Wonder! It is wondrous. Where has the black dark night gone? From where has this white light come? Ah ha! It is rapturous. O! What is this reddish tinge from the east? O! Who has made this blue top golden? What sweet and wondrous scenery? Ah ha! It is ecstatic.
See the round glittering disc of radiance coming out of the gap between the earth and sky. What a wonderful glimpse of color, radiance, intoxication, fountain of beauty, spring of happiness. Ah ha! It is wondrous beyond words.
How the luster of the disc increased? Is it a ball of melted gold or a dazzle of light? The wondrousness increased. It is a rare, extraordinary bloom, so rapturous. It is radiance and a flash. Ah ha! It is ecstatic beyond limit.
Rays emanated from the bright, glorious, hot, handsome, lustrous dazzle. Wonder crossed all limits. The rays spread. The sparkling rays spread far and wide. The earth, the sky, the entire cosmos became full of radiance.
See, with what serenity, like the graceful gait of an elephant and full of brilliance, radiance, glitter, luster and splendor, with an intoxicated and coquettish style, the crimson disc is sliding up. From wonder it has become rapture. Ah ha! It is absolute ecstatic joy.
Is it a sight or pure rapture? Yes. How wonderful, when you get a glimpse of wonder, it puts your mind in rapture.
See, when Bhai Gurdas Ji got a glimpse of wonder, he became intoxicated and exhilarated. He became absorbed and engrossed. He said thus: "Having got the glimpse of my beloved, my mind stopped thinking, my intuitive mind stopped thinking, my Super consciousness stopped feeling, my head stopped feeling, my heart stopped feeling, my ego vanished and my breath stopped
moving. I got fully absorbed in the Lord's name." It is wondrous, exotic, rapturously beyond imagination. This feeling of Bhai Gurdas Ji is very high. What he has said regarding rapture is his feeling of the glimpse of the Lord.
One glimpse of the Lord can immerse you in deep rapture and ecstasy. This is the description of rapture and ecstasy.
If somebody asks: The sun rises everyday, what is wondrous about it?
Well, gentleman, if you had been born and lived in a dark room up to your young age, then if we had asked you to come and stand with your face towards the east, then with a glimpse of the sun, if you had not gone into rapture, then we would have asked you.
Or, you ask the first person who was born on earth as to what sensational effect, the sunrise had on him.
Now man has become clever. He has gained knowledge. He has become used to. The starry night sky has no wondrous sensation on his mind. The moonlit night does not give him any sensation of wonder. The rising of the sun has no rapturous effect on him. The flash of lightning has no wondrous effect on him. The fire does not give him a feeling of wonder. The water streams, the rivers, the sea do not give him a feeling of wonder.
Why? Man has become clever. He has gained knowledge. He wants to know the cause of everything. He gives a name to all the things that give rapture and tries to gain some knowledge about them. As such, he gets away from the rapturous effect of anything. Yes, man has become shrewd but the shrewdness has killed his sense of 'Love for the Lord'. His shrewdness has deprived him of going into ecstasy.
Because, it is a principle: When shrewdness comes, rapture goes. When wonder comes, rapture follows like a flood.
Man has lost getting into rapture. Has man really known something? You ask the wise men of the world, how the fire lights? Why the fire burns? What is electricity? Why does it give a current? Nobody will be able to tell.
Man is still ignorant. Whatever knowledge he has gained has still kept him ignorant.
Up till now, he has not known the Supreme Power behind these phenomenon. He has gained some knowledge and has made discoveries in nature but while solving the riddles in nature, he has deprived himself from ecstasy.
It can be said, that in this way, man has been pushed out of the Garden of Eden. He has turned his back to the heavens.
How can the wondrous scenes of nature get him into rapture when he is caught in thinking day and night? We see the wondrous scenes of nature everyday but we do not go into rapture.
But see the angel Guru Nanak Dev Ji who is always a support for the weak, who is a king of the kingdom of hearts, feels the rapture in the wondrous scenes of nature and makes us feel the same.
