2473 - Khajana Darshan July 29, 2022 – Calgary
2473 - Khajana Darshan July 29, 2022 – Calgary (English Translation)
Transliteration Key for Gurbani
ੴ ਸਤਿਨਾਮ ਕਰਤਾ ਪੁਰਖੁ ਨਿਰਭਉ ਨਿਰਵੈਰੁ ਅਕਾਲ ਮੂਰਤਿ ਅਜੂਨੀ ਸੈਭੰ ਗੁਰਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ॥
॥ ਜਪੁ॥
ਆਦਿ ਸਚੁ ਜੁਗਾਦਿ ਸਚੁ। ॥ ਹੈ ਭੀ ਸਚੁ ਨਾਨਕ ਹੋਸੀ ਭੀ ਸਚੁ॥
Let us please become focused at the forehead in between the eyebrows and we would feel the presence of a power.
Maharaj Ji says:
man ray ki-o chhooteh bin pi-aar.
You cannot get out of the cycle of birth and death without realizing your true self, which is all love, ishq, and gratitude. Until we realize our true self we are bound to remain in the cycle of birth and death. And the time in between these two events would be a time of feeling insecure, alone, looking for some company, support, worries, anxiety.
He says that if you want to know what true love is, you can witness it in nature.
ਰੇ ਮਨ ਐਸੀ ਹਰਿ ਸਿਉ ਪ੍ਰੀਤਿ ਕਰਿ ਜੈਸੀ ਜਲ ਕਮਲੇਹਿ ॥
ray man aisee har si-o pareet kar jaisee jal kamlayhi.
Oh, my mind, love the Divine like the lotus flower loves the water. He is saying that to us, to Rustam Singh because as long as thoughts are coming in the consciousness, we are the mind.
ਲਹਰੀ ਨਾਲਿ ਪਛਾੜੀਐ ਭੀ ਵਿਗਸੈ ਅਸਨੇਹਿ ॥
lahree naal pachhaarhee-ai bhee vigsai asnayhi.
This is so beautiful! Maharaj Ji says the waves in the water toss the lotus flower around and the more it is tossed around, the more he becomes happy. He feels that the water is playing with me! Maharaj Ji is teaching us that you would experience waves of pleasure, happiness, pain, waves of suffering, waves of joy, day and night, flowers and thorns, in life. Everytime you experience these waves, be like the lotus flower who remains happy regardless of the kind of wave it is experiencing. The lotus flower is right in front of you; witness his love!
Lack of love means presence of ego. The more ego we have the more empty we are of true love. The less ego we have, we are more capable of receiving true love.
amrit varkhai anhad banee.
Maharaj Ji says the Celestial Music is nectar, the nectar of love, and that nectar is continuously raining down. It is the continuous rain of love, keep drinking it, and you will become true love!
ਮੁੰਧੇ ਸੂਹਾ ਪਰਹਰਹੁ ਲਾਲੁ ਕਰਹੁ ਸੀਗਾਰੁ ॥
munDhay soohaa parahrahu laal karahu seegaar.
He says, quit clinging to the effort of remaining young because that effort is going to prove fruitless at the end of the day. The bodies are going to change; it is the law of nature, nothing can stop it. So, instead of trying to remain youthful in this body, wear the true love of your Beloved and you will never become old, you will never die, you will always remain young and full of love. Maharaj Ji says, ishq with God keeps us ever youthful, fresh! Decorate yourself with your Beloved’s everlasting crimson color of His love. Crimson is the color that yogi’s and monks wear. Wear His love! His love should be seen in your eyes, in your talk, in your face, in your smile - then you would be wearing His love.
ਮੁੰਧ ਸੁਹਾਵੀ ਸੋਹਣੀ ਜਿਸੁ ਘਰਿ ਸਹਜਿ ਭਤਾਰੁ ॥
munDh suhaavee sohnee jis ghar sahj bhataar.
Adorned with His love you would look so beautiful and you would be totally peaceful. Within, you would be in total serenity, stillness, peacefulness, and your Beloved would dwell with you constantly.
This is what we were doing when COVID came around and we were devoid of sangat.
