The Kingdom of God, Guru and God are One: Selections from Dadu Dayal (vegetarian): The Compassionate Mystic, Part 2 of 2

GOING WITHIN. “Inner worship alone is the true worship. It is the only effective means of seeing God face to face. Blemishes are washed away only through the inner bath. All outer means are futile. By rendering service within your heart, You see the One who is indestructible and boundless, With no limit on either this end or that, says Dadu. After entering within, let one, O Dadu, bolt the doors of the house. Let one, O Dadu, serve the Lord at the door of eternity. To Him alone is service rendered and homage paid by devotees. Before Him alone they wave lamps in adoration. The ceremony of showing lighted lamps Is to be performed within. Within is worship to be done; Within is service to the Master. It is rare that someone understands. One finds the Lord within the body By playing the unstruck inner veena. By going through the region of the void, The Lord is seen with ease. Search for the Beloved close to the place From where the Sound emerges And you shall find Him, says Dadu. There is solitude there, and there is luster of light. Turn back within yourself, O wise one, And search inside, says Dadu. Give up the habit of going out. He is close to you, O foolish one. One who, turning the attention inward, Brings it within the self, And fixes it on the radiant form of the Master, Is indeed wise, O Dadu. Fix your attention within; Sing always the inner Music with the soul. This mind then dances with ecstasy And enjoys the rhythmic beat. One sings within the self And the rhythmic Music is played. The mind dances with love And there stands the merciful Lord, says Dadu. The body is the pond, and God is the water; The essential discipline is practiced within. Then the impurities and blemishes of the mind Are easily washed away, O Dadu. Treating God’s Name as water, bathe in it, Conquering the senses forever. The body, mind and self are purified thereby, And the five powerful passions are destroyed. God is within the self; He is close to the worshipper But leaving Him aside, people devote themselves to outer places of worship, laments Dadu. This is the mosque, this is the temple: So has the Master shown. Service and salutation are performed within. Why should you go outside? asks Dadu. I found the true home, O friend, within the house itself. Entering the state of blissful meditation, dwell within: Thus has the Master discovered and taught. For the sake of that Home, I wandered everywhere, But the Lord has revealed Himself within my own self. The doors of the palace have been thrown open, And the everlasting abode has been shown. All fears, doubts and delusions have disappeared, And the mind is absorbed in the truth. That state of bliss has it entered, Where the self, transcending the body, ascends. The One that is immovable and unchangeable, The same One have I seen in all. My mind is absorbed in that alone; Other than that there is none. That Home have I found That is the beginning, as well as the end. Now my mind goes not elsewhere. Dadu has been dyed in the color of the One, And therein has he merged.” NECESSITY OF A LIVING MASTER Guru and God are One. “The true Saint is wholly merged in God. God can be realised only through Him, and He can be found through God’s grace. A true devotee, fully immersed in divine love, is one and the same as God, like salt dissolved in water. And eternal dweller of the ocean of divine bliss, a living manifestation of God’s Name, the Saint comes to the world only on a mission of mercy to save others. Where there is God, there is the Saint; Where there is the Saint, there is God. The two are together, O Dadu. Interpenetrating each other, they rest in perfect communion.”