15 Days With Sant Baba Maan Singh (DAY 8)

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Day 8 : Good Company, Sadh-Sangat

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The type of company, or Sangat, you keep is what you become. The company of

thieves makes us into a thief, the Guru's company makes us into a Gursikh, or

Guru's Sikh. It isn't for nothing that Guru Gobind Singh jee said that if you

want to see me then, receive amrit, do the daily Nitnem-prayers and meditation

on God's Name in the early hours, or Amrit-Vela. Then look in a mirror and

just as the skin forms on hot milk, you'll see me radiating from within you.

``Khalsa mera roop ha khas, Khalsa ho ma karo nivaz?Khalsa is my special form,

in the Khalsa I reside'' says Guru Gobind Singh jee. Just as a person's face

tells us what they are - perhaps happy or sad or an addict. In the same way, a

Gursikh's face tells us if this person has the Guru's Sikhism inside them.

Whatever these eyes see will have an effect on our mind. If we see good, then

we'll become good. If we read dirty literature, then that'll have it's effect

on our minds also. People say, ``My mind can't concentrate on God's Name for

even 30 minutes.'' These people concentrate on TV for four hours at a time, no

wonder they can't concentrate on God's Name! So don't see bad things with

these eyes, don't hear bad things with these ears. Khalsa jee stop watching TV

for one month. Go into the company of the Guru, the holy congregation called

Sadh-Sangat twice a day, get up early at Amrit-Vela and meditate, even walking

say `Waheguru Waheguru'. Then if you still can't concentrate on God's Name

then grab hold of me and tell me!

We need to make daily routine into our habit. A girl married into a low caste

animal skinner's house and turned up her nose at the smell?

People who drink and smoke stink, and people who don't do these things turn

away from them. People who don't eat meat hold their breath when walking past

a butcher's shop, whereas meat eaters start drooling at the sight of meat. In

India, people have started to breed chickens in poultry farms. If you go to

their house you'll get a strong smell of chicken, but they'll say they can't

smell it. They're used to it.

?The girl couldn't stand the smell of dead animals in her husband's house. She

couldn't work because the smell made her feel sick. Then after a month she

surprised everyone and started doing the housework. The in-laws were happy and

asked her why. She said, ``The smell that was here for a month has finally

gone.'' In fact, she had got used to the smell of dead animals. The type of

company, or Sangat, you keep is what you become.

We are the sons of Guru Gobind Singh jee, but fashion has separated us from

him. By living in the company of the Guru, in the holy congreagation or

Sadh-Sangat, we'll become like Guru jee, but it doesn't appeal to us because

worldly thoughts and fashions have conquored us so much so that we're not even

prepared to try and get used to going to the Sadh-Sangat.

Baba Kartar Singh jee of the village Bhindra, told a story about a lioness who

was shot dead by a farmer. Her young cub was taken and kept with farmer's

lambs. Lions and lambs have different diets?

People say to me ``we are Lion-Singhs, lions eat meat so why do you stop us?''

I say lions are animals, we are human we have different diets. Guru Gobind

Singh jee made us lions in spirit, so we would be couragous and brave.

?The farmer started feeding the cub milk like he fed the lambs. The cub

started becoming a lamb in his attitude. One day he was walking with the lambs

and was seen by a mighty lion. The lion was shocked to see a lion cub walking

with lambs. The lion leaped forward and the lambs ran away, the lion cub ran

too. What you eat and drink effects what you say and think. The lion grabbed

the cub and said ``Either come with me to the river, or I'll eat you like the

lambs.'' The cub went to the river, the lion told him to look at his

reflection. The lion cub was amazed, he roared and said with joy, ``I'm a

lion! I'm a lion!'' The mighty Lion told him those lambs are your food, not

your friends!

Khalsa jee, we are the cubs of the mightiest lion Guru Gobind Singh jee, but

mixing in the world we've sadly become like the world. We need the company of

Truth, or Sat Sangat. We need Sangat of Sat of truth. We watch TV and cinema

but it's all lies. People pretend to be husband and wife and when we watch it

we get effected by the lies. Guru Granth Sahib jee is full of Truth, Truth,

Truth. Keep the company of Truth not lies. Lies are nothing and have no

value, but the false TV has a great effect on us, whereas Guru Granth Sahib jee

is truth and we let it have no effect on us. God's Word has relatively no

effect on us compared to the effect of TV, video and cinema. TV effects the

clothes, bangles and fashions we follow. An actress cuts her hair and our

sisters and daughters cut their own hair. It doesn't look good for us to wear

earings and bangles, when Guru jee has given us the iron bangle, or Kara. Guru

Gobind Singh jee says that his Sikh is the one who lives according to his code

of conduct?`Rehnee Rah so-ee Sikh mera.'?infact that Sikh is the Master and

Guru jee says I am that one's disciple?'O Sahib ma os ka chera.''