He says: Music is rapturous. Scriptures are rapturous. Life is rapturous.
Humans, animals, vegetation is rapturous. Beauty is rapturous.
Colors are rapturous. Seeing the animals moving naked is rapturous.
Air and water are rapturous. Fire is rapturous. Earth is rapturous.
Mineral resources are rapturous.
Seeing people entangled in desires, one feels rapture.
Seeing people being born and dying, one feels rapture.
Seeing the hunger and the charm of senses, one feels rapture.
The Lord's praise and hymns are rapturous.
Seeing some on true path and some on wrong path, one feels rapture.
Some seeing Him near, some seeing Him far, is rapturous.
Seeing the wonders, I go into rapture.
Seeing the Omnipresent everywhere is rapturous.
To have this wondrous feeling is to be lucky.
See how the great Guru Nanak Dev Ji sees the wondrous nature and goes into ecstasy. He says: It is blessedness to see the wondrous scenes of nature and go into rapture.
The mind that goes into rapture on seeing the wondrous scenes in nature is free from the fears and desires of the world. He is a blessed person who has felt rapture in beauty and nature.
The soul in the body has some secret connection with the hidden beauty in the wondrous scenes of nature. The moment one sees something wonderful has a rapturous effect. The rapture binds you to your inner self.
The moment the binding comes, the mind gets detached from the world. The detached mind is then ready to jump into the lap of the Lord or say it has jumped.
This is the devotion and meditation for which the entire ascetic community has spent years and years. Although they gained knowledge but they remained in mistaken beliefs. They adopted different ascetic disciplines but they could not see the inner self. Seeing the inner self was a sensation of rapture and not knowledge.
The knowledge takes you into needs and desires and one gets into greed and feels happy to grab. Now even if there is a thing of beauty, one does not feel the rapture, the habit of greed wants you to grab the thing. The desires want you to acquire the thing. The feeling of rapture, even if it comes, vanishes in the air. Man has become clever and he never feels the rapture when he sees a wonder. His knowledge does not let him go into rapture. The desires hold him back.
O, What a beautiful hillock. Is it a hillock or a raised ground? The rains are over. The green grass is shining like velvet. In between are plants and flowers of various kinds.
Above, the sky has removed its veil. The night has brought millions of stars. The moon is shining. It is cool, quiet and peaceful. The moon and the stars became dim. From the east came loving rays of light. From the west came a cold breeze. This place being higher from all sides, one could have a wondrous view. On the distant high mountain, a golden lace became visible.
See, how from the east, with a warm glow, with what majesty, what splendor, what glitter, the sun is coming. The entire vegetation was eagerly looking forward to its coming and is looking beautiful.
At this time, to have a glimpse of the splendor, not only the birds and animals are waiting, but also one pious man of good age, who has crossed, both the childhood and young times, is also waiting. His face is now sagging. His complexion has gone down. His body has become a bit weak. The bloom that was on the face in young age is there, but not that much.
Well, beauty is not the privilege of the body only. It is a mirror of the soul. It is a fairy from the heavens.
Although he has become old but still he is handsome. When he opens his eyes and looks towards you, his eyes shine and there is a glow on his face.
Why not? He has not entangled his soul in the worldly desires. He has been living on this hillock all his life, doing ascetic practices and has kept his mind away from worldly desires and sinful deeds. This handsome man came here with a hope that he should renounce the world and undergo the hardships of fasts and other yoga practices undisturbed, so that the Lord has mercy on seeing him undergoing penances and meet him.
He had kept goats, which were eating grass the whole day and used to give him milk morning and evening. This was the food of the pious man and sometimes this was the water.
A pious man who has spent all his life in ascetic practices and penances and who is eagerly waiting to meet the Lord, how could the glow go away from him?
Today, he is sad. The rising of the sun has decreased the sadness but even then, sometimes, tears start flowing from his eyes. He heaved a sigh and said to his mind: O Lord, it is your will. It is your will.
