Var-29
One Oakar, the primal energy, realised through the grace of divine preceptor.
Pauri-1 Invocation
Salutation to that primal Lord who is known by the true name of Satiguru. Transforming all the four varnas into the Sikhs of the Guru, that true Guru Nanak Dev has initiated a true way for the Gurmukhs. The true Guru has vibrated such a silent melody or Word which is sung in the holy congregation by one and all. The Gurumukhs recite the teachings of the Guru; they go across amd make the world go across the terrible ocean of world. As in betel leaf mixing of catechu, lime and betel nut makes a nice colour, likewise gurmukh way of life consisting of all the four varnas is beautiful. He, who having met the perfect Guru has attained Gurmati; the wisdom of the Guru, has in fact identified the technique of knowledge, concentration and meditation. The true God has set up the abode of Truth in the form of holy congregation.
Pauri-2 How Guru Nanak saved the people
Holding one back from other’s body, wealth, and slander, the true Guru, has made me resolute for the practice of meditation on Lord’s Name, ablution and charity. People also making their minds understand through the teaching of the Guru have restrained it from going away. As the eight metals touching the philosopher’s stone become gold, likewise, the gurmukhs, having conquered their mind have conquered the entire world. Such is the effect of the Guru’s teachings that a Sikh acquires the same qualities as a stone by touching a philosopher’s stone itself becomes another philosopher’s stone. Systematically, having won yoga as well as pleasures and getting immersed in devotion they have lost their fears. When the ego vanished, God was not only realised as diffused all around, but also because of love for His devotees. He came under their control.
Pauri-3 Chronic ailments cured.
In the holy congregation, getting attuned to the Word, the gurmukh treats pains and joys in the same vein. He renounces egotist ill thoughts and adopting the teachings of the true Guru adores the Timeless Lord. Going beyond the phenomena of Siva-Sakti, the Grumukh calmly merges in the fruits of delight. Considering Guru and God as one, he decimates the ills of the sense of duality. Gurmukhs go out of the cycle of transmigration and meeting that unapproachable Lord go away from the impacts of time that is old age. Hopes and fears do not torture them. They reside in home while being detached and to them nectar or poison, happiness and sorrows are all the same. I n the holy congregation, the frightening chronic ailments are also cured.
Pauri-4 Conduct of a Sikh
Air, water, fire and the three qualities- tranquillity, activity and inertness have been overcome by the Sikh. With the concentration of mind, speech,action and meditating upon the One, he has lost the sense of duality. Absorption in the knowledge of the Guru is his conduct in the world. In his inner self he is one with the Lord while he performing diverse duties in the world. Conquering the earth and the nether world he establishes himself in heavens. By speaking sweetly, behaving humbly, and bestowing charities with one’s own hands, even the fallen ones have become pure. Thus the gurmukh attains incomparable and invaluable fruits of delight. Associating with the holy congregation he squeezes out the ego from the mind.
Pauri-5 They do successful transaction in the holy congregation. The four ideals of life stand with folded hands around the obedient servant of the Lord. This servant has made the four directions bow to him by bowing to One who has strung one and all into one thread. The Vedas, the reciter Pandits of the Vedas and their audience cannot comprehend His mystery. His ever radiant flame glows in all the four yugas. The Sikhs of all the four varnas become one varna and they have entered the larger clan of Gurmukhs. They at the abode of dharma celebrate the anniversaries of the Gurus and thus sow the seeds of virtuous actions. In the holy congregation the grandson and grandfather are equal to each other.
Pauri-6 Holy congregation is adorned by the fellow disciples.
Sikhs in sadh sangat controlling the lust, wrath, and ego decimate their greed and infatuation. In the holy congregation truth, contentment, compassion, dharma, wealth, power all are subsumed. Crossing the five elements, the felicitations of the five words instruments are played there. Having overcome five yogic postures, the respectable member of the congregation becomes famous all around. Where the five persons sit together, Lord God, is there; this mystery of indescribable Lord cannot be known. But only those five meet who repudiating hypocrisy have merged their consciousness in the silent melody of the Word. Such fellow disciples adorn the holy congregation.
Pauri-7 Gurmukh- association with the saints count of Six.
Followers of Six Indian philosophies crave intensely but only gurmukh gets the glimpse of the Lord. The Six Shastras make one understand in a round about manner but gurmukhs make the teachings of the Guru firmly lodged in the heart. All the musical measures and melodies are wonder struck to feel that. This true Guru is such as the one sun remains stabilised in all the six seasons. Such a pleasure fruit has been attained by Gurmukhs, the taste of which could not be known by six pleasures. Anchorites, followers of truth, long lived ones and universally acclaimed ones are all engrossed in delusions. Only joining the holy congregation, one could be absorbed in one’s innate nature.
