2628 - Khajana Darshan August 8, 2023 – Surrey, BC
2628 - Khajana Darshan August 8, 2023 – Surrey, BC
English Transcription and Translation
Transliteration Key for Gurbaanee and Dhaarnaas
Black text - as uttered by Baba Ji in English;
Blue text - translation of Baba Ji’s utterances in Gurmukhi
ੴ ਸਤਿਨਾਮ ਕਰਤਾ ਪੁਰਖੁ ਨਿਰਭਉ ਨਿਰਵੈਰੁ ਅਕਾਲ ਮੂਰਤਿ ਅਜੂਨੀ ਸੈਭੰ ਗੁਰਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ॥
॥ ਜਪੁ॥
ਆਦਿ ਸਚੁ ਜੁਗਾਦਿ ਸਚੁ। ॥ ਹੈ ਭੀ ਸਚੁ ਨਾਨਕ ਹੋਸੀ ਭੀ ਸਚੁ॥
Only after rebirth happens, we come to know who I am. khud means our true self, khudee is the false I, the ego, which remains in the drama of the world all her life. All our lives, we remain playing different roles - the role of a daughter, the role of a sister, role of a mother, role of a wife, role of a grandmother, and so on. This false I is so fake; son and mother are sitting at the same table; its way of talking is one way with the son and different with the mother. See how fake everything is; there is no sign of reality, the truth. Nobody in the entire world ever stops to think that what is the real story, who am I? Who am I? One who keeps playing this game all their life can never even think about God, what is the truth, who am I, what is all this around me. The Guru comes and tells us these things. Unless one had meditated in previous lives, there is no possibility to ever have the thought - who am I? People receive education and degrees in the world. What is worldly education? Read something from books, listen to someone telling you something, watch something, and then remember it. But we do not come to know anything from that.
Until we are reborn, we cannot become peaceful.
satgur kai janmay gavan mitaa-i-aa.
anhat raatay ih man laa-i-aa.
We cannot become peaceful until we are reborn and to spend this life unpeacefully is not wise. Even if we have time, is it necessary that we must remain unpeaceful, angry, all that?
Two things are required for rebirth: one is to come home, and the other is to rest. How beautiful! Just by coming home and resting there, we go through the process of rebirth. Everyone would want to know, let’s see where my house is? I don’t see my house outside. All of us want to become peaceful.
Earlier, we did not know and we could not hear Gurbaanee. But now we know and we also hear Gurbaanee.
akhraa sir sanjog vakhaan.
Maharaj Ji says that now you have come to the state where you can hear, now you must hear the words I’m speaking. And you must know the meaning, the emotions which these words are carrying.
ਨਾਨਕ ਕਾਮਿ ਕ੍ਰੋਧਿ ਕਿਨੈ ਨ ਪਾਇਓ ਪੁਛਹੁ ਗਿਆਨੀ ਜਾਇ ॥
naanak kaam kroDh kinai na paa-i-o puchhahu gi-aanee jaa-ay.
He says the two most powerful things which prohibit us, which obstruct us, which puts barriers before us for the process of re-birth, are lust and anger.
ਕਿਨੈ ਨ ਪਾਇਓ kinai na paa-i-o - He has drawn a line that no one has ever achieved that state of rebirth, and no one shall ever achieve (if there is lust and anger in their consciousness)
Lust is that where we constantly keep on having lustful thoughts.
Anger is such a powerful thing. Anger wounds our consciousness, and a wounded consciousness moves away from God. The more it is wounded, the farther it is removed from God, and less are the chances of rebirth. You can see that a person who has a lot of anger cannot sit in meditation because they have gone too far from God. No one did it to them; it was their own doing.
ਦਦੈ ਦੋਸੁ ਨ ਦੇਊ ਕਿਸੈ ਦੋਸੁ ਕਰੰਮਾ ਆਪਣਿਆ ॥
dadai dos na day-oo kisai dos karammaa aapni-aa.
