NINTH IN A SERIES OF MESSAGES FROM SIKH GURUS:
SPECIAL ABOUT THE MONTH: This is the ninth native or Desi month in the Indian Mysticism and Astrology, when the Sun transits through the 8th sign of the zodiac, Scorpio. In the western system, it transits through the 9th sign of the zodiac, Sagittarius. In the Punjabi and many other Indian systems, it is the eighth month.
The month of Sagittarius, the Maghar gives us the message that only then our conscience is beautifully divine when it attains oneness with universal consciousness and thus is one with God. The glory of such divine ones cannot be confined to words. Such great souls in the congregation of saints attain the everlasting and evergreen beauty of body and mind.
The bad company ends up as the broken branch of a tree that is burnt in the fire. However, we can have good company with self-discipline of spiritual life to have our heart full of all glorious possessions, the treasure of virtues and merits. Thus, the selflessness always gets the humble reverence.
THE DIVINE MESSAGE FOR THE MONTH OF SAGITTARIUS, THE MAGHAR BY SHRI GURU NANAK
In the month of Maghar, we ascend to the subtle level and thus stable awareness of conscience. As the result of this desire, the intellect ascends through the Art of Ascendancy and gets its original touch of creativity. By being very ambitious and assuming that we have the gift of self-righteousness; falsely thinking that we are right in everything, we thus often fail to notice and cultivate creativity in ourselves.
The creative can correct the fault, whereas the over-cautious, the critic–the non-creative critic, finds the faults. Finding faults is judging, but correcting it is the beauty of creativity, glorifying God. The Creator and Creation are united through the creativity and thus we use it positively as serving Him.
Shri Guru Nanak says that God wants to give the gift of ascendancy to all; this is also the aim of creativity in us, getting its direction from its originality, the Original Being in us. This very touch is an image of art of creativity, for expressing our self and our individuality; the personal relationship with Him.
THE DIVINE MESSAGE FOR THE MONTH OF SAGITTARIUS, THE MAGHAR BY SHRI GURU ARJAN
In this month of Maghar, says Shri Guru Arjan that when we enjoy the presence of supreme or universal consciousness, our ever-ascending and diversified beauty cannot be described. We have levels of consciousness psychologically, as consciousness, sub-conscious and unconscious. Moreover, spiritually these are called the states of waking, sleeping and forgetting these two states while going still deeper into deep sleep.
These three states are the levels where our ego can work. The works of the ego are with a different level and energy. At the universal level of consciousness, the ego cannot work, as a drop of the sea cannot act as the sea, the Supreme Consciousness with Selfless Ego.
When we remember Him, we come to know that He also remembers us; it is how the bond of divine love gives His Eternal Presence, enlightening the soul. It dispels the ignorance, the very source of demotion or descending the level of thought and action. The light gives power to ascend towards Him–God, the Spirit.
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