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GURU NANAK CHAMATKAR PART-II 181
I felt ashamed and left the place. I sat on the carpet on the sea but the
carpet did not move. It was not drowned but it did not sail. I sat on water for
eight hours.
In the evening, those twenty saints came again. On seeing me they asked:
o Holy man, why are you sitting on the water? It will get dark at night.
Then I said: What should I do? My carpet does not sail. It is stuck here
on water.
Then they (who were your disciples, I have come to know now) said: You
pray to Guru N anak so that your carpet may sail.
Then 0 my sweet Guru Nanak I prayed to you and was able to reach
here.
Guru: 0 relihrious Head, did you see anything?
Makhdum: 0 dear, you know everything. It is because ofyour benevolence
and the benevolence of your disciples that I have reached here.
Then the Guru looked towards the saint with merciful eyes and said: 'In
forgetfulness of the Lord, one gets trapped in worldly desires'. The 'swan
mind' becomes 'eagle mind'.
Then the saint fell at the Guru's feet and asked, "0 Gracious Guru, why
did this happen?"
Guru, "0 Holy man, on what path are you treading?" You have done
extreme ascetic practices, kept fasts, gave suffering to your body and meditated
for concentration ofmind. You did all that for what? Your attention remained
towards worldly desires. The desire to attain supernatural powers and become
famous remained in your mind. Ifyou made efforts to concentrate your mind,
then you should have turned your mind towards the Lord. Then by
remembrance ofthe Lord and sinhring His praises you would have got ecstasy.
You would have got elevation of mind and eternal happiness. If you could
sail the carpet on the sea, what did you gain in that? Ifyou did some goodness
to save the ship, you prayed to the Lord but the ego came and sat in your
head that you saved the ship as also the minaret. Ifyou saved the ship and the
minaret, then you are the saviour. Where is the Lord who is the saviour?
Then you see, your entire strength of concentration of mind finished. Your
carpet did not sail. Ifyou had remained in recitation of the Lord's name, in
His incessant remembrance, if you had accepted that whatever the Lord does
is His will, then the Lord's strength would have worked according to His will.
On what path are you treading? It smells awfully of the dirt of ego. Let your
mind rise above the earth. Even if you become famous and a big saint and the
people say, 0 he is a big saint, what is the gain? The world is perishable.
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