"DANCE, MIND, DANCE"
by
Sant Ajaib Singh Ji
Dance, O mind, dance in front of the Satguru.
Sing the praises of Satguru
so that you may cut the sin of birth.
This is the shabd of Kem Chanda who was given the name "Mastana Ji"
by Baba Sawan Singh. He was born in Baluchistan and from the beginning he was
fond of spirituality. He used to worship an idol of the god Sat Narayan. He
was so fond of worshiping idols and doing devotion that he made an idol out
of gold with his own money, and he used to worship that. But a voice was
coming from within: "Kem Chanda, go and search for the perfect Master.
Otherwise the Negative Power will take your skin off." He became afraid; and
he started searching for a Guru or Master. He became the disciple of nine
masters, but his mind didn't get any satisfaction. So, again from within the
sound came, and Master Sawan Singh gave him darshan in Baluchistan, saying,
"I am sitting in Punjab; you come here."
So Kem Chanda started searching for Master Sawan Singh and he came
to the Punjab. At that time Master Sawan Singh was making people work in the
fields in His own property at Sikandarpur. And when Kem Chanda came to Him,
He said, "Kem Chand, you go and get me that Sat Narayan whom you are
worshiping and I will give you a living God instead of that." Mastana went
back to Baluchistan which was five or six hundred miles from Beas; he
smashed the temple which he had built in his home and he brought that golden
idol of god Sat Narayan to Baba Sawan Singh; and Baba Sawan Singh really did
give him the living God.
He used to meditate a lot; for many days he would do meditation. He
would remain hungry and thirsty for many days, and he would practice what
Master Sawan Singh taught him. One great specialty he had was that whenever
he would see Master Sawan Singh he would tie some tiny bells on his feet and
dance in front of Him.
He used to say that once, in one village, a drought came and everybody
left except one couple; and they were also dying of hunger. That wife told
the husband, "You take me to some place and sell me, so that you can get
some money and that way you will be able to eat something. And you should
say to the people that I am your sister and not your wife. If you tell them
that I am your wife, they will criticize you, but if you will say, `I want
to sell my sister,' they will believe that." And in that way she was sold
as his sister, and was taken to another town.
After a few days the clouds came together over that town and it looked
as if it was going to rain. So that woman stood on the roof and said, "O
clouds, it doesn't matter if you shower rain here or not, because here
everybody is filled with food and they have everything; but you should go
and shower rain at that place where someone has sold his wife and called her
his sister." So in the same way Mastana Ji used to tell this story and then
he would stay awake all night, requesting Master Sawan Singh, "O Master,
whether You meet anybody else or not, definitely please meet me, so that
nobody else should sell or marry his wife to any other person for the sake
of the Master."
When Mastana Ji used to come to have darshan of Baba Sawan Singh he had
to cross the border between Baluchistan and India. Once it so happened that
Mastana Ji was coming with many other initiates, and they were stopped by
the customs people and police inspector. Mastana Ji said, "You should not
stop us because we are doing the hadj (pilgrimage), and our Master Sawan
Singh is perfect. You should not stop us." That police inspector didn't care
about that and he put all of them in jail. Mastana Ji told all the other
initiates to sit for meditation, and as soon as they sat that police
inspector came; and he said, "Please leave this jail right away, because I
am dying. I feel like my life is going to go out." That was the will created
by Master Sawan Singh, so that he was compelled to set free all those people.
Then Mastana Ji said, "I told you in the beginning that my Master is perfect
and you should not stop us."
As he grew closer to Master Sawan Singh, the other Beas people started
hating him and became very envious of him. When Master Sawan Singh saw this,
he said many times in Satsang, "Mastana, should I make you the king of
Baggar?" - at that time our area of Rajasthan was called as "Baggar." When
Master used to prophesy in this way in front of all the Sangat nobody
believed Him; because when Saints or Masters prophesy, people say, "Can this
come true?" and nobody believes them at that time. But when it is fulfilled,
then people realize that whatever Master said was true. So in the same way,
when Master Sawan Singh used to say in front of all the people, "Mastana,
now I am making you the king of Rajasthan," nobody understood what He was
saying.
