Fight The Monster

SatGuru Nanak Dev ji says 'MAN JEETEH JAG JEET' By conquoring your mind you have truly conquored this world.

FIGHT THE MONSTER

'I'M BORED!
PARENTS ARE BORING!
TEACHERS ARE BORING!
TV IS BORING?
INDIAN FOOD IS BORING!
PRAYING IS BORING!
LIFE IS BORING BORING BORING!

Sound familiar? Well, if you get bored then that is great, I'm really happy that you have felt that way. I hope you were so bored that you felt like your head was going to explode. If you've been frustrated with boredom then you've stepped in the furious fire, you've seen the face of your enemy. Now you know who your real enemy is. It's your own mind. It's not the TV, its not your parents its not your teachers, its not your religion its your own mind. You thought your problems were caused by other people, but your real enemy was sitting inside your head all of the time!

The mind is like a huge, hungry monster which runs around out of control like a dinosaur from Jurrassic Park. It roars like thunder, demanding to be fed all the time. If we don't feed it then it gets bored and makes us feel frustrated. It wants to sink its sharp fangs into interesting things, it wants our eyes to be fed with videos and Television and pictures of blood and killing and action and sex. It wants our ears to be fed with loud angry music, it wants to hear funny jokes. It wants our tongue to swim around in tasty food: chinese , italian, indian , sweets ,chocalate, ice cream - FEED ME! FEED ME! It's screaming at us all the time. The monster-mind wants our body to have sex, to talk sex and to read about sexy newspaper stories, all the time it thinks of sex, it even makes us dream of sex. It wants to drink and smoke it doesn't care about health it cares about having a good time- it only cares about itself. The monster is sitting inside in each one of our heads demanding to be fed all the time -so we feed it hoping it will let you have some peace and quiet, but it never gets full up it gobbles down your music, TV, sex and food - in no time at all it's bored again and wants to chew some more interesting things. It tells us that we can't be happy unless we get a girlfriend/boyfriend and that's really exiting but the monster chews that relationship up and spits it out, and the mind runs after another partner and another, again and again it gets bored.

Take a look at what we do, as soon as the monster-mind gets bored we get up and turn on the TV, but that gets boring so we hire a video, but thats gets boring so we order a Pizza with extra cheese, but that gets boring so we go out with our friends. Eventually we have to come home and be by ourself. Alone in the room, nothing to do - we can't stand to be by ourself for even 10 minutes its boring, so we play some music, read a book play a computer game. What does that tell you about our nature ?- we're so boring that we can't even stand our own company! If we ever end up forced to keep your own company then the monster-mind starts feeding on our thoughts. It tells us that we are bored and its our teachers fault or our religions fault or our parents fault. It starts chewing up our thoughts, it makes us angry and bitter and chews up some more negative thoughts which make us suspicious and paranoid. These are all new emotions for the monster to eat so it carries on chewing your brain until you feel like your head is going to explode.

The sad part is that:

WE LET THE MONSTER-MIND RUN WILD
WE SERVE IT LIKE A SLAVE ALWAYS DOING WHATEVER IT SAYS
THE MONSTER CAUSES US TO BE ARROGANT, TO GET ANGRY,
TO GET ATTACHED, TO BE SEX-MAD AND TO BE MONEY-MAD

and we don't even try to stop it, we just sit and take it.

We are not the first ones to have lost the battle, the whole world is a slave to the Monster-mind. And do you know why everyone has lost this battle? It's because no-one saw who their real enemy was, no-one realised there was a battle to be fought, everyone just became a slave to the monster.

SatGuru Nanak Dev ji showed the world who the enemy was, how to fight it and how to tell it that we were no longer going to be its slave. From now on we would only serve the True Master - Wonderful God.

At the Guru's time, the Moghuls were Turks who converted to Islam, but they got bored of being good Muslims who lived by God's will. They conquored many countries, they raped women and took them away as slaves they burnt villages to the ground - they conquored half the world, they forced people to convert to Islam, but they never conquered their Monstermind. They were always slaves of the monster. But, many of the Holy Indians were not any better, they were bored of being good Hindus, they pretended to pray so people gave them food, clothes and money. Read the following story of Guru Nanak ji and Sajjan Tug and you'll see what kind people become if they don't fight their monster mind.