Then he sat down with his back towards the sun, because the sun had become bright and the eyes could not stand the dazzle. His back felt warmth and the eyes felt sleepy. He went to sleep.
On this hillock, sometimes, one young hill girl used to come for grazing her goats and used to say hello to the pious man.
Today, in the morning only, the girl came and started singing:
"Nobody knows about life, Nobody knows about life,
Another breath may come or may not come. "
The pious man woke up, heaved a sigh, and said to his mind: This young girl has no trust in life. How can I trust this life when I am much older than she is? But what else can I do? I have remained away from sin all my life. I have been doing ascetic practices day and night. I was doing penances to keep my mind away from worldly desires. I did not go after the sinful charm of the senses. What to talk of doing evil to any one, I did not even talk to any one. But still I have no satisfaction in me. I do not know whether I am happy and free from anxiety and at peace. I have not met the Lord.
My spiritual teacher had said: This is the path. Follow it.
I have been following whatever he said but I do not know whether I am on the correct path. Whether this is the result and I have to keep on this path or I have to do something else. My mentor has put me on this path and he has not come again and now years have passed by. Whom should I ask whether I am on the right path to reach the Lord?
In the meantime the girl sat down on a stone at a little distance and sang a divine song. The pious man, after listening to the sweet and rapturous divine song, got up and went near where the girl was sitting.
The modest but fearless girl got up, bowed her head and said: O, pious man, can you give me your dirty clothes for washing? I shall do the washing for you.
Pious man: O, Child. You live long. The Lord will fulfill your wishes. May the Lord bless you His love. My clothes are all right. But you tell me, whose couplet is this?
Girl: O, respected pious man, this is not a couplet. It is a divine song. These are the words of Guru Ji.
Pious man: O Child, which Guru Ji? Girl: My own Guru Ji.
Pious man: Your own Guru Ji? Is Guru Ji your own? Who is he?
Girl: Guru Nanak Dev Ji, who has come from the heavens.
The pious man felt a sensation. His body became still. Tears flowed from his eyes. He was quiet for a long time. Then he said: O Child, have you met Guru Nanak Dev Ji?
Girl: Yes. A long time back, our entire family went to the river Ganga and met him. Since then, all of us, elders and youngsters, are living in happiness and joy.
Pious man: O Child, what do you do?
Girl: I do not know. We remember Guru Ji. We feel as if Guru Ji is with us always and we are in rapture.
Pious man to himself (after heaving a sigh): O rapture, what is rapture? My whole life is gone. I have seen people being born and dying, but I have never known rapture.
Pious man to girl: O girl, you also give me some of the rapture.
Girl: You are a pious man. The whole day you are remembering the Lord. You must be having more rapture. Actually, you should give me the rapture.
Pious man [hesitatingly]: Can you narrate something about Guru Nanak Dev Ji? Girl: Have you not met him?
Pious man: I have heard the name from you only sometimes. If I had met, then why would I ask?
Girl [in simplicity]: O pious man. If you have not met Guru Nanak Dev Ji, then how have you met the Lord? I thought, the whole day you are meditating, Guru Ji has blessed you. You keep on sitting in the forest. Maybe you are immersed in the love of Guru Nanak Dev Ji and living in ecstasy. O pious man, I consider you good, thinking that you are in love of Guru Nanak Dev Ji.
Pious man [laughingly, after heaving a sigh]: Maybe, I belong to Guru Nanak Dev Ji. You already belong to Guru Nanak Dev Ji. I have yet to belong to him. O child, do narrate something about Guru Nanak Dev Ji.
Girl: He is very sweet. He loves everybody. He gives some rapture, after which one falls in the love of the Lord.
After meeting him, one feels as if one has woken up from a slumber.
Rous man: Is he very loveable?
Girl: Very much.
Pious man: Is he very handsome?
Girl: More handsome than the rising sun and very cool.
Pious man: Well, what happens after death?
Girl: What do I know?
Pious man: Are you not afraid of death?
