2563 - Khajana Darshan April 17, 2023 – Walsall, UK
2563 - Khajana Darshan April 17, 2023 – Walsall, UK (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॥
gur sayva-o kar namaskaar.
I bow to the True Guru first and then I see within me, the ishq I have for Him. To serve the Guru means to obey Him. There are different ways of obeying - that He is my True Guru so I have to obey Him or it is in my best interest to obey the Guru. The other way is to have ishq for Him and the consciousness becomes capable of sacrificing for Him. Where there is ishq, notions such as, I should obey him or I must obey him because it is good for me - these are very small things. So beautiful!
Maharaj Ji has been telling us that in this whole wide world, and during all of your life, only one being is going to be useful to you, and that is the True Guru. He is capable of making this life so peaceful, so beautiful, so profoundly lived, and He can also bless you with a blissful future journey. That’s why I bow down to the True Guru and I have ishq with Him because if I become attached to anybody else, I cannot have ishq with Him. Because the consciousness which becomes attached, in fact is ishq, but by becoming misguided it becomes attached to other people, places, things, ideas, thoughts.
aaj hamaarai mangalchaar.
Today is a day of celebration in my house.
He says, the day you recognize the importance of Guru’s presence in your life, from that day onward, your life is going to become a celebration. Aaj means today. He said it should be today; not sometime in the future. Future is never going to arrive; the future is going to remain the future; only today is going to arrive and today is here! If you are saying that someday I am going to have that type of relationship with Him, then this is the day.
aaj hamaarai mahaa anand.
Today, the supreme bliss is in my house. If you want someday to experience supreme bliss in your house, then this is the day. The day has arrived. Are you home? The day is here, with all the real blessings, true blessings. That day is here! A day to experience supreme bliss.
chint lathee bhaytay gobind.
You always remain worried, tense, stressful, and anxious. This is no life. To have a human consciousness that is so evolved, and to live a life of anxiety. That’s no gift. It’s a curse! But He has gifted you with the most precious gift in his creation. If you want to be worry free, free, just free, laughing, dancing, deep peace, then the only root to that is by experiencing God within. It is the only root to happiness.
Please focus fully at the hirdaa (the heart area).
In the beginning, we would feel the presence of something like a breeze, or some pressure, or a presence moving in an anti-clockwise direction.
There was this letter we started reading in previous diwans. The writer says that I had a question: How to let go of regret? And, Maharaj Ji said the answer is within the question - just let go! There is no looking back now, no more postponing. Maharaj Ji is saying that’s it. You can stop running around, come to me, let go of what was holding you back, just stay with me.
When a turn is going to happen in our lives, it’s going to happen instantly, right away, not slowly and slowly. Priorities will change, way of life will change, everything will change! Your eating, your sleeping, your clothing, your talking, your thinking, your behavior, everything!
Then she writes: The next day, I was making notes and listening to the Khajana Darshan of February 6th, in which you had asked us to write your thoughts about: Oh, my Beloved, your thought, your memory, has possessed me and life changed from that moment on.
Please listen to these lines that she wrote.
ਮੈਨੂੰ ਤੇਰਾ ਖਿਆਲ ਲੈ ਬੈਠਾ
mainoo tayraa khi-aal lai baithaa
ਖਿਆਲ ਨਹੀਂ ਸੀ, ਸੀ ਉਹ ਯਾਦ ਤੇਰੀ
khi-aal nahee see, see oh yaad tayree
ਹੋਕੇ ਜ਼ਾਹਰਾ ਜ਼ਹੂਰ ਲੈ ਬੈਠਾ
hokay zaaHraa zahoor lai baithaa
Your thought possessed me. That was not just your thought, it was your remembrance, and with your remembrance, you arrived and your presence took hold of me.
ਗਲ ਇਸ਼ਕ ਦੀ ਸੁਣਕੇ ਰੋ ਪਈ ਸਾਂ
gal ishq dee sunkay ro pa-ee saaN
ਤੇ ਜ਼ਿਕਰ ਤੇਰਾ ਵੀ ਲੈ ਬੈਠਾ
tay zikar tayraa vee lai baithaa
ਮੈਨੂੰ ਤੇਰਾ ਖਿਆਲ ਲੈ ਬੈਠਾ
mainoo tayraa khi-aal lai baithaa
My sister-friends were telling me about ishq, and I started crying. And in that conversation, you were also mentioned, and that possessed me even more thoroughly.
ਸੁੱਤੀ ਜਨਮਾਂ ਤੋਂ, ਰਹਿਉਂ ਜਗਾਉਂਦਾ ਤੂੰ
sutee janamaaN toN rahioN jagouNdaa tooN
ਇਸ ਆਸੇ ਕਿ ਮੈਂ ਉੱਠ ਬੈਠਾਂ
ais aasay ki maiN uth baithaaN
You have been calling me, you have been trying to wake me up, you have been hoping that I will wake up.
