2490 - Khajana Darshan August 19, 2022 – Surrey
2490 - Khajana Darshan August 19, 2022 – Surrey (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॥
The other day we started seeing that when we are in the holy congregation, the state of our consciousness is peaceful, relaxed, trusting but as soon as we leave the holy congregation, we are a totally different person. What happened in a few minutes ? What is the reason ? We would say it is because we became disconnected to the Divine. Of course, that is true, but why do we get disconnected with the divine? There is a very interesting reason behind this.
When we are in the holy congregation in the presence of the Guru, hearing His utterances, we don’t doubt Him, we have faith in Him and agree with what He says. It is another thing that we may not do what He says but we agree with what He is saying. Our consciousness does not doubt, because of which it is relaxed. We don’t doubt the Guru, we trust Him, we hear Him. Whatever He says we start moving with Him, we start following the Guru; we start seeing the paintings He paints with His utterances. This is the secret!
When we leave the holy congregation, we don’t fully trust the words of the people around us like we trust the Guru. This is the secret. This leads to doubt and the consciousness which was at peace, relaxed, and trusting suddenly becomes doubtful, not as peaceful, tense, and God disappears.
To make it more clear: say a mother wants to take her child to a fair, he doesn’t ask her where we are going, why we are going; the child trusts her. She takes him to the fair and there are balloons, so many colorful mesmerizing things, rides, people performing magic tricks, people with colorful clothes. All this is strangely beautiful for the child. Sometimes he stops at the balloon seller's place, sometimes at the rides - because he is not worried, he is relaxed. His mother is with him and he trusts her. Now, suppose the mother leaves the child alone. He is frightened, scared, he starts crying. What happened ? Only one thing has happened - the child is no longer in the state of trusting others, hence the tension, doubt, and scaredness. As long as we do not keep feeling the divine outside in the world, that state of anxiety, doubt, tension is going to catch hold of us. But the moment we reach the state when we feel the divine with us all the time, the state of our consciousness will remain the same as in the sangat - not exactly the same but to a lesser degree, still at a very high state.
God is present all the time, only we are not there to feel Him.
ਜਾਇ ਬਸਹੁ ਵਡਭਾਗਣੀ ਸਖੀਏ ਸੰਤਾ ਸੰਗਿ ਸਮਾਈਐ ॥
jaa-ay bashu vadbhaagnee sakhee-ay santaa sang samaa-ee-ai.
Maharaj Ji says make your state of consciousness such that it remains the same even when you are outside the sangat.
We have been looking at the merciful formless faces of the Guru. We saw that He is a painter, He reveals to us the treasures within us.
There is a letter from a sangat from Nabha, Patiala.
Baba Ji, previously I used to think that these people and my belongings are my wealth but now God has shown me what the true wealth is.
pee-oo daaday kaa khol dithaa khajaanaa.
God has opened the treasure of true wealth to me, and that true wealth is forever.
The true wealth is the inner richness, the richness of the heart.
ਸੋ ਸਤਿਗੁਰੁ ਧਨੁ ਧੰਨੁ ਜਿਨਿ ਭਰਮ ਗੜੁ ਤੋੜਿਆ ॥
so satgur Dhan Dhan jin bharam garh torhi-aa.
So blessed, so truly wealthy is my Guru who has shattered the heavy fort of my false beliefs.
ਸੋ ਸਤਿਗੁਰੁ ਵਾਹੁ ਵਾਹੁ ਜਿਨਿ ਹਰਿ ਸਿਉ ਜੋੜਿਆ ॥
so satgur vaahu vaahu jin har si-o jorhi-aa.
Wonderful, wonderful is my Guru who has united me with God.
ਨਾਮੁ ਨਿਧਾਨੁ ਅਖੁਟੁ ਗੁਰੁ ਦੇਇ ਦਾਰੂਓ ॥
naam niDhaan akhut gur day-ay daroo-o.
Maharaj Ji says that by uniting me with the Divine, the Guru has blessed me with a medicine, with an inexhaustible treasure of a medicine which is cure for all my diseases, be it anger, greed, attachment.
ਮਹਾ ਰੋਗੁ ਬਿਕਰਾਲ ਤਿਨੈ ਬਿਦਾਰੂਓ ॥
mahaa rog bikraal tinai bidaroo-o.
Maharaj Ji says the deep rooted malady of ego, which is frightening, which keeps us in the cycle of birth and death, and keeps us in misery; the Guru has removed that ailment of mine, the Guru has uprooted that ailment from its roots. I was under the illusion that I am this egoistic I, this is my name, these are my certificates, my properties, my people, but the Guru has cured this dreadful disease.
ਤਿਸੁ ਗੁਰ ਕਉ ਹਉ ਵਾਰਿਆ ਜਿਨਿ ਹਰਿ ਕੀ ਹਰਿ ਕਥਾ ਸੁਣਾਈ ॥
tis gur ka-o ha-o vaari-aa jin har kee har kathaa sunaa-ee.
I am forever a sacrifice to the Guru who has made me realize the truth. Har kee har katha - He has made me hear the story about the source of life, in which the words themselves are alive.
