2550 - Khajana Darshan April 1, 2023 – Paris, France
2550 - Khajana Darshan April 1, 2023 – Paris, France (English 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॥
Please come at the hirdaa (heart area). With intense urgency, as if it was a question of life and death. We must wake up and recognize the urgency of the matter otherwise what we did yesterday, we are going to do the same today and tomorrow.
Our Beloved has already arrived at the hirdaa, at the garden of the heart. Let us all go there and sing to Him.
Dhaarnaa:
ਨਾਲ ਆਈਆਂ ਤੇਰੇ ਇਸ਼ਕ ਹਵਾਵਾਂ, ਜਾਂ ਦਿਲ ਬਾਗੀਂ ਆਇਓਂ ਸੱਜਣਾ
naal a-ee-aaN tayray ishq
havaavaaN, jaaN dil baageeN aa-i-oN sajanaa
As you have arrived at the garden of my heart, the garden of Ishq; it is the garden of Ishq because you are Ishq, and you are present there.
ਹਉਂ ਵਿਸਰੀ ਨਾਲੇ ਵੇ ਜਹਾਨ, ਰਹਿੰਦਾ ਤੇਰੇ ਹੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਵੇ ਧਿਆਨ
hauN visaree naalay vay jahaan, rahandaa tayray hee vich vay Dhi-aan
I remain focused on You. I am no longer aware of my ego centered life. I am not conscious about the world, about me; I am here with you, in you.
ਰੱਖਾਂ ਸੁਰਤੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਤੇਰਾ ਹੀ ਨਿਸ਼ਾਨ, ਤੇ ਦੱਸ ਜੱਗ ਕੋਲੋਂ ਕਿਵੇਂ ਮੈਂ ਲੁਕਾਵਾਂ
rakhaaN surtee vich tayraa hee nishaan, tay das jag koloN kivayN maiN lukaavaaN
I always keep hearing the Celestial Music. This is what I am today, and the world is watching and asking me – what has happened to you? I want to hide this from the world but I don’t know how. I try to hide but they can recognize the shift in me. Please tell me how I can hide from the world.
ਜਾਂ ਦਿਲ ਬਾਗੀਂ ਆਇਉਂ ਸੱਜਣਾ
jaaN dil baageeN aa-i-oN sajanaa
ਨਾਲ ਆਈਆਂ ਤੇਰੇ ਇਸ਼ਕ ਹਵਾਵਾਂ, ਜਾਂ ਦਿਲ ਬਾਗੀਂ ਆਇਓਂ ਸੱਜਣਾ
naal a-ee-aaN tayray ishq havaavaaN, jaaN dil baageeN aa-i-oN sajanaa
Please stay there, very intimately united with that presence.
The second question from the letter from Australia was that when one merges with God, and as I understand the mergence happens slowly, then how come the Divine still remains a mystery. Beautiful question!
If someone asks us today, who are you, what would be our answer? Tarsem Singh Ji answered I am consciousness that is dwelling in this body. Then the question is, what is consciousness? Someone said, consciousness is God. So, what is God?
Please understand this. Even today we do not know who we are. We would become kind of senseless; nothing would make sense to us as the story starts unfolding. Say you are driving, and a person in civil clothing stops you and says can I please see your driver’s license. You ask them, do you mind telling me who are you? He says, I am a policeman. That is your profession, but who are you? I am a man. Yes, I can see that but my question is, who are you? I am a Christian. You love Christ and have faith in him, but who are you? I am a Frenchman. Well, you live in France, but who are you?
The most amazing thing happening to us right in front of us; the one who believes I am so intelligent, I know this, and I know that, has no idea who this is; does not have the slightest idea who I am!
Guru Nanak Dev Ji in His ninth appearance, in Gurbani, asks:
sunhu ray too ka-un kahaa tay aa-i-o
Oh, my dear friend, listen, who are you and where have you come from?
Even if we are a little bit awake, this should startle us! That I have no idea, who I am. What am I doing this world, when I don’t even know who I am.
This path is inexhaustible. While walking this path, slowly and slowly we start dispersing and disappearing. The very consciousness which has created its own world within the world of the Divine, starts dispersing and disappearing slowly, and then suddenly one day you will realize you are no more, its life. All there is, is life! And what is life? You can never describe.
