3. What is Adi Shabd?
Adi Shabd is the Creator and Lord of all. This is also called Adi Nad (Prime Sound) or Avazi-ghaib (Sound from the Invisible). The Shabd or Word or Name which appeared from the region of the Vedas is called Anhad Shabd or Shabd Brahm.
In Persian language, it is described as the Hukm-i-Malid (Command of the Lord) or Qudrat-i-kull (Omnipotence). It has been said in the Bible that in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The efficacy of Shabd is laid in every religion, but its secrets and details are not to be found in the books of any of the religions. Sants alone have disclosed these in their compositions and discourses somewhere by hints and in esoteric language, and somewhere openly and clearly.
Below are given the stages of Shabd.
- The highest and the topmost region, which, in fact, cannot be termed a region, is called Radhasoami, Anami (Nameless) and Akah (Indescribable). This is the beginning and end of all, and encompasses the entire creation. Everywhere it is, in essence, the mercy and energy of this region that are functioning. Here it was that Mauj arose in the beginning and came down as Shabd (Word). This is the abode of Param Sants. With the exception of rare Sants, no one had access to it. And one who has access there is Param Sant.
- Below Radhasoami Pad (Abode), leaving two regions of Agam and Alakh in between, is the region of Sat Nam, i.e., Sat Lok. It is highly refulgent and pure. It is the beginning and end of the entire creation below it. In Sant Mat, it has been referred to as Sat Lok, Sach Khand, Maha Nad, Sar Shabd, Sat Nam and Sat Purush. Sat Purush is called true lord and creator, and He is ajar (undecaying), amar(undying) and avinashi (indestructible), Sants are incarnations or embodiments of Sat Purush.By His omnipotence were evolved Sohang Purush, Par Brahm, Brahm and Maya.
- Shabd of Sohang Purush.
- Shabd of Par Brahm, which maintains and sustains the creation of the three loks (worlds).
- Shabd of Brahm. It is also called Pranava. This Shabd created subtle and Brahmandi Veda and Ishwari Maya.
- Shabd of Maya and Brahm which evolved the material for the creation of Triloki (the three worlds).
Below the Shabd of Maya appeared the Shabds of Bairat Purush, Jiva and Mana (mind). In these times, nobody is conversant with spiritual practices. And if anybody speaks of Shabd Abhyas, he refers only to the Shabds of lower regions. Generally, people take the Shabd of Bairat Purush to be the creator of all.
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