Not having children can make any parent question Waheguru Ji and beg Him for children. We beg, we plead, we threaten to stop believing, we question... but how often do we joyfully submit to His will?
Submission is when you can tell Waheguru Ji from your heart that you are happy to live in His will, and really mean it and believe it inside.
Today I want to look at four ladies; one who submitted to Waheguru Ji, two who gave themselves over to Waheguru Ji and one who just could not have faith.
There was once a lady who had five daughters and was constantly taunted by the people around her for it. Since her first pregnancy she would pray to Waheguru Ji to please bless her with a son. Each time she would have another daughter and the worldly people would taunt her and make her upset.
After having her five daughters it donned on her that doing ardas for a son was not going to give her a son and she should learn to be happy with what Waheguru Ji had already blessed her with. She went to the Gurudwara Sahib to do ardas to Waheguru Ji one more time. This time she didn’t ask for a son, she thanked Waheguru Ji for her daughters and asked Him to take care of her daughters and give them all the happiness in the world. That day when she finally submitted to Waheguru Ji she was visited by Guru Ji who told her to buy a coconut and drink the water inside it and do path, the next child born will be a son. She did as she was told and she was blessed with a son. She surrendered and was blessed for submitting to Waheguru Ji’s will.
The next two women were sisters-in-law who had been married for years, but even after medical help were still unable to conceive. One day they were told to get parsad of missi roti and onion from Gurdwara Beed Baba Budda Sahib and they would be blessed by Baba Budda Ji with a son. First the eldest requested her brother-in-law to bring her back parsad. She accepted the parsad with full faith that Waheguru Ji would bless her. She ate the parsad and would daily do paath for Waheguru Ji to bless her and then for Him to protect her child. A year later she had her child without any medical assistance. Years later the other sister-in-law also requested for the brother-in-law to bring parsad for her as well. But when the parsad reached back to the United States it had begun to mold. She decided to have faith in Waheguru Ji and cleaned off the mold and ate the parsad. She too did paath for a whole year and had a beautiful baby boy. They put all their faith on Waheguru Ji and He blessed them.
These ladies had deep faith in Waheguru Ji, and they submitted to His will and were blessed. But not all can surrender in this complete manner.
There is one such lady whom I have met that runs to any place and to anyone who offers her even the slightest chance of getting pregnant and having a child. She goes to any doctor, any place of worship, just about anywhere she has heard of someone being blessed. She heard of prasad from Gurdwara Beed Baba Budda Sahib and requested for it to be brought for her also. Prasad is for everyone, so it was brought for her. But when it reached the American airport the onions were not allowed past security, which was something that hadn’t happened to the earlier ladies. She ate the missi roti with doubt and did paath half-heartedly, thinking of the onion that didn’t make it. Just as with everything else she had tried in order to have a baby, she did not do it with full faith and follow through. Till this day she is running after a child and because she cannot surrender to Waheguru Ji, she faces disappointment after disappointment.
Surrender to Waheguru Ji is an essential part of being blessed. Blessing does not always mean you will receive a child or whatever else you may have wished for from Waheguru Ji, and neither does it mean that you have to wander dejectedly. Blessing is when you are able to find happiness in whatever His will is in this moment and not doubt or question it.
Blessing is complete peace of mind, and that can only come from submission. Submission comes from surrender in which we understand that, at every moment Waheguru Ji is the creater and the doer of all things.
So be humble, surrender and let Waheguru Ji bless you far, far beyond your expectations.
Author's Note: These stories were taken either from firsthand experience or from a life of a close friend. Please forgive me for any mistakes. You can contact me at [email protected]
