GYAN AND SOJHI

GYAN AND SOJHI
When we read mystic literature seriously we always introspect whether we have grasped its essence correctly. Sometimes we have lingering doubts in our mind that we have not really caught its core meaning. The fact is that all we read is not well understood by us.
The more we feel that we understand by reading, the more quarries and questions we create within ourselves. It is both good and bad. Good when understood rightly; bad when understood wrongly. What has been the net result of such readings? Man made differences in spirituality that is inherently Universal.
The following is the limitation of our mind:
What is read is reflected in the mirror of mind. If that mirror is smudged or tarnished, the mirror image will be hazy or horrible. It will have no relationship to what is written in the Book or what is read by the person or preacher. Our minds carry personal likes and dislikes, conventional thought process of our lineage/pedigree and we remain unaware of our own Self--- so how can we know what others are trying to say when we are confused about our inner self. Baba Bulle Shah writes......

“Parh parh Aalam fazil hoyon, kade apne aap nu parhiyaa nahin....
Bulle Shah Asmaaani urdiaan phirdaain, jehra ghar betha uhno pharhiyaa ee nahin”.
“By reading and reading many times, you claim yourself to be an inellectual...but you have never read your own SELF.....
Your ego flies high in the sky with the acquistion of knowledge, says Bulle Shah, but you ignored to read (understand) the ONE who is sitting in your own HOME (BODY).”

Baba Ji in His Satsangs differentiate between “Gyan” and “Sojhi”. Gyan relates to the MIND WORLD and Sojhi refers to the DIVINE WORLD. Mind World includes discrimantion of good and bad,more and less , justice and injustice, time and space, up and down, change and reason. etc. Divine World means harmony, love, compassion, full faith, forgiveness, peace, bliss, infiniteness and changelessness. Gyan is collation of information and knowledge that creates bondage with the mind world. Gyan is the ladder to Sojhi.
”Sojhi” is that understanding that sprouts with inner introspection and Divine Grace in the heart of the Soul. It is that experience that begins to free soul from body-mind entrapment for which Karmic load is to be shed by the settlement of karmic accountability. Sojhi is the ladder to Mukti.
GYAN—
For example, when we know that light dispels darkness. It is the beginning of the Gyan. But when we realize that light is an energy and darkness is the absence of energy it lends a deeper meaning. On further contemplation we may feel that ignorance is darkness and that light means awakening of higher consciousness.
We also know that we need to keep ourselves clean. Normally we understand it as the cleanliness of our body and surroundings. On a deeper reflection we feel that environmental sanitation is also essential for personal health and hygiene. Beyond that we start considering purity of thought and mind to ensure that the intensity of five mental perversions (passion, anger greed, attachments, ego) is also to be kept to the minimum. This is a natural progression towards pre-requisite of spirituality.
Both the citation given above are within the realm of Gyan Marg and one may get lost in Gyan Marg if Divine grace is not showered.
Guru Nanak Sahib says,”Gyan Marg Mein Gyan Parchand”---that there could be so much over obsession with GYAN that a seeker gets caught in an interminable web as one continues to revel on knowing reason behind a reason and then the reason behind that reason and so on.
SOJHI---
None can know Him by reading and reasoning. It is through SOJHI-- Real Understanding that one is blessed. Sojhi is very difficult to define. But at human level this may be called a phenomenon when the Divine sparks touches the mind and soul---or when the Divine comes down to the level of human beings to make Himself Understandable. We might name it as His Grace, His Mercy, His Love--- because it is not possible for human beings to communicate with Him-- who is AGAM, AGOCHAR, ALAKH, APARA-- with our efforts or at our own sweet will. Even the quintessence of Gyan Marg is that (Sojhi) Realization comes by PREM MARG. Prem or Love is the gift of the Beloved and not the lover. It is all the game of LOVE. When one falls in love--- it is a mindless happening. This mindlessness is the transformation when the domain of reason or Gyan is abandoned and one graduates to the “Sphere of Love”.
The harbinger of Sojhi is Satguru, because He is both at the level of Divine and at human too---internally in astral form and externally in the physical body. Love is Satguru’s Gift to the sincere seekers of spirituality. That is why it is said---
Aad Gurudeva Namah,
Jugad Gurudeva Namah,
Satguru Deva Namah,
Shree Gurudeva Namah

In short the above verse means obesience to all Perfect Gurus that have come to this world from the day one till date.
When the Guru and the shish are in love, Soami and sewak are in Love, Murshid and murid are in Love, the distinction between the two vanishes—then ATMA AND PARMATAMA ARE IN ONENESS. Karmic accountability is settled in perpetuaity. Separation of the Soul from Soami ends. This terminates soul’s entrapment of mind and body. That is the ultimate state of SOJHI.