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Today's Hukam clarified a lot for me. I have been feeling so distant from Maharj, almost loosing the faith, taking out my stress on the one. THERE JUST SO MUCH TO DO! Weddings are so stressful! I feel scared. Scared of the unknown. Scared of what is yet to come...
Katha by Bhai Guruka Singh
The Hukamnama today is from Guru Amar Das ji, and in this Hukam he describes three different states of being.
The first state of being is people who have not woken up; People who live asleep. The second state of being, he describes the consciousness of the Gurmukh. And the third state of being he describes the state of consciousness of a Pandit.
So, first he says that when you are asleep, you live in the nightmare of the world because you’re not awake to the Shabad Guru. And so you’re at the mercy of the ups and downs of pain and pleasure. You live in that duality. You live in your egoism, and the Word is not in your mind, so you’re caught up in worldly affairs and burned by your own emotions and your own reactions to things.
Then it goes on to describe the state of Gurmukh, and he says that when you tune yourself to word of the Guru’s Shabad. And tune yourself means that your vibration in your mind and in your body is the same vibration that’s in the Guru’s Shabad; that the Shabad flows in you. And then you walk and act in the Will of God. And when your actions are in harmony with God’s Will, then you go beyond birth and death and you go beyond the duality of pleasure and pain. So that pleasure and pain both become sweet. And therein lies the happiness. And you become united with God and filled with love; it’s the state of Bhagti.
Lastly in the Pauri, Guru ji describes those who deny their Guru, those who turn their back on the Guru. And this is a very unique state of consciousness. It’s when a person knows their Guru and recognized their Guru, and then turns around and turns their back on the Guru. And he says that, when you do this, your mind remains completely confused, impure, and you have wicked thoughts and negative thoughts, and that you live completely in the worst state of consciousness of pain. He even calls Pandits murderers in this Pauri.
But he ends on a positive note and says that if the destiny is there, if the destiny is written, then they can still meet the Sadh Sangat again and return to the Guru. And again become a Gurmukh. So he saying that even a pandit isn’t lost forever, that they can come out of that state of pain and they can still become Gurmukh.
And then he ends with a prayer, and he says “Oh Lord bless me to meet the True Guru, because I am forever the True Guru’s servant, and I surrender and sacrifice myself to Him.”
Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa! Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh!
Today's Hukam clarified a lot for me. I have been feeling so distant from Maharj, almost loosing the faith, taking out my stress on the one. THERE JUST SO MUCH TO DO! Weddings are so stressful! I feel scared. Scared of the unknown. Scared of what is yet to come...
Katha by Bhai Guruka Singh
The Hukamnama today is from Guru Amar Das ji, and in this Hukam he describes three different states of being.
The first state of being is people who have not woken up; People who live asleep. The second state of being, he describes the consciousness of the Gurmukh. And the third state of being he describes the state of consciousness of a Pandit.
So, first he says that when you are asleep, you live in the nightmare of the world because you’re not awake to the Shabad Guru. And so you’re at the mercy of the ups and downs of pain and pleasure. You live in that duality. You live in your egoism, and the Word is not in your mind, so you’re caught up in worldly affairs and burned by your own emotions and your own reactions to things.
Then it goes on to describe the state of Gurmukh, and he says that when you tune yourself to word of the Guru’s Shabad. And tune yourself means that your vibration in your mind and in your body is the same vibration that’s in the Guru’s Shabad; that the Shabad flows in you. And then you walk and act in the Will of God. And when your actions are in harmony with God’s Will, then you go beyond birth and death and you go beyond the duality of pleasure and pain. So that pleasure and pain both become sweet. And therein lies the happiness. And you become united with God and filled with love; it’s the state of Bhagti.
Lastly in the Pauri, Guru ji describes those who deny their Guru, those who turn their back on the Guru. And this is a very unique state of consciousness. It’s when a person knows their Guru and recognized their Guru, and then turns around and turns their back on the Guru. And he says that, when you do this, your mind remains completely confused, impure, and you have wicked thoughts and negative thoughts, and that you live completely in the worst state of consciousness of pain. He even calls Pandits murderers in this Pauri.
But he ends on a positive note and says that if the destiny is there, if the destiny is written, then they can still meet the Sadh Sangat again and return to the Guru. And again become a Gurmukh. So he saying that even a pandit isn’t lost forever, that they can come out of that state of pain and they can still become Gurmukh.
And then he ends with a prayer, and he says “Oh Lord bless me to meet the True Guru, because I am forever the True Guru’s servant, and I surrender and sacrifice myself to Him.”
Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa! Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh!
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