To gain His Pleasure

VI

“I am in perpetual dhyan (contemplation) with my Beloved; the fruit comes to him whose attention pierces through the veil.”

If you completely surrender unto Him, then Nature itself will be at your beck and call, and all your desires will be fulfilled.

Guru Amar Das Ji says,

Oh mind, you once desired a thousand things, but did not get one; now see, that each thought will be fulfilled.

“All the work has been resolved, and the mind’s hunger satisfied, what else can I desire from You but You? All else is misery upon misery. Give the Naam, which renders all fulfilled and takes away the hunger of mind; I have abandoned everything and am a True Servant of the Lord.”

He who surrenders to the Lord lives without worries, doing the work sincerely and truthfully, and leaving all else to the Guru.

“That Naam – giver of all happiness – has been tied to me.”

Naam is the sustainer of all things. He who has Naam has got everything. 

During one of my visits to America, an intimate meeting was arranged with a group of scientists. One man asked many questions and obviously strongly doubted the subject of Spirituality. After some discussion, I asked him if science had succeeded in creating even one ounce of consciousness. He said, No. I then explained to him that the pursuit of science must necessarily remain in the domain of matter, whereas all the teachings and knowledge of the Saints lie in the domain of consciousness. There were a number of disciples present at this meeting, and they were of the opinion that this gentle man would not turn up on the morrow, which was chosen for the initiation program. But he was the first to arrive, and he got the most experience. So this is a Path of awareness – the Path of Perfect Masters, and you may accept it as Their Mercy, or due to Their greatness, that They have made such a difficult achievement into a child’s play. Were it not for this fact, the seeker would require a great background of a past lives and then many years of study in preparation for this Path.

So Guru Arjan advises us to eat, drink and enjoy what we have got for this is the precious time and the rain may not fall forever.

“I am the most content of all; the Guru has established the Shabd within me.”

He is encouraging us to have some longing for a thing of which we have no conception of the value. All the wealth is lying in the disciple’s Father’s Home – and for whom is it but His own child? The most obedient child will naturally receive the most. Whatever the Guru has got, He considers not His own; and the more He gives freely, the greater the flow. Eat, drink, and enjoy to the fullest, while you have the opportunity.

“Satguru, the Lord, placed His hand on my head and manifested God within me.”

His greatness is proven when He actually shows the way, even without the physical gesture of placing the hand on the head. By His Grace alone do we rise above body consciousness and see the Light within. He is the Giver – comparable to none other.

“I have opened a True Dharamshala¹ and have gathered the True Seekers there.”

A blind man cannot seek one with sight, but one who can see can gather the blind together. Christ told us of the sheep He had to find and take care of. Man is helpless with merely his own efforts to assist him. Sincere seekers will find that all will be arranged and made possible without them doing anything. Even before I arrived in America, there were people who knew nothing about me, who were seeing the Master’s form and also Baba Sawan Singh Ji within. When they saw me physically, they told me that they had been seeing me within for months, and some for a year or more. Brothers, it is all His work, not mine.

During my first world tour, on the way back to India, I agreed to pay an unarranged impromptu visit to Germany. Someone who was accompanying me remarked,

But how will those people recognise You, for they have never seen You? In other countries at least the program was prepared. Even if they recognise You by Your clothes, how will You know them?

I replied,

He Who is sending me there will make all the arrangements – why should I worry? He will Himself arrange all to receive me.

When the plane landed in Germany there was a small crowd awaiting me, and each person had a rose in his hand.

I said,

You see, there is my reception.

They came running towards us; asking about the luggage and telling us the cars were ready and waiting. So He Himself does His own work. The commission comes from the Lord and He works through whomsoever He chooses, be it one or thousands.

“I wash His feet and fan Him; again and again I express my thankfulness for finding Him.”

A True Guru never says He is a Guru, but in all humility will serve whoever goes to Him, for He comes to serve humanity and to give something to the world. When He comes, the entire world gets the benefit of His Light.

“I got Naam, dan (alms) and ashnan (bath).”

The Guru gives us the Naam, which you should know is the sustainer of the entire creation. Contact with Naam, the Nectar of the Lord, creates True Love in us, and as Love knows only giving, the disciple himself becomes a giver. He is born to serve and give Himself to the world. While He has the physical form He will give, give, and give. When the physical form is no longer there, who can ask from Him and who will come to take? He starts to give everything: physically, materially, and eventually He gives the mind. Having become the controller of the mind, He serves humanity with unending joy.

“Nanak with the Naam rises in continual heights of Glory; peace be unto all the world, under Thy will, oh Lord!”

The Master serves all humanity with His good will; physically, mentally, and even outwardly in all manner of ways, making use of whatever outer knowledge He has acquired in His lifetime, to help the people to understand the Truth.

The bath that the Guru gives in the Holy Waters of Naam will purify the mind and senses from the all evil. These three things – Naam, dan and ashnan – are gained by sitting at His feet. Unfortunately, people think that by ashnan, bath, is meant an outer bath to clean the body. Though it behooves man to keep the temple of the Lord clean, the Inner Cleanliness is vitally more important – and that is the work of Naam.

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Explanation: 1) In India, a common place of rest for travellers, erected in the name of righteousness.