And when He saw how the Beas people hated Mastana Ji so much that
sometimes they even put boiling water on his body - looking at this
condition of Mastana Ji, and because he was a very dear lover, Master Sawan
Singh made him one cave. He Himself made the cave two hundred miles away
from the Dera for Mastana Ji and told him, "Mastana, now you should go and
do your meditation there and you should not come in the ashram, even to see
me. You should not even come to my cremation when I die. And these people
will weep because they are doing very bad things to you; but I am giving you
such a thing which will work for you and will do all your work."
Mastana Ji had very much love for Master Kirpal Singh also. Whenever he
would see Master Sawan Singh and Master Kirpal Singh going for a walk, he
would come and start dancing in front of them saying that Master Sawan Singh
was God and Master Kirpal Singh was the Son of God. He used to say that
those who want to see the earnings of meditation should go to Delhi -
because he understood Master Kirpal as the great meditator. And then he would
say, "Those who want to see the grace of the Master, they should come to me."
Our area of Rajasthan was very poor; and in those days, before the canal
system, it was poorer than it is now. That was the place Mastana Ji was given
duty by Baba Sawan Singh. He used to distribute a lot of money among the poor
people; all day he would distribute new currency notes. That wealth kept on
coming, and he would say, "This is the treasure of Baba Sawan Singh." Many
times government people caught him and searched for the money and they would
think, "Maybe he has a printing press"; but whenever they would search they
would find only pebbles, and cushions full of pebbles, and nothing else.
He was an intoxicated fakir of Master Sawan Singh, and he was an
illiterate. He didn't even know how to write his name in Punjabi. In 1960 he
left the body. And in this hymn he has proved that the rishis and munis -
those who came and did meditation or devotion - were all caught in the trap
laid down by the Negative Power; they were all deceived and they all fell
down. But those who practiced Sant Mat and became Saints never fell down. He
used to say, "O man, you are dancing in front of your wife, you are dancing
in front of your children, you are dancing in front of your family,
community, religion; you are dancing in front of your worldly work - but it
would be better for you to dance in front of the Satguru." Here "dance"
doesn't mean that you have to go and move your body and dance in front of
the Master. "Dance" means to deal with Him, to work for Him. He used to say,
"I am saying this by God: that he will not displease God who knows the trick
of pleasing God; and he who knows the trick of pleasing the Master, with him
God cannot be displeased."
On one side he is talking about the rishis, munis, those who lengthened
their lives and lived for 60,000 years or more and did austerities, tapas,
etc.; and on the other side he is saying, "At least, hail the Satguru. Thank
your Satguru, and be grateful to Him. And in that way also the angel of death
will not come near you."
There is no liberation without the meditation
of God; dwell on Him within your body.
You are not leaving gold and women
- why are you involved in this Maya
of the three gunas?
Without Satguru, no one is your companion
- neither the son nor the father.
Sing the praises of Satguru so that you
may cut the sin of birth.
Now he lovingly makes us understand that without Naam there is no
liberation, and if we already have Naam we should dwell on the Naam within
us so that it becomes as the blood within our body - just as the blood moves
continually in our body, in the same way we should keep Naam moving
continually in our body. It is a pity that we people copy them outwardly
- those who have made the Naam within ttthem just like the blood in their body.
Our love for woman is not less, nor has our love for children or other
worldly things become less, but still we copy them, those who have become
perfect.
He says that without Naam there is no liberation and you are trapped in
the snare of the three gunas: raja guna, tamsic guna, and satvic guna. And
then he says, "At least, hail Satguru: in that way the sin of taking birth
and death will leave you. You will be free from the sin of birth and death."
The market of greed and egoism is set up;
the drum of the god of lust is being played,
and Dame Attachment is dancing.
Breaking your love with the five thieves,
do the remembrance of the Satguru.
Sing the praises of Satguru so that you
may cut the sin of birth.
Now lovingly he says that the Negative Power has created this creation
very carefully, just like any big building in which are many types of
businesses, fairs, etc. Here also the Negative Power has set up shops or
stores of lust, anger, greed, attachment and egoism. We are all involved in
the business of indulging in all these things.
The five passions are thieves. So here he says, "Give up the company of
these five thieves. Stop doing the business of these five and take your
attention to the Satguru."
Gorakh Nath and Machinder were defeated
when flashed anger.
