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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?
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