Hari put me in bondage and said make effort for your liberation Ishwara gave the bondage and then said make effort for your liberation And Guru destroyed all illusions Guru gave me the knowledge of Brahman and destroyed all illusions from my mind I have surrendered my mind and body to Charan Das Sahajo is taking her Guru's name She didn't even use her name in this She says - I surrender my mind and body on to the lotus feet of my Gurudev Charan Das I can not forsake my Guru; I have forsaken the Hari I cannot forsake my Guru; I can forsake the Ishwara Because Ishwara exists - this knowledge was also given by the Guru It was Guru who taught how to connect my mind with Ishwara Freed me from diseases and sensory indulgences He bestowed me with the Gyana- the highest knowledge, and liberated me from the bondage He freed me from the cycle of birth and death He made me a Yogi and made me realize my Real Self Then tell me, who is greater - Guru or Hari? Thats why she says - I may forsake Ram but I cannot forsake my Guru I can forsake Ram Take note of this that she is saying that "I can forsake Ram" because Actually it's not possible to forsake Ram Ram is my Atman (Real Self) How can I discard my own Self? Ram is not someone unknown here Ram is not 'another' I can forsake Ram but I can't forsake my Guru I can't forsake my Guru Because Guru taught me Guru gave me the Gyana - the highest knowledge So, this is the glory of Sahajo Bai Kabir Ji also says - 'Guru Gobind dono khare kake lagoo paye' (Guru and Gobind both are standing in front of me, who do I bow down to?) 'Balihari Guru aapne jin Gobind diyo milaye' (I will bow down to Guru because it's the Guru who made me connect with the Gobind (Ishwara)) But Sahajo Bai validates this with the arguments too! Kabir says - Forsaking Gobind (Ishwara), I will bow down at the lotus feet of my Gurudev Sahajo Bai took another leap forward She says - I won't even take notice of Gobind I won't even gaze at Him 'Niharoo' (to gaze) - I won't even gaze at Him Guru is in front of me Then only He is there And 'Ram tajoo' - will she forsake Ram? No Sahajo knows that Atman is Ram Guru is Ram Everything is Ram alone Then what to leave and what to hold? But what a beautiful thing she has said Now this is a very strange letter but I am taking it anyways She says - "I have a great interest in being devoted to the Ishwara" I am reading what's written It's not 'shaunk' but 'shouk' (interest) There is no need for 'n' sound; I have an interest I often to go satsang and to Guru In search of of a true Guru, I went to some wrong Guru Who had bad intentions towards women He used all his powers on me Somehow I escaped from there Then I saw you and listened to you on YouTube I really liked it My husband and I both have come here now Shashi Bala ji - on one hand you are saying that the Guru was not right then what powers did he have? Ahh...so much confusion but it's not your fault It's like "bhole bhaye mile raghurai" That's why I say this again and again Make a connection with scriptures If you don't make a connection with scriptures Then how would you differentiate between right and wrong? Now For example Someone says.... One is that you look at fancy dress...I don't know when your intellect will mature? Like children go for fancy dress competition at school They dress up like Gandhi, Nehru, a boxer, Meera, Hanuman Then are they real or fake? Huh? If you think that the fake one is real, then are you stupid or that person? Now someone wears a long robe, wears a tilak and a thick mala around his neck And has rented a 4-6 'disciples' along Who spread this news around he village that "Baba ji is great, he can bless you" "You will get a job, have a son" What was it? Recently I... Day before yesterday I was returning from somewhere and saw a sign - 'Baba Bengali' "if you are not getting married, meet" "if your lover is troubling you, meet" "Guaranteed and satisfactory resolution will be given in 15 minutes" They had given their contact number in big letters If there any policeman who will fine him that what is this stupidity? What absurd are you talking? Looking at such advertisements of such clever people, how many people will go to them? But I think, the one who is stupid (he/she) Should get cheated, you should get cheated a lot... Are you crazy? Don't you have any sense? Lover...if you can't get married, we have a remedy for you They write this together - if you can't get married, you will - if you can't get a divorce, you will...What?! They are agents to both! That what you want, just say it! They will charge a fee for everything- 10 or 