2582 - Khajana Darshan May 11, 2023 – Sofia, Bulgaria
2582 - Khajana Darshan May 11, 2023 – Sofia, Bulgaria (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॥
ik-oaNkaar - There is only one supreme power and the whole creation is created by Him.
satnaam - His name is true; His name is not some dead word. Whenever we remember Him or call Him through His name, He hears the call and comes running to us.
kartaa purakh - means that in the whole universe it is the consciousness at work.
nirbhau - That consciousness is fearless because there is nothing else except Him so He has nothing to be afraid of.
nirvair - means that because it’s all Him, the whole universe is His creation and whatever He creates He sits within that. All the forms which we see, whether they are vegetation, birds, animals, insects, humans, they are all garbs that God is wearing. Somewhere He is wearing the garb of a bird but in that bird it is the same consciousness that is at work. It is the same consciousness at work in animals or humans. It’s all Him, Him, Him! Through meditation we come to know that we are not separate from His creation. Our mind tells us that you are existing and your existence is separate from the whole existence but it is not separate. Guru Nanak Dev Ji says:
ਪਵਣੁ ਗੁਰੂ ਪਾਣੀ ਪਿਤਾ ਮਾਤਾ ਧਰਤਿ ਮਹਤੁ ॥
pavan guroo paanee pitaa maataa Dharat mahat.
He says that in order to exist we need mother and father. Our mother is the Earth which gives us food, and all the water in the universe is like our father, and the wind is like the Guru. We cannot exist without the Earth because Earth gives us food. We cannot live without the water, and of course we cannot live without the air, the breath. So, we can see that we are not separate from His creation. We are part of His creation. Through meditation we get to know that there is nothing separate from Him; it is all Him wearing different forms.
That’s why the Divine has no enmity towards anybody because it’s just Him! We are not; it is God. But we do not know who we are, and by giving us names the world has put the idea in us that we are separate from everything. Through meditation we come to know that what we call “me” is actually “Him”. It’s not an idea; it's the truth that we experience through meditation, that it is Him. He has no enmity towards anyone; there is no fear, and the one we have been calling “I”, in reality it is Him. When we recognize who we are, then all of a sudden we find love for everyone and no fear at all because it is God; we are God! In sleep, we are seeing a dream and in that dream we are seeing everything separate. We see ourselves as small helpless people in this big world and we feel insecure.
We will talk about the rest of the MoolMantar tomorrow.
Let’s close our eyes and come in between the eyebrows please.
ਮਨ ਤੂੰ ਜੋਤਿ ਸਰੂਪੁ ਹੈ ਆਪਣਾ ਮੂਲੁ ਪਛਾਣੁ ॥
man tooN jot saroop hai aapnaa mool pachhaan.
Oh my mind, you are nothing but God Himself. Recognize yourself by uniting yourself with your source.
Please feel in between the eyebrows, a power, some presence which we might feel as pressure, or presence of a power oscillating back and forth, or moving there in an anticlockwise direction. God is showing us that yes, I am present within you; I dwell within you. The consciousness which feels His presence is our consciousness that tells us where we are, what we see, what we are hearing. Please understand this. Our mind is feeling the presence of God. We are feeling God because our mind is not carrying anything right now; it’s empty. If we bring some thoughts into our mind, then it will not be able to feel God. These are the things which we can test right now. You start thinking about your home and you will not feel God. God is there but our mind is not empty to feel Him; our mind has something else in it. This is the first and foremost thing to understand that in order to feel God we must not have any thoughts. Just keep His name in our consciousness lovingly and become absorbed in feeling Him.
ਮੂਲੁ ਪਛਾਣਹਿ ਤਾਂ ਸਹੁ ਜਾਣਹਿ ਮਰਣ ਜੀਵਣ ਕੀ ਸੋਝੀ ਹੋਈ ॥
mool pachhaaneh taaN saho jaaneh maran jeevan kee sojhee ho-ee
He says when you feel God, know that God is your source. We are like bubbles on the surface of the “God Ocean”. The ocean is eternal but we are here for a given time. The bubble is here because of the ocean; the mind is there because of God. A bubble on the surface of the ocean is made of the same water that the ocean is made of. So, our mind’s consciousness is the same as the consciousness of God but God’s consciousness is holy and our consciousness is unholy. In order to know ourselves, we have to purify our consciousness through staying with God. Then we recognize that Him and the so-called “I” are the same; the bubble recognizes that it is just water and the ocean is water as well. Because of the wind in the bubble, God created the bubble and the idea that you are separate from the ocean. That’s why we are feeling that we are separate from God.
