Friday 25 July 2008

My soul is yearning to meditate


 
Satnaam Ji Dandauth BandhanaJi
 
--email from my friend:
 

I'm trying to get back into my meditation routine, but its difficult..

My soul is yearning to meditate, but my spoiled mind is giving it a hard time...
 
-- reply:

 
satnaam veer ji,
 
I find when I cant meditate, then I can do seva.
 
seva thoree mangan bohitha
 ....seva is less, but our wants are more
 
Everything starts with seva
 
bin gun keeta bhagat na hoi
..without good deeds you cant do bhagti
 
seva karat hoi nikaamee
tis sevak ko hoth prapat swamee
...by doing seva and becoming selfless
that sevak is accepted by the Lord and Master
 
 
...when we are suffereing under 40 foot of the scum of maya as Dassan Das ji says as most worldy people are,  then to erase that thick scum we need gurprasad ..blessings of the God in the Sant,  and we get those blessings by doing seva selflessly.  That erases ego, by becoming empty of wants - even wanting spiritual expereinces, then we can be blessed.   So do seva selflessly - seva with mind, body and wealth, seva of the satguru by giving daswand, by giving time and by making effort,  seva of all those around you.  Think only of doing seva for others with a smile and a happy heart EXPECTING nothing in return.  Become a giving, giving, giving heart and God gives you everything.  Baba Ji said God created everything and onn seeing it and being delighted iwth it, He gave it all away to us - the souls .  And now in bhagti we are trying to give everything away back to God so we can go home.
 
meray mukj meh kush nahee
jo kush ha so tera
tera tuj ko saupiaa
kyiaa lagay mera
....nothing is mine
everything is Yours,
to sacrifice everything back to You
costs me nothing.
    ...Kabir Ji.
 
Being able to mediate, to do bhagti, is a gift from God to the ones who done selfless seva for the Satguru in everyheart, good deeds, and given everything back to God.  Being able to do simran is Gurprasadi - only by Sant-guru's grace.    All we can do is pray for this Gurprasadi Naam from the heart of the Sant - Sant Prasad.
 
dust of your feet
 
May God Bless You
Guru Bless You
All Creation Bless You
 
Harjit

Thursday 24 July 2008

tips on erasing ego


..just sent this email to a friend :
 
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satnaam veer ji
 
dandauth bandhana (prostration greeting) - please accept my head in service at your feet, you are dhan dhan.
 
The shabad Dassan Das ji gave me to start with was
 
haumai nahee tuhi tu  
 
no ego - You only You.
 
I add the following too
 
haumai nahee tuhi tu
satnaam tuhi tu
 
then keep repeating it as follows:
 
a) focuson your guru-sant who has blessed you and keep washing their feet in your heart - nijj ghar - centre of chest
you can start by saying it with tongu listen with ears, then tongue is still and take it inside to the heart.
 
b) when you feel lots of love then take that feeling and bring into your mind on satguru
 
haumai nahee tuhi tuhi
satguru tuhi tu
 
and bring into your mind the feet of all the satgurus one at a time and wash them in your heart
 
c) then move on to satsangat 
 
haumai nahee tuhi tu
satsangat tuhi tu
 
and bring into your mind all people of your sat sangat, anyone and everyone who God has sent to help you on this path,
wash their feet and thank them
 
d) then move on to your family, friends, work colleagues  
 
 
haumai nahee tuhi tu
satnaam tuhi tu
 
e) then move on to people you have difficulty feeling anylove for
haumai nahee tuhi tu
satnaam tuhi tu
 
 
just keep washing everyones feet, the whole world , every living creature within whom God - the Life Force - resides.
 
Then when your haumai starts washing away then you'll find it easy to move onto
 
just satnaam , satnaam, satnaam
 
or satnaam waheguru
 
or ikonakar satnaam
 
or jap man satnaam sada satnaam
 
or satnaam kartapurak
 
or ik onkar satnaam sri waheguru
 
or ik onkar satnaam satgur prasad
 
or mulmuntar
 
..basically anything with satnaam in it ...earn your name as baba ji said .
 
 
 
And that is how you root out ego from deep within in in your meditation.
 
 
But you also have to fix your karma as well, so have to do something practical too.
 
so every single person you have hurt or offended or done something bad to, you have to
a) apologise to them if possible - you have hurt God in the temple of their heart - the very God you are trying to realise
b) touch their feet to recognise God within them,  do dandauth bandhana is even better
the lower you can go in front of Creation , the more ego is erased.  Notice how much resistance you have - that is how thick your thorn of ego is.
 
