Are you feeling depressed about failing to get a job?

SatNaam Ji

 

 

Q:  I was just feeling depressed being trying to get a job for the last 8 months and I didn't want it to effect me but i think it started to recently,

 

A:  Always try and stay positive about how your life is.  Just accept that right now God doesnt want you to have a job because we can only reap what we have sown (reaping our karma).   Then you wont feel depressed because you're accepting that HE is running us and we are happy with HIS HUKAM, His command.   And turn it into a positive, that you have all this time to work on yourself, to read the website, to read gurbani and apply it, to email us, to do your simran, to do seva (go to Gurdwara and do voluntary work (www.do-it.org) ).

 

You have been given time to update your skills, to become useful in the world.  And most of all you have been given the chance to keep saying to SatGuru ji

 

"jo tudh bhavai saee bhalee kar, tu sada salamat nirankaar"

Whatever pleases you God is a wonderful thing. 

May I always and forever keep praising You."  

         - Dhan Guru Nanak Dev Ji.

 

So say to Satnaam ji, "If you want to keep me unemployed that is fine.  If you want me to work that is fine too."  Baba Ji said to us keep saying to SatNaam, "I have jumped into the ocean of YOU now so its upto you if you want to drown me or ferry me across."    Give up everything to SatGuru, that's what we did right at the beginning.  We said to SatGuru ji that we are going to do His Bhagti, Remember His Naam and we are going to let HIM take care of all our worldy tasks.  And over the years He has arranged our worldy life - we have got jobs when needed, got married, got a house, got a car, got beautiful daughters and we say thankyou Satguru ji  you took care of it all and are still taking caring of it all."  But remember He gives us all of these comforts so we can do His Bhagti in comfort, rather than having to struggle in a jungle or a cave like a Yogi.  He doesn't give us all these comforts so we forget Him and just keep chasing more and more comforts.

 

All these worldy affairs are taken care by serving the Satguru ...

 

"char padarath je ko mangay. Sadh janaa kee seva lagay."

If you want all the comforts, then serve the Saints." - Guru Arjun Dev ji.

 

So having a Satguru  is the greatest, greatest, greatest thing of all in this life.  Under their Chattar (divine aura), under their divine umbrella we are shielded from all negativity. Under their lotus feet we find peace from the blows of maya.  They give us Naam and we have something to hold onto our mind and we avoid getting drowned by depressing thoughts and negative outcomes and rejection and death or sickness of close ones.

 

Please just keep trying for jobs, but at the same time remember these points about being happy (and hence avoiding feeling depressed):

 

1. "Right now in my life everything is exactly how God wants it to be."  Everything is perfect according to what God wants.  Hukam Rajai Chalna.  I accept I am reaping what I have sown.  I accept whatever I have right now, good or bad, is exactly what I deserve.

 

2. "Nothing outside of me can effect what is inside of me."  This can only happen when we attach our mind to doing Naam Simran and focus on the SatGuru Ji's feet rather than running around in worldy thoughts about future and past.  By doing Naam simran with each and every thought we stop thinking about wordly stuff which is only Maya thinking.   Naam simran is our anchor and stops us getting tossed around in the storms of our Maya mind.  By doing Naam Simran with every thought we are saying God's Name, we are calling Him - the One who is the real living presence, right here and now.   So we are living in the present moment.  Namjeevan said in sangat last week, "Just think how good it feels when someone calls your name, when they phone you or come around to meet you.  Well SatNaam is God's name and He is a real being."    SatNaam KartaPurakh means that SatNaam is the Creator Being.  Just as you are a human Being, He is the Supreme Being - ParBrahm Parmesar.  We only have to call His Name and we become aware of His presence.  We only have to call His name with as much love and kindess as we can, and He comes out of hiding in our heart and fills our mind, body and soul with Amrit - with His Immortal presence.   We call his Name and become aware of Him, we forget His Name and go back into the darkness of Maya thoughts.

 

3.  Develop an understanding for all beings around you.  Understand and accept other people exactly as they are.  Good, bad , evil or mean, saint or slanderer, just accept everyone exactly the way they are.  Dont try to change them, dont get upset if they are mean to you.  Just accept that is exactly how God wants them to be right now.  That is Hukam for them as per their Karma.  They too are also reaping what they have sown.  By understanding others are fine the way they are, you will accept them and have love and have compassion for them.    And you will be able to pray to Satguru ji to even bless your worst enemy, "sarbatt da bhalla - goodwill to all."  Only the heart that fills will love and compassion is the heart where Truth (SatNaam) can come and reside.

 

May SatGuru Ji Bless You Always and Forever.

 

 

Harjit