Gurdwara - The Concept of Guru

 
Date:
May 18, 1989
Location:
Soriano, Italy
 
 
 
 

'Teri Mehar Da Jivana, Tudh Agai ArdasArdas Prayer; the formal group prayer of the Sikhs. GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. Wahe Wahe Guru , Whaa-hay Guroo A mantra of ecstasy and dwelling in God. It is the Infinite teacher of the soul. Also called the gur mantra. GuruWahe Guru , Whaa-hay Guroo A mantra of ecstasy and dwelling in God. It is the Infinite teacher of the soul. Also called the gur mantra. Guru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. , GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. Guru Ram Das Fourth Guru of the Sikhs. Ram DasGuru Ram Das Fourth Guru of the Sikhs. , Aad Guray Nameh, Jugad Guray Nameh, SatSat Existence; what is; the subtle essence of Infinity itself. Guray Nameh, Siri GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. Devay Nameh.'

Wahe Wahe Guru , Whaa-hay Guroo A mantra of ecstasy and dwelling in God. It is the Infinite teacher of the soul. Also called the gur mantra. GuruWahe Guru , Whaa-hay Guroo A mantra of ecstasy and dwelling in God. It is the Infinite teacher of the soul. Also called the gur mantra. Guru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. JiJi Soul; used as an endearment or sign of respect. Ka Khalsa, Wahe Wahe Guru , Whaa-hay Guroo A mantra of ecstasy and dwelling in God. It is the Infinite teacher of the soul. Also called the gur mantra. GuruWahe Guru , Whaa-hay Guroo A mantra of ecstasy and dwelling in God. It is the Infinite teacher of the soul. Also called the gur mantra. Guru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. JiJi Soul; used as an endearment or sign of respect. Ki Fateh.

Today we have gathered in this place to celebrate our housewarming to purify ourselves with GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. 's grace. The concept of the GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. is very difficult for the west to understand. There is a God which is totality, all in all, the ultimate, in the beginning, in the middle, in the end. Question is, how to find it. Well, one is to keep on finding it but God is not something which you can find it just like you can find a carrot. So you need to have eye of the eagle, strength of the bull and movement of the horse, plus you will have to have the flexibility of the snake, these are the four movement powers in the sky and on the earth. We humans have no horns, we have no hoofs, we do not have a skin, we have no protection. Sobar mandey soi pinday-according to that GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. 's saying what is in the universe is in us, nobody is empty of that, so God is everywhere, we should be everywhere.

