2579 - Khajana Darshan May 6, 2023 – Bolivia
2579 - Khajana Darshan May 6, 2023 – Bolivia (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॥
God has given us two ways of living human life. One is through the mind, and one is through the Divine.
Maharaj Jii says that in order to devise this play, God gave a disease to humans. The name of the disease is ego. We are born of God but through our parents; our bodies are bound to perish; our bodies are not immortal. But our consciousness is immortal. We are thrown into the world, and the world teaches us what it knows, i.e. to live out of the mind. Maharaj Ji says that this way of life is a diseased person’s way of life. Disease means dis-ease, unpeaceful. So one remains unpeaceful, anxious, worried, insecure. He says that the disease of ego is so very deadly because if we live that way of life, we certainly are going to end up in the graveyard.
He says:
naanak ha-umai rog buray
Oh Nanak, the disease of ego is so very deadly.
Wherever I see, wherever I look, I see that everybody is suffering from the same disease, same anguish.
ਜਹ ਦੇਖਾਂ ਤਹ ਏਕਾ ਬੇਦਨ ਆਪੇ ਬਖਸੈ ਸਬਦਿ ਧੁਰੇ ॥
jah daykhaaN tah aykaa baydan aapay bakhsai sabad Dhuray
I see everybody is suffering from the pain of ego. With good fortune, when the True Guru meets somebody, He tells the story of life and blesses that person with the Sacred Word which makes one free of ego and unites with the Source.
So, we can recognize the place of the True Guru in our lives. Without Him, who would tell us that this is not the only way of living human life. Who would tell us how to recognize the Divine within? Who would make us unite with the Divine?
That’s why I’m looking in every direction from where the True Guru is going to come because I have been told that we cannot find a True Guru. How would we recognize Him? We are blind. How would we recognize this is the True Guru? He says the True Guru finds us; He meets us.
So that’s why, I’m looking in every direction waiting for Him.
ਹਉ ਖੜੀ ਨਿਹਾਲੀ ਪੰਧੁ ਮਤੁ ਮੂੰ ਸਜਣੁ ਆਵਏ ॥
ha-o kharhee nihaalee panDh mat mooN sajan aav-ay.
There’s sadness in me, Guru has not arrived yet, My days are being wasted.
ਹਉ ਜੀਉ ਕਰੀ ਤਿਸ ਵਿਟਉ ਚਉ ਖੰਨੀਐ ਜੋ ਮੈ ਪਿਰੀ ਦਿਖਾਵਏ ॥
ha-o jee-o karee tis vita-o cha-o khannee-ai jo mai piree dikhaava-ay.
I have heard that He makes us recognize the Divine within. And when He meets me, I’m going to sacrifice this wandering consciousness for the still-full consciousness. Amrit Sanchar: Sanchar means irrigation, or to water. Guru irrigates our consciousness with the Divine power. Next year, we will explain the ceremony of Amrit Sanchar fully, and show it in the sangat how it is prepared. When it is prepared only those who are going to be blessed with Amrit are allowed to be present, nobody else. Next year, we won’t prepare the Amrit here; we cannot in front of everyone because that is a very sacred ceremony; so we will show how it is done; how the Five Chosen Ones sit and the Sacred Word is dissolved into the water, the Godly power is dissolved into the water, and then that blessed water is given to us to drink, to change our insides. Our eyes are splashed with that sacred water so that our vision changes; our way of seeing changes. Then that water is also put at the top of our head, to open the tenth gate. The ceremony is so mesmerizing and beautiful. He introduced this during His Tenth appearance, and said that from now onwards I’m going to operate through Guru Granth Sahib Ji, and through the Five Chosen Ones while preparing Amrit. Then we are blessed by the Sacred Word; that this is the Word you recite and God will meet you. Guru Granth Sahib Ji is songs; songs of His glory, God’s glory; songs of ishq, painful songs, sad songs of our state when we are separated from Him, songs of waiting for the Guru, songs of meeting, what happens when we meet the Guru, songs when we start falling in ishq with the Guru, and all types of songs; songs, songs, songs! Our true self, our soul is all ishq, pure sacred love. When we are in love, even in the worldly sense; that’s not love but we call it love; even then you feel like singing. This is ishq! In ishq, you only sing! Songs spring from that ishq. You do not form songs; they just arise out of you and that’s how Gurbanii came into being.
