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GURU NANAK CHAMATKAR PART-II 343
because the person who is doing repetition is human. He is not a dead machine
that will not be influenced. When a person repeats, then the meanings of the
words automatically influence the mind.
He first listens to the sermon, as to whose name it is and why it has to be
repeated. After having understood the path of Name and with the aim of
reaching the Lord, he starts recitation. He is advised by the holy company that
the mind should be stopped from wandering and turned again and again
towards the Lord whose Name is being recited. In this way, the mind turns
itself from wandering and concentrates on the recitation. Then the Name
settles down in the inner mind and becomes incessant. Then we get a sensation
of the presence of the Lord in our mind and body.
Recitation means: To remember with love.
Remembrance and love are co-related. The love of the Lord remains in
our body in the form of remembrance. He, who loves the Lord, remembers
the Lord day-in and day-out. In this way, when we remember Him with
respect, with adoration, as a saviour, as a fountain of goodness, that also is
love. With remembrance one gets into loving. With recitation, first we feel the
presence of the Lord, then we get to love Him.
See, everybody says, the Lord is there, but the saying is just talking. But in
the case of the man of God the remembrance has settled in his mind. He has
an incessant sensation of the presence ofthe Lord in his mind and body. This
makes him love the Lord. Getting immersed in the love ofthe Lord is meeting
the Lord. In this way, the recitation of the Name reaches you to the Lord.
Then some people say: Remembering the Lord in every moment is tying
a rope round one's neck. So, why tie this rope? But you see minutely. The
rope of remembrance is tied around everybody's neck all the time. Who is the
one who is not remembering something or the other all the time? Even in
sleep there is no peace. That is why, the benevolent Guru Nanak Dev said:
Everybody is remembering something, and everybody is in suffering because
everybody is remembering something.
What is the remembrance ofeverybody? That is, remembering a hundred
thinhTS and that remembrance influences your mind towards happiness, sadness,
comforts, sorrows, jealousy, envy, fights, selfishness, enmity, fear etc. The
mind gets more ofbad influences and that is the reason for his suffering. That
is why the Guru said: Ifyou remember 'One', then you will be in peace.
Because the 'One' who is the Lord is all goodness, all ecstasy, all love,
giver ofnourishment to all, always living, above the cycle of births and deaths
and joy incarnate.
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