Sirsa, October 12, 2008:  In the Satsang held today at Shah Satnam Ji Dham, Sirsa, Sant Gurmeet Ram-Rahim Singh Ji Insan expounded on the pricelessness of human birth and called it a golden opportunity to chant God’s Name.  H.H. said that in the human birth man has the golden opportunity in his hands to attain to God, but he has forgotten his original aim and is busy accumulating wealth.  H.H. also advised the faithful to stay away from people driven by their minds and to have firm faith only in the Satguru and not to trust anyone else in a blind manner.  In the Satsang addressed in Punjabi, faithful in large numbers had come from Punjab.  After the Satsang, H.H. gave Naam Deeksha to 1,053 people.  The following are excerpts from the Satsang:

The human birth is a golden opportunity for man to chant the Name of God, but man has forgotten God and has made achieving worldly happiness the aim of his life.  He does not care to look beyond his own selfish needs, comforts and pride.

It is necessary that a person earns his living through rightful means.  One cannot find happiness if one snatches someone else’s bread and eats it.  Only by earning a livelihood through rightful means can one find peace.  Today corruption, deceit and theft are on the increase and man has only one ambition left inside him – how to accumulate wealth.  No matter how much wealth one earns, one can never have peace solely through it.  Only through God’s Name can one find peace.  Many people think that one can attain to the happiness of heaven if one has money.  But in reality, from the poorest to the richest, everyone has his own problems and no one seems to be happy.  For the poor the fact that he has very little money troubles him; for the one from the middle class, the fact that he is unable to fulfill some of his desires troubles him; and the rich person is worried about how to protect his wealth.  One does not want to derive happiness from what one already possesses.  The small have small problems and the big have big problems, and no one is happy.

The sadh-sangat has to be alert against those who mislead them and make them fight against each other for their own selfish ends.  Do not be mislead by people who are driven by their minds and do not become puppets in their hands.  Use your own intelligence to make decisions and abide by the teachings of the Guru.  Do not trust people blindly.  In today’s terrible age, people are selling themselves.  People are selling even their religion and faith.  Therefore, only God is worthy of trust in today’s age.  It is necessary to trust people while living in society, but the one who is worthy of unlimited trust is only the Satguru, who will never breach one’s trust and will always help one at every step.  Before you accept someone’s advice, analyse it thoroughly with your intellect and only then decide on whether to accept the advice or to reject it.

The time that is gone will never come back.  As man’s age progresses, he comes closer and closer to death.  In order to become worthy of God’s grace, you must learn to respect time.  Those who respect time, miseries do not afflict them.  Abandon idleness.  Idleness brings with it a hundred problems.  Idleness distances man from Prabhu, Rabb.  Those who have received God’s grace and those who desire to receive it, they abandon idleness.  It is not difficult to abandon idleness.  The time that you have in your hands is not meant just for eating and drinking.  This time has been provided to you to attain to Prabhu, Paramatma; to taste his never-ending treasure of ambrosia.  The moments that are going away from your life, these are taking you closer to death.  If a person loses his way during the day but comes back home during the night, he is no more called a lost person.  The same way, if you have done any wrongs in the past, do not repeat them.  If a person does a mistake but repents for it, then he need not suffer the consequences of the mistake. Give up idleness and start working in order to attain to the real purpose of life.

If one does good deeds and chants the Name of God, one receives the happiness of both worlds in this very life.

(At the end of the Satsang, six young couples entered wedlock in the holy presence of Hazur Pitaji.  Also, Guruji handed over the keys of the houses built by the sadh-sangat for two needy families to the families.)

Guruji’s responses to questions asked during the Satsang:

Q.  What are the fruits of one Satsang?
A. The fruits of the Satsang are dependent on implementation.  The fruits of one moment of a Satsang is equal to more than 50 years of devotion.  One receives the fruits of selfless service and meditation during the Satsang if one abides by what is taught in the Satsang.

Q.  When a young boy dies, is it that he takes revenge on his family?
A. When a young boy dies, it means that he has only that much time destined with the family.  Often this has to do with the workings of karma.  It could be that in the previous birth the family had tormented him in some way and that that is why in this birth he tormented the family with his death.  But this does not happen all the time and it does not mean that he was the enemy of family.

Q.  What is the relationship between man’s soul and his body?  What should one’s relationship be with other souls?
A. Without the soul there is no body and without the body there is no identity for the soul.  When the soul takes a body, only then does it get a name.  But if there is no soul, then the body is disposed off, burnt or buried.  As far as relationships, other than the relationship between husband and wife, all other relationships should come under the category of father-mother, brother-sister or son-daughter.

Q.  Man gets bad thoughts from the mind, the mind is the root of everything sinful, but where does the mind get bad thoughts from?
A. The mind gets sinful thoughts from Kaal and it is a part of Kaal. One should not be driven by the mind.  Those who follow the mind, they are always unhappy.

Q.  What is the meaning of hath kaar bal mann yaar bal?
A. Its meaning is that one should practice devotion through work as well as through knowledge; that while doing one’s worldly duties, one’s mind should be connected with the Satguru.

Q.   After listening to the Satsang, for four to five days the effect of the Satsang is felt, but after that slowly the effect starts waning away.  What does one do about this?
A. For this you must attend Satsangs on a regular basis, do selfless service and meditation, and listen to Naam Charcha once a week without fail.