ਮੂਲੁ ਪਛਾਣਹਿ ਤਾਂ ਸਹੁ ਜਾਣਹਿ ਮਰਣ ਜੀਵਣ ਕੀ ਸੋਝੀ ਹੋਈ ॥
mool pachhaaneh taaN saho jaaneh maran jeevan kee sojhee ho-ee
We would know that God is dwelling within us. It is God’s consciousness, God’s energy which is operating through our bodies. When He leaves the body, it becomes lifeless and people say someone has died. Guru Nanak says, you are immortal. You are the consciousness and it can never die. It cannot be burnt, it cannot be drowned, it cannot be killed by any armament, it cannot be buried. This is what we are going to experience - who we are. If we do not know who we are during this lifetime then we are going to remain in the cycle of birth and death. We all know that we are not really happy. We cannot be really happy unless we recognize who we are.
ਜਹ ਜਹ ਮਨ ਤੂੰ ਧਾਵਦਾ ਤਹ ਤਹ ਹਰਿ ਤੇਰੈ ਨਾਲੇ ॥
jah jah man tooN Dhaavdaa tah tah har tayrai naalay.
Oh my mind, wherever you go, God is there with you.
ਮਨ ਸਿਆਣਪ ਛੋਡੀਐ ਗੁਰ ਕਾ ਸਬਦੁ ਸਮਾਲੇ ॥
man si-aanap chhodee-ai gur kaa sabad samaalay.
If you want to know who you are and if you want to know who God is, then keep His name in your consciousness. Get out of the thinking process and learn to remain in the feeling process. Feeling! Feeling! Feeling Him and not thinking!
ਸਾਥਿ ਤੇਰੈ ਸੋ ਸਹੁ ਸਦਾ ਹੈ ਇਕੁ ਖਿਨੁ ਹਰਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਸਮਾਲਹੇ ॥
saath tayrai so saho sadaa hai ik khin har naam samaalhay.
Maharaj Ji says that if you drown in Him, if you become deeply absorbed in feeling God, even for a moment, you will feel peaceful. So you can take the hint that unless we meet Him, we are going to burn in the fire of greed, attachment, lust, anger, ego.
Let’s do meditation. While sitting straight we are going to say Wahe at that point of our body which is touching the ground when we are sitting cross-legged. Then immediately we have to come up and say Guru at the forehead in between the eyebrows and feel Him there. So, Wahe down there, Guru in between the eyebrows and feel His presence there.
Wahe Guru Wahe Guru Wahe Guru Wahe Guru……………..
Please feel the life at the forehead. Come closer to your forehead, feeling the skin. This is our mind that keeps wandering all the time. It has to be brought home to know who I am. Our consciousness transforms through meditation; it grows and increases. Transformation is growth as well as increase. We would start feeling more and more alive, more and more awakened. Feel the life within you, even in the whole body. This life that you are feeling within, is God. We are born out of Him and we are alive because of Him. Please remain with Him and feel His presence very respectfully, gratefully. Oh my Beloved Lord, how can I thank You for letting me know that yes, You are with me all the time. Stay with Him in an utterly humble state. We must feel very humble before Him. He is not something small, He is the Lord of the universe. But He is so merciful that He reveals Himself even to small creatures like us.
Dhaarnaa:
ਸੁਣ ਵੇ ਮਨਾ ਨਹੀਉਂ…..ਇੰਝ ਵੇ ਕਰੀਦਾ
sun vay manaa nahee-oN, injh vay kareedaa
Oh my mind, don’t do this to me; don’t make me believe that I am separate from my Beloved and separate from everything else.
ਕੁਦਰਤ ਦਾ ਹਿੱਸਾ ਹਾਂ ਮੈਂ…..ਸਾਦੀ ਮਾਸੂਮ ਜੇਹੀ
kudrat daa hisaa haaN maiN….saadee maasoom jay-hee
I am a part of His creation. Just like all of His creation is simple, natural, and innocent, so am I. But you have made me something totally different - unnatural, clever,complicated, far away from innocence, making me believe I am something special who knows everything. In fact, I am just innocent, natural, and simple.
You have made me a totally fake person. I am something else and I show something else to the world. Oh my mind, look around. Do you see anything or anybody in His creation who is fake? It is because of your blessing that I am a totally fake person. I work hard to make the world believe that I am something who I am not. That’s why I am unpeaceful! It’s because of you.
ਨਕਲੀ ਬਣਾਉਣ ਦਾ ਵੇ….. ਪਾਪ ਨਹੀਂ ਕਰੀਦਾ
naklee bana-oun daa vay……paap nahee kareedaa
You should not have done this sin to me; it’s a sin to separate somebody from their source. You made me fake and my Beloved has turned His back to me. He says I don’t meet any fake people.
