Here are some basic truths from the Granth Sahib, which we human beings either do not know or are not aware of it´s importance for the goal of our life of the liberation from the Chaurasee Ka Chakar, from the cycle of births and deaths, so that union with Wahiguru Akal Purukh could be made possible. The raag taken to illustrate these truths, is Raag Malaar, with the banis of Guru Nanak, Guru Amar Das, Gurus Ram Das and Guru Arjan Dev.
(1262-13, mlwr, mÚ 3)
baho biDh thaakaa karam kamaa-ay.
He performs all sorts of rituals until he is exhausted.
The rituals mentioned here are those which the mortals perform with much enthusiasm, such as fasting, pilgrimages, idol worshipping, reading and repeating the sacred texts like parrots without understanding, bathing in the so called sacred waters...etc
(1267-4, mlwr, mÚ 5)
raaj tay keet keet tay surpat kar dokh jathar ka-o bhartay.
From a king to a worm, and from a worm to the lord of gods, they engage in evil to fill their bellies.
All the beings by not offering their love and devotion to the one and only true Lord Wahiguru Akal Purukh, Paree Puran Parmatma, are covered by maya, by manmuhkta, and do all sort of wrong things.
(1267-4, mlwr, mÚ 5)
kirpaa niDh chhod aan ka-o poojeh aatam ghaatee hartay.
They renounce the Lord, the Ocean of Mercy, and worship some other; they are thieves and killers of the soul.
So they are called thieves and killers of the soul by Guru Sahiban, because they deprive their souls of the purpose of the meeting and union with the Lord Satnam, and for that very purpose which we are given the privilege of the human birth. It is a privilege, becasuse from the huge bahvsagar, creation, this right is only given to human beings; not even to the gods or devis, devtas.
(1267-5, mlwr, mÚ 5)
har bisrat tay dukh dukh martay.
Forgetting the Lord, they suffer in sorrow and die.
So by being engaged in all the useless activities, one forgets the real Lord Satnam, one is not aware about Him; so the preciuous unvaluable human birth is wasted.
(1267-5, mlwr, mÚ 5)
anik baar bharmeh baho jonee tayk na kaahoo Dhartay. rahaa-o.
They wander lost in reincarnation through all sorts of species; they do not find shelter anywhere.
And the consquence is that, one condems himself or herself in the cycle of births and deaths, in the womb of a mother, in reincarnations, in all types of lives, and the Judge Kal, whips with pain in suffering, for wasting the anmol human life just like that, without making anything useful, not anything but only one thing and that is Nam simran.
i (1267-6, mlwr, mÚ 5)
ti-aag su-aamee aan ka-o chitvat moorh mugaDh khal khar tay.
Those who abandon their Lord and Master and think of some other, are foolish, stupid, idiotic donkeys.
Here our Gurus clearly declare, that worshipping anything else apart from Sat Purush, is being stupid, is being foolish, is being a donkey for instead of gathering the wealth of Nam, we gather karmas upon karmas, dirt, and thus binding ourselves, perpetuating our existence in this maha sagar, this creation. So brothers and sisters, let us awake from the braham, from the misconception of building relations here, a piece of land, a piece of earth, or gathering material wealth, or we can say, anything which has nothing to do with our beloved Akal Purukh, without considering in which land...country...or race we are born. Because anything that is made of the 5 tattwas, has nothing to do with ruhaniyat or spirituality.
(1267-7, mlwr, mÚ 5)
siv biranch asur sur jaytay kaal agan meh jartay.
Shiva, Brahma, angels and demons, all burn in the fire of death.
Even worshipping gods of the status of Brahma, Vishnu or Shiva will not lead to the liberation from maya and Kal. Just because even they do not know the majesty and inmensity of Akal Purukh. They themselves are under the limits of Maya and Kal...so we can imagine what is going to be of those who worship them. Only devotion to Par Braham Parmeshwar, Wahiguru, takes us to those realms where He really is, real and eternal, away from Parlay or Mahaparlay... to Sach Khand.
] (1267-8, mlwr, mÚ 5)
naanak saran charan kamlan kee tumH na daarahu parabh kartay.
Nanak seeks the Sanctuary of the Lord's Lotus Feet; O God, Creator, please do not send me into exile.
An what is that Sanctuary or the Lord´s feet, where reaching one is freed fron reincarnation? It is Sad Kee Sangat... it is His Nam.
