PACHMI PARKASH - Global Sikh Studies

had done meditations for eight days more but he hadn’t yet had a vision of Baba Ji or
the Lord.
The fellow soldier did just that, passing on this message. Baba Ji thought to himself
this idiot without any deep hard meditation wants to meet the True Lord in an instant,
now how can I explain it to him? Meanwhile it came to the end of another month of
the Soldier continuing in this way, and that desire he had for a vision began to
disappear as he lost faith, thinking that what Baba Ji had given him was a false
promise. With these thoughts in his mind he went off at night to start his 1am
meditations routine on the banks of the river. Now on reaching the spot he went and
sat down, closed his eyes, when all of a sudden he heard a noise as if something was
coming out of the water and then a hissing noise. Opening his eyes what did he see,
but a large thick black six foot long snake in front, hissing its tongue at him. Without
thinking he jumped up and ran leaving every thing behind. He ran as fast as he could
not even looking back, thinking to himself so much for trying to get see the Lord, I
nearly got eaten by a snake. Reaching the safety of his home he was unable to sleep
and stayed awake all night and never returned back to the river again.
Now when his holidays came to an end, he return back to see Baba Ji at Hoti and
narrated this whole story saying, “Maharaj! Because of your words I even sat on the
river bank and I still never got to see a vision of the Lord.”
Baba Ji’s explained, “Beloved soul! The Lord did come to give you a vision, but you
never even glanced back.” Further explaining that the Lord had come in the image of
the snake.
The Soldier felt ashamed and when all the devotees found out, they all laughed and
warned him that he should not trouble a complete Saint in such away. With hands
folded he asked for forgiveness for his behaviour and putting all his troubling doubts
behind he again began to meditate and with Baba Ji’s blessing he reached a high
spiritual state and stayed physically strong, finally becoming one with Guru Ji’s sweet
lotus feet.
Dhan Baba Karam Singh Ji Maharaj
Blessing on two Soldiers
Along with the regular devotees every Sunday two Soldiers would always come to see
Baba Ji but because of their previous birth deeds their minds still were not at peace
and whilst seated in the congregation they would spend the whole time looking
around and thinking about other things. After which they would eat sweet rice and
return back to their Army base.
Many weeks passed in this way and Baba Ji watched them carefully and thought to
himself that if coming to the true Lords congregation doesn’t give them peace then
where else is there for one to go to. So while the congregation was in progress Baba Ji
gave some advice indirectly to them saying, “Beloved devotees! Just as in a lake a
stork sits on the edge of it watching the fishes Bhai Gurdas Ji says:
‘A wise person on seeing its white feathers does not call it a swan.’
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