Vahiguru ji ka Khalsa, Vahiguru ji ki Fatih!

Bhagat Beni ji is one of the fifteen revered Bhagats whose compositions are enshrined in the Guru Granth Sahib. A mystic. A seeker. A voice of quiet intensity. He lived in a time when spiritual life was draped in ritual—when the performance of devotion was often mistaken for its essence. But Bhagat Beni ji’s words rise above that noise. He doesn’t shout. He invites. He pleads gently with us to turn inward—to go beyond the show, and into the sanctuary of remembrance.

In a world where appearances dazzle and rituals are glorified, he offers something radical: Stillness. Sincerity. A return to what is real.

His preserved words are tender, yet piercing. They remind us that the heart of devotion is not measured by what we do, but by what we become. Through yogic imagery and layered metaphors, he nudges us—sometimes lovingly, sometimes firmly—to see beyond the surface. Bliss, he says, is not earned through bathing in holy waters or by twisting the body into discipline. It flows from the remembrance of Nam—the eternal Identification with the One.

And then, he offers this radiant insight: O saintly beings! There dwells Ram, the One without the blemish of Maya, the illusion. Having reached the Guru, a rare one realizes this. There, the seeker becomes like the Beautiful Ram, the One without the blemish of Maya.

These are not abstract words. They are a whisper of a possibility. A truth we sense but often overlook. The One, untouched by illusion, does not live in places of worship or mountaintops alone. The One dwells there—in an inner realm. And that there is not a destination on any map. It is a state of being, an awakening that arises only through the grace of the Wisdom-Guru.

In that place, quiet, vast, and luminous, the seeker doesn’t just encounter the One. The seeker becomes like the One. Beautiful. Unblemished. Free.

We reflect.
How many times have we wandered, thinking the One is distant, just out of reach? How many rituals have we performed, hoping they would bring us closer, while the gentle truth within us waited patiently?

Bhagat Beni ji turns our gaze inward.
He does not ask for more striving.
He asks for surrender.

Are we willing to sit with the Wisdom-Guru long enough, still enough, for our illusions to soften, for our awareness to open?

There is not far.
It is near.
It is here.
It is within.

And when we begin to dwell in that space, where illusions fall away, where clarity dawns, we don’t just find the One. We begin to resemble the One.

May we soften enough to see.
May the Wisdom-Guru guide us!