Pauri-8 Discipline of Word, association with saints the count of seven.
Gurmukhs moving in the holy congregation and having controlled the seven seas remain detached in this world ocean. All the seven continents are in darkness; gurmukh illuminates them by the lamp of Word. The gurmukh has reformed all the the seven purls- abodes of deities- and has found that only the state of equipoise is the real abode of truth. All the major nakshatrs such as svati, etc and the seven days, he has controlled by holding them by their heads that he has gone beyond their deceptions. Twenty one cities and their ostentations he has crossed and he lives happily in his self. He has known the comprehensiveness of the seven melodies of music and he has crossed the seven streams of the mountains. This could be possible because he has sustained and accomplished the Word of the Guru in the holy congregation.
Pauri-9 Association with the saints of the count of eight.
The person conducting in accordance with the wisdom of the Guru, goes beyond the hypocrisies of eight divisions- of four varnas and four ashrams- and adores the Lord with single minded devotion. Eight metals in the form of four varnas and four religions having met the philosopher’s stone in the form of Guru have converted themselves into gold – the enlightened one. The Siddhis and other miraculous practitioners have saluted to that primal Lord alone. That Lord ought to be adored all the eight watches of time; by merger of the consciousness in the Word, the imperceptible is perceived. By adopting the advise of the true Guru, the poison stigma of eight generations is wiped out and now the intellect does not get deluded due to Maya. The gurmukhs by their loving devotion have refined the incorrigible mind. The mind is controlled only by meeting the holy congregation.
Pauri-10 Gurmat- association with saints to the count of nine.
People adopt ninefold devotion but the gurmukh while adopting the wisdom of Guru accomplishes the nine doors. Tasting the joy of love, the Gurumukh with full attachment recites the praises of the Lord. Through Rajyoga, the Gurmukh has conquered both the truth and falsehood and thus he is known over all the nine regions of the earth. Becoming humble he has disciplined the nine doors and besides he has diffused himself in creation and dissolution. The nine treasures follow him earnestly and the gurmukh unfolds to the nine naths, the technique of getting liberated. Among the nine sockets- in the human body- the tongue which was bitter, sweet, hot and cool now. Due to the association with the holy congregation and the wisdom of Guru, has become blessed and full of delights.
Pauri- 11 What a Sikh ought to do ?
The Sikh ought to treat beautiful women of others as his mothers, sisters and daughters. Others wealth for him is as beef for the Hindus and pork for a muslim. Out of infatuation for his son, wife or family he should not betray and deceive anyone. While listening to the praises and slander of others, he should not talk ill of anybody. Neither, he should count himself as great and glorious nor should he out of his ego snub anybody. Gurmukh of such a nature practises Raj yoga, lives peacefully and goes to sacrifice his self unto the holy congregation.
Pauri-12 The State of a Gurmukh.
The gurmukh having tasted the joy of love feels no desire for food and drink. Due to the merger of his consciousness in the Word, he gets no sleep and by getting awake, he spends the night delightfully. As for a few days before marriage, the bride and the groom look beautiful even in rags, the gurmukhs also remain adorned. Since they understand the mystery of going from the world , they live like guests in the world,who must go sooner or later. Being familiar with the highway of the wisdom of the Guru, Gurumukhs move on it with full load of truthful merchandise. The Sikhs love the teachings of the Guru and their faces remain bright in this and in the world hereafter. Always in the holy congregation, the ineffable story of the grandeur of the Lord is told.
Pauri-13 Accept the will of the Lord in the holy congregation.
Repudiating pride and ego a gurmukh should be humble. With the light of knowledge in his mind he should dispel the darkness of ignorance and delusions. He should fall on the feet of Lord in humility because only the humble are honoured in the court of the Lord. Master also loves that man who loves the will of the Master. One who accepts the will of the God is accepted by one who knows that he is a guest in this world. That is why foregoing all claims, he lives without making any claim for himself. Being in the holy congregation he acts in consonance with the commands of the Lord.
Pauri-14 Only One Lord adored in the holy congregation.
Accepting Guru and God as one, the gurmukh has erased the sense of duality. Knocking down the wall of ego, the gurmukh has united the pond-self- with the river – Brahm. Undoubtedly river remains contained within its two banks neither one knowing each other. From tree the fruit and from fruit the seeds are born and in fact both are one though they have different names. The Sun is one in all the seasons, knowing this, one does not think of different suns. At night the stars twinkle but with the break of the day under whose command they hide themselves. They automatically go and similarly with light of knowledge the darkness of ignorance is dispelled of its own. In the holy congregation the gurmukhs adore the Lord with single-minded devotion.
