ik oankar satnaam satgurprasad||
dandauth bandhana ji
Devotion
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there is so much love in the Guru's sweet words, they melt your heart,
there is nothing like gurbani and taking it into your heart.
When you sing gurbani with love the Guru sitting within you is sculpting you into Himself.
Gurbani builds the devotion within us, the urge to put our hands together infront of the Sadhu,
to dip our head in humility, to lie flat at their feet in total surrender,
Guru Ram Das Ji says to us with utmost kindness:
Kar sadhu anjuli pun vada heh.
Kar dandauth pun vada heh.
Its a virtuous deed to greet the saint with pressed palms,
lie flat at their feet, its a greatly virtuous deed.
Let us pray to God Guru for sangat of the sadhu so that we may press our forehead on their feet.
So they may bless us to sing God's praises and wipe away countless sins.
Guru Arjun Dev Ji creates the following devotional desire within us:
Sant Janaa mil Har jas gaaioo
Kot janam kay dukh gavaaiaa
Meet the Sant Devotee and sing God's praises
Countless lifetimess pains are wiped away.
I was feeling quite lonely being away from sat sangat over the last month or so.
So was praying to God by singing these beautiful verses.
Pouring my heart into itday in day out, then had a feeling to call my cousin, he said his Sant - a Brahmgiani from India was around his house.
Next day we went to get his blessings. Greeted him with pressed palms (anjuli), lay flat at his lotus feet (dandauth).
Told him about our struggles with the 5 thieves, and he smiled upon us and said "dont worry , your darkness will be removed and there will be light upon light, continuous light always and forever."
My cousin was trying to put me off from meeting "his " brahmgiani as he said "he mediates on Waheguru" and you on "Satnaam" (However, my cousin also told me that his Sant's Sant meditated on "IkOnkar" and gave that as the naam). But it didn't matter to me, because Baba Ji has taught us that the Sants run Sach Khand, they hold the key of gurprasadi naam in their hands. My job is not to judge anyone, especially a Sant, my job is only to meet these devotees, sing God's praises with them and lie flat at their feet so they wipe my countless karma clouds away and let the sunshine in again. The first thing this Sant ji told us after sitting us down was "Sikhs have gone wrong because they dont accept a living Satguru. The living Satguru gives us the Naam, without that the whole Sikh Panth has gone wrong." As you can guess, the Sant wears orange robes and orage turban, all his belongings are in a cloth bag, he has no other wordly possessions, he is what are known as "Nirmala Sants" - Pure Saints going back to the times of the ten Gurus with one living Sant-Guru passing on the Naam to the disciples and so on till now.
Next few weeks felt much lighter and brighter and with Guru ji's kirpa went to B Ji's house for sat sangat, felt so much love and light. Even D veer ji a new person at the sangat said he that as I was talking to him about the Naam, everything else disappeared and all he could see was bright white light around my head and body. Said it was all Guru ji's kindness, God was showing him that I was telling him the Truth.
Determination
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Dont give up, no matter how many times you fall to the five thieves, dont give up.
Get up, put your hands together and pray such a prayer that God-guru will turn the whole world upside down for you to complete your Bhagti.
Dont get complacent that you have reached somewhere, no, just know that I am doing so many misdeeds under the 5 thieves and in the love of Moh-Maya that
I keep praying for forgiveness and for blessings.
Dassan Das Ji gave us this prayer "I am very lustful , full of anger, incredibly greedy, so attached and full of selfishness, I drwoing in worldly desires, hopes and wishes, I am a great sinner and hypocrite, a liar and untrustworthy, my dear satguru ji, I fully accept all of my misdeeds, please forgive me and bless me with singing Your prasies and remembeing SatNAam."
Discipline
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Alot of times of the last couple of years when things have got too stressful at home I have found it easier to resort to my bad habits of long hours of TV and overeating and wasting time. But there is no peace in that either. Never give up, stay on track, pray to Guru ji, always and forever to hold us by the arm, pick us up out of the scum of maya , wipe us clean and give us another chance. Every night we die, every morning we are born anew, fresh and blessed with another chance to do bhagti if we accept our misdeeds and ask for it.
The greatest thing is to keep our discipline, get up early , again in the evening and again before going to sleep, sticking to the daily routine for singing Gods praises and remembering the Naam works wonders. Losing my discipline over the last few years, and losing my connection to gurbani only sent me adrift into the ocean of maya.
God Bless you with these 3Ds of Bhagti.
dust of your feet
Harjit
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