Are you too weak minded and lazy to do bhagti?

Ik Oankaar SatNaam SatGurParsaad.

 

Dandauth Bandhna ji,

 

 

most of us at some time have read the articles on the website ora talked to the blessed souls and thought how great it would be if we too could get up early, do our Amritvela simran for long hours, and then do another hour of Simran in the evening, as requested by Dassan Dass ji.

 

And most of us have probably tried to do it but have found that apart from now and again we mostly are stuck in our old routines of sleeping late, getting up late, and busy all evening with firends and family, TV and internet.

 

After a while we may find even though we are reading these emails and articles on the website as well as getting inspiration from the going to Sangat, on a daily basis we are just getting worse.  Getting into bad eating habits, little or no excercise, sitting for long hours at home, work and in commuting.  On top of which maybe our friends and family occupy alot of our time as well as staying up late on the computer or watching useless TV programmes that lead us into lust.

 

This then leads to feeling worse about ourself, feeling really guilty about not doing our Amritvela Simran, feeling even worse for indulging in untrue deeds, chasing women/men, money, excitement, worldy pursuits, drinking , smoking, partying or whatever it is.

 

We may even confess a few times in our ardas to God, go to the Gurdwara make a few dontations and try to sit to clear our mind and our guilt.  We may even promise to be better, to get up , to follow the divine wisdom and change our ways.  But no matter what we do, we just seem to end up back in our old habits, just getting more bogged down in lower consciousness living.  We may beging self-loathing - hating ourself and then take it out on our family and kids by shouting at them, getting angry and becoming more short-tempered.

 

In the end, we may even give up trying to get up, give up trying to do Ardas for help, give up confessing our misdeeds, give up going to the Sangat, start thinking bad of those who are doing Bhagti, get jealous of them, then feel even worse about ourself. Then we may even say to ourself, "I am not destined to meet God in this life.  I am just weak-minded and too lazy. A complete loser."

 

And at that point, if we have no Guru's Blessing, we will go spiralling back into the web of maya to entangle your mind for as many years or lifetimes that it takes for us to learn our lessons.

 

Actually, what we have to realise is that when we say we are too weak-minded and too lazy, that infact it really is a sign that our ego is VERY, VERY STRONG.  We are  not weak-minded or lazy at all, because we dont sit doing nothing all day.  We get up and are very active in wordly pursuits, wether it is for getting the food and drink we like, or meeting/phoning, emailing/texting/facebooking the people we like, or doing the work we like.   It is just out EGO is SO STRONG that it is resisting as hard as it can, with all its might, to CHANGE ITS WAYS.

 

And what does Gurbani say about it:

 

haumai deerag rog ha

daru bhee is mahi.

Kirpa karay je apanee

ta gur ka shabad kamaai.

Ego is the most chronic disease,

but there is a medicine for it as well.

If He gives His grace

then we earn the Guru's word.

  ....Dhan Guru Nanak Dev Ji.

 

 

Without Grace, His Kirpa, the Guru's Eternal Blessings, we can never get up at Amritvela and do long hours of Simran.  Gurbani says that Naam and Ego are opposities. When EGO fills our head, there is no God, no Naam.  

 

Jab hum hota tab tu nahee,

ab tuhi ma nahee.

Whilst "I" existed, You did not.

When you came, "I" ceased. 

   ...Gurbani.

 

So if your mind is telling you that you are too lazy and too weak-minded, realise that it is YOUR EGO that is super-strong, and that you have let it get that way over this lifetime.  A Swami ji wrote that the greater the age, the stronger the ego.  The younger the years the less the ego.   And Guru Nanak Dev ji wrote that ego is very strong around middle-age and the one that runs people of this age in particular.   So if we have left it this long to do our bhagti, then we have a big battle with EGO ahead of us.   But as Guru Tegh Bahadur ji said, "even now it is not too late to start taking God's Name."  So start by not believing your mind when its says that you are too lazy and weak-minded.  Remember if you have the GurParasaad, the Guru's Eternal blessings are with you and He will not let you spiral down back into Maya.  Put your hands together, head low and pray from the depths of your heart to be cured from the chronic disease of ego.  Start daily reading of Gurbani and the website and start putting the divine wisdom into practise.  Accept you are a complete beginner, but even taking one step at a time you can conquor the highest mountain - your ego mountain.