We can't be, so we are very disappointed and very upset because our setup is not right, so we want to seek the reality through religion. What is it what we want? Answer is very simple, whether we like it or not, we want to be happy but what kind of happiness? There is a temporary happiness, there is a momentary happiness, there is a everlasting happiness, which one we want, and whether we want it or not or we are just saying it and we don't want it or we want it very badly and we don't want to say it, we definitely want a relationship, it has to be sensual, sexual, sensitive, internal, sensitive objectively paternal, sensitive into our own inner self of innocence that is child, then sensitive enough to be a macho and adult or egomaniac, whatever you want to call it. And above all, we want to be sensitive that we are very graceful and very precious and very noble and divine, so we have got so many senses to satisfy, so many directions to go, so many facets to satisfy, we have TattvasTattvas A category of cosmic existence; a stage of reality or being; a "thatness" of differentiated qualities. In total there are 36 tattvas. Each wave of differentiation has its own rules and structure. The final five tattvas are called the gross elements and have the phasic qualities and relationships of ether, air, fire, water, and earth. , five TattvasTattvas A category of cosmic existence; a stage of reality or being; a "thatness" of differentiated qualities. In total there are 36 tattvas. Each wave of differentiation has its own rules and structure. The final five tattvas are called the gross elements and have the phasic qualities and relationships of ether, air, fire, water, and earth. , ether which represents the heaven and then air which represent the life, fire which represents our livelihood, water which is our strength and earth which is our existence. Then we have all these Chakras, we have shashara, we have ajana, we have kant chakraChakra , Chaakra The word connotes a wheel in action. It usually refers to the seven primary energy centers in the aura that align along the spine from its base to the top of the skull. Each chakra is a center of consciousness with a set of values, concerns, and powers of action associated with it. and all that stuff, so we have like five TattvasTattvas A category of cosmic existence; a stage of reality or being; a "thatness" of differentiated qualities. In total there are 36 tattvas. Each wave of differentiation has its own rules and structure. The final five tattvas are called the gross elements and have the phasic qualities and relationships of ether, air, fire, water, and earth. , three GunasGunas The three qualities or threads that make up the fundamental forces in nature and the mind. Their interactions give motion to the world, stir the larger Greater Mind, and make up the realm of our experience. They are considered inseparable and occur in unlimited combinations. They are abstract; you can only see their effects. They are the sattva guna for clarity and purity; the rajasic guna for action and transformation, and the tamasic guna for heaviness, solidity, and ignorance. , that is we are very saintly and very imperial or we are very, very powerful, forceful, Tamish. We can be Satvik, Rajvik and TamasTamas One of the three basic qualities of nature (gunas). It represents heaviness, slowness, and dullness. It is inertia and confusion. , TamasTamas One of the three basic qualities of nature (gunas). It represents heaviness, slowness, and dullness. It is inertia and confusion. means we can be emotional, we can burst out, we can just yell, scream and say what we want to say and we are friend and then enemies and then we talk in the back, talk in front, talk on the top, talk on, you know all that human things. Then there so many things to do, we have TattvasTattvas A category of cosmic existence; a stage of reality or being; a "thatness" of differentiated qualities. In total there are 36 tattvas. Each wave of differentiation has its own rules and structure. The final five tattvas are called the gross elements and have the phasic qualities and relationships of ether, air, fire, water, and earth. , we have GunasGunas The three qualities or threads that make up the fundamental forces in nature and the mind. Their interactions give motion to the world, stir the larger Greater Mind, and make up the realm of our experience. They are considered inseparable and occur in unlimited combinations. They are abstract; you can only see their effects. They are the sattva guna for clarity and purity; the rajasic guna for action and transformation, and the tamasic guna for heaviness, solidity, and ignorance. , we have Chakras and we have our self, we have soul, we have mind, we have body, one soul, three minds, with other eighty more parts working, which even we are not found out. Then we have body, we feel our body obeys us and you tell your body put your hand here and stay and after, after a while, hand starts coming down, body even doesn't obey you, then we think our mind is ours, after a while this mind starts playing game with us, mind tell us you are idiot, you are unfulfilled, you are no good, havoc is going to happen, hell is on its way, we have terrible dreams and nightmares, horrible imaginations, emotional and commotional projections like idiots. Sometime we can sleep, some we can't, sometimes we are somewhere, mind is somewhere else. So our mind is not ours, body doesn't obey, mind doesn't listen, soul is dormant, it doesn't interfere, it just breathes and keep you alive. When you don't accomplish anything, it leaves, so what to do? That's the question. That is what GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. Guru Nanak First Guru of the Sikhs. NanakGuru Nanak First Guru of the Sikhs. answered in Sikh Sikh Dharma A living experience of values as taught in the Siri Guru Granth Sahib. DharmaSikh Dharma A living experience of values as taught in the Siri Guru Granth Sahib. Dharma A path of righteous living. It is both an ideal of virtue and a path of action that is infused with clear awareness and comprised of actions that are the soul in total synchrony with the universe. It is action without reaction or karma. .

Sikh means learned student, student who wants to learn. GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. Guru Nanak First Guru of the Sikhs. NanakGuru Nanak First Guru of the Sikhs. is very simple, it's not that other religions are bad or good, I am not discussing that. I likethe simplicity of it. When you getup in the morning, you read the Jap JiJi Soul; used as an endearment or sign of respect. , you read the first shlok, then it is a first directive which is a Poudi, then GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. Guru Nanak First Guru of the Sikhs. NanakGuru Nanak First Guru of the Sikhs. says, Sochai soch na hovai je sochi lakhLakh 100,000. var. That's the first line he uttered, it means your thinking will never be possible to think everything. We cannot believe it, why not we can think? We are not idiots, we know lot of things. If we don't think how can we make aeroplane? We have to think, we have to decide, we have to understand. Actually what Nanak said was correct. Thinking is with animals, it is with birds, it is with fishes, it is not a human faculty. Human has to be intuitive. If human start thinking, it's a waste of time, it's a very melancholy and depressed and it doesn't make any sense to anybody. That is why we are all human and nobody trust us because we think, we say something, then think something and then say something else and then sing something else and then say something else, then we are nobody, bunch of creeps who say something, do something, do something, say something and everybody says what? Then we start saying oh she was in a good mood, oh he was in a good shape. So it mean we do not trust as we are because when you getup early in the morning, the intellect starts giving you thousand thought per wink of the eye and then in parma which is doubt, should I do this, should I do that, should I do that, should know this, yes this, it all goes on. Then we have whole day because the intellect give you a thousand thought per wink of the eye, it is not that animals, neither the fish nor the birds, it's only given to you. If you are not intuitive, thousand... Can you believe thousand thought per wink of the eye for all the time you are conscious, unconscious, subconscious, can you believe that? It's the craziest thing, it's the craziest thing, that's the intellect, then with the intelligence, you sort it out, I don't want to do this, I don't want to go there, I don't this relationship, I want that relationship, he is beautiful, she is beautiful, he is dirty, it is all intellect, intellect give the ideas and intelligence sort it out. In the evening if you have faith, DharmaDharma A path of righteous living. It is both an ideal of virtue and a path of action that is infused with clear awareness and comprised of actions that are the soul in total synchrony with the universe. It is action without reaction or karma. , then you can win, then you say this all does not fit with me, I am, I am. Religion try to give us, some religion use the guilt, other tell you, put you down, you are inferior and some religion told you, let's get on it with a hard way, some said, "Leave the earth it's no good."

