Bhai Gurdas has praised, “He who controls the nine apertures of the body, he is known as Sadhu.” There are nine doors of this body, i.e. two eyes, to nostrils, two ears, mouth and two below. The soul which is identified with the nine apertures of the body cannot find the indweller of the body. Now you understand that a Saint who overcomes the nine doors of the body can take the work at will from either of these faculties. Such a conscious one can become the mouthpiece of God. …
So all competent Master have said “Know thyself!” … It is very clear a conscious one has known the Overself and has become the mouthpiece of that Power. And others can attain that very status in the company of such one. Of whom? God! And which God? That one who is already controlling the body. Nothing is to take from outside. They are our friends in true meaning by meeting whom our sins are washed away …
What do such competent Masters do and advise us? Quotations from competent Masters are placed before you: Guru Amar Das (3rd Guru of the Sikhs, 16th c.) up to the age of seventy or seventy-two years might have done many types of yoga which are not given in detail but from his teachings we see that he continued his search up to the age of seventy or seventy-two years and went to the pilgrimage places. He must have done everything possible for the search of truth. When he found the truth, he could exactly explain in its true sense after he came to the holy feet of Guru Angad (2nd Guru of the Sikhs).
Guru Amar Das explains, “The human body is extremely beautiful in which its husband (of the soul) has manifested.” … It pervades in everyone because this body is the true temple of God in which the holy light shines within. But in whom He has manifested is extremely beautiful when one feels that he is a true temple of God.
The body which we have and which we consider as a source of sensuous pleasures is in reality the true temple of God when one is helped to see it by the competent Master. … The soul can only be happy by meeting God within. The wife is happy when she is in the company of her husband. The soul is happy when it contacts the Oversoul.
You feel peace and contentment by meeting a person whose soul is over-brimming with peace and radiation. Such a human being has a rhythmical life. The radiation in the sphere carries his thoughts. So you understand that on spiritual health depends the life of the body and mind. We give food to the body and become bodily strong. We give food to the intellect to become intellectuals. What food have we given to the soul? Reading, writing and thinking is the food for the intellect. The food for the soul is to liberate our self from the mind and its faculties and create a living contact within, because He is the bread and water of life. So you understand what Guru Amar Das says? The beauty of this body lies where? See our thoughts reflect through the eyes and emit radiation. Suppose we have love within, our eyes and radiation would be entirely different …
He who is contented and is attached with the God within and has peace, wishing good of everyone, his body will smell like jasmine. You understand that there should be love and compassion. Love beautifies everything.
I had read a book long time ago. There was an English girl who was rejected by everybody and none wanted to marry her. She became helpless and went to a village. She sat in a church and remained in sweet remembrance of the Godpower. After a year or so, one person came and told her that he wanted to marry her. The girl asked him what he was seeing. He told her that he was seeing the truth. She said that her face was very ugly. He said, “See your face – there is a special radiation in your eyes!”
I mean to say that thoughts beautify the body, See the forehead and eyes of a Saint and you will find that these signify their own kind. The radiation of the eyes of those Saints are of different kind. … With whom the Godpower has manifested, his soul is getting absorbed into bliss and he is becoming the mouthpiece of God. He is manifested God in man and can revive your contact with God who is already your life-giver. Have you understood now?
Some people say that we need a living Master. Some people say we don’t need a living Master. Guru is one. We need manifested God in man and the same one will help to concentrate your spirit which is being identified outside. There is a great power in His attention. He will help you to bring you above the body-consciousness. He will open your inner eye and make you to see yourself. This power exists in everybody. Every saint has his past and every sinner his future. …
So they explain that those who want to make their body beautiful, they should concentrate on their thoughts. More contentment, more peace, more self-centeredness and more will be the radiation. The life will change. Its significance lies in the words. Remember the air which comes after touching snow brings coolness. The heart which is overflowing with the love of God and praises peace unto all over the world has peace in mind. Words spoken by him will be spontaneously charged and will be dyed in such a colour that they provide coolness to the listener. He who has not developed his life, he may use very sweet words, but the effect will be reverse. So they say that this body is extremely beautiful within whom God resides. You get a beautiful toiletry without spending any money. Change your thought! See whether your life changes or not. First of all you will get peace of mind and then those who are already in touch with you. …
The virtue of love is that one loses the ego and becomes one with Him (God). He who is intoxicated with His love – the ego vanishes from there. Love is God and the virtue of love is to isolate and renounce. Whilst sitting in thousands (He is alone with Him), while living amongst thorns, He dwells among flowers. Why? Because His soul is getting intoxicated through the other soul. His soul is ever dyed in the fast colour. Colour is called intoxication. The worldly people say, “in what colour are you nowadays?” We are (dyed) in the colours of the world. Some are in the colour of lust, some are in the colour of anger. Some are dyed in other colours. Those who are dyed in the colour of God are intoxicated with peace day and night.
When Guru Nanak (1st Guru of the Sikhs) went to king Barbar, he was drinking a cup of Bhang (cannabis brew). He presented one cup to Guru Nanak. Guru Nanak said, “This is an intoxicant that loses its effect in the morning when you take it at night. I have such an intoxicant – Naam – which keeps me intoxicated day and night. It is intoxication of the soul.” So He makes us to understand that he remains in eternal intoxication. The result is that one loses his ego and forgets himself and becomes one from two. When one rises above the body consciousness, then he certainly forgets the body. In that intoxication we forget the body and the body’s attachment. Then there is no thought of “I” and “you”, as one becomes one from two.