R.L.Kaith
One hundred and sixteen years ago on Magh Purnima, an elementary combination appeared in the birth of a human child at Smailpur (in Jammu). This divine being was named as ‘GYAGI’ who prayed for the welfare of all beings in all parts of the world. His great message is universal and for all times it points the way to self-realization by love, devotion and service to man and God. Guru Gyagi was one the greatest humanists born. He regarded all human beings as belonging to a single family and there was no question with him as to who was better or worse. He believed in the doctrine of Fatherhood of God and Brotherhood of Man. All persons are equal in the eyes of God and all those who believe in Him as the Supreme Truth. There may be several paths to reach the Truth but it is essential to follow the path correctly.
Guru Gyagi did not place before people any different thing and religious dogmas. His teachingwere simple and could be understood by the ordinary men in the street. It did not require any Pandit to explain the intricacies of the Guru. The Guru Gyagilived among the people and preached in their own language. According to him, there is one and only one God and there is none that can claim equality with Him. He is all powerful and omnipresent. He used to say, God is merciful and kind to all the living beings, one should have true faith in Him.GuruGyagi laid emphasis on the True Name and  the true Name is nothing else but God Himself, the creator and preserver. There is nothing true in the world except God Himself and one means ‘only worship Him and none else?  Guru Gyagi said the word Guru is made up of   two letters’Gu’ means ‘amalgamation’ and ‘Ru’ means ‘Soul’. An organism amalgamated with soul is called Guru. According to Hindi ‘Gu’ means ‘Dark’ and ‘Ru’ means ‘Light’. A person leading the pupil from dark to light is Guru. The soul has no colour, no shape, no size, no flesh, no blood and no smell. Soul never requires water, flood and air. Soul is an inexplicable gift of God to living being. Soul is a chetana and free from the pangs of birth, winter, summer and other phenomenon It is an exact faith of all the religions of the world. The job of the Guru ends not even after death. The Guru works like cuckoo bird. The egg of cuckoo resembles the egg of crow in shape, size and colour. Cuckoo lays egg in the nest of crow and crow assumes its own egg and helps in hatching it. When the tiny cuckoo comes out, the parental cuckoo  and knows that  tiny cuckoo has come out. The parental cuckoo produces the sound. The tiny cuckoo is  immediately attracted towards parental cuckoo with the help of sound. Something from inner exerts due to which tiny cuckoo believes that the sound producer is its parent/guru. Thus parental cuckoo flies keeping in claws the tiny cuckoo towards its desired place. Similarly, when the body dies, invisible soul wanders around the guru who watches his pupil every where, produces special sound. The soul has love for guru, attracts towards guru and then flies towards Satguru. To reach up toSatguru, there are several channels in the way and without the help of the guru, no one can cross those channels. The guru taking his pupil’s soul reaches the first channel, the black sea where the agents of Mann/ Kaalpursh/ Naranjan are waiting for the soul.
The agents ask the name of the guru. The souls without guru cannot cross the black sea and some finish there and some go directly to hell or some to heaven depending upon karma. Hell gone souls are treated very badly by Niranjan/kaalpursh and heaven gone souls have to take birth again even after sixty thousand years staying there. To take birth is the toughest job for every living being. The soul when enters the body and stays there for some time feels pain just like a man  while sitting on hundred degree hot iron plate at a moment. The guru interacts with his spiritual power, himself becomes a bridge and helps cross his pupil’s soul and reaches the second channel which is somewhat barren land. This channel is quite calm, lengthy and tough but guru keeping pupil’s soul in his feet flies with spiritual power and reaches the third channel which is a dark, lengthy cave  Here guru, through his  gives some spiritual power to his pupil’s soul and makes pupil’s soul more soft, calm and himself becomes light of the lamp and guides to cross the last and dangerous channel and ultimately reaches upto the seat of the Satguru which is full of light where a body exists without blood and flesh. When a soul reaches there, it becomes free from birth and death and hence the peace forever.Guru Gyagi thoroughly believed in the theory of karma. Only one’s own actions make or mar one’s future. If actions are bad, then the sins cannot be washed away by the water of the Gange and if actions are good, not a drop of holy water is required by any man for his purity.Guru Gyagi condemned the caste system in the severest terms.
The narrow division of men into different castes in Hinduism did not appeal to him and he ridiculed it. According to him.”Castes are folly, names are folly. There is no Hindu or Mussalman”, No one is born high or low. Man makes himself high or low according to his actions. Thus Guru Gyagi preached universal brotherhood and in this new faith caste did not have any place. Guru Gyagi was not in favour of asceticism and leaving one’s own family life.
There is no use of hard penance and giving trouble to one’s own life. One should remain in the world but should not indulge in the evils of the world. It was with the aim in mind that all the gurus led normal fair life and discharged all functions of house holders. The idea of righteous living is meaningless except in the context of the community.Guru Gyagi was also not in favour of idol worship because according to him, God has no shape and no limit and hence He cannot be found in any form whatsoever. He cannot be worshipped in human form and Avtars are not the incarnations of God. Guru Gyagi, therefore, did no idol worship of any sort. According to Guru Gyagi, the chief aim of man’s life on earth is to achieve ‘Moksha’ or the highest bliss. One should try to achieve a state of mind where there is neither pain nor happiness, a state from where the soul of man does not come to this world again. Thus Guru Gyagi appeared as a great reformer.