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One oankar, the primal energy, realised through the grace of divine preceptor
Pauri-1 As you sow, so you shall reap
The earth is the most humble and hence respected in the court of the Lord. One hoes it,other ploughs it and someone defiles it by defecating it. Plastering it one prepares kitchen over it and someone worships it by offering sandal sticks. One reaps what one sows and receives the fruit of seeds offered to earth. Getting stabilised in the innate nature gurmukhs receive the pleasure-fruits. Eschewing ego they never allow themselves to be counted anywhere. They in all four stages – jagrat (consciousness),svapan ( dream), susupati (trance) and turiya ( identical with the supreme Lord) -remain merged in the love of the Lord. One accomplishes the word of the Guru in the company of saints.
Pauri-2 Lessons from water
Water resides in the earth and mixes with all colours and saps. As somebody goes on pushing it, it goes down and down. It remains hot in sunshine and cool in the shade. Bathing living, dying, drinking it always gives peace and contentment. It makes impure ones pure and remains unperturbed in the lower tanks. Likewise, the gurmukh person in the love and awe of the Lord and observing indifference, full of equipoise remains delighted. Only perfect one undertakes altruism.
Pauri-3 Detached like Lotus
The lotus residing in water remains unaffected by it. In the night it attracts the black bee which gets coolness and fragrance from lotus. In the morning it again meets the sun and being glad smiles the whole day. Gurmukhs like lotus reside in the innate house of pleasure fruit and utilise the present time fully that is they don’t sit idle. To the ordinary people busy in mundane affairs they look engrossed in the world, and, to the people pondering over Vedas they look engaged in rituals. But these gurmukhs, as a result of attaining knowledge from the Guru, keep consciousness in their fruit possession and move in the world as liberated ones. In the congregation of the holy people resides the Guru-Word.
Pauri-4 Impartial like tree
Tree grows on earth and first of all it sets it feet into the land. People enjoy swinging over it and its cool shade adorns the place. It bears the impact of air, water, and cold but still keeping its head inverse, it remains steadfast at its place. When stoned, it gives fruit and even getting cut with the sawing machine it takes iron in barges across waters. Life of gurmukhs is useful because by their natural temperament they are altruists. They have no friend or foe. Away from infatuationand delusion they are unbiased and immersed in the word of the Guru. They attain their grandness through the wisdom of the Guru and the company of pious person.
Pauri-5 True Guru is a boatman
The vessel is in the ocean and there is benevolent sailor in it. The boat is amply loaded and the traders get boarded thereon. Waves of impassable ocean put no impact on any one. That boatman takes the passengers across safe hale and hearty. Those traders earn profit two or four times and profit in many ways. Gurmukhs in the form of boatmen make people board the vessel of holy congregation and take them across the terrible world-ocean of life. Any liberated one alone can understand the mystery of the technique of the formless Lord. Plant of sandal by becoming tree lives in the dense woods.
Pauri-6 From sandal to gurmukh
Being near the vegetation, it keeps its head down and remains engrossed in meditation. Getting attached to the moving breeze it spreads the superfine fragrance. Whether with fruit or without fruit,all the trees are made fragrant by sandal tree. The pleasure fruit of gurmukhs is the company of holy persons, that purifies the impure ones even in a single day sitting. It fills the evil people with virtues and in its fold the people of fragile character get strong and firm. The draw good even from evil and distribute good at their abode. Neither water can drown nor fire can burn such people that is they go across the World Ocean and the flames of desires cannot touch them.
Pauri-7 Gurmukh benevolent like Sun
In the dark night myriad stars shine. The houses are lit by lighting and lamps but still the thieves also roam about for the purpose of stealing. The householders shut the doors of their homes and shops before they go to sleep. The Sun with its light removes the darkness of the night. Similarly the Gurmukhs making people understand the significance of nam( meditation), dan(charity) and isnan( bath or purification) sets them free from the bondage of life and death. The pleasure fruit of gurmukhs is the company of holy people through which animals, ghosts,and the fallen ones are salvaged and emancipated. Such beneficent people are dear to the Guru.
Pauri- 8 Mansarovar- the holy congregation
It is said that on Mansarovar lake swans of the highest breed resides. In the Mansarovar are pearls and rubies and these invaluable jewels are picked up by swans as food. These swans separate milk from water and go on floating on the waves. Leaving Mansarovar,they do not go anywhere to sit or reside. The pleasure fruit of gurumukhs is the congregation of holy people wherein gurmukhs in the form of superior swans adorn the place. With single-minded devotion they concentrate upon the Lord and do not go astray to any other thought. Merging their consciousness into the Word they behold that imperceptible Lord.
