Jaspal 2006

10 May 06

IK OANKAAR SATNAAM

Dhan Dhan Paar Braham Parmeswar
Dhan Dhan Das Paatshahian and all the bhagats and gurus of all ages
Dhan Dhan Shabad Guru
Dhan Dhan Sat Sangat

Kotan Kot Dandouth Parvaan Karni Jee,

With Gur Kirpa we have put together a list of experiences that we have been blessed with since being blessed by Paar Braham Parmeswar's Gur Prasaadi Naam - SATnaam by Dhan Dhan Baba Jee.  We hope that these experiences are useful to the Great Sat Sangat.

Sada Sukhee Raho Jee

Sada Satnaam

During the early stages of coming into contact with the first great spiritual master (Dassan Das) I was still very much influenced by the Sikh religion and the Amrit-dhaari lifestyle.  Yet the yearning for God remained unfulfilled.  The interactions with this master were like beacons of light and gave hope to the soul.  Master jee renewed the awe for God in me.

Master jee drilled home the importance of Naam for those on the spiritual path.  This led us to receive Naam from SatGuru jee (over the phone).  We were thirsty souls and were curious to find out what this Naam was…

It was more a case of “can’t do any harm to find out” even though in the eyes of orthodox religion we were breaking all the rules.  This was daunting, but at the same time it was a buzz and exciting.

 

 

Experience 1

 

 

Well my first experience was receiving Naam from SatGuru baba Ji over the phone, although I was aware of naam and it’s importance, maya had it’s ounce of scepticism in me.  But sure enough, 10-20 minutes after receiving Naam I started to feel a pulsating sensation coming from the heart area of the body.

 

 

It was a gentle yet overwhelming sensation, it felt like it was travelling through my arms and out of my hands.  It’s hard to describe but felt like I was holding Planet Earth in one palm and the Sun in the other.  I can only atone this feeling to God Himself inside me making His presence felt, showing that He holds the entire creation in His hands.  That feeling continues to this day every time I recite SATNAAM.

 

 

Still being an orthodox amritdhaari I continued to do my nitnem at amritvela but found myself getting impatient to finish it so that I could start my simran – which is what I felt my nitnem was telling me to do.  Simran was amazing, the same energy described above could be felt with different degrees of intensity – sometimes the feeling was so overwhelming I had to stop. 

 

 The feeling was like standing at the top of a beautiful mountain range and looking down to see that you are standing at the summit of an impossibly high cliff to see the beautiful deep blue ocean through the clouds below.

 

Master jee told me that this feeling is what Gurbani refers to as Amrit or Amrit Naam.  Things started to click into place for me in terms of understanding and more importantly, experiencing Gurbani.

 

 

Eventually I moved from physically doing nitnem to listening to it while doing simran and then just doing simran.  When I stopped doing my nitnem altogether my ego made me feel guilty, but my soul was saying there is nothing

higher than simran.

 

 

Experience 2

 

 

One morning while doing my simran I still had shades of guilt about not doing my nitnem anymore.  I went into deep meditation (through God’s Grace), and I saw these beautiful feet.  I felt drawn to do dandauth to them, so I did.  When my forehead got nearer to the feet (almost touching them) I noticed this bright and beautiful light coming from underneath the toenail of this being.  I didn’t understand why this light was coming from here.  I became curious to know who these holy feet belonged to, so I slowly began to look up…

 

 

As I looked up I could see that this being was wearing robes, as I looked toward the face I could see that it was Guru Nanak Dev Jee.  I was dumbstruck!  Guru Jee didn’t look like the pictures we see, His expression was that of excitement, He was looking me straight in the eye.  He didn’t say anything, His expression said it all.  It was like He was saying “Go on, keep going, don’t look back – it will be amazing!”

 

 My heart was pumping so fast, I couldn’t believe I was here in the presence of the Master.  I wanted to cry with joy, but I couldn’t.  At this point He slowly raised His palm and started to move it toward my head.  As soon as the hand touched my head it felt like I transcended into another realm, it was like nothingness, no time, no space – just pure bliss.  Hours, days, months could’ve passed it wouldn’t have mattered because time was not an element in this realm.

 

At the same time I was completely aware of all my surroundings.  I opened my eyes and the feeling of timelessness remained – it was amazing, awe inspiring.

 

 

A few days later I was doubting whether the experience even took place, thinking it was just my imagination.  I had not told anyone about it.  Then, HB Jee sent out an email that quoted many people’s spiritual experiences, one of them described how you will know when you’ve met the True Master – it said “you will know that you are in the presence of the True Master as you will see a brilliant light emanating from the toenail.”  I was amazed, it was like God speaking directly to me and validating the experience I had Himself.

