2454 - Khajana Darshan July 7, 2022 – Indianapolis
2454 - Khajana Darshan July 7, 2022 – Indianapolis (English Translation)
ੴ ਸਤਿਨਾਮ ਕਰਤਾ ਪੁਰਖੁ ਨਿਰਭਉ ਨਿਰਵੈਰੁ ਅਕਾਲ ਮੂਰਤਿ ਅਜੂਨੀ ਸੈਭੰ ਗੁਰਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ॥
॥ ਜਪੁ॥
ਆਦਿ ਸਚੁ ਜੁਗਾਦਿ ਸਚੁ। ॥ ਹੈ ਭੀ ਸਚੁ ਨਾਨਕ ਹੋਸੀ ਭੀ ਸਚੁ॥
ਮੋਰੀ ਰੁਣ ਝੁਣ ਲਾਇਆ ਭੈਣੇ ਸਾਵਣੁ ਆਇਆ ॥
moree run jhun laa-i-aa bhainay saavan aa-i-aa.
It is drizzling outside today. This is one of the beauties of Gurbani that as our consciousness evolves, as our consciousness purifies and rises up, the understanding - not intellectual understanding but the feeling or knowing of the meaning of His utterance’s changes. How beautiful it is! When you go outside, standing under shade or under an umbrella, please listen to the sound of drizzling, initially that is how the Anhad Shabad sounds like.
ਮੋਰੀ ਰੁਣ ਝੁਣ ਲਾਇਆ ਭੈਣੇ ਸਾਵਣੁ ਆਇਆ ॥
moree run jhun laa-i-aa bhainay saavan aa-i-aa.
Oh, my sister friends, the rainy season is here! The blessed peacocks have gathered, and they are so beautifully singing His glories. And then, as we become more evolved, the meaning of this is that the celestial music is being heard and its initial sound is like the drizzling sound of rain.
ਤੇਰੇ ਮੁੰਧ ਕਟਾਰੇ ਜੇਵਡਾ ਤਿਨਿ ਲੋਭੀ ਲੋਭ ਲੁਭਾਇਆ ॥
tayray munDh kataaray jayvdaa tin lobhee lobh lubhaa-i-aa.
I am hearing the Celestial Music and it is arresting me. The grace flowing out of your eyes is like a sword that is eliminating the negativity in my consciousness. You say greed is not good but what should I do, I want to keep looking at your merciful eyes all the time!
Please become very peaceful in order to hear the celestial music. Initially, it sounds like saaN, saaN. Every day at the end of diwan, we read the 6 pauris of Anand Sahib in which Maharaj Ji reminds us.
vaajay panch sabad tit ghar sabhaagai.
Blessed are the houses in which the five primal musical sounds are heard. Please don’t worry if you cannot hear the sound of the five instruments separately yet. The sound of saaN, saaN is the combined sound of all five. What is important is that you hear the Celestial Music; with time it will sound more clearly. Just attach yourself to the celestial music. It is going to lodge us in His womb and sculpt our consciousness.
With complete focus, please sing and hear your voice. Empty your consciousness of all thoughts and Maharaj Ji will bring it inside. If you do not feel like singing, then please hear with complete focus.
vaajay panch sabad tit ghar sabhaagai.
ਘਰਿ ਸਭਾਗੈ ਸਬਦ ਵਾਜੇ ਕਲਾ ਜਿਤੁ ਘਰਿ ਧਾਰੀਆ ॥
ghar sabhaagai sabad vaajay kalaa jit ghar Dhaaree-aa.
kalaa means power. Which power ? The power that is creating everything – humans, animals, birds, insects, all creatures, vegetation. Maharaj Ji is saying that this celestial music, the five primal musical sounds and the light, these are the creative powers of the Divine; He is using these powers to create, to sustain, and then to destroy. He says that in a blessed house I reveal that this is the power that created you and is keeping you alive. The celestial music is playing within us because of which our inside is vibrating but we do not recognize the vibrations because they are happening at such a fast pace and our consciousness is scattered outside. These vibrations keep us alive. They day God decides to stop this play, this celestial music stops!
