Prayer, its Nature & Technique - Kirpal Singh

APPENDIX PRAYER B DEFINED — SIMRANthe eyebrows. The journey onward beginsfrom this stage, the seventh in the order frombelow. When the soul rises above the sixchakras or ganglions in the Pind or physicalbody and starts toward Sahans dal Kanwal(thousand petaled lotus), the seventh stage,she catches the first of the five strains of theDivine Music and proceeds further. Thereis no Naam in the lower six chakras. These,in fact, are the grave, from which we have torise above and come to the point from wherethe Grand Trunk Road of Spirituality begins.Another Saint says, “At the seventh stageyou begin to hear the five strains of the DivineMusic when you remove the tent of the soulfrom the graveyard of the body comprising thesix lower Chakras. From here heavenly Musictakes charge of the soul and pulls it up from stageto stage until the final consummation with SatPurush or Sat Naam takes place.”Almost all the Saints have given the samequalifications of a True Master. Guru Arjan says,“Accept that man as a Guru who can give youan experience of the Truth, the Naam. That isindescribable, no doubt, but we must have somecontact thereof.” In short, whoever can tune usinto the Shabd — the Divine Music. Kabir alsospeaks in the same terms: “We have so manysadhus, the great ones. I have respect for all ofthem. But the one who is One with the Word, and193