The son of a rich man had no problem getting money. Some alcoholics thought

we'll make him our friend and get him to buy the drinks, that way it will be

his money that we'll be drinking, not ours. When someone is addicted to drugs

or alcohol then they'll do anything for their addition. They managed to get

the rich man's son to go drinking with them. His parents tried to get him to

stop but he wouldn't listen and eventually become addicted?

Look at the state of our sons in the USA and the UK. You came to the West to

earn money, not to waste it on alcohol. Spend money on schools teaching the

Guru's Wisdom, or GurMat, so that your sons and daughters learn the Truth, just

as Guru Gobind Singh jee wanted us to do 300 years ago. Look at our Sikh

martyrs, even being uneducated they didn't commit sins, but we are educated and

commit countless sins.

?The rich son's parents tried in vain to make him understand, Sants tried to

persuade him saying even Guru Granth Sahib jee gives us instructions against

drinking. But, the ones who have had their wisdom destroyed by alcohol won't

listen. All day long the rich man's son kept drinking, eating meat and doing

bad actions. God gave the Sikh a turban and beard and plenty of money, but he

wasted it all.

Whatever we do we do it for our children. Give your children the Guru's

Wisdom, or Gurmat. Don't spoil them with worldy attractions because when they

grow up without wisdom they'll be disrespectful of you and leave you. Then

you'll be crying that they turned to drink and caused you heartache.

The rich man's son got into a bad crowd, bad sangat. Our body was given to us

by God to meditate upon his Name.

The Gurmukh and Manmukh look the same, but the Gurmukh's face is towards the

Guru, wereas the Manmukh's face is towards the world. A crow and a nightingale

look similar as they are both black. However, there actions are different.

No-one likes the company of a crow, when someone talks too much, we say, ``Stop

crowing! Speak sweetly like a nightingale.'' Swans and cranes look similar

too, they are both white. But their actions are different. The swans are said

to eat pearls, wereas cranes tear the flesh. Once a crane was seen standing on

one leg. A passing saint was impressed with the crane, he thought, ``You look

like a great saint, dressed in white, performing penance on one leg and your

eyes are in meditation being half closed and half open.'' Just then it caught

a fish and tore apart the flesh, the saint despised it saying, ``I thought you

were God's beloved.''

The bad ones have made us forget our Guru-Father, Guru Gobind Singh jee.

People say Mai Bhago or Baba Deep Singh jee has appeared inside them - what?

Are they ghosts that possess people!!!! It's all man's worldly wisdom that

misleads us from the Guru's path.

Our hair is the Guru's seal. A Sikh stands out in thousands, no need to ask

who they are - they are the Khalsa! Yet, we have to ask Hindus and Muslims who

they are. If you took a &1000 note to a shop and asked for &100 of goods and

&900 change the shopkeeper would tear up the note and throw it away. It's a

fake it hasn't got the royal seal on it, its not approved by the Bank of

England. In the same way our long, uncut hair and turban is Guru Gobind Singh

jee's seal of approval on us.

People say to me that I'm too hard in my views. I say read Guru Granth Sahib

jee and you'll see I'm nothing in comparison to what our Guru's have told us to

do. They find me hard, but TV, clubs and pubs sweet!!

A cow without a tail loses three-quarters of its value. A Sikh woman without a

ponytail loses all her value. A mother came to me and asked me to bless her

two daughters as they were going to Canada. I saw they had cut hair and said,

``You shouldn't have asked me for that. How can I put my hand on the head

where a barber's destroyed the hair with his scissors?'' Then the girls

scarf's kept slipping they pulled it forward, it slipped again and again. How

can a building stand without foundations? A head scarf or turban can't stay

on the head if there is no hair to support it. Once you give mind, body and

soul to Guru jee then you can't take it back. You have to sell your mind to

Guru jee and do what Guru jee said. We just talk about we belong to the Guru,

but we have to do it in our actions.