 
Fix your realtionships, do something good for others, see your family as sangat, clean their shoes, wash their dishes, cook their food, make them feel loved and then God will make you feel the love you are searching for.
 
Baba ji said everything is within ur own house, but we let panj dhoots change our relationships in to cold ones because ego and karma get in the way.  But be like children, love one and all, forget the past - or deal with those issues and move on.   I would really really adivse you to see making your wife happy as your number one goal, do it for God inside her, do it for your son, when you are happy at home, God will make you happy insidde.  You have lots of karma to resolve, cant go to God until its all mended.
 
dust of your feet
 
Harjit


 

Monday 21 July 2008

Conversation With Baba Ji - 20 Jul 08

Satnaam Ji
SatGuru Ji,
SatSangat Ji
Dandauth bandhana ji.
 
Here is a conversation with Baba Ji just now.  We are so blessed.  Had a dream last week of looking up at the open sky and feelling that so many have looked up and asked "Where are you God?" and spent their whole lives never being able to get pat that.  Then I started thanking Satguru Ji for scooping up God out of the nothingness and giving us the divine words.  Then I was saying Dhan Dhan Guru Gobin Singh Ji Dhan Dhan Guru Gobind Singh Ji and feeling shivers up and down my whole body.   This is what SatGuru ji is, Satguru ji is like a cloud that appears out of the big blue empty sky and swells up with rains drops out of the moisture and showers them down upon us.  That rain is Amrit pouring within us.
 
 
Here's the conversation with Baba Ji - His divine words that He has scooped up out of the big empty universe and present to us in such simple words:
 
 
When kids or even adult hve bad dreams just say to the dream "I am not under your control."  Even having bad dreams and being terrified by them is just us going through the hell part of the mind.  We all have to travel through hell, heaven to get to the Absolute Truth.
 
When God made the body he made healing itself part and parcel of it.   He is the healing.   We can heal every cell , every organ in deep meditation.
 
People over worry because they want their own dreams to be reality, but that fantasy doesn't  happen in reality.  Leads to over worry.  Little girls want to grow up to be like Cinderalla, from rags to riches and marry a prince and become a princess.  But that is fantasy and is running away from reality.  Sick people have a fantasy to be healthy and pain free, but they are not and they worry and overworry causing more stress.  Have to face reality and then come to a balanced mind.  Have to say "I m nothing so why have self-pity?"
 
Even sickness is part of evolution, bugs are becoming super bugs.    Sickness is a gift.  Bugs become super because we keep defeating them.  But now our extended lives have just brought us more sickness in old age.   Governement cant fford to treat and home all the sick old people in Japan, same is happeneing in other western countries too.  Living longer is no good if we dont do meditation.  All people do with their longer lives is to slander and complain whislt suffering constant pain.   Only those who know how to drink their own pin can bless others.  Otherwise they have no patience and burn other people's ears with their constant complaints.  So say "Whatever happens is good." Then pain is not pain and you can go through it.  Creating the illusion of having a pain free existance then finiding that is not your reality means they have no balance.  That causes the real pain.  
 
Remember that the soul never ages, - it can go through all 4 Ages untouched, its the mind and body that complain.  You need Truth for the mind and body so they can come into balance with the ageless painfree soul.  The soul is always happy.  When you are balanced with the soul, then you appreciate everything round you.  You have to be Truthful.  When the mind and body become Truthful and balanced with the soul, then all is bliss.
 
People want no sickness, just instant cures.  Its like people want to be rich without working 40 hrs a weeks and earning it as thats painful.  Sickness is part of the spiritual journey.
 
Another fantasy is people want to open their crown chakra - dassam duar.  But I say forget about that.  Then they say what kind of Baba is that that says forget about opening the Dassam Duar - thats the whole aim of spiritul life, isnt it?  Well actually it isn't done by you fantasizing about it or wanting it.   You cant take the logic mind through the Dassam Duar.  Only a humble soul can pass through it, it is such a narrow place, the logic mind is too thick with ego.     so just be dead whilst alive.  Alive in the moment and dead to your worldy logic  manmat.  Then God can come out, wordly logic has to die.  So dont aaim for Dassam Duar to open so you can find God.  Become humble and God comes to you.  when you are dead whilst alive then you have pierced all illusions, you have already mastered the mind.  You have made the Earth below your feet joyous.  You are not a burden to the Earth becasue you a doing for others.  You are not selfish, you are not living in illusion - you are not against God.  Live for others and you are saving yourself.
 