Pauri-9 Gurmukh is philosopher’s stone
Philosopher’s stone remains hidden and does not publicise itself. Any rare one identifies it and only a keen investigator gets it. Touching that stone, the lowly metals transform into one precious metal that is gold. Becoming pure gold these metals are sold as invaluable ones. The pleasure fruit of gurmukhs is the holy congregation into where merging consciousness into Word, the clumsy mind is chiselled into an alluring shape. Even a worldly person here, concentrating upon the feet of the Guru, becomes dear to God- the formless one. Becoming householder, man resides in his innate nature or atman.
Pauri-10 Gurmukhs are the highest ones
Chintamnai alleviates anxieties and wish-fulfilling cow fulfils all desires. Parijat tree gives flowers and fruits and the nine naths are lost in the miraculous powers. The ten incarnations of Hindu mythology assumed human form and showed their valour to spread their names. The pleasure fruit of the gurmukhs is the holy congregation where all the four ideals of life- dharma, arth, kama, and moksha- serve themselves. The consciousness of gurmukhs there remains merged with the Word and the story of their love is ineffable. The transcendental Brahm is the perfect Brahm who by becoming affectionate to devotees puts many deceitful persons in the web of deception. The Lord is free from all accounts and none can comprehend His mystery.
Pauri-11 Creator’s cup of love
With a single Word that formless Lord created the entire world. Expansion of the Lord is simply immeasurable or boundless. By no account this world can be understood because all numerals and alphabets come to an end for this. Myriads kinds of its materials are invaluable; their price cannot be ascertained. Even through speech, nothing can be said and heard about it. This world is unapproachable, unfathomable and full of mystery; its mystique cannot be comprehended. When it is impossible to understand the creation, how could its Creator’s greatness and His residence be known. The pleasure fruit of gurmukhs is the holy congregation where by merging the consciousness in the Word that invisible Lord is visualised. In the holy congregation, the unbreakable cup of love is drunk by becoming tolerant.
Pauri-12 Holy Congregation- the abode of Truth
The Lord is beyond taste and words; how can this ineffable story be told by tongue. He being beyond praise and slander does not come in the periphery of telling and hearing. He is beyond smell and touch and the nose, and the breath is also wonder-struck but cannot know Him. He is away from any varna, and symbolism and is even beyond the sight of concentration. Without any prop He resides in the grandeur of earth and sky. Holy congregation is the abode of truth where through the word of the Guru, the formless Lord is recognised. Whole of this creation is a sacrifice unto the creator.
Pauri-13 The true way of gurmukhs
As the path of the fish in water is unknowable, the way of gurmukhs is also unapproachable. As the path of the birds flying in the sky cannot be known, the thoughtful and search oriented way of gurmukh is also imperceptible which simply could not be comprehended. Holy congregation is the straight path for gurmukhs and this world is full of illusions for them. As the four colours of betel catechu, betel nut, lime and betel lead becoming one red colour of joy giving love. The gurumukhs also enjoy the cup of the Lord’s love. As the fragrance of sandal comes to reside in other plants, they merging their consciousness into Word reside in the heart of others. By means of knowledge, meditation and remembrance they like cranes, tortoise, and swans expand their family or tradition. The gurumukhs come face to face with God, the pleasure of all fruits.
Pauri-14 The Lord is imperceptible
Brahmas along with Vedas have declared Him this is not, this is not, and these all could not know His mystery. Be becoming avadhut- a kind of superior yogi- Mahadev also recited his name but his mediation could not attain Him. Ten incarnations also flourished but none could perceive ekhankar- the Supreme Lord. Nine naths,the treasures of miraculous powers also bowed before that Lord. Seshnag- mythical snake- with its thousand mouths remembered Him by thousand of names, but its recitation could not be accomplished. Sage Lomas rigorously undertook ascetic discipline but could not overcome his ego and could not be called a true ascetic. Ever-living Markandey spent a long life but could not taste the pleasure fruit of the gurmukhs. All mentioned above remained deluded while living on the earth.
Pauri-15 Attainment of Lord amidst Maya- Anjan vich Niranjan pana
The pleasure fruit of the Gurmukhs is holy congregation and controlled by this holy congregation, the Lord comes here as lover of the devotees. All the causes are under control of Creator but in the holy congregation He does everything in accordance with the wishes of the devotees and the saints. The transcendental Brahm is the perfect Brahm and He likes the will of the holy congregation. In his every trichome are absorbed crores of universes. From one seed comes out banyan tree and in its fruits again the seeds reside. Who quaffing the nectar have devotedly adopted the unbearable in their mind, the eschewing their ego have never made themselves noticed. Such true persons while living amidst Maya have attained that immaculate Lord.