Sajjan was a murdering, prieslty thief. He ran an inn for travellers and had several people working for him. They would lure travellers to the Inn and Sajjan,which means friend, tried his best to befriend the innocent travellers. If the guests were Hindu, Sajjan Tug would dress as a Hindu saint and pray, the travellers would feel they were at a friendly place then at night he'd have them killed. If a Muslim came, then he would dress as a Muslim and pray, the traveller would feel safe but Sajjan would have them killed as well. Sajjan pretended to be everyones friend, but only so he could steal their belongings.

When Guru Nanak ji came, Sajjan was rubbing his greedy-hands with exitement for he thought Guru Nanak must be a great King, Guru Nanak ji's face was happy and glowing, he walked with a smile and a song - Sajjan thought only someone who had so much money that they didn't need to worry about it could be as happy as Guru Nanak ji. Naturally, Sajjan wanted to be this happy King's friend.

Sajjan quickly made a royal court with a special throne for the King to sit on. Guru Nanak ji played along with Sajjan's game, for God had told Guru Nanak ji what kind of friend Sajjan really was. Sajjan sent in a dancing girl- he knew all kings loved dancing girls and surely this would please this happy King. Sajjan thought the girl could lure the King to bed and when this rich King fell asleep they would kill him. But, Guru Nanak ji asked the girl, what are you doing? Where is your honour and self-respect? Do not misuse your body - your body was given to you for praising your True Master by doing paat and simran. The Guru's words had a deep effect on the girl she told Sajjan I'm no longer working for you -you are not my Master any more you made me do a lot of bad things.

Sajjan was as mad as hell, and he quickly sent in another worker. The new plan was that they would get the rich King drunk so that when he become unconscious they could kill him and steal all of his money. But, Guru Nanak ji said I have no need to drink your wine, for the wine of God's Name is always intoxicating me. The man left deeply effected by Guru ji and he too told Sajjan I am no longer your slave, I will not do bad things for you any more.

Sajjan was even madder now, he thought he would have to conquor this King himself, so he created a tasty dish but poisoned it so Guru ji would die and he could steal his belongings. But, Wonderful God protects his saints and sent the word of God to Guru Nanak ji. Guru Nanak ji sang to Sajjan - the real Sajjan (friend) is the one who never deserts you & stands by you in God's court, but you are like dirty-metal which when you rub it with a cloth gets shiny but only gives the cloth blackness meaning Sajjan smiled shinily to the travellers but the only thing that rubbed off on them from his friendship was his dirty murdering actions. Guru ji continued singing Gods message: you are like the crane which looks holy, dressed in white but rips the flesh of the creatures it eats. Sajjan Tug fell to his knees tears in his eyes, he couldn't hide his sins from God. Sajjan repented by gaving his life to Guru ji by taking amrit. He stopped following what his monster-mind was telling him to do and started following the advice of Guru ji. He served people honestly and prayed honeslty. Guru ji showed him how to slay his monster-mind once and for all using the all-powerful weapon of meditation on God's Name.

It is Guru Nanak ji's command that we conquor our mind, we must stop living like a slave to the monstermind. Tell your mind you no longer will be a slave to its desires. Tell the monster that you only serve the True Master - Wonderful God and no matter how much the monster tries to make you feel sad or lonely or angry or lustful or proud or like doing dirty deeds like Sajjan Tug, tell your mind Guru Nanak ji reigns supreme in the kingdom of this body and then do simran. Only the ones blessed by Guru Nanak ji are able to slay the monster, millions of people do strange things in the name of religion but without Guru Nanak ji's blessing none of them have found the Truth.

We all love to be with our friends, or to sit infront of TV or to cuddle upto our spouse and our children. Everyone wants to be with the monster all of the time and no-one can stand to be with Wonderful God for more than 5 minutes without getting bored. The person who has escaped from the jaws of the monster-mind and has also tamed it, is one in millions ,a blessed person who can sit with their Creator without getting bored. Guru Nanak ji's blessings fill their mind with love for God. That person is known as a saint and throughout Creation the glories of that being are eternally sung. Whenever you start getting bored, or depressed or sad, fight the monster by firstly, begging to Guru Nanak ji for his blessings to begin the battle, then sing Waheguru and feel the Wonderful God's love and warmth pouring into you. Do this each and everyday, more and more. In this way you will be gradually conquoring your mind and within a matter of years you will have truly conquored the world.