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Pauri-1 Guru- Disciple
One Oankar, the primal energy realized through the grace of divine preceptor. Discipleship of the Guru is such a difficult task that only a rare one can understand it. He, who knows it, becomes guide of spiritual guides and chief Guru of Gurus. In this stage the wonderful feat of becoming Guru by the disciple and vice-versa is enacted. Externally the sikh and Guru remain as they were, but internally, the light of the one permeates the other. Becoming the Sikh of the one Guru, the disciple understands the word of the Guru. Grace of the Guru and love of the disciple meeting together in the divine order join each other in the form of the love of the Guru and fear in the mind of the disciple to create a balanced and handsome personality.
Pauri-2 Making of the Guru by the Guru
By the teachings of the Guru many become disciples of the Guru, but some rare one becomes the Guru like that Guru. Only the practitioner of the word and consciousness can attain the status of Guru-God. Such a disciple concentrating on the philosophy of Guru, and making it a part of daily conduct himself becomes a likeness of Guru. Making his consciousness attentive to word through recitation of Naam, he merges in the holy congregation. His guru-mantra is Vahiguru, whose recitation erases egotism. Losing Egotism and merging into the qualities of the supreme Lord , he himself becomes full of qualities.
Pauri-3 Being fortunate
He, who has the opportunity of the glimpse of the Guru, is a fortunate person well aware of the virtues of love and awe. Adopting the renunciation in the form of Word consciousness, he residing in equipoise is free from all maladies. His mind, speech and actions are not engrossed in delusions and he is king of the yogis. He is the quaffer of the cup of love and remains merged in the delight of nectar. Drinking the elixir of knowledge, meditation,and remembrance of the Lord, he has gone beyond all sorrows and sufferings.
Pauri-4 Elixir of Love
Quaffing the elixir of love giving fruits of delight, how could a gurmukh explain that ineffable joy. Much is said and listened to but the people remain ignorant of its real taste. In the Vedas and Puranas, Vishnu and Mahesh have told enough about the delight of love. One can see the four scriptures of Semitic religion in this context. Sesanag also remembers it and all musical measures also are busy in adorning it. One becomes full of wonder after listening to the myriads of unstruck melodies. But the tale of that elixir,love, is ineffable which one fortunately drinks in the will of the Lord.
Pauri-5 Exlixir of Love (contd.)
Even the six tastes (Sastras) are full of wonder before the gurmukh’s delightful fruit in the form of elixir of love. Thirty six types of repasts, getting awful before its grandeur, crave for being equal to it. Even myriads of currents of delight flowing through the tenth gate become full of wonder and fear before it. The taste of the recitation of Soham in the base or ira, pingala and susumna nerves is not equal to the taste of elixir of love. Going beyond the animate and inanimate world the consciousness is merged in the Lord in the entire world. Then the situation turns out to be such that as one cannot speak while drinking, the talk of drinking of elixir of love similarly also cannot be described.
Pauri-6 Description of the delight
So long as the tasty object enters not the mouth, mere talking about the taste cannot bring any relish. When holding the object the mouth is full of taste and tongue full of delight, how can one speak. Going past the stage of recitation those whose consciousness gets merged in the Word, do not see anything except the Lord. For the people drenched in love-good or bad ways- do not have any meaning. Wobbling gait of the person full of love for the wisdom of the Guru looks distinctly beautiful. Now the moon emerged in the sky of heart cannot remain hidden in spite of efforts to cover its light with floor kneading basin.
Pauri-7 Elixir of Love
Myriads of sandals and fragrant sticks may be mixed. With myriads camphor’s and musk’s the sky made be full of fragrance. If myriads of saffron are mixed with yellow pigment of cow. And all these fragrances an incense stick is prepared. Then myriads of such sticks may be mixed with the fragrance of flowers and scents. Even then all these cannot withstand fragrance of the elixir of love of the gurmukh.
Pauri-8 Joy of Love
Millions of handsome people reside in Inrapuri. Millions of beautiful people reside in heaven. Millions of young persons wear many types of attires. Millions are the lights of millions of lamps, stars, suns and moons. Millions of lights of jewels and rubies also glitter. But all these lights cannot reach up to the light of the elixir of love that is all these lights are pale before it.