Dhaarnaa (end)
Please stay at the forehead, feeling Him. Become relaxed and feel your forehead is a bed and you lie down there. Let Him work on you. Let Him purify your consciousness. We are carrying a lot of weight - yesterday’s pains, hurts, and all those. But when we come to Him, all our inner conflicts, all our pains, sadness, sorrows, losses, birth and death, they all disappear. Guru Nanak Dev Ji says:
gaavee-ai sunee-ai man rakhee-ai bhaa-o
dukh parhar sukh ghar lai jaa-ay
He says just call Him lovingly. Call Him as if you are singing to Him. Don't call Him sadly; He doesn’t like sadness. Call Him happily and He would come running and make you feel His presence. Instantly, you would be lifted above all the sufferings, all the pains, even birth and death, and He says you would be blessed with bliss. He asks, would you rather not have a trade where you can trade all your pains and sufferings and life and death for bliss? Do you need to think about such a trade? Or should you happily grab the opportunity? This opportunity is only available to us in human life. So, we should please awaken our interest for the Divine who created us, who is running our bodies - heart, kidneys, and millions of other functions. By doing so we will become more and more alive.
ਜਨਮ ਜਨਮ ਕੇ ਤੇਰੇ ਪਾਪ ਕਟੇ ਅੰਤਿ ਪਰਮ ਪਦੁ ਪਾਵਹੇ ॥
janam janam kay tayray paap katay ant param pad paavhay
He says stay with Him and He will purify your consciousness. He is going to remove all the wrong, negative thoughts which have polluted our consciousness and make it pure. He says that pure consciousness qualifies to meet Him.
ant param pad paavhay
Then you will recognize that you yourself are the Divine light.
ਸਾਚੇ ਨਾਲਿ ਤੇਰਾ ਗੰਢੁ ਲਾਗੈ ਗੁਰਮੁਖਿ ਸਦਾ ਸਮਾਲੇ ॥
saachay naal tayraa gandh laagai gurmukh sadaa samaalay.
Ji, new sangat will also get there eventually but especially the old sangat: you can see if you can hold on to this state where, by feeling the Divine many times during the day, suddenly one day you would feel that He has connected you with Him permanently. You would look out, work in the world while remaining within, connected with Him all the time. That’s when no meditation is needed. You realize that in fact you are permanently connected within. Then we are in bliss all the time. Life becomes a celebration. We all want that state, right? And we are going to reach there! He calls it the highest state of human consciousness. Once we reach that state, He ties us with Him permanently. Could death come to us then? Could death come to God? He says, now relax, death cannot enter into our state. We are now living in God’s land. But we need efforts, commitment, and patience.
The race of human journey is set before us. The race is to recognize the self and this race must be run by remaining consistent and patient. All great works are the result of hardships and patience. People who we see successful in the world did not just become successful; they had to go through a lot of hardships and remain patient. This race requires most disciplined and hungry persons; hungry for the Divine. How fortunate we are! To be hungry for power, fame, prestige, wealth - these are small things. To be hungry of God - this is something incredibly high. Guru Nanak Dev Ji says only the bravest of the brave undertake this journey.
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
The seat of God is deep within our head but He comes down at our forehead in between the eyebrows to make us feel Him. He even comes down to our heart area to make us feel Him. He goes down even below the navel point because the consciousness of the mind dwells below the pubic bone. As He raises our consciousness up, He comes down from the hill, down in the valley to make us feel Him. He doesn’t have to, but He does out of love.
Dhaarnaa:
ਉੱਚੀ ਪਹਾੜੀ..ਇੱਕ ਅਨੋਖੀ…..ਅਜਲੀ ਜੋਤ ਦਾ…. ਥੱਲ ਵੇ ਮਾਹੀਆ
uchee pahaarhee…ik anokhee…..ajlee jot daa…. thal vay maahee-aa
There is a uniquely beautiful, graceful hill which is the house of the eternal Divine light.
ਪਹਾੜੀ ਤੇ ਵੱਸਦਿਆਂ….ਗਲੀਆਂ ਚ ਆਉਣਾ…...ਅੰਨਾ ਹਨੇਰਾ…ਜਿੱਥੇ ਵੇ ਮਾਹੀਆ
pahaarhee tay vasdi-aaN…..galee-aaN ch aa-ounaa….aNnaa hanayraa….jithay vay maahee-aa
He dwells upon the hill but He comes down in the dark streets to meet me. His mansion is at the highest place; that’s where the Divine light is lit but below that, it is my mind that works through my eyes, ears, tongue, and all that; its darkness there. He comes down in the dark streets. If we start from the top of the head, through in-between the eyebrows, over the nose, through the middle of the lips, middle of the chin, through the throat, heart, navel point, below the pubic bone - this is His street. He comes down through this street to meet us in the dark lanes. It’s because we call Him. Imagine His ishq for us!
Ji, everybody is most humbly and most warmly welcomed. There is sangat here from America, Canada, India, England, France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Lithuania, Poland, and Bulgaria. What a privilege it is to sit in your presence.