And some said, "Well, eat, enjoy and be merry, tomorrow you will die."

Who cares. So man has a Church, a synagogue, a temple and a place everywhere but they (?) suffering, there is no happiness, why, because in the Siri GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. GranthGranth Literally: knot: book. you will find the answer. It is a systemic situation which talk to you to first make relationship and friendship with your own soul, with your own self, with your own being. It tell you what is within you, so you can complete what is within you, get fulfilled and then get out and deal with the world. What we do we are our self hungry, no food and we invite people come on have feast, it doesn't work. We in our friendship if you just look at it, it all sales talk, it's all to either impress others or make fool of others or control others. Love is just like a harpoon, you will go fishing. We deal with the feelings and the emotions and the commotions so heavily, sooner or later we get exhausted, then we

are depressed, unhappy, then all the wealth we have, all the relationship we have, in spite of that we fall apart but that is not what GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. Guru Nanak First Guru of the Sikhs. NanakGuru Nanak First Guru of the Sikhs. wants, he said, "Wait a minute, God created you and your identity is nothing but truth Ik Ong Kar, you are creation of one God. SatSat Existence; what is; the subtle essence of Infinity itself. Sat Naam , Sat Nam The essence or seed embodied in form; the identity of truth. When used as a greeting it means "I greet and salute that reality and truth which is your soul." It is called the Bij Mantra - the seed for all that comes. Sat Naam , Sat Nam The essence or seed embodied in form; the identity of truth. When used as a greeting it means "I greet and salute that reality and truth which is your soul." It is called the Bij Mantra - the seed for all that comes. NamSat Naam , Sat Nam The essence or seed embodied in form; the identity of truth. When used as a greeting it means "I greet and salute that reality and truth which is your soul." It is called the Bij Mantra - the seed for all that comes. Naam , Nam The manifested identity of the essence. The word derives from Naa-ay-ma , which means "that which is not, now is born." A Naam gives identity, form, and expression to that which was only essence or subtle before. It is also referred to as the Word. , your identity is true." So don't go out and find the truth, you are good or bad, right and wrong, you are the truth. God created you. If He could have created something better than you, He would have, should have, could have, don't feel guilty, don't feel bad, whether child is well dressed up or he has just mud his clothes, mother is mother, father is father. So what God is God and whatever you are, sort it out. Well we say how can sought it out? What is there to sought it out? Then GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. comes through, he says, "Like this."

GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. is the way unto God. This way you start finding your love within yourself, you become intuitive, you become very special to yourself. Then what you do? What you do as a Sikh? You show off, you kill everybody or you just lie down I am nothing? Which behavior you adapt GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. said it in simple way, "Don't live in your head, give your," that's what we come and bow.