Dhaarnaa:
ਵੇ ਮੈਨੂੰ, ਤੇਰੇ ਬਾਝੋਂ ਜਿਊਣਾ, ਗੁਨਾਹ ਲੱਗਿਆ
vay mainu, tere baajhoN jyoona, gunaah lagi-aa
Without sangat, it felt like I was living a sinful life.
ਕਿਸੇ ਨਾ ਖਿਲਾਰੀ ਚੋਗ ਮਹਿੰਗੀ ਤੇਰੇ ਬਾਝ ਵੇ
kisay naa khilaaree chog, mihngee tayray baajh vay
Nobody put any precious food before me. His utterances are our food.
ਕਿਸੇ ਵੀ ਨਾ ਕੀਤਾ ਸਾਡੇ ਦਿਲ ਦਾ ਲਿਹਾਜ ਵੇ
kisay vee naa keetaa saaday dil daa lihaaj vay
I loved everyone so I thought everyone would do the same, but it wasn’t like that.
ਮੁਲ ਕਿਸੇ ਨੇ ਨਾ ਪਾਇਆ ਸਾਡੇ ਲਾਲ ਜਿਹੇ ਪਿਆਰਾਂ ਦਾ
mul kisay ne naa paai-aa saaday laal jihay pi-aaraaN daa
Nobody cared for my intentions, my path.
ਹੀਰ ਤੇਰੀ ਨੂੰ ਵੇ ਕੌਡੀਆਂ ਤੋਂ ਵਾਰ ਛੱਡਿਆ
heer tayree noo vay kaudiaaN toN vaar chhadi-aa
They thought I was like everyone else; a trader of worldly things. They didn’t know that I was the trader of pure love, ishq.
ਵੇ ਮੈਨੂੰ, ਤੇਰੇ ਬਾਝੋਂ ਜਿਊਣਾ, ਗੁਨਾਹ ਲੱਗਿਆ
vay mainu, tere baajhoN jyoona, gunaah lagi-aa
Maharaj Ji talks about water. Water has a very deep connection to our being. We touched upon it in Fresno but it is a very deep topic. Maharaj Ji says:
ਸਾਚੇ ਤੇ ਪਵਨਾ ਭਇਆ ਪਵਨੈ ਤੇ ਜਲੁ ਹੋਇ ॥
saachay tay pavnaa bha-i-aa pavnai tay jal ho-ay.
The Divine first created various gasses, first the light gasses, then the heavy gasses, from the gasses he created water. Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen.
ਜਲ ਤੇ ਤ੍ਰਿਭਵਣੁ ਸਾਜਿਆ ਘਟਿ ਘਟਿ ਜੋਤਿ ਸਮੋਇ ॥
jal tay taribhavan saaji-aa ghat ghat jot samo-ay.
He created the whole Universe from that water. He dwells within everything that He creates.
71% of the world is water and the remaining 29% is earth, rocks, metals, etc. Our mind cannot understand this - we will say how rocks can be formed with water. We can see with these eyes how water can turn into ice and then ice melts into water, so how difficult is it for God to make rocks that do not melt. We cannot understand this. A hint can be seen that everything in the universe, be it steel, stones - they melt when heated to a certain degree, and upon further heating, they eventually transform in the form of smoke and fly away; they turn into the gasses that they are composed of.
Our body has the same composition as the earth - 71% water and the remaining 29% remaining bones, skin, veins, etc. The two fundamental virtues of our soul are ishq and gratitude. The same two things were revealed in the water, in experiments done by researchers in Japan. When love was given to the water; it was said to the water that I love you and the water was hugged, then the water was cooled and the top layer of frozen crystals created a beautiful flower-like pattern. Flowers are a sign of love. In another experiment, the water was told that I hate you, you are the worst. This time when the water was cooled, the frozen crystals on the surface resulted in broken, deformed shapes, showing that the water was injured, wounded. Then that water was told, I am very thankful to you, and it made beautiful patterns again. When the water was told you are ugly, you have no intelligence, you are disgusting, and other degrading remarks, upon cooling it showed broken, deformed crystals showing the water was hurt; the water was broken and wounded. We are composed of 71% water and our consciousness has a deep connection with water.