 

 

Experience 3

 

 

Another experience I had was more of a confrontation than anything else.  I was going through a time where money was short and led me to becoming quite insecure about it.  I would worry about money going out even down to last pound.  I started to feel down about this and became quite irritable.  One day N suggested that we went out for a meal where we discussed the situation.  She basically made me feel at ease by saying it doesn’t matter about money – it comes in one day and goes out the other, if God has kept us all this time, He will keep us today and continue to do so tomorrow.

 

 

I felt at ease about the situation and went to bed that night feeling lighter than I had felt for a while.  During the night my daughter woke up and came into our bedroom (as usual), I put her in my place and went and slept on her bed in her bedroom.  Before I went to sleep I did some simran and it felt nice as usual.  I went to bed and I was almost nodding off when I heard a voice whisper ‘hello’ and again ‘hello’.

 

 

I thought it was N and went to raise my head, but could not see her.  All of a sudden I felt overcome with fear and felt pinned to the bed.  I tried to move, but I couldn’t.  I was very frightened, I felt like screaming but felt completely paralyzed.  The I remembered Master jee’s words to recite Satnaam at times of fear – so I said it from within.  The feeling of fear began to disappear.

 

 

With God’s Grace I regained the power to move and felt very strong.  With Satnaam on my breath I asked this energy to show itself if it would dare.  What I saw was the face of a middle aged Caucasian woman with scruffy hair and over-the-top smudged make-up.  From within I said ‘you come to scare me, is that the best you can do?’  Then I said ‘you cant beat me I have Satnaam in my heart.’  The face disappeared – defeated.

 

 

I feel this energy was the departing of the energy that had gotten me down about money.  This was a doot that came from within – the lobh (greed) doot.  These energies may come again, but I know that through God’s infinite grace I am equipped with the Truth.

 

 

Experience 4

 

 

We were blessed to go and do darshan of Dhan Dhan Baba jee and spent a week with Him.  It felt like it was a week long open-eye smadhi, it was a fantastic experience.  During the week the ladies were talking general chit chat and Shoti Mata asked N if we plan to have any more children (we had our daughter G with us at the time), she replied casually that we were considering it.  A few hours later Shoti Mata said that she had spoken to Baba jee and He has done Kirpa on you.

 

 

This basically meant that He had blessed us with a child.  N and I looked at each other and thought we didn’t come here for that.  At that point Baba jee said something like “Bin Mungay Icha Purak” – which meant He gives without being asked.  He said that we would be blessed with a bhagat.  We were still taken back by it all – but inside we were smiling.

 

 

Baba jee turned to a blessed 14 yr boy in the sangat who could see other realms very quickly and asked him to go to Dargah and see who is coming to their (meaning N’s and ours) house.  The boy replied it is a sant, he has got his hand up and is saying that I am coming to their house.

 

 

We fell pregnant 3 months after our return from Canada – Baba jee kept saying that it’s going to be a ‘boy, boy, boy’.  We were not concerned with what gender the child was, and Baba Jee told us not to be either.  When it came to the birth we still didn’t know what gender the child was, and weren’t concerned.  However, I was curious whether it would be a boy as Baba jee had said.

 

 

Well the baby was born and it was a boy – it brought tears to my eyes and the first thing I said was ‘Dhan Dhan Baba jee!’  Not because it was a boy, but because what He said became true. 

 

 

Nanak Das Mukh Te Jo Boley, Eeha Ooha Such Hovey

Nanak says, whatever the slave of God speaks, becomes True in this world and the next

 

When the baby was about 1 month old I sat him on my laps on the bed, I closed my eyes and began to do simran and it felt really nice.  When I opened my eyes the baby was looking me straight in the eye smiling/laughing – it had the same excited look as Guru Nanak had in the experience I described above.  This brought tears of joy to my eyes.

 

 

Experience 5

 

 

A short, but powerful experience I was blessed with was when we were travelling to Luton in the car.  N was driving and I was in the passenger seat.  I was listening to kirtan on some headphones and felt like I dosed off.  I saw myself climbing through white clouds and eventually being helped up by this being.  When I looked at the being I said “Hey, you’re made of pure light” the being replied “Didn’t you know, we ALL look like this up here – take a look at yourself”.  When I looked at my arms and hands I too was made of pure light.  I said “WOW” and then I woke up.  I think I was out for about 2 minutes while this happened.  This experience stayed with me for a while.

 

 

Experience 6

 

 One night after Friday Sangat, we dreamt that we were in the sangat of Baba jee, he was doing some kathaa while sitting on the sofa.  We were standing casually and listening, Baba jee momentarily stopped the kathaa during which time we looked away briefly.  When we looked back at Baba jee His image had completely changed...