"Head to the GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. and heart to God." What actually we do, we give ourhead to God and we start acting like Gods and heart to our self. So with that much ego we don't make any sense. When I see some religious people calling themselves Gods, Bhagvans, I wonder, do they go, do they have no conception that their body can fail? Do they understand that one day their physical body has to die, do they understand that what is created has to be destroyed? Do they understand what lives is their perpetual memory of goodness? We need a goods, things, we need a house, we need a lover, we need a husband, we need children, we need food, all are goods, it is good to have goods but if you understand God, good is just a additional O and goods is just additional S. So there is two word os and there are two words we add, O and S, so it is just means our self, os means ourselves actually to be very frank. It means in a self purification lies the prosperity, in self intuition lies the self power, in self service lies the happiness. It's a very simple way to reach for a goal of life but it has a discipline, discipline is what discipline is. That's a disciple, that's a Sikh. So what GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. say, this is the discipline, follow it, then experience God. You shall not be handicapped, you shall be happy here andhappy hereafter. You will be happy here and happy hereafter by self you will be happy and happy hereafter because your generations will follow that discipline because you act as a model role, that they will be happy and it will not be a happy of a temporary phase or a time and it will be happiness beyond time and space. Experience it and that is why what he said is, "SatSat Existence; what is; the subtle essence of Infinity itself. Sat Naam , Sat Nam The essence or seed embodied in form; the identity of truth. When used as a greeting it means "I greet and salute that reality and truth which is your soul." It is called the Bij Mantra - the seed for all that comes. Sat Naam , Sat Nam The essence or seed embodied in form; the identity of truth. When used as a greeting it means "I greet and salute that reality and truth which is your soul." It is called the Bij Mantra - the seed for all that comes. NamSat Naam , Sat Nam The essence or seed embodied in form; the identity of truth. When used as a greeting it means "I greet and salute that reality and truth which is your soul." It is called the Bij Mantra - the seed for all that comes. Naam , Nam The manifested identity of the essence. The word derives from Naa-ay-ma , which means "that which is not, now is born." A Naam gives identity, form, and expression to that which was only essence or subtle before. It is also referred to as the Word. ." Then he said, "Karta Purak." All what you do, the hand of God is in it. If you are intuitive you can see it. Then you can be relaxed about everything. You will not be afraid. You will not be worried. You will not act small. You don't play games. You don't want to cheat and lie and all that stuff because you will see the hand of God does everything. So you don't have to suffer. That is what Karta Purak actually means. Nirbhav, Nirvair, then you should not have fear when you see the God hand works everything., It is.... What is tomorrow? What we do not see today. What is yesterday? What we have seen today. It continues. Why to suffer? And Nirbhav, if you are afraid not, then you shall not be vindictive. Vindictive. And if you are not vindictive, then you can be just Akal Moorat. God's personality.

We don't grow this beard because we like it or dislike it. We only acknowledge what God gave us. We do not dress up to please our self. We are not on sale. We don't have to attract customers. We not have to satisfy our perverted senses. We dress up before the mirror by the GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. 's discipline to please God. That's Akal Moorat means. We don't have to go to the saints. We are the saints. We don't go to the richness, we are fulfilled and rich. We believe whatever He provides us, it's for us. What He does not, He does not. It is not for us and that's the simplest way to prosperity. Prosperity shall not come to you if there is a fear. Fear stops happiness, fear stop richness, fear stop the happiness in life. And then when you do all this, the GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. said, Ajoonee. Then you shall not come and go, you shall have no fear of death. Then you will become mentally infinite, then Saibhang. The totality of the universe will be totally in the grasp of you, you will understand. Why it is why? What is what? When is when? Where is where? But you will enjoy simple, saintly concept of it, you will help the weak, you share with the poor, you give your blessing to everybody equally as sun shines on all equally.

There is a saying in the DharmaDharma A path of righteous living. It is both an ideal of virtue and a path of action that is infused with clear awareness and comprised of actions that are the soul in total synchrony with the universe. It is action without reaction or karma. , Seis to the GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. and Aseis to the Sangat , it means give your head to the GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. and give blessing to the entire world. Share blessings, share happiness and then all this how can we find, Gurprashad; through the GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. 's blessing, question arises, what blessing? Then there is a command order, Jap, means repeat. What? Aad sach, Jugad sach, Hai bhee sach, Nanak hosee bhee sach. In the very primal beginning, all is true, through the time it is true, now it is true, and Nanak, it shall all be true. So there is no place for lies, there is no place for guilt, there is no place for self condemnation. We are not born in guilt, we are born in the shadow of God, we are born in the image of God, hand of God keeps us breathing, no man has created that much oxygen and pump our belly to breathe. Breath of life is with us, life is a gift to us, then why to worry.

There is a story. Once king told his Grand Vizier. He said, "Let us go and see what is happening in the town."

At one corner he saw a man chanting to God so loud and so heavy. And the king said, "Why he is chanting so long and so heavy and miserably."

The Grand Vizier closed his eyes. He said, "King, he wants to be the king."

He said, "This miserable beggar. How he can be a king."

He said, "Sorry to tell you, he is already made it."

He said, "By begging?"

He said, "Yeah, begging is his just a facade but he lives miserable and he is miserable and in misery he is crying God, God, God."

And the king said, "I don't believe it."

