Creation - Kal, Akal and Dayal

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Naam Simran Shabad

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Sep 25, 2017, 3:41:19 PM9/25/17

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Saints believe that the Lord or Master or Creator has limitless consciousness. He is the Positive Power. He is an unfathomable ocean of love and bliss. He has many powers or agents who look after the creation and its maintenance. These are described as Beings or Purushas. The Supreme Lord is accordingly called the Supreme Being or Param Purusha. Amongst these powers is the Negative Power, or Kal Purush, who is the creator of the universe. The duration of his universe is limited, after which it must suffer dissolution. Therefore, he is called the Lord of Time or Kal Purush. He is the sustainer of all the worlds of three attributes [Gunas – Satthwa, Tamas & Rajo].There are numberless universes. Each universe is looked after by a ruler appointed by the Supreme Being. Each ruler has three forces or gods – Brahma, the creator, Vishnu, the sustainer and Mahesh, the destroyer. These create, sustain and destroy a universe. All these rulers are parts of Kal Purush, who is himself sustained by the Timeless Lord (Akal Purush). All this lower creation is within the power of Kal.

Both Kal and Akal were created by the Supreme Lord. The work of creation and its evolution has been handed over to them. The Saints have also described the Supreme Lord as the Most Merciful.

The distinction between Kal and Dayal (The Negative Power and the Merciful One) is very abstruse and merits careful study. The Saints hint at it and their writings should be studied. The transient world is all the creation of Kal. But to one taking refuge in the Lord, Kal can do no harm. The eternal Sound or Melody is the manifestation of the Positive Power. By practicing it one transcends the limits of Kal. Wherever there is the Melody of the Shabd or the Sound Current, Kal cannot interfere and he keeps away from there.

The Master is Himself Shabd-Incarnate or “The Word made flesh”. By giving devotion to Him, a person can escapre from the clutches of Kal. Dharam Rai (Kal) then serves him.'

At the last moment of life, the Lord of Death or Kal does not come to take away the disciple of a True Master. The Master Himself comes and takes the soul with Him. Kal does not come near a devotee.

Those who have not met a Satguru are in the power of Kal. One cannot escape from the clutches of Kal except by serving a True Master.

Kal demands from everybody an account of all actions and in accordance with them he metes out punishments or rewards. Recitals, penances, continence, reading, writing and the three gunas (qualities) are all within his sphere. The only way to transcend them is the practice of Shabd-Dhun, or the Divine Melody and taking shelter with a True Master. But it is only the highly fortunate few who take shelter with the Master and thus escape the clutches of Kal.