2523 - Khajana Darshan February 14, 2023 – Bulandpuri Sahib
2523 - Khajana Darshan February 14, 2023 – Bulandpuri Sahib
English Transcription and Translation
Transliteration Key for Gurbani
Black text - as uttered by Baba Ji; Blue text - translation
ੴ ਸਤਿਨਾਮ ਕਰਤਾ ਪੁਰਖੁ ਨਿਰਭਉ ਨਿਰਵੈਰੁ ਅਕਾਲ ਮੂਰਤਿ ਅਜੂਨੀ ਸੈਭੰ ਗੁਰਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ॥
॥ ਜਪੁ॥
ਆਦਿ ਸਚੁ ਜੁਗਾਦਿ ਸਚੁ। ॥ ਹੈ ਭੀ ਸਚੁ ਨਾਨਕ ਹੋਸੀ ਭੀ ਸਚੁ॥
We promised that we would write our own poems in which we would state what brought me here and what is keeping me here. Those of us who wrote the poems, could you please raise your hands? Thank you!
There is this poem from a very beautiful soul, a child of mine, who is very honest with the self. Our outside behavior will be honest only when we are honest with ourselves. The world has taught us otherwise; the world has robbed us of our innocence. Our innate nature is very innocent like a child but the difference between the worldly child and this child; Maharaj Ji says:
paa-i-o baal buDh sukh ray.
That child does not know anything but is innocent. This child is innocent, but knows what is real and what is fake.
Let us please become focused at the heart area and feel the Divine there. Please feel His presence at the heart area, revolving in an anti-clockwise direction. His presence is full of life, full of dance, full of celebration. He comes and starts dancing, revealing His happiness that we remembered Him. He says, I just don’t come; I come with dance, I come with deep peace, I come with laughter, I come with everything you need.
ਜਿਨ ਹਰਿ ਜਪਿਆ ਸੇ ਹਰਿ ਹੋਏ ਹਰਿ ਮਿਲਿਆ ਕੇਲ ਕੇਲਾਲੀ ॥
jin har japi-aa say har ho-ay har mili-aa kayl kaylaalee.
He says, those who look inside lovingly, they would see the Divine and slowly become the truth. It’s not that they will become the truth, they are already the truth, but they are in deep sleep and don’t know this.
He says He comes playfully, and He keeps playing with me as long as I stay with Him.
har mili-aa kayl kaylaalee.
Maharaj Ji says He comes running and starts dancing with me, playing with me, but the moment I start having a thought, seeing a dream, going to sleep, He disappears. If I complain, then He says I did not leave you, you left Me. There was nobody for Me to play with, to dance with, but I am not angry with you; I will come dancing, running happily whenever you remember Me. All you have to do is remember Me, that’s all. I ask for nothing else.
Please keep feeling Him.
Maharaj Ji gives us such precious understanding. He says:
ਮਤਿ ਵਿਚਿ ਰਤਨ ਜਵਾਹਰ ਮਾਣਿਕ ਜੇ ਇਕ ਗੁਰ ਕੀ ਸਿਖ ਸੁਣੀ ॥
mat vich ratan javaahar maanik jay ik gur kee sikh sunee.
He says even if someone hears one thing I said, that consciousness becomes so precious. He has talked about countless things in Guru Granth Sahib Ji but He says even if you hear just one; it must not be easy to grasp even one thing, otherwise the whole world would have done it.
Let’s read a paragraph of the poem written by this sangat. The caption of the poem is Bewitched; what has captivated me?
I was blinded by your flowers and foggy with your lust,
But the void you left within me had my soul just seeing dust.
How beautiful!
I will read the next paragraph tomorrow.
If you remember, when I asked if everybody could please tell me why you are here, you had to think for sometime before you came up with something. How strange, that this thing was not there at the forefront of our consciousness! We had so many other things in our consciousness, but we don’t even know why we are here.
Why are we here? When we were not here, we were dreaming we’d go to Bulandpuri, we would do this, we would do that. There is so much pressure at work here, I feel suffocated at home, the world feels strange; everything will feel like my own at Bulandpuri Sahib. When we were there, we were not there; we were dreaming about something else. Now we are here, but we are not here; we are thinking, when I go back, I will get up when I want to. I thought I won’t have to do anything; we are here but now we are not happy here. Please understand, this is reality. We could go anywhere in this world, receive the biggest riches, but we cannot be happy. He said that in the first stanza of Japji Sahib
ਭੁਖਿਆ ਭੁਖ ਨ ਉਤਰੀ ਜੇ ਬੰਨਾ ਪੁਰੀਆ ਭਾਰ ॥
bhukhi-aa bhukh na utree jay bannaa puree-aa bhaar.
