Kundalini Yoga sets

satnaam ji

i found kundalini yoga very beneficial to stretch the body and stay loose before starting naam simran.

Have been doing so for the lasst 4 years.  Some kind souls shas uploaded Yogi Bhajan Ji's manual which you may like to try some excercise from.

 

http://www.pinklotus.org/-%20Kundalini%20Yoga%20kriyas%20english.htm

 

dust of your feet

Harjit

SAT SRI AKAL - TRUTH IS GOD

Satnaam Satguru Satsangat - I bow to You.

 

Dearest Sangat ji,

 

here is a brand new piece of divine wisdom from Baba Ji.  It is about the Sikh greeting "Sat Sri Akal" which most Sikhs nowaday pronounce as "Saseekaal" and have no idea of the meaning of.

 

SAT SRI AKAL - TRUTH IS GOD.

By Baba Ji

 

Sikhs say "Sat Sri Akal" when greeting each other, but most seem to have no idea of its meaning.   It means "Truth is God."  After we say it to the person we are greeting, do we see God in them?  Do we speak truthfully to them?  Do we see Truth in them and see beyond their caste, colour and creed?    To everyone we greet in this way, do we then have interactions with them that can be classed as truthful deeds?  When we greet others with "Sat Sri Akal" have we lost our animosity towards them?  Have we placed God above all else in our interaction with them?  If we have not, then we have made this divine greeting into a joke.

 

If we say something and don't mean it, then aren't we hypocrites?  By greeting each other with "Sat Sri Akal", we are saying "Truth is God", but if we then follow it by lies, cheating, hurtful talk and keeping animosity in us then we are hypocrites.

 

If we greet others with a happy smile and a cheerful "Sat Sri Akal", but inside we are being lead by the five thieves - anger, greed, selfish attachment,  greed and pride, or we indulge in gossiping, slander and jealousies, then aren't we being two- faced?

 

What is even worse is when religious people use this greeting with each other, but then go on and do the most irreligious deeds, like talking bad of others and slandering holy people.  Aren't we more like Satan's sons then rather than the Guru's servant?

 

When we greet with "Sat Sri Akal - Truth is God" we are supposed to be delivering Guru Gobind Singh Ji's highest teaching.  Followed by words and deeds of Truth, such as being compassionate to others wether they are friends, family or foes.  When we say "Sat Sri Akal - Truth is God" even to our percieved enemy, we are inspired to see God in them too, to rise above our feeling that they are our enemy.  This greeting is to lift us up to the highest consciousness.

 

Only the one who greets with "Sat Sri Akal - Truth is God" and follows it with compassion to others and with deeds of truth, only that one is honoured in God's Court, only that one's face blooms with the glorious Light of God.   Every Sikh using this greeting but then following it with untruthful deeds and false words is just a hypocritcal donkey dressed in a lion's skin.

 

 

Baba Ji,

22 Nov 2008.

 

 

 

 

RE: So Purkh for gay men - wordly wants a better way

QUESTION:

 

Re: So Purkh for gay men
Posted by: "Ezekiel" spikycork@yahoo.com   spikycork
Sat Nov 15, 2008 9:03 pm (PST)

Harjit,

Thanks for your response. That makes sense. It seems to me the ultimate challenge of the
householder is how to integrate "spiritual" and "worldly" aspirations.

What do you think of all the techniques given by Yogi Bhajan to fulfill "worldly" desires - such
as meditations for abundance, beauty, even health? There was also a discussion of chanting
mangala saaj bhaya to find your soulmate here on the earth plane. Is that not also a "worldly"
desire?

 

I spent a long time, when I first got into kundalini yoga, really focusing on myself and
my connection with spirit, not seeking an outside relationship, because it felt irrelevant to my
happiness and spiritual path. Then I realised that my soul had a deep desire to share love
with another in a special relationship. I understand there may be aspects of ego in this, but
it is also a longing for self expression, similar to being a musician (which I am also) longing
to play my instrument - and even using it to facilitate healing for others (I have played during
yoga classes, and people have come up to me deeply moved, expressing how my playing
enhanced their yoga experience). Anyway, I understand your very sober ideas about getting
spiritual wisdom mixed up in worldly goals. . . but I'm curious what you think about all this.