A man said to me in Delhi, ``O Sant jee, what's the point of receiving amrit?

What's the point of getting up early at amrit-vela? What's the point of doing

seva-service? And what's the point of reading the God's words, Gurbanee?'' I

said, ``If you read Gurbanee, you'd hear Guru jee saying, ``What's the point of

people like you coming into this world!!''

``Manmukh janam gavai-a vich dinee-a kahe-atia??The ManMukh has wasted his

life, why did he come into the world?''

``Sikh ho-i sir topee Dhara, Sath janam khushtee ho-i mara?Being a Sikh and

wearing a hat, you'll be reborn seven times,'' says Guru Gobind Singh jee.

Mata Gujree said, `Son I want to have the sacred sight of your holy hair. I

haven't been blessed with a glimpse of your beautiful long hair since you were

a child.'' Guru Gobind Singh jee replied, ``You'll only be able to see them at

1am when they are washed and hanging over my shoulders to dry as I meditate.''?

Once, Bhai Nand Lal jee was blessed with the sacred sight of Guru Gobind Singh

jee's beautiful hair and he was in extreme bliss. Guru Gobind Singh jee asked

him how come he was so happy. He replied, `''Just seeing you is a great, a

great thing indeed, but to see your hair one must be truly blessed. Guru jee,

even if all the people in this world and the next world were placed on one side

of a scale, they still wouldn't be worth as much as one hair from your

beard.'' Long, uncut hair is the Guru's seal. Without the seal one is

worthless like the 1000 pound note.

A man bought a young pet lima. He took it for a walk. One friend after

another came asked him, ``Where are you taking that dog.'' He said, ``It's a

lima.'' They said, ``No way , its definitely a dog.'' After meeting the

fourth friend who told him the same thing, he thought four men can't be wrong,

so he let the lima go free to be another worthless stray dog. The world has

fooled us in such a way that we've forgotten the value of our beard and hair

and we've thrown it away thinking it was worthless.

A Kings's wife used to go dancing with prostitutes. When the King saw his

Queen dancing, she froze full of shame. People said, ``O look King, look what

your wife does, what kind of King are you?'' The King said, ``She isn't

mine.'' O Khalsa jee, we are the children of Guru Gobind Singh jee, our bad

actions will mean we have no place in Guru King, Guru Gobind Singh jee's true

court.

?Guru Gobind Singh jee had his morning bath 12:30am and washed his hair as

well. He said to Mata Gujree, ``You can see my hair while it dries as I'm

sitting in meditation on God's Name.'' Sant Isher Singh jee used to get up at

this time too. A Sant is the one who remembers God with every breath, saying

`Waheguru Waheguru' with every breath. One who gets up at 9am is not a Sant

even if he's called one.

Mata Gujree came at 1am and saw Guru Gobind Singh jee meditating with his hair

down covered loosely. She saw light radiating from his hair and the spirits of

the gods and goddesses going around him with utmost respect. Evertime you comb

your hair with the Kanga-comb, remember Guru Gobind Singh jee's Hair radiating

with spiritual light.

Khalsa jee look at man's wisdom. When he's enjoying life he forgets God the

one who's going to help him in his hard times.

A diseased man was discarded by his family and left under a tree by a roadside.

Some Sikhs were coming form Lahore to Goindwal to have the sacred vision of

True Guru Amar Das jee. The diseased man heard the Sikhs singing God's word,

or Gurbanee, and felt peace of mind. He asked that they take him with them to

see the True Guru. Sikhs are born to help others, they carried him to Goindwal.

People say, ``Sant jee our dad is old, he swears too much and we have to look

after him all the time because he is ill, he doesn't leave his body, can you

say a prayer!!!''

Sikhs are in this world to help the sick. The diseased man reached Guru Amar

Das jee. His body was rotting away, he bowed to the best of his ability. Guru

Amar Das jee asked, ``Who are you beloved one?'' He couldn't speak much, he

was feeling too ill. Guru jee asked again, ``Who are you beloved one?'' He

answered, ``Guru jee, save me, take hold of my arm, I have no one else in this

world.'' Guru jee was moved and asked, what his name was. He said, ``People

walk right by me, no one uses my name, I have no name. O Guru jee, be

merciful and save me.'' Guru Amar Das jee told the Sikhs, ``After I have my

morning bath, take the water that collects in the ditch underneath me and wash

this beloved one with it.'' The holy water was applied to the sick man's body

and he fully recovered, his body became beautiful. He spent the rest of his

life in the seva-service of Guru Amar Das jee.

