the Guru's Lotus Feet are the sanctuary for the hurt, the weak, the oppressed

QN: please help me i am generally quite an insecure person i always worry and think im not good enough.

REPLY:

Sat Naam Ji,
Dandauth Bandhna,
 
the Guru's Lotus Feet are the sanctuary for the hurt, the weak, the oppressed, the fearful and all the down and outs
in the whole universe.  Guru Nanak Dev ji wrote that where the poor and needy are looked after God's mercy rains down.
The bhagats in gurbani, they were coming from a very low place in society - low caste or doing menial jobs, like
cleaning, or cobbler or barber or butcher, or simple farmer like Dhanna ji.  They all had one thing in common they were dukhi -
they were suffering, they were poor , they were hungry , they were oppressed, they were laughed at and even people
beat them and tried to kill them.    But they found their own relgious paths were dead ends, that the preachers
were not treating them fairly, that those rituals and beliefs didnt lead anywhere.  Like Kabir Ji was walking on the way
to Mecca for pilgrimage, and God spoke to him "who told you I am there?  I am in your heart."
 
So because they were coming from a position of Dukh (pain) they had no ego, and they prayed to God with a true heart.
And God came to them in the form of the nearest heart that was enlightened - meaning the one within whom God was fully manifested - the pargatio-jyot.    
And that enlightened heart, the sant hirdha, was the Guru who gave them the Naam,
the Eternal Blessings (gurParsaad), the key to their inner kingdom of internal peace love and Truth.
 
If you read their verses, they are telling us their life story.  They are saying we were in pain, we prayed seriously, God came to us in the form of His Sant.  We were blessed with the Naam, we gave everything at the feet of that Sant-Guru who saved us,
they feel in love with the Sant-Guru ji's lotus feet.   Their fears, hatred, worries, jealousies and all the negative qualities left them,
their heart bloomed, they went into the Divine Light - and that is what made them stable - peace of mind, fearless, secure.
 
So in Gurbani we are so lucky they have left us their story.  but it is not just for reading and reading, it is to inpsire us to go and do  the same.  To pray seriously to god for the blessings of Naam from our Guru.  Then to follow the path our Guru gives us. The path of humbleness and service and to realise theInfinite Divine Power that resides within us as well.
 
He is the kindest,
he speaks good english.  You will feel peaceful and calm by the end of the conversation.  Each of his words are chraged with divinity/amrit.  You wont realise but he will be lifiting your spirits with divine light and washing millions of your bad thoughts and deeds.  all you will know is you feel light and happy at the end.  why, because in the aura (chattar) of a Sant , Maya cannot come and hence the five thieves being disabled, so we feel the peace of our own soul. 
 
Its only your own five thieves that make you insecure and lacking in confidence.  But because of your great good destiny, God is coming to you know.  Just be humble, just offer you dandauth bandhna at His holy feet, just say what you say to us, that you are a bad person, you have done many bad deeds and are full of five thieves ,that you are insecure and full of fear, that you accept all your misdeeds and ask forforgiveness.  And ask for the gurParsaad of Naam, Seva and Bandagi (divine slavery - to became a slave of God).
 
God knows everything about us, everything we know about our past deeds god also knows as he is within us.  But god does not
call us terrible or hate us for it.  God just lets us reap what we have sown and sits quietly in the background, waiting for us to stop hiding our misdeeds , to confess them to Him and to admit the truth of what we really are.  He forgives us right away and we move on.  When we speak to Sant-Guru , like Baba ji, we are speaking direct to God in his heart, and god is speaking direct to us through Baba ji's heart.  And whatever Baba ji says to you WILL happen for you, his each and every word re-writes your destiny, puts right whatever wrongs you have done.
 
That is why we are forever a sacrifice to our Sant-Guru, to every Sant in the whole world for serving God.
 
 
God bless You with strength and courage.
 
First time we met baba ji we were also very nervous, we had everyone in our family against it, but we followed our heart
and am glad I did.  We said to baba ji we are not a brave person , scared of others, Baba ji gave us the blessing that our heart will
bloom on our face.  And now we are not scared of those things anymore - family, religious fanatics . 
 
So god bless you and let us know how you feel afterwards.  Just do ardas before calling and call!!
 
Dust of your feet
Harjit

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