Guru Nanak Chamatkar (Part 2)-Bhai Vir Singh English ... - Vidhia.com

290 GURU NANAK CHAMATKAR PART-/I
fear of the Lord is a pure fear. This pure fear of the Lord is not something
that would create awe in the mind. This fear keeps you away from vices. This
fear is love-immersed and deviates your mind towards the Lord. Remembrance
attracts you towards the Lord and the pure fear keeps you away from vices
and pushes you towards the Lord.
In this way in love and fear you meet the Lord.
The fear ofthe sidhas was something that created awe in the minds of the
people and their belief that the sidhas possessed supernatural powers made
the people double-minded. Besides that the people were over-awed. They
were also fed up with the sidhas.
Similar was the attitude of the Muslim priests.
But those who came to the Guru were preached to rise above the worldly
desires. The Guru told the people to tread on the true path ofrecitation ofthe
Lord's name with love. From recitation by the tongue and remembrance in
the mind and heart up to meeting ofbody soul with the Supreme soul, was the
right path. He told the people to love the fearless Lord and recitation of His
name with love was the endeavor. With recitation the mind concentrates. With
recitation the mind becomes strong. He also told the people to control the five
senses ofthe body and keep away from vices. Use your strength of mind and
body to do goodness to people. For doing goodness to people and to keep
away from vices, one has to rein the five senses of the body. One should use
the strenhTth ofthe mind to control the five senses. This reining ofmind can be
done when one has fear ofthe Lord and love ofthe Lord. With this reining of
the mind one should have forgiveness for the world. Everybody is in despair.
Every home has some sort ofsuffering. One should be kind to the people and
not be angry. Everybody makes mistakes. Everybody needs help. An ideal
man must never curse anyone. He should always forgive. He should always
be in the recitation ofName. He should himself recite and make others recite
the Name.
People were much impressed by this true path preached by the Guru.
The message that the Guru gave to the people was that the enfeebled mind
has to get rid of slavery and the self has to rise in elevation and by recitation
ofName get immersed in the love ofthe Lord. So, people thronged to become
disciples of the Guru.
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Now, the sidhas decided to be vindictive to the Guru. The sidhas had learnt
concentration of mind that bJ1ves some supernatural powers but they had not
reined the mind to keep it away from anger and other fires of the body. But
even in sidhas, there were few like Mangal Nath who understood the greatness
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