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GURU NANAK CHAMATKAR PART - II 219
We tell him: When you have started treading on the path of recitation of
Name, then: Do service to holy people with your hands
Recite the Name with your tongue
Remember the Lord in your mind.
This is, serving the Lord.
Do goodness to others.
This is service to the people. But this is a service to the Lord also, because
you are serving the ;Lord's children. This 'Ideal ofservice' is our rubbing ash
on the body. With service, the ego goes and man lives a comfortable and
peaceful life. By serving others one gets humility. By serving the holy people
you get their blessings, and the mind gets dyed in the love of the Lord. By
serving the Lord you get salvation.
One young disciple (looking towards Bhartari): We play music by blowing
the trumpet. The mind concentrates with that music. What do they do?
Guru: The mind may concentrate by blowing the trumpet but blowing the
trumpet in the morning, daytime, evening and night while roaming would be
helpful in begf,ring for food. Our devotees earn food by working and are
happy in God's will. They don't have to beg. Butso far as the mind is concerned,
we sing the praises of the Lord with music. We sing the divine sacred songs
with music. This is our blowing the trumpet.
Bhartari: How do you have a glimpse?
Guru: We are dyed in the love of the Lord. This is our glimpse.
Bhartari: Do you go for pilf,'Timage?
Guru: The recitation ofthe Lord's name is washing our dirt and sins. This
is our bath at a pilgrim centre.
Another yof,ri to Bhartari: We worship the idol of Shiv and other gods.
What do they worship?
Guru: We have the Lord's temple in our body. We worship the Lord. He
is a living Lord, not a stone idol. He is capable ofimmetSing our body soul in
Himself. In His love, we are engrossed and in ecstasy. In this way, immersed
in the love of the Lord, who is sitting on a throne inside our body, we are in
ecstasy. Our devotee does all this in the thinking that it is all Lord's grace that
we are doing all this, otherwise who can meet the Lord. It is only His grace
that one gets His sensation in the mind and body.
Bhartari: How can one be detached while living in the family?
Guru: Like the lotus. It remains in muddy water but is not affected by the
same. Similarly, a person in recitation of the Lord's Name appears to be in
worldly desires but actually he is away from these. He lives in the family and
the world, with mind detached.
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