Sachkhand Darshan - Gian Khand - Chapter 3
Gian Khand - The Realm of Knowledge
Only the exalted, approved ones who get through the exam of Realm of Righteousness can have access to the manifested knowledge of the Realm of Knowledge. Becoming a part of the glance of grace of the Realm of Knowledge they become sages of the essence that prevails there. The information of the Realm of Knowledge that has come into the soul-core (of one’s consciousness) is the information of the discerning divine law. A life that is divinely enraptured in the triumph of attaining the Realm of Righteousness is the only path that can help one to realise or unravel (the secret of) the realm of knowledge.
that is why in the next paurhee or verse it is stated:-
Drm KMf kw eyho Drmu ]
This is righteous living in the realm of Dharma.
igAwn KMf kw AwKhu krmu ]
And now we speak of the realm of spiritual wisdom.
After having scaled the step of the Realm of Righteousness, the next step, the discerning-essence of the Realm of Knowledge is stated in the next (35th) paurhee.
kyqy pvx pwxI vYsMqr kyqy kwn mhys ]
So many winds, waters and fires; so many Krishnas and Shivas.
kyqy brmy GwViq GVIAih rUp rMg ky vys ]
So many Brahmas, fashioning forms of great beauty, adorned and dressed in many colors.
kyqIAw krm BUmI myr kyqy kyqy DU aupdys ]
So many worlds and lands for working out karma. So very many lessons to be learned!
kyqy ieMd cMd sUr kyqy kyqy mMfl dys ]
So many Indras, so many moons and suns, so many worlds and lands.
kyqy isD buD nwQ kyqy kyqy dyvI vys ]
So many Siddhas and Buddhas, so many Yogic masters. So many goddesses of various kinds.
kyqy dyv dwnv muin kyqy kyqy rqn smuMd ]
So many demi-gods and demons, so many silent sages. So many oceans of jewels.
kyqIAw KwxI kyqIAw bwxI kyqy pwq nirMd ]
So many ways of life, so many languages. So many dynasties of rulers.
kyqIAw surqI syvk kyqy nwnk AMqu n AMqu ]35]
So many intuitive people, so many selfless servants. O Nanak, His limit has no limit! ||35||
The information given above of the Realm of Knowledge is not the parroting of some imaginative or apparent realisation. It is the true ever-fresh revelation of the Realm of Knowledge directly experienced by the Guru-orientated godly people. The presence of the priceless, secret revelation of the Realm of Knowledge is available to those who are blessed with the divine mystery of the Glance of Grace for only they who are successful in reaching and opening (the doorway) to the Realm of Knowledge know the nature of miracles that take place there. When the divine sight of the secret knowledge of this Realm is seen in its totality, which is the fountain of the powerful all knowing knowledge. This is not some supposed, imaginative false concocted stuff.
In the vastness of the Realm of Knowledge numerous types of winds more abundant, varied and wondrous than anything that exists in this world of ours. Numerous and different types of waters exist. Numerous and different types of fires exist.
- Numerous too are demi gods like Vishnu and avatars like Krishan as well as Shiv and Rudhar.
- Brahams too are numerous who have come to create the universe with its numerous forms, colours and apparels.
- Numerous too are worlds with (their own) fields of action, numerous as well are the mystical mountains like the Himalayas.
- Numerous too are the Droos (the blessed devotee who experienced oneness with God early in life) inspired teachings, counseling and counselors.
- Numerous are the stars and star filled worlds and numerous are countries within the worlds.
- Numerous are Indars (mythical kings).
- Numerous are the suns and moons and numerous are the adepts, the wise ones, the masters come and gone (and will continue doing so).
- Numerous are the she-he-deities, and numerous are the demons, rishis and silent sages who will continue to appear. All the past, future and present creation is there face to face for the entrants of the Realm of Knowledge.
- Numerous are the precious stones and numerous are the oceans of these precious stones.
- Numerous are the sources of creations, numerous are the sounds and numerous are the emperors, kings and queens in the bountiful creation of the Creator. There is no end to the sources of creations and sounds here and no end to the ancient texts recorded by conscious minds that narrate their details.
- Numerous are the universes which are peopled and numerous are the divine beings, rishis, prophets, ulamas and hakims the creators of philosophical writings whose extent can never ever be established.
The above mentioned extensiveness and the perceived bloom in the vastness of the realm of knowledge too is the narration of that which is directly witnessed. It is not a level that arose out of some estimation or imagination. It is Satguru’s unfathomable dominant illuminated practical experience. Those whom the potent Satguru blesses with the flash of the tremendous knowledge of the Realm of Knowledge, they whole heartedly believe in the lofty knowledge of this very subtle illumination.
The knowledge of the omnipresent light (Waheguru) can be experienced in the Realm of Knowledge and under the extremely powerful tremendous burst of light, the sight or scene of all the planets and universes is directly visible. Nothing ever remains hidden from the knowledge of the sages of the fountain of essence-illumination. This is why the mandatory truth igAwn KMf mih igAwnu prcMfu “In the realm of knowledge, spiritual wisdom reigns supreme” is intermingled and interwoven, meaning the Realm of Knowledge is that place before which the infused light appears in a blaze of illumination.
nwmu jpq koit sUr aujwrw ibnsY Brmu AMDyrw ]1]
Chanting the Naam, the Name of the Lord, the light of millions of suns shines forth, and the darkness of doubt is dispelled. ||1|| 700.17
Within this blaze of knowledge, suspicion of anything that is illusory (doubt filled), cannot remain here. This omnipresent, subtle, divine light sphere from the fountain of blazing light that envelops the whole universe is by whole, the wondrous play that blankets the entire creation and the continents and the universes that are visible. But this worldly (made up of the five elements) vision (of ours) cannot see the very subtle realm, the Realm of Knowledge.
It will only be visible when the illumination of knowledge takes place and upon seeing this magnetic illumination of knowledge, the Realm of Knowledge glitters radiantly. When the blazing divine knowledge of the Realm of Knowledge become manifest all the visible planets, realm and universes too begin to glitter. When the soul leaves the physical body and moves into such a spiritual region, only the soul that took flight knows the degree of love it experiences in that region. Gross (worldly) eyes, neither do they see the soul taking flight from the physical body nor do they see the divine realm in which the soul has taken abode. Only that soul who has gained entry into the other realm can know its power of attraction. In the same way the boundless divinely illuminated radiant scene (depicted in this line of Gurbanee) igAwn KMf mih igAwnu prcMfu “In the realm of knowledge, spiritual wisdom reigns supreme”, (such a scene) can only be experienced by those who are manifested with divine light, by those radiant sages who have taken abode in the Realm of Knowledge, and Guru-orientated essence divines. The sight (indicated by this Gurbanee line) igAwn KMf mih igAwnu prcMfu “In the realm of knowledge, spiritual wisdom reigns supreme”, is an extremely wondrous bliss-giving one, iqQY nwd ibnod kof Anµdu “where the sound-current of the Naad vibrates, amidst the sounds and the sights of bliss”. Here millions upon millions wondrous, blissfully joyous unstruck sounds begin to be heard.