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Constant in change

The 60th Annual Nirankari Sant Samagam starts this Saturday



The guru Nirankari Baba Hardev Singh Maharaj

Nirankari Baba Hardev Singh Maharaj is not only linking man with the unchanging through spiritual enlightenment but also proving to the world that it is the most effective cord that can knit the mankind into a global family. It would relieve every in dividual from ego and related tendencies of jealousy, hatred and violence. This is the message that Baba seeks to convey to the world when he holds in Delhi the 60th Annual Nirankari Sant Samagam from November 17 to 19.

Every particle of the universe whether related to the celestial family of the sun, the moon and the stars, or our own world consisting of the earth, the water and the fire, or the region in between i.e., the air, the sky and the jeeva (conscious being), is subject to change. Even those who declare that matter cannot be destroyed do not deny the phenomenon of transformation and decay of forms governing every object of nature – animate or inanimate, visible or invisible.

No wonder, diversity too is an essential phenomenon of nature. We see that trees, plants, rivers, mountains and deserts, etc are different from each other even though the basic elements are the same. Even human beings who possess the same five basic elements – the earth, the water, the fire, the air and the sky, differ in colour, height, physical features, etc. It means that no forms claim uniformity. When compared, they are found to be diverse, different and unequal.

All saints, gurus and prophets, however, acknowledge the existence of the most subtle spiritual entity -- God, pervading these objects universally. This self-born supreme power, they proclaim, is not only eternal but immutable also. It stays in every changing object and element, but remains uninfluenced with the phenomenon of transformation and decay. It continues to exist in the object so long it (the object) exists and continues to be present even after the object or the element related ceases to exist.

Source of creation

Interestingly, this Changeless in the changing is the very cause rather source of all the creation and the change or transformation taking place in the universe. It is both immanent (the one in all) and transcendent (all in one). Waves in the ocean rise and disappear but the water remains the same. Waves are in the water and water in waves. Even then water is there not because of waves, waves are there because of water.

This Saturday one will find people with different religious and cultural background, speaking different languages sharing the same forum simply because they have been linked by Nirankari Baba with the Unchanging and Immutable One.

KIRPA SAGAR

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