Time keeps on passing. It went on passing. Over half a century passed.
Guru Nanak, the sixth Guru-incarnation, Swordsman has now come in his tenth incarnation. He crossed near Kiratpur and spread the Lord's name in the mountainous valleys where the ninth Guru had put his sacred feet and made it a beautiful town.
The prophet soul incessantly immersed in the Supreme soul was the same in all ten incarnations. The splendor, magnificence and overflowing inner blossom, garland of beads in hand, sword on the waist and now the Plume adorned his head. Lord's name, zealousness and high spirits joined together as Spiritual awakening. Lord's name for the congregations, bravery and valor to save the religion, but to remain steadfast in good moral character, it became necessary to keep up high spirits without ego.
[At Anandpur]
When the preparations for going to Nahan were on, then one day early in the morning when the tenth Guru Nanak sat on the bank of river Satluj, it was quiet and he was alone. His eyes, the eyes with the Lord's splendour closed. He saw inwardly and visualized the period of one hundred and fifty years or one hundred seventy years that had passed. An impulse of honorable nature came to his mind. In the forests he visualized and recognized one old aged meditative who had once done penance and kept fasts but was in despair and suffering.
Yes, I blessed him the. Lord's name when he was in despair. I took him out of mistaken beliefs, hard penances, fasts and elevated his scattered mind,
blessed him the incessant recitation of the Lord's name. His soul immersed in the Supreme soul. He got ecstasy and rapture.
And had said: I shall drink milk in my sixth incarnation.
Then in the sixth incarnation I saw the saintly soul that I had nurtured, drank milk, had said: I shall drink again, O dear! Once again. That beloved saint's soul has flourished to full blossom. His body has become too old. But the soul is in full bloom and ready for the Lord's Palace. I blessed him in my first incarnation and nurtured him in my sixth incarnation. He has remained steadfast in his inner blossom of mind. Let me now present his flourished soul
in full blossom to my saviour Lord. I should honour my natural repute.
The beloved true Guru who never forgot and always honoured his words thought of his dear devotee-saint and started from there towards where the saint lived.
Today, when Budhan Shah opened his eyes from meditation and saw towards the sky, then in elation of love he uttered: It is all wondrousness. What an ecstasy? What a rapture? O Lord! O Lord! O Lord! This rapture is the Lord. This rapture is Guru who took me out of despair and put me in rapture, who took me out of tears and put me in ecstasy, who took me out of anxiety and put me in rapture, who took me out of intellect and wisdom and put me in sublime consciousness.
This is the Lord.
0 Lord! You are great!
0 Lord! You are great! You have blessed the rapture. That is your Name. O Guru Nanak! You are great! It is your graciousness that you blessed me the Lord's name. When the mind drinks the nectar that is above the pleasures of earth, then you name the nectar as rapture. This rapture is your Name O Lord! O Guru, the giver of Name nectar.
Having got the Name nectar blessed by you, I wish to meet you. You came for the sake of somebody. You come! You have blessed rapture. Now you come and bless the rapture of your glimpse. You come through my eyes and sit on the throne of my heart. I love to wash your feet with tears from my eyes. I shall put my heart on your feet. Come before these eyes close forever.
O beloved! You are my life. I have got every comfort and all is given by you. Now I wish to see you with these eyes and put my forehead at your feet. You have immersed my Super consciousness in your soul. Now my body should fall at your feet. My heart has again become like a child. I do not want salvation. Today, I do not even bother about rapture. This craving mind
wishes for your glimpse. Come and put your sacred feet that can be clamped by my bony hands. I shall put them on my eyes, on my chest TV craving heart wishes the coqlness of your handsome feet This craving forehead is longing for the touch of your sacred feet As I have a human body, you also come in human body and give your glimpse. O formless and limitless! I am a human and I have human sensation. I say with my human love. For my sake please come in human form. O my Lord! Come as human. O Guru Nanak!
0 Guru Hargobind, the Swords-man! I wish you come as 'Guru with the plume'. Come, give me refuge at your feet and make me your own. I have no intellect in this old age. I forego the comforts of heaven, the ecstasy of salvation.
1 wish the comfort of your feet. I wish charity of your glimpse. O Lord! Come in human form. A long time has passed. The river brought fresh water in many seasons, many times. Many spring seasons came and vanished. Like an old Banyan tree with hand raised in longing, I am waiting. Come from formless to human form and give a glimpse. I should stay where you stay. You live in human form. I should serve you. You keep me with you. I am in human form. What shall I do with heavenly comforts? Please come and give me refuge at your feet.
In this way, in extreme devotion and love Budhan Shah was in longing and craving when suddenly there was a flash of light. The saint felt a lightning in the early morning hours. The dazzle was such that he could not bear. He tries to see and smells the breeze and says: Yes! The breeze is giving fragrance of beloved Guru Nanak. It is giving fragrance from his sacred body. His splendor can be seen in the sky. From the river is coming his cool fragrance. He is coming from the heavens. Welcome! Come! I shall fall at your feet.
Meanwhile, he felt a vision of Mardana. Mardana played rebeck and sang a divine song. The song swelled the love in his mind. The old meditative heart leapt to have a glimpse. Tears started flowing from his eyes in torrents like the river Satluj. Soon he got a true glimpse of Guru Nanak. See! How his head has fallen on his feet and the body is immersed in his love. As the black bee sucks the flower, he has clamped the Guru's feet. See! How the Guru has hugged his bony body and is loving him. How he is being loved.