Pauri-16 Waheguru- the wondrous Lord is beyond all limits. Even the people spreading the fragrance of His grandeur do not understand the real nature of His greatness. Lakhs of saints explain the gist and significance of that Lord but even all joined could not put forth even a fraction of His grandeur. Myriad eulogists are wonder struck as they could not him eulogise properly. Millions of wonder are full of wonder and they are further surprised to see awe-inspiring feats of the Lord, the all wonder Himself. Looking at the completeness of the wonder of that wondrous Lord, the elation feels elated and exhausted. The dynamism of that unmanifest Lord is extremely unapproachable and even a short account of His grand story is ineffable. His measurement is beyond lacs of measures.
Pauri-17 Waheguru, the wondrous Lord is beyond all limits.
The Lord is beyond all accessibility and all call Him extremely inaccessible. He was imperceptible; He is imperceptible and will remain inaccessible that is He is beyond all meditations. Beyond all limits whatsoever is illimitable; the Lord is beyond imagination. He is imperceptible of the imperceptible and is beyond the reach of sense organs. The transcendental Brahm is the perfect Brahm who is eulogised in the holy congregation in many ways. The joy of His love is the pleasure fruit of the gurmukhs. The Lord is loving to devotees but is never deluded even by the biggest cheats. By His grace alone, one can go across the world-ocean enthusiastically.
Pauri-18 The true Guru has shown the imperceptible
The transcendental Brahm is the perfect Brahm and that very formless Lord has created all the forms of universe. He is unmanifest and imperceptible for intellect, but Guru, icon of beauty, has made me behold the Lord. In holy congregation- the abode of the truth- He emerges as tender towards devotees and deludes even those who never got eluded. The Guru alone unites all the four varnas to make them one and further makes them bow before the Lord. At the base of all ascetic disciplines is the philosophy of the Guru in which all the six philosophies of Indian tradition get subsumed. He Himself is everything but never makes Himself noticed by anyone.
Pauri-19 The shelter of the Guru
In the holy congregation, the disciples of the Guru come in the shelter to the holy feet of the Guru. The nectar like sight of the Guru has blessed one and all and due to his divine look, the Guru has put them all at the holy feet( shelter) that is they all have been made humble. The Sikhs applied the dust of the feet to their forehead and now their account of delusive actions has been erased . After taking the nectar of feet, their maladies of ego and duality have gone. Falling at the feet, becoming the dust of feet and adopting the ways of liberated ones in life they have established themselves in equipoise. Now having become the black bees of the lotus feet, they are relishing the nectar of pleasure and delight. The base of worship with them are the lotus feet of the true Guru and they do not allow duality to come near them now. The pleasure fruit of the gurmukhs is the shelter of the Guru.
Pauri-20 Greatness of the true Guru-
Even if Shastras, Smritis, lacs of Vedas, Mahabharat, Ramayana and the like are joined together. Thousands of the gist of the Gita, Bhagvats, books of astronomy and acrobats of physicians are joined. Fourteen branches of education, musicology, and Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesha are put together. If lacs of Ses, serpent, Sukr, Vyas, Narad and Sanal and the like are collected there. Myriad’s of knowledge’s meditations, recitations, philosophies, varnas, and guru disciples are there; they all are nothing. The perfect Guru (Lord) is the Guru of the gurus and the holy discourse of the Guru is the basis of all the mantras. The tale of the Word of the Guru is ineffable; it is neti, neti. One should always bow before Him. This pleasure fruit of the gurmukhs is attained in the early ambrosial hours of the early morning.
Pauri-21 Nothing is equal to Guru
Four ideals of dharma, arth, kama,and moksha are said to be but such millions of ideals are servants of the Guru or Lord. In His service are millions of miraculous powers and treasures and He has herds of wish fulfilling cows grazing there. He has lacs of philosopher’s stones and orchards of fruitful wish fulfilling trees, At one wink of the Guru, lacs of wish fulfilling gems and elixirs are sacrifice unto Him. Millions of jewels ,all the treasures of oceans and all the fruits recite his praises. Millions of devotees and miracle doers move around lost in hypocrisies. The true disciple of the Guru,merging their consciousness in the Word, drinks and assimilates the unbearable cup of the love of the Lord. By the grace of the Guru, people come and join the holy congregation.
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