Seen within, not read in books
The world seeks peace outside, and the mind remains restless. Peace is not an outward pursuit or an intellectual concept: it is a practical inner science, realised through Brahm Gyan.
Brahm is the Supreme, the Divine; Gyan is knowledge. Brahm Gyan is not knowledge about God gathered from books or reasoning, but the Divine itself revealed within the seeker. Spiritual experience, in this science, is direct, scientific and internal: nothing is imagined or visualised; it is perceived.
At initiation a perfect living Master opens the inner eye and awakens the dormant inner observer. From that moment the seeker can turn within in meditation and behold what was revealed, every day.
Awaken the individual. Transform the society. Global peace through inner science.
The four eternal pillars
Four inner experiences
At initiation the seeker perceives the Divine within in four ways. Each is described in the scriptures of many traditions.
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दिव्य प्रकाश
Divya Prakash Divine Light
Seeing without eyes. Primordial inner light.
Direct activation of the Third Eye, revealing the primordial light within.
At initiation the Guru opens the divya chakshu, the single inner eye, and the seeker beholds the self-luminous Light of God within. It is not imagined or visualised. It is seen.
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
In the Bhagavad Gita (11.8), Lord Krishna tells Arjuna that he cannot behold the Divine with his own eyes, and grants him the divine eye.
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अनहद नाद
Anhad Naad Celestial Music
Hearing without ears. The unstruck cosmic frequency.
Awakening to the primordial cosmic vibration, silencing mental chaos.
Anhad means unstruck. Within, the devotee hears a music played by no instrument, the vibration from which creation unfolds, and the restless mind grows still in it.
The Hatha Yoga Pradipika (chapter 4) describes nada, the inner sound heard in deep meditation, and the Sikh Gurus and Sant Kabir sing of the anhad shabad, the unstruck melody.
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अमृत
Amrit Holy Nectar
Quenching existential thirst at the root of consciousness.
Tasting the inner nectar of peace, quenching deeper existential thirst.
The nectar tasted within satisfies a thirst no worldly pleasure can reach. Saints call it the fountain of life, because it nourishes the soul rather than the senses.
Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst.
The scriptures of India speak of amrit, the nectar of immortality, as the reward of the inward journey.
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सुमिरन
Sumiran Holy Name
The primordial breath of life sustaining all creation.
Conscious connection with the unuttered primordial vibration sustaining creation.
The Holy Name is not a word spoken by the tongue or written in any script. It is the eternal vibration revealed at initiation, and sumiran is its unbroken remembrance with every breath.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Across traditions this primordial Word is called Naam, Shabad, Logos and Kalma.
The role of a living Master
The inner eye is opened, not imagined
Brahm Gyan cannot be learned from a page. The scriptures describe the Divine as seen with an inner eye that ordinary effort does not open: in the Bhagavad Gita (11.8), Lord Krishna tells Arjuna that he cannot behold the Divine with his own eyes, and grants him the divine eye.
In the same way, at initiation the Guru opens the divya chakshu, the single inner eye, and the seeker beholds the self-luminous Light of God within. That is why Brahm Gyan is given by a perfect living Master.
Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan shares Brahm Gyan under the guidance of its founder and head, His Holiness Shri Ashutosh Maharaj Ji, on his vision that world peace begins with self awakening.
How initiation works
Receiving Brahm Gyan
Brahm Gyan is given freely: there is no fee for initiation, and satsang and meditation at DJJS ashrams are open to everyone.
Attend satsang (Spiritual Gathering & Discourse)
Join the weekly satsang online, or visit a DJJS ashram near you, and hear the path of Brahm Gyan explained.
Ask for guidance
Let the sangat know you would like to receive Brahm Gyan, with the Join Sangat form or a WhatsApp message to the New York desk.
Receive Brahm Gyan (Self-Realization at Initiation)
At initiation His Holiness Shri Ashutosh Maharaj Ji, the perfect living Master, reveals the Divine within. There is no fee to receive it.
Practise every day
Meditate daily on what was revealed (sadhna), keep the remembrance of the Holy Name, and walk the path with the sangat.
Meditation practice
Daily sadhna (Meditation Practice)
Initiation is a beginning. Each day the devotee sits in meditation on what was revealed, and keeps sumiran, the unbroken remembrance of the Holy Name with every breath, through the day’s work.
The sangat (spiritual community) practises together too. In the Sangat Portal devotees claim an hour in the unbroken 24-hour Akhand Sadhna chain and keep a record of their daily sadhna, and every week the sangat meets online:
- Thursday Virtual Bhajan Sandhya & Guru Aarti: Thursdays, 6:00–7:00 PM ET.
- Saturday Weekly Virtual Discourse: Saturdays, 1:00–2:30 PM ET.
Inner Science Lab
Meditation and the science of the third eye
Curious how meditation is studied, and what the scriptures mean by the Ajna Chakra (The Third Eye / Focus Point of Consciousness)Ajna Chakra · The Third Eye / Focus Point of Consciousness The focal point between the eyebrows. In meditation, gathering scattered attention at this point brings profound mental stillness., or by the Anhad Naad (The Primordial Unstruck Resonance)Anhad Naad · The Primordial Unstruck Resonance The continuous, “unstruck” inner sound perceived in deep meditation when external sensory chatter subsides.? The Inner Science Lab gathers it in one place.