Do you want Maya's comfort - Part 2

Ik Oankaar SatNaam SatGurParsaad.

Dearest SatSangat Jeeo,

 

the night before sending out the previous email [Do you want Maya's Comfort] we went to sangat and then had a dream later in the night.  In the dream we are being escorted by a beautiful woman.  We were being shown around her playground.  Like a fun-fair, or a "jag-mela" as Baba ji calls it. She showed us wondrous sights and colourful attractions, all kinds of mind , body and spirit practitioners as well.

 

We felt very flattered to be the star guest, to have this personal guided tour.  We also felt good that we were getting attention from a beautiful woman, as a man it made us feel important and worthy.  We then said to her, "thankyou for showing us around." But in the back of our mind we knew this is not the Truth, but still we didnt want to make a fuss and were happy to just smile, say thankyou and conform.

 

When we woke up we realised that the beautiful woman was Maya and she was showing us around her false attractions of this world.  That is why we knew in the back of our mind that this is not the Truth.  But Dassan Dass ji would have told us to slap her down, to say SatNaam SatNaam and to destroy the lure of the false attractions from our mind.   We were unable to do that in the dream.  The dream is important for us as Satguru ji is showing us we need to beat Maya even in our subconscious mind.  We need to really give up any attraction for Maya even at a deep down level.  The dream also showed us that wanting to be popular and liked by pretty women or society that are the slaves of Maya, is also our weakness. 

 

We then had the  thought that look at this world we are living in, no-one thanks God, especially here in the UK, no one says God Bless You.  People think you are weird if you say that, or that only loud  Americans say that kind of stuff.   Infact, we personally get put off by people saying that as we think they are religious fantatics.    Look at TV, it is promoting alot of science programmes which is good, but its being done by athiests like Richard Dawkins as their way of saying science is true, God is not. [baba Ji said science is good enough to get you to Karam Khand - the fourth realm as it is by God;s grace he reveals the Truth of the physical world we are in, however for Sach Khand you need the Sant to tell you the complete Truth.]   TV presenters blatantly say they dont believe in God.  TV producers promote all kinds of weird and strange sexual and violent programs in films and especially late at night.  That is the culture we have been brought up in.  Even within our work place, God is not mentioned.  They say never talk about religion or politics at work - causes arguments.  In our religious society everyone is talking about Sikh history and sikh tradtions and sikh issues around the globe, or building their network with sikh families in the community to enhance their business or to find partners for their children, or a partner for themself.  The same is true in other religious places as well.  But other than reciting Gurbani or singing Kirtan, no one is actually talking about God from the depths of their own heart.

 

So in that dream we also denied the Truth, we didn't call the false the false and we didnt slap down Maya with the blows of SatNaam SatNaam.   If we take it to the logical conclusion, if all us who are trying to be God-orientated souls also deny the existance of Truth in our daily life through our silence then we will end up in the same situation as the Dev-Lok - the realms of the demi-gods where they are being self-worshipped and deny the existance of the One Truth (read Tanraj's description of his first life in the realm of Kali - Mata).  But Tanraj ji in that life kept searching for the MISSING LINK.   Living a life under the influence of Maya, under her control we are also living in a society that has denied the Truth.  Truth is the MISSING LINK right here right now in our life, in our work, in our TV watching, in our religious society, hobbies and sports and whatever else we are doing.  Guru gobind Singh Ji wrote, "I will not remain silent in fear of mortals."  He didnt conform to a society run by Maya, why should we?

 

The next day we went to COSTCO for an eye test.  We had no desire to purchase anything.  But as we wandered around the huge, huge supermarket, we started seeing products that started to tempt us - the steam mop, the photo scanner, the steam hoover ...all reduced prices!  Then we remembered the dream.  But this time in our conscious waking state, Maya wasnt standing next to us escorting us around.  This time she was sitting right in our mind talking to us by putting in thoughts - look how wonderful this attraction is, look how great that device is, look how much you will save and so on.   But this time, unlike the dream, we reverted back to our Naam Simran, "SatNaam KartaPurakh - Truth is the Creator Being".  We said "we dont want anything, we dont need anything, Satguru ji has given us everything, all we see is the Truth behind these items, and that is the Creator of these things. We bow to the MISSING LINK, to SATNAAM KARTAPURAKH, the One who created Maya and Maya's attractions.

