Soul Search

By Swarn Bains

This book is a translation of my Punjabi poetry, excluding few English poems in the beginning.

God came into existence first. God worshipped inner source of knowledge (guru) to come into existence. A teacher who teaches English is called English teacher. Teacher who teaches math is called math teacher. Same way, the teacher who teaches spirituality is called guru. Worldly teachers teach from the brain to brain. The guru teaches the soul from soul. Guru is a mentor as well. It is telepathic transformation. Make your own judgment. When God felt lonely, he created the creation. He started caring for it. Doing so, he got attached to it and fell in love. God set love as prerequisite to realize him. The Creation is a testament to it. Mind is a thought-processing system. Spirituality is a study of the mind. Divinity is a state of mind. Spirituality is a rehearsal of the mind to miss God, and it straightens following gurus teaching. Sometimes it helps to follow the teachings of prophets or saints. But they have died long ago. So it has very little effect because the spirituality is learned telepathically from mind to mind from a living guru. The mind does not tune to spirituality without the gurus blessing. It can only be learnt by self-surrendering. It cannot be forced into the devotees mind. It can be learned from a spiritual teacher through love, humility, and dedication. God is great. Everything created by God is also great. So everything in the world is flawless and beautiful. To stay abreast with Creation; God assimilated himself in everything. That is why God is called omnipresent.

God created his creations, including human beings. God abides in everything. So God has mothers love and motherly relation with his subjects. The subjects also have motherly relation with God. God wants us to realize him, and we also want to merge with him to end separation. I do not know much about other species, but man has instinct to go back and merge with the entity he separated from. So it is a mother-child relationship. There are many types of faiths, procedures, and processes people use to find a way to go back to him. We assume that God is one. Therefore, the final process to realize him also must be one only. Finally, all processes merge and end up in onethat is, to learn from a learned master, the guru. The world is a terrifying world ocean. The being is on one side of it and godliness or to merge with God is on the other side of the ocean. Gurus teaching is the process to take the being across the terrifying world ocean. It is a lot easier to learn from a teacher than your own. I was fortunate to meet my guru and become his devotee and follow his teaching and advice. At the same time, I started to read and contemplate the Sikh religious scripture, Siree Guru Granth Sahib. It is a spiritual book only. It has no stories that a person has to learn from. Writing in SGGS is by living saints, and it emphasizes that guru is God. One will have to console with guru to console with God. Other important criteria to realize God is selfless love, humility, and dedication mentioned in SGGS. Most harmful events from becoming divine are duality and slander.
I learned from my guru and from reading SGGS. I decided my path, and I follow it under my gurus guidance and following the teachings of SGGS. Both have same message and advice. God is the highest power in the universe. In order to miss him, recitation and repetition are necessary. So there is lot of repetition about praising God in this book. To understand this book, the reader has to tune his mind to soul searching.

Some people follow other systems. I have no opinion or knowledge about it. It is a lifelong process. Life is too short to learn on your own. He who puts his feet on two boats does not cross the water doing so. As they say, a guest at many homes at the same time remains hungry. It is my humble request to follow one path, whatever pleases you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 14, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524514228

