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Why can’t you attain peace through worldly pleasures? by Harman Singh

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    What is the true form of bliss?
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    If we are trying to find happiness
    in life, if that is the purpose.
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    Then can't we find happiness through our
    desires of eating food?
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    Attaining money,
    showing off to the world?
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    Whatever it may be.
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    Is that not enough?
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    If the goal is to attain peace.
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    Well guess what.
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    I attain lots of peace
    after pursuing my lust.
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    I have attained lots of happiness
    after pursuing my greed.
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    If that goal is happiness then why
    canI just not attain it through the world?
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    Because attain.
    I see so much happiness.
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    But do not forget that that Ras
    what you say is very temporary.
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    It is like a safflower,
    the colour seems great
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    but it is actually not there
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    It is like a deer
    that is running down the road.
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    It sees a pool of water.
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    But when it runs to that water,
    the water seems even farther away.
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    You may have experienced this.
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    You may be driving down
    the road on a sunny day.
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    It seems like there is
    water down the road.
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    The reality is the water
    is not actually there.
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    It seems like an illusion.
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    So that anand which you are
    pursuing is a little heavenly.
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    Because any time you pursue
    that type of Anand,
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    It does not last forever.
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    It is temporary it gives
    you the illusion of Sukh,
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    but it actually gives you Dukh.
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    You eat food Pyreyo.
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    Once you eat this food.
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    Just moments later the
    food will start to digest.
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    And you will start to
    feeling hungry again.
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    That is the reality.
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    You go and enjoy a movie.
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    But that enjoyment of a movie
    will notlast forever.
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    You go and enjoy a song but that
    enjoyment will not last forever.
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    Because you go back
    and Dukh attacks you after.
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    At one time you were happy and then
    sadness follows.
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    These are like two clothes.
    You switch them on and off.
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    Sometimes you go soaring into the skyes.
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    Your mind is so greedy that
    what it is trying to acquire.
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    To soak the happiness,
    acquiring it in the wrong way.
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    Because it is so ‘chanchal’.
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    Because it is so wavering.
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    It cannot find its true happiness
    anywhere.
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    There are two people.
    An Agyani and Brahmgyani.
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    The Brahm Gyani says that
    "I want to acquire peace and happiness"
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    Brahm Gyani means the person
    who is enlightened.
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    The person that has experienced parmatma.
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    Through each and every atom of
    this unverse.
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    Within each and every hair follicle
    of their entire body.
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    They are hearing similar and
    all they see is Brahm.
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    They see a paramatma everywhere.
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    That Brahm Gyani is saying that
    I want to experience Anand.
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    And the Agyani, the person
    that is living their life in ignorance.
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    Going after the flavors of the world,
    the tastes of the world.
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    They are sitting and saying
    they want to experience Anand.
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    They want to experience bliss
    and happiness as well.
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    They both go do the same action.
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    They eat a plate of food.
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    When they go to eat this plate of
    food, they are Agyani.
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    The one living in ignorance.
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    Not experiencing God instead
    seeing the duality of the world.
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    He feels hunger.
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    This desire and this hunger is
    driving this person mad.
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    He goes to eat the food.
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    He is saying that the food
    will make me content.
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    It will fulfill my desire
    to fulfill my needs.
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    Once he eats the food,
    his stomach is filled.
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    He says “wah”.
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    Anand aa geya..
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    Keep these words in mind.
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    He says
    “Anand aa geya”.
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    But moments later.
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    An hour later, two hours later,
    He is starting to feel hunger again.
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    Because he does not realize
    where ananda comes from.
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    He placed Anand coming
    from the food.
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    So next time he is in need of Anand,
    of happiness, he will go after food.
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    Whether it will be spicy food next time.
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    Whether it will be
    sweet food, cheesy food.
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    Going after many many
    different types of food.
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    Growing the taste
    of the tongue.
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    Going after all of these food.
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    Going after sweetness, bitter, tasty
    savoury foods.
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    He's saying that
    this food that I ate.
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    Even though it
    fulfilled my hunger.
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    Now the desires of the fickle mind.
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    The mind is saying that you
    do not just want food anymore.
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    No! You want spicy food,
    no, you want sweet food.
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    You know the how the rest goes.
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    Then there's the Brahm Gyani Pyareo.
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    He is eating food,
    he does the exact same task.
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    Do not think that the Brahm Gyani’s
    actions are any different
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    to the actions of a person
    living in ignorance.