 

Keep praying all day long, keep doing little ardas'es to god in your heart and mind all day long, Gurbani is full of verses confessing how low and mean our deeds are, but still asking for God's kind Kirpa, so it costs us nothing to start holding onto these little gems of gurbani , for example

 

Daya karo baso man aye.

Mohi nirgun leejay lar laai.

 

Be merciful and come into my heart,

I have no virtues, but attach me to your skirt.

...Guru Arjun Dev Ji.

 

 

mere satguru ma tujh bin avar no kee,

hum moorakh mugadh sarnaagati kar kirpa milay har soi.

 

My Satguru, I have no one other than you.

I am a stupid dumb fool who has come into your shelter

grant me Your grace and unite me with You.

...Guru Ram Das Ji.

 

Waho Waho Sachay Ma Teree Tek

Hau papee tu nirmal ek.

 

Wondrous, wondrous True One I seek your shelter.

For I am a sinner and you ar the Perfect One.

...Dhan Guru Nanak Dev Ji.

 

 

EGO maybe very strong, but we have been blessed with the medicine of Gurbani, so at least become humble enough to hold tight onto these gems as they are

the only way out for us with the Guru's Eternal Blessings - GurParsaad.

 

Dhan Dhan Sukhee Raho - Blessed Blessed. Stay in Eternal Peace.

 

Dust of your feet

Harjit

 

 

 

 

 

Just Being Happiness

SatNaam Ji

 

We saw this clip on youtube.  We bow to Swamee ji, he is a beautiful soul. God Bless Him always and forever.  Even though he is a (Ashtanga) Yoga master, he has gone beyond that and summarised it : "Twisting the body is not yoga, straightening the mind is yoga."  And "Be at peace with yourself then you are peace with the whole world.  You dont have to become anybody, just be yourself."

 

Dust of your feet,

Harjit

 

 

Do you want Maya's comfort - Part 2

Ik Oankaar SatNaam SatGurParsaad.

Dearest SatSangat Jeeo,

 

the night before sending out the previous email [Do you want Maya's Comfort] we went to sangat and then had a dream later in the night.  In the dream we are being escorted by a beautiful woman.  We were being shown around her playground.  Like a fun-fair, or a "jag-mela" as Baba ji calls it. She showed us wondrous sights and colourful attractions, all kinds of mind , body and spirit practitioners as well.

 

We felt very flattered to be the star guest, to have this personal guided tour.  We also felt good that we were getting attention from a beautiful woman, as a man it made us feel important and worthy.  We then said to her, "thankyou for showing us around." But in the back of our mind we knew this is not the Truth, but still we didnt want to make a fuss and were happy to just smile, say thankyou and conform.

 

When we woke up we realised that the beautiful woman was Maya and she was showing us around her false attractions of this world.  That is why we knew in the back of our mind that this is not the Truth.  But Dassan Dass ji would have told us to slap her down, to say SatNaam SatNaam and to destroy the lure of the false attractions from our mind.   We were unable to do that in the dream.  The dream is important for us as Satguru ji is showing us we need to beat Maya even in our subconscious mind.  We need to really give up any attraction for Maya even at a deep down level.  The dream also showed us that wanting to be popular and liked by pretty women or society that are the slaves of Maya, is also our weakness. 

 

We then had the  thought that look at this world we are living in, no-one thanks God, especially here in the UK, no one says God Bless You.  People think you are weird if you say that, or that only loud  Americans say that kind of stuff.   Infact, we personally get put off by people saying that as we think they are religious fantatics.    Look at TV, it is promoting alot of science programmes which is good, but its being done by athiests like Richard Dawkins as their way of saying science is true, God is not. [baba Ji said science is good enough to get you to Karam Khand - the fourth realm as it is by God;s grace he reveals the Truth of the physical world we are in, however for Sach Khand you need the Sant to tell you the complete Truth.]   TV presenters blatantly say they dont believe in God.  TV producers promote all kinds of weird and strange sexual and violent programs in films and especially late at night.  That is the culture we have been brought up in.  Even within our work place, God is not mentioned.  They say never talk about religion or politics at work - causes arguments.  In our religious society everyone is talking about Sikh history and sikh tradtions and sikh issues around the globe, or building their network with sikh families in the community to enhance their business or to find partners for their children, or a partner for themself.  The same is true in other religious places as well.  But other than reciting Gurbani or singing Kirtan, no one is actually talking about God from the depths of their own heart.

