2580 - Khajana Darshan May 7, 2023 – Bolivia
2580 - Khajana Darshan May 7, 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॥
The most precious gift in this universe to any human, which is directly from God, is this blessing of Amrit. He puts us on the journey of transformation, transforming us from ordinary people to extraordinary people; from mortals to immortals; from the mind consciousness which remains wandering all the time, to the divine consciousness which remains deeply rooted in the Divine.
Nobody can take Amrit on his or her own will. He says only when God becomes merciful, He puts the idea of taking Amrit in that person, and that person is blessed with Amrit.
The people who are blessed with the most precious gift in this universe today are, my children Helen, Andrea, Victor, Jose, Monica, Gonzales, and Dharamjit Kaur; 7 people from Bolivia including 1 from Punjab. Seven means truth. So, the truth has been administered into the truth. Most humbly and most respectfully my head falls at the feet of those who have been blessed with this gift. I’ll sit with them tonight when we get together informally at the new place.
Ishq, the process of becoming ishq. Love is not the word; it’s not physical, it’s metaphysical where the consciousness falls in love with consciousness. It can never happen in humans. In humans, the game remains only up to the physical.
But in order to give us some idea, God has created some examples. He says:
ਮੋਹਿ ਮਛੁਲੀ ਤੁਮ ਨੀਰ ਤੁਝ ਬਿਨੁ ਕਿਉ ਸਰੈ ॥
mohi machhulee tum neer tujh bin ki-o sarai.
He says, a fish is in ishq with water. Water is everything for her; she cannot survive without water because she is in ishq with water. She would not live, even for a short time, in separation from her ishq. Can ishq exist in the world? Is there anybody who would not be able to live even for a moment without another person? Is it possible? Somebody may do that out of ego to prove you wrong, but no, not in the world.
Now the process He has put on is to remain immersed in our Creator, in our Beloved, as the fish remains immersed in her ishq, water.
Oh my Beloved, I am fish and you are water, and I cannot survive without you. This is ishq! When we keep our consciousness focused within and remain immersed in that power which we feel within, like the fish remains immersed in water, we start knowing what is ishq.
What a life it is going to be! What lives becomes who are blessed with this gift!. Guru Nanak Dev Ji in his Fifth appearance says:
ਪਾਵ ਸੁਹਾਵੇ ਜਾਂ ਤਉ ਧਿਰਿ ਜੁਲਦੇ ਸੀਸੁ ਸੁਹਾਵਾ ਚਰਣੀ ॥
paav suhaavay jaaN ta-o Dhir julday sees suhaavaa charnee.
He says beautiful, blessed are the feet of those who walk towards the Divine, and how blessed, how beautiful, how precious is the head which falls at the feet of the Divine.
So when we do meditation, we feel Him, we are walking towards Him. With consciousness, when we feel Him, we should imagine that we put our head at His feet. Where we feel Him are His feet.
ਪਾਵ ਸੁਹਾਵੇ ਜਾਂ ਤਉ ਧਿਰਿ ਜੁਲਦੇ ਸੀਸੁ ਸੁਹਾਵਾ ਚਰਣੀ ॥
paav suhaavay jaaN ta-o Dhir julday sees suhaavaa charnee.
So beautiful are the feet who move towards You, my Beloved, and how precious is the head which falls at your feet.
ਮੁਖੁ ਸੁਹਾਵਾ ਜਾਂ ਤਉ ਜਸੁ ਗਾਵੈ ਜੀਉ ਪਇਆ ਤਉ ਸਰਣੀ ॥
mukh suhaavaa jaaN ta-o jas gaavai jee-o pa-i-aa ta-o sarnee
That mouth is so precious who sings You; who sings how glorious my Beloved, my Creator is. He says, that mouth is most precious; the mouth that sings How wonderful is my Lord, Waheguru! That mouth which talks about You, looks so beautiful.
When you are meditating and feeling the Divine, if all of your heart is there, ishq is there, then you are in the protection of God. So, when we do meditation, please, we should sit for a long time. Even though He lets us feel Himself after a short period of time, that is just feeling the surface of the ocean. The depth of the Divine is unfathomable. We should not become content just being at the surface of the Divine ocean. We should sink deep down because pearls are never found at the surface. It’s when we go deep that we find the true virtues of humility, ishq, compassion, just the peak of human life’s experience. The pearls are deep down in the ocean, not at the surface, so please we should sit in meditation for longer and longer periods of time so that we can dive into Him; sing into Him deeper and deeper.
