As i said before..."rattan" or Parrotting of any one word is not even in the equation..Gurbani is NOT a Mantra..its JEEVAN JAACH..the RECIPE..the TOOL BOX for LIFE.
People just pick up on ONE WORD..and say..AHA..here it is "NAAM"..this is it..this is what i ahve to repeat..and repeat..and i am done...ALL those shabads are there..BUT once ina while GURU JI makes it all so very very crystal clear..that we are left with no choice but to UNDERSTAND..the GURMATT..or continue with Blinkers ON...plodding on repeating mantras...
Hear what Guru ramdass Ji says..at Page 304 of SGGS..
“ਸਤਿਗੁਰ ਕੀ ਬਾਣੀ ਸਤਿ ਸਰੂਪੁ ਹੈ ਗੁਰਬਾਣੀ ਬਣੀਐ॥ ” (ਪੰਨਾ 304)
The Satgurus Bani is His sat Sroop....BECOME "GURBANI" !! Now how cna a person..become Gurbani ?? will he chnage his shape to a language//sound...paper..book form...written form...as THOSE are the Normal Forms of GURBANI we know of..as in SGGS..its in written form..in ink..on paper...can be read..heard..sung..looked at..etc. Are we expected to change into that..or else HOW to BECOME GURBANI ??
The answer is SIMPLE....we have to BECOME what GURBANI TEACHES...we have to FOLLOW the RECIPE...USE the TOOLS provided to BECOME..as the SAT...whose GURBANI is there in SGGS... Why were the GURUS...GURU...they had the very same "human bodies" as you and Me...BUT the difference between them and us...is they had BECOME GURBANI..they were SAT..of SATGURU..the SATNAAM in PRACTISE !! not just chanters..mutterers of whatever word...Guru Arjun Ji was GURBANI..thats why the Burning Hot Plate couldnt hurt Him at all..He was TRUTH..the SAT...He was the "fire" below the Plate..He was the human body sitting on the plate...He was Himself..He was "Chnadu"..He was the Jalaad..he was "Jehangir"....while Me is merely "me" and You are "you"....the Fire will BURN me and burn YOU as equally...simply becasue we havent become GURBANI...we spend our time muttering and parotting..words..misinformed that we are doing "naam simran"..Naam Simran is NOT OUTSIDE..it CHANGES us form WITHIN.
Heres what we call swaas swaas Naam Simran...SGGS Page 1256
“ਬਿਨੁ ਜਿਹਵਾ ਜੋ ਜਪੈ ਹਿਆਇ॥ ਕੋਈ ਜਾਣੈ ਕੈਸਾ ਨਾਉ॥ ” (ਮਲਾਰ ਮਹਲਾ 1, ਪੰਨਾ 1256)
Japping WITHOUT the TONGUE !! DOING IT..not muttering it...BECOMING NAAM..not "window shopping"...being actually INSIDE the shop..buying the merchandise and wearing it.....
“ਹਿਰਦੈ ਜਪਉ ਨੇਤ੍ਰ ਧਿਆਨੁ ਲਾਵਉ ਸ੍ਰਵਨੀ ਕਥਾ ਸੁਨਾਏ॥ ਚਰਣੀ ਚਲਉ ਮਾਰਗਿ ਠਾਕੁਰ ਕੈ ਰਸਨਾ ਹਰਿ ਗੁਣ ਗਾਏ॥” {ਸਾਰਗ ਮਹਲਾ 5-ਪੰਨਾ 1204}
SGGS page 1204....japp within..in the eyes keep His Image...dhian...ears listening to His vadaiyee..FEET walking along His Path...and the Tongue singing His Praises...
In such a situation..one BECOMES the SAT...the GURBANI..no more evil deeds thoughts..no more enmies..no more haumai..jelaousy..everyone is loved...the "feet" always want only to walk His paath..the eyes always want His Image..the ears his sift salaah..his praises..the tongue always His Praises and never harsh words..words of enmity...words of anger..sarbatt da bhalla always...such a situation is BECOMING GURBANI !! This is Naam Simran.
When we reach this stage of Becoming GURBANI/SAT..we begin to really SEE WAHEGURU..in His creation...everything becomes so WONDROUS...all those lovley flowers..animals..creatures big and small He created..the worlds..the stars..the oceans..all begin to be seen in a New LIGHT..WONDER..WAH WAH WAH GURU !!we see exactly as HE SEES....we do exactly as HE DOES...just see how wondrous He is..how much creation has already passed..how much is coming...how many seeds have grown..and returned to earth..how much water....how many joons..snowflakes..stars..galaxies..WAH WAH WAH GURU !!!
Simply muttering one word..maybe waheguru/satnaam or something else..while holding jelaousy..haumai..anger..krodh..hankaar..pride..duality..greed etc etc alive WITHIN is a complete waste of time...will Never allow us to BECOME GURBANI !!! how can merely reading arecipe result us in tasting the cake..we have to read the recipe..buy the ingredients..prepare them..get the equipment..mix it all up..BAKE IT..and then even more important..PUT IT in our MOUTH to taste it...KHAVO..BHUNCHO..eat..chew..taste..digest..to get maximum benefit..or its all a waste of time..
