2557 - Khajana Darshan April 10, 2023 – Parma, Italy
2557 - Khajana Darshan April 10, 2023 – Parma, Italy (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॥
Before the appearance of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, people had these deep-rooted beliefs that only the most worthy people in this world can meet God. After all, he’s God, He’s not somebody of this world; they say that He lives up in the skies, how can you meet Him! This was a widespread belief, and this class of pandits, Brahmins, had perpetuated that belief. That they had created so many conditions that you have to do this and that to meet God. There are big religious books called Puranas written on this. Maharaj Ji appeared and announced to the whole world that God does not meet only a few people; everybody and anybody can meet God. God is right within you, God is not up in the skies, He’s not separate from you. All you have to do is just sing these songs of ishq and hear them with love.
gaavee-ai sunee-ai man rakhee-ai bhaa-o
He says don’t worry if you are illiterate; don’t worry that you cannot read those big, thick religious books. Just sing these songs of ishq! Singing will bring you from your mind to your heart. Singing will immediately take you out of the agony of the mind, which is all thoughts - thoughts of insecurities, worries, anxiety, and so forth. This will happen instantly! No need to read any books. Anybody can do this. This was a mind-boggling statement. This shook the whole India at that time. The rug was being taken out from under the feet of the Brahmins.
Brahmins had announced that only the people of highest caste can meet God and Maharaj Ji destroyed this belief. He said just sing this, just try it; you don’t need 10, 20, 30 years of meditation, All you need is holy congregation, and the longing to meet Him, that’s all! He said that just these two things are needed. Illiterate or most educated, they are equal at his door. He does not worry about the degrees you hold.
Worldly songs are sung out of the mind but these songs, songs of souls, songs of the Creator, can only be sung out of the heart, and they can only be heard at the heart.
The belief that hearing can only happen through the ears was broken. To hear these songs you don’t need your ears, you need the hirdaa; you need to be present at the hirdaa. Everything was such a revolution; nobody had ever heard these things! It was such a revolution that Maharaj Ji started this path of ishq and other people joined and many became saints. This wave was known as the Wave of Devotion to God, Bhagtee Lehar. Many people got up and felt so joyful that it’s so simple.
Last year, a person from the southernmost province of India, who was a former judge of the Supreme Court of India visited. He was learning about Guru Nanak Dev Ji’s path. He went to many places including Golden Temple and Anandpur Sahib. He came to Bulandpuri Sahib too. He said that you people don’t go there, and we never knew that there was such a path, so beautiful, so simple. It’s hard to believe that a path like this does exist.
Please remain focused at the hirdaa please.
ਬਿਨੁ ਭਾਗਾ ਸਤਸੰਗੁ ਨ ਲਭੈ ਬਿਨੁ ਸੰਗਤਿ ਮੈਲੁ ਭਰੀਜੈ ਜੀਉ ॥
bin bhaagaa satsang na labhai bin sangat mail bhareejai jee-o
He says that without good fortune, no one can come to know the glory of the holy congregation. And without the holy congregation, one’s consciousness keeps becoming more and more full of the filth, garbage.
Please, we must not think that singing is just for the sake of singing, to say something in a rhyme. No, no! It’s one of the most beautiful gifts of the Divine to sing from the heart. Anybody can sing from the mind because we live in the mind. We must now sing with the deep understanding that this is a direct blessing from His court. There’s no value in His court of singing from the mind. No value, because you are in the mind. It doesn’t matter what we do while we are in the mind. He says:
gaavee-ai sunee-ai man rakhee-ai bhaa-o
He says sing with all the love in you, hear with all the love in you.
