Var-30
One Oankar, the primal energy, realised through the grace of divine preceptor.
Pauri-1 Invocation Truth- Trash
The true Guru is the true emperor and the way of the gurmukhs is the way of happiness. Mind oriented or manmukhs act controlled by ill intellect and tread on the difficult path of duality. Gurmukhs attain the fruit of delight in the holy congregation and with the loving devotion meet the gurmukhs. In the company of falsehood and the wicked, the fruit of sufferings of the nammukhs grow like a poisonous creeper. Losing the ego and falling on the feet is a new path of love followed by gurmukhs. The manmukh makes himself noticed and moves away from the Guru and the wisdom of the Guru. The game of truth and falsehood is similar to impossible meeting of a lion and a goat.
Pauri-2 Gurmukh- Manmukh, Truth- Falsehood.
The gurmukh attains the pleasure fruit of truth and the manmukh receives the bitter fruit of falsehood. Gurmukh is tree of truth and contentment and the wicked person is the unstable shadow of duality. Gurmukh is firm like truth and manmukh is like ever shifting shade. Gurmukh is like a nightingale which resides in mango groves but manmukh is like a crow which wanders in forests from place to place. The holy congregation is the true garden where gurmantr inspires the consciousness to merge in the Word, the true shade. Company of the wicked is like a wild poisonous creeper and the manmukh in order to develop it goes on playing many tricks. He is like a son of a prostitute who goes without a family name.
Pauri-3 Same as above.
Gurmukhs are such as the marriage of two families where sweet songs are sung on both sides and pleasure is attained. They are such as the son born out of union of mother and father gives happiness to the parents as the lineage and family of the father moves ahead. Clarionets are played upon the birth of a child and celebrations are arranged on the further development of the family. In the homes of mother and father songs of joy are sung and servants are rewarded with gifts. Son of a prostitute, even friendly to everyone, has no name of his father and is known as nameless. The family of gurmukhs is like a paramhatis – the swans of the highest order who can sift milk from water that is truth from falsehood, and the family of manmukh is like hypocrite cranes who kill others. From truth the truthful is begotten and from falsehood the trash.
Pauri 4 Same as above.
Mansarovar in the form of holy congregation contains in it many precious rubies, pearls and jewels. Gurmukhs too belong to the family of swans of the highest order who merging their consciousness in the word remain stabilised. Due to their power of knowledge and meditation, the gurmukhs sift milk from water or truth from falsehood. Praising the truth , gurmukhs become incomparable and their glory cannot be measured by anyone. Manmukh is like a crane who silently strangulates the creatures and eats them up. Seeing it sitting at a pond, the creatures therein create an uproar and cries of distress. Truth is noble whereas falsehood is lowly slave.
Pauri-5 Same as above.
The true gurmukh possesses auspicious characteristics and all good marks adorn him. Manmukh keeps false marks and besides all bad characteristics in him, he possesses all deceptive tricks. Truth is gold and falsehood is like glass that cannot be priced as gold. Truth is invariably heavy and falsehood light; there is not the least doubt in this. The truth is diamond and the falsehood stone which cannot be studded in a string. The truth is giver whereas falsehood is like a beggar. As day and night can never meet likewise a thief and rich person do not meet. The truth is perfect and the falsehood a loser gambler running from pillar to post.
Pauri-6 Truth and Falsehood
Truth in the form of gurmukhs is such a beautiful madder colour that never fades. The colour of mind-oriented is like the colour of safflower which soon fades away. The falsehood, as against truth, is like garlic contrasted to musk. At the smell of the former the nose is turned away whereas the latter’s fragrance is pleasing to mind. Falsehood and truth are like akk, and mango tree which bear bitter and sweet fruits respectively. Truth and falsehood are like the banker and the thief; the banker sleeps comfortably whereas the thief wander about here and there. The banker catches hold of the thief and gets him further punished in the courts. The truth ultimately puts shackles around the falsehood.
