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2Way of living (Jeene ki Raah)Supreme God Kabir ji has stated that: Kabir, sadhak ke lakshan kahun, rahae jyon pativrta naari Kah Kabir Parmatma ko, lagae aatma pyaari Pativrta ke bhakti path ko, aap saaf karey Kartar Aan upaasna tyaag de, so pativrta paar Sins that are obstacles in the path of bhakti are destroyed bydoing bhakti.Kabir, jab hi Satyanaam hridya dharo, bhayo paap ko naash Jaise chingaari agni ki, padae puraane ghaas There fore, after taking initiation from a Complete Guru, everybody, man-woman, children (after 3 years of age), and young-old,should definitely do bhakti. Good deeds are also hindrances in the path of bhakti: As a result of the good deeds of previous life, one has wealth inthe house, has all the comforts. Somebody gets a high position, whichis a hindrance in bhakti. That comfort takes a person miles awayfrom God. Such a comfort is also a hindrance in the path of life. Itmoves the destination of attainment of God further away.Kabir, sukh ke maathe patthar pado, naam hriday se jaavae Balihaari vaa dukh ke, jo pal-pal naam rataavae If you try to narrate the tale of God to a rich and highly-rankedperson, he will have no interest in it. On the other hand, discuss thetopic of God with a person who is suffering from the blows of sinfuldeeds. Tell him that - 'God removes all sufferings. You may worshipGod. See, such and such person from our village became happy bytaking initiation from that Saint. He was also suffering like you.'Then that distressed person starts doing bhakti. That misery became a blessing for him. How do we explain to a person who is happy?He has a sufficient stock of good deeds. That rich person, after consuming the fruits of his good deeds, becoming empty, and accumulating a goods-train load of sins, after death, hanging his head, willfearfully go to the court of God. He will get the lives of dog, donkeyand pig. Contrary to this, a distressed and poor person after doingbhakti of God, by doing charity, will become happy in the currentlife. By saving oneself from sinful deeds, loading a goods train ofvirtuous deeds, enriched with the wealth of bhakti, one will fearlessly go to God's court. God will embrace him. By granting salva-

Two Words3tion to that devotee, God will make him happy forever.If a rich and highly-ranked happy person also starts doing bhakti,then his task is accomplished; there is no hindrance in salvation.Question: - A gentleman said that - 'I do not consume any intoxicating substance. I am away from all the vices. I consider others'sisters and daughters as mine. I do not commit any sin. I do notneed to do bhakti. I have seen such men and women going to satsangwho used to commit all sorts of evil deeds, and had a bad reputation.Answer: - Like, there is a two acre land. One acre land has beenploughed and cleared, that is, digging the weed, bushes and grassout, ploughing with a plough or tractor, it has been cleared up, butthe seed hasn't been sown.In the second acre land, all the weeds, bushes and grass aregrowing. Then both of them are useless. If ploughing and clearingthe second acre land, someone sowed wheat in it and did not sowanything in the first cleared land, then the second land is much moreuseful then the first one, which was left after clearing and no seedwas sown in it.There fore, if you are free from defects/vices, then you will haveto sow the seed of bhakti. Only then the field-like body of yours willprove beneficial.Those, who used to perform wrongdoings, gained knowledge.On quitting the wrongdoings, if they do bhakti, then they havechanged their way of life; they have cleared it. Their destination hascome closer.You will further read that a prostitute listened to the satsang ofGod Kabir and changed her way of life. Taking initiation, she startedgoing to satsang. The people of the city did not use to like it. Theystarted talking in whispers that - 'Infamous women go to Kabir'ssatsang. He is not a good saint. Only such men and women go to hissatsang. Do not let your sister or daughter go there.' On hearingthese views of the people, some devotees also started speaking thelanguage of the village people to Guru ji. Then Supreme God Kabirtold that : Kushti ho sant bandgi keejiye Je ho vaishya ko Prabhu vishwas, charan chit deejiye Meaning: - If a devotee has leprosy and he has started doing

