Var-15
Pauri-1 Euolgy of Satguru
One Oankar, the primal energy realised through the grace of divine preceptor. The true Guru (God) is the true emperor, all other worldly Kings are fake ones. The true Guru is the Lord of Lords; the nine naths members and heads of ascetic yogi orders are without any refuge and master. The true Guru is the true giver; other donors just move after Him. The true Guru is the creator and makes the unknown famous by giving them the name- Nam. True Guru is the real banker; other rich persons cannot be relied upon. The true Guru is the true physician; others themselves are imprisoned in the false bondage of transmigration. Without the true Guru they all are without the guiding force.
Pauri-2 Praise of the True Guru
The true Guru is that pilgrimage centre in whose shelter are sixty-eight pilgrimage places of the Hindus. Being beyond dualities, the true Guru is the supreme God and other gods get across the world ocean only by serving Him. The true Guru is that philosopher’s stone the dust of whose feet adorns millions of philosopher stones. The true Guru is that perfect wish - fulfilling tree who is meditated upon by the millions of wish- fulfilling trees. The true Guru being the ocean of delights distributes pearls in the form of different sermons. The feet of the true Guru are that desire fulfilling fabulous gem- chintamani- which makes myriads of gems free of anxieties. Except the true Guru-God- all other is duality that makes one go through the cycle of transmigration.
Pauri-3 Origin of the Human body
Out of the eighty four lacs species, the human life is the best one. By his eyes man beholds and with his tongue he eulogises God. By ears he listens carefully and smells lovingly by his nose. By hands he earns livelihood and moves by the power of feet. In this species, the life of a gurmukh is successful but how is the thinking of manmukh, the mind oriented one. The thinking of the manmukh is evil. Forgetting the Lord a manmukh goes on pining his hopes upon men. His body is worse than animals and the ghosts.
Pauri-4 Slave of a man- the position of a Manmukh
Manmukh- the mind oriented- leaving away the true Guru Lord becomes slave of man. Becoming servant of man he goes daily to salute him. All the twenty four hours he stands before his master with folded hands. He does not get sleep, hunger and pleasure and always remains scared as if he is going to be sacrificed. Throughout rains, cold, sunlight, shade he undergoes myriad sufferings and tortures, In the battlefield of life the same person taking sparks of iron to be fireworks gets wounded mortally. Without the shelter of perfect Guru, he wanders through the species.
Pauri-5 Condition of the split-ears
Not serving the Lord of Lords, many Naths becoming guru make people as their disciples. They get their ears split and applying ashes on their body, carry begging bowl and a staff. Going from door to door, they beg for food and blow their singi- a special instrument made of horn. Getting together on Shivratri fair they share food and drink with each other. They follow one of the twelve sects and go on moving on these twelve ways and go on the cycle of life and death. Without the Word of the Guru, none gets liberated and all of them run here and there like acrobats. This way the blind one goes on pushing the blind into the well.
Pauri-6 Weeping and wailing without the perfect Guru
Forgetting the true giver, people spread their hands before the beggars. The bards sing of the brave works pertaining to the brave and eulogise the duels and enmities of the warriors. The barbers also sing the praises of those who have died treading evil paths and committing evil deeds. The eulogisers recite poetry for false kings and go on telling lies. The priests first seek shelter but afterwards lay their claim of bread and butter that is they entangle people in the trap of ritualism. The people belonging to diverse sects wearing feathers on their heads punch their bodies with knives and go on begging from shop to shop. But without the perfect Guru they all wail and weep bitterly.
Pauri-7 The fake relations
O man, you have not remembered the Creator and have accepted the created as your creator. Getting engrossed in wife or husband you have further created relationship of son, grandson, father and grandfather. Daughters and sisters proudly become happy or annoyed and such is the case of all relatives. All other relations such as the house of father-in-law, maternal grandparent’s and maternal uncle’s house and other relations of the family are disdainful. If conduct and thought are civilised, one gets honour before the high ups of the society. However, at the end, when caught up in the web of death, no companion takes notice of the person. Bereft of the grace of perfect Guru, all persons get scared of death.
Pauri-8 Fake merchants
Except the infinite true Guru all other bankers and traders are false. The merchants trade heavily in horses. The jewellers test the jewels and through diamonds and rubies spread their business. Gold merchants deal in gold and cash and drapers deal in clothes. Farmers undertake farming and sowing seed reap it afterwards and makes it a big heap. In all these businesses profit, loss, cure, meeting,separation goes hand in hand. Without the perfect Guru there is nothing in the world except suffering.