Ezekiel

 

REPLY:

 

Satnaam Satguru Satsangat - I bow to you.

 

Dear Ezekiel Ji,

 

you have asked a very valid question.  On a spiritual path how do we fulfill our worldy aspirations? And if we follow the spiritual path to the letter then we also know that there is no place for worldy desires.  Because in all the teachings of the Guru's and Saints there is no mention of reciting certain verses in order to fufill a particular want.  Bhai Gurdas Ji (Enlightened soul at the time of the earlier Gurus) wrote that Guru Nanak Ji's coming into the world "saved people from the clutches of the Atharva Veda" (Var 1 Verse 38).  When I read this I wondered what was so terrible about the Atharva Veda and I found this translation.   Its basically a prayer book to get any and every want fulfilled.   Bhai Gurdas Ji wrote that Guru Nanak Ji saved people from this ignorance with light of Guru's word.

 

"With Bani (the Celestial Word), Guru Nanak enlightened, wiping out the darkness of ignorance.
Knowledgeable discourses always followed the music from inner soul.
The prayers at dusk and meditation at ambrosial hours dominated.
And saved his pious ones from the ponderous hymns of Atharva Veda."

 

So when we see the enormous efforts Guru Nanak Dev Ji went to to get people out of praying for worldy wants, then it is quite sad to see that 500 years on , the business of fulfilling wordly wants now involves the very verses of Bani (Guru's words) that condemn it. Every religious place seems to be in the business of fulfilling wordly wants.   From going to India I have been astounded by the Gurdwaras that have popped up, whatever the want is, there seems to be a Gurdwara to fulfill it.  From the one offering mothers the blessing of the birth of a boy, to the one for the illiterate to be able to read, to one for farmers to donate rice pudding so their cows will give milk.  Whatever the want there is a holy man, a temple and a technique involving reciting a verse from gurbani plus a few other tricks (wrap up the verse in a cloth around your neck, or do x , y and z).   And these places are overflowing with innocent people being mislead by the ones who have been mislead by their own teachers.  But actually, how innocent are these followers?

 

A blessed soul summed it up nicely, he said for 20 years he went and served visiting holy men and singers at the Gurdwara in Canada, but he never progressed spiritually until he met Baba Ji who gave him the blessing of Naam.  He then wondered why it had taken him so long to get the blessings of Naam?  He realised with God's grace that in each of those 20 years he had many wordly wants, and he seemed to have attracted the holy men who were operating at the level to give him some verses and techniques to fulfill those wants.

We basically attract people of the same consciousness.  If we have wordly wants, then we will attract people in the wordly want business.  And that is where we stay until we say to God-Guru, "Dear Guru ji, so many years have passed and I am still so far from You, now I fall at your feet, nothing has happened as I wanted, nothing is in my hands, now I only want You, Your Naam and the dust of Your saints feet."   Then with God's grace we meet the one who is going to bless us with the priceless diamond "Naam".

 

So what happens if we really give up everything of our wordly wants and focus purely on what Bani says to us?  Will we stay lonely, will we be poor in the streets, will we never have a boy child, will our illness not heal, will we not be beautiful and balanced, heathy and happy?   The Truth Baba Ji explained to me was that we receive what is in our karma.    Wether we pray or not we get what we have sown earlier in this life and in past lives.   One person says they went to the holy man at the Gurdwara and was blessed with a son, my wife went (due to her conditioning) and was blessed with a girl.  On asking the holy man how could this be, he snapped, "Well if you dont want her we will take her in" - not really answering the question.  When a real holy person would have said to my wife, you can only receive what is in your karma. 

 

People obtain that which they are pre-ordained to receive.

SGGS 283

 

But how can karma be changed?  There is only one way and that is through the blessings of the real holy person, the divne soul - God's devotee - the one who is the same as God. 