Guru Gobind Singh jee said to Bhai Daya Singh jee, ``Ater receiving amrit, all

Sikhs will be respected with the title Sardar jee, or Lord.'' When most people

meet, they say ``Hello, how are you?'' to which they reply, ``O not too bad.''

However, when even a poor Sikh on the side of a road is asked ``How are

you?'', he will say, ``Guru dee kirpa?Guru's kindness is upon me.''

If you want to give me something give me Sikhs who've received amrit, or

amrit-dharees. I want to see the day when all of England's soil is populated

by these amrit-dharees.

This English language we keep speaking all the time is not as good as

Gurmukhee. GurMukhee is the beloved language of God, he could have written

God's Word in English, but he didn't. The day will come when all other

languages disappear.

A man asked what does, `` `Raj Karega Khalsa BAKHEE rahay no koi' mean?'' I

said ``its not BAKHEE its AKHEE.'' He said, ``I thought it meant the Khalsa

will rule and all other people will not remain.'' I said, ``AKHEE is the one

who looks lustfully at other women. The one who steals, who cheats, the one

without a Guru.'' The man said, ``O, so they won't remain when the Khalsa

rules. But how will I be able to recognise the Khalsa?'' I said, ``The Khalsa

is the one who loves other older women more then his own mother, who loves

another women of a similar age more than his own sister and who loves other

younger women more than his own daughter. The Khalsa doesn't kill poor people,

nor take away other people's rights.'' Then I asked him, ``Who would you like

the world to be ruled by?'' He said, ``Raj Karega Khalsa!?The Khalsa Will

Rule!''

O Khalsa jee, `the Khalsa will rule' remember these words. This time will

come. These are the words of Guru Gobind Singh jee, they are not empty words.

But, Waheguru doesn't desire us to have it yet, we'll only have rule when we

are Khalsa.''

O sangat of England- if you want to make Guru jee happy receive amrit.

Beloved ones of Guru jee I haven't got much time left tonight. Before I left

India, the congregation in Punjab asked me to stay with them. They said,

``However much money you'll raise in USA we'll raise it here for you.'' I said

to them, ``I don't need money, don't you want me to tell the world about

Sikhism?'' I'm no-one. When I was a child, Sant Isher Singh jee was going to

England. He said to me, ``Now ask for anything you want.'' I said, ``O Baba

jee, why don't you just tell me straight that you're not coming back?'' I

said, ``Baba jee, what shall I ask, by having you I have everything.'' The

holy saints who can unite us with Guru jee are far and few between.

He told me travel the world spreading Sikhism. I said, ``Baba jee, but who

knows me?'' He said, ``O the world is waiting for you, just like Punjab was

waiting for Banda Singh Bahadur.''

This servant's aim in life is to help 2,000,000 people to receive. People ask

me how long will I carry on. I say, ``I'm a dog that will carry on barking in

all parts of the world.''

``Hao kookar tera Darbar?I am a barking dog of your Court'' says Guru Granth

Sahib jee.

I request you Sangat jee, come into the Guru's prescence humbly if you want

anything. Baba Nand Singh jee spent his whole life respecting Guru Granth Sahib

jee. He saw Guru Granth Sahib jee as the living presence of Guru Nanak Dev jee.

Guru of Guru's is Guru Granth Sahib jee. Obey Guru Granth Sahib jee.

People say to me, ``On our way to work, a black cat walked in my way,'' or ``I

walked under a ladder,'' or ``someone sneezed so I cant go out'' and countless

other superstitions they have faith in. What is a dog or a cat that we get up

and have so much faith in them cursing us? Get up and have faith in Guru Granth

Sahib jee and see if your affairs aren't successful. If they aren't then come

with your shoes in your hand and punish me by hitting me in the back of the

head. If we believe in dogs and cats our works wont be successful. Get

attached to Guru Granth Sahib jee. People ask, ``Who will do my work if I get

attached to the Guru?'' Don't they know that when you mediate on god's Name,

then Guru Nanak Dev jee will do your work! Then if our family and business

succeeds or doesn't then that's in the hand of the Guru not us.

Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh !

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