Both of these things are very scary but please understand them and we will see how they can be transformed; we will be amazed to know what these things become after transformation.
ਨਾਨਕ ਕਾਮਿ ਕ੍ਰੋਧਿ ਕਿਨੈ ਨ ਪਾਇਓ ਪੁਛਹੁ ਗਿਆਨੀ ਜਾਇ ॥
naanak kaam kroDh kinai na paa-i-o puchhahu gi-aanee jaa-ay.
He says go and ask them who have arrived, and they will tell you that these are the two most powerful obstructions.
Maharaj Ji says that the very consciousness of yours which was wounded so badly by anger, transforms into loving and ishqful energy through singing and hearing. Singing heals the wounded consciousness and it becomes even more beautiful than before.
gaavee-ai sunee-ai man rakhee-ai bhaa-o.
He says these two things (lust and anger) do not let us relax. Let us come at the navel point and become relaxed.
ਸੇਖਾ ਅੰਦਰਹੁ ਜੋਰੁ ਛਡਿ ਤੂ ਭਉ ਕਰਿ ਝਲੁ ਗਵਾਇ ॥
saykhaa andrahu jor chhad too bha-o kar jhal gavaa-ay.
Maharaj Ji will come at the navel point and move around but please stay at the navel point. This is different from what we used to do before. Earlier we used to follow Maharaj Ji as they moved around the navel point - that was meeting Him. The simran (meditation) changes for rebirth. Please remain stationed, grounded right at the navel point, and let the Divine move around us.
Become relaxed.
bha-o kar jhal gavaa-ay.
Lust and anger shuts our thinking process, our wisdom. He says anger and lust makes us mad, crazy. It shuts our thinking process, our treasure of wisdom, one becomes mad, crazy. He says to remain in the fear of God, that God is within you, and if you become crazy and mad then you are moving away from Him, you are losing the chance of re-birth. How beautiful!
bha-o kar jhal gavaa-ay.
Please do not move, become firmly rooted at the navel point. If we are fully present and know the process, then we would start feeling intoxicated. The craziness turns into intoxication of ishq. These are not just thoughts or imaginations. He says just do it and experience what I’m saying. He says when you become intoxicated with ishq, that is the proof that you are not mad.
ਝਲੁ ਗਵਾਇ………ਝਲੁ ਗਵਾਇ……….ਝਲੁ ਗਵਾਇ……….ਝਲੁ ਗਵਾਇ
jhal gavaa-ay…..jhal gavaa-ay……..jhal gavaa-ay…..jhal gavaa-ay
Relax. Please feel that the tummy is becoming relaxed. Let it expand when we breathe in, and contract when the breath goes out. Just feel the expansion and contraction. When we are angry, the breath remains in the chest area only and turns around from there. Only when we are relaxed, the breath goes all the way down in the tummy area and blood flows properly in our body. Some people who have a lot of anger, sometimes they become so angry that it leads to a heart attack. Everything stops inside and oxygen does not reach the heart.
Maharaj Ji teaches mankind how to live human life.
When our consciousness becomes wounded badly, and remains in madness, then He closes the door to re-birth. We can see that it is not worth teaching something by becoming angry at someone. Those of us who get angry, we wound our own consciousness, as well as others too.
Dhaarnaa: (at 33:17)
ਦਰ ਨਾ ਢੋ ਵੇ ਬਾਬਲਾ……ਉਡੀਕ ਜਰਾ ਕੁ ਹੋਰ
dar naa dho vay babalaa…udeek jaraa ku hor
Oh my darling father, please do not shut the door to re-birth for me. Please wait for me, wait a bit more.
ਵੇ ਮੈਂ ਖੜੀ ਪਛਾਣਾਂ ਮਹਿਲ ਨੂੰ….ਤੇ ਦਰ ਰਹੀ ਹਾਂ ਟੋਲ
vay maiN kharhee pachhaanaa mahil noo…tay dar rahee haaN tol
I am back; I’m recognizing this human body - is this the one you call mahal, your mansion? I’m looking for the door to enter into this mansion.
