2570 - Khajana Darshan April 25, 2023 – Walsall, UK
2570 - Khajana Darshan April 25, 2023 – Walsall, UK (English Translation)
Transliteration Key for Gurbani
Black text - as uttered by Baba Ji; Blue text - translation
ੴ ਸਤਿਨਾਮ ਕਰਤਾ ਪੁਰਖੁ ਨਿਰਭਉ ਨਿਰਵੈਰੁ ਅਕਾਲ ਮੂਰਤਿ ਅਜੂਨੀ ਸੈਭੰ ਗੁਰਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ॥
॥ ਜਪੁ॥
ਆਦਿ ਸਚੁ ਜੁਗਾਦਿ ਸਚੁ। ॥ ਹੈ ਭੀ ਸਚੁ ਨਾਨਕ ਹੋਸੀ ਭੀ ਸਚੁ॥
ਸਾਧਸੰਗਤਿ ਕੈ ਆਸਰੈ ਪ੍ਰਭ ਸਿਉ ਰੰਗੁ ਲਾਏ ॥
saaDhsangat kai aasrai parabh si-o rang laa-ay.
With the help and support of the holy congregation, through dwelling in the ocean of the Divine energy in the holy congregation, I am in ishq with my Beloved Lord.
ਅਉਗਣ ਕਟਿ ਮੁਖੁ ਉਜਲਾ ਹਰਿ ਨਾਮਿ ਤਰਾਏ ॥
a-ugan kat mukh ujlaa har naam taraa-ay.
Now all my demerits are removed. He has removed all my demerits because I was dwelling in the holy congregation. All my demerits were none other than my mind; my mind full of negativity, full of insecurities, fearful, no faith, no confidence. Now, because He has brought me beyond my mind, mukh ujlaa, I find that I’m the Divine light. God is operating as sound and light; I am the Divine light as well. How did this happen? I remained in His remembrance. I kept His memory all around me, and He transferred ishq into me. I am in ishq with Him; I don’t know if I am in ishq with Him or I am ishq - this is not clear yet. But, through remembering Him, He has brought me beyond the territories of the mind into His land, where I recognize myself as Divine light. The mind is just demerits; all thoughts, demerits. We may say that there are good thoughts as well. Notice when you have a positive thought, the mind comes up with an opposing negative thought right away. A thought comes - let’s help this person; that is a good thought. At the same time, there will be an opposite thought that says what did you get from helping someone the last time, there’s no need. This is the mind!
The writer says: Baba Ji when you came to us, during the past three weeks, I attended all the deewans. With all my being, I heard Khajana Darshan, and I started acting upon whatever I heard. After the deewaan, I heard a voice from within to be blessed with Amrit, and I was blessed with Amrit. In that deewan, you said that we have to transform ourselves, we have to remain peaceful, undisturbed, loving, and humble. Right from that day, I started to do that. But I’m so puzzled that by doing so, the world is asking me why have you become so peaceful? Why have you changed? What happened? Baba Ji, the world does not let me live. One day I came to the Kullee to ask you but I didn’t have the courage to ask this. I’m very disturbed from within; I keep fighting with myself everyday.
What is the problem here? The writer is saying that I keep fighting with myself within, I’m so disturbed. What is the problem here?
Sangat responds:
That the writer is concerned about others' opinions.
Mind is pulling him back.
Because the change is happening so he is confused.
Doesn’t want to come outside of his world.
All the answers are correct. Please look at it more closely. What is happening? God is so merciful, He is transforming this person, and he writes: Baba Ji, I don’t know what’s happening. Whenever somebody starts talking to me, my eyes start filling with water.
What is the problem here? I don’t see any problem! The problem is that this person came to the sangat to change; he came to the sangat I don’t like this me, I want to change, and now that the change is happening, he says: No, I don’t want this, I want the old one. This is mind! Please look at the face of the mind; how cruel, how stone hearted, our worst enemy, whom we take guidance from. This is mind.