1262-12, mlwr, mÚ 3)
naamheen binsai dukh paa-ay.
Lacking the Naam, the Name of the Lord, the mortal suffers and dies.
Doing anything, excepting Nam Simram, one condems oneself in the unending cycle of births and deaths.
(1262-12, mlwr, mÚ 3)
tarisnaa jali-aa bhookh na jaa-ay.
He is burnt in the fire of desire, and his hunger does not depart.
Desiring anything apart from Wahiguru, is poisoning oneself, because the root cause of pain and suffering is haume, ego and desires, which bring us back again and again in this creation.
(1263-7, mlwr, mÚ 4)
tirath athsath majan naa-ee.
Instead of bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage, take your cleansing bath in the Name.
So our Gurus, tell us that if you want to cleanse yourself from the dirt of Moh, Maya, Mamta, Agyanta and Kam, Krodh, Lobh Ahankar... do just one thing.... take a bath in the real Amritsar... in the waters of Nam Simram.... By meditating on Nam, our sins and all the dirt of our countless births is washed away in a second. These true Gurus, never say to do anything else apart from Nam Bhakti.
(1262-12, mlwr, mÚ 3)
vin bhaagaa naam na paa-i-aa jaa-ay.
Without good destiny, he cannot find the Naam.
But then they also say, without good destiny one can not find Nam. So one has to starve and pray sincerely to Wahiguru to bless oneself with this grace, otherwise there is no hope, as seen in the bani.
Jap Ji Sahib could be well said, isthe summary of the whole Granth Sahib, and the summary of the Japji Sahib could be well said in the following words: Iko Onkar, Satgur Parsad. There is only one God, which is realized by His grace. Here Parsad is not any sanctified eatable...His Prasad here means grace, for which we have to humbly fold our hands and spread our jholees as begars at his door, so that He may pour His bakhish, His Daya Meher in the form of the Parsad of His Nam.
This is what really counts for all human beings, irrespective of colour, caste, creed, poor or rich, strong or weak, tall or short, hindu, sikh, isaee, jew or a muslim... it does not matter. Only He and His Nam are Sach, are eternal, and by attaching oureselves to Him and His Nam, we can also become like them in this very life, like our Gurus did, they have been an example to us, though they were one with Wahiguru, they come to our human level by His orders, to teach us the spiritually blind, the way leading to Him, with the light of the truth, with the light of Nam.
(1262-13, mlwr, mÚ 3)
baho biDh thaakaa karam kamaa-ay.
He performs all sorts of rituals until he is exhausted.
The rituals mentioned here are those which the mortals perform with much enthusiasm, such as fasting, pilgrimages, idol worshipping, reading and repeating the sacred texts like parrots without understanding, bathing in the so called sacred waters...etc
(1267-4, mlwr, mÚ 5)
raaj tay keet keet tay surpat kar dokh jathar ka-o bhartay.
From a king to a worm, and from a worm to the lord of gods, they engage in evil to fill their bellies.
All the beings by not offering their love and devotion to the one and only true Lord Wahiguru Akal Purukh, Paree Puran Parmatma, are covered by maya, by manmuhkta, and do all sort of wrong things.
(1267-4, mlwr, mÚ 5)
kirpaa niDh chhod aan ka-o poojeh aatam ghaatee hartay.
They renounce the Lord, the Ocean of Mercy, and worship some other; they are thieves and killers of the soul.
So they are called thieves and killers of the soul by Guru Sahiban, because they deprive their souls of the purpose of the meeting and union with the Lord Satnam, and for that very purpose which we are given the privilege of the human birth. It is a privilege, becasuse from the huge bahvsagar, creation, this right is only given to human beings; not even to the gods or devis, devtas.
(1267-5, mlwr, mÚ 5)
har bisrat tay dukh dukh martay.
Forgetting the Lord, they suffer in sorrow and die.
So by being engaged in all the useless activities, one forgets the real Lord Satnam, one is not aware about Him; so the preciuous unvaluable human birth is wasted.
(1267-5, mlwr, mÚ 5)
anik baar bharmeh baho jonee tayk na kaahoo Dhartay. rahaa-o.
They wander lost in reincarnation through all sorts of species; they do not find shelter anywhere.