Let’s locate where these words resound in the street of the present – kalaa, jit, ghar, dhaareeaa. Please look carefully; all four words are produced in the throat. ਕ, ਖ, ਗ, ਘ, - this line of the Gurmukhi alphabet, the sounds are produced in the throat.
panch doot tuDh vas keetay
Maharaj Ji says that by making you hear the celestial music, I arrest your consciousness and bring it within, and this is how you become free of the five robbers – greed, anger, lust, pride, and attachment.
kaal kantak maari-aa.
Maharaj Ji says that those who get to hear the celestial music, and keep hearing it, I kill the very death which was going to come to you one day. I become death to that death! You cannot die! What does this mean ? By hearing the celestial music we are lodged in His womb, and once we are fully prepared we stop hearing the Anhad Shabad. But we should not mistakenly assume that I am fully prepared when we are still surrounded by thoughts and cannot hear the Anhad Shabad. When we are fully prepared in His womb, we stop hearing the Anhad Shabad and go beyond it, our rebirth happens, and death cannot come to you once you are reborn. Maharaj Ji says that I bring you inside in my womb by keeping you hearing the celestial music, and there slowly I transform you. When you are fully transformed, just like water transforms into steam, that is the new you, your rebirth, and death cannot reach you.
What we become after rebirth cannot die. We will leave this body, but we won’t die. One who dies has to take birth again – that is the Divine law. Death comes to those who still have desires left, which is the case for everyone except those who are reborn.
Let us hear the celestial music.
moree run jhun laa-i-aa
Become fully relaxed and bring your consciousness to the ears and hear the sound of ruN jhuN (rain drizzling), saaN, saaN. We should practice this at night; once we recognize it and start hearing, then we will hear it even when there is noise around us.
Dhaarnaa:
ਅੱਧੀ ਰਾਤੀਂ ਖੁਆਬਾਂ ਵਿਚ ਆਣ ਕੇ ਜਗਾਵੇ ਜਿਹੜਾ, ਸਮਝ ਨਾ ਆਵੇ ਮੈਨੂੰ ਕੌਣ ਨੀ
aDhee raatee khu-aabaaN vich aan kay jagaavay jihrhaa, samajh naa aavay mainoo kaun nee
Somebody comes in my dreams and wakes me up in the middle of the night. I cannot understand who that is!
ਲਹਿਰ ਸੰਗਿਤ ਦੀ, ਪੀੜ ਸਾਡੇ ਛੇੜਦੀ ਏ
lehar sangeet dee, peerh saaday chhayrhdee ay
Vibrations of that music, these so beautiful waves of music, are so sweet that I remain afraid lest it stops.
Those who can do it - while hearing the celestial music, also get connected to the heart area; we would feel a pull there.
ਲਹਿਰ ਸੰਗਿਤ ਦੀ, ਪੀੜ ਸਾਡੇ ਛੇੜਦੀ ਏ
lehar sangeet dee, peerh saaday chhayrhdee ay
ਕਲੇਜੇ ਖਿੱਚ ਪਾਵੇ, ਭਲਾ ਕੌਣ ਨੀ
kalayjay khich paavay, bhalaa kaun nee
ਸਮਝ ਨਾ ਆਵੇ ਮੈਨੂੰ ਕੌਣ ਨੀ
samajh naa aavay mainoo kaun nee
Let’s read a letter from sangat that was written in New York. Please just hear, and if we are empty of thoughts, whatever we hear will be felt and experienced. If that doesn’t happen then we are not hearing, thoughts are also present.
Dear dad, Yesterday during Khajana Darshan, when we were singing the shabad mohay machlee tum neer , I felt the river of His ishq go through me. I felt like a waterfall was going through my throat to my heart and all the way to my belly button area. I felt like I became the waterfall. I became the fish and was swimming in His beautiful river. While this was happening, I felt the light blinking and my inside felt warm like the sun.
This was the warmth of the ishq. We will read the remaining part of the latter tomorrow.
ਨਿਜ ਘਰਿ ਸੂਤੜੀਏ ਪਿਰਮੁ ਜਗਾਏ ਰਾਮ ॥
nij ghar soot-rhee-ay piram jagaa-ay raam.
