Sat Naam
Ram was a satguru of a past age. Kabir ji said in gurbani that when I say Ram I don't mean the one who was born, I mean the one who is eternal. So the name Ram is used in gurbani like we use the word God in english to refer to the higher being. Because in the times of the ten gurus most people called God as Ram.
Ram means raamia which means the one who is embedded in all. Ram is the most commonly used name in gurbani for God. You can imagine the verses of gurbani were heard by mainly hindu people so they knew Ram meant God.
Each verse of gurbani was uttered for the sangat infront of the guru at that time. So there are many different languages in gurbani, although they are all written in the gurmukhi font.
There are hundreds of different names for God. Each name describes one of God's qualities. Gobind means world protector. Gopal means world cherisher. Waheguru means wonderful God, and so on. These are called praise names, or kirtam Naams. Because when the devotees where intoxicated in the love of the Lord, they praised his qualities. So the devotee who saw God absorbed in everything was saying God you are raamia in everything, you are ram ram ram ram ram ram.
One day kabir ji was doing "ram ram ram..." intoxicated in love and it turned to "kabir kabir kabir... " then he asked the Lord "ram ji I was saying your name and now I am saying my name, why?" and the Lord replied "ram and kabir are one now. Ram kabir Ek ha."
So praise names done with love can also take us into samadhi and intoxication and to God's door.
The same happened with Sat baba ji. They didn't know what Naam was but heard Gods sweet voice telling them to do Naam "Naam simran kar." They thought, "I have to go to the gurdwara to do that." They started by just clicking their tongue whilst doing seva. Over time they started doing "waheguru waheguru" with love for the Lord and went into samadhi. Over more time God blessed them and said, "you can start your own group now and give them these five names(panj shabad) of mine to do simran upon."
Baba ji said one of those names was baba jis worldly name too, "narinder". Just as ram kabir became one. So did waheguru and narinder. But baba ji was wise, and had deep thirst to know God fully and no desire to start an organisation and get his own name repeated. In Hinduism all gods and goddesses have a guru mantra. And in that mantra they give their followers is their own name. Eg "om namo shiva" is done by shiva followers.
Guru Gobind Singh ji said which ever bhagat God sent into the world had meditated on God (satnaam) but getting merger with God them got their own name worshipped. Instead of telling followers to worship the name of the one God same as they did (sarnaam). But the ten guru jis said, "may know one no my name and the name of the one God is Truth, ik onkar sat Naam." Sat is the Naam, sat Naam.
Coming back to baba ji they said to God in love, "I have seen my past four lives and I had religious organisations (dera), this time I only want to know you." then baba jis bhagti went even deeper and they said "the pebble (baba jis soul) pierced the diamond (God)" and god said to baba ji, "my original name the one I chose for myself is sat, Truth, five that to the sangat."
"kirtam Naam jihba teree Katha,
Sat Naam tera pura purbla. "
With the praise names I describe you with my tongue.
But sat Naam, the name sat/Truth, is your original name.
Guru arjun dev ji.
So baba ji has started with praise names, gone through the whole inner journey, and is authorised by God to give the highest, original name, Sat. Even beyond Sat naam, is pure silence. Baba ji said that satnaam is just to beat your mind, after that mind is replaced by light and silence.
So we are all very blessed by Baba jis great earnings to start our journey with Sat naam and not have to go through listening to verses and reciting prayers and praise names and names of lesser God's. It's all dhan baba jis great earnings shared with us. Satnaam satnaam satnaam satnaam.
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