 

There is no difference between the Lord and the humble servant of the Lord;
O Nanak, know this as true. ||29||

SGGS 1428

 

Just as the fifth Guru, Guru Arjun Dev ji did not give himself the blessings of a son when his wife asked.  A true saint never asks for anything but the pain and suffering of everyone to come to them and peace to go to everyone else.  He sent his wife Mata Gujri to the nearest holiest person, Baba budha Ji who blessed her with the soul of a warrior - Guru - the sixth Guru.

 

 (God says : ) "The devotee can release anyone from my bondage,
but I cannot release anyone from his."

SGGS 1252

 

But dont even have that as a desire in your mind, to go to a really divine soul to get your worldy tasks arranged.   There is only one way on this path, and that is to give up all hopes of living, give up the fear of death, pray for God and God alone, and God comes to us through the nearest divine soul to bless us with the Naam.  When we have the Naam under Guru's Grace then everything else is taken care of.  Everything happens at the right time for the best, and everything we do under the Graceful Naam helps us go closer to God.  Wereas everything done under influence of wordly wants, takes us into maya and that always bites.

 

God is power, intellect, understanding, the breath of life,
wealth, and everything for the Saints.
May I never forget Him from my mind, even for an instant –
this is Nanak's prayer (ARDAS). ||8||2||

 

SGGS 1017

 

When we give everything to God and Guru, God and Guru give EVERYTHING to us. Absolutely EVERYTHING.  So why are we worried about asking for the small stuff?

 

dust of your feet

 

Harjit

advice for a broken heart

REPLY FROM JOSE, TO PREM ABOUT HER BROKEN HEART:

 

Prem:
 
Your pain is felt with all intensity.  We all have, one moment or another, had similar sentiments.  I am sure you will receive wonderful and full of loving advise from this group and your close friends.  I can only provide a very brief advise. Contemplate on it, if of no use, you may discard it. But if it helps you a little bit, your Heart will tell.
 
Your Heart led your Mind.  You moved in the right direction.
Now, your Mind is trying to lead your Heart.
It is your Mind that is trying to use Mantra and Meditation for its intention.
The tools left by the Yogis and Rishis are for Divine Union.
This Union is within ourselves.
And as householders, though the Love for Humanity.
The Soulmante is within.
 
"Nanak! all the world is steeped in pain,
Happy are those, whom doth Nam sustain."
 
Prem, let your Heart take over again and lead your life.
 
Sat Nam
José

RE: So Purkh for gay men

QUESTION

 

Hey, what do you think about gay men chanting the So Purkh shabad, to develop healthy, balanced male energy and to attract a loving male partner? Yogi Bhajan stressed the healing power of women chanting that shabad, but he didn't talk much about practices specific to gay men.

Sat Nam
Zeke

 

REPLY:

 

Dear Zeke,

Sat Naam Ji, I bow to You.  Ego's problem is that it likes to label us, we have a name, a gender, a sexuality, status, title at work, career and so on.

This all hardens our identity.  Then we secondly have lots of wants - even wants to attract a partner, male or female - its still a desire.  Thirdly, to fulfill the desire of our ego we try many things and in religion people try reciting the holy verses (Guru's Word - shabad) to fulfill their worldy wants.

Without realising we have brought the Guru's word down to our level - into the scum of maya we are living in.  Baba ji said that using the Guru's Word to fulfill our worldy wants just brings our Guru into maya.

 

Really, we need to let the Guru's Word lift us up to the Highest Consciousness - God Consciousness.  So no matter what verse we recite even So Purak,  it should make us come face to face with our own soul.

And that is the opposite of identity and only achievable if we have no worldy desires behind our reciting.

 

By saying "Sat Naam" we are focusing on the God part within us, the soul, the light.   That has the quality that it is true, everlasting, permanent, that is why it is called SAT (Truth).  And Naam means God's energy, God's presence, god's Cosmic Life Force behind the whole creation and the power emanting from your own soul.