When one day you are no more then the question cannot arise who you are. Even now, it’s the same thing. To ask who are you is a silly thing because we actually are not, it’s all Him, it’s all life! Life has taken on different shapes, different forms, different consciousness. Maharaj Ji says:
milat milat milat mil rahi-aa
Maharaj Ji says the bubble dissolves into the ocean.
naanak kahan na jaa-ay
Now what remains? It cannot be described.
It is not becoming perfect as we understand the meaning of perfection. It is actually dissolving in him, it is actually melting in Him. The bubble dissolves in the ocean and Maharaj Ji says slowly, slowly by dwelling with God you are no more. And what is left? What is left cannot be talked about. That is strange. Why cannot it be talked about?
Even now when we are and we have no idea who we are then imagine when we are no more.
ਚਿਤਹਿ ਚਿਤੁ ਸਮਾਇ ਤ ਹੋਵੈ ਰੰਗੁ ਘਨਾ ॥
chiteh chit samaa-ay ta hovai rang ghanaa.
The whole universe has a heart and that heart is beating. What does heart stand for? Life, aliveness! When you merge with Him, you are beating with Him. You are no more, its just Him. In the whole of Gurbani, Maharaj Ji never talks about God. He says even if I know, I cannot talk about Him. He says it’s not describable. We’ll talk more about that in Germany.
There is a letter from a teacher from Edmonton, Canada. She writes that one day during meditation, I completely lost myself. There was no sense of outside, nothing! I was witnessing that some big power was rising upwards, and I felt that power was very holy, and I was filled with love. I felt totally fulfilled and content. She writes that Baba Ji, I have no words to explain this. That’s what Maharaj Ji says, that no language has the words to explain it. Baba Ji, my insides are now saying loudly that I am going to do just meditation. Beautiful!
There is another small note from a daughter of mine from California. Dear Baba Ji, words are empty at this point. One cannot fathom how precious this life has become with Him. Every day, I am reminded that it is all Him in everything, and He is with me. I am not capable of truly valuing this sangat and Him. Please just somehow always keep me in this sangat. I have nowhere else to go. But I also feel that I’m taking all this for granted. I cannot thank Him enough for all that He is doing. She has written a dhaarnaa.
Dhaarnaa:
ਮੁਹੱਬਤ ਕੈਦ ਨਹੀਂ ਹੁੰਦੀ, ਤੇ ਮਰਦਾ ਇਸ਼ਕ ਨਹੀਂ ਸੱਜਣਾ
mohabat kaid nahee hundee, tay mardaa ishq nahee sajanaa
The dhaarnaa says that Ishq cannot be imprisoned. Attachment puts us in prison, and Ishq liberates. And Ishq never dies, because it is life.
ਇਸ਼ਕ ਬਣਨ ਲਈ ਚੰਨ ਵੇ, ਬਹੁਤ ਦਿਲ ਕਰਦਾ ਹਈ ਸੱਜਣਾ
ishq banan la-ee chan vay, bahot dil kardaa ha-ee sajanaa
Oh, my Beloved, I am so dying to be Ishq.
We are Ishq, all we have to do is recognize ourselves.
Now let’s go to the scene where Maharaj Ji takes us, where the most accomplished Yogis in the world are asking questions to Guru Nanak Dev Ji. And they ask:
ਕਵਨ ਤੁਮੇ ਕਿਆ ਨਾਉ ਤੁਮਾਰਾ ਕਉਨੁ ਮਾਰਗੁ ਕਉਨੁ ਸੁਆਓ ॥
kavan tumay ki-aa naa-o tumaaraa ka-un maarag ka-un su-aa-o
Who are you? What is your name? And what is your path, and what is the purpose? Which is your religion? What is your purpose of life? A direct question has been asked; who are you? You can see the depth in the Yogis. It is a direct question, who are you? An ordinary person cannot even dream of asking this question. Please stay connected to Him and listen to the answer.
ਸਾਚੁ ਕਹਉ ਅਰਦਾਸਿ ਹਮਾਰੀ ਹਉ ਸੰਤ ਜਨਾ ਬਲਿ ਜਾਓ ॥
saach kaha-o ardaas hamaaree ha-o sant janaa bal jaa-o
Who are you, what’s your name? What’s your religion, path, and what is the purpose? And His answer: I remain in utter humility in the presence of the Divine. And I am ever a sacrifice to the saints who have ishq with the Divine. Think about it, He didn’t say my name is Nanak and the name of the path or religion is this. Just imagine the question and answer. The question is so direct, so deep, and the answer says I just remain in utter humility before my beloved, the truth, and all those who have ishq with Him, I’m a sacrifice to them. To be the dust of their feet and so on - those are all small things now before this. So, we can see, the answer is not that my name is Nanak, and the name of my path is path of love, nothing like this. Just so simple and yet so profound! You cannot ask any more questions about it. We can see that it’s not religion.
