Monday 16 May 2011

Prem Samaj: Society of Love

Prem Samaj, means literally Society of Love, is a congregation of simple people, with hearts full of Love for each other, for their Guru and for Supreme Truth. It is a way of Truth, Love and Oneness.
The Congregation is led onto this path by His Holiness Maharaj Kamal Bir ji under the divine blessings of His Guru Maharaj Bood Singh Bir ji. Nearly 10,000 or more people have believed in this message of love and they gather once a month on the banks of Sutlej river, Ladhowal, a small township near Ludhiana, Punjab, India. Other than this every week, the Premis (Lovers), as they are called, gather in their homes, in their own villages or cities and continue to share the love and unity of Supreme Truth in what is called Satsang.

The society has three main slogans manifesting God's love and Ominpresence. They greet each other with these with great love and immediately can be known that they are Premis.
Ek Jot Sarvavyapak
Shri Prem Ji Sahay

Teri Mauj tu hi jaan


They Have a deep meaning, I will attempt here to explain their essence.

Ek Jot Sarvavyapak conveyes us the message that there is oneLight or Eternal Flame which is Omnipresent. Means God is light, the Truth and His Presence is everywhere. Truly enough if we know this and believe this our search or quest for God is fulfilled, for He is always with us, near us. Being Light, all things- living or non-living, good or bad, thoughts or quests, ambitions, feelings, all that one's eye can see or mind can comprehend are found in Him, for He is Light.

Shri Prem ji Sahay in itself says more than one thing. By the grace of guru what my limited mind has realized of this message is that Prem is Shri; Prem is Love, not the love we see in films between a boy and girl, or of a mother and child, but greater than that, eternal Love, in greek it is called Agape,  Love with which God created this Universe; Shri is a title used for a respected man, like Mr. in English language,which can mean, Love is a personality, may be God Himself;
Sahay means to sustain. In light of whole of this I come to a light of understanding that Love is a force, God Himself who is sustaining this Universe and everything which goes in it, including the phenomenon of Life in this vast nothingness. Once our mind knows this knowledge, we are to live and lead this life with Love for the Supreme and our fellow beings around us, for all we live in a big sign of Love of Creator, Love is all around us, there is no place for hatred, dislike or negativity like that.

Teri Mauj tu hi jaan is now easy to comprehend and explain in light of above two messages. Once we have understood that God is everywhere and that God is love and He sustains everything, there is no need to know any other thing. For this is the Supreme Truth. As Swami Vivekanand said that " Spiritual knowledge is the greatest knowledge". To know this and understand that Supreme Truth which our Guru has explained us in so plain words, it is like the Good News or Gospel of Christ to Humankind. What more do we need to know or possess or quest for, when He, Who is Everywhere, He Loves us and sustains us, so one thing is left us to do then, to surrender completely our small being in sphere of human life to that Supreme Being's Divine Will and Love, He will take care of us and all our needs, no need for any worries and false and lofty ambitioins. This is what it means to be free when you say ' Teri Mauj tu hi Jaan'.


To live out of this knowledge is to live in ignorance, and breed all sorts of evils of darkness, greed, hatred, confusions, fear and doubt in one's life. So why not come out of the cocoon and to see Light and Love.

For sure, one thing I will write is that again Love is the thing which will save One and the whole Humankind. Writing these things I do not preach the teachings of Prem Samaj or compel anyone to become one of it, for this message is not new.  God gave this message of love to humankind time and now, by different  Messengers, at different times and different places, but with the same essence that was Love thy God and Love each other, but it was different understandings of leaders, call it greed, call it fanaticsm, call it limited understanding, call it degeneration with Time, call it what you may, the Message is same.

So in this time of confusion, many religions and faiths, denominations and prejudices, of wars in the very Name of God, of the questions which path is true and greatest, in already existing melee, should Prem Samaj come and add more to the confusion? No not at all, Prem Samaj's message if understood deeply is the solution to all problems : God is everywhere, Ek Jot Sarvavyapak, so O Man what Christanity or what Islam, what Hinduism or what Buddhism, Sikhism or Jainism, are you a Baha'i or are you a Yezdi, or may be Zoroastrianist or Taoist, o Man these are all names, for God everywhere! Whoever you are, you are right, your message is true if it is of love, so why frown, why doubt, why you are proud and why you fight?

So let me greet you once more    
                                                           Ek Jot Sarvavyapak
                                                          Shri Prem ji Sahay
                                                          Teri Mauj tu hi Jaan


May the blessings of our guru Maharaj Kamal Bir ji enrich your lives and love of premis may reach you all.

1 comment:

  1. Shri Prem ji Sahay Dear Harveer,
    Thank you for your notice and appreciation....the Lord puts in seeds in our hearts, and meek whisper of His Will in our Spiritual Ear, if we hearken to His voice...take good care of the sowed seeds..surely there will be big harvest.
    I thank you again for your best wishes for good continuation.

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