ਹਾਰ ਮੰਨ ਜਾਂਦੇ ਬੰਦੇ ਦੁਨੀਆ ਦੇ
haar man jaaNday banday dunee-aa day
ਨਾ ਹਾਰ ਮੰਨੀ ਨਾ ਤੁੰ ਚੈਨ ਨਾਲ ਬੈਠਾ
naa haar manee, naa tooN chain naal baithaa
You kept calling me out and I never woke up. Had there been anybody else, they would have long given up on me, but you never give up. You kept calling me out, you kept coming to me.
ਬਦਲ ਗਈ ਹੈ ਅੱਜ ਤੋਂ ਜ਼ਿੰਦਗੀ ਮੇਰੀ
badal ga-ee hai aj toN zindagee mayree
ਸਿਦਕ ਤੇਰਾ ਆਖਿਰ ਨੂੰ ਲੈ ਬੈਠਾ
sidak tayraa aakhir noo lai baithaa
How beautiful! In the end, finally, you have won; Your patience has won. And today, I've changed; my life has changed.
Maharaj Ji says:
ਸਭ ਦਿਨਸੁ ਰੈਣਿ ਗੁਣ ਉਚਰੈ ਹਰਿ ਹਰਿ ਹਰਿ ਉਰਿ ਲਿਵ ਲਾਗੁ ॥
sabh dinas rain gun uchrai har har har ur liv laag
ur means hirdaa. Hirdaa is a space behind our heart in the Street of The Present, at the heart level. The Street of The Present starts from the root point at the bottom of the spine, passing through the navel point, heart, throat, chin, lips, between the eyebrows, all the way to the top of the head. Maharaj Ji says:
antar thaan thehraavan ka-o kee-ay.
He says I have made places in your body for you to focus. Hirdaa is one of those places.
har har har ur liv laag
He says remain focused at the hirdaa for a long time; fully focused. Then what will happen?
ਸਭੁ ਤਨੁ ਮਨੁ ਹਰਿਆ ਹੋਇਆ ਮਨੁ ਖਿੜਿਆ ਹਰਿਆ ਬਾਗੁ ॥
sabh tan man hari-aa ho-i-aa man khirhi-aa hari-aa baag.
Then you’ll feel your insides alive, you would feel your insides full of joy, full of bliss; your insides blossomed. But you have to stay there long enough, not just a fleeting meditation.
Dhaarmaa:
ਨਾਲ ਆਉਣ ਤੇਰੇ ਇਸ਼ਕ ਹਵਾਵਾਂ, ਵੇ ਦਿਲ ਬਾਗੇ ਆ ਸੱਜਣਾ
naal aa-oun tayray ishq havaavaaN, vay dil baagay aa sajanaa
Oh, my beloved, you are saying that if I remain there, then you will come there, my insides will blossom. So please come in the garden of the hirdaa, please.
Maharaj Ji says:
ਅਲਹ ਲਹਉ ਤਉ ਕਿਆ ਕਹਉ ਕਹਉ ਤ ਕੋ ਉਪਕਾਰ ॥
alah laha-o ta-o ki-aa kaha-o kaha-o ta ko upkaar.
He says when God reveals Himself within you, then you would say one thing only, and that would be something which can help others. You won’t have any futile ego-centered talk, or I, I, I. No! You will only feel what can I do for this person, how can I help.
ਜਿਵੇਂ ਦਰਦ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਹੈ ਲੱਖਾਂ, ਵੇ ਮੈਨ ਵੀ ਦਰਦ ਹੋਰਾਂ ਦਾ ਰੱਖਾਂ
jivayN darad tainoo hai lakhaaN, vay maiN vee darad horaaN daa rakhaaN
Oh, my beloved, as you are concerned worried about so many of your children, I wish I would have the same compassion in me for them.
ਇਸੇ ਧੁਨ ਵਿਚ ਰਹਾਂ ਗ਼ਲਤਾਨ, ਕੁੱਝ ਕਰ ਸਕਾਂ ਸਖੀਆਂ ਲਈ ਦਾਨ
aisay Dhun vich rahaaN galataan, kujh kar sakaaN sakhee-aaN la-ee daan
I remain lost in this thought of how I can help others. What can I do for them? What can I do for my sister-friends? What would truly benefit them? Not temporarily but eternally, eternally.
