Introduction

Gyan Ganga - Introduction

Since time immemorial, humanity has sought supreme peace, happiness, and immortality. Despite continuous efforts, these desires remain unfulfilled due to incomplete knowledge of the path to achieve them. Every living being desires a life free from work, with abundant delicious food, beautiful clothing, magnificent palaces, stunning parks, melodious music, unrestrained joy, and freedom from illness, aging, and death. However, such a world does not exist here. Our world is perishable, ruled by Brahm-Kaal, who consumes countless immaterial human bodies. He has ensnared all living beings in the cage of the three worlds, entangling them in the net of karma, illusions, and the cycle of sins and virtues.

God Kabir says -

Kaal seeks to prevent any living being from escaping this imprisonment and discovering their true home, Satlok. To achieve this, he uses Trigunmayi Maya (the illusion of the three gunas) to mislead everyone. Despite this, the desire for peace and happiness persists in humanity. In this world, death, distress, and disturbance are inevitable. The state we long for here is what we once experienced in our true home, Satlok. We willingly left Satlok, got trapped in Kaal Brahm's world, and forgot the way back to our real home.

Kabir Sahib says

There is no trace of peace and comfort in Kaal Brahm's lok. Vices such as lust, anger, greed, attachment, arrogance, love-hatred, joy-sorrow, profit-loss, pride-honour, born from Trigunmayi Maya, trouble every living being. Here, living beings harm and exploit each other, robbing wealth, honor, and peace. Even if one seeks peace, others disrupt it. Theft, robbery, accidents, crop failures, business collapses, lost kingdoms, and diseases are rampant. Nothing is safe. The kingdoms of kings, the honor of the respected, the wealth of the wealthy, the strength of the powerful, and even our bodies can be suddenly snatched away. Young sons and daughters die before their parents; parents leave behind breast-feeding children; young sisters become widows, forcing us to bear immense sorrows. Is this place worthy of living in?

We live here helplessly, unable to find a way out of Kaal's cage, accustomed to causing and suffering grief. To escape this world's sufferings, we must seek refuge in the Supreme God (Param Akshar Purush), who is more powerful than Kaal. Even Kaal fears the Supreme God and cannot inflict suffering on those who take refuge in Him, guided by a Complete Saint. Those who practice bhakti in this world, as directed, will avoid these sufferings.

Reading "Gyan Ganga" reveals that we have forgotten our true home. Supreme peace and happiness are not here but in Satlok, where there is no birth, death, old age, sorrow, unrest, disease, financial transactions, or need for entertainment. Everything is provided free of cost by God and is indestructible.

There is evidence in the speech of Bandichhor Garibdas Ji Maharaj as under

In Satlok, there is constant supreme peace and happiness. We cannot attain supreme peace, happiness, and immortality until we reach Satlok. This is only possible if we take initiation from a Complete Saint and practice bhakti of the Supreme God throughout our lives. Through this book "Gyan Ganga," we aim to convey the true path of bhakti without slandering any god, goddess, or religion. We have revealed the profound secret hidden in all the holy religious books, a secret that contemporary saints, Mahants, and Aacharya gurus have not understood.

Kabir Sahib says -

As a result, the devotee community suffers immense losses. People follow religious practices contrary to the scriptures, based on personal inference and guidance from fake gurus. Consequently, they neither achieve mental peace nor physical comfort, nor find success at home or in business. They fail to meet God or attain salvation.

To discover how to achieve these comforts, understand who we are, where we come from, why we are born, why we die, why we suffer, and who controls all this, one must read this book. It reveals the Supreme God (Parmeshwar), what He looks like, where He is, how to attain Him, the origins of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiv, and how to escape Kaal Brahm's jail to return to our real home, Satlok. This book, based on the discourses of Satguru Rampal Ji Maharaj, presents these truths.

We are confident that any reader who approaches this book with interest and an open mind will find it beneficial and experience true welfare.

Meaning: Engaging a soul on the path of true bhakti brings immense self-welfare, yielding the equivalent merit of performing crore Ashwamegh yagyas. No virtuous act compares to guiding a soul towards salvation. A life without benevolent deeds is akin to animals merely seeking sustenance. The highest form of service is working for the welfare of living beings. Without such deeds, humans die like a deer in the desert, endlessly chasing mirages.

In Kaal lok, people seek happiness in various forms. A childless person believes a child will bring happiness, while parents often face numerous challenges. The poor seek wealth for happiness, but the rich also encounter problems. Some see power as the key to happiness, yet leaders often lack peace even in their dreams. The head of a small family struggles with its upkeep, while a king faces the enormous responsibility of maintaining a region. To cope, kings may turn to alcohol, accumulating wealth at the public's expense, only to repay it in future lives as animals.

People who follow fake gurus, hoping for future happiness through bhakti and meritorious deeds, end up with sorrow instead. Kabir Sahib states that his teachings are profound; the wise will embrace them, while the foolish will not understand.

"Kabir, gyaani ho to hriday lagaai, murkh ho to gam na paai"

For more information, please refer to the book "Gyan Ganga." Upon reading it, Shri Suresh Chandra, a senior advocate of the Supreme Court, remarked, "The name of this book should be 'Gyan Sagar' (Ocean of Knowledge)."