After a hot day, Maharaj is sitting in his garden in the cool of the evening, speaking to a few of us about very special inner things.
He is remembering me, and I am remembering Him. The dervish doesn’t go to the jungle to meditate. He goes to talk with the trees. They understand each other. Much of this is written in our old scriptures.
Sheikh Farid tried to go where his pir had stood, for Allah’s mercy would always be there. As Gurbani says, “Where my guru sits becomes green.” There are times when armies of God’s forces come to earth. Farid saw thousands of them.
Farid stood in tapasya for 30 years. His duty was to bring warm water for his guru. One time when no fire could be found to warm the water, he at last had to give his eye to one old woman in exchange for some fire. When his guru, the great Sufi saint Qutubuddin Kaki saw him with a bandage on his eye, he asked him to remove it. An eye was in Saint Kaki’s hand. He put it in the empty socket, and thereafter one of Farid’s eyes was smaller than the other.
Maharaj continued to tell wonderful stories of the devotional surrender and spiritual power of Nizamuddin Aulia, Moinuddin Chishti, and Mian Mir.
One of the saints was asked, “How many melangs do you have?” Melang meant those followers who were unconscious in their love and thus very powerful. Jesus had 12 such followers, the Prophet Muhammad had 4, and Guru Gobind Singh had 5 Piares. The Sufi saints were Brahmgianis, one with God.
One of the people listening to Maharaj in the garden asks, “Why does the transmission fail so soon after the Guru leaves?” Maharaj ji answers,
People should be doing what is emphasized in Gurbani—meditation, Nam, seva. But [people instead bring in their own ideas]. For instance, the Singh Sabha [a movement started in the 1870s of those who considered themselves reformers of Sikhism] spread the idea of not reading Gurbani aloud unless there is a person to hear it. But Guru Gobind Singh Maharaj ji says, “Who are we reading it for? The trees are listening, the air and water are listening, the deities are listening.”
Shiv Sadan is proof of that great Power. Communism [as it developed historically] meant pressure, fear, and oppression, but the Russians said that what they saw here at Gobind Sadan is true communism. They were dancing, and the deities were, too.
Guru Gobind Singh will definitely travel to the whole world, for he is so universal. The Guru is so powerful. Just get out of the way. The rigid people have turned Guru Gobind Singh’s programme upside-down.