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ii GURU NANAK CHAMATKAR PART-II
One may live with the family, in the house, keep earning and doing the
necessary worldly chores with mind ever in the remembrance of the Lord.
Remembrance is the key to happiness. When the mind is turned towards the
love of the Lord, it is automatically detached from worldly desires.
He gave an example: When a hrirl gets married and starts loving her
husband, she doesn't have to make any effort to detach herself from her
parents. Love ofthe husband causes an automatic detachmentfrom the parent's
house. Similarly, when one starts loving the Lord, the mind is automatically
detached from the worldly desires.
Again, he said: The aim of life is to meet the Lord who has hriven us this
life. The Lord is the living Supreme power, a living omnipresence, a living
graciousness and an ocean of goodness. He is the Supreme soul. We are also
a living soul. The soul has to meet the Soul. Our small soul has to meet the
Universal soul. Our soul rusted with the entanglements and the sufferings of
the world has to meet the Supreme soul.
'Love is the cement that can bind a soul with a Soul. It is only love that
can make the human soul meet the Supreme soul'.
Then, Guru Nanak told us the five spheres of the world:
1. Sphere of duty or deeds. 2. Sphere of sensation. 3. Sphere of endeavor.
4. Sphere of Grace. 5. Sphere of Divine abode.
Bhai Sahib Bhai Vir Singh has elucidated these spheres in story No. 61 ­
'King Shivnabh' in this book.
Here I will mention the Sphere of endeavour.
We are living in the Sphere of endeavour. The endeavour is 'Recitation
of the Lord's Name with love and sinhring His praises'.
The Guru said: Recite the Lord's Name while sitting, standing, walking
and sleeping as also sing the praises of the Lord.
It is Guru Nanak only who has told this practice that we have to do to be
on the relihrious path. He has told us that good deeds alone are not sufficient
to meet the Lord. By recitation, remembrance and love, the mind that is
wandering fast in worldly desires turns inwardly and is transformed into intuitive
and then sublime mind. That sublime mind gets a sensation ofthe presence of
the Lord in the mind, heart and body. That sensation is meeting the Lord. It
gives ecstasy. In the west, a philosopher named Bergson of France ranks high
amongst the philosophers whose mind rose very high towards the unseen and
whose eyes could see wondrousness i.e. the sixth sense despite being tied to
the five senses of the body.
This is the first time in the history of philosophy that a philosopher has
considered science as well as intellect inadequate to peep in the unseen.
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