 

When we realise SAT NAAM is the TRUE PRESENCE then we lose the sense of our own ego, which is called HAU-MAI by the Gurus.  Meaning HAU - my presence,  MAI - Me  i.e. My presence, I am something - me and myself are something and doing something.

 

Guru amar Das ji wrote "O mind you, you are proud of your thinking, like you know something, but realise that the enlightened soul remains humble."  (e man tu mat maan karada je hau kichh jaanday, gurmukh nimaanaa hoi.   SGGS)

 

dust of your feet

 

Harjit 

re: question about sex

QUESTION:

 

--- In Kundaliniyoga@yahoogroups.com, "vansavages" <vansavages@...>
wrote:
>
> Sat nam,
>
> I have been trying to form a question to you all for many months now.
> I have heard it said that when you have a problem and you need help,
> the key to receiving the help you need is in asking the question in
> precisely the right way. Maybe I have formed my question and I am
> close to an answer now.
>
> I am a yoga instructor and I have a daily sadhana practice. I have
> been with my husband for 20 years and he has never had any kind of
> spiritual practice and he doesn't have one now, though he is
> supportive of me. Over the years, I have become more and more
> committed to my sadhana and my yoga practice and I see it as the most
> important thing in my life. The more I practice, the more strongly I
> feel this.
>
> I have heard that when someone in a household raises their vibration,
> the vibrations of the others living in the house will rise too,
> effortlessly. I don't see this happening with my husband and I feel
> the more I practice kundalini yoga, the farther away we get.
>
> Because he doesn't have a spiritual practice, he doesn't have an
> understanding or appreciation of the spiritual aspects of sex. I
> don't know if it is because of this, but I am not attracted to him at
> all and I don't know if I ever have been. In the past I have gone
> along and had sex with him because that is what make marriages work.
> But more and more, I feel that to keep having sex when I don't want to
> is to take a step backward on my spiritual path. We haven't had sex
> in months.
>
> This is a huge problem. Without sex, where is the marriage? We are
> both young, attractive people. Our relationship consists of parenting
> our children together. I want what everyone wants - a partner with
> whom I share a physical, emotional and spiritual connection. Do I
> wait and see if I will ever have this with my husband? Do I sacrifice
> what I want so we can keep our family
> together? How do I decide? Has anyone ever come across this problem?
>
> By the way, I am currently on day 13 of a 40-day sadhana with the So
> Darshan Chakra Kriya.
>
> I appreciate any thoughts or any help you all have. I feel so blessed
> to have this group to ask this important question to.
>
> Sat nam,
> Hanspreet Kaur
>

 

 

REPLY:

 

Satnaam Hanspreet ji,

 

in this case your greatest teacher is your husband!

 

He is so essential on your path to perfection.

 

Because of him, you can see all of your own weaknesses if you try.

 

See it as a blessing that you have a partner who forces you to see what you really are.

 

I have been through a similar thing, we get inspiration from the teachings and our teachers. And in

there presence we fly high.  But, to purify the mind, we need the slanderers and the detractors and

the ones we think are holding us back.  Why?  Because when they aggravate us, it shows us how

much anger we still have inside.  When they put us down and we get defensive, it shows how much

our ego got offended and hence how strong our ego still is.  When they want sex and we dont, it shows

how much we are still holding onto "grudges" or emotional baggage and resentments from the past.  When

we say "without sex where is the marriage" then we have not understood what sex and marraige are all about.

Behind sex and marriage is karma and only karma.  Every partnership short or long in this life is just payment of

debts and receiving our dues.  And that applies to how many times we do dont have sex, when and where we have sex

and with whom we have sex.  Its all karma.  Marriage and pieces of paper and ceremonies are the story that humans

have put on this.  To try and control people to build a civilised society.  But if marriage was true and everlasting as its done in a religious place, then why do people still get divorced?  Because karma overrules everything.  Everything else is just

a story we wrap karma up in.