Then Guru Nanak Dev Ji says:
ਸੋਇ ਸੁਣੰਦੜੀ ਮੇਰਾ ਤਨੁ ਮਨੁ ਮਉਲਾ ਨਾਮੁ ਜਪੰਦੜੀ ਲਾਲੀ ॥
so-ay sunand-rhee mayraa tan man ma-ulaa naam japand-rhee laalee
When somebody speaks about my Beloved, both my mind and my body start blossoming; alive with more and more life. Just by hearing from somebody about my Beloved, my insides become so happy and feel alive and blossomed.
naam japand-rhee laalee
When I recite my Beloved’s name myself or sing His glories, sing the true Guru’s love songs, I start becoming full of life and I start becoming flushed with His ishq.
Even though the Divine is dwelling in all His creation, only the blessed ones become conscious about His presence in them. Humans are the only ones who have the potential to become conscious of His presence and experience it.
ਪੰਧਿ ਜੁਲੰਦੜੀ ਮੇਰਾ ਅੰਦਰੁ ਠੰਢਾ ਗੁਰ ਦਰਸਨੁ ਦੇਖਿ ਨਿਹਾਲੀ ॥
panDh juland-rhee mayraa andar thandhaa gur darsan daykh nihaalee
When I feel my Beloved, I start becoming peaceful. The deeper I go into Him, the more and more still, peaceful, silent I become; I become a picture of peace.
gur darsan daykh nihaalee
When I look at my True Guru, my insides just jump and become so happy that He is the one who made me acquainted with this inner path, with this the true way of living human life. He is the one who told me how to feel God. He is the one who made me feel God. He is the one who told me to go deep. He is the one! He is the one! He is the one!
Ji, all of us, we must get up in the very early hours of the morning and do meditation. That is the time in 24 hours which is most highly blessed with His blessings. That is the time when our mind is deep asleep and the mind cannot obstruct us. So, that is the time we easily go deep into meditation and feel the beauty of human life, the blessing, the celebration of human life, the gratitude for the Divine for blessing us with a human body and human life. Then again in the evening before going to bed. That way throughout the night our consciousness will remain with God. So, at the new place which Maharaj Ji has blessed us here in Santa Cruz, we would be doing that both times there. As we start feeling the peace, feeling how happy we remain throughout the day, how grounded we feel throughout the day, how sharing ourselves, giving love to others as we start feeling the beauty of these virtues, we would not be able to live without mediation as the fish cannot live without water.
This is just one paragraph of the letter I received from a daughter of mine in Toronto, Canada. She writes: Baba Ji, with Maharaj Ji’s grace, They have been allowing me to feel Them in much more intensity than I have been able to feel Them before, and it has been continuous intoxication everyday during Khajana Darshan. There have been only two days in which I was not able to feel Maharaj Ji and those two days were the most scary. I realized from those two days how much more powerful and alert the mind becomes to try to erase the memory of Maharaj Ji whenever it can. I never realized that even one or two days can have such a big effect. Before, sometimes I used to go without feeling Them for more than 2 days. But now, I feel if I miss even one day, I’m going to die.
This is our natural state of being, to be in ishq with God, as the natural state of fish is to be in the water. This thinking consciousness of ours is not our real state of consciousness. Our real state of consciousness is when it becomes still by being in the company of the still that is the Divine.
It has been such a pleasure to be with you for ten days, but it hardly seems like even 10 hours. Until we meet again, please remain connected with our Beloved.
Guru Nanak Dev Ji says that good days and bad days are two sets of clothes which God gives to every human who comes in this world because you need change; you need to change clothes. But He says that we should not worry at all when the not so good days visit us. We should catch hold of our Beloved so tightly; before we know those days would be gone, and we would again have the attire of peacefulness. So, now we know the secret that there is nothing to worry about, no anxiety, no stress. We should not feel insecure; we know where to go when the times are hard.
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
This world is the garden of my Beloved. All those flowers are the flowers which He has planted with His own hands. Everything in His creation is His garden, a garden created with his own two hands.
ਗਿੜਦੇ ਦਿਨ ਰਾਤ ਬਾਤ ਇਹੀ ਪਾਣ
girh-day din raat baat ei-hee paan
Repeatedly, the cycle of day and night is telling us some secret of His kingdom.
ਦੁੱਖ ਸੁਖ ਜ਼ਿੰਦਗੀ ਦਾ ਹੈ ਫੁਰਮਾਣ
dukh sukh zindagee daa hai furmaan
Everyday, the day and night are telling us that good days and not so good days are His creation, and we are part of that creation. Furmaan means order. This is the order of my Beloved.