How does our Founder satguru nanak Ji describe this "WOW FACTOR"...read Page 463/464 vaar Asa of Sggs..
“ਵਿਸਮਾਦੁ ਨਾਦ ਵਿਸਮਾਦੁ ਵੇਦ॥ ਵਿਸਮਾਦੁ ਜੀਅ ਵਿਸਮਾਦੁ ਭੇਦ॥ ਵਿਸਮਾਦੁ ਰੂਪ ਵਿਸਮਾਦੁ ਰੰਗ॥ ਵਿਸਮਾਦੁ ਨਾਗੇ ਫਿਰਹਿ ਜੰਤ॥ ਵਿਸਮਾਦੁ ਪਉਣੁ ਵਿਸਮਾਦੁ ਪਾਣੀ॥ ਵਿਸਮਾਦੁ ਅਗਨੀ ਖੇਡਹਿ ਵਿਡਾਣੀ॥ ਵਿਸਮਾਦੁ ਧਰਤੀ ਵਿਸਮਾਦੁ ਖਾਣੀ॥ ਵਿਸਮਾਦੁ ਸਾਦਿ ਲਗਹਿ ਪਰਾਣੀ॥ ਵਿਸਮਾਦੁ ਸੰਜੋਗੁ ਵਿਸਮਾਦੁ ਵਿਜੋਗੁ॥ ਵਿਸਮਾਦੁ ਭੁਖ ਵਿਸਮਾਦੁ ਭੋਗੁ॥ ਵਿਸਮਾਦੁ ਸਿਫਤਿ ਵਿਸਮਾਦੁ ਸਾਲਾਹ॥ ਵਿਸਮਾਦੁ ਉਝੜ ਵਿਸਮਾਦੁ ਰਾਹ॥ ਵਿਸਮਾਦੁ ਨੇੜੈ ਵਿਸਮਾਦੁ ਦੂਰਿ॥ ਵਿਸਮਾਦੁ ਦੇਖੈ ਹਾਜਰਾ ਹਜੂਰਿ॥ ਵੇਖਿ ਵਿਡਾਣੁ ਰਹਿਆ ਵਿਸਮਾਦੁ॥ ਨਾਨਕ ਬੁਝਣੁ ਪੂਰੈ ਭਾਗਿ॥ 1॥ ” {ਸਲੋਕ ਮ:1, ਪੰਨਾ 463-464}...How we wonder ?? how great and wondrous He is ....wondering we too ENTER into the Vismaad stage..become GURBANI.....practically..IT is at THIS STAGE..wehn we cry out WAH WAH WAHEGURU..SPONTANEOUSLY...thats Naam Simran...and this is the stage which Bhahgat Kabir Ji describes..
“ਕਬੀਰ ਸੁਪਨੈ ਹੂ ਬਰੜਾਇ ਕੈ, ਜਿਹ ਮੁਖਿ ਨਿਕਸੈ ਰਾਮੁ॥ ਤਾ ਕੇ ਪਗ ਕੀ ਪਾਨਹੀ, ਮੇਰੇ ਤਨ ਕੋ ਚਾਮੁ॥ 63॥” (ਪੰਨਾ 1367)
EVEN in DREAMS...the Wondrous Lord..WAHEGURU emerges from the MOUTH...Raam Raam is muttered by the sleeping human !!! This is TRUE Naam Simran..and this Stage is reached after PRACTISING LIVING and BECOMING GURBANI....something which a mechanically robotic repeater of just a word cannot hope to reach...he is more into "counting" how many wahegurus he said...
A true naam simranning person attains the following..
“ਕਾਲੁ ਮਾਰਿ ਮਨਸਾ ਮਨਹਿ ਸਮਾਣੀ ਅੰਤਰਿ ਨਿਰਮਲੁ ਨਾਉ॥ ਅਨਦਿਨੁ ਜਾਗੈ ਕਦੇ ਨ ਸੋਵੈ ਸਹਜੇ ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤੁ ਪਿਆਉ॥ ਮੀਠਾ ਬੋਲੇ ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤ ਬਾਣੀ ਅਨਦਿਨੁ ਹਰਿ ਗੁਣ ਗਾਉ॥ ਨਿਜ ਘਰਿ ਵਾਸਾ ਸਦਾ ਸੋਹਦੇ ਨਾਨਕ ਤਿਨ ਮਿਲਿਆ ਸੁਖੁ ਪਾਉ॥ 2॥ ” {ਮ: 3, ਪੰਨਾ 853}
A person who has killed his inner desires..the Maya moh..and is forever immersed in His Praises..is forever AWAKE spiritually and never sleeps in Maya...always speaks the sweet Amrti Bani of His SatGuru...Living His Gunns and..these are the people who are forever in SUKH..in His Company..they have BECOME GURBANI..have becoem the SAT as Guru ramdass Ji described...
Abundantly CLEAR that GURBANI must be LIVED..practised...PRACTICALLY in REAL TIME..no tricks..no mantras..no jugglery...just plain LIVING and BECOMING GURBANI/SAT.:welcome: