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

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Bhai Maalo & Bhai Maanga
B hai Maalo and Bhai Maanga came to Guru Nanak and with folded hands
said: 0 gracious and benevolent Guru,· bless us that we do not corne in
the cycle of births and deaths.
On listening to their prayer, Guru Nanak said: Gentlemen, you have to
do meditation. Without meditation, the dirt ofthe mind does not go.
Then they respectfully, said: 0 prophet from the heavens, you tell us,
how do we do meditation?
The Guru said: Gentlemen, meditation is of many types. You listen and
then you may select.
They said: Please be good to tell us.
Then the Guru said: First is hard meditation such as standing in water,
standing in heat, keeping fasts, tolerating cold and hot weathers, hanging the
body with head down, standing for long hours, eating leaves etc., to stay in
caves and roam sacred places. These are the hard ascetic practices to suppress
the mind.
Second is concentration of mind by breath control.
For both these practices it is somewhat essential to renounce the world.
The third is: To listen to the divine music. To read and understand the
Holy Scriptures and then imbibe the qualities mentioned in the scriptures.
The first one is very difficult. The second one is less difficult. The third
one is easy. Now, the first one that is very difficult, its fruit is very little.
The second one that is less difficult, its fruit is more than the first one.
The third one that is the easiest, it is the most fruitful.
Then Maalo, with respect, said: 0 Benevolent Guru, people say, the fruit
is equivalent to the effort. The more you labour the more you get. But how is
it that where the labour is more the fruit is less and where the labour is less the
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