I have observed it in many people’s lives that those, who maligned saints and vexed them or hindered their divine endeavours, had to face a lot of misery, misfortune and troubles. And those who participated in saints’ divine works got blessed; they salvaged lost games. Their extinguished lamps were relit and their arid lands become green. There may be thousands or even lakhs of such fortunate ones.
The Gurubaani says and it is very true:
‘The slanderer of the saint is a brutal butcher. The slanderer of the saint is cursed by the Transcendent Lord. The hopes of the slanderer of the saint are not fulfilled. Departs disappointed. The slanderer of the saint receives his punishment in the Court of the Lord. O Nanak, if it pleases the saint, then even this one may be liberated.’
If he shows signs of reformation and surrenders himself to the saint, the saint with his compassion liberates him.
If you want to ruin somebody, engage him in hearing slanders of a saint; he will be automatically ruined. And if you want to liberate somebody, get him to participate in a saint’s divine works; he will automatically get elevated.
Tulsidasji also says in the Rama Charit Manas:
‘Where there is wisdom, there too is every kind of prosperity.’
If you repeat and constantly remember Lord’s name, if you eschew evil tendencies, you intellect attain wisdom. Then divine wealth of every kind safeguards you. Even those around you are benefited. So the wise are protected by the divine nature.
Where there is unwise judgement, there at the end is misfortune.’
Those, who are engaged in evil deeds, who shake people’s faith or do some other sinister act, are bound to suffer great misery. And it is not necessary that one breaking others’ faith will suffer for his misdeeds on the same day. It may happen months or years later. The law of Karma is inexorable. Our actions may bear fruit for us after 50 years or even in the next life.
Faith begets the joy of Love; faith enables us to attain the Truth. If somebody breaks our hand or leg or head, he is not as big sinner as the one who breaks our faith.
‘Kabir considers that a slanderer of the Guru is worse than a thousand sinners. Such a one should be regarded as carrying lakhs of sinners on his head, because there is a possibility of reforming the sinners, but there is no salvation for the slanderer of the Guru.’
One who maligns God, our sādhanā or our Guru, and thereby breaks our faith is a grave sinner. We should never lend and ear to him.’
There were people who used to spread rumours and gossip about Ravidas, dadu Dindayal and other saints. There were people who slandered Swami Ramsukhdas. Such dirty rumours were spread against this great saint when he was sixty years of age, that if I go to mention them, I would only be making my mouth and your ears dirty. The pious saint was so anguished that he went on a complete fast.
The slanderers who break people’s faith will get their due in future. Those, on the other hand, whose faith is broken, are ruined instantly. There peace of mind is gone, the joy of Love is gone and the light of Knowledge is gone too. The bond they had forged with the Guru has been broken by a sinner.
Today a conspiracy is under way to malign Hinduism. Why should we break our faith in our religion? Why should we abandon the Dharma in which the Lord incarnated Himself as Lord Krishna, Lord Rama and Lord Shiva, in which came saints like Mirabai, Kabir, Guru Nanak and others, in which there were kings like Bhagiratha, who brought the holy Ganga to earth?
“Guru Tegbahadur said, ‘Listen O Sikha! O blessed ones! Give up your life but not your religion. If you get into the tutelage of a Satguru at the cost of your life, it is a very good bargain.”
If one comes by a satguru of Hindu dharma at the cost of one’s life, it is a very good bargain.
On the path of sadhana, in the pursuit of the supreme goal, identification of oneself with the body, attachment with the body is a Gordian knot. Without cutting this knot, without crossing the quagmire of delusion, no aspirant can attain accomplishment. An aspirant is unable to cut this knot without the due grace of the Sadguru.
The Gurubaani says and it is very true:
‘The slanderer of the saint is a brutal butcher. The slanderer of the saint is cursed by the Transcendent Lord. The hopes of the slanderer of the saint are not fulfilled. Departs disappointed. The slanderer of the saint receives his punishment in the Court of the Lord. O Nanak, if it pleases the saint, then even this one may be liberated.’
If he shows signs of reformation and surrenders himself to the saint, the saint with his compassion liberates him.
If you want to ruin somebody, engage him in hearing slanders of a saint; he will be automatically ruined. And if you want to liberate somebody, get him to participate in a saint’s divine works; he will automatically get elevated.
Tulsidasji also says in the Rama Charit Manas:
‘Where there is wisdom, there too is every kind of prosperity.’
If you repeat and constantly remember Lord’s name, if you eschew evil tendencies, you intellect attain wisdom. Then divine wealth of every kind safeguards you. Even those around you are benefited. So the wise are protected by the divine nature.
Where there is unwise judgement, there at the end is misfortune.’
Those, who are engaged in evil deeds, who shake people’s faith or do some other sinister act, are bound to suffer great misery. And it is not necessary that one breaking others’ faith will suffer for his misdeeds on the same day. It may happen months or years later. The law of Karma is inexorable. Our actions may bear fruit for us after 50 years or even in the next life.
Faith begets the joy of Love; faith enables us to attain the Truth. If somebody breaks our hand or leg or head, he is not as big sinner as the one who breaks our faith.
‘Kabir considers that a slanderer of the Guru is worse than a thousand sinners. Such a one should be regarded as carrying lakhs of sinners on his head, because there is a possibility of reforming the sinners, but there is no salvation for the slanderer of the Guru.’
One who maligns God, our sādhanā or our Guru, and thereby breaks our faith is a grave sinner. We should never lend and ear to him.’
There were people who used to spread rumours and gossip about Ravidas, dadu Dindayal and other saints. There were people who slandered Swami Ramsukhdas. Such dirty rumours were spread against this great saint when he was sixty years of age, that if I go to mention them, I would only be making my mouth and your ears dirty. The pious saint was so anguished that he went on a complete fast.
The slanderers who break people’s faith will get their due in future. Those, on the other hand, whose faith is broken, are ruined instantly. There peace of mind is gone, the joy of Love is gone and the light of Knowledge is gone too. The bond they had forged with the Guru has been broken by a sinner.
Today a conspiracy is under way to malign Hinduism. Why should we break our faith in our religion? Why should we abandon the Dharma in which the Lord incarnated Himself as Lord Krishna, Lord Rama and Lord Shiva, in which came saints like Mirabai, Kabir, Guru Nanak and others, in which there were kings like Bhagiratha, who brought the holy Ganga to earth?
“Guru Tegbahadur said, ‘Listen O Sikha! O blessed ones! Give up your life but not your religion. If you get into the tutelage of a Satguru at the cost of your life, it is a very good bargain.”
If one comes by a satguru of Hindu dharma at the cost of one’s life, it is a very good bargain.
On the path of sadhana, in the pursuit of the supreme goal, identification of oneself with the body, attachment with the body is a Gordian knot. Without cutting this knot, without crossing the quagmire of delusion, no aspirant can attain accomplishment. An aspirant is unable to cut this knot without the due grace of the Sadguru.
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