PACHMI PARKASH - Global Sikh Studies

place?” The old Rishi replied, “Since I’ve been looking the great natural disaster has
come and gone many a time and the world has also been recreated many a time.
Panna 276: So many times, He has expanded His expansion.
Forever and ever, He is the One, the One Universal Creator.
And then he continued to explain saying, “The life cycle of Sat Yug is 1728000 years,
whiles the cycle of Tretr Yug is 1296000 years, Duapar Yug last 864000 years and
Kaal Yug is 432000 years, these four age cycles span a total of 4320000 years.
Now when this cycle of 4320000 years is completed, this cycle 1000 times is equal to
one day of Brahma’s. In this Brahma’s one day 14 Indrs come to be and complete
their time and reign and then diminish. Brahma’s night is also just as long and with 30
of these complete days, makes one Brahma month of which 12 make a complete
Brahma year and after 100 of these years Brahma’s life span comes to an end.
And so when Brahma comes to the end of his life, the great natural disaster Maha
Parlo hits the earth, and so while I have been looking I have befriended many
Brahmas.”
Baba Ji then continued saying, “Beloveds! This is the way of the Creator, the world
can be seen like a human standing on the banks of a river in the evening watching the
water flows away and when he returns in the morning he see’s the river still
continuing to flow without any pause. The difference being that the water from the
night before has flowed way further down stream, whilst more has yet to come from
up stream. In this way a human comes and completes his life span and then goes
according to the Lords will back to the world beyond and in place another comes and
so the cycle of life continues and the world continues, so the destructible body should
not be mourned over.
On the month of Maarg 9 th (which falls in January) on Wednesday morning at
10.30am, I shall leave for the Lords abode, do not cremate my body, instead put my
body in a casket and then place it in the river and do not take any photos.”
Listening to these words, the congregation began to cry, many devotees lost their
voice as they were unable to control their emotions. One of Baba Ji‘s devotees, Sri
Bodh Singh Tehsildar was also sitting near by he asked graciously and humbly with
hands folded if he could be blessed with the task of making the casket, which Baba Ji
granted his wish. And with great love and dedication he spent a great deal of money
on making a beautiful coffin which was decorated very expensively inside and out.
And so the time grew closer and the devotees still continued together for their final
vision of their beloved protector. Finally the day had arrived, the 9 th Maarg, (which
falls in January) Bikrami 1959 (Christian calendar 1902). In the morning Baba Karam
Singh Ji Maharaj shining like a million suns, bathed and then dressed in new clothes
they came into the little house where they had laid their possessions. Seating
themselves on a little seat, they asked the religious hymn singers (Ragi’s) to sing the
Guru’s hymns in Maaru Raag and told the congregation that no one should cry, that
their body should be put into the river and that no one should take any photos. Baba Ji
called over Baba Aaya Singh Ji Maharaj and asked him not to cry but to keep the
congregations strong though the Lords name and the Guru’s scriptures. Baba Aaya
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