ਲੈਣ ਸੁਖ ਹੁਲਾਰੇ ਜਿੱਥੇ ਵਾਵਾਂ, ਵੇ ਦਿਲ ਬਾਗੇ ਆ ਸੱਜਣਾ
lain sukh hulaaray jithay vaavaaN, vay dil baageeN aa sajanaa
ਨਾਲ ਆਉਣ ਤੇਰੇ ਇਸ਼ਕ ਹਵਾਵਾਂ, ਵੇ ਦਿਲ ਬਾਗੇ ਆ ਸੱਜਣਾ
naal aa-oun tayray ishq havaavaaN, vay dil baagay aa sajanaa
I want to create an atmosphere for them, where even the winds would be intoxicated with ishq and peace.
Dhaarnaa (end)
For the last few days, we have been trying to understand as Maharaj Ji tells us how this life is going to change the course of our future journey beyond this life. Not only that this life is going to have a say in it, it is going to have all the say in it. This life, not only the whole life, Maharaj ji says, it’s your last breath, last thought, last desire. Maharaj Ji says your future journey is going to be determined by your last thought, last desire; that is going to dictate your next life.
Please remain at the heart area.
Kindly let us turn to the Celestial Music because it has a great role in our future journey. Celestial music seems nothing big, but it is so big once we let it consume us.
ਹਉ ਸੰਚਉ ਹਉ ਖਾਟਤਾ ਸਗਲੀ ਅਵਧ ਬਿਹਾਨੀ ॥
ha-o sancha-o ha-o khaattaa saglee avaDh bihaanee.
Maharaj Ji says that a person comes into this world, and becomes rooted in the world - mother, father, children, work, properties, relatives. His whole life is a worldly life; he keeps running around his small life which gives him all the anxiety and insecurities.
ਹਉ ਸੂਰਾ ਪਰਧਾਨੁ ਹਉ ਕੋ ਨਾਹੀ ਮੁਝਹਿ ਸਮਾਨੀ ॥
ha-o sooraa parDhaan ha-o ko naahee mujheh samaanee.
I’m very wise, I’m very brave, nobody is like me in this world. I take such big risks, I’m so brave, there is nobody like me.
maatee ko putraa kaisay nachat hai
jab kachh paavai tab garab karat hai.
maa-i-aa ga-ee tab rovan lagat hai.
He says look at this person; he doesn’t know who he is.
If he gets something, he becomes egoistic. If he loses something, he starts crying. He doesn’t even know what he’s doing, who he is.
ਜਿਉ ਉਲਝਾਇਓ ਬਾਧ ਬੁਧਿ ਕਾ ਮਰਤਿਆ ਨਹੀ ਬਿਸਰਾਨੀ ॥
ji-o uljhaa-i-o baaDh buDh kaa marti-aa nahee bisraanee.
One remains trapped in that dark life, where he doesn’t know who he is, and he does not know
what he is doing. He is just running after his desires. He says that till the last breath he has desires.
ਜਿਤੁ ਲਾਗੋ ਮਨੁ ਬਾਸਨਾ ਅੰਤਿ ਸਾਈ ਪ੍ਰਗਟਾਨੀ ॥
jit laago man baasnaa ant saa-ee paragtaanee.
Maharaj Ji says that your last desire which remains unfulfilled is going to stand before you during your last breath, and that is going to decide your future journey.
Life is like playing a tennis game for 60, 70, 80, 90 or 100 years and the result is announced at the last ball. At the very last ball! That’s why we keep on lingering - yeah, yeah, I’ll do that.
Tomorrow we will talk more about this.
Maharaj Ji says:
ਸਚੁ ਸਰਾ ਗੁੜ ਬਾਹਰਾ ਜਿਸੁ ਵਿਚਿ ਸਚਾ ਨਾਉ ॥
sach saraa gurh baahraa jis vich sachaa naa-o.
Maharaj Ji says God has become the potent wine made from truth. Drink it, experience it! That potent wine is the Celestial Music but we have to keep drinking, keep drinking, keep drinking through hearing.
Dhaarnaa:
ਦੋ ਘੁੱਟ ਮੱਦ ਦੇ ਪਿਆ ਵੇ ਬਾਬਲਾ, ਦੋ ਘੁੱਟ ਮੱਦ ਦੇ ਪਿਆ
do ghut mad day pi-aa vay babalaa, do ghut mad day pi-aa
ਬਾਝ ਸਮਾਧੀ ਤੁਰੀਆ ਨਹੀਓਂ, ਤੇ ਨਾ ਪੀਤੇ ਬਿਨਾ ਬਚਾਅ
baajh samaaDhee turee-aa nahee-o, naa peetay binaa bachaa
Maharaj Ji says you must remain absorbed in meditation for a long period of time to experience the beauty, the bliss, the glory, the splendor of the truth. Without that long sitting, we cannot experience our souls, and without experiencing our souls, we cannot be freed from the cycle of birth and death.