5 or 50 thousand I met a man in America He had paid 10,000 dollars to someone Ahh...He was not able to sleep at night He was from Jalandhar Someone said, "Somebody has cast a spell on you, that's why you can't sleep" There must be someone like this Baba Bengali Seeing whose ad, they went there He said - "I will do 2000, 1000...this ritual, that ritual, this mantra, that yagya" It so happened so that this person had spent a total of 10,000 dollars Then he invited me home When he invited me, he made me sit down and told me everything I said, "You were not able to sleep and this is because of some black magic..." "And to get rid of that, what you did...?" I said, "You must do one thing" I said, "All of you just go out" Hari Milan was with me I said, "You should stay here" Sometimes it gets difficult to talk to such people who believe in all these things Who knows if they will misunderstand something So I told him to lie down And at that time it was not recorded so I gave him verbal instructions to do 'Yog Nidra'- Yogic Conscious Sleep I made him do Yog Nidra and he was absolutely calm I came downstairs, had food and met people 1 or 1.5 hour passed And when it was time for me to leave That man came out of the room And he held my feet He said, "You have removed all my black magic" I made him do a technique of Yoga But what did he think? "You removed all black magic" "Now there will be happiness in my home" I said, "Yes true" - no one can make such people happy The person who was himself fake and looking at his attire, you took him to be a Guru then you are stupid You have immense faith But where are you putting it? Have some sense, at least. This is an absolutely true incident I am narrating to you There is no even a fragment of a rumor, lie or myth in this In Gujranwala One person was returning to his village A bird which is called 'Gallad'- in their local dialect there There is bird called 'Gallad' in Punjabi A "gallad" was in pain and it died A man saw that and he felt very sad He thought an animal could eat it up so he buried it under soil It became a nice grave and then he thought He was sitting idle, was just resting and he had to go back So, he placed a stick over it And on that he wrote 'Gallad' Then he thought that these nice last rites are happening for it through me So, he also added 'Shah' to it He left and by chance another person also stopped at that very place And he saw, "Gallad Shah...Waah!" So he said, "O Gallad Shah! If my wish comes true, I will offer you a shawl" And just by chance, when he went home, what he wanted happened His money was stuck somewhere and he got it He told everyone at home But he said, "Don't tell anyone, this is all because of Gallad Shah" They asked, "Who is that?" He said, "He is a great man, I asked him today and my problem got solved today itself" "You must not tell anyone" It so happened...when you say 'don't tell anyone' Fixed The news spread to 10 neighboring villages And is so happened that some people brought shawls and some placed flags Some brought balloons Someone arranged langar (food) Then someone said, "Just writing Gallad Sahib is not good" So, we must give him respect and they made a permanent grave Whose? Who is buried under it? A bird What are people thinking? That man was again passing through that place and thought - "what has happened here?" So he asked, "How come?" He said, "I am the one who buried Gallad Shah here in the earth" So, everyone fell to his feet Someone tied a turban on his head From today, you are our Head Money and big gatherings started happening every Thursday And what is the truth? It's a bird Did you get it? A person's' ignorance is very big Someone said, "This peepal tree is very magical" They asked, "How come?" He said, "I tied a thread to it and as soon as I did that my shop started booming" Now whoever had heard that, they went there the next day and tied a red thread Then more and more people tied a thread Peepal Dev temple got created There is no understanding Look, always remember this From the point of view of knowledge, everything is Paramatman But don't limit Him that He exists only in 'this' place That He is only 'this' much Don't worship Paramatman out of fear or greed Go...go to a temple...definitely go there Go to Gurudwara Sahib; Definitely go But don't go there as a beggar Listen to their teaching, understand what they have said Implement that in your life This is the true form of Dharma For you dharma is nothing more than langar (food served at Gurudwara), just eat langar...eat langar.... Is it all about langar? Is it just about bhandara? Is there