The World Is My Gurdwara

27 May 04

satnaam satnaam sada sada satnaam ji

beloved of the guru, repescted sangat ji

Here is another thing that my mind has found peace with in the last few days.

I said to Baba Ji I used to go to gurdwara all the time, twice a day , and really missed it since moving away from Southall, and also felt spirituality had gone down.

Baba Ji said that it was just addiction of the brain. It gets into a routine and then craves it. Baba ji also said the whole world is your Gurdwara -- Dharti Dharamsal (JapJi). Whereever god has placed you is the best part of Creation as the Creator is right there with you. So don’t dream of being in other places as you may get born again there due to your attachment/desire for it. Also my mind also thinks it is greener on the other side - gets fed up with this job, this place, this home, and dreams of another job, another place etc.

But now have realised the mind wont be happy by going elsewhere. Actually it will only be happy by doing seva and simran of God wherever it is in the world right now.

So now whereever I go I feel like that is my Gurdwara.

So at home, that is my Gurdwara, family members are sangat, parents are my Guru my duty is to serve them and do simran.

At work, that becomes my Gurdwara, colleagues are my sangat, boss is my Guru and my duty is service and simran.

In the car, that is my Gurdwara, the passengers are my sangat and Guru, and my duty is to serve them and do simran.

Now with Baba Ji's kirpa, I feel the Gurdwara is around me all the time.

The world is my Gurdwara.

Dharti Dharamsal.

Professor Puran Singh Ji also wrote a similar thing, saying that the Gurdwara is a laboratory where we go to learn and to practise service and spirituality. But then we have to apply it in the big wide world.

Thanks.