Prema Bhakti as taught by Baba Nand Singh Ji

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Prema Bhakti

Types of Bhagats

One is Maryada Bhagat

One is Prem Bhagat

And one like Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj, is he who, having merged with the Lord through Prema Bhagti becomes Maryada Himself. Having struck the climax of spiritual glory through Prema Bhagti, one starts blazing like a spiritual sun, a Sun of Maryada himself.

Baba Harnam Singh Ji Maharaj

Baba Nand Singh Ji's intense divine love of Sri Guru Nanak Sahib and Sri Guru Granth Sahib from His very infancy, acquired the eternal glow of a unique Maryada of adoration, love, devotion, worship and total surrender at the lotus feet of Sri Guru Granth Sahib. From this unique Maryada radiates the flavour and fragrance of Prema Bhagti of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj. One starts basking in the grace of Mahan Babaji and the Supreme Lord Guru Nanak.

Holy Maryada fashioned and designed by Mahan Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj is no empty ritual. It transports one into the living presence of Sri Guru Nanak Sahib. Every moment, every breath spent in the service, adoration, devotion and worship of Sri Guru Granth Sahib is most rewarding. My humble experience is that the blessed time so spent does not remain unresponded and unacknowledged for long by our beloved Lord Guru Nanak.

Tyag De Badley Prem Milda Hai

Prem De Naal Sachi Bhagti Shuroo Hundi Hai

Baba Narinder Singh Ji

Renunciation and tyag attracts the blessing of divine love and with divine love commences the true and real Bhagti.

Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj once explained that there are nine types of bhakti such as hearing the glories of the divine, singing His glories (Kirtan), sewa (service), Nam Simran and so on, but every type of bhakti blossoms to perfection only if done and performed with total love. Without true Prema Bhagti, without intense devotion and yearning, it is difficult to attain God.

Immaculate Purity

With minds purified in the holy presence of this Ocean of purity, Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj, automatic transmission of divine love of the most lovable Sri Guru Granth Sahib, the living Sri Guru Nanak sahib was another common universal experience.

xternal and internal purity was immaculately observed in the service, adoration and worship of Holy Sri Guru Granth Sahib. As Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj was Himself Truth and purity Incarnate, He stressed and insisted upon meticulous observance of these divine virtues and permitted no deviation.

His unique Maryada, tradition and culture breathes in and breathes out purity. No worldliness or impurity dare enter His dwelling place.

As Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj was a mass of purity, thousands of devotees attending congregations in His holy presence felt as if they had taken a dip in this Ocean of purity. Minds would be cleansed of all accumulated impurities of past sins and Karmas in His holy presence.

From this Ocean of purity which Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj was and is, beams out to the whole world all the blessings and bliss of Sri Guru Granth Sahib.

There was no trace of ego, worldliness or materialism in His dwelling places. Purity was the keynote, main-stay, life-force in His congregations.

The very name of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj is a symbol of love and purity. His holy and pure name blooms large on the spiritual horizon like the full moon on the day of poornima.

With a pure heart, one can feel the intoxication of divine love in which the whole life and Maryada of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj vibrates in the real soul enchanting luminous form of Sri Guru Granth Sahib.

With minds purified in the holy presence of this Ocean of purity, Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj, automatic transmission of divine love of the most lovable Sri Guru Granth Sahib, the living Sri Guru Nanak sahib was another common universal experience. Pure love of Sri Guru Granth Sahib was the unique holy transmission to all alike from this great Divine Source, Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj.

This wonderful Maryada, practical and intense worship of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, sprang from the depths of His very soul based on His personal and direct experiences with Sri Guru Granth Sahib.

His Maryada was highly disciplined as it was cast and moulded in pure labour of love.

Pioneer and founder of this unique Maryada, culture, way of worship is no other Divinity than the Almighty Sage of Kaleran, now internationally known as Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj. What a unique introduction and presentation of Sri Guru Granth Sahib to mankind as living Sri Guru Nanak Sahib. He blessed congregations to experience the holy presence of Sri Guru Nanak Sahib face to face.