4Way of living (Jeene ki Raah)bhakti, then the devotee society should not hate him. They shouldgreet him like they do to the other devotees. They should respecthim, encourage him. His life will become successful by doing bhaktiand his disease will also get cured. Similarly, if a prostitute daughteror sister has thought of doing bhakti, of coming to the satsang, thenshe has developed faith in God. If she will listen to the teachings ofsatsang, she will quit her vice. Her welfare will be done. Vices willdisappear from the society. If she will not even come to the satsang,then how will she come to know about her sinful deeds? Like, if adirty cloth will not come in contact with soap and water, then how willit become clean? Therefore, if such infamous woman also doesbhakti, then greet her also with special respect so that she does nothesitate to come to the satsang. If you will stop her, then you willincur sin. To know the story further, read in this very book "Way ofLiving" on Page 137, whose heading is "Tests of disciples by KabirJi".The same evidence is also in Shrimadbhagavat Gita Chapter 9Verse 30. It is written that even if someone is a very wicked person,but he has started doing bhakti of God with faith, then he should beconsidered equivalent to a Mahatma. He will be reformed after listening to the viewpoints of saints, and he will get his welfare done.Therefore, a human being after acquiring the refuge of a Guru shoulddefinitely do bhakti of God, auspicious deeds and charity.Venerable Supreme God Kabir has stated that: Kabir, maanush janm durlabh hai, mile na baaram-baar Tarvar se patta toot girey, bahur na laage daar Meaning: - God Kabir has explained that O Human being! Thishuman life (man/woman) is obtained with great difficulty after eras.It is not obtained repeatedly. Do bhakti of God and perform auspicious deeds while you are in this body; otherwise, once this bodyfinishes, you will not be able to attain the same state again, that is,will not be able to attain the human body. Like a leaf after detachingfrom a tree does not get reattached to the same branch.Therefore, do not lose this opportunity of human life. Kabir Jihas then said that: Kabir, maanush janm pay kar, nahin ratae Hari naamJaise Kuaan jal bina, banvaya kya kaam

Common belief of human life5Meaning: - If one does not do bhakti in human life, then that lifeis like a beautiful well with no qualities of a well. If a well does nothave water in it, or it has water, but it is salty (not worth drinking),still it is called a well, but it does not have the merits of a well. Likewise, if a human being does not do bhakti, then he/she is also calledhuman being, but he/she does not have the qualities of a human.Someone is healthy due to the auspicious and inauspicious deedsperformed in the previous lives. Suddenly, he becomes ill and afterspending lakhs of rupees on the treatment, dies. Someone is ill frombirth. After suffering throughout life, he/she dies. Someone is poor.Someone is born rich. Someone has boys and girls, and someonedoes not have any children. Someone only has daughters and doesnot get a son even if he/she wishes.A human being bears all this as a result of the deeds done in theprevious lives. Until one commences bhakti again, one continues toget what is already destined. When one starts doing bhakti according to the rules after taking initiation from a Complete Satguru, thendue to an upsurge in the auspicious deeds, the period of sufferingstarts converting into happiness.Common Belief of Human LifeUntil one gains the true spiritual knowledge, the belief of a common man is that: 1. On growing up, after gaining education and finding a job, I willget married and look after my family. I will provide higher educationto my children. Then they will get jobs. Then we will marry them off.God will grant kids to our children. Then our duty will be over. Manytimes, elderly people of the village and the neighbouring village usedto gather together and ask about each other's well-being. One ofthem said, "By God's grace, I have two sons and two daughters. Itoiled to bring them up and educated them. Now I have marriedthem off. All of them have sons and daughters. My task has beenaccomplished. I have turned 75. Now I can die; my life has beensuccessful. The family line has commenced; my name will remain inthe world.Interpretation: - Whatever was obtained in the above-mentionedaccount was pre-determined in the fate. Nothing new was obtained.