Only those who are centered at the hirdaa, please let us sing, and the rest we should come to the hirdaa.
vadbhaagee har sangat paavahi
He only brings the most fortunate people on the Earth into the holy congregation. It seems that it is our decision but no. He says coming to the holy congregation is not bringing your body here; it is bringing your whole consciousness, it is bringing your deep appetite for the truth. It is bringing your whole world, it’s not just bringing the body.
bhaagheen bharam chotaa khaaveh
Maharaj Ji says that those who are not fortunate are wandering around in illusion. They are asking God that if only I could get that job, if only I could get so much money, if only I could get a house like that, if only I could have a big property, only if I could have more power then I’m going to become peaceful. He says that anything which is seeable and touchable cannot give you peace. That is an illusion, and you will get hurt by following the illusion. Your consciousness will become wounded by following the illusion.
He says you are going to be wounded, you are going to be badly hurt by following the illusions. He says look back; did anything that you are after, give you peace? If that thing had given you peace, then you would not have wanted more of that. Right? If you can become ever fulfilled, content, just by eating once, then why would you keep on eating again and again. This is proof that nothing outside can make you peaceful. Anything outside can hurt you badly and life will be wasted. But the mind would not listen.
bhaagheen bharam chotaa khaaveh
Maharaj Ji says that your consciousness would become wounded; the wound of the body can heal, but the wound of the consciousness may linger on for many lifetimes.
ਬਿਨੁ ਭਾਗਾ ਸਤਸੰਗੁ ਨ ਲਭੈ ਬਿਨੁ ਸੰਗਤਿ ਮੈਲੁ ਭਰੀਜੈ ਜੀਉ ॥
bin bhaagaa satsang na labhai bin sangat mail bhareejai jee-o
That’s why the dust of your feet is so precious. That is the reason that He allows only the most fortunate people in His court. That’s why the dust of your feet is priceless; cannot be bought with all the wealth of this world.
There is a letter from a daughter of mine. She says that I make notes of Khajana Darshan every day. One very early morning when I woke up, this half of the dhaarnaaa was being sung within me.
……..ਸੂਰਿਆਂ ਦੀ ਨਿਸ਼ਾਨੀ ਏ
……..soori-aaN dee nishaanee ay
The line means that this is the sign of brave people. I did not remember the first half of this dhaarnaa. I picked up my notebook, and believe me Baba Ji, when that notebook opened that dhaarnaa was right in front of me. The first half of the dhaarnaa was that those who get ready to go on this most beautiful pious pilgrimage, and they start walking, they are the real brave people.
ਤਿਆਰ ਹੋਕੇ ਤੁਰ ਪੈਣਾ, ਸੂਰਿਆਂ ਦੀ ਨਿਸ਼ਾਨੀ ਏ
ti-aar hokay tur painaa, soori-aaN dee nishaanee ay
She is talking about the beauty of making notes. We will continue reading this letter tomorrow.
Please focus at the hirdaa.
In the past discourses, Maharaj Ji made us understand that everything which He created in the past, everything He is creating now, and everything He will create tomorrow, it all is happening out of ishq. Ishq creates! Ishq has no purpose, and ishq has the most beautiful purpose. Ishq has no purpose: someone draws a painting; ishq will not have the purpose of making money from that, or becoming popular. Ishq has no desires. Ishq is not a beggar. Ishq is the king of kings, divine king! It has no purpose and yet its purpose can be most beautiful; it would make us wonder, it would make us ah filled, that look what ishq is producing - indescribable creation of His, and everything so unique, so alive, and most beautiful because God Himself is in that. Let’s sing this dhaarnaa with utmost love.
Dhaarnaa:
ਨੀ ਬਾਗ ਮਾਏ ਸੱਜਣਾ ਦਾ, ਜੀਹਦੇ ਵਿੱਚ ਦੁਣੀ, ਮੈਂ, ਤੇ ਉਹ ਆਪ
nee baag maa-ay sajanaa daa, jeeHday vich dunee, maiN, tay oh aap
Oh, my mother, do you know that this world is His creation? This world is the garden of my Beloved, and do you know who dwells in the garden? The whole world, me, and Him.
Singing and hearing is such a beautiful meditation. Through singing alone, we go beyond the mind into a carefree land, the land of love. Please sing with love.