Nirankar (Formless God)

You may believe in a God with form or a formless God, but your faith must be genuine and complete. It is through faith alone that one achieves everything.

No one has grasped Him above, below, in the middle, or across. Of Him whose name is great glory, there is no image.

He has no master in the world, no ruler, no distinguishing mark. He is the cause, the lord of lords of instruments. None has begotten Him, nor does any rule over Him.

Kabir would say, 'The God with form is my Mother, and the formless God is my Father. Who should I blame or worship? Both sides of the scale are equal.'

With the coming of ego, the stream of love ceases to flow. Where 'I' dwells, God Formless does not; and where God dwells 'I' does not.

Upon realizing the Atman, which is soundless, intangible, formless, imperishable, tasteless, eternal, and odorless, and realizing that which has no beginning or end, beyond the great and unchanging, one is liberated from the cycle of death.

My Divine Mother is not only formless, but she also has forms. One can see her forms and behold her incomparable beauty through feelings and love.

You saints, however, must wish for the welfare of all. This feeling takes root in the heart only when we see the image of the Formless One - God, in each and every human being.

He said: That, O Gargi, the knowers of Brahman call the Imperishable. It is neither gross nor fine, neither short nor long, neither red nor moist; it is without shadow, without darkness, without air, without ether, unattached; without eyes, without ears, without speech, without mind, without lustre, without breath, without mouth, without measure, having no within and no without. It does not eat anything, and no one eats it.

We must realise before starting any action that this God-Nirankar is watching us. We can hide ourselves from the eyes of human beings, but we cannot escape the eyes of the One to whom we are answerable for our actions. Once we realise this in our mind, we cannot do wrong, speak wrong, behave wrong.

If the human mind is not attached or integrated with the source, the Almighty-Nirankar, mere repetition of the divine name is just like the bulb that is seen very much there but is not connected with the main supplying the current.

The company of enlightened saints removes the sense of discrimination and narrow-mindedness. The more we get such company, the deeper and stronger is our faith in God - Nirankar.

An unenlightened person lives in this world and his mind is also occupied by this world all the time. A saint too lives in this world, but he does not allow it to occupy his mind. He puts this Almighty Nirankar there. And this is the most important secret of his joy.

No matter which age it has been, one has only ever been ferried across when this Formless One, this Truth, has been known. Only by knowing the Truth can delusions come to an end. Today we have become entangled merely in the names of God, insisting He must be called this, because Ram is one, Allah is another, Waheguru is another, and God is yet another. This division is due to man's ignorance.

Truth is the formless Supreme Being alone, who remains ever the same and is unborn, who abides in an unshakeable state. This eternal, everlasting power is what we call Truth.

The Supreme Father, this Formless One, is the true support. Whatever attainments there are, they are all by His grace. He is the Giver; everything is His. This body, mind, and wealth all belong to this Master alone.

The Formless Giver has no shape, yet through knowledge one becomes aware of It. Everything else, whether seen or unseen, is subject to change and is limited; but this Lord, the Supreme Being, pervades every particle and remains ever-unchanging. If the soul unites with this unchanging One, it too attains immortality and gains an eternal home, freed from birth and death.

When the light of knowledge dawns, one no longer regards anyone as a stranger; knowing all to be the form of the Formless, one serves all and loves all, and the feeling of duality and aversion comes to an end. This, in truth, is the beginning of devotion. For devotion, the light of knowledge is essential. Devotion begins with the knowledge of God. This is the first step of devotion, not the last.

The Maya of the world is destined to end, but this wealth of the Name in the form of the Formless will never end. It is your companion in this world, and even when the body is no more, this wealth will remain with you. All other things are only for the body.

Great souls do not run madly after Maya. They live their lives in contentment. They never regarded material things as the source of happiness; they always held this Formless One, this Supreme Brahm, to be the source of all joy and bliss, and joining with it they spent their lives in happiness.