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