Recipe for Brewing a Good Spiritual Wine

Here are a few recipes for you - for brewing Good Wine - 

                         Spiritual wine, of course. 

Try to brew it for yourself and enjoy the bliss.

                         1. Sant Kabeer ji:

Gurh Kar gyaan, Dhyaan kar Mahuaa, Bhau Bhaati man Dhaara

Sukhman Naari sahaj samaani, peevai peevan-haara

Take the molasses of Gyana, and mix them with Mahuaa* flower of meditation - place them in the furnace of the Bhau… Bhaavna - sincerity of heart as the fire - love of God enshrined in your mind.

With intuitively balanced Sushumnaa Naadhi, the drinker drinks this wine. 

(Sushumnaa Naadhi - the central spinal channel that distributes spiritual energy)

                    Auadhu! Mera man matvaara

Unmad chadhaa Madan ras chaakheyaa,Tribhuvan bhayaa Ujiyaara

O hermit Yogi, my mind is thus intoxicated.

When this wine takes over, one tastes the sublime essence of this intoxicating juice, and the three worlds** become bright and clear.

Dui Pur jori rasaayi bhaathi, peeo maha ras bhaari

Kaam krodh dui keeye jaleta, chhoot gayi sansaari

Joining (by controlling) the two channels of the breath, I have lit the furnace and drink in the supreme, sublime essence (of meditation).

By burning both; lust and anger, I became liberated from the world.

Pragat pragaas gyaan Gur gamit, Satgur te sudhi paayi

Daas Kabeer taasu mad maata, uchaki na kabahu jaayi

After meeting the Guru, the light of Gyana appeared before me. From the True Guru, I obtained this understanding and wisdom.

Kabeer, the humble servant of the Lord, is intoxicated with this wine, which never wears off.

                              (SGGS Page 969)
  

Notes:

*In villages of India, wine was made from ‘gurh’ and Mahuaa flowers.

Gurh or Jaggery is a concentrated product of sugarcane juice. And Mahuaa is a plant that has some medicinal qualities.

Also used to feed the cattle- and the oil extracted from it is used to make soap and some other products.

** Three worlds: Physical, Mental, and Spiritual.

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                         2. By Guru Nanak Dev ji

When Bharthari, a hermit yogi, asked what kind of wine he consumes, Guru Nanak dev ji replied:

                          Asa Mehla 1    (SGGS - Page 360)

‘Gurh kar Gyaan Dhyaan kar dhavai Kar karni kasu Paiye’

‘Bhaati Bhavan prem ka pochaa itu ras amio chuaaiye’

Make Gyana your molasses, and meditation your scented flowers, and let good deeds be the herbs.

Let devotion and faith be the distilling fire, and your love the ceramic cup. Thus the sweet Nectar of life is distilled.

 

‘Baba man matvaaro naam ras peevai sahaj rang rach rahiya’

‘Ahinis baani prem liv laagi Shabad Anaahad gahiya’

O Baba, the mind is intoxicated with the Naam, drinking its Nectar - and remains absorbed in the Love of the Lord.

Night and day, remaining absorbed in the love (of the Lord), Anahad Naad, the celestial music of the Shabad continually resounds.

‘Poora saach pyaala, sehaje tiseh pyaaye jaa ko nadar kare’

‘Amrit ka vapaari hovai kya mad chhoochhai bhaao dhare’

The Perfect Lord gives the cup of Truth to those upon whom He casts His Grace.

One who becomes the trader/consumer of this Nectar, how could he ever love the wine of the world?

‘Gur ki Saakhi Amrit baani peevat hi parvaan bhayaa’

‘Dar darsan ka pritam hovai, Mukti baikunthe karai kya’

The Teachings of the Guru, the Amrit Baani – the eternal word; by drinking them in, one becomes acceptable (by the Lord).

Unto the one who loves the Lord's house, and the Blessed Vision of His Darshan, of what use is liberation or paradise for him? 

‘Sifti rataa sad bairaagi, jooai janam naa haarai

Kaho Nanak sun Bharthari jogi kheeva Amrit dhaarai’

Instilled with the Lord's Praises, one is forever a Bairaagee, a renunciate - and his life is not lost in the gamble.

Says Nanak, listen, O Bharthari Yogi: drink in the immortal wine - the intoxicating Nectar of the Lord’s love.

                                     3. Sant Kabeer ji:

Surat pyaal, Sudha Ras Amrit, eho mahaa ras peeo ray

Nijhar dhaar chu-ae ati nirmal, eh ras manuaa raato ray

Kahe Kabeer sagale mad chhoochhai ehai mahaars saacho re

Consciousness is the cup, and the immortal (name of God) is the Nectar. I drink in the supreme, sublime essence of this divine wine.

The pure stream constantly trickles forth, and my mind is intoxicated by this sublime spirit.

Says Kabeer, all other wines are trivial and inconsequential; this is the only true sublime wine.