I started following the intellect Okay see, when we say 'intellect' then, of intellect there can be two forms, one of its forms is mind and the other form what we refer to as intellect So, mind and intellect are assimilated into one another They go into one another mind and intellect, they are embedded into one another So, we can also say that we are following the intellect and we can also say that we are following the mind So, Puranjan became a slave of his intellect and forgot his true friend Intellect is received later on Paramatman (the Supreme Self) has always been there And your intellect deceives you everyday you consider wrong as right you consider right as wrong It lies and denies after saying something Who is making you wander? Your intellect Okay, when did you forget Paramatman (the Supreme Self)? you do not even remember that time because you do not even remember if Paramatman (the Supreme Self) had ever been with you or is still with you It's merely hearsay that has been repeated It's merely hearsay that you have repeated saying Paramatman is with us because Sant and Mahatma say it, then it has to be true for, they don't speak lies But, you tell me Okay, I'll ask you a question Do you remember your last meal? Do you remember the last time you drove around in a car? Do you remember the last time you had travelled by air? Do you remember the last time you had eaten sweets? right! You, Do you remember that Paramatman is with you? Do you remember the last time you had experienced Paramatman with you? don't even remember you remember what you ate you remember what you drank, you remember when you slept you remember where you wandered People say with such thrill that we had gone to that place, how enjoyable that was We visited that park We really enjoyed we had gone to that place and really enjoyed there, we ate this, such a fun it was...You remember all the fun Do you remember the thrill of experiencing Paramatman? This is why, Puranjan's story is nobody else's but your own story And this story of Puranjan appears in Srimad Bhagavata's fourth Skandh Puranjan kept following his intellect and intellect, through this fort comprising of nine entrances sometimes made him wander outside through the gate of eyes sometimes made him listen through the gate of ears sometimes made him eat through the gate of tongue sometimes made him walk through his feet sometimes made him work through hands sometimes made him fulfill his sexual desires through the genitals sometimes, made him use anus because the wastage, roughage of what has been consumed should come out. So, your anus is also one of the senses, it is the sense of action so even that is being used So your intellect keeps you digressed Eat, drink, then excrete the same Eat and drink more. Gather more stuff to eat and drink In order to gather more stuff to eat and drink, gather more money to buy the same so, keep doing Where do you live all the times? In doing what? Doing all the time the works which your intellect is saying or you are doing the work which you should be doing strange, indeed! For many years, Puranjan lived through his intellect then, Puranjan died then, Puranjan was reborn as a woman, and there his name was Puranjani Moral of the story It is not necessary that you will be everytime born as a male or as a female, it can go criss-cross Now, Puranjani was born into the house of a king she eats, plays, grows up and then she gets married then she extremely enjoyed with her husband but then, one day her husband died when her husband passed away, she was weeping and, by noticing her weep, a Mahatma arrived And Mahatma said Oh Puranjani! you never engaged yourself in a Satsang (spiritual discourse), therefore you are weeping Had you engaged yourself in Satsang, you wouldn't have been crying Puranjani said, "Why is that so?" Mahatma said, Prior to this birth, you were earlier born as a male Now, you are reborn as a female relations of the earlier birth ended in that very birth Today, you do not weep in their remembrance Relations of this birth are as untrue as that of your previous birth Oh Puranjani residing in you is your true friend, who earlier was also with you He is with you even now you try knowing its whereabouts So, Puranjani requested him to expound upon the one who is being talked about Please explain me what you are saying Who lives with me all the times? Who never ever leaves me? I have no clue, please give me some knowledge about this. Oh great Mahatma, I beg of you Hence, Mahatma recited Satsang (spiritual discourse) discussion on the supreme wisdom happened Listening to which, Puranjani's ignorance dispelled Puranjani was liberated It's the same scenario that over here, Guru Arjan Dev is saying to the master I surrender my mind to him I will always keep it enshrined in my heart I shall preserve the higher wisdom imparted by you, in my heart It is only a Guru who is 'true', without whom life in the world is worthy of despising It the Sadguru (the true Guru) alone, who is the embodiment of truth and with whom a life of truth can be lived rest of the world deserves to be despised 'Dhriga' means to despise Say if somebody if somebody out of hunger begins to eat