‘But those men of virtuous deeds whose sins have come to an end, and who are freed from the delusion of the pairs of opposites, worship Me, steadfast in their vows.’
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The Lord says: ‘Those men, whose sins have come to an end, and whose virtuous deeds are ready to fructify, they, freed from the delusion of the pairs of opposites, and steadfast in their vows, worship Me.’ That is they get engaged in satsang and sadhana to attain god-realization.
The petty-minded people other than the ones described above-the Lord equates them to insects. The animals and insects eat, sleep, procreate and die. Those who don’t know how to utilize this precious human life, the Lord has deprecated them and called them insects. They are ‘insects being deluded by Maya’.
In Srimad Bhagwat, the Lord has said, ‘They are dim-witted, unfortunate and are troublemakers. They slander and speak ill of others and are in the habit of creating problems for others. The Lord describes the typically corrupted Kaliyuga man:
‘They are dim-witted, unfortunate and are troublemakers.’ They not only create trouble for themselves, but also machinate and spread rumours against others, thereby pushing them into the inferno of troubles galore. When the aaints are living, such people vilify them. Like, they ran a smear campaign against Guru Nanak saying, ‘Nanak’s teachings are perverse.’ Wretched people go to the extent of even incarcerating Guru Nanak. And they trumpet it as their greatness claiming to be superior to Guru Nanak. Babar put Guru Nanak behind bars. Such disgraceful treatment was methed out to the great Guru Nanak; these are men of wretched intellects. Empty-headed people fail to benefit from saints in their lifetime; and find faults with them instead.
When the Gurus are alive, such people insults them, which deprives the society of the real benefits that can be had from the physical presence of the God-realized saints. If you go to the temple and bow before God’s idol, it doesn’t speak or point out your shortcomings. It does not scold you either. You get benefited only in terms of the religious merits earned on account of the faith in your heart. Kabirji opened the eyes of the society to this fact by saying,
The Real Pilgrim Centers
‘While a dip in the holy waters endows one with a single merit, the fruits of associating with a saint are four fold; but the fruits of meeting the Satguru are simply infinite, so says Kabir.’
If you take a dip in holy waters, you get one benefits – that of a little religious merit. If you meet a saint, you get four-fold benefits- righteousness (dharma), wealth (artha), positive desire (dama), and liberation (modsha). But if you have faith in and devotion towards the saint, and if the saint is your Satguru, you will develop affinity for Him. If you have affinity for the Guru, the Guru too has affinity for his disciples. It is the same as it is in the case of a mother. The mother has affinity for her child; therefore she feeds the child on (milk) the very essence of all she eats in the course of the day. A cow has affinity for her calf. She bears the heat, cold, wind, storm and mistreatments in the course of her day’s wandering. But the milk that is produced in her body, she readily give it to the calf, who simply has to drink it with relish. The disciples are even better placed than the calf. The calf, in any case, has to get to the cow’s udder and suck the milk; while the cow keeps standing. But the disciples don’t even stand up; they make no efforts; they just keep sitting and the cow, the satguru, instills into their ears and thereby fills their hearts with the nectar of His divine experience attained through tremendous efforts made over a number of births and strengthened constantly by continued sadhana, Samadhi and meditation.
‘While a dip in the holy waters endows one with a single merit, the fruits of associating with a saint are four fold; but the fruits of meeting the Satguru are simply infinite, so says Kabir.’
That which has no end is called infinite. All the benefits in the world come to an end and cause sufferings. But the benefits a true disciple gets from the Satguru is infinite. It can never come to an end. Even death cannot finish it.
Love means experiencing the intrinsic oneness with your neighbors and all those who come in contact with you
Single Minded Faith
Once there was a highly accomplished saint. When someone approached him for diksha, he would take the visitor to his field and draw his attention to a number of shallow dry wells dug up in the adjacent field belonging to a peasant. The peasant had excavated not just one or two wells but seven in all and was engaged in digging yet another.
He would then explain, “See, if you want to go like him, make him your Guru and follow him. He has dug up seven wells of about ten feet depth each. He digs the well upto that level and on finding no water he would move on to another place to dig yet another well of more or less that very depth. In this manner he has practically filled his entire field with wells all around, but without having been able to strike water anywhere. If you aspire to pursue your sadhana under my tutelage, you will have to bore deep at a single place only. Had that peasant exerted all his strength to bore a well at a single place, he might have struck water. But he dug up as many as seven wells and yet failed to get water. Then he will dig up the eighth as well, but would never find water if he continues in the same manner. Similarly, if you keep trying different paths of sadhana in only limited measures, it will only lead to dissipation of your energy.
ee
The Lord says: ‘Those men, whose sins have come to an end, and whose virtuous deeds are ready to fructify, they, freed from the delusion of the pairs of opposites, and steadfast in their vows, worship Me.’ That is they get engaged in satsang and sadhana to attain god-realization.
