How to meditate on SatGuru Ji's Lotus feet
Devotee: Dassan Dass ji is my Pita ji. He is the kindest ever
I love him with all my heart. I just open my heart to him now. But, yesterday
I even told him I doubt him and he understands with so much love it maybe an email but i feel love and warmth.
Preeto (Harjit): its good you always tell what you feel. Because that is basically doing a confession and then it is out in the open, doubts are removed, faith gets stronger and love comes in, so that is how you conquor the mind.
The email is just the trigger for us to focus on HIM, and when the connection is made through the mind, then Amrit flows into us from them. And that is the love you feel and warmth. Its amazing how it all works. When we sit do do simran, we imagine them sitting infront of us, holding our hands and doing simran with us. Naamjeevan ji once told us that if you have imagination and meditation, then you have everything. Where the mind goes, the Amrit flows. So take the mind to Satguru ji's feet, thats all it is.
Devotee: yes paji i will
Preeto: We were meditating on Dassan dass ji's feet in our hirdha last year when we resolved to totally surrender, doing simran with love, massaging his feet with love in our heart. Then we went into samadhi and amrit expanded from our heart all around our body. That's all gurbani asks us to do. To love the lotus feet of the Guru. Their Lotus Feet (Charan Kamal) are the doorway to God within us:
charan kamal sung lagee preet
bisar gaee sabh durmat reet
Munn tunn antar har har mant.
Nanak Bhagtan Ka ghar sada anand.
Loving the lotus feet,
all my bad and evil thoughts have been erased.
God's name resound in my mind and body.
Nanak: the saints house is in permanent joy.
Guru Arjun Dev Ji
Devotee: This is how i think i will start now. Saying satnaam and just thinking of the word in my mind.
Preeto: That's a good stage, saying in the mind, its third stage (first stage is saying with the tongue, second is doing it with your breath) but the next stage is where the Bhagti account opens with God and that is when you do it with love from your Hirdha as explained above.
Devotee: aww ok
Preeto: So you are feeling the love now, and feeling faith in Pita ji, so keep going forward now. It means your bhagti account has opened, your connection to your hirdha has been made thanks to Dassan Dass ji's look of grace upon you. Your one email of love and unlocked infinite love within you. It's all a journey within yourself - thats what Guru Nanak ji called the Nirmal Panth - Path to Become Pure Like God. Or Gurmukh Panth - inner path to become Gurmukh. Or Khalsa Panth really means as well, the inner path to become Khalsa=Pure. So simran in hirdha, plus love for Gurus lotus feet = progression on the inner path.
As simple as that!!
And as you feel more Amrit and love inside your hirdha, faith and love for Guru ji's feet just increases and increases, then it is unbreakable, and you become unshakable as well. So when you get hit by worldy pain, or emotional shock you will still be standing strong at the end of it, maybe even laughing at everything, because you only see God playing in it all anyway! His Divine Law of Karma playing out. And then you laugh at Maya, that she cant pull you down ever again, even if everyone else like family and friends around you go down screaming and crying, swearing and slandering, you wont. And that is called freedom from Maya, which is called Mukti from Maya, is called being Jiwan Mukat - liberated soul.
And Dassan Dass ji has told us all that is our destiny. It is God's grace upon us to have this wisdom and the blessings from Satguru ji to achieve it. You will even say to Maya, "come on then give me your best shot, the biggest test, the worst you can do."
And you will still laugh, because her tests will seem pathetic, because you are stable in SatNaam and in love with the Guru's feet. And the Gurus feet are anchored in Sach Khand, in Truth, so by holding onto them, we become anchored and stable in mind as well.
Devotee: awww thank u soo much paji your words help me so much
Dealing With Betrayal
Preeto: Just remember what Baba Ji said to us, that no one out there is our enemy, only our five thieves are our enemy,
Hum nahee chunga buraa nahee koee
Pranvat nanak taray soi.
I am not good, no one is bad.
Praying like this Nanak is ferried across.
Guru Nanak Dev ji
Preeto: when you realise that everything around you, outside you is just a big story (KARMA is writing all the stories) then you forget the stories, dont get involved with them, or passionate about them, or upset by them, they are not important. The only thing that is important in any situation is to ask yourself,
"how does this make me feel?"
"have I lost my peace?"
"which of the 5 thieves are running riot in me now?"
"how do I get back to peace?"
And then do ardas, start doing simran, cool down and come back to peace and love in your hirdha for His lotus feet. Come back to stability again :
Sacha naam mera adharo
Truth Name is my support
Guru Amar Das ji
Devotee: I know paji but what thief is it when someone betrays u who u think was ur guru?
Preeto: have alook inside yourself and you tell me. When we say, "someone betrayed me" then we know that
ME = EGO
And its our ego part which says
"I am someone."
"I am worthy of respect"
Devotee: yes, and "to be treated as I have treated them."
Preeto: And ego hates it to be disrespected, to be disregarded, to be treated fairly is all that ego wants. But, unfortunately, Karma may say otherwise, as KARMA OVERULES EVERYTHING.
Devotee: yes. I'm realising the hard way!
Preeto: so out goes what we want, what laws of the land want, what religious rules want from us, what our family wants from us. So just imagine there was no ego. Then if someone praised us, Gurbani says, all praise goes to God
and if someone slanders or betrays us then Gurbani says that God sees that as well.
And we have no ego, so we dont get overexcited if somone praises us. Nor do we dont get devasted if we are betrayed. But we just keep doing our simran, remaining anchored in TRUTH – SAT NAAM. And we let God deal with people who come to us. So if they are good to us we say to God, "please bless them a million times more." And if they were bad to us, we still say, "God please bless them a million times more."
That's our only job in the world, Truth, Love and Compassion for EVERYONE - enemies and friends alike and we know that whatever they are sowing they will reap, they cant escape that. Neither can we. But just look at what we are sowing - Gving millions of blessings to friend and foe, means billions of blessings will come back to us.
That is the way through this minefield of maya that Baba ji has taught us!!!
So our job is to just keep wishing good, good and good for all others, no matter what they do. Then ego cant get offended, anger cant arise, slandering wont come out of our mouth, violent and bad deeds wont be done by our hands. And most of all peace of mind wont be lost.
Devotee: yes paji i will
Preeto: If they broke the law, we stay calm as above, but report to the police
If they were deceptive and cheated us even in the guise of a holy man, then they may escape the law of the land, but they cant escape God's justice system – LAW OF KARMA.
Devotee: yes
Preeto: Remember if they were deceptive, then really they only fooled themselves that God wasn't watching. They only cheated their own soul from getting a place in God's lap.
Devotee: yes they did
Preeto: They only asked for their own soul to go back down into hell realms of mind, and actual hell realms in future births, so start at the bottom rung, animal life forms etc and work there way up again.
So when we know that we feel sorry for their soul, for being trapped by 5 thieves so much, that they only have punishments ahead of them now.
Devotee: yes
Preeto: so that is why we keep our compassion for their soul high and say "please God bless their soul a million times." So they can be free of being the slave of the five thieves.
Devotee: oh ok
Preeto: That's how we stay out of letting their 5 thieves aggravate our five thieves, then bringing us down to their level of consciousness, and making bad karma for ourself and hence we will also have to face the consequences of what we did.
Devotee: yes
Preeto: so as they say in ardas, "mun neeva mat uchee" meaning keep our mind the lowest, wisdom the highest.
Devotee: thank u paji
Preeto: thankyou. Love and blessings, you are doing great.
Devotee: thank u paji. Dust of your feet forever and ever.
Devotee: Satnaam ji
Preeto: Bye Satnaam.
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