Dhaarnaa:
ਨਵਾਂ ਹੀ ਪਰਾਹੁਣਾ ਇੱਕ ਆਇਆ ਸਾਡੇ ਸ਼ਹਿਰ ਨੀ
navaaN hee paraaHunaa ik...aa-i-aa saaday shahir nee
ਮੁਹੱਬਤਾਂ ਦੇ ਗੀਤ ਗਾਉਂਦਾ…ਰਹਿੰਦਾ ਅੱਠੇ ਪਹਿਰ ਨੀ
muhabataaN day geet gaa-ouNdaa rahiNdaa athay pahir nee
He keeps singing the songs of love all the time. Guru Granth Sahib Ji, wherever you open Him, He’s singing songs. All the time, He is singing songs of ishq.
ਆਪਣਾ ਜਿਹਾ ਲੱਗਦਾ ਏ…ਲੱਗਦਾ ਨਾ ਗੈਰ ਨੀ
aapnaa jihaa lagdaa ay…..lagdaa naa gair nee
Even though I have met Him for the first time, somewhere within it feels that He is my own. He doesn’t seem like a stranger or as if I’m meeting Him for the first time. He doesn’t seem like a stranger at all; seems like He is my very own; as if part of some deep part of me.
ਆਖ ਸੁ ਨੀ ਇਹਨੂੰ ਜਾਵੇ…ਸ਼ਹਿਰ ਸਾਡੇ ਠਹਿਰ ਨੀ
aakh su nee eHnoo jaavay….shahir saaday thahir nee
Did somebody request Him to stay here in our city? Please, oh my sister-friends, please plead to Him that kindly stay here in our city.
ਛੋਟੀ ਮੋਟੀ ਨਹੀ ਰੱਬ….ਪਾਉਂਦਾ ਝੋਲੀ ਖੈਰ ਨੀ
chhotee motee nahee rab paa-oNdaa jholee khair nee
He doesn’t just bless you with something small; He blesses you with God Himself. He hands over God to you as a gift.
Ji, I certainly was praying and I think other sangats were also praying that may Maharaj Ji stay here so with His immense grace this morning only, He has blessed us with a space here in Santa Cruz where Maharaj Ji would stay. We would be able to do meditation in His loving presence everyday. He is so close, and hears our every plea, and delivers. Tomorrow we all will gather there at 4 pm. It’s such happy news and we are so grateful to Him.
When we say Bolay So Nihaal, Sat Sree Akaal, it means that whosoever appreciates our Lord’s grace upon us, whosoever values His grace upon us, may sound it, and may God make that person very happy because we recognize His mercy. Sat Sree Akaal: Sat means truth, Sree means the Ccreator, Akaal means timeless; that this benediction, this grace has come from nowhere else except the Timeless True Creator.
With HIs grace, sangat has arrived from all over the world. The other day this sangat came from Vancouver BC, Canada, and they gave me this note.
In this letter, the writer says that Bolivia is so beautiful. What I have received here, I cannot express it. I needed it so badly, I cannot express it in words, I’m just grateful to him. It feels like something was tightly closed within and that has opened up and I feel blossomed within, freshly blossomed. Oh my Beloved, please protect me, keep me in your Lotus Feet, and keep me blessed with the dust of the holy congregation. Every second, every minute, I feel a beautiful peace; everything looks so beautiful. Seems like I have entered into a totally different world, pleasantly. I don’t know why, but I feel like calling everybody that please don’t miss Bolivia, everybody come to Bolivia. It’s true that Maharaj Ji has taken us all over the world but this is the country where innocence is still there. Out of the entire world, I find people here so innocent, so beautiful, so honest. No wonder Maharaj Ji chose Bolivia in South America to stay here.
