Beloved of Nanak, as Kamalla Rose Kaur would say, read these words, and think about them. Ek Ongkar, Satnam, Karta Purkh, the teachings of Nanak, the genius, through the Jyot of Waheguru.

Ek Ongkar - Books could be written about these two words. I stick to my simply understanding of the essence. Ek means One, as in not two, not three, but One. Ongkar obviously stands for God, for Waheguru, Allah, Jaweh, Ram, Govind. But it represents the two sides of God, the nirgun and sargun. Nirgun is no qualities, it is the aspect of God which is omnipresent, which fills all the places, pervades all the places. Sargun is all qualities, the omnipotent, the ultimate mover and shaker, the great inspirator, the power behind everything.

Sat Nam - True Name, the Name that IS, the Godly essence that is present in all, behind all, inside all, under all, above all. And the Name that moves all, inspires all, even if we are not aware of it.

Karta Purkh - Creator Being.

This is not an attempt at intellectual exegeses, not an exposition on Gurbani. It is as I feel it. Through my feeling for these three 'names' or descriptions of God, I come to the sort of explanation, which I offered in my first column under the title 'Go for it!'. Through meditation on the Mul Mantr, and especially these three descriptions, I can be a busy man, and still remember Him / Her most of the time. Through my feeling for these descriptions of the Limitless One, I am able, with some degree of success, to put myself at His service.

You know when I became something of a mystic I thought I was really getting somewhere. I remained on a spiritual high from August till December after travelling by bus from Manali to Leh and back, through landscapes that were of a beauty that seemed not of this world. This was as big as God I thought.

My next important mystic experience was going on my Hero Hercules pushbike past some of the muddiest, dirtiest jhuggi settlements I have ever seen, with the kiddies doing their business along the road side. I was making progress, because obviously God's beauty is as much in these jhuggis as in the beautiful highlands of Ladakh.

But I was still away from my goal, because I wanted to see Waheguru in the poor, and not in the affluent people living in their well-constructed houses, with air conditioning, and each bedroom their own bathroom.

Then followed a short period when I stayed in the Southall Singh Sabha, and did seva in the langar every day of the week. I was standing there, offering food (guru's blessing) to the sadh sangat passing by. And there I saw it: All the people, the monas, the keshdharis, the namdharis, the amritdharis, the punjabis, the afrikis, the afghanis, the angrezis, christians, hindus, musulmans, women, men and children, they were all part of Her / Him, the food that I gave them was part of Her / Him, and I who passed it to them was also part of Her / Him.

And still I got angry with my fellow sevadars. It is a long way to God, even when He is within and around you.

Born Cornelis Heule in 1947 in the Netherlands, Harjinder Singh arrived in Delhi January 9, 1996, in Amritsar about a week later and took amrit on July 14, 1996. During a four year stay in Punjab, Harjinder first did seva in Harmandir Sahib and then spent one and a half years at the Institute of Sikh Studies in Chandigarh.

Since February 2000 Harjinder is in London where he worked with the Sikh Human Rights Group and continues to volunteer for it's affiliate, Gurseva. Active in the United Kingdom's Liberal Democrat party, Harjinder was involved in the party's recent general election campaign.