The moment that stays in the moment,
even when there are moments in life,
how do we identify the great form of life?
Today, I am in a small park where newly wedded couples have their pictures taken. It is a beautiful place, and before I present today's topic I will briefly try an answer a query that I have received about the video on Hazrat Muhammad.
To ask questions is very important in life. This is a crucial step that will allow us to appreciate and value the importance of what understanding means. In deep selfless LOVE, silence will automatically take its roots. This in itself is the way for pure LOVE to pervade its fragrance of beauty in the vastness beatitude of eternal silence!
Both happiness and love constitute lasting peace. However, in this tranquillity, a person may mistakenly assume that one is sad - a notion far from reality. Lack of understanding is the root cause of ignorance and slavery, simply because of the fact that we have very little understanding of LIFE let alone peace, faith and the feeling that arises from the very core of BEINGNESS.
God's true form is described as Sat (Being) Chit (Awareness) Ananda (Bliss). My Beloved Father passed away in my very lap. While praying I gently lay him on the bed. I backed away about 4 feet and all I saw was Father with eyes closed lying peacefully on the bed. At that very moment, and quite strikingly too, I remembered a Punjabi folk song by Hans Raj Hans (a famous singer from India).
It had only been about ten minutes since my father's demise. with tears in my eyes, and the Punjabi folk song on the tip of my tongue, a powerful feeling overwhelms me. "Dad wake up and let us dance", instinctively and intuitively this thought in the form of a spontaneous question (inner voice) emerges.
My father did not live life in peace at all, he worried about everyone and everything around him. In my case, I cannot see myself ever being sad, simply because God has endowed upon me the gift of LIFE far beyond worldly pleasures. I say this quite often, that LIFE is beyond birth and death. The mind is your biggest problem - it is the major culprit running rampant with your ceaseless and unfounded and meaningless thoughts. The vacillating mind always finds a way to be unhappy!
Now I will come to the topic of the day: Suhag.
This is my first Suhag Punjabi rendition, and I dedicate it to the following three children namely, Ravi, Jivanji, and Fakir.
I first sang it at my brothers wedding 28 years ago! Two brothers are getting married, and my father has seen the brides family. The bride's name is Nisha, and her elder Sister-in-law's name is Bhupinder. Nisha is very beautiful indeed, and she happened to be 9 years younger than my brother. Being me, I was not sure whose side I was on... I have always disliked inequality. So I asked Nisha if she was deliberately pressured and forced to get married against her wishes. I told her plainly, that you are too beautiful to marry my brother who is not even that handsome. I told her to disclose everything without worrying unnecessarily about the probable consequences. I clarified that I will support her irrespective of her final decision.
Nisha confirmed that she is happy to get married to my brother. She then said, "I do not want to say no because I want to be around you". Both my brothers were living in Holland at the time. I told her, that there is a likelihood of my not being able to meet you.
In life, we tend to confuse everything and make a mess of every situation we get ourselves into. As the saying goes, "We should love the art form and not the artist."
We do not have the time to fully appreciate and understand the essence of LIFE. What we are seeing (i.e. the world) is truly a spiritual phenomenon. yet we take this so lightly brushing aside the magnanimity of God's priceless creation. It is the very core Atma or Consciousness that is responsible for the 'seeing' taking place. The eyes are simply the physical tools through which we discern the physical world. In short, the entire world 'seen' through the eyes is presented in our Consciousness within! Think about this?
Anyway, I was with Nisha, in her room, and upon her approval to marry my younger brother, I recited to her the Suhag song to my heart's content.
Finally, I wish to redress what I have been saying for the last few days, and that is, please relax and worry not about the current situation at all. You must muster faith, courage, and endurance to remain in peace and happiness at all times.
This is going to be a short video because I have a very important meeting today, so please keep me in your thoughts and prayers.
I hope that you have enjoyed today's presentation and the Suhag song. Please do comment to let me know your thoughts. Thank you and may God Bless you ALL in abundance!