He said, "Well when in night he finishes, we will watch him again."

They came late night, he even didn't care to collect the money which people left there and the Grand Vizier told the king, "You see, he is not after money, he is not after MayaMaya The creative power of the Creator that restricts and limits. It creates the sense of limitation that leads us to identify with experience, the ego, and things. Because of this it is often thought of as the illusion that blocks us from the spirit. But, as Guru Nanak (see Sikh Gurus) reminds us, you need not be attached to the productions of maya. Instead they can be used to serve and express the higher consciousness and spirit. Maya is simply Karta Purkh, the doing of the Great Being. Maya takes the ineffable into the realm of the measurable. , he is after God, that's his way."

And king said, "How can he be a king?"

The Grand Vizier closed his eyes, he says, "About eighteen years (?), twenty-seven years."

He said, "How come?"

He said, "Well let us go to the palace we'll talk there."

When he went there, Grand Vizier said, "Now it is too late, you go to sleep and we will talk tomorrow."

And next day the Grand Vizier got sick. He said, "Let us get healthy and then we will talk."

After one week the Grand Vizier came. King was very anxious. He said, "Why you got sick, you never get sick, talk to me how he can become king."

He said, "You don't know?"

He said, "No."

He said, "He is already king."

He said, "Prove it to me."

He said, "Let us go again, see what he is doing."

They went there, he was dead, he was nowhere and they enquired what happened to his body.

They said, "We burned it, because he was nobody, so the state came and took it away and put it to fire."

He said, "That's it?"

They came back in the palace and king asked the Grand Vizier. He said, "You are too complicated. I want exactly now know how he is going to be king in twenty-seven years."

Grand Vizier laughed. He said, "Sir lord, your wife has conceived already, and he is right in her. What I can say? So in one year he will be born, he will be twenty-six year old, you will die, he will become king, simple thing."

He said, "I don't believe my wife is conceived."

(Students Laugh)

"I have been asking for a heir from last fifteen years, we have no child, she can't even conceive, the doctors, all have told me."

He said, "That may be true, she is pregnant."

He said, "How you know?"

He said, "I am telling you, why don't you just keep your mouth shut andwait in a month or so, she will tell you herself."

So week later his wife told him very politely. she said, "I don't know you, you know, you don't, I told you (?), I don't know, I think I am pregnant."

(Students Laugh)

He said, "Are you sure?"

He said, "Well my eating habits have changed and my body is changed and I feel very changed."

He said, "But we are married for fifteen years you never get pregnant."

She said, "But that's what I am saying, in fifteen years I never felt this way."

(Students Laugh)

And to king's surprise nine months and four days later, there came a very smiling boy and when king saw him he recognized on the right eye there was a cross on the eye of the beggar, and on the right eye the child had the same cross.

And the Grand Vizier said, "He keeps no secrete lord, right he is here."

So what I mean to say, GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. said, "GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. PrashadPrashad Blessed food; refers to sweet food passed out at the end of Sikh worship service; gift of the Guru. ," how you get it, it's a simple story. In Sikh Sikh Dharma A living experience of values as taught in the Siri Guru Granth Sahib. DharmaSikh Dharma A living experience of values as taught in the Siri Guru Granth Sahib. Dharma A path of righteous living. It is both an ideal of virtue and a path of action that is infused with clear awareness and comprised of actions that are the soul in total synchrony with the universe. It is action without reaction or karma. they say.

'Jinee naamNaam , Nam The manifested identity of the essence. The word derives from Naa-ay-ma , which means "that which is not, now is born." A Naam gives identity, form, and expression to that which was only essence or subtle before. It is also referred to as the Word. dhiaa-aa gai maskat gal.'

Those who meditate, meditationMeditation Dhyan. It is a process of deep concentration or merger into an object or a state of consciousness. Meditation releases reactions and unconscious habits and build the spontaneous and intuitive link to awareness itself. is, prayer is, when you speak to God, meditationMeditation Dhyan. It is a process of deep concentration or merger into an object or a state of consciousness. Meditation releases reactions and unconscious habits and build the spontaneous and intuitive link to awareness itself. is when you listen to God, paying attention to Him, paying attention is very important, there is a great story.

Once saint Peter was standing at the gate of heavens and he was processing all the Christian saints to give them the entry into the heavens and some he was sorting out go back, you are no good, you didn't do right, you didn't do this, you didn't do that. There came a man, escorted by the Angel Israel and was admitted through the special golden gate which opens here in Basilica once after some years. While passing through that straight line, he was using very filthy language, everybody stopped. And they said, "We have one question. We know this guy, he was on planet earth, he used to use this filthy language about God, about people, about everything, nobody understood him. He is doing the same thing and we are standing in line, we are being processed and he is being escorted by angels and gone through the golden door, what is this?"