Dargahi Ticket

In the possession of this unique Parshad, Divine Ticket, thousands of His disciples including Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims migrated from far off places to the other side during partition of 1947 but not even a single one of them suffered even a slightest bruise

ivinely commissioned and appointed by His great Master to spread the gospel of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, He set out to scatter that unique flavour far and wide, the like of which has not been seen so far, and is far beyond the limits of human endeavour.

He unfolded the Supreme grandeur of Sri Guru Granth Sahib splendidly and glorified the eternal Sri Guru Granth Sahib as the living Guru Nanak magnificently. Blessing of Sri Guru Granth Sahib was supreme and He advised everyone to invoke that blessing by completing one path of Sri Guru Granth Sahib in a month in the following manner:

Complete recitation of the whole of Sri Guru Granth Sahib in a month.

Complete 50 paths of Sri Sukhmani Sahib in a month; recite 2 paths of Sri Sukhmani Sahib daily.

Complete 250 paths of Jap Ji Sahib in a month; recite 10 paths of Jap Ji Sahib daily.

Complete 180 Malas (Rosary Mala of 108 beads) of Mool Mantra (from Ekonkar to Nanak Hosi Bhi Such) in a month; do six malas daily.

Complete 80 Malas daily of Gur Mantar 'Waheguru'; 20 Malas of Waheguru if the Nam is recited four times on each bead.

Complete 160 Malas daily of Ram (Nam); 40 Malas if Ram is recited four times on each bead

A Mohammedan was advised to practice and recite the name of Allah on each bead as above.

Hundreds of crores of Sri Guru Granth Sahib's paths were thus distributed as the most blessed Parshad to millions of devotees in His life time and are continuing uninterrupted since then.

He, thus, brought the supreme blessing of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, the living Sri Guru Nanak Sahib within easy comprehension, reach and grasp of everyone, educated, uneducated, lettered, unlettered, literate, illiterate and simple village folks. Every one recited Amrit Nam and sang the glory of Sri Guru Nanak Sahib in this simple and easy way.

That was the grand purpose behind His holy advent. Uniqueness and greatness of the Eternal Glory of Sri Guru Granth Sahib was unveiled in its totality. The precious treasure of Lord's Name was thrown open to all. It was so simple, easily understandable within the grasp and practice of simple village folk. He freely distributed this Dargahi ticket destined for Sach Khand.

Though He physically disappeared in August 1943 from this earthly scene, He perennially flows as Eternal presence in this very Dargahi Ticket given as Prashad by Him. Lakhs of refugees from either side during the partition of 1947 experienced the miraculous power of this Dargahi ticket, Dargahi Name with the Eternal presence of the Saviour Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj, and were saved. Such was the unique power of Nam He distributed.

In possession of this unique Prashad, Divine Ticket, they passed through the most dreaded naked dance of death, but not a single person blessed with this celestial ticket could be injured or harmed or died an unnatural death.

All Glory to Mahan Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj.

Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj thus blessed millions with unique Prashad of the Lord. Unique Prashad of redeeming Gur Mantar, Mul Mantar, Japji, Sukhmani Sahib, Ram Nam and in addition the paths of Bhagwat Gita and Holy Quran Sharif were distributed as Parshad to Hindus and Muslims in same congregations.

Nam was not the privilege of a selected few. It was open to all It was distributed freely to everyone without any consideration of caste, religion and creed.

By thus propagating the Gospel of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, Lakhs of illiterate, simple and plain-hearted villagers were able to feel and experience the spiritual satisfaction of attaining the Grace of Sri Guru Granth Sahib. Babaji had thus brought lofty ideals of personal service and worship of Sri Guru Granth Sahib and resultant spiritual attainment within the immediate reach and grasp of millions of completely illiterate folk. Only those who practice, know how wonderful and rewarding this spiritual Sadhana is!