his own faeces, what would you call that person? Crazy? Mad? If somebody eats his own faeces out of hunger, what would you call him? Would you call him crazy? Why? Faeces, faeces is meant to be discarded, not meant to be held onto 'Dhrig' (to despise) points to the same So the word 'Dhrig' means that which should be left what are we going to derive out of living such a life? The world will never be yours And, many lifetimes have been wasted in persistently following this intellect and how many more are yet to be wasted Therefore, we should imbibe this understanding Oh Sadguru (Nanak) make me meet the one who constantly abides in me Oh Sadguru kindly make me meet the one who always stays with me Isn't it strange! The one who abides with me, kindly make me meet him Oh Sadguru I earnestly pray to you that I wish to see that Sadguru of mine who never ever leaves me He never leaves you and the world never remains yours See, when birth happens, many things are received here An infant is born with no teeth in his mouth and, with an undeveloped knee cap when grows up a little, knee cap gets formed begins to walk if the pace of growth is fine and begins to eat when teething happens And by the old age what happens? The knee cap again goes and the teeth also leave one by one What position have you arrived at? The same position in which you were born One day I was noticing, somebody came here in Ashram He brought his grandmother along who couldn't walk, hence she was in a wheelchair So they were bringing the granny on the wheelchair and I am seeing them pushing the wheelchair and the granny is coming in my direction and simultaneously, another family came to see me, they had brought their one and a half-year-old child who was a sitting in the pram and they were pushing the pram so a wheelchair and a pram both coming together This shows he is someone who will become that other person one day, for the child will become aged one day And the aged one was once a child, both are arriving together A baby and a 'baba' In Punjabi language, the old man is also called 'baba' So a baby and a 'baba' were coming and you know what in Punjabi language, we also call a baby as a baba The old man is also baba and a baby is also baba. Baba is quite a universal word and when one gets immersed in the love of Eshwar, then also we call him... Baba So, being a baba is a good thing but the baby who is called baba will become old one day. Not a dependable thing and the one who is old will die one day, and might wander somewhere so being an old man who is also called baba, isn't a good thing either So being which one of the two babas is good? The one that is in the middle the one who is drenched in love of the Lord the one who is referred to as a Sant Strange thing is this, that a baby can also become a baba, and an old man too can become a baba Both can become a baba A baby also, and an old man too But, when one is a baby then one lacks intelligence so fails to become a baba when one is old, then intelligence goes for a toss then also can't become a baba. So, what is the age to be a baba? tell me youth during youth, he is eyeing the girls hence, is continually stuck in matter of marriage so, can't be a baba in that case also so, one can't be a baba in any case then It is a complex situation When small children see me I cannot talk very high knowledge to them When an old person comes, I find it difficult to talk because they can't even hear me and when a young one comes, they are so hyper and lost in their force of desires, they have no time so with whom should I talk? Whom should I talk to? Okay, look at this interesting thing when I say that practicing yogasanas imparts health many people are interested in learning yogasanas When I say, by practicing pranayama you can eradicate diseases of your body and mind many people say to teach fast we are highly interested But, nobody ever asks to tell such a technique so that we may meet the one the one we are separated from, and in a way never really separated from Not even a single person has ever approached with this wish that Gurumaa I want to know the truth I want to know the truth Most of the questions...see for yourself when we'll start tomorrow, your letters will come, you'll ask questions What kind of questions will come? Husband fights too much, what should I do? Kids don't obey, what should I do? Blood Pressure shot up, what should I do? Mind is extremely restless, what should I do? Somebody might write that I am facing a financial crunch, what should I do? Everybody is loaded with complications somebody has this problem while someone else has that problem Haven't come across anybody... It is Kabir Ji's rendition Haven't come across anybody.. who seeks the eternal one I haven't met anybody who is seeking the eternal true self I don't get to meet anyone who asks me that how should I know myself? How should I understand who I am how should I understand that I am not this physical body and death occurs to the physical body. How should I receive this wisdom? Kabir Ji is also upset while saying the same thing We aren't alone, he is also with us. We are at the same club
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