Avtar Bani Verse

EK TU HI NIRANKAR [10]
Bande upar vekh jara eh suraj chand sitare ne,
Chamak inha di mukni ek din, mit jaane eh saare ne,
Hethaan vekh jameen aag paani teenaa da vistaar bada,
Ek din ehne vi nahin rehna disday jo sansar khada,
Vaayu jeev aakash vichale suksham roop hai jinna da,
Sada layi eh mit jana aey jod jo judye tinna da,
Eh nau cheeza drishtman ne jisnoo kehnde maya ae,
Dasva brahm inha to nayara ehna vich samaya eh,
Eh sabho kujh mitt jana ae baki kujh nahin rehna yaar,
Kahe avatar hai eho sab kujh is noo hi kehande nirankar

EK TUHI NIRANKAR[10]

O' man, behold above, you see the sun, the moon and the stars;

Their luster will go one day, and they all shall vanish.

Down below, you have the earth, the fire and the water, with vast ramifications;

All the visible world shall too perish one day.

In between, you find the air, the life-spirit and the sky, all in their subtle form;

The close combination of the three shall also end once for all.

These nine elements, which constitute the 'matter' can be seen or visualized;

The Tenth is the Supreme Being (Brahm), distinct from the nine, yet present in them all.

O' my friends, all that is visible shall go and the Nothing shall remain at last;

Avtar says, what remains is, of course, the Everything and this is known as the Formless God (NIRANKAR).

Jaisi Drishti Waisi Srishti - Nirankari Baba

There was a king who was a great admirer of art.. He encouraged artists from all over his country and gave them valuable gifts.

One day an artist came and said to the king, "Oh King! Give me a blank wall in your palace and let me paint a picture on it. It will be more beautiful than anything you have ever seen before. I promise you shall not be disappointed. " Now, the king happened to be constructing a big hall at the rear end of the palace. So he said, "All right you may work on one of the walls in the new hall." So the artist was given the job and he was very pleased indeed.

Just then, another young man said, "Oh King! Please allow me to work on the opposite wall. I too am an artist." The king said, "What would you like to make?"The man said, "My Lord, I shall make exactly what that man will make on the opposite wall. Moreover, I shall do so, without looking at his work.. I would even request you to have a thick curtain put up between the two walls so that either of us can not see the other." Now, that was a tall statement. Everyone in the king's court, including the king and the first artist were intrigued. But the king loved surprises and he decided to give the young fellow a chance.

The following day a thick curtain was put into place and both the artists got to work.The first artist brought in a regular supply of paint, oil, water etc. The second one would come with a cloth and a bucket of water every day.

After a month the first artist told the king that his work was complete and he would like to show it to the king. The king sent for the second artist and asked him, "Young man, when would your work be ready? I am coming to see the first wall this evening." The man said, "My Lord, my wall is ready too!"

The king went to see the first artist's wall. He was very, very impressed with the painting and gave a hefty sum as a reward to the artist.

He then asked for the curtain to be opened up. Lo and behold! The same painting was to be seen on the opposite wall too! Amazing! But true! Each line, each minor detail was exactly as it was on the first wall. But this man had not been seeing what was going on, on the other side of the curtain. So how had he done it? The king wanted to know the secret. He gave a double reward to the fellow. Then he said, "Young man, I am indeed very happy with your work. But you must tell me; how did you do it?" The lad said simply, "It's very easy! I just polished the wall every day! It was a wall made of white marble! The fellow polished it till it shone like a mirror. The reflection of the painting across the room, showed up in it! "

That is what it means to polish yourself.For when we polish our hearts and souls, we see God's reflection within. It is said that the world is a reflection of you.Whatever you are, the world will seem to be that too.

If you are sad, jealous, dejected, angry, restless ... That is what the world will seem to be!

If you are happy, the world will seem to be paradise.

You decide how you want your world to look…

Why Do we shout in anger?

A saint asked his disciples, 'Why do we shout in anger? Why do people shout at each other when they are upset?'Disciples thought for a while, one of them said, 'Because we lose our calm, we shout for that.''But, why to shout when the other person is just next to you?' asked the saint. 'Isn't it possible to speak to him or her with a soft voice? Why do you shout at a person when you're angry?'Disciples gave some other answers but none satisfied the saint.Finally he explained, 'When two people are angry at each other, their hearts distance a lot. To cover that distance they must shout to be able to hear each other. The angrier they are, the stronger they will have to shout to hear each other through that great distance.'Then the saint asked, 'What happens when two people fall in love? They don't shout at each other but talk softly, why? Because their hearts are very close. The distance between them is very small...'The saint continued, 'When they love each other even more, what happens?They do not speak, only whisper and they get even closer to each other in their love. Finally they even need not whisper, they only look at each other and that's all. That is how close two people are when they love each other.'MORAL: When you argue do not let your hearts get distant, do not say words that distance each other more, else there will come a day when the distance is so great that you will not find the path to return.