Girl: Since we have met Guru Ji, we are no more afraid of death.
Pious man: Why?
Girl: I do not know.
Pious man: What practice do you do?
Girl: What is practice?
Pious man: Some rituals, some penances, some fasts.
Girl: O pious man, I do not understand these things. For me, since I have met Guru Ji, I remain in rapture and the rapture is a grace of Guru Ji. I do not know anything else. Guru Ji is so sweet. I feel he is so near. Sometimes he is walking ahead of me, sometimes he is following me and sometimes he sings, sometimes he listens. I remember two or three divine songs of Guru Ji. When he says, "I want to listen", then I sing those. When I am sad, then Guru Ji sings a song for me.
O pious man, Guru Ji is not flesh and blood, he can come through the walls, sits on the clouds, lies down on the sun ball. He is like a flash. He comes in sleep. If you close your eyes, he is in your heart. I wonder, who he is? Maybe he is the Lord. But he is not like you and me. See now, how he is walking on the waters of the river Satluj.
Pious man: Really? Is he swimming?
Girl: "No man, not swimming, he is walking and coming. Now see, he is moving high up in the breeze. I do not know. Ever since I met him, he is always in front of my eyes. But today is somewhat different. See, how much fragrance is coming in the breeze? The clouds are showering sandal drops. Have your body cells not become fragrant? Inside me, is a fragrance coming out. See, the true Guru Nanak Dev Ji has come and sat on a diamond throne on the golden clouds. See, Mardana Ji is singing a divine song. Please do not talk now. Let me listen".
The girl said all this and then looked towards the golden clouds and her eyes stopped blinking. Her face became radiant and she started listening to the divine song. The girl is in ecstasy listening to the divine song and the pious man is wondrous in seeing her shining face full of glow and tranquility.
"O, Lord, shame to my wisdom and knowledge. I admire her simplicity. What a love and what devotion she has? She has met Guru Ji only once and she has Guru Ji in her heart now. She has no ego or pride that she is a saint or that she is so much full of devotion. O Lord. Give me back my years gone, so that I start afresh and remain simple like this simple girl. I should keep my wisdom, fears and worries away. I should live in devotion and faith. Why, I ran after wisdom? How can I do away with wisdom? I would have got my beloved in my young age. Who should tell me, how to leave this wisdom and pride?"
The pious man repented on the time gone past that he could not get back. He closed his eyes and went to sleep. After some time his eyes opened.
The girl was not there but one wondrous handsome figure was sitting on the same big stone. His eyes were closed but his face was like a dazzle of a thousand cool suns. He was 'all beautiful' or beauty itself had come to earth and spread itself.
Seeing the person had a lightning effect on the pious man. He felt a magnetic pull. It was the first day after many years of meditation and ascetic practices that he felt a pull.
Seeing the wondrous face, at the first glimpse he went into rapture and at the second glimpse he felt as if his young age with all its fervor had come back and his heart became full of exuberance. He felt a pull and a sensation.
He felt as if somebody is hammering his heart with waves of love. He got into rapture and ecstasy.
Buddhan Shah, now, had love in his eyes, a rapture in his head. Sometimes, he opened his eyes and looked at the wondrous handsome face. Then his eyes closed with rapture. Again he made an effort, opened his eyes to look at the wondrous handsome face and again his eyes closed.
O Buddhan Shah, you are lucky that you got this glimpse. Congratulations to you that before your end you have got the gift of the love nectar. Quite a long time passed like this. He opened his eyes again, and looked around, and saw another person sitting close by. The person had the rebeck in his lap and was looking towards Buddhan Shah.
Buddhan Shah went near and bowed and said: What is the good name of the person sitting on the big stone?
Companion: He is Guru Nanak Dev Ji.
Was it a name or magic? Listening to the name had a magical effect on Buddhan Shah. The moment the name went into his ears, he fell at Guru Nanak Dev Ji's feet and said: Your Holiness, bless me.