6Way of living (Jeene ki Raah)A man got married, and had a daughter. It has been a belief ofthe human society that if one does not have a son, his clan does notpropagate. (But from the viewpoint of spiritual knowledge, there isno difference between a son and a daughter.) He hoped that thenext child would be a son. The second was also a daughter. Then hehoped that on the third occasion, God will grant him a son. The thirdwas also a daughter. In this way, he had five daughters. He neverhad a son. It is clear from this example that neither one gets whatone wishes for, nor what one does. Whatever happened was destined to happen. This is God's rule. A human being in the present lifeshould take initiation from a Complete Saint and do bhakti. He shouldalso definitely perform charity, religious and meritorious deeds; otherwise, finishing the fruits of the auspicious deeds of previous lives,he will go empty-handed to God's court. Then he will have to sufferin the lives of animals etc. Like, a farmer sows wheat, chickpeas etc in his field. Then afterworking hard and making them mature, he brings them home andstocks them in his storeroom. If he does not sow the seeds againand prepare a crop, and is only eating the wheat and chickpeas fromthe previous year, then currently he will not face any problem because the wheat and the chickpeas from the previous year are stillremaining, but one day those already stored grains will finish andthat family of the farmer will become poor. In a similar manner, whatever is being obtained in the human life is a collection of the previous lives. If one does not do bhakti and auspicious deeds in thepresent time, then the future life will become hell.After gaining spiritual knowledge, a man like a wise farmer willsow the crop of charity, meritorious deeds and recitation of mantraevery year in every season, and will consume it after storing it in hishouse, and will also sustain himself by selling it, that is, after takinginitiation from a Complete Guru, he will collect his wealth of bhaktiby doing worship and charity in every Samagam as told the Guru ji.Therefore, a Supreme Saint teaches the way of life to a human being. It is based on the true spiritual knowledge that is certified by allthe holy scriptures.Like, in the aforesaid account, an elderly person said, "Raisingall my children, I have married them off. The aim of my human life

Common belief of human life7has been fulfilled; my life has become successful. Now I do not minddying." It is a point to consider that he has only spent whatever waspreviously accumulated. He has done nothing for the future. As aresult of which, his human life has been wasted.Kabir Ji has said that: Kya maangu kuchh sthir na rahayi, dekhat nain chalaa jag jaayi Ek lakh poot sawa lakh naati, us ravan kae deeva na baati Meaning: - If a person wants to maintain his family line foreverthrough a son, then it is his misconception. Like, King Ravan of SriLanka had one lakh sons and one lakh twenty-five thousand grandsons. Currently, there is not even a single person of his family (lineage) to even light a lamp at home. All got killed. Therefore, O Man!What is this that you ask from God that is not even permanent?This desire arose due to lack of spiritual knowledge. God gives youwhatever is in your fate. Nothing is happening as a result of yourefforts. If we believe that old man's statement that by having a son,one's family line propagates and one's name remains in the world.In a village, initially there were only four-five people. Hundreds offamilies have been formed from their descendents. Their family lineis continuing. Their name is also continuing in the world. But because of not doing bhakti according to the method mentioned in theholy scriptures, according to God's rule that gentleman may be suffering somewhere in the life of a donkey. By propagating the clan ofdonkey there, then he will take birth as a dog. Then by propagatingthat clan, he will take birth in the lives of other creatures and sufferfor infinite births. The import is that a person in human life, whiledoing worldly tasks, should also perform task of self-welfare. As aresult of which the blows of previous sins about to befall the familywill also be averted. The family will remain prosperous. othererwise,due to the results of both good and bad deeds, one has to intermittently bear the havoc of happiness and sorrows.Once, this Das (author) was doing a three-day Satsang-Paath(Spiritual Discourse Recitation of a Holy Book) in a village. Arelative of that very family brought a four years old boy with him.During a conversation, he said, "I had four sons and two daughters.I married them all off. Perhaps, there was no one as happy as me inthe village. Then things reached such a pass that within two years