 

The greatest thing happened to me when with Guru ji's grace I understood how important my wife was

on this path.  I wanted her to be interested like i was, but she wasn't, at times I would flare up and have arguments. 

Even contemplate a time when she wouldn't be around so I could be free to do as i please.

Now I realise she is just as important in refining my mind as is my spiritual teacher.

 

It helps me to remember Guru Nanak Ji's sweet words , "I am not good, no one is bad - Nanak has been ferried across

this way." (Hum nahee chunga, buraa nahee koee, pranvat nanak taray soi.)

 

When I accepted that absolutely no one is bad, then my mind had to stop blaming others for its discomfort.

Then when I accepted the root of all my discomfort was always from my five thieves, then I had to dig deep

and find what in me was actually getting aggravated and why.

 

We have to get to a point were we see our God-Guru in every heart, then we will see God-guru in our own heart.

We have to bow to that God-Guru in our teacher, in our sangat (saint society) and even in our work colleagues, our friends

and even in our perceived enemies, and even in our abusers or detractors.  Its all stages of the mind we have to get through.

 

Everyday thank God-Guru for what we have, rather than what we haven't got.

 

Everyday thank God-Guru for the people in our lives and focus on even one good thing about them, rather than the 99 bad things

that our mind enjoys dwelling on.

 

Everyday do good for them, our job is to do good to others, to be the kind of person towards them that we want them to be towards us.  Love can change even the stone hearted.  But becoming stone hearted yourself will only make things worse. give mind, body and wealth to God-Guru.   Think nothing for yourself, live a life of selfless service starting with the people that your kamra-circle has placed you in.   Baba Ji said to me that we have to beat the five thieves within the karma-circle of people around us.

 

God Bless You

 

Dust of Your feet

 

Harjit

 

trip to india - sangat with Deepa

satnaam satguru satsangat ji - dandauth bandhana ji

 

With Guru ji's kirpa we have returned safe and well from two weeks in India.

Three years ago we were blessed to meet Dassan Das Ji and Deepa from the village.

Deepa was only 16 , a thirsty soul and blessed by Dassan Das ji with Gurprasadi Naam on the marble walkway around the

Golden Temple.  We did sangat together, with his mum and dad three years ago in the cold evenings.  IT was blessed time for all.

 

However, since then Deepa, without sangat, without email , without kirtan , Deepa felt he had not progressed at all.

Even though he had cut his hair and gone through the backlash of the family.  Some are amritdhari but still believe in the historical Baba Balak Nath.

Hi Aunt even channells for Baba Balak Nath to pass messages - just like her father-in-law did.  To them that is their path.

However, when he recently went with his aunt to the local temple, where the current Baba runs the group, his aunt bowed, but he did not have the

feeling to do so.  He felt, since I no longer believe in this path, I cannot bow.  He just sat down and did his satnaam simran best he could.

Later at home, his parents came around his aunts and she started channelling.  Baba Balak Nath's spirit came through. 

It told his parents that he did not bow at the temple.  It told him that he needed to stay on Baba Balak Nath path.  It told his family

that he was going on the wrong path.    Faced with his family and the spirit of Baba Balak Nath pressuring him, he remained unaffected.

Such was his faith in Dassan Das ji's blessing from 3 years earlier, they couldnot budge his resolve.  He moved out to train as a chef and faced

bullying from his colleagues, but never lost his belief in Satnaam.   His family now accept him as he is and support his career and faith.

We were blessed to have his sangat for a whole week.  He booked a holiday and twice a day- morning and evening we did naam simran together.

All this year I have been praying for satsangat again, and he has been praying for it too.  God-Guru answered our prayers.

