Episode 6

We are not living: We are existing out of our ego

We are not living: We are existing out of our ego

Professor Puran Singh, a saintly pure and highly evolved, celebrated soul, he wrote to his friend this small note, on March 3rd, 1928.

My dear Ranvir Singh

Your postcard I received. Did you not get my letter from Patiala? I did write to you one from there. I hope to be at Lyallpur in a day, on 13th of March. You might enquire from Sardar Sampuran Singh, with whom I'll be staying, it will be such a joy to meet you.

And then he writes:

Be happy like a flower, dancing on the stem

Be happy like a flower, dancing on it's stem

Be overjoyed like a bird, on the branch of a tree

Be deep, like the passing away of all things

Be joyous, as the coming of new spring with life full of flowers

Glory reigns everywhere and God is the most beautiful presence

To live in human life is such a glorious opportunity, to dwell with God

Professor Puran Singh

He said be happy like a flower, dancing on it's stem or be overjoyed like a bird, on the branch of a tree.

What would we understand what he is talking about. He says be happy like a flower, on the stem. We don't know. To us, flower is not something like us, who becomes happy or sad or angry or anything. No. We don't know him. We can't feel how the flowers feel. What would we understand by these statements of Professor Puran Singh, when he writes to his friend? Be happy like a flower on it's stem. Be overjoyed on the branch of a tree.

As long as we are in the minds, and the whole world around us is living out of their minds, what minds would guess? Even guess? Let alone feel. What minds can guess how does a flower feel on a stem? On it's stem? How does a bird feel sitting on the branch of a tree? 

We are surrounded by minds – where we never live. We remain in thoughts. Engrossed in thoughts, worries, illusions, misery, fears; all that.

We are somewhere else in the mind and the life is somewhere else. We remain somewhere else, while the life remains somewhere else, we never meet life. We never get to know what life is. And the whole world is believing that they are living, they are not living, they are existing out of their ego. 

Humility. Humility is the one which lets somebody's words enter into us. Humility. Ego, never. Ego would remain on the defensive. Ego remains the same. Same habits, same life, same. But this opportunity is so beautiful. Every statement about the truth, about our true nature, can only be heard, can only enter into us through the gate of humility and love. And that gate is heart; gate of the heart.

The game of waking up and remaining awake, is the hardest thing to do. Only the blessed ones who are humble enough, who are loving enough, they are made to experience what life is.

If you don't meditate now, if you don't wake up now, then when are you going to wake up? Never. It's either now, or never. It's either now or never. Only those who are humble enough, and longing intensely enough to wake up and to live out of our true self, only they are blessed with this. 

This sign, should always remain before us, should follow us. That I am not happy, I am not content, I am empty, I am only full of desires, and I don't know who I am. Then we would feel pain within.

This letter from Toronto, in which the writer, writes that:

‘‘Oh my Beloved, whom can I narrate the state of my insides? Empty. Unhappy. Sad. Please come and meet me and the path of life without You, is the path of emptiness.’’ 

How to meet our being, how to meet the Divine, and how to merge with God. If we are really thirsty, if we recognise the pain within, which is buried under illusions; only then this would...

The sacred name of God is nectar, which liberates us from our ego, from our false self and makes us experience that our true self, our innate nature, is deep bliss. Sukhmani. Sukhmani. The name of God. 

Oh my Beloved, the Creator, except You, whom can I tell my plight? Only You know it. Have mercy and come and meet me. Please come and bless me with the sacred name, so that becomes the vehicle, that becomes my guide to take me to You. Come and write in my fate that I will keep Your name with me; to reach You.

His devotees will keep His Name with them. They become the embodiment of peace. We and Him are one. Let's beg Him. Please make me feel, let me feel the truth that You and me are one. 

Today I was talking to Your creation, oh my Beloved, and I felt that it was just You. Somewhere, You are hiding behind a tree. Somewhere, You are hiding behind a bird. Somewhere, You are hiding behind humans. 

But those were Your veils, I felt; I felt Your presence, then all of a sudden You disappeared--I stopped feeling You and I asked You why? Why I don't feel You now? And You said, because you are looking at My veil. You are looking at some human body, which was My veil. The moment you started looking at the body, the veil, I disappeared. If you want to behold Me, you have to go beyond what is the scene.

When I was looking at some person, You disappeared. I asked You humbly and You said: You started looking the body. You started looking the flower. I'm not the flower, I'm the fragrance in it. I'm the fragrance in it.

Oh my Beloved! I forgot again. I forgot again. I again started looking at the bodies. I am folding my hands with utter humility and begging You again and again, please forgive me and don't hide from me.

This letter from Melbourne, Australia. The writer says, that I have a four year old child and as children do at this age, he talks a lot and many times I used to become frustrated and angry with him and since you have asked us to listen or talk to anybody while staying at the heart, now I remain so peaceful, when I remain at heart while talking to him or listening to him, and my insides remain so happy.

Practising. Practising staying away from the mind and staying with our soul. Practising that. When we talk and listen to others while staying at the heart area, we are away from the mind. Mind is at the forehead, inside the forehead.

And every day please, report to the HKL Head Office. That report, you would see that it changes us ten times faster.