Peter said, "Stop, stop, stop...don't question."

They said, "All right, then you keep your heaven to yourself, we are not going in."

They become fascist.

(Students Laugh)

They said, "We do not believe in justice, there is no equality, we needanarchy, this is anarchy, a man who was no good on the earth goes into heaven through golden door, we who behaved so well are being questioned so thoroughly that we don't understand why?"

Peter said, "Listen, when you were so good on the earth did you ever sleep?"

They said, "Yes few hours."

"Did you ever dream something other than God?"

They said, "Yes, may be some creation and some thoughts and all that."

He said, "That's the difference. This day guy everyday paid attention to the God, whether he was abusing or he was yelling and screaming and his habit is so heavy that at night in sleep also he was doing the same thing, here in heaven," he said, "It is the attention, it matter how much attention you pay towards God. Language of the earth doesn't matter in heavens. Therefore he paid twenty-four hour attention towards God. Let us sort out what he was saying. All he was saying you are all phony, you are terrible, you are miserable, God is also phony, miserable, He provides you in spite of the fact you are phonies." Baloney yeah. He says, "His path was to remind himself and to you all, that you have not accepted your soul."

That's why through good deeds, you can enter heaven but shall not merge with God. As he is concerned, he will merge with God after visiting heavens, that's why there is a special entry, that's why when you will find Sikh Sikh Dharma A living experience of values as taught in the Siri Guru Granth Sahib. DharmaSikh Dharma A living experience of values as taught in the Siri Guru Granth Sahib. Dharma A path of righteous living. It is both an ideal of virtue and a path of action that is infused with clear awareness and comprised of actions that are the soul in total synchrony with the universe. It is action without reaction or karma. , you will find certain sayings in it, oh lord God, I don't need heaven, I don't care for health, I don't care for hell, heaven, richness or poverty, life or death. I care only between me and you, it can be good, it can be bad, I don't care. All I care is me and you, you and me, be one. God and me, me and God are one.

That is what actually Ik Ong Kar means. That's why it's a simple religion, we have to call it religion because somewhere we have to fit in, but it's a way of life, it's a way of life which makes us in small way, it takes us all the way because in English if you write small you write all in it. As you right she, he is in it, woman contains the man, yeah, yeah...

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Well, that's what it is. A female contains the male, woman contains the man and she contains the he. You got to learn it that way. A woman is moon (?) she must reflect, she must expand, she must add to expansion and reflection, man must be stable, stationary, warm and shine. In the evening star there comes a great evening star, Venus, love but when it is a full moon night, all stars are very small. Even the Venus, the star of love is small before the brightness of the moon. Love is a small thing before a female but if a female thinks love is bigger than her, she will rub her nose and she will be miserable and if she does not wean and wax to the full brightness and to the total zeroness, she won't make it. And the man who does not shine, doesn't matter whether there are clouds or not, today there are clouds on the sky but sun is shining, it doesn't go away, though its warmth might have created the clouds. So therefore, what is in the heaven is on the earth, we are a simple students, seekers Sikh, just to practice that grandeur, greatness of the cosmic consciousnessConsciousness The nature of the self and being. In the realm of nature, awareness becomes consciousness. It is from the being itself. Being is expressed in consciousness through contrasts and sensations, in awareness through merger, clarity, and reality. , into the micro, into the macro, into totality, into the finite and infinity into self, that is our DharmaDharma A path of righteous living. It is both an ideal of virtue and a path of action that is infused with clear awareness and comprised of actions that are the soul in total synchrony with the universe. It is action without reaction or karma. . DharmaDharma A path of righteous living. It is both an ideal of virtue and a path of action that is infused with clear awareness and comprised of actions that are the soul in total synchrony with the universe. It is action without reaction or karma. is, seek truth, be the truth, you are the truth and ever you shall be, that is what,

'Aad sach, Jugad sach, Hai bhee sach Nanak hosee bhee sach.'