Maya climbed up on Gorakh Nath and applied
the spur, making him her horse.
And then she said, "Hurrah! Hurrah!
My beautiful horse is dancing by himself."
Sing the praises of Satguru so that you
may cut the sin of birth.
Now he is talking about the greatest among yogis - Gorakh Nath and
Machinder Nath, who had achieved the power to change their bodies and to
enter into others' bodies also. Machinder Nath was the master of Gorakh Nath, and
once when a wave of lust came within him, he thought, "Now let me go and
enjoy lust also, so that I may know the taste of that." At that time one king
had left the body, and because Machinder Nath knew how to enter into another's
body, he left his original body and entered into the body of the king. And
when he was going he told Gorakh Nath, who was one of his favorite disciples,
that he was going there; and he gave a mantra and said, "When you come to me
repeating this mantra, I will leave that body and I will return to my
original body." So when he entered into the body of the king, that king got
up and people were very happy to see that the king was alive; but nobody
knew what was really happening.
So that Machinder Nath was enjoying with the queens and doing all types
of things. But he was afraid of Gorakh Nath; so he announced that if anyone
finds a yogi who has only one ear he should be captured (because Gorakh Nath
had only one ear). He was afraid that if Gorakh came there and repeated the
mantra, he would have to leave that body and not be able to enjoy that lust
and all those things anymore. He told his police to search for such a person.
Meanwhile, another man, Telandri Nath, taunted Gorakh Nath by saying,
"You are becoming very great, but your master is enjoying lust even after
becoming a yogi!" Gorakh Nath couldn't bear that, and he wanted to teach a
lesson to Machinder Nath, his master. But he couldn't go to him because it
had already been announced that if anyone sees him he should be captured and
put in jail; so he learned to dance and disguised himself as a dancer. And,
along with some other dancers who used to go to the court of that king, he
also came to the court. When Gorakh Nath and his party were playing the music
and dancing, in that melody Gorakh Nath (in the form of a dancer) said,
"Awake, O Machinder Nath, Gorakh has come!" As soon as Machinder heard that,
he was very much afraid and he knew that now he would have to leave. In that
melody Gorakh Nath repeated the mantra and Machinder Nath had to return to
his own body. This story means that, when the wave of lust came, Machinder
Nath, who was the greatest of the yogis, fell down. So, Mastana Ji says,
this is the condition of the yogis.
In the same way, when Gorakh Nath left his home and became a renunciate,
Maya thought to teach him a lesson and test him. So Maya came in the form of
a woman while Gorakh Nath was sitting doing his practices, and she requested
him to allow her to spend one night in his hut. Gorakh had never seen a woman
at any time; and he said, "No. I don't allow any woman to stay with me at
night." But that woman said, "Mahatma, sadhus are very gracious and you
should be merciful on me. I live in a nearby village, but a storm came and I
have lost my way. Just allow me to spend one night here." So because she
praised Gorakh Nath, he was caught up in that praising and he said, "All
right, go and stay in my but and lock the door from the inside - even if I
call you, don't open that door." So that woman went in the but and Gorakh
Nath started doing his practices.
But as soon as he closed his eyes he was seeing that same woman in his
meditation also, and he was very disturbed. He became full of lust. So he
called that woman to open the door; but she replied, "Mahatmaji, you have
given me the order not to open the door even if you call me; so I am not
going to open it." But the wave of lust was so much in force that Gorakh
Nath broke the roof and from the roof he came in the room and then he
enjoyed with that Maya, that woman.
Then Maya said, "All right, now I am going back to my village. If I stay
here until morning and people see that there is a woman in the home of the
Mahatma, what will they think about you? But I cannot cross the river by
myself because people will see my wet clothes and will realize from where I
am coming; and this will bring a bad name to you also. You should carry me
on your shoulders and take me across the river."
So Gorakh Nath carried that woman, that Maya, on his shoulders; and
while he was carrying her, she kicked him with her feet and said, "In the
beginning you were not in my control; but now you see, I have made you my
horse and I am dominating you." So in that way Gorakh Nath also fell down
when lust came.
Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva Ji were defeated
when Maya showed her beauty;
Disguising herself as Bhasma Sur, she caught
Shiva Ji and shook him.