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CONTENTS

Appreciation

Introduction

Journey

Realization

You only You

Origin

Creation of world

Divine path

Body the garden

Guru the God

Add culture

Fate and deeds

Self realization

Contemplate in mind

Pain and pleasure

Guru’s teaching

Enticing miracles

Ask the man

Caretaker of world

Recitation

Became smoke

Worship

Press lips together

Separation

Inner guru

Command and control

Joy of love

Union and separation

O God

Tree on wall

Veil of mind

Disturbed soul

Crocodile tears

Last hope

Intoxication of love

Load of sins

Creator and creation

Momentary

Joyous moment

Missing you

Mind

Fulfill promise

Love

Sell yourself

Learn a lesson

Soul search

Lone dancing peacock

Funeral parade

Heart sinks

Mountain of smoke

Journey of life

Overflowing glass

Judge of destiny

Listen O man

Pain of memories

Do not speak

Helplessness

Guru’s image

Black song bird

Enticing

Unification

Foreigner

Peace of mind

True false

Mental light

Lines on hand

Helpless soul

Love the robber

Test of love

My life

Idol worship

Preserve honor

Day night

Wandering

Worldly relations

Beggar at door

Thoughts

Emotional feelings

Knowledge of mind

Miss you

Guru the God

Edge of shawl

Next world

Ego and power

Worship by devotee

Clear conscious

Draw lines

Death

Salvation

Ungodly

Tears

Slander

The creator

Console with guru

Be humble

Cannot fulfill

The dawn

Sit with hope

Beyond imagination

Crying

Divided God

Rainy season

Guru’s blessing

Hide the looks

Heart to heart

Your world

Ignorant mind

Shed Tears

Love the beloved

Soul music

Oil and wick

Painful

Strange death

Design of love

Aura of love

Intoxicating pearls

Your world

Deeds and fate

Keep traveling

Blind by birth

Unappreciative people

Helplessness

Master’s blessing

Secret of mind

False promise

Worship

Guru

Soul mind and brain

Hide and seek

Beloved guru

Humble call

Painful world

Connect with beloved

Call to beg

Surrender heart

Birds and devotees

Be humble

Miracle phenomena

Destiny

Speak o rain bird

Love of beloved

God abides

Worldly wealth

My mine

Change of heart

Life

Day light

Cannot find path

Inner feelings

Beloved

Glass to drink

Good deeds

Sigh of separation

Worldly rink

Yoga practice

Pearl in blind’s hand

Straighten the mind

Peaceful mind

Work and effort

Reward of deeds

Debt of breathing

Love

Beads of rosary

He wrote

Come or go

Ego

Going to in-laws

Guru is God

Take across

Come O beloved

Without knowledge

Guru’s refuge

In his abode

Last wish

Smoke spewing

Dry up

Look inside

Guardian of Heavens

Clay pot

Million Hajj

Saintly look

Hymns

Fulfill

Recite the beloved

Unreal world

Omnipresent

Blossoming beauty

Four

More than fire

My attendance

Meet him

Image of eyebrow

Expressing love

Seeker

Prayer

Spiritual guide

Written by:

Swarn Singh Bains

3 Shakespeare Rd

Dundas, Ontario, Canada

L9H 7R5

Ph 905 627 0625

E mail: [e-mail]

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@ author

my 2 children

Dilpreet Bains, and Jasmeet Dhillon

after me.

Dedicated to humanity

Originally From

V. Kishan pura

Dist Ropar

Punjab

India

Appreciation

This book is translation of my Punjabi poetry excluding few English poems in the beginning.

God came into existence first. God worshipped inner source of knowledge (guru) to come into existence. A teacher who teaches English is called English teacher. Teacher who teaches math is called math teacher. Same way the teacher who teaches spirituality is called guru. Worldly teachers teach from the brain to brain. The guru teaches the soul from soul. Guru is a mentor as well. It is telepathic transformation. Make your own judgment. When God felt lonely, he created the creation. He started caring for it. Doing so; he got attached to it and fell in love. God set love as pre-requisite to realize him. The creation is testament to it. Mind is a thought processing system. Spirituality is study of mind. Divinity is state of mind. Spirituality is rehearsal of mind to Miss God and it straightens following guru’s teaching. Sometimes it helps to follow the teachings of prophets or saints. But they are dead long ago. So it has a very little effect because the spirituality is learnt telepathically from mind to mind from a living guru. The mind does not tune to spirituality without guru’s blessing. It can only be learnt by self surrendering. It cannot be forced into devotees mind. It can be learnt from a spiritual teacher through love humility and dedication. God is great. Everything created by God is also great. So everything in the world is flawless and beautiful. To stay abreast with creation God assimilated himself in everything. That is why God is called omnipresent.

God created the creation including human beings. God abides in everything. So God has mother’s love and motherly relation with his subjects. The subjects also have motherly relation with God. God wants us to realize him and we also want to merge with him to end separation. I do not know much about other species but man has instinct to go back and merge with the entity he separated from. So it is mother child relationship. There are many types of faiths procedures and processes people use to find a way to go back to him. As we assume that God is one. Therefore the final process to realize him also must be one only. Finally all processes merge and end up in one. That is to learn from a learned master the guru. The world is a terrifying world ocean. The being is on one side of it and godliness or to merge with God is on the other side of the ocean. Guru’s teaching is the process to take the being across the terrifying world ocean. It is lot easier to learn from a teacher than your own. I was fortunate to meet my guru and became his devotee and follow his teaching and advice. At the same time I started to read and contemplate the Sikh religious scripture Siree Guru Granth Sahib. It is a spiritual book only. It has no stories that a person has to learn from. Writing in SGGS is by living saints and it emphasizes that guru is God. One will have to console with guru to console with God. Other important criteria to realize God is selfless love, humility and dedication mentioned in SGGS. Most harmful events from becoming divine are duality and slander.

I learned from my guru and from reading SGGS. I decided my path and I follow it under my guru’s guidance and following the teachings of SGGS. Both have same message and advice. God is the highest power in the universe. In order to miss him, recitation and repetition is necessary. So there is lot of repetition about praising God in this book. To understand this book the reader has to tune his mind to soul searching.

