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

God / the Guru is always waiting

Divyatman,

Human beings always live with a misconceived notion that it is impossible to get God's guidance or a Guru in physical form to provide ready guidance in the spiritual path.

In this notion, several births are wasted.

On the contrary, we have to be convinced about the goal. Once we are convinced about the purpose of our birth and are sincere to find a master to guide us,  we will find that the master is just there, at our door step, ready to hold our hand and teach us the Brahma Jnana.

In the path of Jnana, the spiritual seeker has to necessarily complete the 4 qualifications, known as sadhana chatushtaya, and once he completes this  4 qualifications, then the super abundance of God consciousness just envelops him and he finds the preceptor, the Guru, then and there.

1) Viveka-  Discrimination between right and wrong.

2)Vairagya- Dispassion towards wrong, after one has discriminated between right and wrong.

3) Shad sampath- 6 virtuous qualities which can be covered later on, If Swami wills.

4)Mumukshatva- Intense craving for Attaining God/ liberation.

If a seeker qualifies in the above four, the divine law of nature acts in a way that the seeker gets a guru and then steadily progresses towards the goal. It  has to happen!.

This is satyam,truth. Our shrutis proclaim this and  realized masters 's life stands testimony for the above. 

Love

Lord Buddha