Maharaj Ji says you are fully awake towards the outside world, and you are fully asleep towards where your true home is – that is within. piram means ishq. Ishq is awakening you that get up! Gurbani originates from that ishq. He does ishq with His creation and out of that great love, these utterances sprang up!
piram jagaa-ay raam.
Our true self is saying, you are asleep, your home is inside.
Dhaarnaa:
ਤੇਰੇ ਬਿਰਹੋਂ ਦੇ ਸੱਪ ਸਾਨੂੰ ਡੰਗਦੇ ਰਹੇ।
tayray birhoN day sap saanoo dangdey rahay
ਤੇ ਅਸੀਂ ਖ਼ੈਰ ਜਿੰਦੇ ਤੇਰੀ ਮੰਗਦੇ ਰਹੇ
tay aseeN khair jinday tayree mangday rahay
O’ my soul, the deep longing (birhoN) within me to realize you kept stinging me like a snake, and I kept praying for your well-being.
ਪਈ ਹੋਈ ਸਾਂ ਮੈਂ ਵੱਸ ਬੇਦਰਦਾਂ ਦੇ
pa-ee ho-ee saaN maiN vas, bedardaaN day
I remained in the grip of the cruel five robbers – anger, greed, lust, attachment, and pride.
Until we start feeling the Divine within or start hearing the celestial music, we remain in the grip of the fiver robbers, and they have no compassion for us, they are cruel.
ਸੁਨੇਹੜੇ ਲੁਕਵੇਂ ਤੇ ਹੱਥ ਮੇਰਾ ਮੰਗਦੇ ਰਹੇ
sunehrhay lukvayN tay hath mayraa mangday rahay
You kept sending messages and there was something hidden in your message. You said piram jagaaye raam – what was hidden in the message ? That celestial music is the song of ishq and that will wake you up. Give me your hand; attach yourself to hearing the celestial music.
ਤੇ ਅਸੀਂ ਖ਼ੈਰ ਜਿੰਦੇ ਤੇਰੀ ਮੰਗਦੇ ਰਹੇ
tay aseeN khair jinday tayree mangday rahay
O’ my dear soul, please stay alive. One day I will surely meet you.
Dhaarnaa:
ਮਾਏ ਨੀ ਮਾਏ, ਨੀ ਸਾਨੂੰ ਇਸ਼ਕ ਨੇ ਹੱਥ ਛੁਹਾਇਆ
maa-ay nee maa-ay, nee saanoo ishq nay hath chhu-haa-i-aa
ਜੋ ਕਦੇ ਕਦੇ ਉਤਰੇ ਅਸਮਾਨੋਂ, ਨੀ ਉਹ ਇਸ਼ਕ ਸਾਡੇ ਘਰ ਆਇਆ
jo kaday kadey utray asmaanoN , nee oh ishq saaday ghar aa-i-aa
ਆਂਉਂਦਿਆਂ ਸਾਰ ਹੀ ਫਿਰ ਉਸ ਮੈਂ ਨੂੰ, ਨੀ ਉਹਦਾ ਨਾਟਕੀ ਮੂੰਹ ਦਿਖਲਾਇਆ
a-ouNdi-aaN saar hee farh us maiN nooN , nee ohdaa natakee mooNh dikhlaayaa
ਮੈਂ ਤੇ ਸਭ ਸਮਾਨ ਉਹਦੇ ਨੂੰ, ਨੀ ਉਹਨੇ ਭੂਤ ਗਲੀ ਸੁੱਟਵਾਇਆ
maiN tay sabh samaan ohday nooN , nee ohnay bhoot galee sutvaa-i-aa
All those things you falsely claimed as yours, this house, these things, nothing belongs to you. The first thing ishq makes you understand by transforming our consciousness is the knowledge that nothing belongs to you; nothing can belong to you; no land can belong to you, no person can belong to you. That person is separate, and you are separate, how can anyone belong to you? Ishq does not claim possession of anyone or anything. False attachment wants to possess. Ishq worships – what is there to possess!