Some people follow other systems. I have no opinion or knowledge about it. It is life long process. Life is too short to learn on your own. He who puts his feet on two boats does not cross water doing so. As they say a guest at many homes at the same time remains hungry. It is my humble request to follow one path whatever pleases you.

God bless the creation

Swarn Singh Bains

Introduction

I am the spirit God sprinkled to create the creation

World plays in my lap, from origin to destiny

Name is Swarn Singh and addressed Bains by sir name

Belongs to a class of jatt, he is recognized by that clan

Village Kishanpura county Ropar state of Punjab India

The fertile land dry and hot but hastily ill thawed media

Year 1940 Wednesday the day and January thirty first

Mother Dhanwant kaur gave birth brought him on earth

Father’s name Ranjit Singh he fought in world war one

He was a dedicated soldier and a farmer under the sun

Swarn married Daljit kaur jan 2nd nineteen sixty seven

Two children Dilpreet, Jasmeet, spirituality the tenant

Swarn moved to Canada in 1972 to make his living

He plays his part by writing poetry that is God given

God sent me in the world in search of godly wealth

Lost touch with it, got tangled with worldly wealth

The ears started hearing, immediately after birth

Heard many new voices so strange what on earth

As eyes opened, he got hypnotized seeing the world

Forgot the purpose of coming, he made it unheard

With guru’s blessing he devoted and learnt to write

With very low intellect, still writes the mental plight

Thinking writing and editing, has taken a great toll

Reciting God’s name, God has merged in his soul

Imaginary thoughts, with computer carries the fight

May God bless the creation, peace and eternal light?

Journey

Life is a journey, time plays a role

Body is a train, carrying the soul

The life is a journey, birth a station

Healthy! You live, die sick patient

Nobody knows where we come from!

Also nobody knows, where we go

Scared of death, don’t stop your breath

Some want to live forever, it’s not so

Some depart early, the others late

It’s no coincidence, it is called fate

The life is hard, controlled by tension

Don’t know much, I can’t mention

Everyone is on the run, everyone to go

Some move faster and others slow

Everyone stops for a while, not forever

It will happen again, never say never

Some come to receive, others to know

Everyone feels sorrow, when you go

One thing is for sure, there is no cure

There is no cure, you better endure

You are born to die, don’t know why?

O Bains; believe it, then why to cry

Alone you came, and alone you go

Why make friends, when you know

It’s just the beginning, not the end

There are many stops, it’s the trend

Others are ignorant, human is wise

Don’t worry Swarn; enjoy the ride

Realization

Catch a train, without any hesitation

Miss him forever, with love and devotion

Pray to almighty, through guru’s blessing

Enshrine guru in mind, recite his lesson

Recite with each breath, true meditation

See with inner eye, and obtain realization

Deeds are examined, not your possession

Results pointed to you, after examination

You make your fate, next life expectation

Credits written in fate, after explanation

O Bains meet the guru; learn godly lesson

Straighten your mind, eliminate temptation

Worship him humbly, with love and passion

Humility cleanses soul, loving and devotion

Recite God, with devotion and determination

O Bains you realize God, eternal destination

(Above three poems are in English only)

You only You

O beloved; extinguish fire burning in my heart

Eyes learnt weeping when they got enticed by love

Eyes weep and go out of control, when my eyes meet you

This crying will end when tied and put in the casket

You are my love, you are my lover

You are my separation, you are my union

You are my pleasure you are my pain

You are my contentment you are my greed

You are my creator, you are my caretaker

You are my life you make me survive

You are my promise and fulfiller of it

You are my lover you are my love

You are my lover you are my beloved

You are my heart you are my soul

You are my principle and interest

You are my end you are my origin

You are my kaaba you are golden temple

You are sickness of love in my heart

You are my beginning you are my end

You are my guru you are the saint

Now I am not o beloved, you you you only you

My mind says you you O God You all the time

O beloved you and you only everywhere

You are the day you are the night

You are sunshine and shade as well

You are my code of conduct, you are my faith

You are my deeds, you are my humility

You are my well wisher and my honesty

You are my Sikh Granth, you are Purana and Quran

You are my host, you are my guest

You are my pride you are my honor

You are everything for me, you O beloved you

I miss you and cry I keep saying yes you you

O God my mind speaks and says you you

O my beloved you you and you you only

You are in my heart you are in my soul

You are my beloved you are my sister friends

You are beloved and companion of my heart

You are my poetry you are my ink and pen

I am your devotee you are my master

You are my guru Ajaib knower of my mind

You are my thief and thief of thieves

You are my moon and Greek partridge

Wherever I look I see you O beloved

I have no ego I am nothing, it is you and you

Origin

With blessing of inner guru, God came into existence

He played the game of five elements and merged in them

God sat in trance taking blessing from the guru

When God realized thoughtfully he created the universe

Saying one word entire universe came into existence

God worshipped the guru again and separated the planets

Sun moon and stars came into existence and give light to the world

God created worldly wealth and that deluded the world in doubt

There will be no worldly affairs without worldly wealth; and without doubt there would be no life

O God you put the guru-willed in doubt and enticed him to follow you in love

What did you get by giving pain to guru-willed Swarn

Enticed by love O beloved; you run the world strung by one thread?