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    That person that will be living
    in this world will be exact same.
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    Sometimes you may not
    even be able to notice.
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    That this person is
    experiencing the Anand.
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    This Brahm Gyani,
    he sits and eats the food.
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    Once the food is eaten
    he feels content.
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    He says the same words.
    Wah, anand aa geya.
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    But when he starts feeling hunger
    moments later.
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    Once the food starts to digest
    his contentments is not lost.
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    Why? Because he did not place
    the source of Anand.
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    The source of happiness
    of contentment inside the food itself.
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    Pyaareyo this is how it works.
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    When your mind is after a desire.
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    When your mind is after a desire
    your mind is wavering.
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    It is trying to chase after something
    it is trying to find something.
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    Once it finds what is acquiring your mind
    becomes still for just a split second.
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    In that split moment
    you do not look around.
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    Your five senses
    are not looking around.
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    It does not matter what you are hearing.
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    What you are seeing.
    What you are feeling.
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    For that split millisecond, may it be,
    your mind becomes still.
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    The rays of Akaal Purakh.
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    Just like the sun is shining,
    through and out this entire world.
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    Even Agyani through contentment
    may feel a little bit of the rays of that sun.
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    Because he has become
    desireless for a split second.
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    He has become completely Nishkaam.
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    The truth is since the moment
    we were born,
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    we have not become desireless.
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    The moment wer were born
    we started having a desire.
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    The moment you were born you
    started crying.
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    For the milk of your mother.
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    That desire grew to playing
    with your mum and dad.
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    To eating lots of food.
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    To playing with your brothers and sisters
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    Than that grew to Kaam
    then it grew to greed.
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    This desire does not end
    just like numbers do not end.
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    The desire in this mind of yours
    will never end.
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    If you place your hopes in the false
    this false world, Pyareyo.
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    The Brahm Gyani that is eating that food.
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    He says “Anand aa gaya”.
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    Because he knows that my mind
    has now become still.
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    He felt content and the
    light of Akaal Purakh is shing through.
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    He keeps his mind in Anand.
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    Because knows that the Anand
    was not coming from the food.
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    It comes from my mind becoming still.
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    It is Abhiaasi Brahm Gyani who
    is always able to keep their mind still.
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    Completely desireless.
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    That is what a Brahm Gyani is.
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    What else,
    what other desire does he have?
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    What other desire would he have?
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    If that Hari da Jan has become
    the form of Akaal Purakh
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    and there is no difference
    between that Guru da Sevak
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    and Akaal Purakh themselves,
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    then that person must be
    desirelss, right?
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    But no they say that that person
    still has a desire.
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    They say God is not desireless.
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    Somebody said what do you mean
    God is not desireless.
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    They say God is very hungry.
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    They say what do you mean God is hungry?
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    God is the creator of the universe.
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    God cannot be hungry for anything.
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    Bhai Gurdaas Ji says
    “No God is hungry."
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    They say
    “What is God hungry for?”
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    The say
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    What is Akaal Purakh hungry for ?
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    He is hungry for Prema Bhagti.
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    Akaal Purakh created this universe
    as a Dharam Sala.
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    To be able to sit
    in this Dharam Sala
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    and experience the Akaal Purakh.
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    For the love of their Bhagats
    Akaal Purakh created the Sari Sristi.
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    Saari Kherd
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    Because he is hungry for Prem,
    hungry for love.
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    That person that has
    drenched their entire life.
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    Just like we take clothes
    and the dyer puts it into the water.
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    The clothes are pulled out
    and whatever the water smelled like
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    whether it smelled like fragrance
    like jasmine
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    whether it smelled like
    sandalwood
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    Whatever color that water was, the
    clothes has now died in that color.
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    That same way.
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    Those that are completely
    drenched
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    and imbued in that
    colour of Akaal Purakh.
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    Their life is blessed.
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    Them coming in this world is blessed.
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    Because they filled the purpose of
    Akaal Purakh.
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    The world is saying “Anand”.
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    The world says
    “I expereince Anand “.
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    The world says that I am having a social life.
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    But the guru says
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    This is all false that go back to the
    example of Brahm Gyani.
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    Brahm Gyani sits and eats
    the food.
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    Now when Brahm Gyani is hungry again
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    whether food is on his
    plate again or it is not.
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    The Brahm Gyani will
    always stay in Anand.
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    Because the food was
    not the source of Anand.
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