Pauri-9 Supreme delight
In all the four ideals of life, riddhis, siddhis and myriads of treasures. Philosphers stones, wish fulfilling trees and many varieties of wealth are collected. Myriads of fabulous gems supposed to yield anything desired and wish fulfilling cows are also added to this. Again invaluable jewels, pearls and diamonds are kept with all this. Myriads of Kailash and Sumer mountains are also gathered together. Even then they all have no standing at all before the elixir of love of the gurmukhs.
Pauri-10 The drop of the cup of love
The gurmukhs identify the wave of delightful fruit among the illusionary waves of the world ocean. They bear upon their body millions of waves of worldly rivers. Myriads of rivers are there in the ocean and likewise many are pilgrimage centres on the Ganges. In the ocean are millions of sea of varying forms and hues. Such oceans may be visualised in one drop of the tears of love. Nothing is good or bad for the man who quaffs from the cup of love.
Pauri-11 The infinity.
From one resonance the Oankar-Braham created the whole universe. The very Oankar assumed the form of millions of universes. Five elements were created, myriads of productions were made and all the three worlds were adorned. He created water, earth, mountains, trees and made the holy rivers flow. Lord created great oceans that subsume in them myriads of rivers. A fraction of their grandeur cannot be explained. Only nature is infinite whose expanse cannot be counted. When nature is unknowable then how could its Creator be known.
Pauri-12 One drop of the cup of love.
Ineffable is the taste of the joy of love, which is the pleasure fruit of the gurmukhs. It is this shore and the yonder one are beyond the limits none can reach it. Its beginning and end are unfathomable and its grandeur is the most eminent. It is so much that many of the oceans immerse in it yet its depth remains unknown. Who could evaluate even one drop of such a cup of love. It is inaccessible and its knowledge is unfathomable but the Guru can make one realise this imperceptible cup of love.
Pauri-13 One moment of the joy of love
Even a fraction of pleasure fruit of grumukhs in the form of joy of love is imperceptible and beyond all accounts. Many are the creatures in the eighty-four lacs of species. They all have variegated colour of their trichomes. If to their single hair millions of heads and mouths were joined. If such a million of mouths could speak through their million of tongues. If myriad times the world were created, even then it cannot equal the one moment of the delight of love.
Pauri-14 How is the joy of love attained.
After meeting the Guru that is adopting the teachings of the Guru, the gurmukh receives the pleasure fruit of the joy of love. The Guru merges the consciousness of the disciple into he Word and creates ever-new love for the Lord in it. Thus getting above the worldliness, the disciple becomes the Guru and the Guru disciple. Now he quaffs the unbearably strong juice of love and further bears the unbearable. But all this becomes possible only through the service of the Guru. To attain the delight of love one has to put to death his ego and by becoming indifferent to the world he has to overcome it . One who has tasted the tasteless stone that is who has adopted the way of desire less devotion, he alone throws away myriads of delights equal to the immortalising elixirs.
Pauri-15 Living up to one’s natural repute
Water does not drown the wood as it lives up to its natural repute of nurturing the things as water rears up vegetation. It bears the vessel on its head like a saw as the vessel shears the water and moves ahead. Of course iron is studded into the wooden barge but water bears the burden of its also. Water know the that its enemy fire exists in wood but still it covers up this fact and does not drown it. The sandalwood is knowingly drowned so that it is proved to be real sandal wood and it may fetch higher price. The way of the gurmukhs is also the same; they without caring for the loss and profit go on moving further and further
Pauri-16 Diamond
By digging into the mine the diamond is brought out. Then it goes into the hands of serene and great jewellers. In the gatherings the Kings and the ministers test and check it. The bankers in full confidence evaluate it. Putting it on the anvil by the strokes of hammer its body is tried for wounds. Any rare one remains intact. Likewise any rare one reaches the court of the Guru (God) that is any rare person escapes the darkness of maya and its infatuations.
Pauri-17 The way of Gurmukhs
One who quaffs the cup of love superficially downs himself but in fact getting inebriated one who drowns in it swims it and gets across, This is the way of the gurmukhs that they lose while winning and losing everything they win one and all. The way into the world ocean is like a double edged sword is like a killing stone. The Guru path is unique and its teachings are subtler even than the hair itself. The disciple of the Guru loses his ego through the Gurmat. By eradicating ego through Gurmat and by wisdom of Guru, a Sikh goes across the world ocean.
