Penji: satnaam jee
Penji: dandauth bandhna jee paji
Preeto: satnaam ji, dandauth bandhna ji
Penji: I was watching this programme banged up abroad yday
and the girl was trying to smuggle cocaine back into Britain from Argentina
but handed herself to the police and they let her go as she didn't have any previous record.
But, 2 years later the Argentinian police caught up with her.
I just thought after confessing she did wrong she still got punished.
Preeto: just because we confess doesn't mean we dont have to pay the price as well
Penji: but then I was thinking when Pita jee (Dassan Dass) says to us all your sins are clean now when we confess, how does that happen in an instant, why do we still have to face consequences?
Preeto: Baba Ji said that our sins are the "burden on our soul"
Dassan Dass ji gave the example we came into existence as a pure soul, a part of Sat Himself, and that always remains pure. But around that is our soul body (also called astral body, or energy body, or sukhshum dehi). Dassan Dass ji said it is like that was a pure white sheet, but due to our bad deeds over millions of lifetimes we have put black marks all over it. They are talking about the karmic filth on our astral body. The karmic filth that saturates our astral body is like the thick black clouds that block the sunshine. Our astral body has 7 centres, which become blocked and soul energy (Amrit) is robbed by the five thieves. Our mental, emotional and physical bodies then start to deteriorate. Gurbani says without Naam a person becomes dried and withered. When we are Eternally Blessed with GurParsaad of Naam and we surrender to our SatGuru and do our simran, good deeds and start confessing our past deeds and asking for forgiveness, we are cleaning up our astral body of all the karmic filth – janam janam kee mayl – filth of lifetimes, as Gurbani calls it. Baba Ji said that only SatNaam – Truth – can remove the burden on our soul. All other ways are less than what Naam can do. What it means is that as per God's Laws, Hukam, we have to pay the price of what we have done - suffer the consequences, and no one and no meditation technique can overrule His Law of Karma. Only God Himself can overrules His own Law and save us from facing all the consequences of what we have done. And that happens through His Grace upon us, when He takes the form of the SatGuru and gives us His Naam which cleans us up.
So even having been forgiven and are now doing good deeds and Naam simran, our physical body is still running under the laws of society (to make things fair for everyone – rules and punishments) and nature (ages, deteriorates, sickness, death).
Preeto: SadhGuru has met lots of prisoners in South India who on being blessed by Him have become internally free and forgiven by God, but still their physical body is locked up in prison for the rest fo their worldly sentence.
Penji: yeh true
Preeto: Or you could be like this super rich couple we saw who owned a mansion with hundreds of acres in the UK, never went out, had high security because they were so worried they'd get robbed/attacked/kidnapped etc. They have locked themselves up physically as well as locked up inside by their mind logic in the cage of fears and worries and attachment to their wealth and body.
Penji: yeh that is also true
Preeto: freedom is from maya, freeing your mind from the web of maya. That is what Satguru ji's grace does for us when we sincerely try to clean up the karmic filth by confessing and asking for forgiveness on a daily basis in our ardas, or more powerfully in the email sangat.
When your mind is free, then it doesn't matter to you where your physical body is, or what is happening to it.
Penji: yep very true
Preeto: all of the Gurus and Bhagats were free inside, clean white sheet, but still many were punished by the society around them.
Penji: yes
Preeto: Guru's grace and forgiveness frees us from the burden on our soul, but we still have to go through whatever we have to around us as per the time and place and society we are living in. When we are anchored in Naam, when SatNaam saturates our heart, then we go through life without fear. It's only because of fear of what will happen to us, or what people will think of us, that we hide our sins.
Penji: yes very true
Preeto: so then we never are free inside. So we have to confess, ask for forgiveness, clean up by doing simran and seva. We have no fear of what happens around us because we have been forgiven by God-Guru, even if not by society.
Penji: yes
Preeto: only what God thinks of us matters in the end. So make peace with Him and He helps us to face society rather than what most of us do which is try to keep society happy and have no peace with God inside us. Then we are the biggest loser in the end as 5 thieves steal all of our divine energy (Amrit) and the couriers of death takes us in their noose.
Penji: yes and we live a lie and then we regret
Preeto: "Ram simar tu pachtaaigaa - remember God else you will regret" - Guru Tegh Bahadur ji
Penji: jee yes
Preeto: Dassan Dass ji taught us from the beginning to always keep God, Guru and Sangat as your highest priority in life.
Penji: yes
Preeto: dont let anything else become more important than that - even for a moment, even though you may think, "right now its really important for me to find a job", or "do my exams" or whatever and then you give up simran and seva and jump in 100% into maya (chasing desires) thinking its ok.
Penji: yeh
Preeto: but heart closes up really quickly and mind tightens its grip and its really hard to get free again.
Penji: yeh it does happen so quick
Preeto: So people dont trust God and Guru fully and instead think "I" (ego) have to sort this out
Penji: yeh
but always remember real success is becoming one with Satnaam
that is the purpose of this life
the number 1 reason we are here, but still we have some outer work to do
so instead of forgetting God and Guru
do ardas, "satnaam satguru ji, please guide me to do the outer work as pleases you."
"keeta loreeaa kumn so har paay aakheeaa
karaj deh savaar satguru kee sach saakeeaa"
-whatever tasks you need to do, tell them to God.
He will take care of them , this is the truth the Satguru tells. – Gurbani.
Penji: yes paji thank you
you always make so much sense to me
Preeto: its the Truth
to stay humble
to serve others
to always be a giver
forget about getting
to be true to SatNaam SatGuru
even if the mind is trying to make us fear
being poor, unpopular, sick or whatever
then we pass through all the tests
Baba Nanak - "ith marag payr dareeja sir deejay kahn na keejay –
stepping on this path and giving your head, dont look back , dont bother what what others say"
Penji: yes
Preeto: just dive into satnaam 100% and trust He will take care of your worldy tasks
Penji: thanks for your kind words and divine wisdom jee
Preeto: satnaam
dandauth bandhna ji
Penji: satnaam jee
dandauth bandhna kee
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