Rev. Nand Ahuja ji, President SNM Colorado, Denver branch visited
Phoenix, AZ from Dec 8-11, 2017. During his visit, two congregasion were
held where saints recieved Rev. Ahuja ji's blessings. Following is a brief
summary of wisdom enriched words of various saints and the final discourse
from Rev. Nand Ahuja ji during the congregation held on Sunday, Dec 10,
2017.
We come to the congregation, to let the feelings of cooperation
and service prosper further, and to learn from fellow saints and their lives.
This is the greatness of congregation, that we're not limited to learning
from ancient scriptures alone - we get to learn from saints who spend their
entire lives in giving happiness and peace to others. God remembrance is
achieved by multiple channels, some stay awake the whole night, some spend
their time in worshipping through service. From the congregation, we're
able to see the person as a whole and are not limited to looking their outward
appearances. We see the spiritual existence in them. This is the basis of
the Nirankari mission. When we bow to them, we don't bow to their physical
form but rather the spiritual being in them.
Satguru has given us
this divine knowledge so we can make our life whole, complete. There is
a verse from the Upanishads, whatever we can see with our eyes is complete,
This Nirankar is also complete. If we disintegrate the matter, we will get
to the smallest possible form of matter and energy and then even smaller
is nothing, but there is Nirankar there. Those who can adapt this completeness
in their life can feel blessed. We fear about energy that can harm us, a
wild animal may not hurt us, someone may not shoot us, worries is what saints
say we can get rid of when we are complete and are connected to Nirankar.
When we have human values of tolerance, compassion and love in our heart,
then we are complete, we have no fear then. The saint only fear that they
don’t do anything that their Satguru won’t be happy to learn, that they
don’t hurt or dishonor the saints.
Gurbani says there is no incompleteness
or shortness, our soul forgets the presence of this Nirankar, that’s why
he feels incomplete. We seek worldly titles, like a politician wants to
be a minister, then Chief Minister and then Prime Minister. However this
Nirankar has already blessed us with this complete life, we have to realize
it. What is this shortcoming that is disturbing us? Any material thing,
position, status, relationship, etc. never completes us. When we get a title,
we feel scared that of losing the title as we think what will others think
of us. When we are not attached to divine knowledge, when we are not attached
to Nirankar and the teachings of the Satguru, then we feel incomplete. Anger,
ego is most harmful to us. Anger comes to those who have a lot of ego. The
scriptures teach us that we should be a witness of what we are doing and
thinking. We know the best who we are, not our siblings, not our parents,
not our friends. We know who we truly are. We have to be witness of our
3rd personality. The more we watch it and get rid of it, the more we will
feel connected to Nirankar. We learn all this when we come to sangat. Completeness
should be our aim and goal and we should strive to get to that goal.
Gurbani says: Our troubles end with remembrance of God. A saint share
a story where they were at a funeral and there was tea served in disposable
glasses. Some people threw the glasses out. Some saints collected the paper
glasses after the funeral and burned them in order to clean the grounds.
Other people present were impressed by such actions since no one in the
past had cleaned the grounds after the event. People clean prior to the
event and not after. Similarly when we hold Samagam, we clean the ground
with enormous sewa from the saints since it is asked by the Satguru.
We often feel our abilities are ours, and forget that they are blessings
of the Satguru. May we always remember who is giving us the abilities. We
seek an immediate resolution to all problems. During State of thoughtlessness,
we are truly one with God. God is perfection! There is always room for improvement
in everything we do.
The youth also sang a devotional song titled:
Humanness
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