Sri Swamiji’s speech about “Jyoti Velgindi Sadguru Jyoti Veligindi

[Guest guest]

What is the meaning of this Bhajan? Let is discuss it.

Akali means hunger. Why do we get hungry ? Why does it bother us? How is hunger

connected with liberation? Many times we get the feeling that we don’t want

anything. You don’t want family, you don’t want responsibilities and such

feelings. Then within ten minutes this feeling disappears and you enjoy the

shackles you have voluntarily put on. You are vacillating between two extremes.

Many don’t take Teertha in temples saying they may catch cold. This is an

extreme. We have to lead a moderate life between the extremes. We should not

feel depressed. We have to welcome sickness that comes sometimes. Because this

body is not our property. This Atma makes this body its temporary home. After

all it may stay for 60 years or 70 or 80 or a maximum of 100 years. You have a

license to enjoy this for that period only. Then it has to be surrendered to

mother earth from whose elements it is made up of. Handle this body with care.

Be careful. We are just 100

years leaseholders. You understand? After the lease period, you have to

surrender it to its makers and your soul looks for new agreements. IT may go to

another country and it may become an insect or a bird or an animal. We only have

a seasonal ticket to be in here. The body sometimes feels hungry. It is not

physical hunger. But tired from the excessive traveling you have put it through.

At least in this birth you have the association of the Sadguru. We have the

great opportunity of having a good Sadguru for Satsang. Do penance with Me.

Think about God. That is the food for the hunger ridden Atma. It demands divine

knowledge. The food is the teachings of the Sadguru.

 

Next it says…

I am lost in this world. I have sadness in dream state. I have sadness in

wakeful state. O’ My God!! You are invisible and so are my problems. They are

invisible yet they torment me. I cannot understand. I cannot explain my

problems. I give them some silly problems to make them feel that I really have

problems. I am confused if the body is tormented by the metal sickness or if the

mind is depressed by the sick body. I have many thinking and I have many

problems.

Daaham means thirst. This is not thirst in the normal sense. It is thirst of the

mind. It is confusion and tension. That is the thirst. Who can solve our

problems? No Guru can relieve your problems. We are not only bodily unhappy but

mentally also unhappy. It is a big confusion. Confusion from what ? From body,

from mind, from family, from career and from everything. It is all a big mixture

of everything. See the water in the ocean. Can you drink it ? I don’t. At

least in my area we don’t. I don’t know about Cochin people. Do they drink

seawater ? No. No. There is such abundance in water. But not drinkable. One

person has everything. Good family, money, bank balance, work in Dubai, Good

family. Thirty grandchildren. New cars, He knows many ministers. But he would

still be unhappy. He has an inexplicable unhappiness. His moods change every

thirty seconds. But he needs to close his moods. Then only he can proceed. HE

has Moha. Moha is like a fatal

attraction. He still wants more. He still worries about the daughter in

America. He has a son who needs to be worried about with him. Still he worries

about that distant daughter. This type of distant worrying brings no answers.

This condition with daughter is called Moha. But your account is being debited.

She has to undergo her Karma. You can pray God to help her and ask God for

strength to her. But sitting here and worrying?

This is wrong.

The wheel of times goes on. The minute of the last hour can never be regained.

The Kaala (time) goes on. No one can stop it. When Yama comes to take you, no

persuasion can stop him. He is a very strict officer. He will not hear any

wailings. May it be an important responsibility of daughter or anything. He will

not wait. That fear of the wheel of time will always be in our mind. This moment

will never repeat. The next moment will be different. Different vibrations,

different taste, different situation. All that you will have from the lost time

is its memories. Time never repeats.

The fear in us has to go one day. How does it go? Only with the friendship of a

Sadguru. Fear and Jnana do not stay together. The tension as to what happens

next has to go. Definitely go. The friendship of a Sadguru removes fear, paving

way for the intellect to grow unhindered and in a pure circumstance. Peace comes

then. Then the inexplicable happiness pours all over you. All problems seem

trivial and they melt and disappear. The happiness that comes from sacred

friendship is not explicable. You will feel light then. You feel that life has a

greater meaning. The existence has a greater purpose. Sadguru friendship brings

silence. Silence brings such happiness. Many of you don’t know. You will then

decide that this is the path for you. From that happiness you will get

compassion to this creation. From that compassion comes Datta’s grace.

So, you learn from this Bhajan that the body is very important. Chanting the

names of God also brings you to this path. When you call the names of God, the

sound has to come from naval region. Not from your throat (Swamiji mimics

various sounds). See how it sounds. DATTA DATTA from throat and DATTA DATTA from

navel. It is so different.

Also don’t pray God to punish your enemies. You have to pray that they should

get good habits. Or you can ask for strength to stand them. That is the ultimate

prayer. This is what is known as compassion mentioned in this Bhajan.

Jaya Guru Datta