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and dancing. He puts you on the true path. He puts you on the path of
recitation of the Lord's Name with love and singing the praises of the Lord
and he does not let you go astray from that straight path towards the Lord.
The Guru explained to the Bhagats that they were in a mistaken belief
that this singing, dancing and other rituals were taking them towards the Lord.
Really speaking, these practices that they were doing was only a show off and
empty rituals and these could not take them towards the Lord. It went into
their mind and heart that the Guru is telling the truth. What the Guru explained
to them they thought that it was quite lO!,Jical and it was for their good to
understand it properly. They were actually searching for the reason why their
endeavours were not bearing fruit and not giving them any peace of mind.
So, very respecJully they said: Even after all this endeavour of singing,
dancing, idol worship and renouncing the family and house, we haven't got
peace of mind, what is the root cause of this?
On listening to this, the Guru smiled and said: 0 dear Bhagats, without a
true Guru the whole world is drowned. Whether in the temples or pilgrim
centres or houses or in religious seats there is no one who has reached the
Lord and can further hTUide the people to the true path towards the Lord.
There are preachers, may be they are more than the disciples or seekers
of the Lord but they can teach only singing and dancing and make you learn
to give a clever discourse that keeps you in ego and desires. They are themselves
in empty rituals and preaching rituals only.
In this way, these false Gurus are entangling the world. Without a true
Guru one does not know the real path towards the Lord. Without a true
Guru, the 'ego and desires' do not go. Unless the 'ego and desires' go one
remains in the cycle of births and deaths. One is born again and lives as a pig,
dog, donkey, cat, lion, fox, wolf or other animals.
Like, when one is away from the sun and in the dark, one stumbles. But
when we are near the true Guru who is the lighthouse like the sun, we get the
singing of the praises of the Lord and the recitation of the Lord's name that
goes into our mind and heart and hJives ecstasy. It gives ecstasy while living
and when you die yOll get respect in the Lord's court, because you have
obeyed the true Guru and remained in the remembrance of the Lord. Such
people get respect, love and ecstasy from the Lord when they die. 0 dear
Bhagats whoever meets the true Guru gets a sensation of the presence of the
Lord in his mind, heart and body.
Then as guided by the true Guru he understands the Lord's will. Then
what the Lord does, he accepts it as good. By accepting the Lord's will as
good he lives in the incessant remembrance of the Lord in this life. In
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