Indicators about one´s path...

FROM ANOTHER GROUP:

 

From: jose rodriguez <rocketrodz@yahoo.com>
To: Kundaliniyoga@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, 9 January, 2009 13:51:36
Subject: Re: [Kundalini Yoga] Indicators about one´s path...

Sat Nam!
 
There is a Buddhist concept that shows us that to want enlightment is a big mistake.  The mind wants.  The Soul does not!
 
And above all that is God.
 
I have been told that it may only take just one Kriya, done right, to see the Light and to dance in Shabd.  Just one.  But nobody may prescribe a Kriya like we prescribe pain medicine or blood pressure medication.  That is why there are so many Kriyas, and why the Kundalini Yoga experience as taught, is just that, to present an experience.  The student, us, will then find the Kriya-key, perhaps after 1,000 days doing it at 4AM, perhaps after taking many 1,000 day-periods, then picking another one, and maybe, perhaps. But there is something esle above all that, and that is Grace.  The Grace of the Guru.  Lets not forget that.
 
Yogi Bhajan mentioned: "To be spiritual is to give and give, never to expect back, as clouds give rain and never come down to take the water back.  And your life exists on that giving.  There is nothing to learning to be spiritual; learn from the clouds that give you the light and the spirit of giving through their own drops of water which create huge vegetation for you."
 
The purpose of life is the present moment. Which ceases to exist the moment we think of it.  That is how I guide mine.  To live fully, every second of life. But on every second, to pay attention on how I am spreading wealth and joy to every sentient being.
 
Yogi Bhajan also said: "To know wisdom is nothing. To experience wisdom becomes knowledge. Then you can stand through the times."
 
Remember that we all bring different colors, shapes, forms and purposes upon trying to enter a Path.  But it does not matter for all paths take us to the same Principle.
 
Sat Nam
 
José
 

breath is slipping away like water through our hands

IK OANKAAR SAT NAAM SATGUR PARSAAD

DHAN DHAN PAAR BRAHAM PARMESAR JI

DHAN DHAN GUR GURU SATGUR GURBANI SAT SANGAT SAT NAAM

 

GURU PYAREE SAT NAAM SAT SANGAT JEE:

 

KOTTAN KOT DANDAUT PARVAAN KARNA JEE

 

You are not a physical body, you are a soul, body is dependent on soul, soul is not dependent on body, soul operates the body, body doesn't operate the soul, soul is the prime source of energy and performance, body is just a media that is visible, whereas soul is not visible. This soul is the Karta, this is the super divine infinite power that is the Karta, as soon as this divine power is removed the body meets its end. So you are not a physical body, but you are only and only a soul. At the sametime please remember that the soul has to carry the weight of all your good and bad deeds, it has been doing so foreever and will continue to do so until all your dues are paid and the soul becomes weightless, that is what is called Jivan Mukti.

 

Our own website is full of all the divine wisdom in the form of these Gurparsaadee writings, but we sometimes wonder if any of you really read these writings, if so then many of you should already have been transformed, but is that the case?  probably not ! But there is one thing we can say for sure that anybody who reads these writings will transform for sure. There is no negative power that can stop this transformation. And the ones who give their Tunn Munn and Dhan to the Guru and don't look back and keep marching will for sure reach the Jivan Mukti. Most people are left in between, and continue to fall back and stand up, only the ones who give their Tunn Munn and Dhan to the Guru make it through this life. This will have to be done, weather it gets done in this life or next or may be next or so, but one thing is for sure, that this will have to be done.

 

Harjit jee have started publishing the Punjabi translations of these Gurparsaadee Writings as well. The Dasvandh given by the Sat Sangat is being spent in providing the Punjabi reading Sangat through these Punjabi translations. We will continue to use your Dasvandh for spreading this message of Sat Naam across the Globe. Your contributions are being accepted with the Gurparsaad and are priceless. The more you contribute the more rewarding it is for you. This is an essential element of the Puran Bandgi Process and is a Gurparsaad, so there is always an opportunity for you to take advantage of this divine opportunity.

 

Dassan Dass

===

REPLY FROM HARJIT:

dearest dassan das ji
dearest satnam satguru baba ji
dearest ik oankar satnaam ji
dearest  shabad guru siri guru granth sahib ji

you are right ji, we have been on this path for so long and everytime we have tried to do bhagti
we have fallen off the path.  With your kind kirpa you have picked us up so many times,
but we have fallen again and again and again, getting worse everytime.  Almost to the point where we
do not even want to get up again.  That is the story of this slanderer of the guru, this donkey mind that reads all the wisdom then goes and rolls around in the filth of maya again.

But with your kindness you have picked us up again and this time with your kindness we really feel that
we NEVER ever want to go back to rolling around in filth of maya, we really feel we are better of dead than
going back to following desires and getting slapped by maya.  We really feel if we lose family, friends, moeny,
property anything and everything, it is no sacrifice at all.  We really feel the love of god in the gurus lotus words of gurbani.
We pray they come inside us with such a force they rip apart all our illusions , all our lifetimes of bad karamas, all the hardened layers
of haumai we have built up.