Pauri-15 Gursikh- a Yogi.
Yogi Sikhs of the Guru are ever awake and remain detached amidst Maya. Gurumantra is earring for them and the dust of the feet of the saints is ashes for them. Forgiveness is their patched blanket,love their begging bowl and devotion is their trumpet. Knowledge is their staff,and obedience to the Guru is their meditation. Squatting in the cave in the form of holy congregation, they reside in unfathomable equipoise. Getting cured of the ailment of ego, they are liberated from the bonds of comings and goings (birth and death). Holy congregation is applauded because of the wisdom of the Guru that resides in it.
Pauri-16 See yourself as lover of holy congregation.
Millions of Brahmas, reciting millions of Vedas got tired saying neti, neti, this is not, this is not. Mahadev and millions of recluses are also fed up with sleeplessness of yogic practice. Becoming millions of incarnations, Vishnu eve catching hold of double edged sword of knowledge could not reach Him. Millions of long lived rishis such as Lomas despite their fortitude are ultimately confused. That Lord has covered with His self all the three worlds, four ages, millions of universes and their divisions. That is He is bigger than all these. Millions of creations and dissolutions go on moving like the chain of pots on persian wheel and all this is enacted within the time of the fall of an eyelid. If someone becomes the lover of holy congregation, only then he can comprehend this mystery.
Pauri-17 The World is conquered only by conquering the mind.
Transcendental Brahm is the perfect Brahm; He is the primal cosmic spirit and the true Guru. Yogis became awestruck in meditation for He does not care for knowledge of the Vedas. Adoring the deities people go on roaming in different lives in water on earth and in the sky. They perform many burnt offerings, oblations, and ascetic disciplines and still weep while performing the so called ritualistic activities. Ever running mind does not come under control and the mind has spoiled all the eight divisions of life. The gurmukhs after conquering the mind have won the whole world and losing their ego, they have seen themselves in one and all. The gurmukhs have prepared the garland of virtues in the holy congregation.
Pauri-18 Guru- the Boat man and association with the Saints.
The imperceptible and without any blemish Lord is said to be beyond all the forms and writs. The nature of that unmanifest Lord is also deeply unmanifest, and in spite of continuous recitations by Seshanag His mystery could not be understood. How can His ineffable story because none is there to tell it. Thinking about Him, the wonder also feels itself full of wonder and the awe also becomes awe struck. Becoming the Sikh of the Guru the people of all the four Varnas leading the household life, have undertaken to perform various types of business and trade. In the holy congregations, they adore the Guru-God, affectionate towards the devotees, and the Guru gets them go across the world ocean.
Pauri-19 Gurmukh attains the wisdom of understanding.
The formless Lord assuming the form of ekamkar created myriad names and forms out of Oankar. In His each trichome He has kept the expanse of the crores of universes. None know for how many yugs, ages, there was imperceptible and impenetrable mist. For many ages continued the activities of many an incarnation of God. The same God, for the sake of his love for the devotees, has appeared in Kaliyug in the form of Guru. Being like warp and weft and the lover and the beloved one He, controlled by the holy congregation, resides there in. Only gurmukh possesses the knowledge of that creator Lord.
Pauri-20 The true Guru and the Sikh association with the Saints.
With the emergence of the true Guru, the gurmukhs got the pleasure fruit of pondering upon the Word. From that one Oankar, thousands of fruits emerged in the holy form of Guru, Sikh and the holy congregation. Rare are the gurmukhs who being face to face with the Guru have seen him, listened to him and have obeyed his commands. First they become the dust of the feet of the Guru and later on the whole world desires the dust of their feet. Treading the path of Gurmukhs and transacting in truth, one goes across the world ocean. None knows the glory of such persons nor can it be written, listened to and talked about. In the holy congregation only the Word of the Guru is loved.
Pauri-21 Union of Guru and Disciple.
After merging their consciousness in the word of the Guru and the holy congregation, the gurmukhs have tasted the pleasure fruit in the form of contemplation of the Shabad. For this fruit, they have offered all the treasures and other fruits also have been sacrificed for the same. This fruit has quenched all desires and fires and has further firmed up the feeling of peace, equipoise, and contentment. The waves of mind have been subsumed in the mind itself and mind now having become free of desires does not run in any direction. Cutting asunder the rituals and noose of death,the mind while becoming active has become free of desires for reward. Getting inspired by the teachings of the Guru, first, the gurmukh fell on the feet of the Guru and then he made the whole world fall on his feet. This way being with the Guru, the disciple has identified Love.
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