be it.
But how will you prevail? Your divinity should take away people’s duality. That’s the way of the Sikh. That’s what we have to learn. How will that happen? That will happen if our words, our language, our understanding, and our projection are of the Siri Guru Granth. That will take away everybody’s duality. When people will lose their duality, their divinity will set in, and they will start respecting, relating, and we’ll become a congregation of the pure. That’s the meaning of the Khalsa.
A Sikh studies by reading Siri Guru Granth. Siri Guru Granth speaks back to a Sikh. A Sikh reads Siri Guru Granth, and a Sikh listens to Siri Guru Granth. The middleman has disappeared. The physical Guru disappeared, and the subtle Guru took over, and that is the necessity for purity and piety and projection of that power which eliminates duality from all sorts of life. “Satiaee avium om namo satium sahi.” That truth which comes and prevails, that truth becomes the truth, and that’s Siri Guru Granth. Naath is the master, grahe naath. It is the naath of the master of the Universe itself, and it is called Siri Guru, Siri Guru Granth. It allows the psyche to flow into the micro-consciousness; then it correlates the macro-consciousness and blends it into the Universe in the sound system, resounding into the human self.
“Kehtay pavit, soontay puneet. Soontay puneet, kehtay pavit.” “Those who speak are pure. Those who listen are the purest. Purity reaches out to purity, and piety reaches out to the purest.” Who can understand that, other than the Siri Guru Granth? Who can give you that experience, other than Siri Guru Granth? Who has that power, other than Siri Guru Granth? Because its projection is exactly what a person needs. It comes from the inner ear to translate that message to the left and right hemispheres of the brain, and the medulla of the brain, which is there to combine the whole sense of self. When we read the Siri Guru Granth and listen to the Siri Guru Granth at the same time, elevation takes place. It is a blessing to understand the impact of that sound. It is not that someone is saying something to me. It is always around me. It is within the psyche of my time and space; it is within my every fiber. My every cell collaborates with that sound. It creates a mega-collaboration. The mega-collaboration resounds with the universe, and it’s called the Akashic record. The entire heavens resound with that sound. When heaven moves, earth listens.
That is what Siri Guru Granth is all about. It is an applied creative knowledge to create impact and effect beyond time and space. Time never stops, space can change, but when the sound resounds in the Universe of itself, then in ecstasy man can say like Nanak, “Kudrat kavan kahaa veechaar, vaariaa na jaavaa ayk vaar. Jo tudh bhavai saaee bhalee kaar. Too sadaa salaamat nirankaar.” “Thou, the infinite, the sound, the purity of all purities, the essence of all essences, the reality of all realities, exist within that”. It is enough and most powerful to wipe away the duality. And when the duality is gone, then it is “tuhee, tuhee, tuhee, teraa, teraa, teraa, thou, thou, thou.” “When Thou comes, nothing else will mean anything.”
Be a role model, be an example. What is “Dharam di kirt?” Answering only the call of duty, not emotion, commotion, or feeling but the call of duty. Duty towards all, duty towards self. And duty to all and duty to self can be totally understood by the word of the Shabad Guru. It’s written, it’s there, and it can be recited, it can be heard, it can be understood, it can open up, it can have a mastery on the ninth gate. It can sit and preside on that. If you want to be trusted, the Shabad Guru must speak through you. Each one of you is Nanak. Nanak fulfills. You are afraid. You are poor. You can’t afford it. It is not true, but ask because you are a Sikh of Nanak, and Nanak will fulfill it. “Ang, sang, Wahe Guru.” You know the Wahe Guru, the creative cosmic existence of all which has created the entire creation is within you. “Ang sang” within every limb, within every molecule. “Sat Naam”... true is your identity. True is, true shall be, true was in time, true ever it will be. In the beginning it was true. There is nothing, there is no shortcoming, but yes, we have to fight. There are 3,000 years of duality, fear, projection, sin, wrong, and negativity. But still, “Saran na paray ki rakho sarnaa.” “We have come to Thee, Oh Lord. We have come to Thee, we have bowed to Thee, we have surrendered to Thee.” I come, I saw, I surrendered, I merged, I united, I became one. That’s the theory of “Ek Ong Kaar”.
Excerpts, 5/21/00, NM