 

The first morning he came and sat next to me and with Guru's kirpa I placed this hand on his forehead and did simran.  Felt lots of amrit in my navel

chakra.  From past experience, I think this meant some of his spiritual blocks were being cleared. We walked and talked about satnaam , satguru and satsangat only.  We spent the whole first absorbed in this in the sunshine and green crops.    After a couple of days I was feeling a lot of love when doing simran for him, praying for him.  Just as Dassan Das ji has explained in Astpadi 15 of sukhmani , that by being kind we bring kindness in, the more we gave, the more Baba ji gave to us.  One morning I felt lots of amrit, and he did not.  So I stood up and prayed for intuition to clear his blocks using satnaam and reiki attunement.  We meditated and sent the symbols into his chakras.   Afterwards he said that, wereas before he would only feel amrit when i put this hand on him, now he felt is all over his body , from head to toe.  The following days he was able to close his eyes and feel amrit instantly all over his body when doing satnaam simran, without need of this hand.

 

Also explained to him that when we meditate so much, maya is far.  But when we finish, maya will come to test us.  And how do we recognise maya,

baba nanak ji said that maya causes son and father to fight, breaks every relationship.  That is when someone would come into the room and by frustrated with me and try to have an argument, as she felt I was brainwashing Deepa or misleading him.  I smiled at maya in her and refused to take the bait, just said i will paint my face on the wall and she can carry on arguing with that for as long as she wanted to live with anger inside her.  Living with anger within her was her choice, but I have chosen not to live like that.  After that she did not mention it again.

 

I told Deepa Ji about Baba Ji and we phoned baba ji.  Baba ji was so kind, we accidently woke him up, I apaologised, baba ji had no annoyance, he just said "When it was written for you to call, you called."  HE blessed deepa ji with another boos of gurprasadi naam.   Deepa felt so much more amrit after that.  I encouraged him this time to build a relationship with baba ji.  To call baba ji say once a week without fail.  Satguru Sajjan Milia ...SAtguru is our Best Friend, our True friend, the only one who stands with us in life and in death. So make friends with Baba ji.  So even after i went, he would have Gur-Sangat of Satguru Sajjan.   Deepa told me next day that he had called baba ji again and spent hours and hours crying afterwards.   I said same had happened to me before,

it was the tears of his soul, cleaning up the filth of countless births.

 

Deepa also told me that his Aunt had not been well, she had been channelling excessively for baba balak nath and it had made her sick, weak and frightened her family.   Since Dassan Das ji and my visit 3 years ago, they had got into the habit of doing satsangat and naam simran together, but when Deep would sit near her doing his naam simran, she would not be able to sit.  She became agitated and aggressive towards him, in the end they all stopped doing sat sangat together because of this adverse reaction  (it was the spirit in her that couldnt tolerate the naam - they didnt understand they needed to carry on till it left her).

When he told me I had a lot of compassion for her soul and asked Deepa to phone baba ji and for her to be blessed by his kind grace.  Deepa was resistant,

almost like he felt she deserved it.  He said she goes arouind channelling on purpose, she doesnt want to stop, my family go wherever they can get the desires fulfilled, they follow anyone and everything.  I said, "No, she was sick, she is being tormented, and God has sent you Baba jii to help her.  All God is waiting for, is for you to show some compassion and to pray for the weak, the distrssed , the poor and the needy.  IT will also open your heart too."  These words must have struck him, because he agreed right away. Next day he told me that baba ji had blessed her and that Harjit should do simran with her.  Deepa then told me how she had been in previous sangats and thought she wouldnt come.  I explained to his mum what baba ji said and asked her to ask her.  After all I couldnt really go up to her and force her to come to simran if she didnt want to.  I prayed that if she was destined to come she would.

 

After that, Deepa asked me to come and do simran at his house, unknown to me he had invited his aunt, his cousins, his mama and mami too and his parents.  Such a big sangat all expecting so much from me - but i know i am unworthy, full of misdeeds, full of five thieves and all the filth of the world.