When you are lost God finds you and takes care of you.  Like when someone goes missing because they have amnesia, they forget everything about themselves, that is when God takes over and takes care of them.  Just have to let God take care of you and trust that you are not lost - no one is lost.
 
The Budda Boy (meditated under a tree for 6 months in smadhi without eating, drinking or moving - filmed as well in 2005).  He was young, he felt lost, then saw the pictures of the Budda, he became calm, collected and believed so much that he left his family and went to meditate under  tree like the Budda did - to die or until God became his Guru.   The quicker you believe the quicker you progress, the heathlier you are..  With even strong faith the tiniest mustard seed can move a mountain.  Snake's posion cant kill you (Budda boy was bitten by a viper and survived - didnt panic, didn't budge an inch).  Tiger cant find you (Tiger prints walked right by his tree at night whilst he meditated).   When our house was attacked by the 800 strong mob, I said to God, "you take care of everything, you do whatever you want."  Then  a sikh said "Baba Ji lets stand in this washroom".  So they did and the mob became blind with their own rage and didnt see that door.   His compassionate hand is greater than a man's vengeance.  However, the ones in the sangat who were hurt, I said to them that their past dues were being balanced, but they were going further, the attackers were going backwards.  Confront your fears and fears will go away.  Budda Boy is here to teach the world that humility and patience is the way to peace within. 
 
Stay in balance and the aging process slows down.  Desire is the pumping process that makes you age.  Be childlike  - God is like  baby - he is every new born baby every moment.  But when he's angry he destroys suns and moons.  When you ask God He give to you.  When complain He takes it away.  This is god's energy - it goes through everything.  God sat on my hand and then went right through it.  You cant catch God, but you can tie Him with love.  This body is a lamp and the soul is the flame.  You are a lit candle of Truth.  If you are not doing Truth though, then you are black and in darkness.  You are made in te image of god so you must become Absolute Truth.
 
 
Deepak Chopra is launching a new book about Divine Laughter,  also the founder of Laughter Clubs is on TV and world famous.  However, their laughter is not divine.  Their laughter is under the five thieves.  Divine Laughter is above the 5 thieves, it is God's Laughter - it is spontaneous.  Laughter under the 5 thieves is from the illusory self.  Divine Laughter is when the ego is died.  Then you are not judging others in your laughter, you are not worried what others are thinking of you as you laugh, you are not laughing t others either - that is all laughter out of ego and pride.   When the Absolute is laughing through you, He doesn't care who is saying what about how He is laughing.  The closest most people get to that experince is as a baby when they first laughed and didn't even know their mum and dad's names, didn't even know their won name, they laughed purely.  That is the laughter of the meek and humble - that is Divine Laughter.  The other laughter is of pride and ego.   Laughter of Divinity has compassion from the Heart of God in it.  That laughter has no hatred and loves one and all.   Even the laughter of the 330 Million Demi-gods and even the laughter of Shiva, Brahma and Vishnu is not Divine Laughter.   
 
Divine Laughter comes through the lowest of the low.  That one laughs at pain, at mayhem and even at Death, becasue he knows the soul doesn't die.   Ego laughter of these ones that write about it and make Laughter Clubs stops when they stop making money out of it.   Laughter of the priest class is the laughter of deceit, even the Pope's laughter is not the Divine Laughter.
 
If people in ego are stopping you from going to sangat then say to them ,"If I am going on a spiritual path, is stopping me a good deed?"
Remember the stories of the ones who had faith and now its your turn to have faith.
 
God is not just Light, He is also your destiny "bhag".  So why are the ones in ego burning themselves by NOT accepting their destiny and other's destiny?  Love is always persecuted by the blind of faith.  Live the path of Truth, see God in your spouse, in your family in one and all.  Sant is the one who dies for Truth and dies for Love.  That is why the 5th nd 9th Gurus gave their sacrifice - they sacrficed everything for the LOVE of God.  LOVE demands sacrifice.  Marriage is by destiny, thoe who dont accept someone's marriage are not accepting God.  Marriage is so that past karma can be mended and both can go to a higher level - the Highest level is Satnaam.  Accept that whatever God does is good.
 