We are not worthy of this seva, we are not worthy of any thing divine, we are a stubborn egotist who refuses to bow his head infront of the whole world, but whatever we are , we are yours.  We sit like a dog at your table waiting for crumbs of gurprasad, we dont need anything or anyone else now.  Please take everything we have, munn tun and dhan.  Please kill us completelty this time.  Please do not let us fall back again.

You are so kind, so humble, only you truly know what you are dassan das  satguru ji.   The katha of sukhmani sahib you have done, is katha of your self, the brahmgiani, the apras, the jan, the sadh,  it is all your katha.  We are so fortunate to have you with us.

Please do not let us waste any more time, breath is slipping away like water through our hands.

dust of your holy lotus feet

Harjit

no power to live no power to die ...

satnaam satroop satguru ji , satsangat ji, dandauth bandhana ji


Dassan Das ji's articles stress many, many times that Karta Purakh is the One and Only Doer.

Really, a foolish and stupid sutubborn headed one like me cannot comprehend this.  If God is doing everything then  how can we chose what we do?  "Karmi apo apanee ke neray ke dhoor ..our deeds are our own, some go closer to God some go further away?"  Guru Nanak Dev Ji in Jap Ji.

So this week with guru ji's kirpa we have been trying to hard to do more simran , amritvela (early morning rising), giving daswand (tenth) and bringing in good qualities.  But again this stupid and sutbborn donkey mind of mine has been hitting a brick wall. Getting irritable and shouting at family due to lack of patience - bringing in good qualities is not easy for an egotist like me.

Yesterday with guru ji's blessings we resolved not to get angry and shout at family no matter how many times the little one says, "NO! NO! NO!" when we ask her to do something we want but she doesnt want.  We resolved to say it once and let it go upto God, but shouting is no longer allowed (it did work, she changed her mind in her own time).  Also on the way home, yesterday God reminded us of the shabad Akhan Jor from JapJi sahib, we read this parrot fashion for over 20 years almost every day and never truly understood it.  But yesterday it started making more sense, which we would like to share with the sangat what we understood (you may understand it differently , that is fine too)

akhan jor chupay na jor
jor na mangan deh na jor
jor na jeevan maran na jor
jor na raaj mal man sor
jor na surti gian vichar
jor na jugti shutay sansar
jis hath jor kar vekhay soi
nanak utam necha na koi.

First of all I always read it like Guru Nanak Dev ji was telling me that we have no power to speak or not, no power to live or die, no power to beg or donate, no power to rule with maya headaches, no power to understand the divine wisdom, no power to find the method to escape maya.  Only God has the power in his hands, Nanak says that no one is high or low.

But as I with gurus blessings, was singing it with love , the realisation came that it wasn't a distant Guru Nanak telling me about a far off God, like a preacher standing at the front of the congregation telling us about God's glory.  No, this time it felt like my own soul who was telling me something.  My soul through these words was telling me that it had the real power.  It was the divine power source.  If the soul power wasnt there I wouldnt be able to do anything at all - not speak, not stay silent, not beg or give, not live or die, not understand divine wisdom or find any methods to reach God.  My own soul was telling me that it had the real divine power and it is , was and will always be watching me.

So our very personal God, Karta Purakh, our own soul has all the divine power, and because of that power we can function in the world.  But, when we function without any recognition of the true power running us we are living in the illusion of ego.  And in ego we do the deeds that take us away from God - further away from realising this soul power inside us.  However, doing simran means we are making efforts to remember this divine soul power within us.   By remembering that Truth we go closer to God , the one and Only Doer within us.

This morning before doing simran Guru enabled me to acknowledge that this soul is the real power without whom "I" cannot do anything.  That all our simran and bhagti (devotion) was due to Gur Prasad - god's grace.  That Gurprasad was pulling us to realise our soul, pulling us out of ego running in maya's terrible mind ocean.  And simran was good, much more peaceful and much more enjoyable.

And in my day, if I acknowledge this divine life force in the food I eat, in the people I meet and in all of nature, then that is Simran, that is remembrance of the Truth that "Sat Naam Karta Purakh" is the one and Only Doer, not me, not my ego, not my HAU-MAI ("I"-"ME").


thankyou for reading,

dust of your feet

God bless us all

Harjit

Happy New Moment!

Ik Onkar Satnaam.  Please accept our prostration greeting at your holy feet.

 
"Every moment is a happy new year.  All these years, months, days, hours, minutes & seconds are illusionary.  The mind is inifinite.  Man has created calenders to attach a memory to it.  Its all an illusion.  Cherish this moment, live in this moment."  

 

 

Baba Ji 1/1/09.
 
 
dust of your feet