The curtains fluttered and revealed the full moon lighting up the midnight sky, suddenly a dark, shadowy black bat came flying in through the window. Kamlee Kaur woke up and removed the bedsheets to welcome it. The bat was covered in blood and landed beside her. Then it transformed into a human shape :
- "Vechara! You must have had a good feast tonight, look at you, you're covered in blood. My taste buds are going crazy just with the smell of fresh blood that you've brought in. So, tell me did you sink your fangs into a buffalo, or an elephant or were you brave enough to suck on the neck of one of the sleeping villagers?"
Vechara replied, "Well Kamlee, I'm not enjoying being able to transform into a vampire bat on a full moon. It was fun at first, but next time that Mystic Meg comes thorugh our village I'm going to ask for my money back and she can have her stinking potion, and another thing I don't like about her is..."
Kamlee interrupted, "O Vechara, stop complaining, I love changing into a bat. Look I'm really thirsty for some blood so tell me where you had your feast."
Vechara answered, "OK if you really want to know, then take a big swig of that bat potion and follow me." Kamlee picked up the bottle and gulped down a mouthfull. She handed it over to Vechara and he took a swig too. Before they had time to say the Mool Mantr, there where two black bats shooting out of the window into the night sky and an empty pile of clothes where Kamalee had been standing.
They flew through the valleys and over roaring rivers, the glided over the fields of wheat and headed towards the jungle. Vechara suddenly stopped and sat on a huge boulder facing the dense greenery. Kamlee landed beside him. Vechara said, "You said you want to know where I had a blood bath, right? Just take a look over there, can you see that huge, thousand year old tree?"
-" Yes, I see it" said Kamlee,
-"Well, I bloody well didn't!"
Moral Of the Story
Guru Amar Das Jee teaches us that God is all around us, but we are just too blind to see. When we beg for the Guru's grace then we stop seeing the worldy illusion and only see Waheguru jee in everything.
"O my eyes, the Lord has infused His Light into you; do not look upon any other than the Lord. Do not look upon any other than the Lord; the Lord alone is worthy of beholding. This whole world which you see is the image of the Lord; only the image of the Lord is seen. By Guru's Grace, I understand, and I see only the One Lord; there is no one except the Lord. Says Nanak, these eyes were blind; but meeting the True Guru, they became all-seeing. || 36 ||" (Anand Sahib)
Get up early at amrit vela and repeat the Name of "Waheguru Waheguru!", when you open your eyes try and see Waheguru everywhere and not the worldy illusion. Keep practising and by Guru's kindness the Unseen Lord will be Seen.
Posted by Harjit Singh Lakhan