Do we need to be Sikh to reach God? St Georges uni Q&A #2

Let's apply the same principle
with a doctor.

You can get better from other doctors.

But other doctor has to prescribe
a similar sort of medicine.

There's even different medicines
to do the same thing.

But they must go through this system.

They must understand that the main
diagnosis is that we are human

and we are here to meet God.

If somebody gives you
a different diagnosis

then you've gone to the wrong Guru.

Then the thing is that
the solution must be holistic

and it must be about Naam,
about connection.

Maharaj says:

No one can get Mukti without Naam.

So let's say in those days
Kabir Ji was a Guru.

Kabir is in Guru Granth Sahib ji.

Kabir ji was saying:
"You should do Jap Naam".

Kabir ji was saying something very ego:

Say God's name.

Oh my mind, say God's name.

So he's saying the same
medicine as our Guru.

He's just a different doctor,

and Maharaj took all this doctors that
were speaking the same truth as them

and they put them in Guru Granth Sahib ji.

They go: "Hey man, you don't have to be
any religion, you got to follow this path".

Sikhi therefore is not a religion.
Sikhi is a path of Enlightenment.

And is a path of spiritual health
and happiness as well.

Spiritual, physical, social health.

It doesn't metter what doctor you go to,

if he prescribes something different
from the ... our Guru is talking about,

he's not really prescribing
the full medicine.

Not everybody has to get fully well.

Muslims do believe in Naam.

They had a Tasbeeh.
They meditate upon God's name.

They're not in our names of Allah.

They do Sifat al-Saah,
which mean praise and prayer.

They do those things.

Thus Muslims can get Mukti,
Hindus can get Mukti,

Buddhist—whatever they can get Mukti.

But they must call upon God.

They must do Naam
—and connect to the One.

And break their Ego.

If you are a Hindu that
does not do this things

—let's say you are a Hindu
that believes in idol worship

and you are watching it.

And your religion consists
of going on Sunday

—or whatever day you choose,

on Tuesday not eating meat,

on Sunday going to a Mandir,

taking some milk and
putting it all over the idol.

You are not going to get Mukti.

Do you agree?

Because your aim was
to connect to God,

and you didn't connect
and you didn't focus upon the One.

You started to focus upon stone,
there's no God in a stone.

And you stated to focus upon
Devi Devte and they are not the One.

So, a Sikh is trying to teach
the medicine of the doctor,

and if he find somebody else
on the same path,

but from a different doctor,
they're happy!

They go: "This guy is
on the mend as well.

He's like me, he has got
a different doctor but we're cool.

We're starting to get better".

But when they meet
somebody who's not well,

who's not trying to get better, they go:
"Oh dear, bechara, no doctor hega.

He's got no Guru.

Maharaj says:

The One who hasn't got a Guru,

his name itself is horrible,
anyone says his name.

That's why if you read Bani,

Maharaj says a Manmukh
—Manmukh is the worst person.

Because the Manmukh has got
no teacher, has got no doctor.

The Manmukh says:
"I'm gonna make myself better".

How can you make yourself better?

Even if you study the other people,

you will still end up
researching on Google,

finding some doctor that
you sort of agree with

—and you'd be following him.

Even if you haven't said:
"I am your student"

—effectively you are.

You can't just make up the solutions
by yourself sitting at home.

That's supreme Ego—it's supreme Pride.

You refuse to accept that somebody
else has got there before you

—and knows how to get better.

You refuse to accept that
so you start from the scratch.

The supreme Ego that is.

Better to say: "Somebody must
have got better before me,

let me go and learn from
that person. Get better".

So we should be trying
to get people better, Bhenji.

It's not about competing
—is about saying: "Let's get better".

We can all get better and
if you all did get better Bhenji,

then inequality in this world
will get better.

There would be a better place to live,
if you all got better.

And there's a quote from Bani
that will prove that to you.

Guru ji says:

Says Waheguru: "The world is burning".
jagat = world, jalandaa = is burning.

Give it your grace, and save the world.

What do they say next?

Whichever way it can be saved,
saved it that way.

So somebody can be saved by following
the true Islam of submission to God

and following the Hukam and
saying God's name, brilliant.

Some can be saved to Hinduism,

the bits that are not idol
worship or stuff, brilliant.

That's what we want
—let the world get saved.

We are not about that kind of preaching
—only our way.

We're inclusive not exclusive.