2558 - Khajana Darshan April 11, 2023 – Parma, Italy
2558 - Khajana Darshan April 11, 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॥
ਉਪਮਾ ਜਾਤ ਨ ਕਹੀ ਮੇਰੇ ਪ੍ਰਭ ਕੀ ਉਪਮਾ ਜਾਤ ਨ ਕਹੀ ॥
upmaa jaat na kahee mayray parabh kee upmaa jaat na kahee
ਪ੍ਰਭ (parabh) - the one who was parsoN (in the past), is abh (now), and will be kal (tomorrow).
Maharaj Ji says that the glory, the grandeur, the grace of my Beloved lord, simply cannot be talked about. There are no words in any language to talk about that.
Please focus at the heart area.
ਉਪਮਾ ਜਾਤ ਨ ਕਹੀ ਮੇਰੇ ਪ੍ਰਭ ਕੀ ਉਪਮਾ ਜਾਤ ਨ ਕਹੀ ॥
upmaa jaat na kahee mayray parabh kee upmaa jaat na kahee
taj aan saran gahee. ||
I have quit all kinds of thinking; thinking only brings worries, anxieties, insecurities, stress about tomorrow. I have quit that and have come down from my head to my hirdaa where my Beloved was waiting for me. I have come to his refuge, quitting all the thinking. I have come to His refuge. He protects me. He protects you? From whom? From myself! He protects me from myself. I am my only enemy in this universe. All else is God. It’s me, who remains in my mind to punish myself. Nobody else punishes me.
Maharaj Ji has blessed us with this most beautiful creation. Amongst His creation, the human body and human consciousness are unique. These have been gifted to us but we don’t know how to use them. Like a car has been handed over to a child who doesn’t know how to drive it or where to go on this. He doesn’t know how to drive it, and doesn’t know what the destination is.
We don’t know how to live. The prophets tell us; they know the reality, the secrets, the complexities, the preciousness of human life. There is a story about a young man who was living in Detroit, a city at the border of Canada and America. Lake Michigan separates the two countries and there is a bridge which links them. This young man was expelled from college. Then he made numerous attempts at businesses and failed every time. Discouraged, frustrated, tired of life, he sees no future, just darkness. Then on a wintry night of 1876, at the age of 32, he walked to Lake Michigan, ascended the bridge over the lake; he had decided to end his life by jumping off the bridge into the ice-cold lake. Before taking the last step, he looked above at the skies, it was a full moon night, a starry night, so serene, peaceful, and majestically quiet. He was awed at that scene. He lowered his eyes, looked down at the lake, and readied himself to jump off the bridge. Then suddenly a thought rushed to him; the thought you have no right to eliminate yourself, you do not belong to you. He was startled. He quits the thought of jumping off the bridge, walks back home, and starts all over again. From that point onward, the journey he embarked upon took him into the careers of inventor, engineer, mathematician, architect, poet, cosmologist and many more. Many universities invited him, and paid him to talk to the students of the universities about his life. He was awarded a couple dozen honorary degrees, and was even nominated for the Nobel Prize. He traveled around the world 57 times, and talked to millions of people about this wonderful gift of human life. He also talked to them about his dreams about the future. His name was R Buckminster Fuller. We will talk more about him tomorrow.
Come to the hirdaa please.
This path is so simple, so beautiful, full of the unimaginable experiences on the way to the Beloved’s home. Just by calling Him lovingly, by feeling deep love for Him, calling Him lovingly and then waiting on Him, He appears. Anybody can have a direct experience of God so simply; direct experience of that mystery, direct experience of life, that what is life. This is all about meeting life, becoming alive, awake to recognize the wonders of human consciousness and his nature or creation.
ਉਪਮਾ ਜਾਤ ਨ ਕਹੀ ਮੇਰੇ ਪ੍ਰਭ ਕੀ ਉਪਮਾ ਜਾਤ ਨ ਕਹੀ ॥
upmaa jaat na kahee mayray parabh kee upmaa jaat na kahee
taj aan saran gahee. ||
Please feel him at the hirdaa with love filled, gratitude filled, humility filled consciousness that I, whose existence is so small compared to the vastness of the universe, can experience Him.