God has created everything from sound and light. The sound - ong…. is continuously traveling in the universe, creating and destroying things. That sound is the sound of love, just like the Celestial Music is the sound of love, the rain of love. So, a sound of love, a power of love, has created this entire creation. When we are empty of love, we are not in our natural state; we feel unpeaceful ourselves and cause others around us to be unpeaceful as well. In the coming days, we will look into greater depth how we should use water, how we should view the water, and what kind of consciousness we should have while using water.
Maharaj Ji says:
amrit varkhai anhad baanee.
man tan antar saaNt samaanee.
Please hear the Celestial Music.
He says that whosoever drinks this rain of ishq, the Celestial Music, becomes so peaceful and serene. Our true self is peaceful, it is in sehaj. Maharaj Ji says:
ਚਉਥੇ ਪਦ ਮਹਿ ਸਹਜੁ ਹੈ ਗੁਰਮੁਖਿ ਪਲੈ ਪਾਇ ॥
cha-uthay pad meh sahj hai gurmukh palai paa-ay.
Cha-uthaa pad - the fourth state of our consciousness, is another name for our true self. In the fourth state, one dwells in complete sehaj - peace, tranquility. And who obtains it ? The one who realizes their soul, their true self. The soul is already there but we changed into something else. Water heated up with anger, greed, lust and turned into steam out of pain and suffering. Now this steam, this mind, which burns itself and others, has to be cooled down by drinking the rain of the Celestial Music.
Dhaarnaa:
ਤੇ ਗੱਲਾਂ, ਨਿੱਜ ਦੀਆਂ, ਅੱਜ ਚੱਲੀਆਂ ਵੇ
tay galaaN nij dee-aaN aj chali-aaN vay
Today they started talking about the true self.
Yesterday, we read the verses.
ਉੱਥੇ ਇਸ਼ਕ ਨੇ, ਪਤਾ ਨਹੀਂ ਕੀ ਕੀਤਾ
othay ishq nay, pataa nahee kee keetaa
ਘਰ ਆਪਣੇ, ਖਿੱਚ ਬਹੰਨੀਆਂ ਵੇ
ghar aapney, farh bahanni-aaN vay
(New verse)
ਸੁਖ ਸਹਿਜ ਦਾ, ਉਸਨੇ ਪਾ ਚੋਗਾ,
sukh sihaj daa, usnay paa chogaa
ਹੌਲੀ ਹੌਲੀ ਅੰਦਰ ਖਿਚੰਨੀਆਂ ਵੇ
houlee houlee, andar khichani-aaN vay
By feeding me the tranquility, through making me hear the Celestial Music, slowly and slowly He pulled me inward. This is how He brings us into the Divine’s womb and that is where He gets rid of our ego. This is the only way; there is no other way in the world to eradicate the ego.
When the accomplished siddhas asked Maharaj Ji, how to realize the state you are talking about where one becomes eternal, immortal, just ishq, gratitude, and everlasting stillness, peace, death can never come to that consciousness. How does one reach that stage ? And Maharaj Ji responded:
satgur kai janmay gavan mitaa-i-aa.
By taking rebirth out of the True Guru.
And then the siddhas asked, how to get lodged in the Guru’s womb. The answer:
ਅਨਹਤਿ ਰਾਤੇ ਇਹੁ ਮਨੁ ਲਾਇਆ ॥
anhat raatay ih man laa-i-aa.
He says, the Celestial Music is the nectar of ishq. Through drinking the Celestial Music, the rain of love, one becomes and remains lodged in the Guru’s womb. There, one’s ego is totally destroyed. Once that happens, a new birth is given and you are transformed from a mortal to an immortal.
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
ਸਿੱਧਾਂ ਵਾਲੀ ਗੱਲ ਨੂੰ, ਜ਼ਾਹਰ ਕਰਣ ਲਈ, ਮਨ ਨੂੰ ਬਿਠਾਵੇ ਉੱਥੇ ਕੌਣ ਨੀ
siDhaaN vaalee gal noo zahar karan la-ee, man noo bithaavay othay kaun nee
Maharaj Ji said to the siddhas that this is how your consciousness will become slowly, constantly lodged in the Divine’s womb, but who is the one that makes my mind sit there ?