Monkey See, Monkey Do

[guptkuri]

Just some thoughts that were in my head.

The Thought, Not the Action

Looking above and Beyond

Monkey see, Monkey do. Waheguru Ji made us humans, gave us brains and taught us how to use them but we choose to be monkeys. Every day hundreds and thousands of people visit Gurudwara Beed Baba Budda Sahib to beg for a son because once upon a time Baba Ji blessed Mata Ganga Ji with a son. They saw that Mata Ji went with langar and got the blessing, now like monkeys we all do the same. We choose to ignore the message Guru Arjun Dev Ji was giving us by sending Mata Ganga Ji to Baba Budda Ji instead of blessing her Himself. Who was Mata Ganga Ji? Why did Guru Arjun Dev Ji tell Mata Ji to take langar for Baba Budda Ji? What blessing did Mata Ji really get from Baba Budda Ji?

Mata Ganga Ji was the wife of Guru Arjun Dev Ji and was no normal lady. It is human nature to change to fit into our surrounding and to take on some of the traits of the people around us. Just like we are change by the sangat we keep, we can’t assume that Mata Ji did not change in Guru Arjun Dev Ji’s sangat. People can be changed in seconds if they get darshan of Guru Ji and Mata Ji lived with Guru Ji. Mata Ganga Ji was a great Sikh and very blessed to be in Sangat of Guru Ji. And the truth is Guru Ji often choose the most blessed people to teach us lost souls, how to be better Sikhs; how to please the Husband Lord, Waheguru Ji.

That is the very reason Guru Ji didn’t bless Mata Ji with a son because Guru Ji wanted Sikhs to learn how to ask for blessings. Guru Ji showed us how to kill the ego within us through Mata Ganga Ji because He knew as long as we were filled with ego, we couldn’t truly be blessed. Guru Ji could have told Mata Ji the first time around to prepare the food by hand and take the food herself; Guru Ji is all knowing He would have known Mata Ji would make this mistake. But Guru Ji didn’t tell Mata because He wanted us to learn to look beyond the comforts we are blessed with and do seva directly from our heart. Guru Ji taught us we should do seva with our own hands but today we buy everything premade, hire people to read Gurbani and call it seva.

When Mata Ji arrived at the first time with langar for Baba Budda Ji, Baba Budda Ji turned away from Mata Ji because she took shortcuts to do the seva. The next day after talking to Guru Arjun Dev Ji, Mata Ganga Ji made the langar with her own hands and walked to go see Baba Budda Ji. This time Baba Budda Ji was happy to see her and ate the langar with lots of love and gratefulness to Mata Ji for bringing him langar. This time Baba Ji was able to eat the langar because there was no ego in it. Mata Ji was cleared of her ego and Waheguru Ji could fill that spot within her with blessings. Waheguru Ji blessed Mata Ji through Baba Budda Ji because Waheguru Ji needed Baba Budda Ji to clear the ego within Mata Ji.

The lesson we should have learned was to remove ego and do seva from our heart to be blessed but instead we learned go to Guru Beed Baba Budda Sahib and be automatically blessed with a son. A true Sikh does not have to go anywhere to get any blessings. All we Sikhs have to do is do seva of Waheguru Ji, kill the ego within us and He will bless us no matter where we are. In simple words, you want to be blessed? Look beyond your money, the shortcuts and do all seva from the ground up. Cook the langar yourself; don’t opt for catering because you have money. Hand sew the Ramala Sahib with love for Guru Granth Sahib Ji; don’t just go buy the most expensive one available. If you have Akand Path Sahib Ji, try to take part in reading Gurbani or the very least spend at least half the time listening.

Don’t be a monkey, look beyond the actions.

[JSinghnz]

Very good thoughts. But a few questions come to my mind. Our Gurus were so ahead of their times

in that they gave equal status to women when the rest of the society treated them so badly.

Sikhism is the only religion which considers men and women equal. But look at the miserable

state of quite a number of followers of Sikhism today. They are still having the mindset of medieval

ages and give preference to sons instead of daughters. Shame on these so called Sikhs who are

giving a bad name to our religion. I wonder when will they awaken to the reality and understand the

message of equality given by our Gurus.

[singhapore]

That's the scary thing. We fail to see the nirgun saroop of gurudev amongst us when we are engaged in worship, ie akhand paath. How many of us actually imagine guru gobind Singh maharaj sitting when our names are shamelessly read out during ardas? How many of us see gurudev looking at us when we go over to screw the granthi Singh doing ardas because he missed our name or read it wrongly because we cut a receipt for $1.25? Lol

If we can keep this fear amongst us that besides only guru Granth sahib, our physical gurus are still ang sang sahai amongst us,

We will be pronouncing our nitnem banis correctly,

We will be doing akhand path with full devotion,

We will eradicate our ego during gurudwara service

The world will become a better place :-)

[chatanga]

My cousin sister went to Beer Baba Buddha Ji and was blessed with a son after many years of trying. After Baba Ji blessed Mata Ganga Ji, it has become a traditon for women, who have difficulty in having kids, to go to this gurdwara, with offerings of missi roti. I can only assume that this tradition started with Mata Ganga and has been maintained since.

Also Bhenji says a true Sikh does not have to go anywhere to get blessings, I'm not sure if this is true. We go to the gurdwara to get blessings from Guru and sangat, blessings in the form of darshan. Couyld we get these blessings sitting at home?

[AnakinSkywalker]

Oh yes...it's always a blessing to have a son....

:rolleyes2:

[JSinghnz]

I wonder if our mindset is ever going to change.