It is so amazing; the person should be dancing and laughing, saying, see the change in me, I am really peaceful now, thank God! That person should be so happy, and that person is saying oh, people are saying why have you changed. We are here to change! This is mind! Mind, mind! Look at it. This is not a unique person; at least 90% of us would do the same because we want to change, and we want to keep the old self too. Can it happen? Can we go to the other shore while standing on this shore? This is what the mind wants - I don’t want to lose this, but I also want to change. Betay, the writer, you should be so grateful to God that He has done such a wondrous miracle to you; you are saying I feel so much love within that whenever somebody talks to me, I start crying. I just want to remain peaceful. I feel like listening to Khajana Darshan all the time. I feel like doing paath. Baba Ji, I am stuck in these uljhans (entanglements). Please help me.
Betay, there is no uljhan (entanglements). He has taken you out of the uljhans. He has made the burning insides peaceful; He has replaced anger with watery eyes and tears of love, futile talking with silence; speaking and listening to futile talk has stopped and now we want to only listen to something priceless.
Whenever a question arises within us and if we are alert to His presence that He is with me, then He always gives us an answer. There is nothing to worry about; rather you should be happy. May God make us all so fortunate how He has been so merciful to you. If someone says, why have you changed, all we need to say is that God has been merciful. I feel like talking about Him and listening to His utterances only. I am peaceful; may He bless everyone with peace. That’s all we need to say.
We must remember that whenever we find there is no problem, we would become very restless; why there is no problem, what has happened to me; then the mind would create a problem. It has to have a problem because it cannot stay still; it has to keep doing something. Maharaj Ji calls it monkey; Like a monkey, the mind cannot sit still.
ਸਾਧਸੰਗਤਿ ਕੈ ਆਸਰੈ ਪ੍ਰਭ ਸਿਉ ਰੰਗੁ ਲਾਏ ॥
saaDhsangat kai aasrai parabh si-o rang laa-ay.
ਅਉਗਣ ਕਟਿ ਮੁਖੁ ਉਜਲਾ ਹਰਿ ਨਾਮਿ ਤਰਾਏ ॥
a-ugan kat mukh ujlaa har naam taraa-ay.
When death happens, we start falling into sleep, deeper and deeper sleep. Just before the consciousness goes into deep sleep where it forgets everything that it experienced during this life, just before that, a thought appears. That is the last thought and that thought determines our future journey. Maharaj Ji takes that last thought of ours and puts us on the next journey to fulfill that thought.
That very last thought determines our future journey. The very last thought, if it is not about God, then it is usually the one which we wanted to but could not realize. Say, we wanted to become so rich, we did not; we wanted to become famous, we could not; we wanted to have so much prestige, we did not; we wanted somebody in our life, we could not. God picks up that thought and gives you what you wanted in the next life, but you would find that you would remain as empty as before.
What is happening here? What does Maharaj Ji do in the holy congregation? Again and again, everyday, He tells us that you have been blessed with something so precious; you have limited time; you are here for a very precious trade and this is how the trading is done. You are here to trade your mind with the truth. There is no other purpose of yours. You are not here to run grocery stores, you are not here to do farming, you are not here to become a M.P . No, you are here for this. As time passes by, slowly and slowly, without our conscious knowing, that message of His starts seeping into our consciousness. We must understand why He asks us to come to the holy congregation everyday, no matter what, and what actually happens to us here.
Dhaarnaa:
ਸੁਣ ਨੀ ਮਾਏ ਮੇਰੀਏ, ਮੈਂ ਜੋਗੀ ਮਿਲਿਆ ਇੱਕ
sun nee maa-ay mayree-ay, maiN jogee mili-aa ik
Oh my mother, I have met a Jogee, He’s called True Guru Jogee.
ਮੇਰੇ ਪੈਰੀਂ ਲੱਗਣ ਪੰਖ ਨੀ, ਜਾਂ ਤੁਰਾਂ ਮੈਂ ਉਹਦੀ ਦਿਸ
mayray paireeN lagan paNkh nee, jaaN turaaN maiN oHdee dis
When I start walking towards Him, I feel that suddenly my feet have wings.