 

So in that dream we also denied the Truth, we didn't call the false the false and we didnt slap down Maya with the blows of SatNaam SatNaam.   If we take it to the logical conclusion, if all us who are trying to be God-orientated souls also deny the existance of Truth in our daily life through our silence then we will end up in the same situation as the Dev-Lok - the realms of the demi-gods where they are being self-worshipped and deny the existance of the One Truth (read Tanraj's description of his first life in the realm of Kali - Mata).  But Tanraj ji in that life kept searching for the MISSING LINK.   Living a life under the influence of Maya, under her control we are also living in a society that has denied the Truth.  Truth is the MISSING LINK right here right now in our life, in our work, in our TV watching, in our religious society, hobbies and sports and whatever else we are doing.  Guru gobind Singh Ji wrote, "I will not remain silent in fear of mortals."  He didnt conform to a society run by Maya, why should we?

 

The next day we went to COSTCO for an eye test.  We had no desire to purchase anything.  But as we wandered around the huge, huge supermarket, we started seeing products that started to tempt us - the steam mop, the photo scanner, the steam hoover ...all reduced prices!  Then we remembered the dream.  But this time in our conscious waking state, Maya wasnt standing next to us escorting us around.  This time she was sitting right in our mind talking to us by putting in thoughts - look how wonderful this attraction is, look how great that device is, look how much you will save and so on.   But this time, unlike the dream, we reverted back to our Naam Simran, "SatNaam KartaPurakh - Truth is the Creator Being".  We said "we dont want anything, we dont need anything, Satguru ji has given us everything, all we see is the Truth behind these items, and that is the Creator of these things. We bow to the MISSING LINK, to SATNAAM KARTAPURAKH, the One who created Maya and Maya's attractions.

 

So practically what does it mean to not deny Truth in our waking and dream states?  We spoke to Namjeevan Sant Ji in sangat.  She said to us that a while back she offered SatNaam everything back to Him.  She saw in her vision a table like a chess board design on top.  She placed pieces on the board.  The first piece was the most valuable of her possessions - her children. Then she placed her husband and family, she placed her pyschic abilities, she placed even Tanraj ji and even she placed Dargah (God's Court) and the experiences she has when going there.  She placed all the pieces of her prized possesions on the chess-board and said directly to SatNaam, "Here , you can have it all back, I only want You."  Then she went into deeper samadhi and when she woke up, she found herself in Dargah and thought , "OK So Satnaam still wants me to have this."  Then she came back to her conscious state and saw her children and house and family, and said, "OK Satnaam, so you still want me to have these as well."

 

We hope in these emails about Maya we all realise how to conquor Maya.  We are all insecure beings, we have needs - biolgical and sexual and we have desires for our wants to be fulfilled.  We then pursue these things and get entangled with them.  The Sant is the one who gives us the scissors of Naam to cut our way out of the web.     Giving up Maya doesnt mean we have to live in a jungle without any comforts (although if that's your destiny then that is what you will get).  Giving Maya, means we are no longer chasing those things, we give them back to God in our mind,  and we let Him though our Satguru ji give back anything HE WANTS to us.  Its a completely different mindset we develop.     We still go shopping but as we are doing our Naam Simran we are seeing the Creator of the products and not the selfish desire for those products.   We buy those products with an attitude of service, like we are buying it for the sangat, to serve the family with, to feed the children with, we buy it with love for others in our heart.  Baba ji said that he used to go shopping and buy two of everything. One for his family sangat, and one for the sangat at the Gurdwara, that's how much he loved the sangat.  That is the basic difference. We just have to apply that everytinhg in our life.  