Please stay at the navel point.
ਅਹਿਸਾਸ ਹੋਇਆ ਅੱਜ ਅੰਦਰੀ……ਸੁਣ ਮੁਹਲਤ ਦੇ ਬੋਲ
aihsaas ho-i-aa aj andaree…..sun mohlat day bol
Today, it got heard that I have a limited time to do this.
Maharaj Ji says:
ਸੁਣਿ ਮਨ ਮਿਤ੍ਰ ਪਿਆਰਿਆ ਮਿਲੁ ਵੇਲਾ ਹੈ ਏਹ ॥
sun man mitar pi-aari-aa mil vaylaa hai ayh.
You are given an opportunity, and you are losing the opportunity.
ਵੇ ਹੱਥ ਜ਼ਿਆਰਤ ਜੋੜਦੀ……ਤੇ ਖੁੱਦ ਲਈ ਪੈਂਦੇ ਹੌਲ
vay hath ziaarat jorh-dee…tay khud la-ee paiNday houl
ziaarat - means a holy journey, a pilgrimage. Maharaj Ji takes us through the seven holy tanks on this sacred inner journey. The process of rebirth is an inner journey, a holy journey. That journey is folding her hands and saying that please give me the chance. I’m so thirsty to realize my true self.
When we come to realize the self, and you see that’s God, that’s when you recognize the beauty, the worth, the mercy, the grace of Gurbaanee.
ਦਰ ਨਾ ਢੋ ਵੇ ਬਾਬਲਾ……ਉਡੀਕ ਜਰਾ ਕੁ ਹੋਰ
dar naa dho vay babalaa…udeek jaraa ku hor
Dhaarnaa (end)
ਸੇਖਾ ਅੰਦਰਹੁ ਜੋਰੁ ਛਡਿ ਤੂ ਭਉ ਕਰਿ ਝਲੁ ਗਵਾਇ ॥
saykhaa andrahu jor chhad too bha-o kar jhal gavaa-ay.
ਗੁਰ ਕੈ ਭੈ ਕੇਤੇ ਨਿਸਤਰੇ ਭੈ ਵਿਚਿ ਨਿਰਭਉ ਪਾਇ ॥
gur kai bhai kaytay nistaray bhai vich nirbha-o paa-ay.
ਭੈ ਬਿਨੁ ਭਗਤਿ ਨ ਹੋਵਈ ਨਾਮਿ ਨ ਲਗੈ ਪਿਆਰੁ ॥
bhai bin bhagat na hova-ee naam na lagai pi-aar.
bhai means fear.
He says have a fear of the Guru and He is going to transform you into your true self, and your true self is fearless - nirbhao.
Remain fearful that He has allowed you into His court today, be thankful.
ਆਪੇ ਸੰਗਤਿ ਸਦਿ ਬਹਾਲੈ ਆਪੇ ਵਿਦਾ ਕਰਾਵੈ ॥
aapay sangat sad bahaalai aapay vidaa karaavai.
Remain bowed before Him, and do not take it for granted that He would let you in tomorrow too; it’s up to Him. It’s His court, not your court, it’s His court.
Ji, experience this for yourself. Whatever we earn during Amrit Vaylaa (early ambrosial hours of the morning) is the most precious earning on this path. Listen to Asa dee Vaar, do simran, Nitnem (recitation of daily prayers) during Amrit Vaylaa and it will keep us intoxicated and in fear of the Guru all day long.
Dhaarnaa: (at 49:50)
ਵੇਲੇ…..ਅਮ੍ਰਿਤ ਮੱਥੇ ਸੀ ਤੂੰ ਲੱਗਿਆ……ਮਹਿਕ ਜਿਹਾ…. ਦਿਨ ਲੰਘਿਆ
vaylay…….amrit mathay see tooN lagi-aa…….mahik jihaa…….din langhi-aa
From previous deewaan: The whole day remained so fragrant. Perhaps, You walked through the day; that was Your fragrance. The whole day I felt your fragrance.
