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From Bandginama by Raghbir Singh
Through repetition of God’s Name, we begin to be moulded in His pattern and we begin, to assimilate His virtues. The story goes that a certain Man told a Mahatma of his yearning to find God. The Mahatma advised him to repeat God’s Name. The man rejoined, “When I resort to
Nam, my mind wanders.” The Mahatma asked, “What do you hold in dearest affection?”
He replied,“My milch-buffalo is my dearest possession.”
From Guru Arjan Dev
The Mahatma said,“In seclusion, visualize your milch-buffalo”
The man did what he was told he closed the doors of his room and concentrated his mind on the buffalo. The man’s wife complained to the Mahatma that her husband had shut himself up in his room for days together and showed no signs of emerging from it. The Mahatma went to the man’s house and asked him to come out of his room. He replied, “How can I come out? I am a she-buffalo, my horns are long, and they will not allow me to come out of the room.”
The Mahatma said, “You are right. Now cease to think of the she-buffalo,
think of your real self, and by so doing, you will begin to think of yourself as
a man.”
A few days later, the man went to see the Mahatma. The Mahatma patted him on the back, and said that mental concentration was full of potentialities,“ Just as you turned into a she-buffalo and back again into yourself, similarly, if you so desire, you can transform yourself into an angel, and from an angel into God.”
The value of Nam transcends that of charity, meditation and austerities.
He who meditates on God’s name
realizes all his objectives.
pun dan jap tap jete sabli upari namu
Hai Hari rasna jo japai tis puran kam __________________ ਮਨ ਕਰਹਲਾ ਗੁਰ ਗੋਵਿੰਦੁ ਸਮਾਲਿ ॥ man karehalaa gur govindh samaal O camel-like mind, dwell upon the Guru and the Lord of the Universe. |