Pauri-18 Like the expansion of banyan tree, Sikhs of the Guru spread Nam.
The seed enters into the earth and settles in the form of root. Then in the form of verdant plant it becomes stem and branches. Becoming tree it expands further and tangled branches hand from it. These flourishing branches ultimately entering the earth again attains the form of roots. Now its shade becomes dense and leaves appear beautiful and millions of fruits grow on it. In each fruit remain many seeds and this process goes on. The mystery of the Sikhs of the Guru is the same; they also like a banyan tree go on spreading the name of the Lord.
Pauri-19 Guru in the form of a tree
One is a Sikh, two the congregation and in five resides God. As cyphers added to one makes infinite number, similarly getting attached with Sunya (God), the creatures also transform into great men and Kings of the earth. In this way innumerable small and big persons also become liberated and liberators. In town after town and country after country there are diverse sikhs. As millions of fruits are obtained from a tree and in those fruits remain millions of seeds. In fact the Sikhs are fruits of Guru-tree and in those fruits the Guru resides in the form of seeds. These disciples of the Guru being enjoyers of delights are the emperors of the kings and being knower of the technique of yoga are kings of yogis.
Pauri-20 A wealthy banker
The love between the disciples and the Guru is the same as is there between a trader and a banker. The merchandise of the name of the Lord is available only at one ship of the Guru and the whole world purchases from there only, Some of the worldly shopkeepers are selling trash whereas others are collecting money. Some are storing the gold coins after spending rupees. And there are some that are dealing in jewels of the praise of the Lord. Any rare honourable banker having full faith in the Lord maintains the trade.
Pauri-21 True Guru, the merchant
The perfect true Guru keeps the actual merchandise of the name of the Lord. He is that brave person who accepts the evils and upkeeps his reputation of being giver of virtues. He can grow juicy fruits on silk-cotton trees and can produce gold from iron ash. He infuses fragrance in the bamboo that is he make egotists feel humble and makes crows no less than swans who are capable of distinguishing water from milk. He transforms owls into scholars and dust into conchs and pearls. Such a Guru who is beyond the description of the Vedas and Katebas become manifest by the grace of Word-Brahma.
Pauri-22 – Praise of the Guru
People praise the Guru in millions of ways and to do so take help of many comparisons. Millions of people eulogise so much that even the eulogy is surprised. Millions of spiritualists explain the grandeur of the Guru but they do not understand it. Millions of eulogisers recite praises but they do not comprehend the real praise. I respectfully bow before such a primeval Lord who is the pride of the humble person like me.
Pauri-23 Same as above
Millions of sects, intellects, thoughts and skills may exist. Millions of phrases, techniques and methods of absorption into the consciousness may exist. Millions of knowledge’s meditations and remembrances may be there. Millions of educational recitations for the objectives and tantra-mantras praxis may be there. Millions of delights, devotions and liberations may be mixed up. But as the darkness is dispelled and stars hide when the sun rises, similarly by losing all the objects mentioned above and by becoming the dear friend of the Guru ignorance is dispelled. The gurmukh can attain the unapproachable pleasure-fruit of the Lord.
Pauri-24 Praise of Waheguru- the Wondrous Lord
Beholding the wondrous Lord myriads of wonders become full of wonder. Seeing his wonderful deeds the elation itself becomes elated. Realising his marvellous order many uncanny arrangements feel themselves full of wonder. His unmanifest position is unknowable and His form and guise is formless. His tale is ineffable; silent recitations are performed for Him but even He is described as Neti, not this not that. I salute that primal Lord and I am sacrifice unto His feats.
Pauri-25 Remembering the Six Gurus
Guru Nanak is perfect and transcendental Brahm. Guru Angad attained merger in Word by being in the company of the Guru. After Guru Angad, the imperceptible and without duality, Guru Amar Das, the giver of immortality has flourished. After Guru Amar Das, the forbearing and treasure of infinite virtues, Guru Ram Das made manifest his existence. From Guru Ram Das, Guru Arjan Dev, who absorbed one in Ram-Nam, beyond all blemishes and immovable one, was born. Then came Guru Hargobind who is the cause of all the causes that is who is Gobind- the true Lord Himself.
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