The miraculous Guru Ji now opened his eyes and with a loving glance looked towards Buddhan Shah. Guru Ji's closed eyes had given a magical pull to Buddhan Shah, but the opening of Guru Ji's eyes gave a sensation that pierced his heart and body. When Guru Ji's eyes met Buddhan Shah's eyes, he got the love sensation in his entire body and again fell at Guru Ji's feet
In his mind, he felt a real detachment from worldly desires.
Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the light of the world, the fountain of love, the ocean of mercy, lifted his head and put it on his chest and loved him, as if loving a child.
The old Buddhan Shah was born in Guru Ji's love today. He was enjoying in Guru Ji's cradle of love. He had drunk the love nectar from Guru Nanak Dev Ji for the first time today. Although he was doing ascetic practices but he was lifeless till now. He had no real life in him.
The real life is: When the Lord is living in your heart.
Guru Nanak Dev Ji gave him the love spark and the life spark. Guru Ji gave the life spark to the pious man, who was so far, doing austerities and penances and other hard ascetic practices.
Buddhan Shah today realized that whatever ascetic practices he was doing were not bad, but after all the penances of this type of meditation his heart remained like stone, his mind remained full of ego, and all the time, he remained in despair.
Today, when Guru Nanak Dev Ji's love spark and life spark went inside his body, his mind got awaken-ness. His heart became soft. With the sensation of love, his mind had a glimpse of the Lord. With the life spark, the Lord's name entered his body cells and he went into ecstasy.
When the girl had once said, "I feel as if I have woken up from a slumber", Buddhan Shah did not understand.
Now, when the true Guru Ji gave him a life spark and made him a saint from man, from manly living to a spiritual living, he felt, as if he has woken up from a slumber that he was in, since birth. Despair vanished. Fear of death vanished. His eyes gleamed. His body is light like a flower. His mind is happy,
in peace and in high spirits. Wherever he looks, he sees beauty and rapture. O, lucky Buddhan Shah you have been blessed.
The true Guru Ji, Guru Nanak Dev Ji with love said: Recite the Lord's name. Now you have name even in your body cells, which has the life sensation and the love sensation. You are a saint now. Remain in this rapture.
Buddhan Shah got so much immersed in the Lord's name that he remained in deep meditation for an hour.
The true Guru Ji, now, woke him up from his meditation. The true Guru Ji is now ready to go, but the pious man feels the pangs of separation.
He fell at the feet of the true Guru Ji and said: O, true Guru Ji, you have woken me up from a deep slumber, given me the love of the Lord in my heart. You have given me life from lifelessness. You have picked me up from dust and made me high. You have made me your own. Now, do not give me separation. You have given me the love nectar. You have made me your slave. Now, you do not go.
Feeling so much love from Buddhan Shah, the savior Guru Ji said: You have realized the Lord.
'Sit with mind reciting the Lord's name'.
But Buddhan Shah had so much love for Guru Ji that it became difficult for him to tolerate the separation. But the true Guru Ji had to go to many other places to bless people.
Buddhan Shah now felt that he should remain in thankfulness and see to Guru Ji's pleasure. He was in a fix.
Finally, he said: When will you give another glimpse?
With so much deep love these words were said, that the true Guru Ji had tears of love in his eyes, and said: "Buddhan Shall, sit here in joy and recite the Lord's name. You will get a glimpse. I shall come in my sixth incarnation. O Buddhan Shah, do not think that you are already quite old and you may not live that long. You will live and I will come in my sixth incarnation. You will have a long, long life".
Guru Ji's companion said: O Guru Ji, these are your miracles. You are gracious. But you will be in a different body. Will Buddhan Shah be able to recognize you?
True Guru Ji: Yes, he will recognize. First my loving prince will come and lay the foundation of a city here. Then I will come. I shall ask him for milk and shall drink milk here. I might have had milk here today, but today I have to go to Peenju's house down this hillock. I will have food there. This will
remain as a debt with Buddhan Shah. I will come and ask for milk and drink.
