Today, we have assembled to celebrate the Divine Essence of Guru Ram Das.
Not only are we blessed that we have walked on this path, but we are
blessed that we have realized it as human beings. I am not talking
about politics. I am not talking about virtues. I am not talking about
those who have every possession in the world, yet they are very empty
inside. I am not talking about those personal people who think they
have reached God, and God is in the palm of their hands. I am not
talking of those who sell God and I am not talking of those who
compromise spirituality because of the pressure. I am talking about the
essence of that dignity and divinity which Guru Ram Das represents.
I was talking to somebody on the telephone today. She said, "I brought a dish and a wish
on the day of Guru Ram Das's birthday. My wish didn't happen. Should I
bring the dish and wish again today?" I said, "It did happen." She
asked, "How do you know? You don't know the wish of anybody. You don't
know what dish I took there."
I said, "There's nothing to worry about. You took a few pizzas and
put them before Guru Ram Das. And you wished that your boyfriend would
come through. In seven days, he totally left you."
She said, "How do you know?"
I said, "No - you have questioned it. Now I have to tell you. It is
not a question. If you had not asked, I might have let it pass. But now
you have challenged the status. Therefore I have to tell you, the
status is true.
"You brought a few pizzas and you came on that day. You wished your
boyfriend would come through. Is that true or not? First, tell me
that." She said, "Yes, that's true." "Then, within one week he left. He
said goodbye to you forever." She said, "That's true, too."
I said, "Now tell me, are you lucky or unlucky?" She said, "I am lucky."
I said, "Look. Guru worked. Now you want the Guru to work YOUR way.
That is not the problem. That is not the question. You asked the Guru a
question. 'Fulfill my wish.' How can he fulfill it in a wrong way? He
filled it perfectly. And you can never be sorry for it."
She said, "I never understood it." I said, "That is the Western
difficulty. It has nothing to do with the East. You want it the way YOU
want it. But on the other hand, your aggressiveness, your faith, your
desire shall make it prevail."
I understand that you want certain things. I know everybody wants
certain things. It's not wrong to want certain things. But when you
want something and God and Guru adjusts it, then you have to accept it.
That is the beauty of the man.
The difference between the animal and the man is very simple. When a
man desires something, his state of ecstasy in micro-consciousness to
macro-consciousness to his magnetic field has the projection of that
attraction. But under no circumstances is it finalized because the
entire Divinity in Its own projection correlates to it.
When an animal desires something, it is one-pointed. Either it gets it or it does not.
The world shall come to an understanding. When we, a handful of
Sikhs, reach into ourselves and experience the purity and piety; when
we will have the dignity and divinity; when we'll have the essence of
one single line: Ang Sang Wahe Guru; when we will understand in
all the realms of our tattwas, in our chakras, in our gunas, in our
being, in our projections, in our rejections, in our pain, in our
pleasure, in our richness; when in all that - we ALWAYS reach for Guru
Ram Das, then there's nothing we should worry about. Our affairs will
be adjusted.
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