3.
Our ten
Gurus and the Guru-impersonal.
Youngmen! , you are lucky, you have had not one Master
but ten; they were ten to ring out of you all chords of symphony, so that not
one may remain untouched, you are lucky. Your gods are not half-mythical, half-real,
half-shadowy figures, such as others have, but they were true God-men who
walked on this solid earth, who walked with us, worked with us with their own
hands, who ached as we ache, who thrilled as we do, and who were withal not of
the earth as they transcended the earth, being one with Nam. No one say about
out Guru Nanak, our Guru Gobind Singh, as H.G. Wells says about Christ “The
Christians Christ is too fine for me, not incarnate enough, not flesh enough,
not earth enough” ! I do not hold the same opinion of Christ as Wells holds,
for I have reverence for all prophets. I love my Gurus most for they are so
lovely that they would not disdain even the dingy cabin of my soul. They speak
to me in the touch in which my mother spoke, they speak to me not in the
court-language of reason, but the heart-language of love, they do not dodge me
or beat me about the bush by parables, allegories or hyperboles, but they give
me the truth, the whole truth and nothing but truth! I repeat what I said once
before that Guru Granth is the common Bible of the world come into its own, the
world grown up into adolescence, for here, at last all veils, all symbols, all
myths are thrown aside, discarded and we meet the holy Isis, Minerva or
Saraswati by whatever name you call her, face to face, all unveiled! Brethren
believe me for what I say is true, others have the gilded coin, you have got
the gold, others have nut but you have the kernel, others have essence but you
have the very Quintessence: the Nam land of Five
No comments:
Post a Comment