ਬਹੁਤ ਜਨਮ ਬਿਛੁਰੇ ਥੇ ਮਾਧਉ ਇਹੁ ਜਨਮੁ ਤੁਮ੍ਹ੍ਹਾਰੇ ਲੇਖੇ ॥
bahut janam bichhuray thay maaDha-o ih janam tumHaaray laykhay.
He says, Oh my Beloved, I have been separated from You for many many lifetimes and I am going to devote this lifetime to meeting You. I must have wasted all my opportunities. Every time I was sent back into this world to accomplish this, but this time I’m not going to let the opportunity be wasted.
Ji, we must live in a way that we use everyday to pull this lower self, the ego-centered consciousness, upwards towards our true self, the soul. Until we realize who we are; we are the souls, we are the Divine lights; until we realize who we are, there is no possibility of us becoming peaceful or un-diseased.
We are not happy with ourselves. We are disgusted with ourselves. We are disgusted with the world around us; we are weary of this. When we don’t like any friend of ours, we stop staying with that person but we keep on tolerating this terrible I which always makes us suffer. We feel that this is the only way to live. We keep on tolerating this I, this terrible I, ego-centered, selfishness-centered, all negativity, and we don’t do anything about that.
Maharaj Ji asks why; why are you living that way when you have a choice?
He says:
ਸੋ ਪ੍ਰਭੁ ਦੂਰਿ ਨਾਹੀ ਪ੍ਰਭੁ ਤੂੰ ਹੈ ॥
so parabh door naahee parabh tooN hai.
He says God is not away from you, God is not separate from you; you are the God. It means that your true-self is all God state. Because our soul constantly dwells with the Divine, so she remains in the same state of consciousness as God’s state. So, when Guru Nanak Dev Ji says that you are God, what He is saying is that your actual state of consciousness, your real you is of the same state of consciousness as God - blissful, all ishq, compassion, humility. So please we must not accept this I, this egoistic I.
Maharaj Ji says:
ਦੇਹ ਛਿਜੰਦੜੀ ਊਣ ਮਝੂਣਾ ਗੁਰਿ ਸਜਣਿ ਜੀਉ ਧਰਾਇਆ ॥
dayh chhijand-rhee oon majhoonaa gur sajan jee-o Dharaa-i-aa
My body was wasting away, and I was sad. Then the True Guru met me and He encouraged me and consoled me. The true Guru encouraged me to meet the true self and become so blissful.
ਹਭੇ ਸੁਖ ਸੁਹੇਲੜਾ ਸੁਤਾ ਜਿਤਾ ਜਗੁ ਸਬਾਇਆ ॥
habhay sukh suhaylrhaa sutaa jitaa jag sabaa-i-aa
Now I have become immune to the pain of the ego because there is no ego; I have won over the ego. I have won over the ego, and thus I have won over the whole world.
Ji, that space where our true self dwells; we must everyday rise upward inwardly, and come closer and closer to our real self. So we must please everyday check that our consciousness does not fall down into the hands of the mind. Many times during the day, we must make sure that it remains at the heart area or above. When we reach our true self, we would be so blissful, so beautiful. We would emanate God’s fragrance. That’s when we will become a gift to the whole of humanity. This is how we would raise the consciousness of humanity. We will be living in the world, but we will not be of the world. That’s who we truly are. That’s what Guru is telling us to do, and for that very purpose He blesses us with the Sacred Word, with Amrit.
naanak ha-umai rog buray
Oh Nanak, truly deadly is the disease of ego.
ਜਹ ਦੇਖਾਂ ਤਹ ਏਕਾ ਬੇਦਨ ਆਪੇ ਬਖਸੈ ਸਬਦਿ ਧੁਰੇ ॥
jah daykhaaN tah aykaa baydan aapay bakhsai sabad Dhuray
He says when Amrit is instilled in someone, that blessing comes to that person right from the court of God.
