Sickness is not bad

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Baba ji said that cancer is not bad,  see cancer as god calling you back home.

"Sadanhara simareeaa nanak se deh avaan.
Do simran of the One who is calling you, that day is coming. "  Baba nanak ji.

Baba nanak ji says that no dukh (suffering ) is bad,  that dukh and Bukh (hunger) are gifts from God. 

"Ketia dukh bukh sad maar
eh bhi daat teree datar.
Many are in constant pain and hunger, 
even th is is your gift Lord."

Why? Because in hard times if we look to God, then the journey of our soul home begins. And conversely, when we ask for comforts, sukh, it becomes a disease because God is forgotten.

"Dukh daru sukh rog bhayaa
Ja sukh tam na hoi.
Suffering is the remedy,
Comforts had become a disease
In comforts God was forgotten. "
.. Baba nanak ji.

Until we look at dukh in the same way as baba ji and gurbani, we have to work on our faults. Not find faults in our Guru when we get dukh and lose our sukh.

Most Indian people we see first go to gurdwaras and then failing that go to sants to get their wants fulfilled,  for sukh.    When they hear a sant can change your destiny, they  think it means they can get what they  want from him or her.   It actually means when you give up wants and do bhagti then God changes your maya destiny to being with God destiny and He takes care of  you through all the ups and downs of your life as per your karma.

When people hear that whatever a sant says comes true, they try and make the sant say what they want.    People in wants have brought their guru into maya when they do that. At the religious places are just full of prayers for sukh, wants,  but no prayer for Naam, seva and bandagi.

But the guru will only give you blessings and wisdom to get out of maya.   This is why baba ji says once you have Naam don't desire anything else. Because even one unfulfilled want will keep you in maya. Gurbani says that Naam is the priceless diamond, nothing compares to it, so stop chasing after empty shells.

But when we are at a real hard time in our life,  eg bad health, bad finances, bad relationships, even knowing  this wisdom, we can start justifying asking guru and god for money, wife or health. We did the same once, but then your faith goes down when you make further losses. But baba ji told us, "if a little hard time is written for you, then just keep doing your simran,  and keep trying by honest means to solve your problem and ride it out. That's all." 

But instead of having faith in simran, we don't see a way out of our hard time . We think our hard time is going to last forever.  We lose faith in God guru, we think we have to chase our wants to make it better because guru has failed us.  That doing simran didn't work.    When we face these hard times then we will really know what we are like deep down.   It's easy to have faith  when everything is going well.  But what about when we lose our job, lose our health, lose our family?

At those times when our mind is fooling us we just think of dhan dhan Gurus, they  gave everything including their life for God. But our mind is crying for unfulfilled wants. This path is for givers,  give our life willingly to God otherwise death will take it painfully anyway. And mind only fooled us if we lost our faith in our guru for unfulfilled wants.

Losing faith  in God and guru many people then go to lesser God's or astrologers or psychics or other countless paths of healing,  new age secrets of getting want you want.  People around even go to the extent of doing  a deal with the devil,  or worshipping maya.    Baba ji said that "maya is a sweet poison that we take willingly."   So gurbani says that maya is loved by all but is the enemy of the sants.     Asking for any wants, is inviting maya in.  Better to say to God please kill my family,  burn my house,  cut my body into pieces, destroy my reputation,  but never let me lose your naam from my heart. And never let me ask for anything but your naam,  seva and bandagi.

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