Is it possible? Really?
Yes!
When?
Right now! In this moment.
He says just call me lovingly with full devotion. Become totally empty and I will come, this is my promise to you. But if there are other people, other places, or other things in your consciousness, if your consciousness is occupied with those then I won’t come. Not that I would not like to come but seeing that you are occupied, I don’t want to replace anybody, anything, or any place which is there in your consciousness. This is not my nature. If you have brought them in, you have the right. I cannot, and I must not force anybody or any place or anything out of you to make room for me. Now I am going; if sometime you really need to meet me, become empty and call me. I will come. I’m not going away, I’ll be just around here waiting for your call.
This dhaarnaa is that I’m feeling some presence at my hirdaa. Oh, my friends, who I have heard are born out of the truth, please tell me who it could be. I’m feeling some presence. Is He by any chance, the one about whom people talk about in every gathering. Is it Him?
Dhaarnaa:
ਦੱਸਿਉ ਵੇ ਅੰਬਰਾਂ ਦੇ ਜਾਇਉਂ, ਕੀਹਨੇ ਅੰਦਰੀਂ ਅਲੱਖ ਜਗਾਇਆ
dasi-o vay ambaraaN day jaa-i-oN, keeHnay andareeN alakh jagaa-i-aa
ਵੇਖਿਉ ਵੇ ਕਿਤੇ ਉਹ ਤਾਂ ਨਾਹੀਂ, ਜੀਹਦਾ ਜ਼ਿਕਰ ਮਹਿਫਲੀਂ ਆਇਆ
vaykhi-o vay kitay oh taaN naheeN, jeeHdaa zikar mahifaleeN aa-i-aa
Please see, is He the one they talk about in every gathering? I can’t recognize Him; please tell me.
Please keep feeling Him.
Yesterday, we started reading a letter from Washington. She writes that today you talked about the importance of making notes with one’s own hands. And while I was doing that, I dozed off and felt that the Divine, that my head was in the hands of the Divine. And within my head, I felt in the dream, deep waves, like waves in an ocean, and so beautiful rhythmic sound - music like light rain drizzling. Beta, that was not a dream. You did not go to sleep. You did not doze off. Maharaj Ji took you beyond the mind where they made you feel that the Divine was playing with Himself, within you, just like the ocean plays with itself. And you also heard the Anhad Naad, that light drizzling.
Baba Ji today I have come to know how greatly beneficial it is to make notes with one’s own hands. My Beloved Divine always stays with me, and my consciousness remains surrendered to Him at His Lotus Feet. Another thing Baba Ji, one day when outside the Kullee, we were waiting for parshaad, and the keertan, the hymns were being sung on the tape, this hymn was highlighted for me:
jitaa janam apaar aap pachhaani-aa
That I have recognized, I have realized myself that I’m divine light. I have won the game of life. Then I came to my room and opened the notebook, and right in front of me was the same line of Gurbani which I heard outside the Kullee. It cannot be coincidence; it is how He is showing me that He is always with me, giving me knowledge about this life. How beautiful is my Beloved!
So nice! Now we know the beauty, the grace, the value of singing and hearing with love. Singing the ishq song. This world is the garden of my Beloved in which there is His creation, me and Him.
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
ਨੀ ਜਿਸਮ ਜਰਾ ਪਰ੍ਹਾਂ ਕਰਕੇ, ਨਕਸ਼ ਇਸ਼ਕੇ ਦੇ ਹਾਏ ਨੀ ਨਿਹਾਰ
nee jisam jaraa parHaaN karkay, nakash ishkay day haa-ay nee nihaar
Let us go deep, become so intensely absorbed in feeling Him, and go beyond the physical; see how uniquely beautiful is the face of ishq. Remove the bodies to look beyond the bodies; you would feel Him, that in everything, everybody, everywhere His presence is obvious. Any movement anywhere in anybody, any bird, any tree, is Him!