Pauri-7 Truth and Falsehood
The truth adorns the head like a turban but the falsehood is like a loincloth which remains in an untidy place. The truth is a potent lion and the falsehood is like an abased deer. Transactions of truth being gains whereas the trading in falsehood brings nothing but loss. Truth being pure earns applause but the falsehood like a counterfeit coin does not get circulated. In the no-moon night,millions of stars remain there in the sky but the scarcity of light persists and pitch darkness prevails. With the rise of the sun the darkness dispels in all the eight directions. The rrelationship between the falsehood and truth is similar to relation of the pitcher and the stone.
Pauri-8 Truth and Falsehood.
Falsehood to truth is the same as dream to reality. The falsehood is like imaginary city in the sky whereas the truth is like manifest world. Falsehood is like a shadow of men in the river, where the image of trees, stars is inverted. Smoke also creates mist but this darkness is not similar to the darkness caused by rain clouds. As remembrance of sugar does not bring forth the sweet taste the darkness cannot be dispelled without lamp. The warrior can never fight adopting the weapons printed on paper. Such are the actions of the truth and the falsehood.
Pauri-9 Same as above.
The truth is the rennet in the milk whereas the falsehood is like the spoiling vinegar. The truth is like eating the food through mouth but the falsehood is painful as if a grain has gone into the nose. From fruit emerges tree and from tree the fruit; but if shellac attacks the tree, the latter is destroyed, likewise falsehood decimates the individual. For hundreds of years, the fire remains latent in the tree, but enraged by a small spark, it destroys the tree, similarly falsehood ever remaining in the mind, ultimately destroys the person. The truth is medicine whereas the falsehood is a malady which inflicts the manmukhs who are without physician in the form of Guru. Truth is companion and falsehood a cheat who cannot make the gurmukh suffer, as he ever abides in the pleasure of truth. Falsehood perishes and the truth is ever desired.
Pauri-10 Same as above.
Falsehood is like a fake weapon whereas the truth is protector like an iron armour. Like enemy, falsehood always lies in ambush but the truth, like a friend is ever ready to help and support. The truth is truly a brave warrior who meets the truthful ones whereas false carries falsehood alone. At good places, the truth stands firmly but being in the wrong places, falsehood always shakes and trembles. The four directions and the three worlds are witness to this fact that the truth catching hold of falsehood thrashes it. Deceptive falsehood is ever diseased and the truth is always hale and hearty. The adopter of truth is ever known as truthful and the follower of falsehood is ever considered a Tier.
Pauri-11 Judgement about Truth and falsehood.
The truth is sun-light and falsehood is owl that cannot see anything. The fragrance of truth diffuses in the whole vegetation but falsehood in the form of bamboo does not identify sandal. Truth makes a fruitful tree whereas the proud silk cotton tree being fruitless is ever anguished. In the month of savan, all the forest gets green but akkand javads, the camel thorn remain dry. Rubies and pearls are there in the Mansarovar but the conch being empty within is pressed by hands. Truth is pure like the water of Ganga but falsehood is like a wine, which even if hidden, makes it foul smell manifest. Truth is truthful and falsehood remains false.
Pauri-12 End of truth and falsehood.
Truth and falsehood had a quarrel and they came to the dais of justice. Dispenser of true justice made them to debate their points there. The wise mediators concluded that the truth is true and the falsehood false. The truth triumphed and the falsehood lost and being labelled untrue, was paraded in the entire city. The truthful was applauded but the untrue incurred opprobrium. This was written on a piece of paper that the truth is creditory while falsehood is debtor. He who allows himself to be cheated is never deceived and he who cheats others gets himself cheated. Any rare one is a buyer of truth.
Pauri-13 Same as above.
Since the falsehood sleeps while the truth remains awake the truth is loved by that Lord God. The true Lord has appointed truth as the watchman and has made it to sit at the store of truth. The truth is like a guide and the falsehood is the darkness which causes people to wander in the jungle of duality. Appointing truth as the Commander, the true Lord has made it competent to take people along the path of righteousness. To get people across the world ocean, the truth as Guru, has taken the people across in the vessel as holy congregation. Lust, anger, greed, infatuation and ego have been killed by holding them from their necks. Those who have got the perfect Guru, have gone across the world ocean.
