Forgetting your purpose

ik onkar satnaam satgurprasad.

 

The worst thing a doctor can do is to murder, rather than heal, because he hates his patients.

The worst thing a judge can do is lie under oath, to save his reputation.

And the worst thing God-person can do is to live under maya, for the sake of making money.

 

On this spiritual path, it can become very easy to forget why we entered upon it, and very easy to look like a relgious person on the outside,

but just being driven by maya on the inside.  Then that is our downfall.  May Satguru Baba ji saves me every moment of every day from falling into maya and forgetting Him.

 

dust of your feet

Harjit

Dealing with doubts about your Guru

QUESTION:

I was always very interested in Yogi Bhajan because of the amazing things I have heard about him from my KY teachers. He seemed to be a great source of spiritual knowledge. In my research in an effort to get as close to his teachings as possible, I came across something concerning however (and I bring this up in only the utmost respect to gather opinions on it).

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I'm just concerned as I've been practicing KY for a while now and am *loving* it, but I don't know if I could continue to practice something from someone who may have been an abusive cult leader. Any evidence to the contrary or insights would be appreciative, since I'm somewhat heart-broken over this.

Thanks all, and once again I really don't mean any offense and I hope nobody misunderstands my intentions.

REPLY:

Satnaam Sacha Ji,

Please accept our prostration greeting at your holy feet.

you have asked a valid question. I have wasted many years in questions like these. It limits our spiritual progression because it is like driving a car with the handbrake on. With guru's kindness, what I have realised is that your spiritual path is all inside you. You are kind of saying, if Yogi Ji was not a right teacher, then I lose my faith. The real question to ask is always of your own mind. If we first accept that Guru Nanak Dev ji, who met murderers and the worst in society, if Guru himself has said , "I am not good and no one is bad, Nanak has been ferried across praying like this." Then we can try and carve this teaching into our heart as well.

So from now on if we say, no one is bad, only me. Then we have to point the finger inwards. What is the root cause of this question? And you will find it is doubts. In Guru's word wisdom (gurbani) this is called Dubidha. Guru Arjun Dev ji teaches us that whoever kills their doubts, their duality meaning seeing anything other than GOD in everything, is glorious.

One who kills this is freed of suffering.

How rare is such a person, who kills and casts off duality.

Killing it, he attains Raja Yoga, the Yoga of meditation and success. 1Pause

("jo eis maarae this kaa dhukh jaaee")

(" aisaa koe jo dhubidhhaa maar gavaavai")

("eisehi maar raaj jog kamaavai") 1rahau") SGGS 237

When we realise that doubts are our enemy and no one else, and especially not our spiritual teacher, then we can fight the correct enemy. True Faith, True Love and True devotion (Sacha vishwaas, sachee preet, shacha shardaa) in our Guru is our lifeline on the spiritual path. God is abstract, so He comes to us in a personal form in the heart of the saint. All we have to do is build our love, devotion and faith and pray to keep our head(ego) under the feet of God-Guru. Everyday we have to kill the doubts until there is 100% love only. Then that expands into super-love for Infinite God. But we have to beat our own mind first and trust and believe in the Guru God has sent us.

As said in another email, every single Guru, saint, devoteee has to go through the stage of slander. This includes you and also same thing happened to Yogi Ji too. The whole world including their family and friends, who are slaves of maya will try and pull down the onewho sets off on the path of Truth. Gurbani says that the saint becomes known throughout the world. Hence, their slander will also be worldwide and passionate. But, we who are on a spiritual path, are not to JUDGE even a single creation of God as being bad. Baba Ji said that while we choose to spend our life judging others we too will be judged, by Dharam Raj - Divine Judge at the end of our life. Only that one is not judged who completes their spiritual journey, who has gone past maya and her slaves who judge and slander. Only the one who has merged into the Truth is not judged. That one sees God in all. As Yogi Ji said, "If you cant see God in all, you cant see God at all."

Finally, Baba Ji also explained to us, even if your Guru is a fake, you should be such a devotee that your love saves the fake ones too. For example, devotee Dhanna Ji was a simple farmer who was desparate for God. He went to the holiest peson he knew - a Hindu Priest (Brahmin) who worshipped a rock. To fob Deotee Dhannaa ji off he gave him any old rock to worship and told him He would be blessed with god's vison. However, he fully knew that it wouldn't work, but he didn't care. Devotee Dhanna ji had so much faith in the words of his new Guru, that he took that rock and focused all his love and devotion on it, to the point he said to the One all prevading Ik Oankar, show yourself or I will starve to death. Then he was blessed with God's vision internally. This is as much of the story that is commonly told. But, Baba Ji also told us what happened next. Devotee Dhanna ji, who had completed his spiritual journey and was so full of love and now knew the Truth of his fake Guru. He prayed to God to also save His Guru too with no thoughts of punishing the fake Guru.