Pauri-9 Except the perfect Guru, all physicians are fake
The true physician in the form of true Guru (God) has never been served, then how could a physician who himself is diseased remove the malady of others. These worldly physicians who themselves are engrossed in the lust, anger, greed, infatuation, deceive people and enhance their diseases. This way man involved in all these ailments go on transmigrating and remain full of woes. He goes stray by coming and going and becomes unable to go across the world-ocean. Hopes and desires always infatuate his mind but being guided by evil propensities he never attains peace. How could a mind oriented being extinguish fire by putting oil on it. Nobody save the perfect Guru can liberate man from these bondages.
Pauri- 10 Fake pilgrimage Centres
Leaving aside pilgrimage centre in the form of the true Guru (God) people go to take bath at the sixty-eight holy places. Like a crane, they keep their eyes closed in trance but they catch hold of small creatures, press them hard and eats them. Elephant is given bath in water, but coming out of water it again spreads dust on its body. Colocynth does not drown in water and even baths at many pilgrimage centres yet its poison does not go. Stone put and washed in water remains hard as before and water does not get inside it. The illusions and doubts of the mind oriented being, never come to an end and he always wanders in dubiety. Without the perfect Guru none can go across the world-ocean.
Pauri-11 True Guru is like a philosopher’s stone
Leaving aside the philosopher’s stone in the form of true Guru, people go astray in search of materialist philosopher’s stone. The true Guru who can transform eight metals into gold in fact keeps hidden and does not come in light. Mind oriented man searches Him in forests and gets disappointed in many illusions. The touch of riches blackens one’s outside and the mind is also smeared by it. Catching hold of wealth makes one liable to public punishment here and to punishment by God of Death in his abode. Futile is the birth of mind oriented; he getting engrossed in duality plays the wrong dice or makes the wrong move and loses the game of life. Illusions can not be removed without the perfect Guru.
Pauri-12 Guru- the wish fulfilling tree
Leaving the wish-fulfilling tree in the form of Guru, people want to have raw fruits of traditional wish-fulfilling tree. Millions of parijat along with heavens are getting perished in the cycle of life and death. Controlled by desires people are perishing and are busy in enjoying whatever has been granted by the Lord. Man of good actions establish in the sky in the form of stats and after exhausting the results of virtues again become falling stars. Again through transmigration they become mothers and fathers and many beget children. Further sowing evils and virtues they remain immersed in pleasures and sufferings. Without the perfect Guru, God cannot be made happy.
Pauri-13 Without true Guru times are hard.
Leaving the Guru, the Pleasure Ocean, one tosses up and down in the world ocean of delusions and deceptions. The stroke of the waves of the world-ocean tosses and the fire of ego continuously burns the inner self. Tied and beaten at the door of death,one receives the kicks of the messengers of death. May be someone has named himself after Ram or Krishna, but in this world all are to stay for a few days. Here none deems himself lesser one and all are engrossed in the rat race for selfish ends to find themselves shocked ultimately. Those who are divers of the pleasure-ocean existing in the form of Guru, only they remain happy in the labour of spiritual discipline. Without the perfect Guru, all are always at loggerheads.
Pauri-14 Enjoyments increase the fire of lust.
Chintamani- wish fulfilling gem- cannot remove anxiety if one could not cultivate the Guru chintamani. Many hopes and disppointments scare man day and night and the fire of desires is never quenched. Plenty of gold, wealth, rubies, and pearls are worn by man. Wearing silk garments scatter around the fragrance of sandal. Man keep elephants, horses, palaces and fruit laden orchards . Enjoying the pleasure-giving bed along with beautiful women, he remains lost in many deceptions and infatuations. They all are fuels to the fire and spends life in the sufferings of hopes and desires. Without perfect Guru, he certainly has to go to Yampuri-abode of God of Death.
Pauri-15 Description of Creation
Millions are pilgrimage centres and so are the gods, the philosopher’s stones, and chemicals. Millions are chintamanis, wish-fulfilling trees and cows, and nectars are also there in millions. Oceans with pearls, miraculous powers and the adorable kinds are also many. Materials, fruits and stores to be present to order are also millions in number. Bankers, emperors, naths and grand incarnations are also myriads in number. When charities bestowed cannot be evaluated, how can one describe the extent of the giver. The whole creation is sacrifice unto that creator Lord.
