Jap Ji, 28-31 (mundaa santokh saram pat jholee)

There is a amphitheater in Southern India which has hosted plays for thousands of years - so much fake blood, fake love, true and fake tears have been spilled there.  We are the blood, love and tears, while the space that holds the plays in the formless One.

Seeker: Please tell me about the formless One.
Teacher: The formless One is the space in all of us, it is what makes it possible to make form,  it is the empty canvas where artists can paint, it is the silence between the notes that allows music to be made. We, at our deepest essence, are the formless One.

Seeker: What is our inert nature?
Teacher: We are permanent , conscious and blissful - Sat naam waheguru.

Seeker: How will we realize this?
Teacher: By serving our highest self.

Seeker: How can we do that?
Teacher: By singing and listening from our hearts.  Serving translates to paying attention; we pay the most attention when we sing and listen.

Seeker: Singing and listening to what?
Teacher: Our Gurus' Words

I bow to the formless One - the Primal One, the Pure One, without beginning, without end;
throughout time, the unchanging One.
----- Guru Nanak, Jap Ji, 28th - 31st pauri

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