[Music] time is moving from one point to another meaning your present is changing into past your future is becoming your present so past present future is only then when it is linear in time but they are very well interconnected present moment gives us opportunity to enhance our abilities if we do that then surely and very compulsively i'm saying this doesn't matter what the situation would be externally you'll be in a very good place very very good place i'm just getting um reminded of a story of guru nanak's life one time sri guru nanak dev became so popular when he was living in kartarpur where he breathed his last also he was getting very popular and loads of people were coming to see to meet and then one day when one fine day guru nanak did uh alilah leela meaning he just played a practical joke on everybody and it is said that he uh removed his turban well he was a you know very um presentable in a very saintly way also so always somewhere quiet calm resplendent energetic beautiful you know but that day he removed his turban opened his hair smeared some black ash on his body filled up a glass bottle with some colored water so that it looks like it's an alcohol and he got some stray dogs who would walk with him he must have fed them some sweet so the dogs are there with him and he is shouting loud and shrieking and creating those sounds that everybody would get scared and everybody was in a shock what has happened to him dressed so odd behaving so odd like a madman and if anybody wishes to come close to him he would throw stones at them now he went through whole village doing this thing and next day again everybody started you know the hot gossip was that nanak has become crazy he's lost his sanity in the next day when he again started this this whole drama on the streets now everybody's scared of him everybody's running away but one person just kept standing on the roadside looking at guru nanak with great love and respect and admiration and guru nanak picked up a stone and threw at him but he never hit him it fell on the side and then another stone and then another stone and every time the stone is either falling left or right or at a distance he's walking but the person is just standing in with great all looking at guru nanak so finally guru nanak comes up close and gives this big shout loud screamish voice the person is still standing there still looking with great awe in love and respect and admiration and then certainly the whole body language of sri guru nanak dev ji changed and he said aren't you scared of me and he said no gurudev i am just admiring your this form and i am stupefied and i am like a child who is watching the drama the game of fathers and you know better why you were doing it but for me it is the something so unusual i can't even in my dreams ever think of seeing you in this way and he said once you even scared when i threw the stone didn't you feel that i'm drunk and i can hurt you the man said no gurudev because i knew that i am your son you are my guru and you cannot hurt me at all because every time you were throwing the stone not at me but on the left or the right at the distance so none of your stone ever touched me so this gave me further conviction that you are just doing an act but please tell me why are you doing this guru nanak they've shushed him quiet quiet late and then at a given moment when there was nobody around obviously everybody has you know forsaken guru nanak nobody is there a courtyard which used to be filled with hundreds of people nobody was there it was only sri guru nanak dev and this man his disciple his name was lena and lena asked gurudev now can you explain if you wish to why are you doing this in guru nanak dev smiled and he said well i was fed up of all these fools who were around me i am a person who is going to teach the path of prayer and love in servitude and meditation and here people were coming for all the worldly desires to me so i had to kick away that mentality and i had to kick with those people away from me and also i wanted to test how many really understand me so out of all those hundreds you are the only one who could see through my whole act point is that what sri guru nanak dev did in his you know last years of life checking on people so he is doing all this to find who his real devotee is who is his real disciple things seem very odd but even in that art there was a great intelligence which was working so a mahatma guru or a wise person sometimes intentionally use his very adverse situation to have a better point to make a better point a wise person is a person who is strong and is never scared of anything because he is not possessive of anything name fame power money nothing when you do not have this possessiveness you are never weak so you are never unable to do anything so life can give you very hard situation but guru nanak they've created a hot situation see where people would love to have more and more followers here he is kicking away everybody so he is creating that difficulty around him but for a purpose so our arabs poor proud can give me just some hard situations but cannot break my mind if my mind is filled with wisdom and my mind is peaceful because of meditation because my heart is totally surrendered to lord no harm can come to me i am giving these examples to say that how hard situation is there where the person is losing the life and yet the scare of the death could not take away their smiles destiny or willpower whatever nothing could hamper the state of mind our inabilities can be yes if say tsunami comes nobody can change that if a flood comes nobody can stop it if a fire blazes in a forest and comes to your houses you cannot do anything brush fire happens in australia in america people can't do anything they are very powerful countries but yet when these things happen nobody can do anything but yet but yet question is what would be your state of mind in these natural calamities if you are scared and fearful you don't have the wisdom and if you are ready to take in whatever is coming giving a fight sure i'm not saying just sit down like a chicken and get your head chopped off but sometimes and many times things are not in our favors then what do we do a wise person says i don't favor anything whatever comes comes no issues but if you have possessiveness in your mind and if you are attached to things then you cannot say this whatever may happen so prarabdha is just some total of my past actions and the present is the whole big window which is open in front of me to create a new better present and this very present will become the past hence you will have a very very good very very nice very very beautiful past and from a beautiful karma will come the fruit of beauty only not ugliness so just have a little broader perspective on things you know i remember a story that war happened on a country and an old woman was sulking she said now war has happened everybody is busy in the war or for and against and everything now who will sit and listen to my stories i had so many stories and people said are you crazy the enemy is coming on our head to bomb our city who has time and space to sit down and listen to your stories stories are for good times peaceful times now it is not so when life is bombarding you with your bombs bombs of difficulties difficult situations be like that old woman who says who will listen to my stories it's such a fun to narrate a story see i am doing it every day distracting you away from the silliness of your life and stupidities of your mind and giving you this ability to laugh on adverse situations in your you know i and it's such a pleasing and satisfying moment when i find people coming to me like that day this family came the husband and the daughter were crying that the wife has been detected with cancer and both were crying meaning the husband and their daughter but when this woman came to me who has been diagnosed with the cancer she was smiling and i said but they are crying she said they are fools they don't know it's just the cancer what they say we will treat it and if my body is destined to go it will go doesn't matter at all it's just a situation which what we have and she literally shrugged them off by saying akali you know both husband and daughter they don't have any you know knowledge what is there to cry it is just a situation a health situation will deal with it i was so happy to see face of this woman who has been my disciple from the last 20 years that cancer could not take away her smile cancer could not take away her peace of mind and she was actually consoling them later on i saw she was consoling them both and because i was also talking to them so they went back with smiles on their lips this is what i call some achievement happening i don't need a central government to award me for doing these things but i am doing these things every day and seeing the wonder of wisdom and knowledge how it can it can eradicate your pains and sufferings and mise so be knowledgeable be wise be intelligent and then whatever life brings say to it come on let's have it let's face it so change your inabilities with your wisdom and when you are wise then even the adverse situation cannot make you unhappy [Music] you
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