 

Namjeevan Ji also explained that whilst living in Maya's comforts, its not about physically getting rid of them to be free of Maya, its about taking our selfishness out and replacing with selflessness. So she gave the example of her own house, she opens the doors every week and its for the use of the Sangat.  Her own children, she takes her love for them and expands it to the loving all children of the world in the same way, like all children are her children - same for parents, love all older people as our parents.  She looks at her husband and its not about each of them using each other to satisfy needs - emotional or physical, its no longer about controlling each other or fitting into social stereotypes of how a man should be and ahow a women should be in the marraige.  That was the way when living in ego under the influence of ego and society.  but now the way is they support each other for spiritual growth, serve each other and the family as sangat.  Even at Sangat Jaspal ji did dandauth to Namjeevan.  Does any man bow to his wife in society, especailly our Indian society?  So to give up Maya we need to detach from it (tyaag it) internally, we need to give it back to God and say to God, like Guru Gobind Singh ji did in the jungle when he slept on a rock for a pillow, that even the softest bed is like a pitful of snakes without You - "mirt pyare noo haal marreeda da kahina. Tudh bin rog rajaaiaa da udan naag nivaasaa da rahna."

 

Namjeevan also finished off saying that she doesn't keep God hidden inside herself now, whomever she meets she will say to them "God bless You"  when they leave.  It no longer matters what society thinks of her or God, she knows the Truth and the Bhagat is sent in the world to break the false illusion of Maya and to restore the MISSING LINK.

 

 

 

God Bless You All.

 

Or AS Baba Ji and Sangat say, "Dhan Dhan Sukhe Raho - Your are Blessed Blessed Stay in Eternal Peace" 

 

Love Gurbani, Sing Gurbani, Bow To Gurbani, Praise God and Guru through Gurbani and most of all become Gurbani.

 

Dust of your feet

Harjit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do you want Maya's comfort?

Dhan Dhan ParBrahm Parmesar

Dhan Dhan SatGur Parmesar

 

Dear Satsangat jeeo,

 

on this path of Prema Bhagti (loving devotion) you must have noticed that after meeting or talking/emailing  the Sants and Sangat and feeling a real high, we then come back to normal life and face severe tests of Maya.  This has happened to us so many times.  Infact, even before meeting  Sants and Sangat we face many tests of Maya as well!!   Actually, even going into a Sant's Sangat with ego instead of head bowed low, we will face tests of Maya!!  Dassan Dass ji told us that wherever a Sant's presence is (physically or spiritually) then Maya cannot come there.  She is a slave at the feet of the Sant because the Sant has slapped her into defeat.  Kabir Ji says Maya is beloeved of all thre worlds (land, air and sea creature) but she the enemy of a Sant.  

 

Maya has no power to influence the mind of the Sangat that are sitting humbly in the shelter of the lotus feet (Charan Saran) of a Sant.  However, sitting there in ego, slandering the Sant in your mind, criticising their actions, doubting them is also a test of Maya for the egotist who is expecting them to do some miracle to prove they are a Sant.  However, if you go humbly, with full faith and only confess your own misdeeds, only look at your own sins, then you will find it easy to meditate, to focus your mind, to sit and feel peace.  Because your 5 thieves are deactivated as Maya is not there.    So this is a simple way to know if the Sant Sangat you are going to is right for you, just go with a humble heart and ask "Am I able to feel peace of mind here?  Do I come away with love for all and hatred for none?"

 

Coming back to the point about Maya testing us, we have realised that we are tested by God to see if we really, truly, deeply and madly want Him, or are we still seeking Maya's comforts.  At every step on this path, God is using Maya to ask us the question, "Do you want Maya's comfort or Me, the Truth?"    It is as simple as that.  Wether the test involves chasing women, chasing money, chasing family, ambition, career, properties, business, revenge or whatever our weakness is, God is asking us "Do you want Maya more than me?"

 

And you may answer, "Well I need to sort out my wordly needs first."  So God in your Hirdha steps back and become hidden again, and lets your mind chase around after maya for however long it takes you to extinguish the fire of your desires.   Then what happens is that we get some suffering, some sorrow, some sadness and we run back to God, and start doing serious Ardaas, start doing Sant Sangat again, start making serious efforts.  And thanks to the gurParsaad - Eternal blessings f our Sant Guru, within a week or so we feel balanced, happy and calm again. We feel we can do Prema Bhagti again and what a fool we were for wasting all that time chasing after Maya. 