 

So practically what does it mean to not deny Truth in our waking and dream states?  We spoke to Namjeevan Sant Ji in sangat.  She said to us that a while back she offered SatNaam everything back to Him.  She saw in her vision a table like a chess board design on top.  She placed pieces on the board.  The first piece was the most valuable of her possessions - her children. Then she placed her husband and family, she placed her pyschic abilities, she placed even Tanraj ji and even she placed Dargah (God's Court) and the experiences she has when going there.  She placed all the pieces of her prized possesions on the chess-board and said directly to SatNaam, "Here , you can have it all back, I only want You."  Then she went into deeper samadhi and when she woke up, she found herself in Dargah and thought , "OK So Satnaam still wants me to have this."  Then she came back to her conscious state and saw her children and house and family, and said, "OK Satnaam, so you still want me to have these as well."

 

We hope in these emails about Maya we all realise how to conquor Maya.  We are all insecure beings, we have needs - biolgical and sexual and we have desires for our wants to be fulfilled.  We then pursue these things and get entangled with them.  The Sant is the one who gives us the scissors of Naam to cut our way out of the web.     Giving up Maya doesnt mean we have to live in a jungle without any comforts (although if that's your destiny then that is what you will get).  Giving Maya, means we are no longer chasing those things, we give them back to God in our mind,  and we let Him though our Satguru ji give back anything HE WANTS to us.  Its a completely different mindset we develop.     We still go shopping but as we are doing our Naam Simran we are seeing the Creator of the products and not the selfish desire for those products.   We buy those products with an attitude of service, like we are buying it for the sangat, to serve the family with, to feed the children with, we buy it with love for others in our heart.  Baba ji said that he used to go shopping and buy two of everything. One for his family sangat, and one for the sangat at the Gurdwara, that's how much he loved the sangat.  That is the basic difference. We just have to apply that everytinhg in our life.  

 

Namjeevan Ji also explained that whilst living in Maya's comforts, its not about physically getting rid of them to be free of Maya, its about taking our selfishness out and replacing with selflessness. So she gave the example of her own house, she opens the doors every week and its for the use of the Sangat.  Her own children, she takes her love for them and expands it to the loving all children of the world in the same way, like all children are her children - same for parents, love all older people as our parents.  She looks at her husband and its not about each of them using each other to satisfy needs - emotional or physical, its no longer about controlling each other or fitting into social stereotypes of how a man should be and ahow a women should be in the marraige.  That was the way when living in ego under the influence of ego and society.  but now the way is they support each other for spiritual growth, serve each other and the family as sangat.  Even at Sangat Jaspal ji did dandauth to Namjeevan.  Does any man bow to his wife in society, especailly our Indian society?  So to give up Maya we need to detach from it (tyaag it) internally, we need to give it back to God and say to God, like Guru Gobind Singh ji did in the jungle when he slept on a rock for a pillow, that even the softest bed is like a pitful of snakes without You - "mirt pyare noo haal marreeda da kahina. Tudh bin rog rajaaiaa da udan naag nivaasaa da rahna."

 

Namjeevan also finished off saying that she doesn't keep God hidden inside herself now, whomever she meets she will say to them "God bless You"  when they leave.  It no longer matters what society thinks of her or God, she knows the Truth and the Bhagat is sent in the world to break the false illusion of Maya and to restore the MISSING LINK.

 

 

 

God Bless You All.

 

Or AS Baba Ji and Sangat say, "Dhan Dhan Sukhe Raho - Your are Blessed Blessed Stay in Eternal Peace" 

 

Love Gurbani, Sing Gurbani, Bow To Gurbani, Praise God and Guru through Gurbani and most of all become Gurbani.

 

Dust of your feet

Harjit