Until it becomes clear cut to us, why am I here, what am I after, after-all? Unless this thing becomes deeply embedded in our consciousness, nothing is going to happen! The mind will keep showing us the dreams. He will keep us seated in the theater and keep us showing the dreams, and he does not have to see the capacity of the reality of the dream.
We have become so used to watching the dreams that the mind keeps showing us. It keeps us in the theater and shows beautiful dreams. If I get that job, I will be making so much money. How beautiful, we feel good. Dreams make us feel good. But the mind does not show what would come attached to that job. We would only know that when we are living that thing, not when we are watching the dream.
The mind will make you feel good about marriage but it won’t show you the responsibilities that come with marriage; it won’t show that there will be children, they will grow up to be teenagers and give you sleepless nights. If we see it, we will be so scared that I am in the hands of someone who does not let me see the truth. I might be crying the same way my parents are doing right now, but the mind won’t let us see that because it is blind.
We must be very clear why we are here.
The mind never lets us develop a habit of thinking deeply about anything. These phones that the world handed over to us, and the mind grabbed happily, are robbing our thinking capacity. We will not be able to think at all! That is all I wanted to say.
If we really want to see the depth of life, reach those depths, and experience life, then we will have to throw away the falsehood. We will have to cultivate a habit of sitting alone, a habit of thinking deeply, a habit of knocking at the door of truth, a habit of staying out of that theater, a habit to lock that theater.
Few days ago, I met someone and he said, our elders used to be so wise; where is that wisdom now? You don’t meet any wise people anymore!
The world is robbing us of our thinking capacity. In exchange, they are making money and we are drowning further into the dark well of dreams. If we do not wake up today, tomorrow is going to be too late. Tomorrow is going to be too late.
I receive many letters from the sangat that when I’m in the sangat, I feel peaceful. I am convinced with what Maharaj Ji tells us: that you are something so full; you do not want anything; you are the most beautiful creation. You are immortal; death cannot happen to you. You are divine, you are the most sacred thing, you are the most beautiful thing; I want to realize myself. But as soon as I come out of the sangat, I am the same old person again. Why?
Why? Because when we are in the sangat, we become tired of hearing the same thing over and over again, and our mind becomes weak and says okay, okay, alright, I want to realize myself to become peaceful, to see that I’m immortal, to see that I’m something so sacred, so beautiful. I really want to experience that. But that state of mind is temporary. The moment we go out, we lose that state because all the doors of the theater of our mind are open; the mind has been waiting for us, and we say see somebody waits for me, somebody loves me, somebody has so many beautiful things for me; somebody! Then the same thing happens again; this cycle repeats.
ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰੇ ਜਿਸੁ ਪਾਰਬ੍ਰਹਮੁ ਹੋਵੈ ਸਾਧੂ ਸੰਗੁ ॥
kirpaa karay jis paarbarahm hovai saaDhoo sang
saaDhoo here means Guru. sang means company. We are used to the company of other bodies - friends, spouse, and even dreams. But Maharaj Ji says, if He is merciful, then we remain in the sangat (company) of the Guru; all the time we remain in sangat with any of His utterances. Then what happens?
ਜਿਉ ਜਿਉ ਓਹੁ ਵਧਾਈਐ ਤਿਉ ਤਿਉ ਹਰਿ ਸਿਉ ਰੰਗੁ ॥
ji-o ji-o oh vaDhaa-ee-ai ti-o ti-o har si-o rang
As we remain more and more in His sangat, the more we remain away from dreams and the truth starts to reveal itself - that this is who I truly am.
I was saying that there are 4 stages, and we should remember and see in which stage we are. Maharaj ji says that in the first paurhee of Japji Sahib:
ਚੁਪੈ ਚੁਪ ਨ ਹੋਵਈ ਜੇ ਲਾਇ ਰਹਾ ਲਿਵ ਤਾਰ ॥
chupai chup na hova-ee jay laa-ay rahaa liv taar.
Maharaj Ji gives the hint that until we become totally peaceful within, totally silent within, we cannot realize our true self. We would remain the fake I who is just a thought, a fabricated thing. After we become totally silent, the real self starts emerging, which was not somewhere outside; it was right within.
The first stage is that again and again, and again, and again, we become conscious, we become separate from the dreams, and remind ourselves that I’m something so beautiful. I must realize who I am. This is the first stage.