Saying this, and leaving Buddhan Shah as a mom leaves her son crying, Guru Nanak Dev Ji went away to some other place to rain blessings on people.
Buddhan Shah has now got a new life. Guru Nanak Dev Ji has kindled his soul with a life spark of the Lord. He is now full of love. He is now in the recitation of the Lord's name. He is now living in the love of the Lord and in ecstasy.
Next day, in the afternoon, when Buddhan Shah, after having milk, was sitting near the same stone and meditating, that the hill girl came for grazing her goats and said: O pious man, you are Guru Nanak Dev Ji's.
Pious man: Yes daughter, I am the slave of the disciples of Guru Nanak Dev Ji.
The girl first laughed and then cried. The girl, who had never cried, had tears of love in her eyes.
She said: Yes, respected saint, we are the slaves of his disciples. But don't you see, how handsome is our true Guru Ji?
Pious man: Daughter, don't ask me. With a glance, he has woken me up from a slumber. I was a Mohammedan. But now, my Mecca, my prophet, my religion and my faith is Guru Nanak Dev Ji. Since yesterday, no namaz, no ritual, no breath control. My eyes see Guru Nanak Dev Ji. My body cells have Guru Nanak Dev Ji in them. Wherever I see, I see Guru Nanak Dev Ji everywhere. My tongue is relishing the Lord's name that he has given.
Love tears flowed from his eyes while saying all this.
Pious man: Daughter, Guru Nanak Dev Ji is great. Say, Guru Nanak Dev Ji is great. Won't you please, sing a song with love?
The girl sang :
Oh, Guru Nanak Dev Ji you are a Prince Oh, Guru Nanak Dev Ji you are a Pearl Oh, Guru Nanak Dev Ji you are a King Oh, Guru Nanak Dev Ji you are a Savior Oh, Guru Nanak Dev Ji you are a Spark Oh, Guru Nanak Dev Ji you are my Life Oh, Guru Nanak Dev Ji you are an Angel Oh, Guru Nanak Dev Ji you are Divine Oh, Guru Nanak Dev Ji you are a Giver Give us Name. Give us Name.
Oh, Prince Guru Nanak Dev Ji Oh, Pearl Guru Nanak Dev Ji Oh, King Guru Nanak Dev Ji Oh, Savior Guru Nanak Dev Ji Oh, Spark Guru Nanak Dev Ji Oh, Life Guru Nanak Dev Ji Oh, Angel Guru Nanak Dev Ji Oh, Divine Guru Nanak Dev Ji Give us Name. Give us Name Give us Name. Give us Name.
She sang the above lines with so much love that the entire forest became fragrant, and in the singing, it became evening.
At this moment, one person, his wife and his brother came this side. Buddhan Shah could feel the fragrance of Guru Nanak Dev Ji from their faces.
They were tillers of land but they had studied some Hindi in their early age.
Buddhan Shah got up to bow his head to them, but they bowed their heads in respect for Buddhan Shah. They met as if they knew each other since ages.
After a little conversation, it became known that these persons are the mom, dad and uncle of this girl. Guru Ji had already blessed them with the Lord's name. When Guru Ji left yesterday, then, he had lunch at their house. They had their house at a little distance from this hillock at a lower level near the bank of the river. There were only two houses there, and the two brothers lived there. It was called a dual house.
When Guru Ji left their house, he said to them: The saint living up there is mine now. He has got a new life today. You meet him. Give him your love and your holy companionship. Don't hesitate to meet him. He was fond of living alone. His mind was full of ego without the love of the Lord. He did not like to meet anyone. Now, his ego is gone. He will welcome a holy company. You meet him. You live in recitation of the Lord's name.
Buddhan Shah was thankful to the true Guru Ji for his emotion towards him and said: O, holy companion, is living alone bad?
Peenju: O, pious man, how do we family people know? But, I do feel that just living alone is a punishment.
Buddhan Shah: But, saints generally live in loneliness.