"Things aren't always what they seem"

Two traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family.
The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the mansion's guest room. Instead the angels were given a space in the cold basement.
As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it. When the younger angel asked why, the older angel replied... "Things aren't always what they seem".
The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very poor, but very hospitable farmer and his wife.
After sharing what little food they had the couple let the angels sleep in their bed where they could have a good night's rest. When the sun came up the next morning the angels found the farmer and his wife in tears. Their only cow, whose milk had been their sole income, lay dead in the field.
The younger angel was infuriated and asked the older angel "how could you have let this happen!? The first man had everything, yet you helped him," she accused. "The second family had little but was willing to share everything, and you let their cow die."
"Things aren't always what they seem," the older angel replied. "When we stayed in the basement of the mansion, I noticed there was gold stored in that hole in the wall.
Since the owner was so obsessed with greed and unwilling to share his good fortune, I sealed the wall so he wouldn't find it. Then last night as we slept in the farmers bed, the angel of death came for his wife. I gave her the cow instead. Things aren't always what they seem."

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Sometimes this is exactly what happens when things don't turn out the way they should. If you have faith, you just need to trust that every outcome is always to your advantage. You might not know it until some time later.

Lord Ganesh Symbolises

Lord Ganesh Symbolises

An elephant's trunk has the strength to uproot a tree as well as the finesse to pick up a needle.
Ganesha's trunk symbolises the fact that the wise person has both immense strength and fine discrimination. Ganesha has large ears. The wise person hears all. He has four hands. In one hand he holds a lotus, the symbol of enlightenment. In the other hand he holds a hatchet. That is, the old karma, all your sanskars, the accumulated good and bad of past deeds get cut when enlightenment comes.
The third hand holds laddus, the round sweet-meats. They are the rewards of a wise life. Ganesha is never shown eating the laddus. The wise man never partakes of the rewards of his deeds. He is not attached to them. The fourth hand is shown blessing the people. The wise man wishes the best for everyone.

Ganesha has only one tusk; the other is shown broken. There is an interesting story as to how Ganesh happened to get an elephant's head and how one tusk got broken. The symbolism of the broken tusk is that the wise person is beyond duality.
We tend to think that we end when our bodies end in the material world. We are the first person. All else is different. This duality is created by the mind which creates the ego to help us survive in this world. This 'me-other' duality is the screen keeping us from realising our real Self, which is beyond body and mind. Once we transcend this duality, we see the entire Universe as a single whole and we become aware of our true Selves. The single tusk of Ganesha symbolises this non-duality. Wisdom allows us to see all as one and ourselves an integral part of the whole.

Ganesha is shown sitting with one foot on the ground and the other resting on his knee, above the ground. The wise person is of this earth, yet not entirely of this earth.

Ganesha is shown seated on a rat. The reason for saying that Ganesha 'rides' on the rat is that the rat is among the greediest of all animals. It will keep nibbling at whatever is available, eating everything it can. Scientifically, too, the rat's teeth keep growing and it has to keep chewing on something to keep these within limits. The rat is a symbol of our senses, which are never satisfied. They crave new experiences, new tastes. Left uncontrolled, they keep growing forever. The wise person rides on his senses. He keeps them under control.

Ganesha is often shown seated in front of a tray of sweets. In these images the rat is shown sitting in front of Ganesha, perhaps a bit to one side, looking up at him. The senses of the wise person are under his control and the rat dare not eat the sweets without the permission of Ganesha.

When we say "Aum Ganeshaya Namah" before starting anything what we are saying is that "In what we are about to do, let wisdom be our guide".

Words from the "Compiler"

Yet to think of composing this article.......

The Art of Unity

Religion is not a belief, religion is that which links man to God. And what is life? It is the aspect of God, it is the aspect which enables Unity to appear as diversity, which develops harmonies out of Universal Sound, which patterns in molds of beauty mind-stuff and matter-stuff. Insight is different from perception in that perception deals with variety, insight takes one toward Unity. It is the apprehension and comprehension of Unity which leads to the understanding of life. This is a process of the heart, not of the head.

Example, when we attend a conference the speakers often have a microphone. Now if start believing that the speech is spoken by the microphone then that is my own ignorance. In context the duty of the microphone is only to portray the voice of the speaker, the actually speech is thus done by him. Similarly we tend to see ourselves as the source of action in this world and that is the moment in which conflict arises. When I see myself as superior in the sense that I contemplate myself as the doer of actions, then ego arises. And where there is ego, there is conflict, because the moment my ego is undermined by something I tend to retaliate to protect it.

That is the point in which war, hatred, greed and destruction arise. The moment when I place more significance on the 'I' in the sentence the whole image is centred around me and myself, and when I see the limelight getting away because of any conduct I tend to act hostile and try to protect my image.

In this whole article, I have used a lot of 'me' and 'I', and it is the point on which we have to stress. The minute 'I' sacrifice the 'me' and 'myself', and but thee and thine before it, then there is no scope for hatred and all of the vices that eliminate love and unity, because I am working for far nobler goals then my own satisfaction.

The point is that we have to rise above these small insignificant conflicts between ego and nobility, because when we do then there is true happiness within our life, then there can be peace and unity. When I work to comfort other, my comfort automatically is taken care off. But I have to start on myself, by surrendering myself and my ego and placing more value on the happiness of others. Like one seed in the soil leads to the growth of many plants, it is in the moment when I live for others I retain true content and peace inside my own life and then I understand what happiness is in context.

However, as a car driver is predominantly in concern with his own car, I have to only look to reform myself, because the moment I am changing the world around me will change automatically and it is peace that we want to awaken today, then we have to have peace within our life first. Let us all work for it.