ALIVE AGAIN
Parents often explain to their children, especially those in their teenage years, that they need to be careful about the company they keep as ultimately, they will end up adopting the behaviours and habits of the people that they socialise with.
In today’s society, we see that people are obsessed with materiality, earthly possessions, self image, wealth etc. These are the things that the whole world obsesses over. It’s all many people talk about with one another.
The end result of this is, that people have lost all their spirituality. They are walking around totally absorbed in the material world and have died spiritually. Their souls are dead.
The Sikh Guru’s often talk about the quality of sandalwood. One of the most pleasant, naturally occurring fragrances; it has the ability to even make an ordinary plant near it, smell with a similar fragrance.
This is a metaphor for the effect that enlightened beings can have on the spiritually dead!
Going into the Sangat (the company of the enlightened saints), our dead soul, slowly starts to awaken again, and the grip of the material world starts to loosen. It is important that we seek out the company of the holy.
I have personally heard stories from people, who have said how they came on to the spiritual path, after simply having being hugged or just being in the company of an enlightened soul.
Halath Sukh Palath Sukh Nith Sukh Simarano Naam Gobindh Kaa Sadhaa Leejai ||
Peace in this world, peace in the next world and peace forever, remembering Him in meditation. Chant forever the Name of the Lord of the Universe.
Mittehi Kamaanae Paap Chiraanae Saadhhasangath Mil Muaa Jeejai ||
The sins of past lives are erased, by joining the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy; new life is infused into the spiritually dead. ||
Vaheguroo!
