Camp, Via Doda, Jammu
6-8-28.
My dear and revered Sirdar je,
I trust this will
find you in the enjoyment of very best health and I trust you have received my
last letter.
Without awaiting
your reply, I feel compelled to communicate today’s experience as it was
out-of-the-ordinary and I experienced it for the first time in my life. I am
communicating the experience to you just at its termination so that it does not
lose in novelty or freshness. It was with great diffidence that I communicated
you my last experience of the Anhad Shabd ------the Unending Celestial
Music, of which there are numerous references in the Adi-Granth. This experience
suddenly burst itself on my consciousness during the course of my writing the
Commentary on the Sri Japji his Song Celestial has ever since been my blessed
companion and solace at all hours of day and night. Even when I wake up from
dreamless sleep, I find the Anahad Shabd reverberating in my ears and chanting
the blessed Gur-Mantar of SATNAM. This is however, a matter of the past.
Today, when I
returned from my forest outdoor duty and took myself to the bed, I was engrossed,
as usual, in the Shabd, I had quite a transcendental experience which was as
follows:
The melody and the
reverberations of the shabd gained in pitch and I felt as if I was hearing the kirtan
Dhad sarangi ........ this lasted for over half an hour, when the scene suddenly
changed and my shut eye, as it was, was over-flooded with light. I almost felt
as if the sun had burst and flooded my eyelids and gained an entrance in the
inner horizon of the mind. Simultaneously therewith, there ran an ecstatic tremor
all over my body and I felt as if my body had dissolved into airy nothingness
and that I was unembodied soul. I cannot say how many minutes this trance
lasted, as at that moment time to say have any value ......all that I felt was
supreme peace, bliss and pleasure of the extraordinary kind. This was followed
by a partial setback when the Shabd that had dis-appeared in the trance re-appeared.
I tried to move my hands and feet, but I could not; it almost looked that they
were there but beyond the bindings of my mind and will. This was followed by
re-appearance of light and disappearance of Shabd and I felt once more as if
my body had dissolved and that I was an un-embodied soul and that is all. This
alternation took place three or four times --- I cannot exactly remember how
many times. Such a state of bliss is entirely beyond words, but it was palpably
there --- far too real to be an illusion. And when the above state was over, I
felt as I had a peep into the Infinite and as if the curtains had fallen far
too rapidly.
This in the briefest
possible words is the new experience of my life --- an experience which is too
much for me to keep hidden entirely to myself. Even though, it may look
presumptuous on my part to write all this, yet I feel, as it were, compelled to
put this experience in writing and more particularly to communicate the same to
you as I know that experience recorded is experience partly repeated. I had
read in the Adi-Granth of this Vismadic state but I could never imagine
what the words signified. And I feel compelled to…
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