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God can be realised only through faith, love and devotion.

Using occult powers, the ascetics, with occult powers (Siddhas) at Achal Batala of Gurdaspur district in Punjab, transformed themselves into fearsome demons, but they were unable to frighten Guru Nanak Dev. They performed many miracles before the Guru, but He remained calm, serene and prayed to the Divine Lord to bestow His wisdom upon them. He merely smiled and took pity on them. He wondered how they had strayed from the divine Path and were drifting aimlessly towards the material world by performing these useless miracles.

They had pseudo-knowledge and were misinformed into believing that by merely performing these miracles, they could become Divine and merge with the Divine Lord. According to spiritual science, miraculous powers are negatively co-related with the divine Wisdom.

Bhai Gurdas, a divine scholar, who served as a scribe to Guru Arjan Dev, the fifth Divine Master describes in his Odes (Vaars) the deeds of the Yogic adepts (Siddhas):

ਸਿਧਿ ਬੋਲਨਿ ਸਭਿ ਅਵਖਧੀਆ ਤੰਤ੍ਰ ਮੰਤ੍ਰ ਕੀ ਧੁਨੋ ਚੜ੍ਹਾਈ ।

ਰੂਪ ਵਟਾਏ ਜੋਗੀਆ ਸਿੰਘ ਬਾਘਿ ਬਹੁ ਚਲਿਤਿ ਦਿਖਾਈ ।

ਇਕਿ ਪਰਿ ਕਰਿ ਕੈ ਉਡਰਨਿ ਪੰਖੀ ਜਿਵੈ ਰਹੈ ਲੀਲਾਈ ।

ਇਕ ਨਾਗ ਹੋਇ ਪਉਣ ਛੋੜਿਆ ਇਕਨਾ ਵਰਖਾ ਅਗਨਿ ਵਸਾਈ ।

ਤਾਰੇ ਤੋੜੇ ਭੰਗਰਿਨਾਥ, ਇਕ ਚੜਿ ਮਿਰਗਾਨੀ ਜਲੁ ਤਰਿ ਜਾਈ ।

ਸਿਧਾ ਅਗਨਿ ਨ ਬੁਝੈ ਬੁਝਾਈ ।

Sidh(i) boalan(i) sabh(i) avkhadheeaa Tantar mantar kee dhuno charhaaee.

Roop vataa-e jogeeaa Singh baagh(i) bahu chalit(i) dikhaaee.

Ik(i) par(i) kar(i) k-ei uddran(i) Pankhee jiv-ei rah-ei leelaaee.

Ik naag ho-e paounh chhorh-e-aa Iknaa varkhaa agan(i) vasaaee.

Taar-ai torh-ai Bhangarnaath, Ik charh(i) mirgaanee jal(u) tar(i) jaaee.

Sidhaa agan(i) na bujh-ei bujhaaee. (Bhai Gurdas, Vaar 1, Pauri 41)

(The Siddhas performed many miracles trying to frighten Guru Nanak Dev to make Him their disciple. Through

Yogic discipline, they had accumulated occult powers. Some transformed themselves into tigers and started roaring

at Guru Nanak Dev. One of them became a bird and began circling overhead. Another converted into a snake and

started hissing menacingly, while another rained fire-balls. One of them, Bhangar Nath, plucked some stars from

the sky, another sitting on top of the skin of a doe floated on water. None of them was able to frighten Guru Nanak

Dev, who simply smiled and took pity on them for using occult powers, which are against the divine Law.)

Among the hypocrite Siddhas, there was also a true Seeker, named Bhartharee. He was a former king, who, having renounced his kingdom, had set out in search of the divine Truth and had joined the Siddhas.

It is said that in the company of these Siddhas, Bhartharee, through occult powers, had prolonged his life to about 1400 years.

Since he had been sincerely striving to realise the divine Truth for many years, he was blessed with sincere devotion and wisdom, and unlike the other Siddhas, could perceive the Divine in Guru Nanak Dev.

He left the company of the Siddhas and became a disciple of Guru Nanak Dev, spending the rest of his life in truthful living in service of the true Master at Kartarpur Sahib (now in Pakistan). Even now, the descendants of King Bharthree’s clan, who are called Mian Hindu Rajputs, have divine regard and reverence for Guru Nanak Dev.

Many God-conscious child-saints like Dhruva, Prehlad, Ashtavakra, etc. and other saint-souls like King Janak, Vashisht Muni, and in medieval times, Ramanand, the Gaur Brahmin; Ravidas, the cobbler; Kabir, the weaver; and Farid, the Muslim Sufi saint, acknowledged as the divine persons in Guru Granth Sahib, did not undertake any severe Yogic disciplines to attain the divine Wisdom, but followed the simple and straightforward path of meditation on the Divine Name with complete love and devotion.

This shows that mastering yogic postures, without divine Love and complete faith, might be beneficial only for preserving health and prolonging life and showing miracles to the common man, with an aim to induce them to become their followers, but these occult powers are negatively correlated with spirituality.

Ritual acts and yogic postures performed under the influence of ego are of no use on the path of divine Realisation.

People involved in such futile actions waste their time and energy because God-realisation is the subject of love and devotion:

ਕੋਟਨ ਮੈ ਨਾਨਕ ਕੋਊ ਨਾਰਾਇਨੁ ਜਿਹ ਚੀਤਿ ॥

Kotan m-ei Nanak ko-oo Naaraain(u) jeh cheet(i). (1427)

(Rare are the blessed persons, among countless souls, who have the utmost faith, love and devotion

for the Almighty Lord and a strong desire to become One with Him.)

The greater the devotion a Seeker has for God-realisation, the more motivated he will become to tread the divine Path, meditate on His Divine Name, sing His praises and realise the Divine within:

ਜੀਵਨ ਮੁਕਤਿ ਸੋ ਆਖੀਐ ਮਰਿ ਜੀਵੈ ਮਰੀਆ ॥

Jeevan mukat(i) so aakhee-ei Mar(i) jeev-ei mareea. (449)

(That person is called divine, who has attained salvation in this very life by shedding his ego completely by reciting

the Divine Name with love and devotion.)

The journey towards God-realisation continues beyond death into successive lives until the goal of merging with the Divine within, i.e., salvation is attained.

While treading the divine Path, the more one meditates on the Divine Name, while constantly contemplating the presence of God within and eradicating the ego completely, the sooner will he realise the Divine within by His grace.

Those blessed souls, who have accumulated spiritual capital from previous lives, will tread the spiritual path untiringly, offering their wealth, body and mind in service of the Almighty.

Abiding by His Will, they will attain the divine Wisdom to merge with Him in this very life by treading the divine Path of recitation of the Divine Name with full love and devotion.

God can be realised only through faith, love and devotion.

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