2660 - Khajana Darshan November 6, 2023 – Bulandpuri Sahib
2660 - Khajana Darshan November 6, 2023 – Bulandpuri Sahib
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॥
Yesterday, one of the most beautiful sisters of mine from America who has traveled a long way on this path, and is richly blessed, had her insides full of tears. There were tears in her eyes, on her cheeks; she was full of tears. She asked a question: Baba Ji, can women merge with God? He has made men and women sit in His court without any distinction that one can sit closer or others have to stay away, or you can only sit on my left-hand side or right-hand side. When I heard that question, she disappeared in front of me, and I just marveled at God, that O my God, what is your game? Even to this soul, You have created doubt. She said yesterday I was so full of intoxication; yesterday she was not there, and today she is all here and asking: can women merge with God. He says, you are not a man or woman; these are your clothes. The real question is: can my clothes merge with God? Let’s not worry about clothes. I marveled at Him that this soul can ask this question at this stage: what a play! When you are really merciful to somebody, even then you let her go to sleep so that the person can recognize that I can go to sleep as well; the destination has not arrived yet. Thank you for asking that question and reminding us all how profoundly we remain conscious about our clothes and remain forgetful about ourselves.
If we ask Him: O my father, I am a woman. Can I merge in you? You know, what is His answer? His answer is:
ਸੁਣਿ ਮਨ ਮਿਤ੍ਰ ਪਿਆਰਿਆ ਮਿਲੁ ਵੇਲਾ ਹੈ ਏਹ ॥
sun man mitar pi-aari-aa mil vaylaa hai ayh.
He doesn’t answer this question saying that yes, you can merge even though you are a woman. His answer is: right now, in this moment! Can we have any other questions after this, because all His answers are the top most answers; His answers just dismiss all other questions.
This moment, this moment, this moment, please come here. This moment, not tomorrow, not by the end of this month, this moment!
ਸੁਣਿ ਮਨ ਮਿਤ੍ਰ ਪਿਆਰਿਆ ਮਿਲੁ ਵੇਲਾ ਹੈ ਏਹ ॥
sun man mitar pi-aari-aa mil vaylaa hai ayh.
He says you are a song of ishq. Can a song of ishq be male or female? You are just a song of ishq! All you have to do is first recognize that Gurbaanee is the song of ishq.
ਇਹ ਬਾਣੀ ਜੋ ਜੀਅਹੁ ਜਾਣੈ ਤਿਸੁ ਅੰਤਰਿ ਰਵੈ ਹਰਿ ਨਾਮਾ ॥
ih banee jo jee-ahu jaanai tis antar ravai har naamaa.
Those who come to know right from deep within what are His utterances, that person would recognize it’s God; this whom I’ve been calling me, is God. How beautiful! This Gurbaanee song is His song, and He is ishq; it’s a song of ishq. This whom I have been calling me, is all ishq. How beautiful!
Whoever understands Gurbaanee from within, God starts spreading all over within us and we recognize it’s all God, it’s all ishq. The real thing is to move away from this deep understanding which we are carrying that I’m a male or female. The moment you move away from this false understanding, then we are one with God. It’s that simple! All we have to do is lose ourselves in singing.
Let us become focused please.
ਨਿਰਤਿ ਕਰੀ ਇਹੁ ਮਨੁ ਨਚਾਈ ॥
nirat karee ih man nachaa-ee.
He says the mind is making you dance. Mind says, today I have to go somehwre, what kind of clothes should I wear? What kind of face (mask) should I have, lest I go to sangat and make a face as if I am here to see a carnival. These things come in our consciousness, don’t they? Forget about coming, actually they don’t leave.
He says do not jump or dance to the tune of the mind; whatever the mind tells you. Do not dance to your mind’s tune, but make your mind dance to you. How beautiful! Get so lost in singing that you forget whether you are male or female. If you do that, then you are making the mind dance to you.
Please, let us feel our entire inside while singing.
ਨਿਰਤਿ ਕਰੀ ਇਹੁ ਮਨੁ ਨਚਾਈ ॥
nirat karee ih man nachaa-ee.
He says do not dance to the tune of the mind, make the mind dance to you.
ਗੁਰ ਪਰਸਾਦੀ ਆਪੁ ਗਵਾਈ ॥
gur parsaadee aap gavaa-ee.
With Guru’s grace, rise above, or forget this understanding of yours that you are male or female. Make this understanding leave you and immediately what a freedom you can feel. Even if this one thing leaves us, the self consciousness we have all the time - who is sitting here, who is looking at me - we can become free from it.