God's first name is SATNAAM.
His second name is LOVE.  That demands sacrifice - breaking all worldy attachments and attaching only to SATNAAM.
His thrid name is Bhag - DESTINY.
His fourth name is BELIEF in the above.
His fifth name is EARNING it.
 
When you have earned it, then you have stitched the jewel of  Naam in the heart.  Then you have passed the test and bloom.  Then others who didn't accept your destiny and your marriage cant stand the Light of God on your face - that you are happy.   But, when you do what God asks, then you have a blooming face.  That face of knowing Divinity , of living in Naam at every moment.
 
Love is like a flower in the sun, so say Satnaam and have a face like the sun.  Blooming faces are radiating God's Light into the world.  Others want it, they pray for it, but they cant become humble enough to receive it.
 
Be humble, be low.  In your heart only one name is spinning - that is Satnaam.  When you die it comes out.  Then depression cant come near.  Stress runs away and the world becomes meaningful.  Otherewise its along unbearable life.  You haven't learnt from Guru Nanak - you have to turn your back on your family and give your head to the Guru, and if God asks for your offspring's head too then give it.  Then all is bliss.  All bliss is here, not in the hereafter.  If you stay depressed here in the name of relgion, looking for bliss after you die you wont find it and wwill be begging to be born again.  So enjoy God here.  Live in love, have such a humble attitude that ALL is higher than you.  Then ALL Creation sends blessing to you.  Whatever drops from bove falls onto the head that is low.  So my house is full.  No sickness is here - well physical sickness is no problem - its also part of the Creation and I'm happy to be keeping it alive.  Dont worry about sickness, give all worries to God.  Only worry about one thing and that is "May I not go away from  Truth." 
 
It doent matter how other treat us, so long as we are good to them.  Deeds of Truth is the Light of god.  Its His grace that lets us do deeds of Truth.  After that hell, heaven and afterlife doesn't matter.  Only thing is to live in this moment.  That is the greatest art of living  but it needs balls of steel.  Not a bowl of steel (like relgious hermits carry).   Go and dance, find a room, or a park and just go and dance and let God laugh through you.
 
Blessings to you all.
 
 
Baba Ji
 
 
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dust of your feet
 
all mistakes are mine - pls let me know.
 
Harjit
 
  
 
 

Tuesday 8 July 2008

use it or lose it

Satnaam Ji satguru jii satsangat ji, dandauth bandhana ji
 
I was saying to my brother the other day that since going to the gym and excercising on a regular basis my muscles have bcome really strong and my aches and pains have gone - the back aches, the knee problems, the neck problems too.  Most have cleared with doing yoga stretching before that, but now i am able to run without my knee getting inflamed and that is due to the leg muscles being strong.  For me this is a miracle as its been 20 yrs since i got injured and had operations following which my knee was never the same and sports have been out of the question.   Although I remember 20 yrs go when i first became injured and turned to God that I used to read anand sahib every day and the words that gave me hope were "dukh rog santap utray sunee sach banee" ..that all my pains and sufferings have gone snce hearing the True words....just didnt know it would take this long.
 
I was reading about Tiger Woods and 2 months ago he had the same knee op I had back then, but when the Doctors told him he'd miss the next competition, he defiantly told them "I will win the next competition."  And he did...other paers said they could his his knee creaking  ass he walked round.
 
The difference between him getting better in 2 months and me in 20 yrs was this:
a) he was highly motivated, he had high self belief,  wereas I was alone away from home and fell into despair, doom and gloom.
b) he had best doctors and best physical support and excercise programme day and night, wereas i only went to the knee classes once a week
c) he knows his inner ability, the power of his mind over his body, he knows what this human body is capable of regardless of what the experts say.
 
My brother, a physio said about our muscles, "Use it or lose it" ..so we are given a body we dont maintain it, we get backaches, other problems, lose hope , despair and settle for suffering for the rest of our days.  But gurbani has given us hope and faith in the amazing potential of this human body and staying positive we can overcome everything.
 
Baba Ji also said about the spiritual gifts we are given, that we need to bring them into our life, all new teachings , we need to put them into practise straight away - otherwise we lose all those gifts as well.
 
So use it or lose it.   Use your muscles and make your body stronger, use gurbani and your spirit stronger, or lose it all.
 
Dust of your feet
 
Harjit
 

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