Dhaarnaa:
ਰੋਗ ਪਲਾਂ ਦਾ ਨਾ ਸਾਲਾਂ ਦਾ….ਜਨਮਾਂ ਦੇ ਵਿਛੋੜੇ ਦਾ
rog palaaN daa naa saalaaN daa….janamaaN day vichhorhay daa
This disease of ego is not a disease which I contracted a few days ago, or a few years ago. I have been suffering from it, only He knows for how many lifetimes.
ਸ਼ੁਕਰਾਨਾ ਵੇ ਸਾਹਿਬਾ….ਤੇਰੇ ਮਿੱਠੜੇ ਸੁਨੇਹੜੇ ਦਾ
shukraanaa vay sahibaa……tayray mitharhay sunayharhay daa
Oh my Beloved, I’m so grateful to You, that You have given this news that it’s not too late; I can realize my true-self and become a God state, an unimaginable state. I’m so grateful to You for taking me on the trip of self-realization.
ਨਾਲ ਦਰਦ ਵੀ ਪਾਇਆ ਈ….ਇਹ ਰਿਸ਼ਤਾ ਹੈ ਕੇਹੇ ਦਾ
naal dard vee paa-i-aa ee……eh rishataa hai kayhay daa
Oh my Beloved, while You have come and blessed me with such divinely gifts, at the same time You have given me the pain too. The pain is what if I don’t make it this lifetime. I’m exalted, I’m so happy that You have met me, and at the same time I’m worried, what if I don’t make it during this lifetime. But Guru says, we are going to!
He says:
ਜਿਸੁ ਮਿਲਿਆ ਪੂਰਾ ਗੁਰੂ ਸੁ ਸਰਪਰ ਤਾਰਣੋ ॥
jis mili-aa pooraa guroo so sarpar taarno.
He says do not doubt; He is going to take you to Himself. Do not doubt it.
sarpar taarno: He says I guarantee you. What else do you want? I guarantee you! How beautiful!
Ji, tomorrow there is going to be Amrit Sanchar at 10 am. Amrit means that which transforms a mere mortal to an immortal. That is the meaning of Amrit..
Those of us who are not ready, we should start living as if we have been blessed with Amrit, means living as God has created us. The whole creation, all animals, birds, all of creation is living as God has created them.
God wants males to have beards. We may shave twice a day, but He keeps bringing it back. He is telling that I want you to have a beard. Who is going to win in the end? We or God? So, why are we doing it? We are so weak. We keep thinking, what will the world say?
What is the world giving us? Except death!
He says:
ਜਾ ਕਉ ਹਰਿ ਰੰਗੁ ਲਾਗੋ ਇਸੁ ਜੁਗ ਮਹਿ ਸੋ ਕਹੀਅਤ ਹੈ ਸੂਰਾ ॥
jaa ka-o har rang laago is jug meh so kahee-at hai sooraa.
He says I meet only brave people because I am brave. Look here, alone I’m running such a vast kingdom. And He says, if you are weak, no chance! You are going to make me weak too. In plain words, Sikh means one who is in ishq with God, and that makes you the strongest.
Please, I don’t want to make you feel guilty. No, not at all. But I do want you to stop and think, why I am doing this?
The final piece of the peacefulness puzzle is to come under His will; start living life as He has created it. You can try it; live both ways and feel the difference.
He loves us either way. He says this is your choice, you have the freedom. You have the freedom to choose this way of living.
Tomorrow is the last Khajana Darshan. I have a few last messages for you; heart to heart talk.
Now this line in Spanish, that oh my Beloved, I’m so grateful to You for the sweet message You have brought. This is to the True Guru.
ਸ਼ੁਕਰਾਨਾ ਵੇ ਸਾਹਿਬਾ….ਤੇਰੇ ਮਿੱਠੜੇ ਸੁਨੇਹੜੇ ਦਾ
shukraanaa vay sahibaa……tayray mitharhay sunayharhay daa
Now in Spanish please.
gracias mi amado…por tan dulce mensaje