anything more than a bhandara or not? And you will get this understanding only after sitting in presence and listen to a discerning Guru, established in the highest Truth. Take notice that when attachment was bothering Arjun Then it's not that there were no Vedas, Scriptures and Upanishads at that time They were there But when he listened to the Divine knowledge from Sri Krishna Then his attachment and ignorance, all went away We don't need new scriptures now You must understand this We don't need New scriptures No, we have too many already There are Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagvad Gita Then we have 17-18 Prakarna Granth given by Adi Shankaracharya Then there have been a lot of Mahatmas after that who wrote beautiful commentaries We have Adi Sri Guru Granth Sahib with 1430 pages We don't need new scriptures But the One who can explain those scriptures to me, we definitely need that Sant (realised being) Don't take that Sant out of the equation If you think, "I don't need them, I can read Gita myself" Then read it What will you understand, my dear? You don't need the scripture But the One who can explain that scripture The One who untie the knots of my mind according to that scripture The One who can teach me how to do upasana (worship/devotion) If I want to meditate, one who teaches me The One who explains to me the formless and with-form forms of Paramatman I need a Mahatma who can explain all this Mahatma doesn't refers to the one wearing a certain type of attire It is not a fancy dress He must be like this or that Ahh... Many years ago, about 35 years ago, I used to wear white salwar-kameez and malmal dupatta (cotton scarf) I used to have four pairs, wherever I went I would wear one, keep two and I kept fourth one as spare in case they don't dry in winter or rainy season That's it. Then a time came Then Umm...I wore a chola (long robe) Then a time came, I really liked saffron color I requested to Maharaj Ji He said, "Why? Why do you want saffron color?" I said, "Maharaj, you wear it that's why I want them" "OK, then you can wear them" He gave them to me I didn't do any drama, any ritual or any ceremony...nothing He gave them to me and I just wore them For many years, I didn't wear a tilak First of all, I lived alone or I travelled around But when I would go to someone's house, they would sometimes put a tilak, etc. If they did that, fine - if not, that's fine too A Sant from Kabir's tradition He left his body recently, Sant Abhilash Das Sahib Umm...some...this incident is from 1994 or 95 I used to go to Prayagraj for Satsang in a temple and one of his disciples used to come there Gyandev Ji We became very good friends, he used to sing beautiful bhajans So, we became friends and then he made his sadhu community listen to my cassettes The entire sadhu community loved me Everyone said, they wanted to meet and when I was there next year, I went there Then I didn't wear a tilak or anything - I would just wear my robe and go anywhere Ahh....then after many years, he came here in the ashram He stayed here for 5-6 days When he came and saw me He laughed and said, "Now you wear a tilak?" I said, "Yes Maharaj, my Gyana won't disappear by wearing a tilak" Neither will it increase by not wearing it Because they don't wear it - OK So, he was laughing He said, "No, no...that's not what I am saying" But that's his love and he was just joking with me So, it's a different thing Meaning if I don't wear a tilak and don't wear saffron clothes If tomorrow, I wear blue or red clothes Will my Gyana disappear with that? Ahh...whether one has long hair or has a shaven head With that neither will one attain Gyana nor will existing Gyana go away Whether one has long hair or has a shaven head You don't become a Sant or Mahatma just by dressing up of this body You will be surprised to know Swami Ramtirtha- We he started residing in Uttar Kashi In his last days, the few months he has lived there He even discarded his saffron clothes and wore white clothes He is a sannyasi (renunciate) But he would wear white clothes He said, "Sannyas had a utility and a necessity which is not there anymore" "Now I don't even want to show anyone that I am someone or that I can give something" "Because now I don't want to give anything to anyone and don't want to take anything either" "So if someone folds his hands seeing me as a sadhu and comes after me, I don't want that either" He had forsaken even his saffron clothes This is called Renunciation of the Renunciations Supreme sannyas- the highest renunciation
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