Discourses of His Holiness Satguru Baba Hardev Singh Ji Maharaj- STREAM OF THOUGHTS –Part III
A spiritually enlightened person realise God all pervading and omnipresent, with the benevolence of the divine master. He then rises above all misapprehensions. He does not fall prey to superstition; he is never a victim of blind faith. He does not stop if a cat cuts across his way or somebody sneezes. All these are the signs of being ignorant, being unsaintly. Blind faith breeds from misapprehensions, from not knowing the truth. A young lady got married and came to the house of her in-laws for the first time. She found that her mother-in-law had put a basket over a cat. In fact the cat had come there by chance and the basket had been placed to stop it from spoiling the sweets etc. The bride, of course, saw the mother in-law doing this. Time passed and the bride had her own children. When her son got married and the bride began to enter the house, she asked the servant to bring a cat. A cat was brought as also a basket. The cat was covered with the basket. The woman had only seen her mother-in-law doing this and she took it as an essential ceremony for the wedding. She thought that it was essential to call for a cat and cover it with a basket at the time of the bride's entering the house of her in-laws. Only then wedding ceremonies would be complete.
This was ignorance. Because of ignorance the woman started doing whatever she saw being done by her mother-in-law. In fact her mother-in-law had covered the cat with a basket only because it was creating disturbance. We find such ignorance all around. Unsaintly people get stuck up in such superstitious activities. Saintly people, however, do not indulge in such things at all. All their misapprehensions end with the knowing of God and their devotion to this Nirankar. A person who is blessed by Satguru and realises God Nirankar, attains communion with the Almighty, he in fact leads an enlightened life. He pursues the path of selfless service through body, intellect and his material assets. Even this earth feels purified by the touch of the feet of such noble persons..
Source: Stream of thoughts- www.nirankari.org
Das, Vishal