ਉਹ ਜਰਾ ਕੁ ਸਾਨੂੰ ਛੂਹੇ, ਰੁੱਤ ਫਿੱਕੀ ਰੰਗਲੀ ਰੁੱਤ
oh jaraa ku saanoo chhoohay, rut fikee raNgalee rut
If He touches me, even very lightly, no matter how loveless and dry I am, but with His small touch, those moments become ishq filled instantly. I don’t know what’s there in His touch.
Dhaarnaa (end)
When God sees transformation happening to us, He becomes so happy. He applauds, He says, I’m a sacrifice unto you, I would sacrifice my life to save your life, I long for the dust of your feet. This is God! And we become worried about what people are saying. Please see how the story is. When somebody’s consciousness becomes full with the knowledge why I’m here for, and they get transformed through meditation and His grace, He becomes so happy that you have won the game. You really got to know the gold mine. You removed all the dust, and found that you are a tree of gold.
ਸੁਇਨੇ ਕਾ ਬਿਰਖੁ ਪਤ ਪਰਵਾਲਾ ਫੁਲ ਜਵੇਹਰ ਲਾਲ ॥
su-inay kaa birakh pat parvaalaa ful javayhar laal.
I kept saying that you are a tree of gold. Your leaves are like precious emeralds, and the flowers are like gems and rubies.
ਤਿਤੁ ਫਲ ਰਤਨ ਲਗਹਿ ਮੁਖਿ ਭਾਖਿਤ ਹਿਰਦੈ ਰਿਦੈ ਨਿਹਾਲੁ ॥
tit fal ratan lageh mukh bhaakhit hirdai ridai nihaal.
You kept remembering the Divine, keeping the sacred word, Waheguru, in your consciousness. You kept working in the gold mine that is within you and found that you are a tree of gold. Look at how beautiful the flowers of this tree of gold, which you have become - the flowers of ishq, humility, compassion, and so on. And what is the fruit on this tree of gold? God! Just look at your heart area. If you remained a tree of dirt in the world, then what would have been the fruit? Worries and anxiety. But the tree of gold that you have become bore the fruit of God. You have really won the game! You have recognized that you are not something small. You are something so beautiful!
How beautiful! Just see His language, His words, His love for us!
You heard Me. Most are not even able to hear Me, and then there are those who hear but they don’t leave the old self. But you heard Me (sunee-ai) and then obeyed (manai) what I told you. See where you have come. You may not realize that you have reached such a high place. That’s what happens. The one who would have felt that it has reached a high place remains no more; now you don’t even know that there is any high or low, big or small.
Dhaarnaa:
ਨੀ ਬਾਗ ਮਾਏ ਸੱਜਣਾ ਦਾ, ਜੀਹਦੇ ਵਿੱਚ ਦੁਣੀ, ਮੈਂ, ਤੇ ਉਹ ਆਪ
nee baag maa-ay sajanaa daa, jeeHday vich dunee, maiN, tay oh aap
Oh my mother, this universe is the garden of ishq. It is the garden of my Beloved in which there is me, the world, and Him.
ਨੀ ਭੱਜੇ ਜਾਂਦੇ ਰਾਹੀਆਂ ਨੂੰ, ਰੁੱਖ ਵੇਲਾਂ ਪਏ ਸਮਝਾਉਣ
nee bhajay jaaNday raahee-aaN noo, rukh vaylaaN pa-ay samjha-oun
Oh my mother, see how the people are running around; somebody is running in this direction, some in that direction. And see these trees and vines - they are standing so still, and they are whispering to these people who are running so fast, slow down, stop for a second, stop.
ਵੇ ਰੋਕੀਂ ਜਰਾ ਪੈਰਾਂ ਨੂੰ, ਤੇ ਵੱਲ ਮੁਹੱਬਤਾਂ ਦੇ ਮੋੜ ਮੁਹਾਰ
vay rokeeN jaraa pairaaN noo, tay val muhabataaN day morh muhaar
These trees and vines are whispering to the people who are running so fast - stop, stop for a moment, be still. Turn around, turn around towards the direction of ishq; you are lost. Look at me. I cannot become lost; I’m deeply rooted in my source. Become rooted in your source, that’s where you should be going. You are going in the wrong direction.
Turn around, your home is ishq, muhabat. Go there; that’s where everything is.