Sundry advices
Trust only in Rama and in none else.
Amrit says to seek refuge only at the feet
Of guru dev and adore them
Day and night (1)Enormous fault lie at heart ;
Runs to the places holy for relief.
Amrit cautions that visit to the places
Cannot mitigate the illusion and dualism (2)
Look for the holy places in the body itself
Through the medium of yogic austerity ;
The saints have a dip in holy waters
Only at the juncture of TRIKUTI for absolution
Says so Amrit Natha, the revered sage (3)
One meets parents only at the body ;
Gets nourishment through eat and drink,
Also at the body ; One meets the true guru
At the body. Amrit feels enamoured at this, the
possibilities in the human body (4)
Serve the teacher through the body
Heart and speech with all your might.
He will lead you out of the perils
Of the ocean that the worldly life presents (5)
Whosoever adores his teacher with whole soul,
Certainly will be blessed with the boon, redemption
Of life ; Amrit says it with certainty
With no iola of doubt in the truth (6)
Fie on intellect and power of judgement
Which do not bow at the feet of guru ;
Shame is that insolence which shows itself
Up in presence of Guru ; deprived will he be
Of the benefit of the life, That Lord bestowed (7)
All sorts of tricks you play to keep
Your family of ingrates.
You waste your life, the precious human,
For a trifling interest ; wake up now
O, ignorant (8)
O ignorant ! you did many things,
Practised yoga, performed sacrifices,
Repeated the seedword, Observed austerity,
But did not shed away the insolence foolish.
How will you be entitled for spiritual weal? (9)
Hypocrite ! meditate like a heron,
Do not shed away insolence foolish,
Indulge in disputes, wordy and vain?
Amrit asks how the anguish of birth and death will end? (10)
Meditate on the breath,
Concentrate your sight on the tip of the nose.
Amrit assures, you will be blessed
With the total vision of the truth
In you heart. (11)
The arrows of the words
From the mouth of GURU
Pierce your heart ;
You will meet your self in self. (12)
There is the Lord to care for all,
Why do you worry yourself for your ones,
You think for the vision
Of the self in the self. (13)
Foolish is conceit of performing
When there is one, other than you,
Who does all jobs for you and all.
Give up the insolence ; the knowledge is supreme. (14)
There are two streams of thought about Lord,
He is without attribute and he is with attributes ;
Amrit says the truth supreme
Is without its parallel - the silence rewards. (15)
There are many who speak about him ;
The rare among lakhs is one with vision,
Rarer is the visionary who can
lead the worthy to the vision.
Amrit sees the rarest and unique (16)
The creation, the sustenance and destruction
Are all the plays of causal attributes -
the sat, the rajas and the tamas.
The devotee of the feet of GURU is
above and different than all these spheres (17)
One should wake in meditation on self,
One should affront the world of selfishness -
it would be ones sleep
One should repeat the seed - word ’soham’
And one should search for self in the self (18)
Lust, rage, the insolence foolish,
And infatuation are the sphere of mind.
Amrit says mercy and piety
Are also the creation of the mind (19)
The devotee of the guru
Obeys his wishes
Knows his mind,
follows without waiting for his word ;
Does not decide on contemplation
About gain or loss
Such a devotee
Overcomes the imbroglios,
Enjoys life - family and social (20)
Whatever craving the man cherishes
At the hour of dying He gets the state
In next incarnation ; Amrit, the revered sage,
Says with certainty. (21)
The mind plays in a unique way ;
Changes its mood and fancy
Moment by moment.
It is the auspicious Deity, Lord Mahadeva,
The phenomena, His manifestation (22)
Without the teachings, from a true teacher
The wordy disputes, will never pacify
The sage Amrit advices, To search and find
A true teacher, If you want
To quell the anguish.(23)
Devotion has three variances ; So has renunciation.
One receives the happiness or sorrow
As an outcome of these.
