October 31, 2008 (Barnawa, UP):  Preparations are at full swing at Shah Satnam Ji Ashram here for the bhandara that is to be held on Sunday, November 2, 2008.   There is great fervour among the faithful in anticipation of the bhandara, which is being held to celebrate the birth month of Beparwah Shah Mastana Ji Maharaj.  Devotees have begun arriving at the ashram in large numbers.  A huge turnout is expected at the ruhani satsang, which is to be held at the Barnawa ashram after a long interval of six months.

Sant Gurmeet Ram-Rahim Ji, who arrived here at the Barnawa ashram on Thursday evening, expounded on the pricelessness of human birth and provided the remedy for the sorrows of the world, during today’s morning majlis.  His Holiness also urged the faithful to abide by the teachings of the Guru.  Excerpts:

The human body is such that the soul can attain to God while being in this body.   It is possible to become worthy of God’s grace and even while living in this mortal world, to behold that Giver of supreme happiness.

The only way out for those who are drowned in sorrows, worries and difficulties is meditation.  As long as one does not meditate, one cannot make as much progress in spirituality as is required.  The present age is that of the terrible Kaliyug in which the mind and sense organs are completely spread out.  In this age men who are driven by their minds mislead others, and keeping one’s faith firm in itself is great devotion.  And, if along with this, one keeps meditating and working for one’s salvation, then there perhaps cannot be a happiness or bliss that one cannot get.  The soul gets that kind of peace and bliss about which one would not have even dreamt of.  Man gets dreams in which he is wandering about at one place or the other, but those are fortunate ones who behold Allah, Waheguru, Ram even in their dreams.

Today’s is such a dangerous Kaliyug that in it man thinks only about himself.  No matter what his age, he does not practice devotion to God.  One is supposed to practice devotion to God at least in one’s old age, but no one abides by this instruction.  The elderly are ready to accept everything else, but when they are told that during their age they should devote themselves completely to meditating and doing deeds that aid in salvation, they do not like it.  This is because if there life is a comfortable one, why would they want to work for others?  But they are always ready, be it day or night, to work for those who are their own.  They overlook the fact that those whom they consider their own are their own only till their souls leave their bodies.  Those ‘own ones’ for whom saints ask them to work, they are not ready to.  The children of God who are helpless, if they are helped, that deed would come to one’s aid like the devotion that is done in both worlds and it would make one worthy of the grace and blessings of God.

Helping the helpless, handicapped, hungry and thirsty are deeds that aid in one’s salvation because all are the children of God.  If God has given man peace and happiness, then it is man’s duty to look around him in society to see if any human being or animal is suffering from hunger or whether anyone is helpless from disease, and to help them.  This act would result in unlimited happiness for the individual.

Saints teach that the human body is the best and it has been given to man to chant the Name of God.  All other species are the slaves of Kaal.  They suffer from the consequences of their karma and day and night they are lost in doing the same binding karma.  If man wishes to he can realize God, while the remaining species cannot do so even if they wanted to.  Their devotion is limited to Trilokinath and not to God.  When an animal or bird cries out to God in torment, even though Kaal-Mahakaal is its God, looking at its depth of yearning and good attributes, God makes it a man.  Such a soul is called a sanskari soul, which had always had the yearning for God.  Such souls soon acquire the human body and become worthy of attaining to God.

Many times man thinks that he practices devotion but does not gain anything from it.  This is because he does not do it with the yearning with which it needs to be done.  Thoughts keep arising inside him.  He does do selfless service and meditation but without the involvement that is required.

When a Fakir gives an instruction once, it ought to be implemented upon.  If one does not implement the instruction and comes back to the Fakir again and again for the same thing, it is like insulting the Fakir.  In spirituality men who do this do not progress and are left behind.  Also, it is no bravery to defy the instruction and show the world that you still are what you were before.