2648 - Khajana Darshan September 2, 2023 – Toronto
2648 - Khajana Darshan September 2, 2023 – Toronto
English Transcription and Translation
Transliteration Key for Gurbaanee and Dhaarnaas
Black text - as uttered by Baba Ji in English;
Blue text - translation of Baba Ji’s utterances in Gurmukhi
ੴ ਸਤਿਨਾਮ ਕਰਤਾ ਪੁਰਖੁ ਨਿਰਭਉ ਨਿਰਵੈਰੁ ਅਕਾਲ ਮੂਰਤਿ ਅਜੂਨੀ ਸੈਭੰ ਗੁਰਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ॥
॥ ਜਪੁ॥
ਆਦਿ ਸਚੁ ਜੁਗਾਦਿ ਸਚੁ। ॥ ਹੈ ਭੀ ਸਚੁ ਨਾਨਕ ਹੋਸੀ ਭੀ ਸਚੁ॥
Before meeting Guru Angad Dev Ji, Baba Amar Das Ji used to go to Haridwar for an annual pilgrimage. One time, on the way back from Haridwar, they met a Pandit who had great knowledge about the lines of, lines on our hands, on the sole of our feet, at our foreheads. This Pandit had forecasted to Baba Amar Das Ji that one day will come when the Divine would be placed over your head, you would be known in the world, and the people would bow down to you. After that Baba Amar Das Ji met Guru Angad Dev Ji, served for 12 years and received the Guruship. After receiving the Guruship, Guru Amar Das Ji was asked to go and create a new city called Goindwal Sahib at the bank of Beas. This Pandit came to know and came to Goindwal Sahib, took Charnamat from Maharaj Ji, did great meditation and seva. He was blessed with one cot, and was asked to make the people acquainted with Guru Nanak Dev Ji’s way of life. His name was Durgo Pandit.
ਤੇ ਸਾਧੂ ਹਰਿ ਮੇਲਹੁ ਸੁਆਮੀ ਜਿਨ ਜਪਿਆ ਗਤਿ ਹੋਇ ਹਮਾਰੀ ॥
tay saaDhoo har maylhu su-aamee jin japi-aa gat ho-ay hamaaree.
Oh my Beloved Divine, please make me meet that perfect sadhu in whose company I would be saved, I would be liberated. Sadhu here is for Guru Sahib.
This is an utterance of Guru Nanak Dev Ji in His fourth appearance. He says, please make me meet that perfect sadhu (which here means Guru) who can save me; and He Himself is the Guru with whom the Divine is going to arrange a meeting for a blessed one. What the poor world can understand about this path.
ਤਿਨ ਕਾ ਦਰਸੁ ਦੇਖਿ ਮਨੁ ਬਿਗਸੈ ਖਿਨੁ ਖਿਨੁ ਤਿਨ ਕਉ ਹਉ ਬਲਿਹਾਰੀ ॥
tin kaa daras daykh man bigsai khin khin tin ka-o ha-o balihaaree.
Beholding His pious vision, I would become peaceful; I would feel inner joy.
Just beholding Him, I would become blissful and I would feel the most profound sense of gratitude.
When do we express gratitude to someone? It’s when we receive something from them. Just beholding Him, just to be in His pious company, I feel peace. How can I not feel grateful; shukraanaa (gratitude).
ਖਿਨੁ ਖਿਨੁ ਤਿਨ ਕਉ ਹਉ ਬਲਿਹਾਰੀ ॥
khin khin tin ka-o ha-o balihaaree.
I am a sacrifice to you every moment.
And the Guru says:
ਹਰਿ ਹਿਰਦੈ ਜਪਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਮੁਰਾਰੀ ॥
har hirdai jap naam muraaree.
The Guru says if you are a sacrifice unto Me, then let me give you a magical word that will ferry you across.
Gratitude - all around us there are reasons to be grateful. Gratitude is higher than ishq. Ishq cannot happen in the world. Ishq can only happen when one is not a physical body and the other is not a physical body either. Our soul has ishq with the Divine; neither our soul has a body nor does the Divine. Our body is just an attire for the soul. If there is a slight glimpse of ishq in the world, it is between a mother and her child but that is also a slight glimpse because there is attachment. The Divine has ishq with the soul but there is no attachment.
Jassa Singh Ahluwalia was a young boy of 5 years and his mother was 28 years old when his father passed away. His mother took Jassa Singh to Delhi at the feet of Mata Sundar Kaur Ji and Mata Sahib Kaur Ji. They took Jassa Singh in their care, raised him and he became the head of Ahluwalia Misl whose capital was Kapurthala. So, the contribution of a mother to a child’s life will always be prominent and cannot be underestimated. This is why the head automatically bows in front of a mother. Gratitude!