The universe, planets and all others worship you as much longing you created in them

Sun and moon pray by circling around you all the time

As much devotion one has that much reward he gets

As one sows so he reaps, God watches hiding in the soul

Animals birds human water and trees, God abides in all

Mind of a human wanders in doubt worried about heaven and hell

I was separated from you due to my deeds; I have been

united with my guru by your grace

O godly man; worship the guru in his refuge and God abides in the congregation

Worship the guru in his refuge, God abides in the true guru

Dedication eliminates duality; reciting guru’s teaching pleases God

Guru the true guru is bestowal of salvation, guru is God

God is under guru’s control as a man is in his wife’s control

God and true guru are friends, loving the guru unites with God

Creation of world

My beloved had an idea; he closed his eyes and went into trance

He tested his desire and created the world and blessed the world with his inner feeling of love

He said one word and millions of species were created

He created the world in a moment and enshrined love in all

Created the sky and underworld and blessed earth with giving birth

Nanak closed his eyes and witnessed it, and the elder explained to the world

God spoke the sermon of creation, and created the world

Then he questioned all if he was their God, everyone shook his head in agreement

He increased his ego and put his control over the world

First he gave them life then pride, finally he charged all with punishment of death

He did what appealed to him by testing his power and ego

Reason he created the world that he was proud of his powers

He asked everyone after creation if they will recognize him

O Bains; God and ego are enemies, so he gave ego to the world

First he created air, and added different type of seeds in it

Then united the seeds and created water from air and mixed seeds in it

Then he set fire to air and water, created earth and sky

First the female was born out of water; she gave birth to all beings

In order for the creation to flourish, he made male and female to copulate

Different flowers bloom all the time, everyone has independent mind

He added a load of greed in it, all think that everything belongs to them

He treats everyone with one eye, everything belongs to him

He preserves the honor of his devotees and gives punishment for bad deeds

He keeps everyone alive through breathing and hides in the heart

He enters every life as a soul and writes whatever deeds and faith one performs

Does not stop anyone from doing good or bad, never says a word

He keeps account of every moment and never curses anyone while alive

He takes account of everyone at the time of departure and everyone receives the reward of his doing

O Bains; you will go empty hand when you are punished to death

Divine path

If one can understand to control and guide his mind, path to divinity becomes easy

First find a guru and fall in love with him and learn how to console with him

Listen O people of the world; God created the world in love

God blessed all with love at birth, and he is realized in love

O sister friend; if you have longing to find a guru, you will find him

In order for love to flourish you have to become humble; it cleanses the filth of soul

Enshrine him in the mind, self surrender to him, and eliminate worldly love, greed, ego and pride

Be humble and cleanse your soul. It eliminates ego

Lamp of love burns in the mind and then you miss the beloved from your heart

You will get up and run in a dream hastily when beloved gives heart pain in a dream

When you miss the beloved, his name intuitively comes on your lips

Once you fall in love, the soul sings beloved beloved

You cannot make a telepathic link till you are at peace

O Bains; you do not gain anything if you do not have faith in the guru

Once guru is enshrined in the heart, he will wake you up in a dream

You may say beloved beloved the whole life, filth of mind will not wash away if you slander others

Slandering others makes the mind filthy; filthy mind cannot miss the beloved

My beloved is different from rest of the world that is why I always say I am your lover

Learn the lesson from guru (divine teacher) and keep reciting all the time

Become humble and be at his service, it will entice the guru

When gain and loss become primary goal, you cannot give up greed and worldly love

If you want to find godly path, get culture of guru’s teaching added in your mind

Milk does not curd without culture, and you do not get butter to eat by churning milk this way

The sun gives light during the day and it enlightens the world

The darkness takes over at night and blocks worldly light

The guru sheds divine light and shows godly path. But the devotee only obtains, how hard he tries

I worship my guru as God, consoling with guru is unique

My guru is the middle man between me and God, God abides in my guru

When I see the face of my guru, I see God in him

O sister; become humble and fall in love, and sing beloved beloved

Give up ill will towards others, and eliminate duality from mind

Do what the guru demands, that is how he makes heart to heart connection

When hearts connect, the guru looks with a glance of grace

Iron becomes gold touching the touch stone, and previous account is eliminated

Then neither account book opens nor is your account audited, the devotee and guru merge

Love