Shiva's trident - the mightiest weapon - broke
when he was pushed by the god of lust.
Sing the praises of Satguru so that you
may cut the sin of birth.
Now he is describing the condition of the gods, by worshiping whom people
think they will be liberated. First of all he is telling us about Brahma who
has the duty of creating the world. Once Lord Brahma was holding his court,
and at that time Saraswati, his daughter, came in front of him. And she was
so beautiful that, looking at her, Brahma who was her father, thought very
bad thoughts about her; he thought of enjoying with her. She said, "You are
my father and still you are having these thoughts for me?" and she turned
her face and went behind Brahma. But Brahma was still having that feeling,
and created one more face on the back of his head; because he knew how to do
that. And when Saraswati went on the right side of Brahma, he made one more
face on that side. And when she went on his left side, he made one more face
there. And when Saraswati went above him, then also Brahma looked at her. So
Shiva Ji, who felt very bad looking at all these things, gave Brahma a great
blow on his forehead and said, "You are her father and still you are having
these thoughts for her?" and in that way he committed the great sin of
killing Brahma. In repentance for that, he went on all the pilgrimages in
India. And in the end he did one pilgrimage which is still called Kapal
mochan, which means "repentance for hitting on the forehead"; after that he
became free from that sin. Mastana Ji is saying that even Brahma, who has
the duty of creating the world, also fell down.
There was a king named Bhasma Sur, and somebody told him, "If you will
worship Lord Shiva, he will give you many boons." So King Bhasma Sur
worshiped Lord Shiva, who was very pleased with him and gave him one
bracelet. And Lord Shiva told him, "If you will put this bracelet on
anybody's head and say `Basum' (which means `turn into ashes') that person
or that thing will turn into ashes and die." So when Lord Shiva gave him
that boon, King Bhasma Sur was looking at Parvati, the wife of Lord Shiva;
she was very beautiful. So King Bhasma Sur thought, "Let me try this
bracelet on Lord Shiva himself so that I can get this very beautiful
Parvati"; because he was also caught up in lust. So when Lord Shiva came to
know this, he started running to prevent Bhasma Sur from putting the bracelet
on his head and saying, "Basum." Because he was so powerful, Lord Shiva hid
the upper part of his body in a great mountain. And Bhasma Sur tried that
bracelet on other parts of his body, but it wouldn't work except on his head.
Now when Lord Vishnu saw that Lord Shiva, the giver of boons, was having
such a hard time, he came to his rescue. He came in the form of a very
enchanting lady, more beautiful than Parvati. And he said to Bhasma Sur, "Now
that he has died, let us mourn him. Since he is dead, we should not worry
about all this." When King Bhasma Sur saw another lady more beautiful than
Parvati, he forgot Parvati, and he said, "I don't know how to mourn over a
dead body; you teach me." So Lord Vishnu (who was in the form of a woman)
taught him: "First of all you have to hit here on your knees, and after that
on your chest and after that on your cheeks; then you have to hit like this
on your head." When he was doing that he had that bracelet in his hand and
when he placed his hand and bracelet on his head, at that time Lord Vishnu
said, "Basum" ("turn into ashes") and Bhasma Sur became dead ashes. And Lord
Vishnu told Lord Shiva, "Now he is gone; you come out now. He will not do
any harm to you."
So Lord Shiva came out; but he was full of lust. He saw the beautiful
woman, whom he didn't recognize as Lord Vishnu, and he thought of enjoying
with her. When Lord Vishnu understood that, he started running; and Lord
Shiva was chasing him. But Lord Vishnu rebuked him: "Oh Shiva, think what
you are doing! I am not any woman, I am Vishnu!" And then Shiva realized
that he was making a mistake. So even these great gods Vishnu and Shiva were
also caught up in lust, and when that lust came, they also fell down.
Siringi Rishi and Durbasa Muni were also defeated
after doing their austerities
Many great and mighty men came into this world,
but were stalked by the Hunter, Kal.
Ved Vyas asks Para Rishi, "Should I call you
`Father' or `child'?"
Sing the praises of Satguru so that you
may cut the sin of birth.
