 The Way is the Self  |
Excerpts, November 11, 2001
In the realms of consciousness in which we are born, growth is inevitable. It’s conscious living. Living in refinement, living in consciousness, living in that grace where we find ourselves realistic. That is an enjoyable period of life. There’s no separation in it. It is an infinite, universal merger in which we exist.
This is the situation we can create through meditation. In meditation, our mind seeks the direction of infinity. Our worldly living comes to the reality of here and now. It doesn’t go beyond time and space.
Sometimes we get very insecure. So we start holding things: Money, properties, even clothes. That is where Guru said you have come here to enjoy, to relax, to be gracious and find your fineness, your sophistication in yourself. You must tune your mind into that realism, the realism we live in.
Around the world a very serious situation is developing now. It is time for it. We will only survive with the best-trained minds. Our own mind has to be trained for our self. “Jinee Nam Diaia, Gayaa Masakat Ghal” That which is said is going to work as true. “Masakat” is hard work, “Jinee Nam Diaia”, those who have meditated on the identity of the self, within the self of the Infinity of God, and have done this hard work, “Nanak te mukh ujile, kaytee chutee nal.” They are bright and beautiful, they are free in the world.
This is that time. You’ve got to make efforts. The way is the self: the purity, the piety, the blessing and the grace of the self, which guarantees our smoothness, our relationship, and our love for each other. It is that love we need. Not politics, not throwing mud at each other, not being different. We have to cut out that indifference and be united. In the unison we’ll find peace, tranquility, prosperity and love of life. Wahe Guru Ji Ka Khalsa Wahe Guru ji ki Fateh.