ਤੂੰ ਬਣੀਂ ਬਾਬਲੇ ਦੇ ਇਸ਼ਕੇ ਦੀ ਹਾਣ
tooN baneeN baab-lay day ishkay daa haan
Let us become as ishq-ful as our Beloved is towards us.
He remains engaged, busy, twenty-four hours a day, from the time we take the first breath in this world, till the last breath. He remains so busy, so involved in keeping us alive, in beating our heart, running our kidneys, all those millions of functions within; He has such an ishq with us.
God is not an idea. It is at work right here within us, right here, 24 hours a day. It’s not some thought or idea or some philosophy.
ਤੂੰ ਬਣੀਂ ਬਾਬਲੇ ਦੇ ਇਸ਼ਕੇ ਦਾ ਹਾਣ
tooN baneeN baab-lay day ishkay daa haan
When we become ishq and remain immersed in Him, we would not know whether outside are good days or bad days.
ਵੇਲੇ ਔਖੇ ਵੀ ਲੰਘ ਲੰਘ ਜਾਣ
vaylay a-ou-khay vee laNgh laNgh jaan
Then, before we know the tough times will be over too.
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
Dhaarnaa (end)
Maharaj Ji says:
ਮੇਰੀ ਪ੍ਰੀਤਿ ਗੋਬਿੰਦ ਸਿਉ ਜਿਨਿ ਘਟੈ ॥
mayree pareet gobind si-o jin ghatai
Oh Lord, please kindly bless me that my ishq for You should never lessen; it should become more and more.
Then He says:
ਸਾਧਸੰਗਤਿ ਬਿਨਾ ਭਾਉ ਨਹੀ ਊਪਜੈ ਭਾਵ ਬਿਨੁ ਭਗਤਿ ਨਹੀ ਹੋਇ ਤੇਰੀ ॥
saaDhsangat binaa bhaa-o nahee oopjai bhaav bin bhagat nahee ho-ay tayree.
He says remember, without being in the holy congregation, we cannot start feeling ishq for Him; this is the law of the Divine. Please, we should all remember, it’s the law under which the ishq operates - that if there is no holy congregation and you do meditation alone, you are going to become more egoistic - I’m not somebody ordinary, I do so much meditation.
Unlike the outside world, there is no competition here in the holy congregation. Everybody wants to be the dust of everybody else’s. So, this is the highest company; the company of the saints, who are on the way to becoming saints, who are on the way to realize the God state. In their company, we should start feeling humble, loving ourselves.
So wherever we are, please make sure that we form a holy congregation, no matter how small. To begin with, it could be 2, 3, 4 people but the congregation is important. Then do meditation together, eat together while sitting on the floor because the dirt is so humble and when we sit on the floor, we are in the company of the most humble being of this universe. Earth is alive, that’s why it gives us all the food. Earth is the most humble being in the universe. Doing meditation together, eating together, talking about God, telling each other our experiences, that helps a lot.
So, please, let’s do meditation for just 2-3 minutes but very intense meditation.
Sit straight. We are going to say Wahe at the lowest point in our body, and Guru in between the eyebrows at the root of the nose. Waheguru - Wonderful Lord.
Let us locate both points very precisely, the lowest point in our body, and the point in between the eyebrows. So, please, Wahe down below, and then immediately come up in between the eyebrows and say Guru; then again go down and up.
Wahe Guru, Wahe Guru, Wahe Guru, Wahe Guru…….
Please let me do for a few times and then join me in the rhythm. Only join when you feel so urgent, when you can’t stop joining the sangat; only then please, don’t be in a hurry. Concentration is more important.
Waheguru - these four letters, Wa He Gu Ru, awaken our entire body, from the lowest point to the top of our head. Guru Nanak Dev Ji blessed humanity with this wonderful sacred word, name of the Divine.
The meditation should not be done hurriedly. It should be done with utmost concentration.
When we say Wahe, we should press that point downward, and when we say Guru we should pull that point upwards.
Wahe Guru, Wahe Guru, Wahe Guru, Wahe Guru……….
Please come in between the eyebrows. Total focus, as if this is a question of life and death. Feel the Divine power oscillating back and forth, or you would feel some pressure there. Please feel more subtly, with more sensitivity.
He is our life. We are born out of Him. He is keeping us alive. Please see His importance in our life. He is keeping us alive; He is our life. Water is a fish’ life; she never forgets. But we are supposed to be more sensitive.
I just want to tell a small story. So please stay there in between the eyebrows with closed eyes, and keep feeling Him, with more and more intensity.
Guru Nanak Dev Ji says:
ਤੈਡੀ ਬੰਦਸਿ ਮੈ ਕੋਇ ਨ ਡਿਠਾ ਤੂ ਨਾਨਕ ਮਨਿ ਭਾਣਾ ॥
taidee bandas mai ko-ay na dithaa too naanak man bhaanaa.