ਹਰਿ ਹਿਰਦੈ ਜਪਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਮੁਰਾਰੀ ॥
har hirdai jap naam muraaree.
Please come at the hirdaa, and let us feel His presence there while becoming fully focused. If we draw a line from the navel point to the throat, then at the left edge of this line at the level of the heart, behind the heart there is a space. If we are feeling Him at the hirdaa, then we would also feel Him at the same level at the back, at the spine.
We know that when Maharaj Ji keeps breathing into us and out of us, a sound of breathing is heard.This dhaarnaa is about that.
Dhaarnaa:
ਵਾਜ ਸਾਹਾਂ ਵਿੱਚੋਂ ਮਾਰੇ…..ਰੋਜ…ਮੇਰੇ ਪਿੱਛੇ ਆਵੇ
vaajaaN saahaaN vichoN maaray…..roj….mayray pichhay aavay
When He breathes into me, He makes sounds, and I feel He is asking me to come within; He says come within with me. But I don’t go within. Then again He comes outside and breathes into me, and again the same story; He says come with me, come within.
ਮਹਿਕ ਆਪਣੀ ਖਿਲਾਰੇ…..ਤੇ…ਉਦਾਸ ਮੁੜ ਜਾਵੇ
mahik aapnee khilaaray…..tay udaas murh jaavay
He again comes outside, invites me in; I don’t accompany Him. He goes within in sadness and again comes out, asking me the same thing.
ਘਰ ਜਿਹੜਾ ਫਿਰ ਆਵੇ….ਮੋੜਨ ਬਾਹਰ ਤੱਕ ਆਵੇ
ghar jih-rhaa fir aavay…….morhan baahar tak aavay
I go within for a short time and then I start leaving and come outside. He comes outside with the breath and lovingly asks me to come back home again.
ਕੋਲੋਂ ਉੱਠਣ ਨਾ ਦੇਵੇ…..ਹੱਥ….ਮੁੜ ਮੁੜ ਫੜੇ
koloN uthan naa dayvay….hath….murh murh farhay
When I feel like going outside, He catches hold of my hand and says, don’t go, just stay with me.
ਪਿਆਰ ਕਹਿਰਾਂ ਦਾ ਕਰੇ…..ਆਖੇ….ਕੀ ਨਹੀਂ ਘਰੇ
pi-aar kaihraaN daa karay…..aakhay…..kee nahee gharay
He loves me madly and He asks me what’s not here that you have to go outside?
ਡਾਢਾ ਦਰਦ ਕਰੇ…..ਮਨੂਆ….ਜੋਰ ਕਰੇ
daadhaa darad karay…..manoo-aa….jor karay
He feels so compassionate, merciful to me, but my mind makes me leave Him.
All around us there are reasons to be grateful. Maharaj Ji says:
ਸੁਣਤੇ ਪੁਨੀਤ ਕਹਤੇ ਪਵਿਤੁ ਸਤਿਗੁਰੁ ਰਹਿਆ ਭਰਪੂਰੇ ॥
suntay puneet kahtay pavit satgur rahi-aa bharpooray.
We can close our mouth, we can close our eyes, but we cannot close our ears. He has kept our ears open because the biggest blessing He gives us is when we start hearing.
ਬਿਨਵੰਤਿ ਨਾਨਕੁ ਗੁਰ ਚਰਣ ਲਾਗੇ ਵਾਜੇ ਅਨਹਦ ਤੂਰੇ ॥
binvant naanak gur charan laagay vaajay anhad tooray.
Maharaj Ji says one who feels Him and knows how to be grateful, I make them hear the Celestial Music.
It’s not that He wants us to feel grateful, it’s that we become more humble by feeling grateful. Gratitude arises out of a consciousness that is humble and the reverse is true as well.
ਜਲ ਮਹਿ ਜੰਤ ਉਪਾਇਅਨੁ ਤਿਨਾ ਭਿ ਰੋਜੀ ਦੇਇ ॥
jal meh jant upaa-i-an tinaa bhe rojee day-ay.
Fish in the water lay an enormous number of eggs, but only very few of them reach the stage of hatching. The fish offers rest of the eggs to the creatures of the water for their food; that’s the fish gratitude (shukraanaa) that please accept it so these eggs may become food for Your creation.
ਪਾਵ ਸੁਹਾਵੇ ਜਾਂ ਤਉ ਧਿਰਿ ਜੁਲਦੇ ਸੀਸੁ ਸੁਹਾਵਾ ਚਰਣੀ ॥
paav suhaavay jaaN ta-o Dhir julday sees suhaavaa charnee.
So beautiful are the feet O’ my Beloved who walk towards You. Maharaj Ji says I love the feet who come towards Me; I bless those feet with more stability, with more power.
He says the most beautiful head to me is the one that falls at My feet, and I make that head ego free.