 

He was now wearing a white turban and a white kurta pyjama, and he had a long white beard.  His face was a BEAMING red colour and his eyes were bright and were looking directly at me.  He had an amazing smile on His face (like the classic coca-cola santa claus).

 

 

laal gulaal gehabaraa sachaa ra(n)g charraao Like the poppies, they are dyed in the deep crimson colour of Truthfulness  (Sri Guru Nanak Dev ji, p18)

 

 As soon as we saw Baba jee in this roop, we were overwhelmed with excitement and we started shouting 'O Dehkho!  Par Braham Aageyaa!  Paar Braham Aageyaa!' ("Look everyone, God has come! God has come!").

 

We rushed to bow at Baba jee's feet, and as we did so Baba jee said 'Ah leh, Paar Braham Nu Mil leh' ("Here, meet God") and He put His holy hand on my worthless head...

 

 

As soon as He put His hand on our head, our eyes were compelled to shut and we saw this AMAZING array of orange, yellow and blue colours (mostly orange) just mixing into each other - seeing these colours we began to cry for we just 'knew' it was God.  We started saying (while crying) 'My beautiful God, you came, oh wow you really came!  You came to my house, oh wow, my lord, my beautiful lord you came to my house'

 

 

We tried to open our eyes to see if it was really happening, we saw Baba jee's feet and heard His voice saying 'Akhaa Meetlah, Mill Leh' ("Close Your Eyes, Meet Him").  We gladly closed our eyes again, and we could see the same beautiful colours (God) again - it was SSOOO beautiful and emotional.  It was like we had found our best friend (but a million zillion times better).  At this point we woke up from the dream...

 

 We could still feel out hirda was physically warm and pounding - we put our hands on our chest and went to sleep...

 

Dhan Dhan Baba Jee

 

 Har Har Jan Doe Ek Hai - God and His Servant are One and the same.

 

GurPrasaadi Mera Shaho Miley - Through the Grace of the Guru may I meet my Master

 

 

Experience 7

 

 

Here is a copy of an email of an experience we were blessed with a while ago:

 

 

“Lately our mind has been shown an eagle, a beautiful majestic eagle.  We have been sitting on the wing of this eagle while it glides high through the perfect blue sky.  The look in the eye of this eagle is of pure determination and grace.  This eagle 'knows' where it's going and what it needs to do.

 

 While sitting on the wing of this eagle - the Pavan (air) is flying through our hair, like it is stroking our hair and face, and we think 'Pavan Guru, Pavan GURU, PAVAN GURU'.................aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh SATnaaam.  Way down below we can see the beautiful blue ocean, it looks so powerful, so strong, so deep, so pure.

 

This kookar can see himself as so dirty while sitting on this beautiful eagle's wings.  The eagle at this great height decides to swoop down towards the ocean, we approach the blue ocean at great speed, and it turns it's head toward me as if to say "get ready!".  At this point PAVAN GURU is going through our entire body, even our soul and it feels awesome....

 

 Our filth begins to crumble at the sheer speed, then swwooooosh!!  We hit the water, aaaahh so cool and so refreshing, we come up for air...the eagle takes a twist in the sky and then SWWOOOOSHH...again we go into the Paani.........our filth is being washed away, and we say Paani Pithaa, PAANI PITHAA, PAAANI PITHAAA!!

 

The majestic eagle breaks out of the water so graciously, and heads for the skies again, the sun dries us and we are warm and happier then ever!  Once again we are gliding so high, so high we can almost see the stars in space above, even though it's a beautiful day.  Below we can see the Earth, Mother Earth...Maathaa Dharath Mahaat.

 

We recite SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT to the point we start giggling and laughing uncontrollably, Dhan Dhan Paar Braham Parmesar SATNAAM.

 

 

We have been cleaned, cleaned by SATNAAM, and we feel light...it brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'Travel Light'.

 

 

Experience 8

 

 Finally, a few weeks ago when we were doing simran in sangat it just felt like Guru Gobind Singh jee came into the room wearing royal robes and carrying a 3 foot shaster.  Felt like He sat in the middle of the room, cross-legged straight back, eyes closed with the shaster across his laps.  I just felt like running up to Him and giving Him and BIG HUG.

 

So I did (in my simran) - He hugged me back, smiling like He was my big brother.  He looked at me and said "I've just come for the simran".  He sat and meditated for a while, got up and did matha tek and left.

 

 

Bhul Chuk Maaf Karni Jee

 

SATNAAM SADA SADA SATNAAM - TUHI TUHI

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