A NEW THEORY OF CREATION

A NEW THEORY OF CREATION
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From the Thoughts of my Father, HH Shri Bhola Nathji (1902-1992) a Great Spiritual Luminary of his time.
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Has one ever thought why God created the world and put human beings and life into it?
In the beginning there was God and only God. As various scriptures of the world have said: there was neither light nor darkness, neither space nor time, neither dead matter nor human life.
And then God said: "Akohambahusyaam" -- "I am One, let there be many!" And the world came into existence!
Or, He said :"Let there be Light and there was Light!" And the world came into existence!"
Or He said: "Kun!" and Fayyakun". God said "Exist!" and there was Existence. The world came into existence!
But one could wonder why it was necessary for God to do so! He was Absolute Knowledge, Absolute Perfection, Absolute Bliss in Himself. He needed no "company" to drive away His loneliness. So why did He Create the world and put so many living beings on it?
As the New Theory goes:
In the beginning, all the human souls were with God in His Heaven. They were satisfied and content and in a state of Bliss. But as the ages passed, the countless years and centuries passed, these human beings in Heaven became accustomed to the absolute peace and contentment and bliss they were experiencing there.
They soon forgot that they were in such a beautiful place. Daily happiness on such a large scale was a dose more than they could take. Too much of a good thing given so freely is soon taken for granted and forgotten, and gratitude for it no longer exists.
In short, the human beings there ceased to experience the bliss they were experiencing there because they were getting it free daily for ages and ages. Heaven became a very ordinary everyday experience for them and they failed to appreciate what they were getting as a free gift.
And so God said to Himself:
"These people are no longer experiencing the Bliss of Heaven because it has become a commonplace experience for them.
They are no longer appreciating Light because they are perpetually in it.
"Let me send them elsewhere. Let me create a world where happiness cannot be experienced so easily. Let me put them in some darkness so that they may be able to appreciate light!
"Let them experience some pain and sorrow so that they may be better able to appreciate the happiness they were getting here in Heaven so freely! Let them experience the struggle for existence.
"Then when I call them back to myself here in Heaven, they will be better able to appreciate the Bliss of Heaven!"
And thus it was that He created the world and put all the souls there to exist in some living form or the other, until the time they could struggle to get back into Heaven again, purged of all sins, with the help of the Saviours and Messiahs and Prophets and Holy Men who God would send down to earth from time to time to remind the people that they were not beings who belonged to the world of suffering but rather beings who actually belonged to another world - Heaven!"

WOULD WE FIND PEACE IN HEAVEN?

WOULD WE FIND PEACE IN HEAVEN?
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FROM THE THOUGHTS OF MY FATHER HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJI,(1902-1992) A GREAT SPIRITUAL LUMINARY OF HIS TIME WHOSE MISSION WAS THAT OF LOVE.
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There are various faiths with various concepts of heaven, most of which postulate Everlasting Peace and Happiness in Heaven with their Lord.
Yet if we look at human nature we will find out why this would not be very likely.
Firstly, the human nature is very restless and changeable.In fact it has been defined in certain scriptures that human nature is like a monkey who has drunk a hundred bottles of wine and is stung by a hundred scorpions!
Human Nature is as restless as a blind ant rushing here and there, changing directions, hitting against objects, always in search of something.
Secondly, Eternity is a long time. Even an hour , a day or year is difficult to pass for most. Hundreds of years and thousands of years would create an unmitigated boredom, and would make most people think of Eternity as an Eternal happy prison, but pleasantly
boring.
And what would they do during this time? Play the Harp or The Guitar? Or the Lute? And sing the praises of the Lord.
Would God not be bored by their constant singing and music for eternity? Maybe the music wont be to the Lord's liking!
So the first person to get bored with such a multitude of Beings in Heaven would be the Lord himself, having to listen to human prattle day in and day out.
Already there would be discontent amongst the people living there, disagreeing with each other's musical compositions!
And most of all, would be the fear of being thrown out of heaven for committing some fault or some unintended sin. Here again conflicts would begin to arise between various sections of people There would be backbiting and complaints.
The seed for discontent and lack of peace would be sown by humans themselves.
Then according to some faiths the time allotted to various people in heaven would be different. Some would be allowed to stay only for a few months, some for a few years, some for centuries, depending upon their good actions on earth, their good karmas.
There would be jealousies amongst the inmates. Everyone would be counting the number of days he or she has left to stay in Paradise. They would dread thinking of leaving heaven and being cast down back into the earth in accordance with their Karmas, or even being sent to hell next.
And most of all there would be lovers in heaven whose beloveds are in hell or are still on earth. For them separation from their beloveds is hell and union with the beloveds is heaven.
Imagine the parents in heaven with their son thrown in hell, would they enjoy even a moment of heaven knowing that their son is burning in the fires of hell?
So if the lover is in heaven he would much rather be thrown into the hell where he can find union with his beloved and that would be his heaven.
It is the voice of the lover to the Lord: "O Lord! Please cast me into hell where my beloved is, so that I can find union with my Beloved there!".
Thus without Love even heaven could become Hell for some.
Then there are those whose egos become bloated and who start calling themselves God. They forget they can be cast out at any time by the Lord.
Then who would be the ones who would be happiest in heaven till eternity-- those who have given up their own wills and allowed only the Divine Will to prevail. Those who have merged themselves completely into God. Whose individual " I", or ego is gone forever.
Renounce all thought of my and mine,
And from a drop become the sea.
Lose thou thyself in Truth Divine,
And know thou art Infinity.