The reason his mama and mami ji had come was because they had been married 6 years and were having problems having a baby.   Deepa's mum had invited them.  Reason being, a couple of days before we had done simran together and I could see she was unable to focus, eyes open, head moving as she looked around, and looking uncomfortable when she closed her eyes.  Even though she wears a kirpan and gives daswand to her sant , she couldnt concentrate.  I said to her afterwards reasaon the mind cant focus is because we dont give up our wants.  She said the major want that was on her mind was not for herself but for her brother and wife  (deepa's mama and mami ji), for them to be blessed with a child - that was her constant want.  I said to her that baba ji also explained to me that its ok to pray for the benefit of others,  I said I would ask baba ji about it.    Anyway, they came to the sangat and we played the satnaam simran cd (Indi Kaur - satnaam chanting 30 min) .   I prayed for them all, called upon Baba Ji to use my mind, body and soul for their benefit.  That I am just an unlit lamp, so I request baba ji to bring his gur-jyot and light me up and shine into everyone's heart.   Felt so much love, light and blessings, directed all the light and amrit to Deepa's aunt who channelled,  to mama and mami too.  Deepa told me afterwards he felt light coming through him going from his palms to everyone.  He asked me if that ok, I said that was GREAT!  That was exactly how it happens, when we become nothing then God-Guru Satnaam-Satguru Baba Ji becomes everything and shine through us.

 

I could see them all shining like flowers with focused minds. At the end of the 30 minutes, his Aunt looked hot and uncomfortable, like some shifts were taking place within her.  She said next morning she enjoyed it (far from the days when she would have been agitated and aggressive).  Also his mami was like a flower in the sunshine,  next day his mama said it was hard to concentrate but he could see the benefits and did simran again and felt amrit swirling him around.  He said he would open his eyes as he thought he was toplling over, but he was sitting straight.  Close his eyes and feel again like he was swirling aorund.  I explained that was the amrit cleaning him up.   We spoke to baba ji after the simran and I said to baba ji "I dont know anything about birth and death baba ji, please bless Deepas mama and mami ji."   Baba ji spoke to the mama ji and explained to him that all of God's gifts (daat) are received through naam, seva, and punn daan - (naam simran, selfless service and virtuous giving).  They said they would do so.  Next morning we were taling and they said punn daan (giving) should only be of clothes and food not money, explained to them what baba ji had said to us, that any beggar or homeless person who comes to us is not to be turned away empty handed.  See it as our karma we are repaying them what we owe them.   If they ask for a certain amount, give it to them.  If they ask without specifying an amount, give them waht you feel is the right amount.  Told them the story of when we went to india last time and I had resolved to carry out this teaching of baba ji to the letter.  Outside the Golden temple, I gave 10 rupees to a beggar who had asked.  Deepa and wife and other relatives said I shouldn't have done that as "now other beggars would come."  I said, "that's ok, I'll give them all the same in the name of Baba ji."     Later on, the wife had 3000Rs stolen from her handbag as she queued to bow.  When she told me I laughed and said, "I was ready to give 300 beggars 10Rs each, wereas you were forced to give just one 3000Rs!  Plus I gave it with an open heart, wereas you had it snatched away!"

 

Deepa asked baba ji when he would see him in India, and baba ji replied "See me in Harjit" and when Deepa told me that I said to him, "And I see Baba ji in you".  HE did dandauth bandhana to baba ji in me, I did dandauth bandhana to baba ji in him.  This is how we started our simran, this is how compassion to help him have simran, filled me with love and led us both to Truth - Truth Love and Compassion as Baba ji says.

 

We were blessed, blessed, blessed - dhan dhan dhan jan aayaa jis prasad sabh jagat taraiyaa....blessed blessed blessed is the coming of that God's Devotee, by whose grace the whole world is ferried across.  Thankyou baba ji for everything, what you have done for me I cannot every repay or even understand. Please keep me always and forever under your feet, please may i keep you always and forever in my heart.  Please may i always see you in every heart, in the sat sangat, in my "enemies" so called, in everyone - You, only You, only You.  May I always thank for what I have rather than resent for what I havent got.

 

Finally, the last test was passed, when we became a little bit more fearless and unafraid to lose our wife, our house, our kids and our comfort zone, when we finally overcomae the barrier that was stopping me coming to sangat.  Now will be able to go again.

 

dust of your feet

 

Harjit