So this whole spiritual journey comes down to how much you conquor your own doubts through your true love, true faith and true devotion for your Guru regardless of what they are. It only matters what you are and how big your heart is.

dust of your feet

Harjit

Chat with S - Does love exists on earth?

11:16 s: i have one question in my mind

 i want to know the answer

11:17 does love exists on earth?

  i means between girl n boy?

11:18 i saw many people arround me falling in love with sum one but i think according to guru ji love is all maya

  bcoz thats not true dats only our attraction n we have to watch everyone with same eye

 me: baba ji says that God is Love, and the closest God comes to entering the Earth is in a heart full of Love.

11:19 s: that is the only message of GOD

  then why people marry sumone or say that they r in love with sumone

  ?

 me: There is a difference between desires and attractions which are due to our karma making us spend time with someone, and Love which is desireless.

11:20 Baba ji said that if it is love it is selfless, you would give everything for the other, you would die for them and expect nothing in return.

  But but most people have is selfish love, so it is actually just moh (attachment thief).

11:21 Because they want to be with the other person because it makes them feel good,

  they want to then POSSESS the other person and get jealous if the other talks to someone else,

11:22 they want to CONTROL the other person by marrying them and getting them to commit to them, they do this out of fear of being left alone, fear of being hurt..so it is all selfish

11:23 The inital moment they may have had love and it was spontaneous, meaning it just happenned, and that is GOD in their heart, but when they make it selfish, possessive, controlling, it is part of MOH-MAYA. Then it becomes a trap just to play out karma with the other person.

11:25 A Saint, A Guru is the one who in LOVE with God in every heart, and has sacrificed everything to that God and expects nothing from anyone, but gives everything, the biggest gift is the gift of NAAM. That is the difference in saint and a worldly ersons love. One GIVES everything, the other WANTS everything.

  Understand?

 s: yes jee

11:26 but i have one more question

 me: ok

11:27 s: one day i read in satnaam forum that u were fall in love with a gal in ur life but u wont marry her bcoz GOD's hukum so

11:28 s: then i want to know that how u call her ur love bcoz according to babaji every person is same we all are one so how u committed to her, specially her?

but that answer is very important for me

 

s: bcoz when anyone propose me i get confused

  all r same

11:30 so y i committed to him

  ?

11:31 me: in that situation I think the person wanted to marry the other, but they said no cause of parents, so the person got upset cause she didnt get what she wanted. So she needed to accept the Hukam to come to peace, and that the time they were attracted to each other was as per their karma, and it has come to an end as all things do.

11:32 s: thanx a lot jeee

  thank you very much jee

  thats my biggest confusion

  

thank you jee

 me: baba ji said we have karma to clear before we can go to God.

  So we cannot avoid living with people and avoid relationships and attractions and marriage and children. Because its all written in our karma that these people will come into our life and we have to repay our dues.

11:34 We cannot avoid it, because KARMA OVERRULES EVERYTHING.

  Even though you see all as one, still one day God will make you attracted to someone and get you married and have children if thats your karma.

  So that is not bad.

11:35 what is bad is when we forget God and get caught up in the 5 thieves, then we die spiritually.

  And that is why there are so many bad relationships, because they are al selfish, rather than selfless.

11:36 Baba ji said make your own family into sachkhand (truthful) living.

  See your wife and family as your sat sangat,

  wipe their shoes, cook for them, serve them as you'd serve your guru, and do satnaam with love in your heart and expect nothing inreturn.

11:37 then that is selfless living.

 s: thats great!!

 me: so whilst you are living out your karma, you are also going into true love of God.

  and you will find your wife, your children and family all cool down over time and start becoming truhful and helpful too.

11:38 it all starts with the seed of satnaam placed by guru;s grace in your heart,

11:39 then when you are more pure and so is your wife then you expereince higher love, you have spiritual expereinces and help each other to reach God, you become sat sangat for each other.

11:40 Even sex which the world sees as bad or pleasurable, even that becomes a truhful act because your remember satnaam at that time too. And realise sex and reproduction is not bad, it is the tmeple of god because that is where he creates new life, that is why He is KARTA PURAKH - creator being.

11:41 So now your mind is sync with your part in nature - to find a partner, to reproduce to serve one and all with the highest love in your heart.

  The best thng about falling in love with somone is that it gives you a glimpse of what LOVE for GOd is like.

11:42 Love is not bad, it is the selfish desires we wrap it up in that messes peoples minds up.

  Thats all ji,