"PEACE IS MORE PRECIOUS THAN HEAVEN WITHOUT IT"

THOUGHTS OF HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJI (1902-1992) A GREAT SPIRITUAL LUMINARY OF HIS TIME.

"PEACE IS MORE PRECIOUS THAN HEAVEN WITHOUT IT"
There was a time when several theologians of various faiths came to see HH Shri Bhola Nathji and to seek his benedictions.

As he spoke to them he said:
"All the religions of the world speak of Salvation as being a release from the sufferings of the world and most of them define salvation with the simple words - NEVER TO COME BACK INTO THIS WORLD.
"This means that they look upon this world as transient and temporary, and, in fact, such a dreadful place, that not coming back into this world is defined as Salvation.
"Further they speak of Salvation as living forever in a place called Heaven, where there is Everlasting Peace and Everlasting Happiness.
"Now I wish to ask all of you learned folk in theology, that if you leave this world and then enter into a Heaven, and discover after a while that you dont find PEACE there! Would you be willing to live in such a Heaven?
"Quite clearly, your answer will be NO!"
"This shows quite clearly that PEACE is greater than a Heaven without it.
"How wonderful it would be if you could find PEACE here on earth and make your life into a Heaven, through your own faiths and beliefs!"
"The chief thing is this : that you should never stray from the Garden of Truth, Universal Love and Faith, and your Master Himself will come and take your hand! Then your life upon earth shall itself turn into a Heaven filled with Everlasting Peace and Happiness."

"DO YOU REALLY KNOW YOUR NAME?"

FROM THE REAL LIFE EPISODES OF HH SHRI BHOLA NATHJI (1902-1992) A GREAT SPIRITUAL LUMINARY OF HIS TIME
"DO YOU REALLY KNOW YOUR NAME?"
Shri Nathji at Hardwar in the year 1937.

Shri Nathji was sitting at Hardwar station en route to Mussoorie. A gentleman by the name of Jaswant Singh came to him and said:
"Sir, pardon me, but may I know your name?”
Shri Nathji was keen to enter into conversation, and he immediately said:
"I don’t know my name!"
"You don’t know your name!" said the astonished man, "but you were giving such a fine lecture a while ago! Aren’t you the same person? How can you say you don’t know your name?”
"I don’t," said Shri Nathji, "and, what is more, you don’t know your name, either!”
"How can that be?" the man said, "I might not know your name, but I certainly know mine."
"And I say that if you knew your own name you would surely know mine as well!" said Shri Nathji.
"Please clarify," said the man.
"There is a stick in your hand," said Shri Nathji, "but can we call you a stick?”
"No," said the man, "it is my stick. I am not the stick."
"There is a coat on your body, but can we call you a coat?" Shri Nathji asked again.
"No," said the man, "it is my coat. I am not the coat."
"This is your body," said Shri Nathji touching the man on his hand, "what is its name?”
"Jaswant Singh," said the man.
"So, your body is named Jaswant Singh,” said Shri Nathji, "and just like this stick is yours, but you are not the stick; this coat is yours, you are not the coat; similarly, this body is yours, and you are not the body: The 'I' which says 'this is my body' is a different being altogether. Jaswant Singh is the name of your body but what is your name? what is the name of your 'I' ? In truth, neither you nor I know!”
The gentleman was greatly pleased at the discussion. He had one question to ask: what was the state of happiness in God-realisation?
"You ask for the taste of God-realisation?” Shri Nathji asked him, and then said the following verse:
“Ham bhi kar denge saroore jauhare zaathi biyaan
Tum bataao farke lazzat aam aur anjeer men
“We shall relate before you the taste of divine bliss,
If you will differentiate between the taste of a mango and a fig”
How helpless was the human tongue in relating the taste of any particular thing. How much more difficult would it be to narrate the taste of God-realisation. One could not describe such a bliss, one could only experience it.