Amrit, the sage, gives out
That destiny too, has three variations (24)
Sat, raja and tamas, the three causal attributes,
provide the basis for distinction, in three variations
Of knowledge, penance,
Renouncement and austerity.
Faith, yoga and erudition too
Are of three types accordingly. (25)
Such a saint is rare, among lakhs
As does not rejoice in gain, nor repents the loss,
Amrit bestows praises
Upon a saint of such a caliber (26)
These are the signs of the devotee
Who merges his faculties into the Lord ;
unusual speech The body expressing the sentiment and emotion,
And the sight concentrated on the tip of the nose (27)
The supreme cosmic consciousness,
is without name and form and attributes ;
Is beyond the mind and speech
And causality.
Amrit, the sage, is unified with the truth,
Supreme and final, feels fulfilled (28)
Fool, beware of the fact
The span of life is about to complete,
Come to the feet of a true guru
To learn to adore and worship the Lord (29)
One who knows cannot describe
One who describes does not know ;
The mute eats the sweet
Feels helpless to describe its taste (30)
Amrit, the sage revered, feels
He has no friend and no enemy ;
There is nothing which can be styled as high,
Or that which can be styled as low.
All that is exterior is mine
And all that lies within is also mine ;
Anyway, I am in myself. (31)
That, what is destined, is bound to happen ;
Cannot be averted, By any precaution
Amrit is carefree
To find the self in the self (32)
Concentrate on the dust of the feet of the GURU
To live a full life Cruel !
Give up the crooked ways
To meet your beloved
and enjoy the union to the full satisfaction (33)
Give up the duel of empty words,
Avoid disputes which lead no where -
Why indulge in exchange of words
Which sound trash to the ear and mind
Away instantly from that which is worthless. (34)
The insolent cannot get the reward of love.
The taste of the nectar, is not his share.
It is a blunder, to keep two swords
In one sheath (35)
Concentrates on the tip of the nose,
meets his true self in meditation ;
comes across various plays ;
receives the knowledge
of unique character (36)
The essential secret of the four Vedas
The causal Truth of creation
Sustenance and extinction
The potent seed, the word, that quells
The anguish of life, are all enshrined
In the sound primordial - OM. (37)
Sacrifice all that you possess -
The body, the mind, the wealth, the intellect
and the mansion
At the feet of GURU ;
What a power, transforms the individual soul
into BRAHMA, the cosmic supreme
and grants the status immortal
to the tiny
fly of significance nil (38)
Firm observance
Of sama and dama
Purifies the consciousness
Sankara says, the root of yoga,
Its successful practice
Is the faultless character (39)
The deeds virtuous, austerity spiritual,
Guidance from a true teacher,
Speech truthful, chanting of the seedword,
The name of the Lord, says Sankara,
purify the aspiration (40)
Take that education as true education.
Destroys the lust, liberates the mind
Of possessiveness and cures the obsession
of worldly living. (41)
A Mendicant can enjoy the spiritual weal :
He avoids the pleasure of taste
The sour, the sweet and the salt
The love of a woman, Sanakra says (42)
True to his status, Å¡an+kara holds,
A raja should love his people with heart,
Work for mitigation of their suffering,
Extend the benefits to all and sundry. (43)
Life - physical and moral -
Will become free of vice and sin,
If one cares for propriety,
Moves in the company of saints,
Remains engrossed in pursuit of self (44)
It is the mind on account of which,
The world with distinctions, various and many,
Appears to the viewer, as mirrored reflection ;
On its restraint the anguish of life disappears (45)
Mind is mightier than the senses,
Intellect is greater than the mind,
The self is above and beyond intellect,
The lord, the lover of the destitutes,
Is supreme, the master of all. (46)
Roamed all around in search for you, My Lord !
But did not sight you anywhere.
Bewildered I ran into the self
And found you there (47)
Abandonment of the worldly taste
Leads to the taste of all variations ;
’Sankara’ says, intoxication spiritual
mitigates the sorrows of life mundane (48)
O my Lord ! The destroyer of the fear of worldly life,
Lord of beings, O compassionate !
