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112 GURU NANAK CHAMATKAR PART-II Real detachment is that the mind should not have worldly desires, but should be in yearning, love, hope, joy, and eagerness to meet the Lord. This detachment is not despair. Detachment does not mean to be without support or in depression or in despair. Detachment is to understand the perishable world as perishable and to remain in the devotion, support and love of the always-living Lord. Get dyed in His love. Live in elevation, exuberance and ecstasy. Farid ud-Din: Can this happen without Hath yoga and penances? Guru: This requires Grace. This requires constant endeavor. Farid ud-Din: God bless you. This is the truth you have said. Guru: But I do not like those practices that are lifeless practices. Jalal: What do you mean by lifeless practices? Guru: Well, to get some supernatural powers you do concentration and penances. They are all lifeless practices. To practice hypnotism in a bid to influence the mind of other people is a lifeless practice. All those practices where your desires increase are lifeless practices. Because they take you away from the Lord, towards worldly desires which are lifeless. Jalal: What about education? Guru: Education is a hJIinding stone of the mind. It sharpens the mind. If you understand the scripture properly and act on it then the mind improves but otherwise it makes you greedy. If the education makes you greedy, then this also is lifeless. Bahawal: Then what is the life-giving practice? Guru: Name. All together: God bless you. What do you mean to say? Are we all grazing donkeys? We are saying Name only. Guru: No. Not at all, you say the Name only, but your mind is wandering elsewhere. You say the Lord's name but the mind is after worldly comforts, fame and supernatural powers. Your aim is 'I' although your tongue says 0 Lord. This is saying Name without feeling the presence of the Lord in your mind. You have to recite the Lord's Name thinking that He is the creator, the saviour and giver of nourishment with a feeling that 'He is there'. We cannot see Him because He cannot be visualized with these eyes. But He sees us. He is everywhere. So, we are always automatically living in His presence. We have to keep this in our remembrance all the time that we are living in His presence. Therefore, we should recite His name and not allow our mind to remain in forgetfulness at any time. The mind is wandering. It is slippery like mercury. It will not remain in remembrance. To turn it again and Page 122 www.sikhbookclub.com

GURU NANAK CHAMATKAR PART-II again and keep it in remembrance is our endeavour. The tonh'Ue should recite the Name. The effect of this will be that the mind that is wandering will say: What is the tonh'Ue doing? Sometimes, the wandering mind will tum this side and feel what the tonh'Ue is doing. Then the mind will feel ashamed. Oh! I have to remember the Lord. I have to live in the presence ofthe Lord. Then the mind will try again and again and eventually start living in the presence ofthe Lord. In this way, by constant endeavour the mind will remain in the incessant remembrance of the Lord. The recitation of Name will become incessant. The mind will remain in remembrance ceaselessly. In this way, when we will live in the presence of the Lord all the time we will be filled with ecstasy. When we live in His presence, His hJTace will come to us. Our individual soul will get a touch of the Supreme Soul. Our body soul will meet the Supreme soul. Then we will see the Lord inside us. We will also see Him outside in nature. We will see Him all pervading. We will always feel His presence and His touch, like Him, fresh, blossoming, exuberant, in ecstasy, always happy and enlightened, always in rapture. This is the soul-awakening endeavour or the life-giving practice or whatever you may say. Bahawal: Your discourse is very impressive and it is visualizing the unseen. We thought you are an ordinary sadhu but ifI ask, will you tell? I hope you won't be too modest to tell the truth? Guru: You may ask. Bahawal: Have you done any yoga practices and penances and got enlightenment or have you come from the Lord with a message? On listening to this, the Guru went into ecstasy. His face emitted a dazzle and in a soft voice he said: I was a humble singer but the Lord called me to His palace. He gave me the 'singing of His praises' and gave me a robe of honor. He gave me the 'Name nectar' to drink. Those who drink it from the Guru get ecstasy. I am distributing His Name and the praises. Jati: That means you have come from the Lord and you have brought something. Be benevolent and tell us what have you brought? Guru: Life spark. Jati: What does that mean? Good deeds, good character, is this the Life spark? Guru: As compared to animal life this is a life. But when compared to saintly life, this is not life, it is lesser and lifelessness. Jati: Where is the need for this? Page 123 www.sikhbookclub.com 113

112 GURU NANAK CHAMATKAR PART-II<br />

Real detachment is that the mind should not have worldly desires, but<br />

should be in yearning, love, hope, joy, and eagerness to meet the Lord.<br />

This detachment is not despair. Detachment does not mean to be without<br />

support or in depression or in despair. Detachment is to understand the<br />

perishable world as perishable and to remain in the devotion, support and<br />

love of the always-living Lord. Get dyed in His love. Live in elevation,<br />

exuberance and ecstasy.<br />

Farid ud-Din: Can this happen without Hath yoga and penances?<br />

<strong>Guru</strong>: This requires Grace. This requires constant endeavor.<br />

Farid ud-Din: God bless you. This is the truth you have said.<br />

<strong>Guru</strong>: But I do not like those practices that are lifeless practices.<br />

Jalal: What do you mean by lifeless practices?<br />

<strong>Guru</strong>: Well, to get some supernatural powers you do concentration and<br />

penances. They are all lifeless practices. To practice hypnotism in a bid to<br />

influence the mind of other people is a lifeless practice. All those practices<br />

where your desires increase are lifeless practices. Because they take you away<br />

from the Lord, towards worldly desires which are lifeless.<br />

Jalal: What about education?<br />

<strong>Guru</strong>: Education is a hJIinding stone of the mind. It sharpens the mind. If<br />

you understand the scripture properly and act on it then the mind improves<br />

but otherwise it makes you greedy. If the education makes you greedy, then<br />

this also is lifeless.<br />

Bahawal: Then what is the life-giving practice?<br />

<strong>Guru</strong>: Name.<br />

All together: God bless you. What do you mean to say? Are we all<br />

grazing donkeys? We are saying Name only.<br />

<strong>Guru</strong>: No. Not at all, you say the Name only, but your mind is wandering<br />

elsewhere. You say the Lord's name but the mind is after worldly <strong>com</strong>forts,<br />

fame and supernatural powers. Your aim is 'I' although your tongue says 0<br />

Lord. This is saying Name without feeling the presence of the Lord in your<br />

mind. You have to recite the Lord's Name thinking that He is the creator, the<br />

saviour and giver of nourishment with a feeling that 'He is there'.<br />

We cannot see Him because He cannot be visualized with these eyes. But<br />

He sees us. He is everywhere. So, we are always automatically living in His<br />

presence. We have to keep this in our remembrance all the time that we are<br />

living in His presence. Therefore, we should recite His name and not allow<br />

our mind to remain in forgetfulness at any time. The mind is wandering. It is<br />

slippery like mercury. It will not remain in remembrance. To turn it again and<br />

Page 122 www.sikhbookclub.<strong>com</strong>

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