You cannot do it yourself. Beg the Guru that your consciousness becomes loving towards Him, so that the false understanding about the self is forgotten. These things that He is talking about; only if we can understand that He is talking to me directly.
ਆਪਿ ਨਚਾਏ ਸੋ ਭਗਤੁ ਕਹੀਐ ਆਪਣਾ ਪਿਆਰੁ ਆਪਿ ਲਾਏ ॥
aap nachaa-ay so bhagat kahee-ai aapnaa pi-aar aap laa-ay.
He says it’s a song of love, and God blesses us with that true love, with that ishq. Whomsoever He blesses with the true love, then what happens?
ਆਪੇ ਗਾਵੈ ਆਪਿ ਸੁਣਾਵੈ ਇਸੁ ਮਨ ਅੰਧੇ ਕਉ ਮਾਰਗਿ ਪਾਏ ॥
aapay gaavai aap sunaavai is man anDhay ka-o maarag paa-ay.
Maharaj Ji says whosoever is blessed with ishq, and through singing a stage comes when you stop singing and the singing starts happening within you. The singing starts happening within you and you see it that you are not singing and it’s happening. Then He quietly says to you, it is me singing, it’s God singing. That is when we are miles away from our false ID, our false understanding. Let’s see if we can do it.
He says while singing, rise to the state where singing starts happening within you. Please, right now, He says right now it can happen and every moment is given to you to do this. But it’s your choice; you can do it, and you choose not to do it. But it is right here at your doorstep. It’s up to you to open the door to it, or keep the door shut.
Let’s, we have to get lost.
ਆਪੇ ਗਾਵੈ ਆਪਿ ਸੁਣਾਵੈ ………..ਆਪੇ ਗਾਵੈ ਆਪਿ ਸੁਣਾਵੈ ……….ਆਪੇ ਗਾਵੈ ਆਪਿ ਸੁਣਾਵੈ
aapay gaavai aap sunaavai……aapay gaavai aap sunaavai…aapay gaavai aap sunaavai
ਆਪੇ ਗਾਵੈ…….ਆਪੇ ਗਾਵੈ……….ਆਪੇ ਗਾਵੈ………ਆਪੇ ਗਾਵੈ…….ਆਪੇ ਗਾਵੈ…….ਆਪੇ ਗਾਵੈ
aapay gaavai…….aapay gaavai……..aapay gaavai……..aapay gaavai……aapay gaavai
Please become totally relaxed. Make the tummies relax, please. Then as we start singing aapay gaavai, we would start feeling the laughter arising from our tummies.
Please do not let the mind enter into it, it is something very pious. The mind should not come near it. Otherwise, we would miss it. As we start losing ourselves, the singing would start happening, and also the laughter would start arising from deep within.
Please put your attention in the tummy area.
ਆਪੇ ਗਾਵੈ…….ਆਪੇ ਗਾਵੈ……….ਆਪੇ ਗਾਵੈ………ਆਪੇ ਗਾਵੈ…….ਆਪੇ ਗਾਵੈ…….ਆਪੇ ਗਾਵੈ
aapay gaavai…….aapay gaavai……..aapay gaavai……..aapay gaavai……aapay gaavai
ਗਾਵੈ…….ਗਾਵੈ…….ਗਾਵੈ…….ਗਾਵੈ…….ਗਾਵੈ…….ਗਾਵੈ…….ਗਾਵੈ…….ਗਾਵੈ…….ਗਾਵੈ…….ਗਾਵੈ…….
gaavai…….gaavai…….gaavai…….gaavai…….gaavai…….gaavai…….gaavai…….gaavai…….
How can we miss it? It happens instantly! How is it not happening? It happens the first time we utter aapay gaavai, the laughter starts arising from within. We have to wake up a lot. Please, we must understand that it is song of ishq, and thinkers, the so-called intelligent people in this world, can never sing. It is for the lovers, it’s for the ishq-ful people, and it only confirms that we are intelligent. This thing happens instantly the first time we say aapay gaavai. Instantly!
mil vaylaa hai ayh - this moment! How come it’s not happening? How deeply, how badly chained we are to the sense of this me. Please make the tummy relax. Do not think, feel we are like children; in fact we are like children, innocent. Intelligence cannot experience it. Intelligence is so profoundly engrossed in thinking and understanding things. He doesn’t care about our intelligence; He only cares about our innocence which is capable of hearing Him and feeling Him. Please feel the laughter arising from within. See if we can.
We have been blessed with this precious time. All the time, we should drown in His thoughts, any of His utterances, a dhaarnaa. What a blessed environment God has given us.
He says you are a love song, and what is a love song?
