Baba Avtar Singh Ji

The one who connects you with the congregation/God is your best friend. The one who separates you from the congregation and God is your worst enemy.

God always acts for the best. We should be humble in our words and actions. Baba Avtar Singh Ji said, 'A saint starts by being a saint. Their worship begins when they dedicate themselves to serving the divine. When they realize this, their life becomes noble and they are revered. This is the true life of a saint. May God bless everyone to attain that bliss.'

The one who has the Formless One in their heart does not feel impatient and always expresses gratitude to God.

Those who cheat others out of their money cannot be saved even by the Guru. Such people can never find peace.

INVOCATION O' Almighty God, beyond attribute and formless; Thou art the creator of the universe, Thou art the sustainer of all. Thy vast entity is there in every particle of the universe; Thou was true in the past, art true at present and shall be true in future, and the world is an illusion. O' God, Thou dwelt in every being, Thou art beyond decay, Thou art the supreme creator; Be kind and bless everybody to transcend the ocean of materialism. Thou art formless and in form, Thou art the nurturer of the universe; Endless is Thy glory, Thou art the supreme donor, the boundless. O' the Supreme Father God, all human beings are Thy own children; Be kind and benevolent to all, may all be redeemed. Thou Formless One; Hail the True Master O' the Supreme Father God, Thou pervadeth each and every particle; Thou art the Supreme Doer, the Commander, the Master of all. Beholding Thee all around, Avtar prays unto Thee; Thou art the Lord of Lords, and I am the humblest of the humble. O' Thou, formless, colorless and boundless God, millions of bows unto Thee; O' Thou, beyond the comprehension of mind, intellect and wisdom, millions of bows unto Thee. O' Thou, the Infinite, incomprehensible Lord, millions of bows unto Thee; O' Thou, the Lord of Lords, the Supreme Sovereign, millions of bows unto Thee. O' Thou, Eternal, Ageless, Omnipresent, millions of bows unto Thee; O' Thou, the Redeemer of sinners in all ages, millions of bows unto Thee. O' Thou, the Omniscient, Knower of the instincts of all beings, millions of bows unto Thee; O' Thou, the Divine Name and the One the Divine Name stands for, millions of bows unto Thee. O' Thou, the Sustainer of all living creatures, millions of bows unto Thee. Avtar says, O' the Sustainer of the life-breath, millions of bows unto Thee. O' God, I pray for Thy shelter, Thy support, I sacrifice my body and mind unto Thee; Avtar says, I do sing Thy praise day and night. None can move without Thy command; Avtar says, I cannot do anything, only Thy will prevails.

Thou art manifest in every particle, every object, every leaf bears Thy name; I behold Thee everywhere, all around. Thou art the fragrance in sandal wood and purity in Ganga; Thou art radiance in the Sun and coolness in the moon. Thou art the beauty in flowers and the delicacy in buds; Thou art the wisdom in thoughts and Thou art the art and the skill. Thou art the True Master in Buta Singh and Tenth Dimension is Thy abode; Avtar says, the True Master has bestowed upon me his own word (that I speak) and the apparel ( I wear).

Truth is what I worship and adore, Truth is what I think of the True One; Truth is what I share, Truth is what I distribute, Truth is my dealing. The true one has revealed to me the Truth, and connected the chord of my life with Truth; True is the foundation, and Truth is the structure, and I preach the Truth. Truth pulsates in every tissue of mine, and Truth is my true life-breath; Truth is the ocean and the waves, Truth is the boat and the ores. Truth is my capital input towards true gain, true is my shop and Truth is my trade; This True One (God) is the only true one, the formless pervading all. This Truth has been revealed to me by Buta Singh by his own kindness and benevolence that is boundless; Avtar says I sacrifice and surrender all that I have at the feet of the True Master

Flights of intellect and imagination cannot reach the boundlessness of His grace; If the Lord Master himself bestows His grace, He may install even a pauper on a throne. If the Lord Master bestows His kind grace, people all over the world may become one's servants; If this Formless God bestows His Kind grace, He may turn even an illiterate into a scholar. If the perfect True Master is so pleased, he may bless one with name and fame; If the perfect True Master is so pleased, he may bless one to show the way to the world. If the perfect True Master is so pleased, he may turn people the world over as one's followers; If the perfect True Master is so pleased, he may get any task accomplished. What am I and what is my worth? It is the True Master who does all, and I am only the means, the name; Avtar says, the True Master is certainly pleased with me, let the whole world know.

I am a human being, looking like any other human being, I have not been given a different entity; It is the True Master who applied the slide of God-knowledge to my eyes and blessed me with the divine vision to perceive the Formless. All that I say is the grace of the True Master, it is with his blessings that I scribe the praise of this Almighty; It is with the grace of the True Master that I am perceiving the Formless God. Ever since I surrendered myself unto him and became his own, the Formless God is with me and has become my own; And this Truth I deal and dispense, only this is my occupation. This Formless God dwells in my mind with the grace of the True Master; With the love of this Colorless every tissue of mine is imbued. I tread the path as shown by the True Master; Avtar says, I act as ordained by the True Master.

I am ordained by the Formless in True Master to remove the veil from human eye; I am ordained by the Formless in True Master to show the way to the one who has gone astray; I am ordained by the Formless in True Master to reveal the Formless God; I am ordained by the Formless in True Master to bring solace to the worldly people; I am ordained by the Formless in True Master to preach the concept of One God; I am ordained by the Formless in True Master to dispense knowledge of the One; I am ordained by the Formless in True Master to dispel the darkness of ignorance; I am ordained by the Formless in True Master to purify the mind of every seeker who approaches. The world may frighten me as much as it can, this task I cannot leave; Avtar says, whether my life remains there or goes, I cannot turn back.

