It is only common logic that if the Lord is one and He is within every one of us and we have to seek Him within our body, the Path leading to that destination to our Home, cannot be but one. It is impossible even to think that for Christians there is one path leading to the Lord's house, and for Hindus or Sikhs or Muslims there is a different path leading to Him. There may be a difference in our interpretation in our understanding, but there cannot be two paths 'leading to Him. If we seek Him within, we will find the same Path, the Path of Sound and Light. But if we search for Him outside, we find that everybody has his own path, leading perhaps nowhere.
The soul is the essence of the Lord, a drop of the Divine Ocean. In the beginning, it separated from its Source and descended into this world of misery and suffering. Forgetting its Origin, the soul took the mind as its guide and companion. But the mind itself is under the sway of the senses. Whatever the senses desire, the mind does their bidding and dances to their tune. And whatever deeds the mind commits under their influence, the soul, itself pure and stainless, must reap the fruits and suffer the consequences. Soami Ji, addressing the soul, says:
O soul, you are miserable, this I know. You've been suffering since the day You separated from the Word And made friends with mind. In the company of the reckless mind, You remain bound by the body And entrapped by sense pleasures.
The Saints well know our pitiful condition. They know that we live in delusion. So they come to reveal the true plight of the world. They tell us this is all the Lord's play, that He has created everything. This play is set on a dream stage where nothing is real. Yet we come into this play and, having forgotten our true heritage, think this is our home, as we weep, cry and laugh with one another. But when our karmic debts for this life have been paid, we depart like the patrons of an inn. We leave one another's company after only a brief stay, having no lasting relationship with anyone at all.
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