 

Then the Sants give us blessings upon blessings without us even asking, they pray for us, they lift us up, we reach new levels of freedom in our mind, freedom from negative maya thinking.  But then from out of nowhere, we become attracted to something - money, shares, a look of a women, an argument, a family issue which sucks us in.   Without realising we revert back to our old ego self and try and make things happen, chase the thing or outcome we want and get entangled in those thoughts again.    Once again, God is asking us , "Do you still want Maya's comfort, or Me- the Truth?"  and we may answer this time, that we want both. We want Maya's sweet poisonous comfort and we also want God.  But, it doesnt work that way.  Its all or nothing.  But our mind says if we give everything then what will be left for me?  Others will be richer and better than me?   But we forget that when we give everything to God - mind, body and wealth, then He can give us EVERYTHING of His - the whole Universe - Himself..."munn tunn tera dhan bhee tera. Tu takur swamee prabh mera - Miind, body and wealth are all Yours.  (Only) You are my Lord and Master.." -guru Arjun Dev Ji.

 

The way to stay out of Maya's grip on our mind is to think of Guru Arjun Dev ji - SatGuru ji gave absolutely everything.  He showed us how to live through His Gurbani. He showed us give , give , give by ultimately giving his life in martyrdom, giving for the love of God - sacrifice is called Kurbani in punjabi. So remember Guru Ajun Dev Ji's life of  Gurbani and Kurbani. Remember Guru Tegh Bagadur Ji's Gurbani and Kurbani. And remember Guru gobind Singh Ji's Gurbani and Kurbani - he even gave his sons and father and Khalsa for the love of Truth.   Remember them everyday , every second, every time your mind wants to go back into Maya, remember their Gurbani and Kurbani.  Do you think any of the Sants or Gurus were able to give such high llevels of sacrifice just like that?  No, it was a life time of making the little sarcrifices everyday, every second they walked upon this planet, that lead to them being able to give the ultimate sacrifice and all for the Love of Truth - SatNaam.  Same for us, let us make the little sacrifices day by day and these sacrifices cost us nothing.  It costs us nothing to say no I want chase this desire. No I wont be selfish.  No I wont put myself first.  Baba ji said that Jesus wasn't crucified on the cross, he crucified his ego years previously in his Bandagi processs.  Meaning he had already died the true death of ego way before the physical death. 

 

By remembering our SatGuru Ji's extreme levels of giving, we can push away whatever comforts Maya is trying to trap us with.  That is why Baba ji has said to us from day one, to give up desires.  Give up "I want this, I want that" and turn it into , "I want nothing but Naam, Seva and Bandagi".  And then everytime your mind starts getting bogged down by fears and worries for your future, then trust your SatGuru and say , "O bleoved of the Guru, sit steadily in your heart-home (hirdha), your satguru is taking care of everything - thir ghar basoh har jan pyare, satgur tumaray kaaj savaray."   And no matter whatever happens, dont complain, just accept it as what God wanted for you.  Keep both hands in prayer position, bend head down low and with a humble heart say , "Whatever you do is a wonderful thing - Jo tudh bhaavai so bhalee kar" - Guru Nanak Ji.

 

This is the humble way through the mind. This is what we have learned from the Sant Sangat.  This is what we have to earn, to become 100% so our ego face drops away and our God face comes forward to live in love, humility , compassion and service to one and all.  Baba Ji said that in the spiritual realm God is Formless, but on this side he takes the form of Sat Ram Das - Servant of Truth.  Our hirdha is where God is hidden, our Satguru's blessing makes him manifest. He then wants to become Sat Ram Das through our body to serve the world.  What is stopping him is our ego and our wants - haumai and trishna.  So how long will we keep living out of ego and desires and keep facing tests of Maya?  That's upto each of us. God doesnt force us to love him or force us to let Him run us.  He wants us to invite Him through our ardas(prayers)  and pleading (benti).   How fortunate we are Dhan Guru Nanak Dev ji brought Him, Sat Ram Das, out of his own heart. As have Baba ji, Dassan Dass Ji, Tanraj Ji , Namjeevan Ji and so many others we dont even know - read their stories and see how they did it and be inspired to do it too.   However, some in ego may look at those Sants and say they are the same as us, nothing special about them.  But they are nothing like us, we are egotists run by Maya, they are Sat Ram Das - they are God serving us through a human heart.

