Saint Kabir

Righteousness is where compassion is, sin is where there is lust and greed. Yama, the God of death is where anger is. God is where forgiveness is.

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Sant Kabir

Remembrance of the Holy Name is the sum and substance of life, all other are simply thorny thoughts which trap one in different entanglements from the beginning to the end.

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"NA TADBHASAYATE SURYO NA SHASHANKO NA PAWAKAH.

YADGATWA NA NIVARTANTE TADDHAM PARAMAM MAMA."

My heavenly abode is such that even if thousands of suns rise together in the sky, the cannot equal My Divine Light, because that power is coming out of the almighty and once a person reaches there, he does not return in the cycle of birth and death. 

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"JARRE JARRE MEIN HAI JHANKI BHAGWAN KI.

KISI SOOJH WALI ANKH NE PAHCHAN KI."

God is omnipresent but only those, who have the eye of Knowledge, will see and recognize Him.

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"RAM BHAKTI CHINTAMANI SUNDAR,

BASAI GARUD JAKE UR ANDAR.

PARAM PRAKASH ROOP DIN RATI.

NAHI CHAHIYE KACHHU DIYA GHRIT BATI."

Devotion to God is as beautiful as the crest jewel and the heart within which it resides, is illuminated. The divine Light shines day and night and doesn't need lamp, ghee or wick.

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"MUKTAFALAI KIM PAKSHEENAM CHA.

MISHTAN PANAM KIM GARDABHANAM.

ANDHESHU DEEPO BADHIRESHU GANAM.

MURKHESHU KAH KATHA PRASANGA."

What is the point of placing a light in front of a blind person? If music is played to a deaf person then he will not enjoy it. He cannot taste the clarity and melody of the music. A donkey cannot relish sweets, but prefers mere grass. Similarly, devotees and the wise understand the importance of satsang. They keep the teachings in their hearts and benefit from them, but a foolish man denies himself the benefit of these things.

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Sahjo Bai

There is no room for mind in a person who is in love with God. He is totally contented, and sees Him everywhere he goes. The words of a lover of God are sweet. Sometimes he feels like laughing, and sometime like crying. It just happens, for no reason. I care naught for caste or appearance. Even through everyone may scorn me and call me crazy. Love is fathomless, peerless and eternal. To express it is impossible. Without Divine Love in your heart your beauty, wealth and even your life have no meaning. Without purity of desire, your live is worthless. Everywhere you will find plenty of people who want riches and happiness, but hardly one who wants Divine Love, only some who is ready to cut off his head and stamp on it may enter into the City of Love.

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The Importance of Sadhana

Sadhana (spiritual practice) leads to peace, happiness, prosperity and immortality. Purity of heart is to be attained through meditation, prayer, japa, kirtan, study of sacred scriptures and selfless service to humanity. Collective sadhana, group prayers and kirtan (singing devotional songs) have a tremendous elevating effect. Sadhana is a means to attain the goal of life. This means spiritual practice that helps the aspirant to realize God. One should do sadhana to attain the state of final beatitude. Only those aspirants whose minds are purified by vigorous service and sadhana will be benefited by a life of solitude. Constant remembrance of the Lord is the actual sadhana for God realization. Life is short; time is fleeting, apply yourself diligently to sadhana. In sadhana you should always aim higher and higher and aspire for higher and higher grades of spiritual attainments. Before you commence your daily sadhana, your must first invoke Guru's blessings. Then all your efforts will be crowned with success. Sadhana without viragya will have no effect.

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"JIN DHOONDA TIN PAIYAN, GAHRE PANI PAITH.

MAIN BAWARI DOOBAN DARI, RAHI KINARE BAITH."

Those who search will find, but you have to dive deep into the water. I was afraid of getting drowned, so I sat on the shore.

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Shri Satpal Ji Maharaj

If a person has acquired everything of this would but not the Supreme Knowledge by which one swims in the current of life, which is also called the sovereign knowledge, the King amongst all knowledge, then he will get snared in the cycle of birth and death and drown in the sea of 8.4 million species.

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"AYE THEIH HARI BHAJAN KO, OTAN LAGE KAPAS."

This means that a man is born in this world exclusively to meditate on God, but instead he occupies himself separating cotton from the seeds.

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"AP JAPE AURON KO JAPAWE,

NANAK NISHCAY MUKTI PAWE."

Those who remember Holy Name as well as inspire others also to remember it, are bound to get salvation.

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"LAKH CHOURASI BHRAMDIYAN, MANUSH JANAM PAYO.

KAH NANAK NAM SAMBHAL, SO DIN NERE AYO."

After wandering through 8.4 million species, now you have been born as a human being. Catch hold of the Holy Name as this is the time to remember it.

