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Even One Second Spent in the Devotion of Lord is Counted -- Don’t Think That Meditation Done in the Evening or Any Other Time is a Waste

Baba Farid: "The first watch of the night brings flowers, and the later watches of the night bring fruit. Those who remain awake and aware, receive the gifts from the Lord."

jeevdiya pairaa talley muyiya oppar hoyiyey

(Speak not ill of this dust O Farid !

Nothing equals this dust over here .

For , it lies underneath our feet whilst we exist 

And comes over to the head after Death.)

Thinking about when Baba Farid said,

"Kaga sab tan khaiyo,

Chun chun khaiyo maas,

Do naina mat khaiyo

Mohe piya milan ki aas"

T/N : O Crow, Eat all of my body

Eat away my flesh, piece by piece

Don't eat my eyes

Rookhi Sookhi Kha ke Thamra pani pi

Vekha paraai chaupree naa tarasye jee

Farida turiya turiya ja, Farida turiya turiya ja

 Translation:

Oh Fareed! Eat dry roti (bread) with cold water, and be contented.

Don’t you dribble over someone’s luxurious butter roti

Baba Farid, Sufi Mystic: "God says, 'If you reform yourself, you shall meet me, and meeting me, you shall be at peace. O Farid, if you will be mine, the whole world will be yours.'"

Commentary by Santji: "Earlier also I said that my beloved Gurudev [Kirpal Singh] used to say, 'God is in search of a man. He is always trying to find a man [a true human being], but it is very difficult to become a man.' In the same way God Almighty says, 'O Farid, he who reforms himself, amends himself, I become of him. I go and set up my residence within him. If he makes me his very own, a time comes when the entire world becomes his.' We know that in the Silver Age, Lord Rama came and we still remember him with much love and devotion. Does anyone remember any other king of that time with so much love and devotion? No. It has been a long time since Kabir Sahib was born. Still, not only in India but across the oceans and on top of the mountains, he is known and adored. In the same way, Guru Nanak Sahib Ji also ruled over the hearts of people. You know how every morning people get up and remember their names. Why is it so? Do we remember kings and emperors like that? No. We remember the Masters because they gave God Almighty a place to reside within them. They reformed themselves and also reformed the people around them. A satsangi [initiate] has a great responsibility. If he is reformed, it is his duty to reform others. He should tell others, 'Brother, by following this path I have made my life. You also do this.' The fragrance of Naam* should come out from the satsangi. Everyone should know where he goes. That is why God lovingly says, 'If you will be mine, the whole world will be yours.'"

-- The Pain of Separation, The Shlokas of Sheik Farid From the Guru Granth Sahib, Commentary By Ajaib Singh [Santji], published by Sant Bani Ashram in 2020: https://santbani.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/PDF+Books/The+Pain+of+Separation.pdf

PODCAST: Mystic Poetry of RUMI and the Sufi Gnostics -- Visions of Allah -- Sant Mat Satsang Podcast & Spiritual Awakening Radio With James Bean @ Youtube: https://youtu.be/5TRNbiVukDE

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NOTES About Today's PODCAST

The mystical utterances of Rumi and other great Sufi Masters speak directly to the heart. They encourage us to see the hidden Light, to discover Divine Secrets, to perceive the Way that lovers can find their Beloved. The Sufis, through their poems and ecstatic revelations are attempting to share their Secrets with the world, or at least with those discerning souls who find their words to be not only nice poetry, but something much more: soul-expressions coming from lovers caught up in the divine bliss of a higher reality.

The poet-mystics speak of a spiritual reality that exists just beyond the perception of the five senses. Though the physical body is a kind of "veil" that eclipses the Light of the inner Sun from our vision, nevertheless we can, even now during this life, have access to this other existence. The Persian classic, "Divine Flashes," by Fakhruddin 'Iraqi says:

"The lover seeks the Vision in order that he might pass away from existence; he knocks on the Door of Nonexistence, for there he was once at peace. There he was both seer and seen, both viewer and viewed. Coming to be, he became the veil of his own sight and was deprived of the Vision. His existence is merely a screen to hide this sight."     In order for humans to "knock on the Door of Nonexistence" (regain the spiritual Vision we once enjoyed as souls before time began) 'Iraqi encourages us to understand ourselves in a new way and begin to contemplate the Other World with another kind of sight, a type of seeing that is unveiled when we temporarily abstain from the five senses.

"Know yourselves: a cloud drifting before your Sun. Cut yourselves off from your senses and behold your Sun of Intimacy."     'Iraqi is describing here the process of meditation practiced in numerous mystical traditions of the east and west. In order to obtain the Vision, the seeker 1) closes their eyes and stops paying attention to the outer world for awhile, and 2) discovers inner spiritual seeing and hearing, the inner senses of the soul which are able to contemplate the Unseen and Unheard Heavenly Realities:

"If this screen -- which is you -- is struck from before your eyes, the Beloved will find the Beloved, and you will be entirely lost. Then you will hear with the Ear of your Heart. That Mystery, so long concealed is at last opened, the darkness of your night at last bathed in dawn!"  (Fakhruddin 'Iraqi, Divine Flashes, Paulist Press, a volume in the Classics of Western Spirituality Series)

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"कागा करंग............देखन की आस"

Kaga Karang Dhandoleya" is a Doha or couplet attributed to Baba Farid. The poem, which translates roughly to "Ravens Search My Skeleton", finds a place in holy book of Sikhism 'Guru Granth Sahib' explores themes of mortality, the ephemeral nature of worldly possessions, and the search for spiritual truth. 

The poet requests the crow to search his skeleton and eat as much flesh as he want but leave his eyes untouched in hope to see his beloved even in death. The poem uses the image of ravens scavenging on a skeleton to symbolize the inevitable decay of the physical body.