And the consquence is that, one condems himself or herself in the cycle of births and deaths, in the womb of a mother, in reincarnations, in all types of lives, and the Judge Kal, whips with pain in suffering, for wasting the anmol human life just like that, without making anything useful, not anything but only one thing and that is Nam simran.
i (1267-6, mlwr, mÚ 5)
ti-aag su-aamee aan ka-o chitvat moorh mugaDh khal khar tay.
Those who abandon their Lord and Master and think of some other, are foolish, stupid, idiotic donkeys.
Here our Gurus clearly declare, that worshipping anything else apart from Sat Purush, is being stupid, is being foolish, is being a donkey for instead of gathering the wealth of Nam, we gather karmas upon karmas, dirt, and thus binding ourselves, perpetuating our existence in this maha sagar, this creation. So brothers and sisters, let us awake from the braham, from the misconception of building relations here, a piece of land, a piece of earth, or gathering material wealth, or we can say, anything which has nothing to do with our beloved Akal Purukh, without considering in which land...country...or race we are born. Because anything that is made of the 5 tattwas, has nothing to do with ruhaniyat or spirituality.
(1267-7, mlwr, mÚ 5)
siv biranch asur sur jaytay kaal agan meh jartay.
Shiva, Brahma, angels and demons, all burn in the fire of death.
Even worshipping gods of the status of Brahma, Vishnu or Shiva will not lead to the liberation from maya and Kal. Just because even they do not know the majesty and inmensity of Akal Purukh. They themselves are under the limits of Maya and Kal...so we can imagine what is going to be of those who worship them. Only devotion to Par Braham Parmeshwar, Wahiguru, takes us to those realms where He really is, real and eternal, away from Parlay or Mahaparlay... to Sach Khand.
] (1267-8, mlwr, mÚ 5)
naanak saran charan kamlan kee tumH na daarahu parabh kartay.
Nanak seeks the Sanctuary of the Lord's Lotus Feet; O God, Creator, please do not send me into exile.
An what is that Sanctuary or the Lord´s feet, where reaching one is freed fron reincarnation? It is Sad Kee Sangat... it is His Nam.
1262-12, mlwr, mÚ 3)
naamheen binsai dukh paa-ay.
Lacking the Naam, the Name of the Lord, the mortal suffers and dies.
Doing anything, excepting Nam Simram, one condems oneself in the unending cycle of births and deaths.
(1262-12, mlwr, mÚ 3)
tarisnaa jali-aa bhookh na jaa-ay.
He is burnt in the fire of desire, and his hunger does not depart.
Desiring anything apart from Wahiguru, is poisoning oneself, because the root cause of pain and suffering is haume, ego and desires, which bring us back again and again in this creation.
(1263-7, mlwr, mÚ 4)
tirath athsath majan naa-ee.
Instead of bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage, take your cleansing bath in the Name.
So our Gurus, tell us that if you want to cleanse yourself from the dirt of Moh, Maya, Mamta, Agyanta and Kam, Krodh, Lobh Ahankar... do just one thing.... take a bath in the real Amritsar... in the waters of Nam Simram.... By meditating on Nam, our sins and all the dirt of our countless births is washed away in a second. These true Gurus, never say to do anything else apart from Nam Bhakti.
(1262-12, mlwr, mÚ 3)
vin bhaagaa naam na paa-i-aa jaa-ay.
Without good destiny, he cannot find the Naam.
But then they also say, without good destiny one can not find Nam. So one has to starve and pray sincerely to Wahiguru to bless oneself with this grace, otherwise there is no hope, as seen in the bani.
Jap Ji Sahib could be well said, isthe summary of the whole Granth Sahib, and the summary of the Japji Sahib could be well said in the following words: Iko Onkar, Satgur Parsad. There is only one God, which is realized by His grace. Here Parsad is not any sanctified eatable...His Prasad here means grace, for which we have to humbly fold our hands and spread our jholees as begars at his door, so that He may pour His bakhish, His Daya Meher in the form of the Parsad of His Nam.
This is what really counts for all human beings, irrespective of colour, caste, creed, poor or rich, strong or weak, tall or short, hindu, sikh, isaee, jew or a muslim... it does not matter. Only He and His Nam are Sach, are eternal, and by attaching oureselves to Him and His Nam, we can also become like them in this very life, like our Gurus did, they have been an example to us, though they were one with Wahiguru, they come to our human level by His orders, to teach us the spiritually blind, the way leading to Him, with the light of the truth, with the light of Nam.
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