Remove the anguish of the people
You are merciful O supreme (49)
Giving up all, that they possess,
Come to me and seek refuge
as destitute, completely impoverished,
I take them into my shelter
And rescue them out of abyss, of misery,
Promise of Lord,
’Sankara’ says, the word of the wise. (50)
When virtue faces extinction in life,
The lord of the world incarnates as a human being,
Out of love and mercy to rescue
The saints, the Godly devout (51)
The chief technique of practising austerity
Is engrossing in meditation, on the breath
’Sankara’ the poet says, the practice
Takes to the vision of the self, In the self (52)
Listening to advices of a true teacher,
Dedicating the mind to giving up the craze
For world possessions,
Strengthen detachment from pleasures (53)
The sage revered Sri Amrit Nath says,
The final and supreme, Bliss of atman
Is to be found only in the self ;
Having attained that,
One has nothing to aspire for. (54)
Abstain from viewing through the gross eye,
scan the reality through the spiritual eye,
The eye of atman,
Amrit, the revered sage says,
One will find the nectar
In the heart ; the search will not take much time. (55)
The world exists only so long
As you view it
With the eye with lust in mind ;
It ceases to be
When you view it with renouncement
in your mind.
Amrit, the sage, says that both,
Renouncement and craving merge
Into nil in the state of BRAHMA. (56)
The Supreme one
Is perfect, without cause, without beginning ;
The world is manifestation of the same - THE ONE
It has no beginning, nor its end ;
Amrit nath, the revered sage,
Reveals its truth, true character
or no character. (57)
Amrit says, one achieves stability
In the awareness of the self,
The colour of the soul reaches innermost ;
Intoxicated of love, spiritual devotion,
Transforms him entirely, within and without ;
He loses the cousciousness of body and mind ;
The intense devotion makes him different
Than what he was (58)
Lord listens to the passionate cry
For mercy and help.
Instantly he appears
In some form and somehow,
To quell the anguish of the devotee.
Amrit say that promise of the Lord
Is always true :He crushes the deadly sorrows(59)
The creater is one,And the creation is immense.
He is permeating it as a witness
The Lord is merciful
And helps his creation
Out of turmoil - inner and outer.
Amrit bears the testimony. (60)
He is the one,But has become many ;
He appears in various manifestations
Appears distinctly to different persons.
The illusory power withdraws its charm,
The spell of darkness of ignorance,
All distinctive features of the phenomena
Merge into oneness for the onlooker. (61)
The final redemption is imminent
When one sees many as one ; the distinctive
Features lose their identity.
sin, virtue, sorrow, happiness friend, Foe,
Appear and look as equal and one ;
Discrimination loses validity
Amrit, the sage, says that the
extinction of duality is the state of NIRVANA. (62)
The Yogis achieve the state of anchoring
In the atman, conscious and blissful ;
They remain stable
In all circumstances and waver not ;
Resolute and firm, they enjoy happiness ;
The sickly obsession
Worldly pleasures ends for ever. (63)
The mind escapes in search for pleasures ;
Pull it back with full force,Deprive it of the nourishment
it craves, crazy for enjoyment ;Lean and powerless, the mind, the mean,
will lose its strength ;In course of time stabilise it will
with the help of yoga.(64)
All courses and programmes
For the achievement of spiritual weal
Emanate from the service at the feet
Of the true teacher ; Without it they work not.
Practice of yoga, performing a sacrifice,
austere penances and seeking the
knowledge, journey to holy places,
Observances of fasts and other rites,
The nine variants of devotions,
piety, virtue, meditation,
And the canons of religion, compassion to beings
All depend on service to the GURU (65)
The arrow of the word from the mouth of the GURU
pierce and immobilize all the five.