Dhaarnaa:
ਹਾਏ ਨੀ ਮੇਰਾ ਜੀ ਨਹੀਂ ਲਗਦਾ, ਐਸ ਮੈਂ ਦੇ ਨਾਲੇ
haa-ay nee mayraa jee nahi lagdaa ais maiN day naalay
ਹਾਏ ਨੀ ਉਹਦੇ ਬੋਲ ਜਿਵੇਂ ਨੇ, ਦਿਲ-ਏ-ਮ ਦੀਆਂ ਬੂੰਦਾਂ
haa-ay nee ohday bol jivayN nay, dil-ay-mad dee-aaN booNdaaN
His utterances sprung out of His heart, and seems like His heart is all divinely honey.
ਆਣ ਪਾਉਣ ਉਹ ਸਾਡੇ ਅੰਦਰੀਂ, ਡੂੰਘੀ ਚੁੱਪ ਦੀਆਂ ਗੂੰਜਾਂ
aan poun oh saaday andreeN, doonghee chup dee-aaN gooNjaaN
His utterances make my insides peaceful, silent. The silence starts echoing within me as I hear him.
ਹੜ ਨੂਰ ਦਾ ਬਾਹੋਂ ਫੜ ਨੀ, ਪਾਵਨ ਕੁੱਖ ਵਿਖਾਲੇ
harh noor daa baahoN farh nee paavan kukh vikhaalay
In that deep inner silence, we hear the Celestial Music and feel the Divine Light, and that is the holy womb of the Guru.
ਕੋਮਲ ਹੱਥ ਛੁਹਾਵਾਂ ਵਾਲੇ, ਸਾਨੁੰ ਲਾਡ ਲਡਾਉਂਦੇ
komal hath chhuhaavaaN vaalay, sanoo laad ladaunday
The divine light which I feel around my face are His so precious, tender hands, and they caress me.
Please make your entire consciousness available for hearing, and see how the sound that God creates from the harmonium is the same sound that will emanate from within us. When the singer sings it will be the same sound because God has put vibrations of all frequencies within us.
saaaa…..saaaaa……
Please focus at the root point and feel the consciousness moving upwards. The divine sounds, natural sounds, move our consciousness upwards while the worldly sounds bring our consciousness downwards.
Who was speaking through the harmonium ? And what about the singer ?
Maharaj Ji says:
sabhai ghat raam bolai raamaa bolai.
The inside feels like dancing, isn’t it ? The feeling of wanting to dance is God. Those vibrations He is creating within, is in fact Him dancing.
For this state Maharaj Ji says:
naach ray man gur kai aagai.
Dhaarnaa:
ਵੇ ਮੈਨੂੰ ਤੇਰੇ ਬਾਝੋਂ ਜਿਊਣਾ ਗੁਨਾਹ ਲੱਗਿਆ
vay mainoo tayray baajhoN jioonaa gunaah lagi-aa
ਕੱਚਿਆਂ ਪਿਆਰਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਮੈਂ ਇਸ਼ਕੇ ਨਾਲ ਵੱਟ ਕੇ
kachi-aaN pi-aaraaN noo maiN ishkay naal vat kay
ਮਸਾਂ ਮਸਾਂ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਸੀ ਵੇ ਮੈਂ ਲੱਭਿਆ
masaaN masaaN tainoo see vay main labhi-aa
I traded the worldly false attachments with the deep fast colored ishq, and I barely found you.
ਹਾਸਿਆਂ ਦੇ ਰੋਜ਼ੇ ਚੰਨਾ ਓਸ ਵੇਲੇ ਖੁਲਣੇ ਵੇ
haasi-aaN day rozay chanaa os vaylay khulnay vay
ਜਿਸ ਪਲ ਤੂੰ ਸਾਡੇ ਮੱਥੇ ਲੱਗਿਆ
jis pal tooN saaday mathay lagi-aa
I won’t smile - that is my fast, my rozay, and I will break the fast only when I see you.
For one month in the year, Muslim people keep rozay during the day. They fast from 4 a.m. to 6 p.m., and don’t eat or drink anything at all, and remain in the remembrance of Allah. They keep their businesses shut and hardly come out of their homes.
Dhaarnaa:
ਤੇ ਗੱਲਾਂ ਨਿੱਜ ਦੀਆਂ ਅੱਜ ਚੱਲੀਆਂ ਵੇ
tay gallaN nij dee-aaN aj chaliaaN vay
ਦੇਸ ਕਿਹੜੇ ਮੈਂ ਵਸਦੀ ਜੱਗ ਪੁੱਛੇ
days kihrhay maiN vasdee jag puchhay
Our true self does not belong to any place. We are going to become that true self, the divine light. It doesn’t have a relation with anything on the outside. Our true self belongs to the divine only and the divine is her true wealth. But because the divine dwells in everyone so she has a relation with everyone. It seems paradoxical but see the subtle difference.
ਦੇਸ ਕਿਹੜੇ ਮੈਂ ਵਸਦੀ ਜੱਗ ਪੁੱਛੇ
days kihrhay maiN vasdee jag puchhay
ਡੌਰ ਭੌਰੀ ਜੀ ਹੋਈ ਸੋਚੰਨੀਆਂ ਵੇ
daur bhouree jee ho-ee sochani-aaN vay
When people ask me where do you live, I feel bewildered and start thinking what should I tell them.