The petty-minded people other than the ones described above-the Lord equates them to insects. The animals and insects eat, sleep, procreate and die. Those who don’t know how to utilize this precious human life, the Lord has deprecated them and called them insects. They are ‘insects being deluded by Maya’.
In Srimad Bhagwat, the Lord has said, ‘They are dim-witted, unfortunate and are troublemakers. They slander and speak ill of others and are in the habit of creating problems for others. The Lord describes the typically corrupted Kaliyuga man:
‘They are dim-witted, unfortunate and are troublemakers.’ They not only create trouble for themselves, but also machinate and spread rumours against others, thereby pushing them into the inferno of troubles galore. When the aaints are living, such people vilify them. Like, they ran a smear campaign against Guru Nanak saying, ‘Nanak’s teachings are perverse.’ Wretched people go to the extent of even incarcerating Guru Nanak. And they trumpet it as their greatness claiming to be superior to Guru Nanak. Babar put Guru Nanak behind bars. Such disgraceful treatment was methed out to the great Guru Nanak; these are men of wretched intellects. Empty-headed people fail to benefit from saints in their lifetime; and find faults with them instead.
When the Gurus are alive, such people insults them, which deprives the society of the real benefits that can be had from the physical presence of the God-realized saints. If you go to the temple and bow before God’s idol, it doesn’t speak or point out your shortcomings. It does not scold you either. You get benefited only in terms of the religious merits earned on account of the faith in your heart. Kabirji opened the eyes of the society to this fact by saying,
The Real Pilgrim Centers
‘While a dip in the holy waters endows one with a single merit, the fruits of associating with a saint are four fold; but the fruits of meeting the Satguru are simply infinite, so says Kabir.’
If you take a dip in holy waters, you get one benefits – that of a little religious merit. If you meet a saint, you get four-fold benefits- righteousness (dharma), wealth (artha), positive desire (dama), and liberation (modsha). But if you have faith in and devotion towards the saint, and if the saint is your Satguru, you will develop affinity for Him. If you have affinity for the Guru, the Guru too has affinity for his disciples. It is the same as it is in the case of a mother. The mother has affinity for her child; therefore she feeds the child on (milk) the very essence of all she eats in the course of the day. A cow has affinity for her calf. She bears the heat, cold, wind, storm and mistreatments in the course of her day’s wandering. But the milk that is produced in her body, she readily give it to the calf, who simply has to drink it with relish. The disciples are even better placed than the calf. The calf, in any case, has to get to the cow’s udder and suck the milk; while the cow keeps standing. But the disciples don’t even stand up; they make no efforts; they just keep sitting and the cow, the satguru, instills into their ears and thereby fills their hearts with the nectar of His divine experience attained through tremendous efforts made over a number of births and strengthened constantly by continued sadhana, Samadhi and meditation.
‘While a dip in the holy waters endows one with a single merit, the fruits of associating with a saint are four fold; but the fruits of meeting the Satguru are simply infinite, so says Kabir.’
That which has no end is called infinite. All the benefits in the world come to an end and cause sufferings. But the benefits a true disciple gets from the Satguru is infinite. It can never come to an end. Even death cannot finish it.
Love means experiencing the intrinsic oneness with your neighbors and all those who come in contact with you
Single Minded Faith
Once there was a highly accomplished saint. When someone approached him for diksha, he would take the visitor to his field and draw his attention to a number of shallow dry wells dug up in the adjacent field belonging to a peasant. The peasant had excavated not just one or two wells but seven in all and was engaged in digging yet another.
He would then explain, “See, if you want to go like him, make him your Guru and follow him. He has dug up seven wells of about ten feet depth each. He digs the well upto that level and on finding no water he would move on to another place to dig yet another well of more or less that very depth. In this manner he has practically filled his entire field with wells all around, but without having been able to strike water anywhere. If you aspire to pursue your sadhana under my tutelage, you will have to bore deep at a single place only. Had that peasant exerted all his strength to bore a well at a single place, he might have struck water. But he dug up as many as seven wells and yet failed to get water. Then he will dig up the eighth as well, but would never find water if he continues in the same manner. Similarly, if you keep trying different paths of sadhana in only limited measures, it will only lead to dissipation of your energy.
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