2585 - Khajana Darshan June 19, 2023 – New York
2585 - Khajana Darshan June 19, 2023 – New York
English Transcription and 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॥
ਧੰਨੁ ਸੁ ਵੇਲਾ ਘੜੀ ਧੰਨੁ ਧਨੁ ਮੂਰਤੁ ਪਲੁ ਸਾਰੁ ॥
Dhan so vaylaa gharhee Dhan Dhan moorat pal saar.
Blessed, so perfectly blessed is the time, and perfectly blessed is this hour.
Please, let’s go beyond the mind, where we cannot have any memory of me or mine. We must become fully lost in hearing and singing, and our consciousness totally occupied with gratitude towards Him that, oh my Beloved, you have blessed us all with this perfectly blessed time, perfectly blessed hour.
ਧੰਨੁ - means blessed
ਧਨੁ - means something very precious
So blessed are the times, so blessed is the hour, and so fortunate and precious is the moment (pal saar).
Dhan moorat pal saar.
saar is the most precious.
So highly precious and fortunate are these moments.
ਧੰਨੁ ਸੁ ਦਿਨਸੁ ਸੰਜੋਗੜਾ ਜਿਤੁ ਡਿਠਾ ਗੁਰ ਦਰਸਾਰੁ ॥
Dhan so dinas sanjogrhaa jit dithaa gur darsaar.
jog means union; sanjog means the highest union.
And so blessed is this day, in which I can behold my True Guru and sit among His loving devotees. This is the day when this union happened; how blessed is this day!
This is not a small thing; this is the highest blessing - to meet the True Guru and sit in the holy congregation.
ਹਉਮੈ ਤੁਟਾ ਮੋਹੜਾ ਇਕੁ ਸਚੁ ਨਾਮੁ ਆਧਾਰੁ ॥
ha-umai tutaa mohrhaa ik sach naam aaDhaar.
Haumai, ego, means that my existence is independent of anything and everything. It is a false idea, an illusion, which we carry deep in our sleepy consciousness. Are we a part of His creation or separate from His creation? We are a part of His creation! Our existence is not separate. But this is not going to go away just by thinking that I am a part of His creation; the consciousness is going to transform from within and it is going to experience that it is all One - there is no I or you.
ਹਉਮੈ ਤੁਟਾ ਮੋਹੜਾ ਇਕੁ ਸਚੁ ਨਾਮੁ ਆਧਾਰੁ ॥
ha-umai tutaa mohrhaa ik sach naam aaDhaar.
Maharaj Ji says just by beholding the Guru, just by looking at Him, and just by sitting in the pure energy field of the Guru and the sangat, I am transported away from my world which I had created in sleep. Instantly! What an arrangement! He says just by beholding the Guru and sitting in the sangat, I’m taken away from so-called my world, and then instantly, right at that moment, the Divine’s presence is felt; right at that moment, He makes Himself feel us. That consciousness which is free of our worlds, is our soul; that is our true self which has no worries, no anxiety; just bliss!
The moment we become separated from the things, people, thoughts we are attached to, we are so blessed that God is felt within us, around us. How beautiful!
While remaining fully focused at the hirdaa, let us please sing and hear our own voice.
ਧੁਨਿ ਮਹਿ ਧਿਆਨੁ ਧਿਆਨ ਮਹਿ ਜਾਨਿਆ ਗੁਰਮੁਖਿ ਅਕਥ ਕਹਾਨੀ ॥
Dhun meh Dhi-aan Dhi-aan meh jaani-aa gurmukh akath kahaanee.
Maharaj Ji says focus completely on singing and hearing. We should not feel our body; just observe that someone is singing and someone is hearing.
Dhaarnaa:
ਇਹ ਪਲ ਕਿੱਡੇ ਅਨਮੋਲ ਜਿਹੇ, ਇਹ ਪਲ ਕਿੱਡੇ ਅਨਮੋਲ ਜਿਹੇ
eh pal kiday anmol jihay, eh pal kiday anmol jihay
How precious are these moments!
ਕਿਸੇ ਗੁਰਮੁਖ ਵੱਡੇ ਅਡੋਲ ਜਿਹੇ, ਕਿਸੇ ਗੁਰਮੁਖ ਵੱਡੇ ਅਡੋਲ ਜਿਹੇ
kisay gurmukh vaday adol jihay gurmukh
These moments are so peaceful; so peaceful, like a devotee; nothing can make these moments disturbed. We can become disturbed, but we cannot make these moments disturbed.
