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286 GURU NANAK CHAMATKAR PART-II
from worldly desires and attached to the Lord. He lives in the incessant
remembrance ofthe Lord and his body soul is immersed in the Supreme soul
and he lives in ecstasy. He lives in eternal happiness and is out ofthe cycle of
births and deaths. The thinking that everything belongs to the Lord, this is his
detachment from worldly desires. The recluses renounce the family and horne
but they do not get peace ofmind. The mind has to be detached from desires,
whether one is a recluse or a family man.
Bhagats: We have to keep our mind detached from desires, relations and
friends. Ifyou give some example, then we will understand better.
Beloved Guru: You are a group and you travel with recluses. You must
have experienced yourself sometimes. When a recluse goes to a new town,
then on the first day he feels detached there. He does not feel any attachment
there. But when he stays there for sometime then he feels some attachment.
Similarly, when we consider our wealth or relations as hJ1ft from the Lord, then
we feel a slight detachment. When we consider them of the Lord, then that
slight detachment is not despair. That keeps one away from desires and hJ1ves
a feeling of comfort. The practical aspect of this slight detachment is that it
reduces the wish to get comfort from them and one is in exuberance to hJ1ve
comfort to others. If something or somebody goes away, then one does not
feel the suffering or a slight sadness comes and goes away.
o dear Bhagats, by thinking that everything belongs to the Lord, it does
not mean sadness or depression or dejection. It is freedom from desires and
exuberance. Like, everybody is happy to acquire but also feels happy to hJ1ve
to daughter or son or parents. In this way, with a feeling oflove and sacredness
when our mind considers that everything belongs to the Lord, then our mind
feels exuberant to hJ1ve. Then when we are in the incessant recitation of
Name, then we are in constant touch ofthe Lord. The Lord is all ecstasy. So,
when we are in the touch of the Lord and we consider everythIng belongs to
Him, then we live in ecstasy. On listening to the discourse of the benevolent
and saviour Guru, the Bhagats became Guru-disciples.
In the biography is written: On listening to this, the Bhagats fell at the
Guru's feet and said: 0 Guru, you are great and great is your glimpse. 0
image of the Lord, you make us your disciples and hJ1ve us the Lord's Name.
Then the Guru said: Recite the Lord's Name with love. You are blessed.
The Bhagats started recitation ofthe Lord's Name. They got ecstasy. They got
salvation. Then the Guru departed from there.
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