ਪ੍ਰੇਮ ਚ ਹੋਇਆ ਅਨੁਭਵ….ਹੁੰਦਾ ਇੱਕ ਨਸ਼ਾ ਚੰਨਾ…..ਜੋ ਗੀਤ ਦੇ ਰੂਪ ਵਿੱਚ….. ਹੁੰਦਾ ਰੂਪਮਾਨ ਵੇ….
praym ch ho-i-aa anubhav….huNdaa ik nashaa chanaa……jo geet day roop vich…..huNdaa roopmaan vay
In ishq, we become intoxicated, and in that state of intoxication we start feeling the laughter arising within us. In that state of intoxication, we can start recognizing that it’s God singing; intelligence cannot recognize it. That consciousness full of ishq, blissful, totally unaware about our bodies, recognizes this is God singing, this is He Himself singing. The intelligence cannot recognize it. So please we should not try to understand anything, we should listen and feel.
What we feel in true love is intoxication. When we have true love, we feel intoxication and that intoxication comes out or manifests itself in the form of a song.
He says you are a song of ishq. In ishq we feel intoxicated, and that state of intoxication of our consciousness starts singing. That intoxication starts singing, starts manifesting itself in the form of song, and that is what we are! You can see - is it for intelligent people?
It’s not that He is not intelligent. Our poor intelligence is nothing before that true wisdom.
ਪ੍ਰੇਮ ਚ ਹੋਇਆ ਅਨੁਭਵ….ਹੁੰਦਾ ਇੱਕ ਨਸ਼ਾ ਚੰਨਾ…..ਜੋ ਗੀਤ ਦੇ ਰੂਪ ਵਿੱਚ….. ਹੁੰਦਾ ਰੂਪਮਾਨ ਵੇ….
praym ch ho-i-aa anubhav….huNdaa ik nashaa chanaa……jo geet day roop vich…..huNdaa roopmaan vay
Whenever the true intoxication feels like saying something, it always says in the form of verse, it sings. It never talks like a tale or a story. No, no; stories and tales belong to this mind.
This recognition of the self, there is nothing more majestic than this. There’s nothing greater than this. There’s nothing more magical than this. This is the time, this is the time!
Whatever we feel in that state of intoxication; so what is the first requirement to reach the true self - it is to become intoxicated. The first requirement to reach our true self is that we forget our false self and become so absorbed in singing that we become intoxicated. It will take a little time but as we keep getting filled with nashaa (intoxication), then it will happen instantly.
Whatever is felt in intoxication, in true intoxication, cannot be explained or said or written in the form of a story; it’s not possible. Because what we feel in that state of intoxication is mysterious, and it always remains mysterious; you cannot put that into words. So, who we are can never be put into words. I am this - then who is saying I am this. I is saying that I am this. No, no, no.
Please remember whenever we sit in simran, in sangat, the whole story is to become intoxicated. Please sing with love.
ਪ੍ਰੇਮ ਚ ਹੋਇਆ ਅਨੁਭਵ….ਹੁੰਦਾ ਇੱਕ ਨਸ਼ਾ ਚੰਨਾ…..ਜੋ ਗੀਤ ਦੇ ਰੂਪ ਵਿੱਚ….. ਹੁੰਦਾ ਰੂਪਮਾਨ ਵੇ….
praym ch ho-i-aa anubhav….huNdaa ik nashaa chanaa……jo geet day roop vich…..huNdaa roopmaan vay
That intoxication reveals itself in the form of a song, that is love song, and that is what we are. We are an expression of intoxication, bliss, and God is always in bliss! He created us out of bliss, out of intoxication, and what takes birth out of intoxication? Song! Intoxication gives birth to song, and that song is called a love song. God is not a person, He’s not an individual. Intoxication is the Divine Himself.
ਇਸ਼ਕੇ ਦਾ ਗੀਤ ਹੈਂ ਤੂੰ......ਖੁਦ ਨੂੰ ਪਛਾਣ ਵੇ
ishkay daa geet haiN tooN….khud noo pachhaan vay
ਪ੍ਰੇਮ ਚ ਹੋਇਆ ਅਨੁਭਵ….ਹੁੰਦਾ ਇੱਕ ਨਸ਼ਾ ਚੰਨਾ…..ਜੋ ਗੀਤ ਦੇ ਰੂਪ ਵਿੱਚ….. ਹੁੰਦਾ ਰੂਪਮਾਨ ਵੇ….
praym ch ho-i-aa anubhav….huNdaa ik nashaa chanaa……jo geet day roop vich…..huNdaa roopmaan vay