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Sakhi Guru Ramdas ji and the Yogi’s
After
Guru Ramdas had taken the gurgaddi he still continued doing lot of physical
sewa. Once Baba Sri chand , son of Guru Nanak ji decided to meet Guru Ramdas
ji. As soon as the word traveled to Ramdas ji, Guru Ramdas sent his
followers to meet Sri Chand ji at the edge of the city and himself left his
sewa to meet him. When Baba Sri Chand saw guru Ramdas he was shocked because
with his yogic eyes he saw his father Guru Nanak in Guru Ramdas ji.
He
proclamed you are the image of my father .. you have the light of my father,
but your beard is much longer than my father! why is your beard so long ??
Guru Ramdas ji answered - my beard is so long so that I can wipe the feet of
the saints like u and he actually bent over to rub over Sri Chand's feet.
This surprised Sri Chand ji who jumped back and said even after so many
years of 'tap' I have'nt been able to achieve this grace and humility. I
have never seen such humility beofre. you are the king. you sit on the
throne. you are the king of the yoga. They both enjoyed the meeting after
that.
"With
the rising of the sun, the Gurmukh speaks of the Lord. All
through the night, he dwells upon the Sermon of the Lord. My God
has infused this longing within me; I seek my Lord God. ||1|| My
mind is the dust of the feet of the Holy. The
Guru has implanted the Sweet Name of the Lord, Har, Har, within me. I dust
the Guru's Feet with my hair. ||1||Pause||
Shri Guru Granth Sahib ji, Ang. 1355
Soon
the word spread that Sri Chand ji declared Ramdas ji as the yoga king.. the
yogi's stated to question what yoga does he knows and what is the throne he
sits on ???.. so when they came to Guru Ramdas ji, ramdas ji told them to
chant gods name instead of ausetrities and stop violence against their body,
and instead of going to caves and leaving everything, live in your "grisht
ashram" (homes) and bring moderation to your eating, sleeping and to your
sensuality ..don't deny yourself as a human but bring moderation to it and
infuse yourself with moral courage ( sahaj yoga) and by these things they
will gain union with god.. the way of yoga the celebs have adopted had
actually seperated them from god for when they came close/in presence of a
woman their equilibrum was disturbed bcos they were still humans.. Guru
Ramdas told them to keep their equilibrium day and night by meditation and
chanting gods name. and focusing on gods feet.
You
may pluck the strings with your hand, O Yogi, but your playing of the harp
is in
vain. Under Guru's Instruction, chant the Glorious Praises of the Lord, O
Yogi, and
this mind of yours shall be imbued with the Lord's Love. ||1|| O Yogi, give your
intellect the Teachings of the Lord. The Lord, the One Lord, is pervading
throughout all the ages; I humbly bow down to Him. ||1||Pause|| You sing in
so many
Ragas and harmonies, and you talk so much, but this mind of yours is only
playing a game You work the well and irrigate the fields, but the oxen have
already left to graze in the jungle. ||2|| In the field of the body, plant
the Lord's Name,
and the Lord will sprout there, like a lush green field. O mortal, hook up your
unstable mind like an ox, and irrigate your fields with the Lord's Name,
through the Guru's Teachings. ||3|| The Yogis, the wandering Jangams, and
all the
world is Yours, O Lord. According to the wisdom which You give them, so do
they follow their ways. O Lord God of servant Nanak, O Inner-knower,
Searcher of hearts, please link my mind to You. ||4||9||61||
Shri Guru Granth Sahib ji, Ang. 368
He
further explained.. yoga is acceptance of both polarities ..good and bad ..
when there is no good no bad .. ( kaun bhale ko mande) ?? when u accept all
of it as god then you merge with god in ecstacy. and this is true yoga.