Hello! Are You Listening

“Are you Listening” are three words told to us time and again either calmly or harshly during our upbringing by parents, brother/sister, a teacher, a bully at school/college, the boss, a land lord, etc. Older we get it is much common between husband & wife, elderly parents and a close friend. Listening is the ability to accurately receive and interpret messages in the communication process.

For decades the affair between the voter and politicians ends up by the voter screaming “are you listening”. When a politician whispers and there is someone listening Oh! What reactions.

Hello – “Are You listening” in political circles is yet to be ascertained, but the questioning alone has resulted in an expense over 133crs with disruptive parliament sessions since 19th July 2021. Listening to whispers by governments is happening since independence, earlier it was climbing telephone poles, with lesser advanced technology and now smarter devices & technologies manage it. We all need to realize as we surround ourselves with the smart gadgets/devices/instruments, they all are subject to some loss of privacy of some kind in some manner. Strangely to set something right as a “Right,” is there the wrong way the only way. There are several other “Rights” equally important that are abused or infringed and require corrections however we are learning, politicians “Right” if abused is enthusiastically, actively, ruthlessly pursued and in a most unparliamentarily manner further bleeding the taxpayers. The corridors of democracy and the writings on the wall “Of the people, By the people, however For the people is sadly distancing.

Are You Listening gains importance and much needed in this Kali Yug, to listen to our respective holy scriptures. Our inner 5 thieves subject us to wrongful living because one is not listening to the ways of our Lord. Much of our evil doings of wrongful desires, wrongful use of power- position and wrongful materialistic earnings happen when we are not listening. We need to replace our thoughts and actions with the true spirit of service. For serving another human is recognizing HIS presence in others and thus serving God.

Let’s reach out to the One who listens and whose listening keeps all social systems for “Sarbat Ka Bhalla”. Gurbani says “Fruitful and rewarding is that service, which is pleasing to the Guru's Mind. When the Mind of the True Guru is pleased, then sins and misdeeds run away. The Sikhs listen to the Teachings imparted by the True Guru. Those who surrender to the True Guru's Will are imbued with the four-fold Love of the Lord. This is the unique and distinct life-style of the Gurmukhs: listening to the Guru's Teachings, their minds blossom forth. SGGS314