Sidh Gosht

Sidh Gosht means conversations with the Siddhas. They were yogis who went to forests and mountains to master their own minds. Guru Nanak wrote it in seventy-three verses, as a conversation: the Siddhas ask, and Nanak answers. They ask about earrings and begging bowls and holy rivers, and every answer turns inward. The shop you are looking for is inside your own heart. And the Word itself is the Guru.

Picture a circle of yogis, the Siddhas, who left home for the mountains. A traveller named Nanak bows, and they test him. Who are you? Why not leave the world, like us? Every answer turns inward. Your earrings can be the Word. Your begging bowl can be a mind free of wanting. Your cave is the calm inside you. Live like a lotus on a pond, at home in the water and never soaked by it. Then comes the biggest question: who is your Guru? The Word is the Guru, and your listening attention is the student. Without the Naam there is no yoga, and in the end there is only the One. At the centre, the Rahao: wandering will not make you pure; Truth and the Word will.