ਉਹਦੇ ਹੁਕਮ ਨਾਲ ਇਹ ਆਏ ਨੇ, ਤੇ ਹੁਕਮੇ ਇਹਨਾਂ ਤੁਰ ਜਾਣਾ
oHday hukam naal eh aa-ay nay, tay hukmay ehnaaN tur jaanaa
These so precious, so blessed moments that we are experiencing, are here because He ordered them. He has blessed us with some moments, and these moments would be over when His order comes; when He says that’s it, sing Anand Sahib!
ਉਹਦਾ ਹੁਕਮ ਸੁਣਾਵਣ ਆਏ ਨੇ, ਜੋ ਜਾਗਣ ਉਹਨਾਂ ਸੁਣ ਜਾਣਾ
oHdaa hukam sunaavan aa-ay nay, jo jaagan oHnaaN sun jaanaa
These moments are not empty, they are carrying His message. Only those who are awake would hear the message.
These moments are here to tell us His command and those of us who are awake, would hear them. And what is the hukam?
ਹੁਕਮੀ ਹੋਵਨਿ ਆਕਾਰ ਹੁਕਮੁ ਨ ਕਹਿਆ ਜਾਈ ॥
hukmee hovan aakaar hukam na kahi-aa jaa-ee.
ਹੁਕਮੀ ਹੋਵਨਿ ਜੀਅ ਹੁਕਮਿ ਮਿਲੈ ਵਡਿਆਈ ॥
hukmee hovan jee-a hukam milai vadi-aa-ee
ਹੁਕਮੀ ਉਤਮੁ ਨੀਚੁ ਹੁਕਮਿ ਲਿਖਿ ਦੁਖ ਸੁਖ ਪਾਈਅਹਿ ॥
hukmee utam neech hukam likh dukh sukh paa-ee-ah.
ਇਕਨਾ ਹੁਕਮੀ ਬਖਸੀਸ ਇਕਿ ਹੁਕਮੀ ਸਦਾ ਭਵਾਈਅਹਿ ॥
iknaa hukmee bakhsees ik hukmee sadaa bhavaa-ee-ah.
ਹੁਕਮੈ ਅੰਦਰਿ ਸਭੁ ਕੋ ਬਾਹਰਿ ਹੁਕਮ ਨ ਕੋਇ ॥
hukmai andar sabh ko baahar hukam na ko-ay.
ਨਾਨਕ ਹੁਕਮੈ ਜੇ ਬੁਝੈ ਤ ਹਉਮੈ ਕਹੈ ਨ ਕੋਇ ॥
naanak hukmai jay bujhai ta ha-umai kahai na ko-ay.
Please let your insides vibrate.
He says, if you recognize, if you realize who you are, then you would never use the word I, me, mine. You are not these small things; not only that you are not these small things, you are not! It is Him. It is God. You are not God, but this is God whom you have been calling me. You are not God, but this is God.
ਸੋ ਪ੍ਰਭੁ ਦੂਰਿ ਨਾਹੀ ਪ੍ਰਭੁ ਤੂੰ ਹੈ ॥
so parabh door naahee parabh tooN hai.
He’s not saying you are God; He’s saying God is you; God is you! But don’t tell anyone, they have to find themselves. We are here on this planet, we are here in these bodies to recognize that it is all Him. What a beautiful play! What a beautiful riddle!
Dhaarnaa (continued)
ਤੂੰ ਹੋਰ ਕੋਈ ਹੈਂ ਬੁੱਝ ਭਲਾ, ਆ ਕੰਨਾਂ ਦੇ ਆਖਣ ਕੋਲ ਜਿਹੇ
tooN hor ko-ee haiN bujh bhalaa, aa kanaaN day aakhan kol jihay
He says you are not what you are thinking.
Know it! Don’t understand it intellectually, that is not going to make any difference and you are not going to be convinced either; you have to know from meditation, from going within, that there is no trace of you anywhere, it is all Him.
Each moment is telling us you are something else. Know who you are. That’s why you are here. You are not here to run shops, to run businesses, to do farming, and all that. No, you are here to know who you are.
ਇਹ ਖ਼ਤ ਲਿਆਏ ਜਪੁਜੀ ਦਾ, ਜੀਹਦੇ ਸੂਹੇ ਬੋਲ ਨੇ ਸੋਹਲ ਜਿਹੇ
eh khat li-aa-ay japjee daa, jeeHday soohay bol nay sohal jihay
These moments are carrying the letter of Japji sahib in them, whose utterances are so saturated with love, compassion, and tender heartedness.
