Ik onkar sat
Ik onkar sat
Ik onkat sat
Ik onkat sat
Satnaam maharaj ji said once "gaining maya we lost god" and also "dont cry for maya" and also in gurbani "chasing maya you wasted your life" and also maharaj ji said "those whom he wants to punish(as per their deeds and law of karma) he gives maya too, those he loves (vad bhaagi..greatly fortunate ones) he gives himself, gives them naam.
If we have vad bhaag and blessings of naam and guru, then we shouldnt cry for maya, we should piss on maya, we should laugh at maya when.she says i can give you what you want, we should chop up maya with our sword of satnaam, but we shouldnt follow her or believe her or be tempted by her. God help us all.
The easiest way to stay out of maya's grip is to give up wants. What is a want? A want is something we think we need to make us happy. Wants make us take the path of getting things or people. Once we have naam only think about giving away everything you already have...giving is gurmukh, getting us manmukh, gurmukh is selfless, munmukh is selfish.
Munmukh gets trapped in maya , gurmukh gurus even gave their heads, their sons , their wealth, their everything. Thats the onky way to escape maya, have no wants, we are not lacking anything, we are sitting in the house of diamond satnaam maharaj jeeo.
Maharaj jeeo told us last week when our munmukh side comes up, tell the mind "i am on the sant marg, i am gurmukh, i am living only for others, i am doong satnaam every breath, every step."
They said, when we are doing sat every moment then mind cannot lead us away because our satguru is with us all the time. Its onky when we let go of satnaam, then our munmukh mind leads us astray back into maya.
They also said "if we have 2 hrs of dukh, thrn we need to 3hrs of simran to rebalance
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When we do satnaam 24/7 then there is no space for dukh to come in due to munmukh mind in maya.
We know we are munmukh when it hurts us on losing money, or getting rejected by a person or for a job, or losing a deal or a family member, or losing our health and getting depressed. Munnmukh mind will cry on loss of maya and be happy of gaining it. As gurmukh when we have a loss or failure, say to god, "rabba maynoo hor loss deho..o hod please give me more losses so the dukh takes me closer to you.". Turn the munmukh mind around, aks for more dukh on getting dukh, because that dukh is daru to get us to god.
Dhan baba nanak ji who on going up the moutains to bless the sidhs was requested by them to get some water from the river, on returning without water , they asked why? Dhan baba nanak ji said because the river was dry and there were only some stones there..emeralds , rubies and diamonds.
Even maharaj jee says if there is a pile of gold infront of you but there is no inner hukam for you to have it, then leave it alone.
Baba ji said if you are happy walking somewhere, getting fresh air, getting fit and someone offers you a lift , say no because you will get mkre satisfaction walking with satnaam than comforts of a car forgetting satnaam chatting to your friend.
Baba ji said if there are two rotis, take the old burnt one for yourself, offer the pther one to others.
Apply this principle to everything .and become gurmukh.
Maharaj ji said to have more joy in giving than receiving. Look at our birthdays or xmas or wedding presents, everyone gets happy on getting presents they wanted, or they complain if they didnt get what they wanted...munmukh, wherease gurmukh gets joy by giving and thanking for whatever came or didnt come.
Maharaj jeeo actually said in our dreams/visions not to accept any gifts, not to have any wants, to be really strict about this, not to even take gifts from the guru's themself. Only ask for naam, seva and bandagi. Or actually just say, thankyou but we already have naam, just give us seva and wash their feet.
Once in sangat, a bibi ji was in difficult financial situation, young kids, no job, only husband working, and she had naam from baba ji. In her vision lakshmi came and it was raining gold and lalshmi was giving it to her, but she said no thankyou i have naam and dont need anything else.
Even later on in her bhagti guru gobind singh ji came and called her as his own daughter now, and gave her a golden kirpan, but she said she could not take it and just wanted seva of guru ji. Then guru ji placed the kirpan directly into her hirdha, signifying inner fearlessnes and strength to deal with all the tests she was facing from her family about having baba ji as her guru.
When our bhagti goes higher, and we have been really praying to be with god, then god sees how much we really want him, by giving us the chance to have something of the world that we always wanted but were unable to get. At that moment we can think o yes god is giving this to us, its not maya, we wont lose our simran, but because it was a very strong unfulfilled desire of ours for perhaps many years, it is hard to say no to it. Its at that time if we have a satguru ji and we trust them then they can tell us if its maya and to leave it. If we can say no to our greatest unfulfilled desire for the love of god then god sees where we really stand.
And understand this, when we do satnaam simran, this is fast track to god, and also it is fast track for maya to give us all our worldy wants. So you really have to be want free to break free .
Look at the story of the child bhagat dhruv ji, sang kabir ji says..raam japo ji aysay aysa dhruv prahlad japio hat jaysaa...do simran like bhagats dhruv and prahlad ji did.
Dhruv ji was a child prince, he sat in his dads lap, the king. The step mum, another queen, got worried dhruv was becoming the king's favourite and told him to get off. He was five, he got really upset, he ran to his mum, the older queen and said why dont they respect you and hence me? She said , because of my past karma i am lucky to be a queen, but because i never had a guru and naam i have no respect. Dhruv ji ran away to the forest saying he will do so much bhagti and get so much shakti he will storm the palace , become king, and demand respect. He got blessed by a guru and after a few years got up to storm the palace, his guru came and said , ok before u break the palace doors ,just break my staff. Dhruv ji couldnt and his ego broke instead. He went back did many more years of bhagti and fell in love with god, his guru came back and said, now you can go and storm the palace and become king, dhruv ji said intoxicated in love of naam, i dont want that anymore i have the real love now, i dont need anything else. And then a few yrs later when the king passed away, they came and fpund dhriv ji and gave him the throne.
That is how bhagti works. We may come into satnaam family and get naam and gurus blessings because we want worldy things sorted out. But doing naam fpr wants may motivate us for a while, so maya will come and give us what qe want, if we listen to guru and give it up we pass, if we dont we fail, if we pass and finish our bhagti , we will get whatever god wants us to have anyway.
If we can deeply understand this gian we can pass maya's tests.
Alos in gurbani dhan guru amar das ji wrote that maya is nothing more than an annoying fly but has distracted the whole world. That she is a snake without teeth but has still eaten the whole world.
Dhan dhan satnaam baba ji maharaj ji who sat in his bhagti and grabbed maya (pesky fly) in his fist and smashed her.
May we all be blessed to do the same to maya in our own bhagti.
PRITAM ANAND JI:
Bakshana haara sat parbraham ji.
Jo jo jape so mukta hoye.
When we recite Sat naam that very moment we are away from maya. If we keep doing 24/7 and keep doing sat karni then we can enjoy freedom from maya right here and hereafter. Ek onkar sat sat sat sat satsat sat sat sat sat satnaam
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