 

All bow to the Sants in whose company we are freed from Maya and become Sat Ram Das.

 

Dust of your feet

Harjit 

Re: [Truth] Benti for Ardaas for Manager's Son

Dear Satnaam Satguru Baba ji,

you have the golden healin ghands,

you are the healer of healers,

may we merge with you to become the purest channel for the highest divine good of Robbie Deeming.

IK OANKAAR SATNAAM SATGURPARSAAD

IK OANKAAR SATNAAM SATGURPARSAAD

IK OANKAAR SATNAAM SATGURPARSAAD

IK OANKAAR SATNAAM SATGURPARSAAD

IK OANKAAR SATNAAM SATGURPARSAAD.

 God Bless him, God bless everyone who is suffering.

 

SatGuru Baba ji you shine brighter than all the suns and moons,

all of creation is lit by your divine light,

all of the planets and galaxies were created for your glory,

you are the Mother of all

the cherisher of all,

we are you children,

you hug us into your hirdha (heart)

we suffer our karma (consequences)  because of our karni (deeds)

we are healed because of your kind kirpa (grace).

 

IK OANKAAR SATNAAM SATGURPARSAAD

IK OANKAAR SATNAAM SATGURPARSAAD

IK OANKAAR SATNAAM SATGURPARSAAD

IK OANKAAR SATNAAM SATGURPARSAAD

IK OANKAAR SATNAAM SATGURPARSAAD.

 

 

Dust of your feet

Harjit

On 1 July 2010 11:18, Jas Singh <cosmic_chaatrik@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

 

Satnaam Jee Kaa Khalsaa, Satnaam Jee Kee Fateh,

 

Dearest Sat Sangat Jee, please accept our dandouth bandhana,

 

We wish to humbly ask for an ardaas for our managers son who has been recently diagnosed with

Aplastic anaemia – his bone marrow has stopped working which has caused his blood counts to hit rock bottom.

 

He will need a bone marrow transplant with an exact match donor.  He has a brother who the doctors say that there is a 25% chance that there will be a match.

 

His name is Robbie Deeming and is 21 years of age.  Please could you send out your powerful prayers for him.

 

Kotan Kot Shukrana jee

 

Satnaam

 

 

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Learn to sing and play Kirtan

SatNaam

Dandauth Bandhna

 

We are so lucky that we have thousands of Shabads in Guru Granth Sahib Ji that we can learn to sing and play music with.

As well as helping us spiritually, learning to sing and playing music develops huge areas of the brain.  So it helps us in all areas of our life.

So it is good to learn ourself and especially to encourage our children to sing Gurbani.  It helps them to connect to the Shabad, helps to develop

their brain and hence helps them in their education in all subjects.

 

Here is an article about it in the BBC news today.

 

 

But regardless of the research, learning to sing Gurbani is such a beautiful and easy way to feel the love and innocence the Guru Sahibs And Bhagats had for God.  When you sing a shabad of Guru Arjun Dev ji it is like Guru Arjun Dev ji is melting our heart, like He is sitting in our heart himself and singing.

 

There is a story of a Sant who met a prostitute Ganika and she completely changed her ways.  He blessed her with the GurParsaad and gave her one simple thing to do and that was to teach her parrot to say God's Name.  He must of known it would have been too much to ask her to sit and meditate for hours, so he gave her that simple task - to teach her parrot to say God's Name.  Over months and years she did so and in doing so she also was saved, God's Name went into her heart, mind and soul.

 

Bhagt Namdev Ji wrote:

Sooaa paRaavat, Ganika tari ||

Sooa means parrot, paRaavat means by teaching, Ganika means that lady we are talking about above. By teaching the parrot, the Ganika swam across this ocean of life and death.

 

We feel like learning the vaja and singing has the same effect on us.  If we are struggling to do Naam simran and mediate, then start by just trying to sing God's Name on the Vaja (harmonium) - just make up a simple 3 key tune and go from there.  Do it every day.  Start with saying your humble prayer - gareebee ardas and just stick at it every day and let Satguru ji teach your from within.

 

Baba ji said that the human voicebox and tongue was the greatest instrument ever created.  Why?  Because that is the one instrument directly created by God Himself.  So He has given us this gift, so let us use it to sing His praises.

