Guru Nanak

Guru Nanak

Dear All,

It seems that Nanak ji just started from where sathya left yesterday's post where he exactly explained that He was before, He is here and He will be there after you, me and the entire creation ends!!!

Just replace the word "He" in the above pour with "IT" or "THAT" or "TRUTH" and read the whole quote all over again.

The process of creation was explained couple of days as to how 5 elements were created by Him and How He had to pour Himself and through that pour, He Himself (or His spirit) emerged as 5 elements one by one and from the 5 elements, plant kingdom, then animal kingdom and then human beings were created one by one.

Since there was no time, no space, no mind that were existing when He / That alone existed, there can be no birth, no death for Him / That. Time, space etc came after 5 elements were created.

There can be no fear for Him because fear can arise only in mind and He is name less, form less, attribute less and therefore, He has no mind.

Nanak dev says He is realized by the kindness of Guru.

This is because, unless you are under a Guru who has actually realized God, you with your limited mind and your own ego, can know God only with limitations.

As given in an earlier post also, Swami says "you offer only your mind to me and nothing else" and also He says "allow Me to work through you and on you".

So, when one truly surrenders to God or Guru, he totally surrenders his mind and allows God / Guru to take charge of him totally, to transform him!

The word "True" used by Nanak ji is there in our scriptures as "Sathyam" (Sathyam Jnanam Anantham Brahma)!!

To actually know very clearly about God who has created this creation, about How He existed before creation, How He created and also put Himself in everything that He created,  the "Creation" theme has to be taken up by the author. For that, He has requested all of you / few of you to interact with him, let him know how his posts are helping you (if at all!) etc.

Unless you revert with your feedback, the posts would be just like the samarpan bhajans which the author started, continued for 8 years and left and no one ever came up and asked him - why he left !!!!!

Now, samarpan is past and the books are gathering dust in our shelves!!! Should these posts also be in the same way??

Love.

Guru Nanak

Dear All,

When He glanced through the above quote, he realized that it may be difficult for few to actually understand what Nanak Dev means when he says the above .

Let us meditate and try to arrive at the subtlety of the above expression.

1) Burn the worldly love and out of the ashes of the burnt love for the world, make Ink and make the heart the pen

Burning love? Would he mean that the love in heart should be burnt or killed?

Perhaps, the inner meaning of the above gospel is as under:-

Worldly Love can be only with the combination of attachment (Raga), Impressions (Chitta). So, Nanak ji says,  burn the basis of all worldly love-Attachment and Impressions / Vasanas and when the Ahamkara and chitta is completely burnt out, what remains?

Hear can then only be filled with Pure love, Love which is not based on our Ego, the 5 kleshas and vasanas. 

With the heart  devoid of Ego, with heart filled with Love, using such love ( ink and pen referred above) and also, for all the duties in this world , the purusharthas,  use your pure intellect ( the writer), and then write all your actions!

Here, wonderfully, Bhakti ( love) and Jnana ( intellect) are combined.

Imagine if within us, except Pure Love and pure intellect is there and we exist, we act, we live, we perform with only these two — love and Intellect, then how would be our life, what would be the quality / texture of  all actions undertaken with these two — love and intellect?

Nanak Baba ends with the expression — "Such a writing has no  end or no limit".

To understand this last expression, we have to look at the  life and works of Realized  masters like Rama Krishna, Ramana, Sivananda, Ananda Mayi Ma , etc.  What ever actions/works / treatise  that flowed out of their existence as pure intellect and pure love-Is there any end for such expressions or writings?

Love