Prem Ras Siddhant and Sevak Sevya Siddhant are written in prose meaning they are like paragraphs that you would read. But there’s so many kirtans (devotional songs) which are in the siddhant (philosophical principle) style of kirtan, like ‘Sadhana Karu’, ‘Sunahu Sadhak’, all these ones.
Well, in (revealing) Sunahu Sadhak Maharaj Ji followed a very strict schedule. So, this was several years ago. At that time, he came to the hall in Mangarh right after lunch. At 1 p.m he would be there in the hall, and every day he would lead some kirtan or give some talk. And that day, he came 15 minutes late. We were all wondering what happened. He came in holding a paper. It had 45 lines on it. Maharaj Ji had written it in 45 minutes, Sunahu Sadhak, and he then explained it for the next five days, explaining the meaning of these lines. And he said,
“If you understand what’s in here, you don’t need to understand anything else. I put the entire philosophy in there.”
Imagine when he writes. It’s not like if we try to write a poem, even if one of you is talented, it’s hard to get a line to rhyme and have the right rhythm, the right length, the right number of syllables. And in Hindi, you have long vowels and short vowels, and everything has to fit and be smooth. There’s no historical example that I’ve seen of someone writing like this and doing it perfectly. You know, I’m not qualified to judge anyone’s writing, but you see in Maharaj Ji’s lines that there’s nothing that’s forced or crammed in or made to fit. It just flows perfectly.
So, imagine writing 45 lines of a poem that fit perfectly with the whole siddhant described in 45 minutes. He did all of this playfully. Most of this was revealed right in front of our faces, meaning that we were sitting there ,and Maharaj Ji came to the hall, and he started singing a new tune. So, we followed the tune. Then he took the microphone, and he made a new line, so we sang that line back to him.
Imagine, he made us part of it. He could have sat in his room and written all of this. Some of it he did like that, but the majority of this he did right in front of us. He revealed a line, (and then) we sang it back to him. He sang the next line. We kept singing that. While we were singing that, you could see him thinking. Was he really thinking? I don’t know. It looked like he was thinking of the next line, and then the next line would come out.
So, when we sing these lines, I actually remember where I was, what ashram (spiritual residence) we were sitting in and what time of day it was. You know,
“Oh, I remember when Maharaj Ji revealed that line. I remember when he made that line.”
So, we have all of those memories just because of his greatness. And all of this is a treasure. You have this intellectual treasure (Prem Ras Siddhant and Sevak Sevya Siddhant for example) to help you understand everything properly, and then you have this treasure that you have to use practically for following the path of bhakti (devotion).