Don't be guilty, don't lay the guilt, don't be evilish, don't deal with it, don't be, be always I am sinner and I am this and that, just be grateful the God has given you the life. There is a one word in Sikh Sikh Dharma A living experience of values as taught in the Siri Guru Granth Sahib. DharmaSikh Dharma A living experience of values as taught in the Siri Guru Granth Sahib. Dharma A path of righteous living. It is both an ideal of virtue and a path of action that is infused with clear awareness and comprised of actions that are the soul in total synchrony with the universe. It is action without reaction or karma. which is very important, it says Ang Sang Wahe Wahe Guru , Whaa-hay Guroo A mantra of ecstasy and dwelling in God. It is the Infinite teacher of the soul. Also called the gur mantra. GuruWahe Guru , Whaa-hay Guroo A mantra of ecstasy and dwelling in God. It is the Infinite teacher of the soul. Also called the gur mantra. Guru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. , God is with every limb of you, you are ten trillion cells alive and you change in seventy-two hours. Now just understand, each cell has electron, proton and neutron, electron has a quality, it's a male and female at the same time. So reality and indifference is totally contained, knowing that as a science, that means thirty trillion God dance in you, just imagine how much thirty trillion is. Even in lira thirty trillion is a big number and you are just one. So believe it, there is nothing secret, therefore be sacred, being sacred is Sikh Sikh Dharma A living experience of values as taught in the Siri Guru Granth Sahib. DharmaSikh Dharma A living experience of values as taught in the Siri Guru Granth Sahib. Dharma A path of righteous living. It is both an ideal of virtue and a path of action that is infused with clear awareness and comprised of actions that are the soul in total synchrony with the universe. It is action without reaction or karma. and sort out everything.

I was tying turban upstairs, I was looking in the mirror, I was correcting it, then I started laughing, why I am doing it. Then a thought came, I am going down there before the GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. , I must look good, to my best. I shall do my best, that's a Sikh. Not I am the best, I shall do my best. If it happens to be worst, it's God's will. I have no bad intention, I shall just do my best, I will do my best for myself, I do best for you, I do best for everybody and sometime people don't like me. They say, you are too liberal, you are too kind, you are too compassionate. Somewhere you should draw the line, just, just understand, on one hand they call me God's man, God comes first, man comes later and they want me to draw the line. Will God draw the line? How can I draw the line and I read the GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. 's words,

'Aval allah noor upaa-i-aa kudrat ke sabh bande Ek noor te sabh jag oopaji-aa kon bhale ko mande?'

In the beginning there was God and through the light of God all got created and all got created, there is who is good and who is bad?

I also I reach that there is a one clay and through one clay there are different pots of different colors and they create different sounds, some Italian, some German, some English, some French, some Hindi, some Gurmukhi, some Sanskrit, some Japanese, who am I to judge? You are here because your soul belongs to be here, it's no miracle, it never has happened, never will. Whichever soul seeks to the fulfillment to God through the path shall continue. Some will fall apart, some will grow, some will grow so much they become egomaniac, some will become grow and become saints. It is just a process through which we will like to organize ourselves as GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. says,

"Aykaa maa-ee jugat vi-aa-ee tin chaylay parvaan.(?)"

There is one being, Aykaa Maa-ee, one creative power, one female which contains the man, Jugat Va-aa ee, she has the technology of intercourse. Bava means intercourse, communication of physical or mental or spiritual, any action and reaction is called Bava, when it's negative it's called Vavad, when it is positive it's called Vava. "Aykaa maa-ee jugat vi-aa-ee tin chaylay parvaan." She has accepted three disciples-one generates, one organizes and one destroys, "Aykaa maa-ee jugat vi-aa-ee tin chaylay parvaan." One gives the birth, others keeps the thing going, (?) supplied the stores and one eliminates the deadwood. Jotis pavey, tiney chalavy, jo hovey farman. God wants to do what He wants to do and as He commands so happens. Oh vekehy nadar na avaey, bau taye vaidan-the greatest surprise is that God sees everything and we can't see a thing, that is the greatest surprise. In other words, what mean is, He does everything anyway, we do not believe that He does. Sometime we do, sometime we don't, He does it anyway. Ades tiseay Ades-I bow and I bow to that great one, Juug-juug ek hovey-through all time it is the same thing, it is same structure. Ades tisea Ades, aad aneel anad anahad-in the very beginning, through the beginning, in the middle and in the end, juug-juug ek hovey-it is the time, aad aneel anad anahad-through all time God remains the one. So we are all part of God, God is all part of us, may we be blessed and receive the richness to befriend our soul and delight our self into the state of ecstasy that we got the path, let us walk, good and bad, lazy or smart, small or big, right or wrong, let us keep going, keeping up is the only way. Wahe Wahe Guru , Whaa-hay Guroo A mantra of ecstasy and dwelling in God. It is the Infinite teacher of the soul. Also called the gur mantra. GuruWahe Guru , Whaa-hay Guroo A mantra of ecstasy and dwelling in God. It is the Infinite teacher of the soul. Also called the gur mantra. Guru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. JiJi Soul; used as an endearment or sign of respect. Ka Khalsa, Wahe Wahe Guru , Whaa-hay Guroo A mantra of ecstasy and dwelling in God. It is the Infinite teacher of the soul. Also called the gur mantra. GuruWahe Guru , Whaa-hay Guroo A mantra of ecstasy and dwelling in God. It is the Infinite teacher of the soul. Also called the gur mantra. Guru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. JiJi Soul; used as an endearment or sign of respect. Ki Fateh.