Intellectuals have described the Spiritual ecstasy but how can this 'Disciple & Guru' love be described?
The meditative even forgot the ecstasy. The pull, the love, the pull of love has brought the beloved. He fell at his beloved's feet He does not know whether he is on the beloved's feet or in his beloved's heart or immersed in the beloved. He knows nothing.
SRI KALG1DHAR CHAMATKAR (VOL-I)
This is the string of love. This is the pull of love. This is the salvation beyond salvation. This is love beyond salvation. Whatever it is, it is extreme love. Not only the disciple is in Guru-love, even the Guru is in disciple-love.
The meditative who had all the knowledge of the world did not know that the disciple can immerse himself in Guru-love. In immersion, the feeling of time vanished. So much time has passed but he does not know.
Now the miraculous Guru said in his ears: "My Milk".
Yes! He regained consciousness. He opened his eyes. He had put his head in the lap of Guru Nanak but when he lifted it, it was from the lap of 'Guru with the Plume5. The most handsome face of Guru Nanak had charmed him. Now the most handsome face of 'Guru with the plume' has charmed.
O Lord! Your miracles are wondrous, your love is limitless, all are your images, all ages
0 Handsome! 0 Beautiful!
You are Great!
New image! New love!
It has made the meditative go into rapturous love. The eyelids became heavy with nectar and closed again. His head has again gone into the beloved's lap. The Guru, with both hands clamped his body and he is immersed in Guru-love again.
What the beloved had uttered, the meditative could not hear.
The beloved is asking for milk but the devotee in Guru-love knows nothing.
The magnet of love is clinging to the beloved. Consciousness has become unconsciousness. Meditative soul is immersed in Guru-soul.
What a loving, mind elevating glimpse is the Guru-disciple meet?
Guru is immersed in disciple-love. Disciple is immersed in Guru-love.
After sometime, the ever awakened Guru again uttered:
"I am hungry"
O Nourisher of the world! O Savior of the world! O Lord of the world! O Merciful!
What miraculous-ness? You say, "I am hungry." Then he said: "My milk."
The meditative heard the words 'My milk' and startled. He got up.
But see! He had put his head in the lap of 'Guru with the Plume' but when he lifted, it was from the lap of Guru Nanak. The beloved is the same. The meditative has recognized him. Only the incarnations are in different forms. He is immersed like the black bee. Like, the black bee is not misled by colors, blue, red, pink, it recognizes the lotus, maybe in any colour, similarly he has recognized the beloved.
In the same love again, the Guru uttered: "My Milk"
The meditative got up. His feet would not move. His eyes do not go far from the beloved. The eyes see him again and again. Again, he got absorbed in the glimpse of the 'Guru with the Plume'. Again, he fell into the beloved's lap. He got immersed in Guru-love and had no consciousness to give milk to the Guru. The immersion was so deep that cannot be described.
After sometime again the Guru uttered: "My Milk."
The meditative startled and got up, tried to move his feet but saw the Guru's handsome face. The plume dazzled and immersed in love, again he fell in the Guru's lap.
O 'Beloved with the Plume'. The disciple cannot separate himself even one step. Now you immerse him in your lap forever. The disciple cannot bear the radiance of your face. For your natural repute, do not give him separation.
But now his consciousness woke up. The utterance of the Guru woke him up. Budhan Shah now got up but he saw the goat standing near. See the Lord's miracles. A cup is also lying near. In rapture, he milked the goat. Nobody knows whether he milked or the milk got milked by itself. The meditative only saw that the cup is full. It is full up to the brirn and is overflowing.
See the hands of the disciple holding the cup and the Guru's 'more beautiful than a rose lips' that are touching the cup. This is the glimpse of Guru-disciple love. In this rapturous love the Guru and disciple are immersed.
All around Kiratpur, one can see this rapturous love of 'Guru and disciple'.
It is a loving glimpse of "My Milk."
Who can put it in words with ink? Who can picture it? It is being written in the heavens. It is being pictured in the heavens.
0 devotee/ Live long in this Gurulove,
you who have been joined with the beloved Guru with this Gurulove.
Live ever swinging in this Gurulove. Live ever swaying in this Gurulove.
Flourish in this Guru-love, Live ever flourishing in this Guru-love
Live ever giving fragrance of this Guru-love,
Live ever blossoming in this Guru-love
Wondrous is the picture of "My milk, "
0 Saintdevotee! For the sake of beloved Guru's head
0 Saintdevotee! For the sake of beloved Guru's feet
For the sake of the Godly soul
For the sake of this loving glimpse
Give to us also: A small drop of this nectar,
one sip, one particle, one splash, particle of a particle to us poor, to us orphans, to us beggars at your door.
kkk'k kkicie itk-kic -k-kkk
After blessing Budhan Shah the Guru traveled towards the valley of Sirmaur and moving slowly and blessing many people he entered the territory of the King of Nahan.
Here he stayed in this valley of Sirmaur. He got constructed one temporary fort, a Gurdwara and some houses to stay. The Gurcwara exists but the fort is not there. The spot is scenic but it has not been given proper attention. The Guru was delighted to stay here.
Specimens of how he blessed the world can be gauged by the stories that follow.
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