The day before yesterday I told the story of Siringi Rishi; maybe you
people remember that. Durbasa Muni was a Guru of Lord Krishna. When he went
into the heavens, he saw Fairy Ulwashi there, and he was deceived by her;
and enjoying with her he produced Shakuntala (there is a great Sanskrit
drama on Shakuntala, which is still performed in India). So Mahatmas say
that many great people came into this world but the Hunter, the Negative
Power, finished everybody. In the same way Parasur Rishi did austerities
for 88,000 years; but when he was coming back to his home, on the way there
was one river. He told the ferryman, "Take me across the river." The
ferryman was eating his food and he said, "Mahatmaji, wait for a few minutes
and let me finish this eating; after that I will take you across." But he
said, "No! Take me right now, otherwise I will give you a curse." Because
those who are practicing this hatha yoga, they only know how to curse
people, and they use their powers only in this way. So the daughter of the
ferryman said, "Father, I will take him across the river; you keep on
eating." Whatever work the parents are doing, children also learn that. So
the ferryman's daughter told Parasur to sit in the boat, and she started
taking him across the water.
Now Parasur had never seen a woman before in his life; he had always
spent his time in the forest. This was the first time that he had seen the
woman. As he looked at her he was caught up in lust and he felt like
enjoying with her. He expressed his desire to do that, but the ferryman's
daughter replied, "We eat fish, so from our mouth the bad smell of fish is
always coming, and you are a great Mahatma; if you smell that, it is not
good for you." He said, "Don't bother about that!" and using his
supernatural powers he removed the bad smell of fish from her mouth and
replaced it with a beautiful fragrance.
Then he was going to enjoy with her, but she said, "You see the sun god?
He is a god, and he is looking at our bad deed; that is not a good thing for
you." So he said, "Don't worry about him either!" And taking some water in
his hand and using his supernatural powers, he created such a fog that
nobody could see them, not even the sun god.
Then she made another excuse and said, "Now that water god is looking
at us; he will witness our bad deed, and that is not good." He said, "Don't
you worry about him either," and using the rest of his supernatural power
he turned all the water into sand; and nobody was left to look at them. He
enjoyed with the ferryman's daughter, and in that way he spoiled all the
fruit of his austerities for 88,000 years.
So Ved Vyas, who was Parasur's son, when he wrote this story of Parasur,
said, "What shall I call you? Son or father? Because caught up by lust and
controlled by it, you spoiled all the meditation of 88,000 years, and that
is not a small time."
In one moment Narada lost the fruit of the austerities
which he had performed for sixty thousand years.
When he was hurt by the god of lust, he cried,
holding his head.
Then he caused his own face to be made into
that of a monkey - and he cursed Vishnu.
Sing the praises of Satguru so that you
may cut the sin of birth.
Now Mastana Ji is presenting the example of Rishi Narada, who did
austerities for 60,000 years. But the Negative Power is very great, and in
his will Maya came in the form of a woman to Narada. She had a sign on her
arm saying, "Whoever marries this woman will become immortal." So when Rishi
Narada read that, he thought, "If I marry this woman it is just like killing
two sparrows with one stone: I will enjoy with her and I will become immortal
too."
But then he thought, "I have done the austerities and practices all my
life; my body has become weak; who knows whether she will like my face or
not?" So he went to Lord Vishnu and requested him to make him so beautiful
that that woman should garland only him and should marry only him. But
Vishnu thought, "This foolish man is going to fall down"; and he didn't want
him to fall down, so he turned his face into the face of a monkey instead of
a very beautiful face.
So Rishi Narada came to the place where that woman, that Maya, was going
to garland and choose her husband. And when that woman passed by Rishi Narada
without garlanding him, he thought, "Maybe she has not seen me; because I am
very beautiful, she should have put the garland on my neck and made me her
husband, but maybe she has not seen me." So he left that chair and he went
and sat on another chair and she passed by without looking at him; she didn't
even look at him because he had the face of a monkey, and who would look at
the face of a monkey? But Narada thought, "Maybe she has forgotten this time
also to look at me; let me go and try on the other side." So again Narada
went and sat on another chair, but still that lady passed by him and didn't
give any attention to him.
He got very upset when he saw that she had chosen someone else as her
husband, and came to her in anger and said, "Why didn't you look at me? You
have made the wrong selection. You look at my face: I am the most beautiful
person in this meeting!" She said, "At least, go and look at your face in the
mirror." And when he did, he saw that his face was the face of a monkey.