This body of mine is just a mass of dust, let it go if it goes; All my material assets and the wealth, let it go if goes. Let the world opposed to Truth spread all kinds of rumors; Let the world opposed to Truth level all kinds of accusations. Let the world opposed to Truth be scared of telling the truth. Let the world opposed to Truth criticize as much as it can. Let factionalism and sectarianism make as much hue and cry as they can; Let the misguided and ignorant world protest and shout. Let the world be hostile, I shall not deviate from the path of Truth; Avtar says, no one can disprove the word of the True Master.

Those who undertook the propagation of Truth were opposed tooth and nail by the world; The saints put up with every ordeal without any wrinkle on their face. The wayward always ridiculed the saints as insane, as lunatics; Motivated by their self-interests, they kept on provoking them. The wayward dubbed as gone--astray even a prophet who came to show them the way; The saints overlooked them and just endured all the taunts and jeers. Committed to doctrines, the orthodox bigot rulers always treated them as their enemies; The blind clergy-Qazis and Pundits, charged them as they wished. The way of the world is not to show respect to the living one, but to worship the dead; Avtar says, such ignorant people are adamant in their attitude even today.

Just as even the best medicine can not prove effective, unless the prescribed precautions are observed; Likewise, no task can be accomplished unless there is practical action. One cannot attain the dust of the feet of the saints, unless there is sincere respect and regard within; Divine knowledge can never stay in the heart unless there is faith in the True Master. Divine knowledge cannot be attained without True Master and mind cannot stop wandering in wilderness without divine knowledge; Avtar says, unless we accept and act upon the five pledges, we cannot understand the divine word too.

The greatest gift of God to you, O' man, is the charming body; But you should understand that this belongs to God, and nothing belongs to you. Swayed by the mind, you are misled every time; You regard everything as yours and you are obsessed by false vanity. The palaces and mansions, your family, your tribe, all the wealth, you possess; All that is visible is false, a fleeting shadow. While making use of these assets, if you realize this is divine order; You shall not be afflicted with the disease of ego, and you will remain always happy. O' man, you should take all your assets as belonging to God and there is no controversy about this; Avtar says, the first pledge is that the body, mind and material assets all belong to the Formless God.

The same divine light dwells in every human being, male or female; May be a Brahmin, Kshatriya, vaish or Sudra (by caste), all are the creation of the one God. All have a similar human body, adorned by the same Almighty; Then, why should there be caste feuds and what for the customs? Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and Christians, all are the children of one God; You should love them all as human beings, whether they be good or bad. When the same spirit of God dwells in all, who is good and who is bad? Just as filth becomes Ganga itself, when immersed in the Ganga river. You must treat all human beings alike, and shed your ego and pride; Avtar says, the second pledge is not to go by the caste, creed and color.

There are different seasons on earth, each having different composition of its own; People (therefore) wear different garments, have different types of diet. God has neither prescribed nor forbidden any particular food; Whatever we eat or drink relates to the body, it has no relation to the soul. O' man, sit and ponder sometime with a serene, cool mind; How does it matter to you if somebody wears a dhoti, long underwear or shallower? You may eat, drink and wear whatever you like; But don't preach it to the world and add on to the dimensions of discord. Avtar says, God can be realized by shedding all ego and pride; The third pledge is not to hate anyone on account of dress and diet.

O' man, you need not leave your hearth and home, and wander from place to place; You need not put on saffron clothes (and become an ascetic), but lead normal family life. O' man, you need not go begging alms, assume false appearance and wander aimlessly; You should earn your livelihood with your own hands, and not be a burden on others. You should submit cheerfully to the will of God, and not waste human life in doubts and delusions; Avtar says, the fourth pledge is to lead life as a householder, and not to become an ascetic.

One cannot learn making ornaments just by sitting for a day at the jeweler’s shop. If a student becomes the monitor, he cannot be called a teacher. The one who has just joined the school, what guidance can he provide to others? He can, of course, teach others when he has comprehended his own lesson. O' man, you should never deviate from the divine secret as being revealed to you; Avtar says, the fifth pledge is not to divulge this divine secret without being ordained.

O' man, behold above, you see the sun, the moon and the stars; Their luster will go one day, and they all shall vanish. Down below, you have the earth, the fire and the water, with vast ramifications; All the visible world shall too perish one day. In between, you find the air, the life-spirit and the sky, all in their subtle form; The close combination of the three shall also end once for all. These nine elements, which constitute the 'matter' can be seen or visualized; The Tenth is the Supreme Being (Brahm), distinct from the nine, yet present in them all. O' my friends, all that is visible shall go and the Nothing shall remain at last; Avtar says, what remains is, of course, the Everything and this is known as the Formless God (NIRANKAR).

Behold, the great God who pervades the entire vast void; He has been named as the Formless by the Master of the day. Whatever is visible is all His own manifestation; He is the divine protector of the poor and suffering devotees. He is the creator of the universe. He is the boat, He is the oar, He is the ocean, and the rower; He is boundless and infinite, and is beyond the reach of the Vedas and other scriptures. He cannot be overcome by muttering of prayer and penance, or bound by rituals; Avtar says, if one meets the True Master, the veil of ignorance is removed in a trice.