The mind, the powerful, like an elephant
tries to withstand the impact of the word (66)
Go to the teacher,
prostrate at his feet,
Beseech his favour as a destitute ;
Amrit promises,
The favour from the teacher
Will ennoble the heart and purify it
Of the sinful trends
and you will be bestowed with
the state of fearlessness (67)
Guru is an embodiment
Of the powers of Brahma,
The three deities - Brahma, Visnu and Siva,
Of the knowledge divine, enshrined in vedas ;
Amrit, the sage revered, says
The slightest favour from the guru would reveal
The secret unique
The truth of BEING (68)
Amrit, the sage, lauds the lot
Of the devotees of Guru, polite and humble,
Who having given up the sense of prestige,
False and insolence on account of knowledge,
Power and station, caste and sub caste,
Honour and grandeur, adore his feet (69)
No devotion without love,
No yoga without love,
No knowledge without love,
And without love suffering cannot end. (70)
The love of the feet of Å RI GURU
Destroys the imbroglio that the world is ;
It reveals the truth of the self.
Sankara exhorts to adore the GURU,
Amrit, the sage, reiterates the same. (71)
Laudable are those who are soaked
in devotion
Free of fear from the world they are
and rid of malice and attachment. (72)
Here is the simple formula of redemption :
Way of fulfillment Say, through meditation,
Or through yoga Or through austerity
And that is :Adore the feet of the GURU,
and Realise that the world is
BRAHMA manifest in form. (73)
Yogis remain active in the path of spine,
On the route from the lotus in the navel
To the lotus in apex with cave of BRAHMA ;
They deal with equity, speech polite and mercy at heart. (74)
The yogis do not agitate or hurt
Anybody through their body or mind or speech ;
Always cherish the desire to act
Mercifully and with compassion ;
This way loosens the knot of karman
And liberates from the bondage (75)
A deviant of Guru
Benefits all, through his deeds of forgiveness,
Polite character,
Truth, contentment and
Contemplative behaviour. (76)
Avoid the company of the insolent and sinner,
The cruel will undergo
severe punishment
Through torture of the mind and of soul (77)
Those who tread the path of wrath
Fail to differantiate between right & wrong
Amrit, the sage, cautions devout,
And warn never to pursue
The path of enragement. (78)
The materialistic covetous
Is the meanest of mean ;
Avoid association with him all life,
Amrit warns that he will take you away
From dedication to the service of Lord (79)
Fascination spell is the butcher of life,
Avoid it by all means ;
It causes the anguish in life
The cycle of birth and death and birth thereafter. (80)
Amrit, the sage, advises the devout ;
Speak the truth, deed of truth
Conduct of truth,
Shelter at the feet of the true teacher :
The observance will demolish
The sorrow and its edifice (81)
Amrit, the sage guides the devout
On the path of liberation ;
Love of the feet of a true teacher,
Obeying his word in deed and speech
Never to speak, which is not true.
Such a soul would achieve liberation (82)
So long as the tongue of The disciple
Does not avoid the craving for taste,
His maddening craze for tasty food
Will persist to keep him away from austerity. (83)
One should take the ’satvilc’ meal
and sleep on the floor.
These two modes would make
The practice easy, without leaving a trace of doubt (84)
Meditate on your breath,
Concentrate on the sight on your nose,
You will meet your true self,
The boundless reservoir
Of infinite knowledge
Thus promises Amrit, the revered sage (85)
Amrit announces to the beat of drums,
With every breath, you exhale or inhale
You waste the value of the three worlds. (86)
Amrit, the sage revered, says,
The spirit of lust and dedication to Rama
Can never co-exist.
He enjoys happiness
Who gives up the craze for money and more,
And craving for a lust (87)
Concentrate the sight on the tip of the nose,
Meditate on breath, you inhale or exhale,
Amrit the sage, Promises to all,
Then only will you get
The knowledge unmixed (88)
Quantum of breath Granted by lord,
Diminishes fast, moment by moment ;
As the oil in burning lamp Exhausts to nil.