Maharaj Ji says:
ਸੁਖੁ ਦੁਖੁ ਰਹਤ ਸਦਾ ਨਿਰਲੇਪੀ ਜਾ ਕਉ ਕਹਤ ਗੁਸਾਈ ॥
sukh dukh rahat sadaa nirlaypee jaa ka-o kahat gusaa-ee
ਸੋ ਤੁਮ ਹੀ ਮਹਿ ਬਸੈ ਨਿਰੰਤਰਿ ਨਾਨਕ ਦਰਪਨਿ ਨਿਆਈ ॥
so tum hee meh basai nirantar naanak darpan ni-aa-ee
Maharaj ji says that the truth is dwelling within you, and He is like a mirror. You can see yourself in Him, who you are. When we feel Him, we come to know that the consciousness feels Him, so I am a consciousness, not the body. He says He is like a mirror in you. If you want to see who you are, look into Him. But our mind does not obey the Guru, it obeys the world, the world that is attachment, ego, lust, greed, all those things. And it remains totally drunk with the intoxication of falsehood; false beliefs that I own this, I am this, thoughts that keep us intoxicated in falsehood.
Dhaarnaa:
ਆਖੇ ਹੋਰਾਂ ਦੇ ਲਗਦਾ ਰਿਹਾ ਮਨੂਆ, ਤੇ ਨਸੇ ਝੂਠ ਦੇ ਵਿੱਚ ਮਖ਼ਮੂਰ ਹੋਇਆ
aakhay horaaN day lagdaa rihaa manoo-aa, tay nashay jhooth day vich makhmoor ho-i-aa
ਸ਼ੀਸ਼ਾ ਮਿਲਿਆ ਸੀ ਯਾਰ ਦੇ ਤੱਕਣੇ ਨੂੰ, ਤੇ ਉਹ ਵੀ ਡਿੱਗ ਜ਼ਮੀਨ ਤੇ ਚੂਰ ਹੋਇਆ
sheeshaa mili-aa see yaar day takanay noo, tay oh vee dig jameen tay choor ho-i-aa
There was a mirror within us so that we could know who we are, but I remained on the Earth, attached to the people, things, and places of the Earth. But that mirror was in the sky. By doing so that mirror fell on the ground and got smashed; I lost the opportunity to know the most precious truth that who I am.
Please sing in total tranquility.
Maharaj Ji has been so graceful to us that He brought sangat from so many countries throughout the world to purify us, to decorate us with the dust of their feet.
To laugh at others is a mean thing but to laugh at the self is great thing.
I was telling this joke about a double decker bus, that two brothers from a village in India went to New Delhi for the first time and there were double decker buses. As they started to board the bus, the conductor said there is only one seat downstairs so the other one, you go upstairs. Their names were Makhan Singh and Sulakhan Singh. So Makhan Singh sits on the first floor, and Sulakhan Singh goes up on the second floor. The bus started and Makhan Singh was sitting near the stairs. A few minutes later as the bus was running, Makhan Singh heard that Sulakhan Singh upstairs was begging God for His mercy - please save me, please save me, please save me. And Makhan Singh from down below asks Sulakhan Singh what happened? He said what happened! I’m in the hands of God, there is no driver here!
This is for all the sangat throughout the world who could not come. It’s for them, asking the wind blowing towards them; asking the wind that please tell me friends all over that I remain bowed to them all the time, and I beg God for their well-being, all the time.
Dhaarnaa:
ਕੋਲੋਂ ਲੰਘਦੀਏ ਨੀ ਵਾਏ, ਸਾਡੇ ਸੱਜਣਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਸਾਡਾ ਸਲਾਮ ਆਖਣਾ
koloN langhadee-ay nee vaa-ay, saaday sajanaaN noo sadaa salaam aakhanaa
ਤੇਰੀਆਂ ਮੰਗਦੇ ਹਾਂ ਖੈਰਾਂ ਸੁਬਾਹ ਸਾਮ ਆਖਣਾ
tayree-aaN maNgaday haaN khairaaN subah shaam aakhanaa