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172 GURU NANAK CHAMATKAR PART-II So, one day he went inside at night. At that time the ascetics were sitting in a gathering. The bottle of wine (and glasses) was making a round. Everybody was having according to his wishes, full or three-fourth or half or one-fourth and were drinking. When the bottle of wine completed a full round then it was presented to the Guru also. The Guru looked towards the bottle ofwine, then towards the sadhus and ascetics, then towards Bhartari and then he laughed and asked the server who was serving: What is this? Server: This is the glass of the ascetics. You also have and enjoy. Then the Guru had mercy in his eyes. He looked towards Bhartari and in a hJTacious tone said: 0 dear, the drink of Name nectar has enhJTossed my mind. It does not require this worthless drink. Bhartari: Please, you have and try. After drinking this, ifyou sit in meditation of Name, your concentration will remain for twelve hours. Guru: When there is a hangover in the morning, then what will you offer to drink? Bhartari: The diamond cuts the diamond. Another drink will overcome the hangover. Guru: Then when there is again a hangover after the morning drink, then? Bhartari: Then another drink. Guru: Then you will be living for this worthless drink only. Bhartari: Then what. Even if we are living for this drink, at least we are concentrating and meditating. Guru: This wine intoxicates. This intoxication makes you unconscious. This is undesirable. This is not a meditation of the soul or of the Lord. Unconsciousness or any tantric influence is not concentration. When one is not in senses one is mad. Madness is not concentration. These drinks are worldly pleasures only. Bhartari: You had said that the Name is very high and praiseworthy. With this intoxication it becomes a constant remembrance. Is it not? The Guru smiled: Dear yogi, Name nectar is sacred. Wine is intoxicating. The nectar is life giving. The intoxication ofwine makes you unconscious and if you drink more it will kill. This wine is pleasure in the beginning Half way is malady End is death. The Name nectar is endeavor in the beginning Half way is Ecstasy Page 182 www.sikhbookclub.com

GURU NANAK CHAMATKAR PART - II 173 End is eternal happiness. You are the torch bearer for the Lord's nectar. You have misunderstood insentience as life. Bhartari (Feeling a bit ashamed): 0 gracious Guru, we drink it only for meditation. We don't drink for passions. Guru: You might be right. But you go and see the hermitages in general. This wine is the road to vices. See, whether drinking has brought vices in the hermitages or not. Bhartari: I do hear, but a few sips that I have taken gives concentration. It does not make me unconscious. Guru: See, in this gathering, you are the only one who had a few Sips. The rest are guzzling glasses after glasses and see how they are lying flat and smelling awfully. Come let us go to your hut. They got up from there and both went and sat in Bhartari's hut. Bhartari: 0 true Guru, then do you permit me to drink a few sips. It has become a habit. One feels a little exhilaration and gets into meditation. Guru: Dear yObTi, snakes are all right in the baskets ofthe Snake charmers. Similarly, this snake ofwine is all right in the bottles ofthe doctors. This is poison and for the seekers of the Lord this is first a poison. Secondly it is deception. Bhartari: I have not understood 'secondly a deception'. Guru: One deception is the desire for riches and passions. The second deception is intoxication. That may be of liquor or opium or hashish. So, this liquor is another deception. Under its influence the person does not really understand whether he is in a state of enlivenment of soul or is it a state of mind that is bTiving exhilaration but is taking him towards insentience or unconsciousness. The consumption of wine or opium gives to the seeker of the Lord, an error ofjudgment whether it is meditation or loss of consciousness. Bhartari: But the joy that you get and the exhilaration that you get, you do not get without drinking. Guru: If you go near the lamp you get the light. If you go near the fire you get warmth. The Lord, who is the life-bTiving Supreme Soul, if one goes near Him, one should get enlivenment rather than semi-consciousness, unconsciousness and then death. Bhartari: What you say is true but how to get the jay? Page 183 Guru: The seeker of the Lord wants nectar. Liquor www.sikhbookclub.com is a poison. The seeker ofthe Lord wants the ecstasy that comes from the nectar. Be wants the

172 GURU NANAK CHAMATKAR PART-II<br />

So, one day he went inside at night.<br />

At that time the ascetics were sitting in a gathering. The bottle of wine<br />

(and glasses) was making a round. Everybody was having according to his<br />

wishes, full or three-fourth or half or one-fourth and were drinking. When the<br />

bottle of wine <strong>com</strong>pleted a full round then it was presented to the <strong>Guru</strong> also.<br />

The <strong>Guru</strong> looked towards the bottle ofwine, then towards the sadhus and<br />

ascetics, then towards Bhartari and then he laughed and asked the server who<br />

was serving: What is this?<br />

Server: This is the glass of the ascetics. You also have and enjoy.<br />

Then the <strong>Guru</strong> had mercy in his eyes. He looked towards Bhartari and in<br />

a hJTacious tone said: 0 dear, the drink of Name nectar has enhJTossed my<br />

mind. It does not require this worthless drink.<br />

Bhartari: Please, you have and try. After drinking this, ifyou sit in meditation<br />

of Name, your concentration will remain for twelve hours.<br />

<strong>Guru</strong>: When there is a hangover in the morning, then what will you offer<br />

to drink?<br />

Bhartari: The diamond cuts the diamond. Another drink will over<strong>com</strong>e<br />

the hangover.<br />

<strong>Guru</strong>: Then when there is again a hangover after the morning drink,<br />

then?<br />

Bhartari: Then another drink.<br />

<strong>Guru</strong>: Then you will be living for this worthless drink only.<br />

Bhartari: Then what. Even if we are living for this drink, at least we are<br />

concentrating and meditating.<br />

<strong>Guru</strong>: This wine intoxicates. This intoxication makes you unconscious.<br />

This is undesirable. This is not a meditation of the soul or of the Lord.<br />

Unconsciousness or any tantric influence is not concentration. When one is<br />

not in senses one is mad. Madness is not concentration. These drinks are<br />

worldly pleasures only.<br />

Bhartari: You had said that the Name is very high and praiseworthy. With<br />

this intoxication it be<strong>com</strong>es a constant remembrance. Is it not?<br />

The <strong>Guru</strong> smiled: Dear yogi, Name nectar is sacred. Wine is intoxicating.<br />

The nectar is life giving. The intoxication ofwine makes you unconscious and<br />

if you drink more it will kill.<br />

This wine is pleasure in the beginning<br />

Half way is malady<br />

End is death.<br />

The Name nectar is endeavor in the beginning<br />

Half way is Ecstasy<br />

Page 182 www.sikhbookclub.<strong>com</strong>

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