Maskeen katha notes
Asa DI vaar #5
Wonder is beyond intellect.
When ego comes in, wonder goes away. There is no mystery if you know everything. If you understand that what we know is incomplete we are capable of vismaad. For that reason kids, poets and saints all have vismaad. Most other people have ego and don’t have vismaad.
A kid loves butterflies. Sun. Snow. Flowers. Moon. Mystery abounds. Vismaad.
Poets also have this vismaad.
Saints also have the highest vismaad. They can see through their soul. Vekh vidaan rehaa vismaad says nanak. Nanak bujhe pure bhaag - only with good fortune does anyone get this.
The normal person in his ego says I know clouds. I know earth. I know the sun. The scientist doesn’t have vismaad.
Guru Nanak says I’m in wonder because of all this things
He starts with sound vismaad naad
Clouds. Wind. Birds. Music. These make the saint wonder. But not for the layman. But do you really hear do you really listen namdev says sabhai ghat Raam bole.
He says I’m in wonder because of knowledge. There is wisdom in everything even the leaf has wisdom even a droplet in the ocean has an ocean of wealth.
Then I am wonder because of all the living beings on earth. No animal is like any other animal. Even every leaf of the same tree is different. I am in wonder because of all the differences.
Vismad roop ... rang
So many shapes and so many colors. Every organism is different. Even one fish may have so many different colors.
A saint might fall in love with an eggplant because he sees God in it. But the layman might see an eggplant even if you showed him God. He wouldn’t recognize.
Vismaad naange phire
I am surprised that animals are naked and they are not embarrassed.
Vismaad pavan paani Agni ...
I’m in vismaad looking at pavan. You give me life and refresh me. You give me warmth. You quench my thirst. You fill me with wonder.
Daava agan, badva agan,
Singing oneness!