’Amrit’, the sage, warns the fellowmen
The time is slipping out of hand
The game will be over soon
To leave you repenting (89)
For the beloved of the god
All places are his temples,
All days are auspicious
For worshipping his Lord ;
The place, he lives in,
Is heaven for him. (90)
Why do you look for your dear
In the world phenomenal
Outside you ?
Search for him behind the veil
Within your heart.
Amrit says all are mad
Be they pandit or be they, sheikh (91)
The Lord dwells in the heart within
How can you find in the world outside ?
Amrit says the cream permeates
Every molecule of the milk.
One cannot find it out of milk (92)
Rama, the Lord, dwells in every being,
As the fragrance is present in every cell
Of the flower.
Amrit, the sage revered, says
One can meet Him when one
Longs earnestly for Him
And tries with his heart and mind
To have His vision
On seeing him in the vision
One reaches the sphere
Beyond dualism (93)
Whole life wasted drifting outside,
Never peeped within your heart
To have his look, present there.
The last moment arrived
To leave you crying, wailing in remorse
Amrit, the sage revered, regrets the loss (94)
Drifted from person to person
In futile exchange of empty words,
But did not get the secret of truth ;
The fear of death did not diminish
The fatigue of roaming
Also persisted.
Amrit, the sage revered, says. (95)
Adores the Lord from outside ;
Inside is full of perversive thoughts.
How can one meet the creator, the true,
Amrit, the sage revered, says,
When one is false within ;
Falsehood and truth can never go together (96)
As He dwells in every being
How can one meet him
In phenomenal world ?
When one enters deep within
Duality vanishes
And one meets him within one’s heart. (97)
Witnessing the game of falsehood
Day and night, waste the life ;
Never realised the truth within.
Peace is impossible without the truth. (98)
You ignored your self,
Which was true and real ;
Roamed here and there
In search of that, you did not know.
Meandering in labyrinth ,
Fell in the well of darkness,
Knowing not how to come out (99)
You affronted your own self ;
Roamed the world, wide and large.
Amrit wonders still you aspire
For the bliss that consciousness offers (100)
The aspects of the self -
Outer and inner -
Integrate into one
When one realises the true self.
Duality ends, worry vanishes,
And one becomes the king of kings. (101)
One in unison with the word divine
In the course of surati, the state, meditation,
One sees one’s true character.
Amrits says then one sees
The plays unique
In the enjoyment of BLISS
Unmixed and endless. (102)
Meditation stabilises,
Doubt vanishes,
The wordy dual ends,
Amrit, the sage revered, says,
The agony of the cycle -
Birth and death and birth thereon
Ends for ever. (103)
With mind engrossed in meditation ;
The fort of illusion demolished for ever,
Under the protection of the feet of guru,
Duality of you and me evaporated.
Says so Amrit, the revered sage. (104)
The tendencies of mind
Absorbed in the apex,
The lotus - thousand petals ;
Lost the awareness of the body gross,
The consciousness of the self
Overwhelmed the awareness of others
Amrit says
The self enjoyed the merger with the SELF. (105)
The yogic meditation is the game of the two ;
The outgoing tendencies,
and indrawn tendencies ;
Amrit says the
The dice is fathomless
Supreme consciousness ;
Play only if you can stand the play. (106)
The meditating mind
Reaches the palace, empty on the apex
In the company of the fighters
The mind drinks the nectar
Becomes stable, resolute and devoted,
Amrit says, thus it merges entirely. (107)
The meditating tendency
Gained maturity
With the guidance of the true teacher ;
The illusion vanished, the doubt cleared,
Amrit enjoyed the carefree state. (108)
Surati, the tendency of mind
Wedded to the lover, the Supreme Being,
Reached the palace of enjoyment
Touched the nectar to her bosom
And surrendered her whole soul
At the feet of the Lord.
Amrit the sage enjoyed the union
Of the self with the SELF the great (109)
The mind attained the resolute status,
The experience opened,
The impurity of the mind dissolved, into nil ;
A maiden of Atam nagar, the loving friend,
met on the way
Both together went on to live together (110)