Message:
Let Guru’s shabad be the adornment of your ears. Allow the melody of Guru’s shabad to sing within your ear’s day and night, forsaking all desires and disorders of the mind and longing only to be in Paramatma’s constant presence. Understand that whatever Paramatma does is best. The soul that is connected with Paramatma is eternally a Yogi and remains forever united to the Creator. One who has obtained this state, stabilizes the mind in their Guru’s feet, making it their throne. One’s mind acts as a bowl to collect Guru’s message and uses the knowledge therein as a walking stick to help do away with vikars of the mind. This eliminates all jealousy and bitterness and is the biggest support for the soul. To live as a Gurmukh is one’s true religion. One gains spiritual wisdom and sees Paramatma in all.
Reflection:
“Sathguru Nanak pargateya miti dund jag chanan hoya”
-With the emergence of Guru Nanak, the mist cleared and the whole world was illuminated.
Working on our inner purity by detaching ourselves from vices and remaining completely stable in both times of joy and difficulties will help us reach sahaj avastha, feeling of eternal peace. The souls that can reach a state of sahaj avastha are liberated from the cycle of birth and death. These enlighted souls become one with Paramatma, freeing themselves from the fight within. We must ask for Guru’s chanan, illumination, to overcome ignorance and desires and help remove us away from the darkness in the world. To someone looking from the outside, a person smiling and with all the worldly pleasures may seem completely content. However, as Bhai Mardana Ji learnt, we cannot know the true condition of someone from the inside and only our Guru can take us out of this darkness that consumes us within.