Then he came to Lord Vishnu and gave him a curse. He said, "Only for the
sake of a woman you have given me this hard time. You have played a joke with
me; and I am giving you a curse: that for a woman you will get much blame and
you will wander here and there - only for the woman." And that curse came
true when in his next incarnation, Lord Vishnu came as Lord Rama. When Sita
was kidnapped by Ravana, Lord Rama had to fight many battles and wander here
and there in the forest only for her.
So here Mastana Ji says that Rishi Narada did austerities for sixty
thousand years and, at first, thought that he was above lust. But when lust
came, he changed his mind: because when he saw that woman, that Maya, he
also fell down.
King Voj was a very prominent king in India, and he was a very learned
scholar. His prime minister, Kalidas, was one of the wisest prime ministers
in India and he was also a learned scholar. So once the wives of King Voj
and Kalidas were talking with each other and they were saying how much their
husbands loved them. The wife of King Voj, Queen Panavati, said to the wife
of Kalidas, "My husband loves me very much; whatever I want him to do, he
will do it." And Kalidas' wife also said the same thing. So the Queen said,
"All right; we will test them and see what they will do for us."
When the King came home, he saw that the Queen was lying on the bed; she
didn't say anything to the King and she didn't welcome him. He thought, "What
is the problem? Maybe she is upset with me." He asked her, "What is the
matter? Why are you lying down? Are you all right?" She said, "What is the
use of becoming a queen? I have not even seen a donkey in your kingdom. What
is the use of becoming a queen?" He said, "Where is the difficulty in
bringing a donkey? There are many donkeys. I can bring thousands for you
tomorrow." But she said, "I am dying now, I am thirsty now. If you are
telling me you will give me water tomorrow, how can I survive till tomorrow?
I want to see a donkey now. " So he said, "I can't bring any donkey now, but
I can show you how a donkey looks." He became like a donkey, putting his
hands on the floor, and he said, "The donkey look like this; he has four
legs and a tail and all these things."
But she said, "Only by looking at you becoming a donkey, I cannot enjoy
riding on the donkey." He said, "All right, come and climb on me and I will
walk as the donkey walks." She did that; but even then she was not satisfied.
So King Voj started making a noise like the donkeys make, braying loudly.
Then the queen was satisfied. And the King told her, "You see, I love you
very much; because whatever you told me, I did. I am a very faithful husband.
Nobody else is as faithful as I am." But Queen Panavati replied, "You will
see that Kalidas also is faithful to his wife. Tomorrow you will see his
beard, his very beautiful beard, all clean shaven."
Meanwhile, when Kalidas came home, the same drama was played by his wife
also. He asked her, "What's the matter? Why are you not talking with me?" She
said, "I know how much you love me; you won't even shave your beard if I tell
you to!" He said, "This is a very small matter. Tomorrow I will go to the
barber and shave my beard." She said, "No, I am thirsty now. If you won't
give me water till tomorrow, how will I survive?" So he said, "All right. If
you want my beard to be shaved, bring scissors and cut my beard." So she did.
Now King Voj thought that nobody knew that he had become as a donkey, and
Kalidas thought that only because of obeying his wife he had shaved his beard.
So next day when King Voj and Kalidas met, and when the King saw that Kalidas
had his beard and head shaved (in India, the sons shave their heads only when
the parents die), he said, "At what place have you shaved?" (meaning, "At
what place have you done the funeral rites of your father?") He replied, "At
the same place where you became the donkey."
In the same way, we people do meditation and we people understand
ourselves as chaste also. But we never think that there is Somebody else Who
knows us, Who is seeing our every single deed. We should also try to abstain
from lust because there is Somebody Who looks and Who is watching our every
single thought, word and deed.
In this dark Kali Yuga, the True Satguru,
the True Power has come.
O Living God of the Param Sant, You caught
Maya and made her dance.
Mastana Ji says, "Deal in the True Merchandise:
Truth knows no fear!"
Sing the praises of Satguru so that you
may cut the sin of birth.