Peenju: Yes. Those, without the love of the Lord or those, who do hard meditation and penances, they may prefer loneliness. For them, living alone may be good. But those who are in the love of the Lord and are in rapture, for them a holy company cannot be harmful.
Buddhan Shah: But, in the world is selfishness and deceit. Sons, daughters, relatives, all trap a man for their own ends. Then, if you do goodness to someone, he does the reverse to you. If you help anyone, he becomes an enemy. When one deals with people, one comes to know that everybody is selfish and none is your friend. That is why, if somebody wants to have peace of mind, he likes to be away from the world and live alone. And by living alone he can do some ascetic practices also.
Peenju: Yes, you are right. After seeing the bad things in the world, one wants to be aloof. But Guru Nanak Dev Ji has said: It is alright to keep aloof from
persons who are deceiving you, but keeping aloof from the whole world is not right. In this way, we shall break with the good people also, which is a losing game. It should be, that you discard the bad people and not discard the good people. In other words discard the deceiver and keep company of holy people.
Buddhan Shah: O, Great Guru Nanak Dev Ji. O, Great Guru Nanak Dev Ji. I always thought that the whole world is bad and renunciation is the remedy. Now only I have realized that the whole world is not bad. There are good people also although they may not be many. We should try to search for the true people and keep their company. In obstinacy, living alone, I had become hard-hearted. It is only now that I have got the rapture of the Lord's name and have become soft hearted.
Peenju: When the mind is immersed in the Lord's love, then automatically it is away from the world. When you are at the Lord's feet, you are automatically alone. Then, when you meet holy persons, your aloneness of mind remains. Then everybody will be singing the Lord's hymns only.
Buddhan Shah: Do the saints who are of Guru Nanak Dev Ji do not remain aloof?
Peenju: Yes. There is one alone-ness that is very high. There are some saints who have access to the un-seen holy people. They appear to be alone, but they are in the holy company of the un-seen holy people. I feel a good soul that is in love with the Lord is always in the company of holy souls.
Those who are near the Lord are true saints and they are always in the company of true saints, whether they are in the seen world or the un-seen world.
Buddhan Shah: You are right. Yesterday morning I was feeling very much in distress when your daughter, whom, I should call a pure and 'full of Lord's love' girl, came. She narrated a few things full of faith and devotion.
Then only, I understood my weakness of ages. Yes. The holy company is very essential. Guru Nanak Dev Ji is great. He has opened the doors for me for a holy company. Now, I will come to your dual home sometimes.
Peenju: O, pious man. You are most welcome to come to our house. Guru Nanak Dev Ji has blessed you with the Lord's name. You are now immersed in the love of the Lord. So, we will come to you. You have meditated all your life. We are family men. Guru Nanak Dev Ji has blessed us with the Lord's name but still we are family men.
Buddhan Shah: Don't say like that, you like his elder son. I am a new born. You also bless me. I shall seek your support. I have enough time to live.
My end was near, but the true Guru Ji has extended my life. He wished that I should live a rapturous life in the recitation of the Lord's name for some years and enjoy the ecstasy of the Lord's name and keep company of holy people and learn devotion to the Lord. You also look after me. With such humility both of them parted.
Now, they used to get together quite often, sometimes at Buddhan Shah's place, sometimes at Peenju's place and sometimes on the bank of the river Satluj. It was all happiness in the forest.
The love of Guru Nanak Dev Ji spread in the forest. The family man Peenju and the recluse of years Buddhan Shah sat together.
The Mohammedan Buddhan Shah and the Brahmin Peenju became more than real brothers. Guru Nanak Dev Ji's children played in Guru Nanak Dev Ji's lap.
O, Great Guru Nanak Dev Ji who made saints from men. Great are his holy saints.
O GREAT GURU NANAK DEV
O ANGEL GURU NANAK DEV
Guru Nanak Dev Ji's command to Buddhan Shah is repeated once again: 'Sit with mind reciting the Lord's name'
Let us also recite:
O Lord, O Lord, O Lord, O Lord
Starting with at least five minutes a day.
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