ਪਾਵਨ ਨਜ਼ਰਾਂ ਰਹੀਆਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਨੈਣੀ……ਤੇ ਇਸ਼ਕੇ ਦਾ ਮੇਘ ਲੱਗਿਆ
paavan nazraaN rahee-aaN vich nainee…tay ishkay daa maygh lagi-aa
All day, my sight remained pure; wherever I looked I saw his temples, Also, all day I felt that I was surrounded by clouds of ishq; absolutely pure, extremely powerful, and utterly humble power of ishq.
Dhaarnaa (end)
There is a letter; let’s read it. Those who have experienced this will know; those who haven’t experienced this, please listen.
Dear Baba Ji, first, I am immensely grateful to Maharaj Ji for keeping a spot in sangat, reserved specifically for me, waiting for me to show up, whether it be Bolivia, Bulgaria, California, Calgary and now BC. Being a part of sangat and traveling to these asthaans (locations, places), meeting new sister-friends, and reconnecting with Divine has been such a refuge from the everyday mundane life. I feel showered with so much love and peace, that I forget all about my stress and worries. Nothing else matters, and the outside world ceases to exist.
When we go to places other than where we live, to do sangat, we are not worried about the daily affairs that consume us; all of our consciousness is free and available to surrender to the Divine and we can cover a lot of distance on this path.
Those two weeks in Bulgaria and Bolivia this year changed something in me forever. I can’t put my finger on that, but I feel and behave differently since returning.
This is the glory of sangat. We should keep asking Maharaj Ji for this blessing. Life is too short and the worldly tasks don’t ever finish, there is always something. Let us please take care of this most important task to realize our true self, and along with that keep doing what we can but don’t spend your entire consciousness on the worldly affairs.
We must cultivate a beautiful relationship with the Divine. It is our mind’s nature that it establishes relationships with things that it can see - other people, land, buildings. But, the Divine cannot be seen with these eyes; those eyes are different. We are blessed with those eyes when all of our consciousness rises above the shoulders.
ਨਾਨਕ ਸੇ ਅਖੜੀਆਂ ਬਿਅੰਨਿ ਜਿਨੀ ਡਿਸੰਦੋ ਮਾ ਪਿਰੀ ॥੧॥
naanak say akh-rhee-aaN bi-ann jinee disando maa piree. ||1||
Dhaarnaa: (at 1:03:29)
ਇੱਕ ਵਾਰੀ ਹੱਸ ਕੇ ਬੁਲਾ ਲੈ ਜੀਣ ਜੋਗਿਆ ਵੇ……ਕਿਹੜਾ ਤੇਰਾ ਰੁੱਸ ਜਊ ਖੁਦਾ
ik vaaree has kay bulaa lai jeen jogi-aa vay……kih-rhaa tayraa rus ja-oo khudaa
Oh my Beloved, just smile at me, talk to me while smiling. You are not going to lose anything, I guarantee you.
ਆਪਣੀ ਸੁਣਾ ਜਾ….ਕਦੇ ਸਾਡੀਆਂ ਵੀ ਸੁਣ ਜਾ ਵੇ……ਕਿੰਨਾ ਚਿਰ ਰਹਿਣਾ ਏ ਜੁਦਾ…….
ਜੀਣ ਜੋਗਿਆ ਵੇ…….ਕਿੰਨਾ ਚਿਰ ਰਹਿਣਾ ਏ ਜੁਦਾ…..
aapnee sunaa jaa…..kaday saadee-aaN vee sun jaa vay……kinaa chir rahinaa ay judaa….
jeen jogi-aa vay……..kinaa chir rahinaa ay judaa…..
How long are we going to remain separated? Please come and talk to me; tell me something and also listen to what I have in my heart.