DEVELOPMENT OF GURU CONSCIOUSNESS
Always Behold the Divine Satguru. Concentrate, train, regulate your
eyes on the Beloved Satguru till you start beholding that Divine form in
your heart and in every one, every where. Always beholding the Divine
Guru, the eyes become divine and then start beholding the Divine in
everyone, everywhere. Perception, internal and external, becomes
wholesale divine. Mind and body are then devoted wholesale in loving
meditation and service of the Beloved Guru.
Sing and recite the Glory of God and the Divine Name. Participation in
holy Kirtan and repetition of the Divine Name intensifies the Divine
fervour.
Hear the Holy Gurbani and Kirtan. Hear the Divine Music and the Divine
Melody of Sacred Hymns.
Take and taste that food and water which has been offered to the
Beloved Satguru first and has been sanctified. This is called Viveki
Parshad. One cultivates Devotion, Prema, faith by eating only that food
which has been offered to Satguru first. This Holy Parshad purifies the
mind and sanctifies the whole being, it enlightens the inner being.
Sleep always in the lap of the Beloved Satguru. Rest as the ray rests in
the Sun. Remember God with love by reciting His Divine Name while
going to sleep and as you get up hold fast again His Lotus Feet and
recite His Divine Name. Remember God when you go to sleep and
remember God when you get up. It sanctifies the whole sleep. Rest and
sleep as the ray rests in the Sun, as the drop rests in the ocean. Rest as
a devoted child in the Divine Lap of the Beloved Guru. Never forget to
remember the Satguru while going to sleep and when rising from sleep.
While taking bath, take a dip in Sacred Amrit Sarovar, in the Charan-
Amrit of the Beloved Guru with your mind established in the Divine.
Thus utilize all the senses and the body in loving remembrance and true
service of the Beloved Satguru.
Such blessed Gurmukhs see, hear, speak, eat, drink, sleep, serve and
live, all in Guru Consciousness. What a blessed state. They consciously
live in the Divine as they have taken a deep plunge into the Divine. A
true sikh lives every breath of his life in Guru consciousness.
This is the way to offer one-self unto the Guru, the body, the mind, the
possessions and live in conscious obedience to His Will.
In indiscreet and excessive talking one may commit many sins,
consciously or unconsciously. One may indulge in lies and backbiting.
Useless and irrelevant talk may result in wastage of most precious
breaths. Talk as little as possible. It is only in excessive talking that one
enters into slanderous talk and may injure other's feeling.
Observance of discreet silence is highly rewarding in spiritual progress.
A mind reduced to silence gets easily absorbed in God.
