God's Law - Hukam

SatNaam

 

Hukam means His Command or you can think of it as His Laws.   The most fundamental being LAW OF KARMA and Gurbani is full of the Divine Laws - the Hukams.

 

He has made the football pitch (creation) and he has made the rules of the game.  Everyone then operates within the laws of the game.

 

The biggest law is LAW OF KARMA.  That everyone pays their dues.

 

Gurbani says that even God cant break His own Laws.  But only His Bhagat can - because with NAAM He has gone beyond the LAW of KARMA, because EKO NAAM HUKAM HA - because the NAAM is the Creator of the Law Himself.

 

Means even knowing you are praying to God to change your fate, but still you can only get what you have sown as per law of karma.  However, the Bhagat's grace can overrule God's Command - Law of Karma.

 

Bhai Gurdas ji wrote the Namdev ji and Trilochan ji used to do bhagti together and the following article we wrote a while back explains it nicely:

 

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Satnaam Satnaam Sada Sada Satnaam
 
Dhan Dhan Gur ke pyaare,
 
We always took inspiration from this verse by Bhai Gurdas Ji on why it is so
helpful, if not essential,  to have sangat of a Sant-Guru. In this case bhagat
Trilochan Ji did the sangat of Bhagt Namdev ji (both of whom have their verses
in Gurbani).   Baba ji also said to us that to deny a Sant is to deny yourself
access to Dargah, because the Sants run Dargah.   What this means practically is
that even if it is not written in our destiny that we will meet with God in this
lifetime, then as per God's Hukam we have to reap what we have sown.   However,
if we put our request humbly infront of our Sant-SatGuru that we seek union with
God and they pass on our request, then that is the only thing that overturns our
fate as God says,

 

"I am under the total control of the devotees
and their loving claims I can never reject; "
 
That is why SatNaam Baba ji said to the sangat that came to him, "the bhagat is the
mother and father of God", but the sangat thought he was being egotistical and
called him a fraud.   It means whatever is in our karma cant be overturned by us
no matter how much we pray to God, because we have to reap what we have sown. 
However, praying to the SatGuru, though His love, even God can't say no.
 
 

dhurushun vaekhun naamudhaev bhulukae out(h) thrilochun aavai||
bhugath kurun mil dhue junae naamudhaeo har chuluth sunaavai||
maeree bhee kur baenuthee dhurushun dhaekhaa(n) jae this bhaavai||
t(h)aakur jee no pushhious dhurushun kivai thrilochun paavai||
husukai t(h)aakur boliaa naamudhaeo no kehi sumujhaavai||
huthh n aavai bhaett so thus thrilochun mai muhi laavai||
ho adhheen haa(n) bhuguth dhae puhu(n)ch n hu(n)ghaa(n) bhuguthee dhaavai||
hoe vicholaa aan milaavai ||   
 
 
Trilochan awoke early daily just to have sight of Namdev. 
 
Together they would concentrate on the Lord and Namdev would tell him the grand
stories of God.
 
(Trilochan asked Namdev) "Kindly pray for me so that if the Lord accepts,
I may also have a glimpse of His blessed vision.
 
Namdev asked Thakur, the Lord,
"how could Trilochan have the sight of the Lord?"
 
The Lord God smiled and explained to Naamdev;
"No offerings are needed by me.
Out of my delight only, I would make Trilochan to sight of me.
I am under the total control of the devotees
and their loving claims I can never reject;
rather I myself also cannot understand them.
Their loving devotion, in fact,
becomes mediator and makes them meet me."
  
  
 
God Bless You.