ਇਹ ਪਲ ਕਿੱਡੇ ਅਨਮੋਲ ਜਿਹੇ, ਇਹ ਪਲ ਕਿੱਡੇ ਅਨਮੋਲ ਜਿਹੇ
eh pal kiday anmol jihay, eh pal kiday anmol jihay
Dhaarnaa (end)
Who are we?
ਸਚਾ ਪ੍ਰੇਮ ਪਿਆਰੁ ਗੁਰ ਪੂਰੇ ਤੇ ਪਾਈਐ ॥
sachaa paraym pi-aar gur pooray tay paa-ee-ai.
Maharaj Ji says that you are ishq, and ishq is blessing, ishq is a discovery which Guru helps you to discover within you. Ishq is a treasure buried deep within us, and the Guru helps us discover that.
ਕਬਹੂ ਨ ਹੋਵੈ ਭੰਗੁ ਨਾਨਕ ਹਰਿ ਗੁਣ ਗਾਈਐ ॥
kabhoo na hovai bhang naanak har gun gaa-ee-ai.
And He says once you discover, once you recognize that you are ishq, then nothing can make you anything else.
Maharaj Ji says that through singing, you can reach that treasure of ishq.
gaavee-ai sunee-ai man rakhee-ai bhaa-o
He says fill your insides with love, and sing and hear lovingly. Then, what will happen?
dukh parhar sukh ghar lai jaa-ay
Maharaj Ji says you have one deep rooted pain, and all other pains are branches of that tree. That deep rooted pain is ego. He says that through lovingly singing and hearing, your pain of ego would be destroyed.
He says you only have one real pain. When do we have pain? When there is some disease. He says you only have one real disease and all the pains are branches of that disease, and that disease is the ego. That disease is the deep rooted understanding in you that your existence is independent; your name is this, your home is this, your country is this, your family is this - this is the disease!
dukh parhar sukh ghar lai jaa-ay
He says when your ego is gone, all your pains are gone. You would recognize that there never was anything called me! It was something; you can name it anything. You can call it God, Allah, Waheguru, Ram, Dios, any name, but it was not you, never was! That thing was never destroyable. Death cannot come to you, and who is the only one whom death cannot approach? Death cannot come to God; He is beyond time (akaal moorat). Death cannot come to God, death cannot come to us.
In the next few days, we are going to see what happens with singing and hearing.
He says you are ishq. Our consciousness is going to transform into something different than this current state. Ishq is a state of consciousness, which Maharaj Ji calls sachi-aar.
ਕਿਵ ਸਚਿਆਰਾ ਹੋਈਐ ਕਿਵ ਕੂੜੈ ਤੁਟੈ ਪਾਲਿ ॥
kiv sachi-aaraa ho-ee-ai kiv koorhai tutai paal.
There are four things which affect our consciousness. Maharaj Ji is going to take us through those, showing us how these four things affect our consciousness, and how to reach the state of ishq, truth. Those four things are pictures, spoken words by someone or even the self, written words when we see them, and music - these are the four things. Gurbani is sung in music; Gurbani is spoken, and seen with eyes, and heard. Not only Gurbani, but any type of picture, any sound, any speech, any written word when we see them, any music affects our consciousness.
Over the next few days, let us become very silent within, only then we can understand. As we understand, our consciousness is going to transform and once the consciousness is transformed then nothing can make you anything else - ਕਬਹੂ ਨ ਹੋਵੈ ਭੰਗੁ , kab-hoo naa hovai bhaNg
The Divine is ishq, and so are we, our true self.
Dhaarnaa:
We are to sing and hear it with loving consciousness.
ਨਾਅ ਸੁਣਿਆ ਜਦੋਂ ਦਾ ਇਸ਼ਕ ਤੇਰਾ……ਮੇਰਾ ਇਸ਼ਕ ਬਣਨ ਨੂੰ ਜੀਅ ਕਰਦਾ
naa suni-aa jadoN daa ishq tayraa….mayraa ishq banan noo jee kardaa
Ever since I have heard that my Beloved is ishq, a deep urge has sprung up in me that I want to be ishq.
ਵਿੱਚ ਨੀਂਦ ਦੇ ਲੰਘ ਗਈ ਹੁਣ ਤਾਈਂ…..ਮੁੜ ਕੇ ਜੰਮਣ ਨੂੰ ਬੜਾ ਹੀ ਜੀਅ ਕਰਦਾ
vich neeNd day langh ga-ee hun taa-eeN……murh kay jamman noo barhaa hee jee kardaa
Up to now, my life has been spent in sleep, and I long to be re-born. I long so intensely to be re-born. Up to now, my life has been spent in sleep.