The second stage is the recognition that every time we remind ourselves that I’m something so sacred, so beautiful, so silent, we would start feeling our insides becoming silent, peaceful. We would start feeling that silence within us. We would get something to hold on to; peace, a certain degree of stillness.
The third stage is that because we start to remain silent, then that knowledge that I am something so beautiful, I am something so still remains with us all the time - ਨਿਰਭਉ ਨਿਰਵੈਰੁ ਅਕਾਲ ਮੂਰਤਿ ਅਜੂਨੀ ਸੈਭੰ (nirbhau nirvair akaal moorat ajoonee saibhaNg)
ਸੋ ਪ੍ਰਭੁ ਦੂਰਿ ਨਾਹੀ ਪ੍ਰਭੁ ਤੂੰ ਹੈ ॥
so parabh door naahee parabh tooN hai.
In the third stage, we start realizing what He tells us about us - nirbhau nirvair akaal moorat ajoonee saibhaNg; that we are immortal, there is no way that we can feel enmity towards anyone. Our real self does not fear anything, anyone. Our real self cannot have any enmity, disliking towards anyone. Our real self cannot go into transmigration. Our real self is all truth - akaal moorat ajoonee saibhaNg. Then we don’t have to remember; we cannot be separated from that knowledge. It’s like the mother who cannot be removed from the remembrance of her little child. The thing that had to be remembered now comes within us; we start feeling it and dwelling within it. In this third state, we don’t have to remember anything or remind ourselves of anything; it becomes embedded in us. As we start becoming more and more still within, we start knowing that I am something so beautiful. In that total stillness, we start seeing ourselves so peaceful, so beautiful, so loving, so fearless, and all that.
The fourth stage is a deafening explosion; deafening explosion of what? Of silence! Deafening explosion of silence! Why am I saying deafening? Because He makes us deaf from the fakeness, from the world. The inner silence becomes so intense that no fake news, fake talk, or dream or anything can enter into us. In that total peaceful state, which Maharaj Ji calls sahaj, our real self starts emerging, showing itself, expressing itself, and we start living an authentic life. Maharaj Ji calls this:
ਮਨਿ ਬਿਲਾਸ ਭਏ ਸਾਹਿਬ ਕੇ ਅਚਰਜ ਦੇਖਿ ਬਡਾਈ ॥
man bilaas bha-ay saahib kay achraj daykh badaa-ee.
Maharaj Ji says that we become so deeply silent, peaceful, and awestruck seeing the glory of the truth.
ਹਰਿ ਸਿਮਰਿ ਸਿਮਰਿ ਆਨਦ ਕਰਿ ਨਾਨਕ ਪ੍ਰਭਿ ਪੂਰਨ ਪੈਜ ਰਖਾਈ ॥
har simar simar aanad kar naanak parabh pooran paij rakhaa-ee.
Maharaj Ji says that then your life becomes a dignified life, your life becomes an honorable life, your life becomes an authentic life, and only that you is accepted by Him. Then, anything you do is acceptable to Him.
ਭਾਗਠੜੇ ਹਰਿ ਸੰਤ ਤੁਮ੍ਾਰੇ ਜਿਨ੍ ਘਰਿ ਧਨੁ ਹਰਿ ਨਾਮਾ ॥
bhaagtharhay har sant tumHaaray jinH ghar Dhan har naamaa.
ਪਰਵਾਣੁ ਗਣੀ ਸੇਈ ਇਹ ਆਏ ਸਫਲ ਤਿਨਾ ਕੇ ਕਾਮਾ ॥
parvaan ganee say-ee ih aa-ay safal tinaa kay kaamaa.
safal tinaa kay kaamaa - in that state whatever you do, its fruit will be beautiful.
Ji, every moment which is gone is gone forever. The only way moments are wasted or can be wasted is how? It is by watching dreams. That’s a waste!
Dhaarnaa:
This is to be sung by remaining totally still within, and with all of the love within us.
ਮੇਰਾ ਜੀਅ ਰਾਜੀ ਨਹੀਂ ਰਹਿੰਦਾ….ਯਾਦ ਵਿੱਚ ਰਹਿ ਨੀ ਮਾਏ
mayraa jee raajee nahee rahiNdaa….yaad vich rah nee maa-ay
Oh my mother, neither yours, nor my insides feel really fulfilled. Let us remain in the house of the remembrance that we are the truth. That remembrance is not just a dead thought, it’s not a dream; that’s an awake alive knowledge within our consciousness. The proof that it’s alive is because it makes us peaceful. It, itself, must be peaceful. It makes us loving; it, itself, must be loving.