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Siri Siri Guru Granth Sahib Sacred compilation of the words of the Sikh Gurus as well as of Hindu, Muslim, Sufi, and other saints. It captures the expression of consciousness and truth derived when in a state of divine union with God. It is written in naad and embodies the transformative power and structure of consciousness in its most spiritual and powerful clarity. It is a source of many mantras. GuruSiri Guru Granth Sahib Sacred compilation of the words of the Sikh Gurus as well as of Hindu, Muslim, Sufi, and other saints. It captures the expression of consciousness and truth derived when in a state of divine union with God. It is written in naad and embodies the transformative power and structure of consciousness in its most spiritual and powerful clarity. It is a source of many mantras. Guru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. Siri Guru Granth Sahib Sacred compilation of the words of the Sikh Gurus as well as of Hindu, Muslim, Sufi, and other saints. It captures the expression of consciousness and truth derived when in a state of divine union with God. It is written in naad and embodies the transformative power and structure of consciousness in its most spiritual and powerful clarity. It is a source of many mantras. GranthSiri Guru Granth Sahib Sacred compilation of the words of the Sikh Gurus as well as of Hindu, Muslim, Sufi, and other saints. It captures the expression of consciousness and truth derived when in a state of divine union with God. It is written in naad and embodies the transformative power and structure of consciousness in its most spiritual and powerful clarity. It is a source of many mantras. Granth Literally: knot: book. SahibSiri Guru Granth Sahib Sacred compilation of the words of the Sikh Gurus as well as of Hindu, Muslim, Sufi, and other saints. It captures the expression of consciousness and truth derived when in a state of divine union with God. It is written in naad and embodies the transformative power and structure of consciousness in its most spiritual and powerful clarity. It is a source of many mantras. is read by YogiYogi One who has attained a state of yoga (union) where polarities are mastered and transcended. One who practices the disciplines of yoga and has attained self-mastery. JiJi Soul; used as an endearment or sign of respect.

Siri Siri Guru Granth Sahib Sacred compilation of the words of the Sikh Gurus as well as of Hindu, Muslim, Sufi, and other saints. It captures the expression of consciousness and truth derived when in a state of divine union with God. It is written in naad and embodies the transformative power and structure of consciousness in its most spiritual and powerful clarity. It is a source of many mantras. GuruSiri Guru Granth Sahib Sacred compilation of the words of the Sikh Gurus as well as of Hindu, Muslim, Sufi, and other saints. It captures the expression of consciousness and truth derived when in a state of divine union with God. It is written in naad and embodies the transformative power and structure of consciousness in its most spiritual and powerful clarity. It is a source of many mantras. Guru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. Siri Guru Granth Sahib Sacred compilation of the words of the Sikh Gurus as well as of Hindu, Muslim, Sufi, and other saints. It captures the expression of consciousness and truth derived when in a state of divine union with God. It is written in naad and embodies the transformative power and structure of consciousness in its most spiritual and powerful clarity. It is a source of many mantras. GranthSiri Guru Granth Sahib Sacred compilation of the words of the Sikh Gurus as well as of Hindu, Muslim, Sufi, and other saints. It captures the expression of consciousness and truth derived when in a state of divine union with God. It is written in naad and embodies the transformative power and structure of consciousness in its most spiritual and powerful clarity. It is a source of many mantras. Granth Literally: knot: book. SahibSiri Guru Granth Sahib Sacred compilation of the words of the Sikh Gurus as well as of Hindu, Muslim, Sufi, and other saints. It captures the expression of consciousness and truth derived when in a state of divine union with God. It is written in naad and embodies the transformative power and structure of consciousness in its most spiritual and powerful clarity. It is a source of many mantras. is read:-

(?) fifth GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. the crazy of even the great chance and pay to land lord is not (?) in certain period with the pleasure of wealth the remaining in it and...

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