Pauri-14 Truth- true Sikh- the True Guru.
True is he who is true to the salt of his master and dies fighting for him in the battlefield. One who beheads the foe with his weapon is known as brave among the warriors. His bereaved woman is set up as Sati capable of granting boons and curses. Sons and grandsons are praised and the whole family gets exalted. One who dies fighting in the hour of peril and recites the Word in the ambrosial hour is known to be a true warrior. Going to the holy congregation and effacing the desires, he wipes out his ego. Dying while fighting in battle and maintaining of the control over senses is the grand path of the gurmukhs. In whom you repose your full faith is known as the true Guru.
Pauri-15 The holy congregation.
The city in the form of holy congregation is true and immovable because in it resides all the five chiefs- virtues. Truth, contentment, compassion, dharma, and lucre are capable of all control. Here, the gurmukhs practice the teachings of the Guru and observe meditation on ram, charity and ablution. People speak sweet here, walk humbly, give away charities, and attain knowledge through devotion to the Guru. They remain free from any anxiety in this world and the world hereafter, and for them, the drums of truth. Words are struck upon. Rare are the guests who have accepted the going away from this world as true. I am sacrifice unto them who have overcome their ego.
Pauri-16 The false village.
Falsehood is the village of robbers where reside the five evil legates. These couriers are lust, anger, disputation, greed, infatuation, treachery and ego. In this village of wicked company pulls, pushes and sinful conduct always operate. Attachment to the others’ wealth, slander, and woman always persist here. Confusions and commotions are ever there and people always undergo punishments of state as well as of death. The residents of this village are always shameful in both the worlds and go on transmigrating in the hell. The fruits of fire are the sparks only.
Pauri-17 Falsehood cannot merge in truth.
The truth being perfectly pure, falsehood cannot mix in it as a piece of straw gone into the eye cannot be held there. And the whole night is spent in suffering. Fly in the meal also is vomited out by body. One spark in a load of cotton creates trouble for it, and burning the whole lot converts it into ashes. Vinegar in milk spoils its taste and makes it discoloured. Even a little bit of poison tasted kills emperors instantly. Then how can truth mix up with falsehood.
Pauri-18 Falsehood cannot efface truth.
Truth in the form of gurmukh ever remains detached and the falsehood has no impact on it. Sandal wood tree is surrounded by snakes but neither the poison affects it nor its fragrance is lessened. Amid the stones reside the philosopher’s stone but even meeting the eight metals it does not get spoiled. Polluted water mixing into the Ganges cannot pollute it. Seas are never burnt by fire and air cannot shake mountains. The arrow can never touch the sky and the shooter repents afterwards. The falsehood ultimately is false.
Pauri-19 The falsehood comes out ultimately.
The regards for truth are always genuine and falsehood is always identified as fake. Respect of the falsehood is also artificial but the wisdom of Guru given to truth is perfect one. The power of a Tier is also counterfeit and even the pious ego of truth is deep and full of gravity. Falsehood is not recognised in the court of the Lord whereas truth always adorns His court. In the home of truth, there is always a sense of gratefulness but falsehood never feels contented. The gait of truth is like that of elephant whereas falsehood moves clumsily like a sheep. The value of musk and garlic cannot be kept at par and same is the case of the eructation of radish and betel. He who sows poison cannot eat delicious meal made with crushed bread mixed with butter and sugar.
Pauri-20 The end of falsehood is very bad.
The nature of truth is like madder which itself bears the heat of boiling but makes the dye fast. The nature of falsehood is like that of jute whose skin is peeled off and then twisting it, its ropes are prepared. Sandal being benevolent makes all the trees, be they with or without fruits, fragrant. Bamboo being full of evil, burns in its own ego and at the outbreak of fire, burns its other neighbourly trees also. The nectar makes the dead alive and deadly poison kills the living. Truth is accepted in the court of the Lord, but, the falsehood is punished in the same court. One reaps what one sows.
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