8Way of living (Jeene ki Raah)my family got ruined. Two sons were going on their motorcycle totheir in-laws. They died in an accident. Their wives got married inother villages. A year later, at night another son got stung by a snakeon the tube well in the field. He was found dead. Due to this tragedy,the fourth son died from heart attack. All the daughter-in-laws alsoleft home. My wife became mentally disturbed. This is my eldestdaughter's son. I am passing my days with him. I have kept my daughter at home." It is a request to the dear readers that act with discretion and acquire the true path of human life. Definitely do Bhakti. Whether you will have a child or not is based on the deeds ofyour previous lives. If the child does not know about correct religious practice and meritorious acts, then no matter how noble he/she is, he/she will certainly commit a mistake sometime. It will alloccur due to the effect of sins. A person told, "My father-in-law wasa Jaat farmer and owned four acres of land. By working hard dayand night, he acquired in total sixteen acres of land, that is, he boughtanother twelve acres. He had four sons and one daughter. He married them all off. At the age of sixty years, my father-in-law sufferedfrom stroke. All the four sons used to live separately.""For some days, he stayed with his eldest son. But only after sixmonths, his clothes started to smell. Then he stayed with the thirdson at his place. After a few days, he also gave up. In this way, allthe four sons got frustrated with looking after him. The Panchayat(village council), with the motive of getting my father-in-law lookedafter, decided to give two more acres of land to that son who wouldserve him. Lured by this, the youngest son accepted to take care ofhim. After six months, he said that it is not my cup of tea. The relatives gathered. They counselled all the children in every way, butnobody got ready to take care of him." That devotee was sayingthat - 'My father-in-law could not even speak. When his young grandson came in front of him, then by moving his neck he indicated that- "Come to me, I will give you a cuddle." This is the misconception.Sons have brought laurels and now grandchildren are pending! Aservant was kept for him by giving those two acres of land on contract, and he had a terrible death.Just think that even if such a hardworking person had this knowledge that without bhakti and meritorious deeds, a human life be-

Common belief of human life9comes hell, then at least along with that he would have also doneBhakti of God and would not have suffered such a plight. His children would have also served him. These very teachings are given insatsang. Devotees are taught the lesson of kindness and meritorious deeds. During a satsang, elderly people, people who are ill, disabled, women with small children, sisters and daughters come to theashram. Male and female devotees are delegated in the ashram tolook after the visiting elderly people, the sick and other helplesspeople. They give them a bath, wash their clothes, and bringingblessed food from the kitchen, they feed them in the hall (Pandal)itself where they are sitting. They serve them tea and milk at theirplace. Just think that those children (who go to satsang) and daughters, sisters, mothers and devotee brothers, who serve the unrelated people coming to the satsang, will serve their own parents,brother-sister, father and mother-in-law in their homes with the sameattitude, because it becomes their nature. They are filled with compassion in their hearts. They thoroughly know the rule of God. Inthe previous topic about the hard-working farmer who suffered fromstroke and got ignored by his children, if those sons and daughterin-laws had been attending the satsang, they would have taken a lotof care of their father. If that farmer had done bhakti of God, hisbody would have remained healthy and due to his bhakti, impressedby the splendour of the worship performed by him, his family wouldhave automatically respected him. For example, sadhu-saints onlydo bhakti. As a result of which, the entire village serves and respects them. Likewise, because of doing bhakti, the power of Godautomatically inspires others and makes favourable circumstancesfor the devotee. That is why, saints urge to do bhakti. The way ofliving becomes good through Satsang. Supreme God Kabir has then stated that: Kabir, kaya teri hai nahin, maya kahan se hoye Bhakti kar dil paak se, jeevan hai din doye Bin updesh achambh hai, kyon jivat hain praan Bhakti bina kahan thaur hai, ye nar naahin paashaan Meaning: - God Kabir is saying that - O innocent man! I amsurprised that with which hope you are living without taking initiation from a Guru. Even your body is not yours; you wi

The Book “Jeene Ki Raah (Way of Living)” is worthy of being kept in every home. By reading and following it, you will remain happy, both in this world and the other. You will be saved from sins. The unrest in