Pauri-16 Guru-Disciple and Disciple-Guru
The jewels are beholden by all but the jeweller is any rare one who tests and checks the jewels. All listen to melody and rhythm but rare one understands the mystery of Word consciousness. The Sikhs of the Guru are pearls who are strung in the garland of congregation. Only his consciousness remains merged in the Word whose mind diamond remains cut by diamond of Word- the Guru. The fact that the transcendental Brahm is the perfect Brahm and the Guru is God, is only identified by a Gurmukh. Only gurmukhs enter the abode of inner knowledge to attain fruits of delight and only they know the delight of the cup of love and make others also know it. Then the Guru and the disciple become identical.
Pauri-17 Utility of the organs
Human life is invaluable and by being born man gets the company of holy congregation. Both the eyes are invaluable who behold the true Guru and concentrating upon the Guru remain immersed in Him. The forehead is also invaluable which remaining in the shelter of the feet of the Guru adorns itself with the dust of the Guru. Tongue and ears are also invaluable which carefully understanding and listening to the Word make other people also understand and listen. Hands and feet are also invaluable which move on the way of becoming gurmukh and perform service. Invaluable is the heart of gurmukh wherein resides the teachings of the Guru. Whosoever becomes equal to such gurmukhs, is respected in the court of the Lord.
Pauri-18 Gifts of the Lord and our mistakes
From the blood of mother and semen of father the human body was created and the Lord accomplished this wonderful feat. This human body was kept in the well of the womb. Then life was infused in it and its grandeur was further enhanced. Mouth, eyes, nose, ears,hands, teeth, hair etc were bestowed upon it. Man was given sight, speech, power of listening and consciousness of merging in the Word. For his ears, eyes, tongue and skin, the form, joy ,smell etc were created. By giving the best family of human being and birth in it, the Lord God gave shape to one and all organs. During infancy, mother pours milk into the mouth and make the baby defecate. When grown up, he leaving aside the Creator Lord gets engrossed with His creation. Without the perfect Guru, man goes on to be engrossed into the web of maya.
Pauri-19 Without Guru, transmigration continues
Animals and ghosts are said to be without wisdom are better than manmukh- the mind oriented. Even being the wise the man becomes fool and goes on looking towards men to meet his selfish ends. An animal from animals and a bird from birds never ask for anything. Among eighty-four lacs species of life, the human life is the best one. Having even the best mind, speech and actions,man goes on transmigrating in the ocean of life and death. Whether it is a king or people, even the good persons suffer the fear of going away from pleasure. Dog,even if throned, according to its basic nature goes on to lick the flour mill at dusk. Without the perfect Guru one has to stay in the abode of womb that is the transmigration never ends.
Pauri-20 No joy without Gurmukh
The woods are replete with vegetation but without sandalwood, the fragrance of sandal does not occur in it. Minerals are there on all the mountain but without the philospher’s stone they do not become gold. None among the four varnas and the scholars of six philosophies can become true sadhu without the company of saints. Charged by the teachings of the Guru, gurmukhs comprehend the significance of the company of the saints. Then, they getting the consciousness attuned to the Word, quaff the cup of nectar of loving devotion. The mind now reaching the highest stage of spiritual realisation and becoming subtle realises stabilises in the love of the Lord. Gurmukhs beholding the invisible Lord receive the fruits of that pleasure.
Pauri-21 Indifferent to Maya
Gurmukhs get pleasure in the company of saints. They remain indifferent to maya though they live in it. As a lotus, which remains in water and yet keeps its gaze fixed towards the Sun. Likewise Gurmukhs always keep their consciousness attuned to the Lord. The sandalwood remains entwined by snakes but still it spreads cool and peace-producing fragrance all around. Gurmukhs living in the world, through the company of the saints keeping the consciousness attuned to the Word, move around in equipoise. They conquering the technique of yoga and bhog become liberated in life, without deceit and indestructible. As the transcendental Brahm is the perfect Braham, the same way the Guru who is indifferent to hopes and desires is also nothing but God. Through the Guru that ineffable story and unmanifest light of the Lord gets known to the Lord.
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