He says to God, oh my Beloved, I don’t see anyone in the universe who is as disciplined as You are. So self-disciplined; everybody knows in advance that this is the time tomorrow when you are going to make the sun rise, and this is the time tomorrow when you are going to make the sun set, and so on. So, those who have ishq with Him are also becoming like Him; very self-disciplined. So we should please become very self-disciplined.
I want to tell you a small story, please stay feeling the Divine. This is a story which happened in Canada. A young boy walks into a drugstore and asks the owner if he could use his phone for a minute. The druggist says sure. The boy dials the number and says, Hello Dr. Karmia, do you need a boy to cut your grass and do other small jobs around the house? He pauses and then asks: oh, so you already have a boy. Are you completely satisfied with him? The voice from the other side says, yes I’m very very pleased with him. The boy says, thank you doctor, thank you.
When the boy was leaving the store, the druggist stopped the boy and said, I overheard you talking to somebody over the phone. I like you; if you are looking for a job, I can give you a job. The boy says: No, I have a job. I’m the one; I’m the boy who cuts his grass. I was just checking on myself. Later on this boy, who was so self-disciplined, and so wise, became the cabinet minister in the government of Pierre Elliot Trudeau, the father of Justin Trudeau. Then he became the Prime Minister of Canada. His name was Jean Chretien. He was the Prime Minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003. This is the success that God calls success, if we realize our full potential. So please, we must keep checking on ourselves, how self-disciplined we are.
God has been so merciful that He brought sangat from all over the world to bless me with the dust of their feet. He brought sangat from all over Bolivia, Uruguay. Then there is a very beautiful soul here from Brazil who is the high priestess there in Brazil. She has been with us for the last 5-6 days. Then there is sangat from Argentina, Peru, Spain, and my dear son Juan from Argentina who is here with us. He is gracing us with his presence. He called his friends from Holland to attend this function, so they came all the way from Holland. Then there is sangat from England, Canada, Germany, France, America, New Zealand, India, Lithuania. I don’t have any words to express my love and gratitude but I’m sure you feel that.
We are going to meet at the new place. Everybody please make sure you have the address. We would visit the place which Maharaj Ji has blessed us with. Everyone please come.
And now to all our friends who are not here amongst us. Let’s send them a message through the wind.
Dhaarnaa:
ਕੋਲੋਂ ਲੰਘਦੀਏ ਨੀ ਵਾਏ, ਸਾਡੇ ਸੱਜਣਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਸਾਡਾ ਸਲਾਮ ਆਖਣਾ
koloN langhadee-ay nee vaa-ay, saaday sajanaa noo saadaa salaam aakhanaa
Oh, the wind that was passing through here, and going in all directions, please give my love and salutations to all my friends out there.
ਨਿੱਤ ਮੰਗਦੇ ਹਾਂ ਤੇਰੀਆਂ ਖੈਰਾਂ, ਵੇਲੇ ਸੁਬਹ ਸ਼ਾਮ ਆਖਣਾ
nit maNgaday haaN tayree-aaN khairaaN, vaylay subah shaam aakhanaa
Please tell them that everyday, at least twice, once in the morning and once in the evening, I beg God for your welfare, for your protection, for keeping you in His embrace.
ਬਿਨਾ ਮਹਿਰਮ ਦਿਲਾਂ ਦੇ ਜਾਨੀ, ਨੀ ਹੋਰ ਸਭ ਖਾਮ ਆਖਣਾ
binaa mehram dilaaN day jaanee, nee hor sabh khaam aakh-naa
khaam means short of, lack, or deficiency.
Tell my friends out there that in the very first paurhee of Japji Sahib, Maharaj Ji says that without being with Divine, we can never become peaceful, we can never have a clean pure consciousness, we can never become silent within, we can never become fulfilled. We may have all the wealth in the world but without our Beloved we would still feel empty.
So wind, please tell them that we may have all the wealth in the world, we may have all the power in the world, we may have all the beauty in the world, we may have all the prestige in the world, we may be the most famous person in the world, but without our true Beloved, we would feel empty! So please tell them what is most important for human consciousness.
ਨਿੱਤ ਮੰਗਦੇ ਹਾਂ ਤੇਰੀਆਂ ਖੈਰਾਂ, ਵੇਲੇ ਸੁਬਹ ਸ਼ਾਮ ਆਖਣਾ
nit maNgaday haaN tayree-aaN khairaaN, vaylay subah shaam aakhanaa