After putting the pandits of Gaya on the true path of recitation of the Lord's name with love, Guru Ji departed. The discourse that the handsome Guru Nanak Dev Ji gave to the pandits and awakened their inner mind is given in the preceding story. Many people awakened their inner mind by reading the same.
From Gaya, he came to Budh Gaya. Here, he stayed on the outskirts of the town. Mardana Ji sang the divine songs and Guru Ji got immersed in the love of the Lord. The Mahant of Budh Gaya got attracted by the singing of the Divine hymns. His name was Dev Gir.
Dev Gir was the Mahant of the Buddha temple, but he was almost a recluse.
When the Hindus finished the Buddhist religion in India, then, they occupied this Budh temple. Here, Gautam Buddha meditated. He got enlightenment.
Most Hindus were against Buddhism, but still they considered him as a prophet. That is why they occupied this Temple.
Mahant Dev Gir was the Head Mahant of all the small temples and was a renowned person. But he was in search of true happiness, although he was quite learned. The knowledge had given a feeling of pride to his mind and he believed in renunciation. But while deviating his mind from sentiment to renunciation, he lost the softness. Like, when a branch of a tree gets dried up, it becomes absolutely hard and there is no flexibility left. This flexibility does not remain in it because there is no life in it. In a living branch, there is strength and flexibility, both. When Guru Nanak Dev Ji made Dev Gir understand this crux, then his consciousness got an awakening and he went into ecstasy.
Guru Ji told him that attachment is love. Attachment to bad deeds is bad. Attachment to perishable things is bad. We should love the Lord, who will live forever. We should love to do goodness. That will make a person pious.
The Lord is all sacredness. Love of the Lord makes our mind pure. The Lord is all bliss. He is always happy. When we love him, then, we shall also remain happy. It cannot give despair. You consider the world as bad and you want to renounce it. When you love the Lord, you get above the world automatically. The world is renounced. We are not just the mind that only thinks. We have the sensation of love in us also.
The way you have renounced the world, you have almost killed your mind. Now, no attachment can bend your mind. It has become inflexible like the broken dry branch of a tree. There is no flexibility and strength in your mind. Your mind is in disappointment without life, like the broken, dried branch of a tree. Your mind is not like the living branch of a tree, strong and flexible. It was a new knowledge for Dev Gir. It was mind awakening. He had the mistaken belief that renouncing the world by killing the mind was the only ascetic practice to follow.
Then, he asked Guru Ji: If, we do not have to kill the mind and not to kill the senses, then what have we to do?
Guru Ji, then, made him understand that the senses have to be stopped from doing evil. The mind should not think of evil. We have to do goodness and not do evil. We should not kill the sentiment of love. We have only to deviate it towards the Lord. We have to love the Lord. We have to love Him by reciting His name, by meditating on His name silently, by singing His hymns and praises, by praying to Him and by thanking Him.
In this way, the mind will become crystal. The intellectual mind will also become intuitive and strong. We have to control the senses with this strong intuitive mind. We have not to kill the sentiment of love that is in us. Only, we have to change its direction towards the Lord.
When we have realized that the Lord is the all Supreme Creator, then, He is our support now.
When our mind is in recitation of the Lord's name or attached to the Lord or feels the Lord as our support and this recitation or attachment or feeling of support becomes constant or incessant, then, the Lord will live with us and we will live with the Lord.
Then, our soul will be awakened and we will have eternal happiness.
In this way, our mind will remain immersed in the Lord's love and it will be awakened. This is the crystal consciousness or the crystal soul in our body.
And this process starts with the recitation of the Lord's name with love or in other words remembrance of the Lord with love. Then, this recitation has to be in a relaxed way. One need not do any Hath Yoga but the mind has to be reined by having faith in the Lord and support from His name.
After this discourse, Guru Ji's eyes closed and he asked Mardana Ji to sing a divine song. Dev Gir got inner sensation. The Lord's name settled in his mind.
He started remembering the Lord incessantly.
Earlier, he thought he was quite knowledgeable but despite his knowledge, he was in the forgetfulness of the Lord. When he gave discourses, then he talked about the Lord. But now, the Lord's name settled in his mind and it gave ecstasy to him. The mind that was wandering became tranquil.
Dev Gir got so much love for Guru Ji that he made him stay there for many days.
Guru Ji's godly touch, the sacredness and immersion in the love of the Lord had a magical effect on Dev Gir. His soul was awakened. He got life from lifeless-ness.
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