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304 GURU NANAK CHAMATKAR PART-II
other yoga exercises and practices. You tell, whether I can be counted in
saints?
Guru: Whatever practice we do, we do honestly but the ego spoils the
fruits. But whatever is good, it is goodness. Why should we say it is bad?
Kindness is good. Like, we sow seeds, it becomes a tree and leaves come out.
The tree is there, but we want it should have flowers. It should hrive fragrance.
It should bear fruit. It should become full of fruits. It should exude gum. It
should hrive nectar. Yes, it should grow, spread, become leafy, be loaded with
flowers, hrive fragrance, bear fruits, and become fruitful. It should give nectar.
The nectar should come out from its branches.
What is the use of a hollow tree? He said this, swayed and sang:
The Lord is the tree named nectar
Whoever drinks gets rapture
I will adore him
Yohri: But without Hath yoga, what other practice can be done? Without
exercise how can one become strong?
Guru: With Hath yoga exercises, by killing the mind with stubborn-ness
and subjecting the body to fasts and penances, the body becomes weak and
illnesses come. With fasts again the mind becomes stubborn.
Yogi: By reading the scriptures, can we control the mind?
Guru: After reading the scriptures one gets into fruitless discussions. By
hriving discourses, one gets fame. The whole world may be delighted to listen,
but for one's self, the ego comes like poison. That does not go and the cycle
of birth remains.
Yogi: By controlling the breath, one reaches the tenth door. Then do we
not become pure?
Guru: With this, the five fires in the body are not controlled. The mind
along with the desires goes into depression. Whenever you get up from
meditation, the mind starts looking outwardly because the desires had not
gone away.
Then this meditation was for a few hours only. The rest ofthe time of day
and night the breath goes like empty bellows. In that time, the mind keeps
wandering in desires.
Yohri: What about pilgrimage?
Guru: One may go and see, but when the mind is not reined, then the
holy dip will not bring any sacredness. One will be having a dip but the mind
will be wandering after desires. Ifyou say, you will keep fasts at sacred places,
then with faSts the body will become weak and the mind will still be wandering
after desires.
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