Guru Arjan Dev Ji Maharaj said that every word, every phrase of Gurbaane has to be unlocked.
ਮੁਖੁ ਸੁਹਾਵਾ ਜਾਂ ਤਉ ਜਸੁ ਗਾਵੈ ਜੀਉ ਪਇਆ ਤਉ ਸਰਣੀ ॥
mukh suhaavaa jaaN ta-o jas gaavai jee-o pa-i-aa ta-o sarnee.
He says that face is most beautiful which remains in a state of gratefulness.How beautiful! Then He says, the consciousness which falls at My feet, the mind; I transform that consciousness to their true self, which is God too.
Please focus at the heart area.
ਡਾਢਾ ਦਰਦ ਕਰੇ…..ਮਨੂਆ….ਜੋਰ ਕਰੇ
daadhaa darad karay…..manoo-aa….jor karay
ਜਾਂ ਮੈਂ…… ਤੁਰਾਂ ਪਰਦੇਸੀਂ ਹਾਲਤ….ਜਾਏ ਨਾ ਵੇਖੀ
jaaN maiN…..turaaN pardayseeN haalat…..jaa-ay naa vaykhee
When I start leaving Him, He becomes so sad that I can’t face Him. He hides himself away from me so that I don’t become sad.
ਪਿਆਰ…..ਕਹਿਰਾਂ ਦਾ ਕਰੇ..ਖੌਰੇ….ਅੱਥਰੂ ਭਰੇ
pi-aar ….kaihraaN daa karay…..khouray…..athroo bharay
I feel He becomes so sad, He hides himself away from me. I can no longer feel Him. I feel He must have his eyes filled with tears.
The day we wake up, we will see reasons to be grateful all around us. When we start walking; O’ Lord, there are those in the world who can’t walk; You had mercy on me. There are those in the world who can’t see or hear; You have been so merciful upon me.
There is a letter from a sangat:
My Dear Baba Ji, the last few years have felt both long and short. I used to be a very angry person; everything felt wrong, until last year when I started coming to the sangat and felt Maharaj Ji’s presence within. Everything around me went numb and all I felt was pressure going from the tip of my head to my forehead. Everything felt insignificant in comparison to that feeling.
I used to chase perfection, no matter how much it hurt me. I could never say no, because that meant I wouldn’t be perfect. I was so tired Baba Ji. I did so much just because I was worried what others would think of me; all just for some praise and ego.
Later on in the year, I started feeling Maharaj Ji’s presence on my back, like vibrations going up and down my spine; so intensely that it burnt. Now recently I felt Maharaj Ji’s presence on my hirdaa in a counterclockwise motion.
Through this evolution, I have changed. I have begun to become more giving, and forgiving, and loving, and understanding person.
So grateful to you for sharing this.
Dhaarnaa:
ਫੁੱਲਾਂ ਵਾਂਗੂੰ ਮਹਿਕਣਾ ਜੇ….. ਵਿੱਚ ਗੁਲਜ਼ਾਰ ਦੇ….ਕੰਢਿਆਂ ਦੇ ਨਾਲ ਵੀ ਤੂੰ….ਹੱਸ ਕੇ ਗੁਜ਼ਾਰ ਦੇ
fullaaN vaaNgooN mahikanaa jay……vich gulzaar day……..kaNdhi-aaN day naal vee tooN……has kay gulzaar day
In Jaap Sahib, Maharaj Ji says:
ਕਰੀਮੇ ਰਹੀਮੇ
kareemay raheemay
Raheem is merciful. Kareem is kind.
The nature of our true self is the same as that of the Divine.
Kind words may be simple and small but their echoes are endless.
ਕਰੀਮਤਾਂ ਦੇ ਬੋਲ ਭਾਵੇਂ…..ਹੋਣ ਸਾਦੇ ਨਿੱਕੇ ਜਿਹੇ
kareemataaN day bol bhaavayN…..hon saaday nikay jihay
Kind words may be simple and small.
ਗੂੰਜਦੇ ਉਹ ਰਹਿਣ ਚੰਨਾ……ਸਾਲ ਹਜ਼ਾਰ ਵੇ….
gooNjaday oh rahin chanaa….saal hazaar vay
But their echoes are endless.
ਫੁੱਲਾਂ ਵਾਂਗੂੰ ਮਹਿਕਣਾ ਜੇ….. ਵਿੱਚ ਗੁਲਜ਼ਾਰ ਦੇ….ਕੰਢਿਆਂ ਦੇ ਨਾਲ ਵੀ ਤੂੰ….ਹੱਸ ਕੇ ਗੁਜ਼ਾਰ ਦੇ
fullaaN vaaNgooN mahikanaa jay……vich gulzaar day……..kaNdhi-aaN day naal vee tooN……has kay gulzaar day
Dhaarnaa (end)