THOUGHTS FOR PEACE OF MIND

THOUGHTS FOR PEACE OF MIND
by HH Shri Bhola Nathji (1902-1992) a great spiritual luminary of his time.
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Forget that which is past. Do not think of that which has not come. Enjoy what is before you, and think that it is the best you could wish for.
A dew-drop sits on the petal of a flower. The rays of the sun play upon it, making it sparkle like a diamond.
The flower is filled with greed and tries to gather all the other dew-drops in the garden, but soon realizes its folly. The attempt in itself endangers the position of the first dew-drop, and even if it were to succeed, the gathering of dew-drops on the flower would make it bend and thus fall into the dust.
The door is shut.
A beggar arrives at the door of the Lord. He knows not when the door will be opened, but he knows that it is the door of the Lord – the mighty giver of alms, the One who gave the sun its radiance, the mountains their height, the nightingale its voice, the stars their sparkle. He, too, has come to the door of that same Lord. But alas!
The door is shut.
The beggar, bowl in one hand, knocked with the other. Whilst he did so, he wept. His tears rolled into the bowl and behold! They were converted to pearls.
Then there rang a voice that said:
“O, Beggar! ‘Tis the same to me whether you are within or without this door. It is enough for me that you reached the door! No one who ever reached my door is sent back empty. Were I not to give you anything I would never have shown you the door!”

"I CAN SEE NO THORN WITH A FLOWER "

"I CAN SEE NO THORN WITH A FLOWER "
From the sayings of HH Shri Bhola Nathji (1902-1992) A Great Spiritual Luminary of his time who gave peace and beatitude to countless folk during his lifetime and whose sermons and writings guide humanity even today, regardless of race, religion or nationality.
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Shri Nathji would often say: " I cannot see a Thorn with a Flower!"

And when people said: "But we have seen many flowers with thorns by their sides!"
And HH Shri Nathji said:
"There is a space between the flower and the thorn on the same twig.
"So when do you see the thorn?
"You see the thorn only when your eyes slip from the flower!"
"You have one pair of eyes. You can focus them only on one thing at a time.
"Either you focus them on the flower or you focus them on the thorn!
"For as long as your sight remains engrossed in the Flower it cannot focus on the thorn.
"When do you see the thorn?
"Only when your eyes slip from the flower!"
"So what is the thorn?
The thorn is the slipping of your eyes from the flower!"
"When your heart remains absorbed in Love, it cannot see hatred around itself!
"So what is hatred? It is the slipping of the sight from Love!
"In a like manner when your heart remains absorbed in God it cannot be perturbed by the thorn of sorrows and miseries of the world that surround you."
"When do the sorrows and miseries of the world come to you?
When your eyes slip from God and go towards the world!"
"Nazaron kaa phool se phisal jaanaa hee kaantaa hai!"
"The slipping of the eyes from the flower is another name for the thorn!"

"I have come again! I have come again"-- "Baaz Aadam, Baaz Aamdam"

"I HAVE COME AGAIN ! I HAVE COME AGAIN"

BAAZ AAMDAM BAAZ AAMDAM


These were the words which my father, HH Shri Bhola Nathji, (1902-1992)
often said when he was in a state of great absorption in the Divinity
of His Real Self.

His Face filled
with beauty that was not of this world, and an unearthly glow not found
on the faces of ordinary mortals, which revealed his Divinity, here was a
Being who called himself:
"The Servant of the Earth" i.e. "Ghulaam Rue Zameen"

"Baaz aamdam" was a poem written in Persian by him when he was very young.

"Baaz aamdam, Baaz aamdam
Taa vakt raa maimoo kunam,
Baaz aamdam, Baaz aamdam,
Taa darde dil afzoon kunam
Baaz aamdam, Baaz aamdam!"

"I have come again, I have come again,
To fill the times with joy!
I have come again, I have come again!
To increase the pain of Love in the heart,
I have come again, I have come again!"

What did HH Shri Nathji mean by these words?


For those who knew him these words were not a mystery. They simply
referred to the coming down upon earth of the Divine Being in human
form.

God is Love and God is Peace and God is Truth, and these appear in human form upon earth from time to time throughout the ages.


Like an actor who appears on the stage in various roles in various
garbs to play the parts allotted to him, so does that Great Reality, who
is Love and Peace and Truth personified, come upon earth time and
again, to re-kindle the flame of love in the hearts of men.
And to remind people that He exists.


He may come for the whole world, or He may come for a limited few. He
may come and be recognized by all or he may be recognized by no one. It
makes no difference to Him because he is beyond worldly praise or
recognition.

He comes and plays the part He had come to play,
and when his part is over, He returns to the Heavenly Abode from where
he had come. The earth is purified by His mere presence on it, in human
form. It is like God passing through His creation like a tourist.


Indeed this is the Voice of Truth, the same Truth that is Eternal and
Everlasting and which appears in the world throughout the ages in the
guise of prophets and saviors, messiahs and avatars.

I had composed a tune for these words and I am singing the musical composition above in Persian in the video attached.