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"BARE BHAGYA MANUSH TAN PAWA,

SUR DURLABH SADGRANTHAN GAWA."

One is extremely lucky to get a human body. Even gods and goddesses pray to the Almighty for it, as it is rare even for them.

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Lord Shri Rama

When you know and understand that your real form is virtueless, without qualities and stainless, then you will give up the idea of yourself being the inert and destructible body. So, acquire the true knowledge of the real form of the Soul.

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Lord Shri Krishna

As the rising sun wipes out the darkness of night, similarly, the Spiritual Knowledge imparted by the living Spiritual Master removes all doubts and darkness of ignorance.

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Jagat Janani Shri Mata Ji

Divine Light of the Almighty is present in the room of our heart. Know this from the living Spiritual Master.

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"SACHCHAYI CHHIP NAHIN SAKTI,

BANAWAT KE USOOLON SE.

KHUSBOO AA NAHIN SAKTI,

KABHI KAGAJ KE PHOOLON SE."

Truth cannot be hidden by any amount of artificial coverings, and paper flowers can never give out fragrance.

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Santmat

A devotee acquires spiritual and material wealth easily by doing service to the Spiritual Master but the one who does not serve the Master with unwavering feeling, gets to the wretched state.

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"HUM VASI WA DESH KE, JAHAN ADI ANT KA KHEL,

DEEPAK DEKHA GAIB KA, BIN BATI BIN TEL."

We belong to that country where the Almighty's lamp glows without any wick and oil and where game of beginning and end goes on.

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"RAM BHAGATI CHINTAMAI SUNDAR.

BASAHIN GARUD JAKE UR ANDAR.

PARAM PRAKASH ROOP DIN RATI,

NAHIN CHAHIYE KACHHU DIYA GHRIT BATI."

Devotion to God is like a shining crest jewel. The chintamani is like a prism and when light passes through this, it is split into many colors. Similarly, when you acquire Knowledge of the Soul, the Grace of the Master showers on you. The devotee then understands the omnipresent Holy Name and experiences the Divine Light of God. The white light then works like the Chintamani, and it manifests as many colors of rainbow in meditation. We should meditate upon that Divine Light.

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"GURU KO KIJIYE DANDVAT, KOTI KOTI PRANAM.

KEET NA JANE BHRING KO, GURU KAR LE AP SAMAN."

Let us prostrate at the feet of the Master as many times as possible. He makes a devotee like himself, just like a bhringi wasp turns an ordinary insect into a bhringi like itself.

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"RAKAPATI SODAS UGAHIN, TARAGAN SAMUDAY.

SAKAL GIRINHA DAV LAIYE, RAVI BIN RAN NA JAY."

Even if many moons and galaxies of stars appear in the sky and all forests in the world are set on fire, the darkness of night does not vanish without the sun. Likewise, for spiritual experience, the Spiritual Master, who is like the sun, is essential.

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"GURU GOVIND DOU KHARE, KAKE LAGUN PAY.

BALIHARI GURU APKI, JIN GOVIND DIYO LAKHAY."

To whom should I prostrate when both the Master and God are standing in front of Me? I should prostrate first to the Master because only he is able to introduce me to God.

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"BANDAUN GURUPAD KANJ,

KRIPA SINDHU NAR ROOP HARI.

MAHAMOH TAM PUNJ,

JASU VACHAN RAVI KARANIKAR."

I prostrate at the lotus feet of the Master, who is an ocean of compassion and God in human form. His Word acts like the sun because it removes the ignorance of great delusion and foolishness accumulated in various births.

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Satsang

Why run around sprinkling holy water? There is an ocean inside you, and when you are ready you will drink.

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Adiguru Shankaracharya

A man's family takes care of him and are concerned for his welfare so long the life force exists within his body. But, when life force abandons his body, then even his wife feels frightened and stays away from him. So, only the remembrance of God will accompany and support him, in the current life as well as after death.

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Hans Yog Prakash

REFLECTION

People talk a lot about Gurus, but only that person who can remove doubts from our minds can be called a Guru. There are many religious teachers in this world, who are able to relieve you of your money but not your suffering. First test the teacher, and only then receive initiation and become his disciple. anyone who adopts a teacher without first scrutinizing him is sure to drown in the worldly ocean. Even in a moment of forgetfulness, do not follow a teacher if he is a sinner, a hypocrite, an atheist, wicked, proud, critical, unsteady of mind, cunning, lustful, angry by nature, argumentative, greedy, unbalanced, given to partiality or deceit. Keep well away from such a person.

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"KARMA PRADHAN VISHWA RACHI RAKHA.

JO JAS KARAHIN SO TAS PHAL CHAKHA."

The whole creation has been created on the basis of action. As a man does, so he gets.

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