Sant
Ajaib Singh Ji
Discourses and Answers to Questions on the subject of Bhajans
Sant Ajaib Singh Ji (1926 – 1997)
“I have already said a lot regarding singing the bhajans,
and dear ones might have read that in the magazine. In fact, singing
the bhajans is not less than meditation. Master Kirpal used to say
that the bhajan which creates the yearning within you, you should
sing that bhajan before sitting in meditation.”*
*Sant Bani Magazine, September, 1999, p. 17
In this collection, Sant Ji talks about various aspects of the bhajans:
singing them, their meaning, and some history behind their origin(s).
This collection is organized into two sections. The first contains
talks given specifically on this subject; the second contains Sant
Ji’s answers to various questions related to the subject of bhajans.
The talks and the answers to questions are presented in chronological
order.
Every
hair and pore of my body is singing Your song.
-- Sant Kirpal Singh, from Dekha Hai Jab Se Hamne
Today the fortunate day has come. We are singing the remembrance
of the Master.
-- Sant Ajaib Singh Ji, from Mera Satguru Sohna Aa Gya
My mind has become calm through singing the praises of God.
-- Guru Arjan Dev, from Tu Mera Pita, Tu Hai Mera Mata
Today all the gods and goddesses are celebrating happiness, and
the fairies are singing bhajans.
-- Sant Ajaib Singh Ji, from Jot Rab Di Hai Ai
Discourses
The following are talks given by Sant Ajaib Singh Ji on the value
and meaning of the bhajans, and of singing the bhajans. Some of the
talks are taken from the booklet Sing the Praises of the Satguru:
Eleven short talks by Sant Ajaib Singh Ji, published by Sant Bani
Ashram in 1993; others are taken from various issues of Sant Bani
Magazine.
1985,
May: To Develop Humility
From a talk to the sevadars, Shamaz Retreat, May 8, 1985. From
Sing the Praises of the Satguru.
The reason for writing so many new bhajans – the thing which
I want you people to understand from all these bhajans is what the
Master is, and what kind of humility is developed within those who
manifest the Master. That disciple of the Master who goes within and
has attained everything, feels in front of the Master that he is a
guilty one; he always calls himself a sinner and a guilty one in front
of the Master.
It
is difficult for you people to read that language, but I think that
it is a blessing that it is difficult, because in trying to read it,
in trying to sing in that language, you will practice more and more,
and go on reading it more and more. So later on, eventually, your
feelings will also become like that and you will also have the same
kind of humility.
I have done rites and rituals, and I have not said anything in the
bhajans from hearsay; I have tried to say those things which have
come in my experience, whatever I have done myself. So I hope that
whenever you do Satsang, or even at other times when you are not doing
Satsang, just doing your worldly work, you should remember at least
one or another line of a bhajan which you feel appropriate, or which
you feel comfortable remembering, because that will help you a lot
in doing meditation. In one bhajan I have said, "You will get
released from the noose of Yama only when you sing the bhajans of
the Master." If you love someone, his words will come on your
lips by themselves. You do not need to make any effort in remembering
the words of the one whom you love; you know that the side of the
balance which is heavier descends. In the same way, if you remember
the Master and the words and statements of the Master, love for the
Master will start developing within you by itself.
Real love, real humility, comes only after going within. Outside you
cannot develop real humility and love because you don't know when
the mind is going to deceive you. I have often told you that if we
have any enemy in this world, it is our mind. Showering grace on us,
God first gave us the human body, and after showering more grace on
us He brought us in the company of the Masters and Saints. Graciously
Master has given us the Naam Initiation and now, sitting in His lap,
we are making spiritual progress. And in this Path of spiritual progress,
if there is any obstacle, it is our mind. We can easily remove all
the other obstacles, but this is the only thing which always stands
between us and the Master, and unless we remove this obstacle we cannot
progress spiritually.
But I have also told you that the power of the Simran and the power
of the Shabd is not less than the power of your mind. The disciple
should always do things taking the support
and strength of the Master, because the Master who has given you Initiation
is always within you. A disciple should never think that his Master
Who has initiated him is different from him, or is away from him.
The Master can never go away from the disciple; He is always within
the disciple. So long as we are fond of the pleasures of the sense
organs or of the mind, He sits behind the veil, but when we become
free of all those pleasures and when we give up the attachment to
them, He lifts up the veil and we can see Him as clearly as we see
our image in a mirror.