 

There is a story of another Bhagat, he so loved God and singing His praises that he everyday there would be a new shabad written by God himself for him to sng.  He was overjoyed and sang with happiness in his heart.  So we are so , so , so fortunate that we have Siri Guru Granth Sahib Ji full of Shabads from God Himself, so let us bring even one int our heart. Read it, sing it, play music with it, unerstand it, earn it by acting upon the divine words of Truth and ultimately become Gurbani.  So that there is no difference between what we do and what Gurbani says.  That one is Gurmukh and has become the walking, talking , breathing word of God.

 

Here are lots of video tutorials for leanring Vaja

 

Learn Sargam (scales)

 

 

Learn Shabads

 

 

Ultimately, Dassan Dass Ji has taught us the the real divine kirtan is the inner kirtan when the Dassam Duar opens, you can read more about that here .

 

So start singing Gurbani with joy in your heart, learn an instrument like vaja if you can and ultately experience the real divine kirtan.  And if you can, encourage your children to learn as well, it will help develop their brain ans well as their spirit.

 

God bless you

 

Harjit 

Humble Ardas

Just sharing and email we sent earlier:

 

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SatNaam ,

Dandauth Bandhna ji.

 

You sound like life is very hectic.  Just remember even calling or meeting Baba ji or any Sant physically is preordained, meaning it is written by God when we meet the Sants. 

 

Bhaag hoa gur sant milaaiaa.

Prabh abinasee ghar meh paaiaa.

...Meaning only by great good fortune did I meet the Sant-Guru.

Then I realised the Indestructible Lord within myself.  - Gurbani.

 

 

So you maybe regretting that you have been too busy to call Baba ji so far and will do so in the future, but really that is just our worldly explanation.

It will happen when its destined to happen.   All we can really do is humble ardas (Gareebee Ardas as Baba ji calls it).  When we do humble ardas we are talking to our SatGuru.  Baba ji said every ardas of his Sangat goes through his body to God (just as any ardas of any sangat goes through their Sant-Guru).   Whenever we remember Him - Satnaam, in our Hirdha (heart chakra) then Baba ji is with us, the Sants and Guru Sahibs are with us in astral body.  So never feel they are far away or you are alone.  Whatever you want in Bhagti start off by doing humble ardas.  Stand up , put your palms together, think of SatGuru ji's holy feet , lower your head forward slightly and pray from the depths of your heart, "Dear SatNaam Satguru ji, I am so full of the 5 thieves, I am rushing around due to my karma, please forgive me for forgetting You. 

 

Visar Nahee Datar apanaaa Naam Deho.

Gun Gava Din Raaat Nanak Chao eho. 

Forget me not O Great Giver and give me your Naam. 

May I sing your praises day and night, this is Nanak's desire - (Guru Arjun Dev Ji)."

 

And then all day long just keep doing humble ardas in your mind, whenever you get a chance - before eating, when going to the toilet, when out for a walk, before going to sleep, on waking up, before cooking, before washing up.   Just build humble ardas into your daily life.  Dassan Dass ji asked us to keep doing ardas every 5 minutes if we can.   Here is what Dassan Dass JI gave us to do:

 

http://www.satnaam.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=59&Itemid=14

 

 

Also you can just recite a shabad from gurbani or just talk from your heart.  Keep pleading, keep doing benti, keep asking for naam, seva and bandagi all day long.  Keep knocking on God-Guru's door until He opens His hand and gives you the gift of Bhagti.   These gifts are all in His Hand, in SatGuru Ji's hand.  And humble ardas is the only way we become empty of ego so he can fill us up with Naam.

 

Remember becoming innocent, becoming simple, becoming a slave of the Guru-Master is the humble way.  Read any shabad from Gurbani it is full of innocence, love, compassion and most of all Truth.  So renounce our own ego, our own cleverness, our own worldly thinking and explanations.  Renounce are excuses for not putting into practise what Gurbani and a Sant-Guru has asked us to do.  so may our mind become Become a "Bholla Bhalla Banda - Innocent and Simle Divine Slave", that is the way  

 

God Bless you and your family always and forever.

 

Dust of your feet

Your brother and slave

Harjit