In this Shabd, Mastana Ji has not criticized any rishis or mums. In their
histories, as recorded in the Hindu scriptures, these stories are told in the
same way as in this shabd. But he is talking about the Satguru Power. He says,
"By getting that Power, we can be free from all these five dacoits: lust,
anger, greed, attachment and egoism."
In this dark Kali Yuga or Iron Age, our thoughts are scattered very much,
and we are indulging in the worldly pleasures very much. Here he is referring
to the histories of the Perfect Saints who came in this world. Guru Nanak
went to Bengal, where women knew black magic. He was accompanied by his
friend and disciple Mardana, to whom the women were very attracted; and
through the power of their magic they turned Mardana into a sheep. All day
they would kept Mardana in the form of a sheep, and all night they enjoyed
lust with him. When Guru Nanak saw that his friend, his disciple, was being
tortured like this, he came there and gave good teachings to those women.
After giving Initiation to them, he improved their lives. And this bad
practice which was going on in Bengal was stopped.
When Emperor Jehangir came to know about Guru Har Gobind, the Guru was
very young, and many young women were coming to him. And the Emperor thought,
"How can he be free from lust?" So to test him he sent many prostitutes to
go and see what Guru Har Gobind was doing. But after having the company of
Guru Har Gobind for a few days, they would also get Initiation: they would
leave the business which they had been doing.
Similarly, Guru Gobind Singh was very handsome and very young when he
became the Master. And one of his lady disciples, whose name was Anukar,
became fond of him and she had some bad thoughts, of enjoying lust with him.
Many times Guru Gobind Singh tried to tell her that she should forget this,
but she would always think like that. She was living in the Ashram where
Guru Gobind Singh was living, and once when she saw that nobody else was
around, she tried to embrace Guru Gobind Singh; but he gave her two slaps
and rebuked her.
So those who are Perfect Saints, this Maya or this lust cannot do any
harm to them. That's why Mastana Ji says here that in the dark Iron Age, the
real Satguru, the real Power, has come. Because in the Iron Age we are very
much indulging in worldly pleasures and our thoughts have become very swift
and very scattered in this world. That's why, to help us to control that,
the real Power of the Sat Punish has come down in the world in the body of
the Mahatma. And that Sat Punish Power comes to us and explains that the
physical knot of lust, anger, greed, attachment and egoism is at the eye
center and the astral knot of all these things, or astral residence of all
these things, is in Trikuti. And until you cross Trikuti, until you go
beyond Trikuti, you cannot be free from all this. That's why they tell us
to rise above and go beyond Trikuti, the second plane.
We know that when we are living in America, we have to obey the rules
and regulations of America, and the American government also has some claim
on us. But when we go and take citizenship of any other country, America
will not have any power, or any claim on us, and we will not have to follow
any rules and regulations of this country. After that, the rules and
regulations of the other country will be applied to us. In the same way, as
long as we are in the kingdom of the Negative Power, that Negative Power has
a claim on us and we are easily trapped by him. But when we rise above the
kingdom of Negative Power and go into our real kingdom, after that there is
no question of having the danger of all these things: lust, and all the
other passions.
In the same way, Maya came in the form of a woman customer to Kabir
also, who was working as a weaver; she requested him to make a piece of
cloth for her very soon. Kabir Sahib said, "No, this is my rule: that I work
for each customer in turn. Wait for some time until your turn has come, and
I will do your work." But Maya started tempting Kabir Sahib. She said, "I
will give you two rupees more if you will do my work first." And Kabir Sahib
knew that this was Maya and she wanted to tempt him. But Param Sants are
never trapped by Maya. So he said, "All right. You wait here, I am just
coming, and I will do your work very soon." He brought a sharp knife with
which he was cutting thread, and he cut her ears and nose. And then he wrote
this hymn: I have cut the nose and ears of Maya and told her, "You are the
enemy of all Saints and beloved of the three worlds; you should go to the
worldly people and not come to the Saints. "
Whenever Maya came to the perfect Saints, the perfect Saints punished
her; they were not affected by her. That's why Mahatmas tell us that after
getting Shabd Naam, you should not only sit there, you should meditate on
that and rise above and become one with Shabd Naam. And then you will have
risen above all these five passions and all this worldly pleasure. And then
you will realize how that real Power has come in this Iron Age and how that
real Power, that Shabd Power is working.
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