Var-35
One Oankar, the primal energy, realised through the grace of divine preceptor.
Pauri-1 Backbiter
If a dog is seated on the throne even then it will like to lick the flour mill. If a snake is fed on milk even then it will pour out poison from its mouth. If a stone is kept in water even then its hardness does not soften. Repudiating the perfume and sandalwood fragrance, the donkey rolls its body in the dust. Likewise the backbiter never gives up his habit of backbiting and uproots himself to destroy his very existence.
Pauri-2 Same as above.
Crow never picks up camphor; it likes to have garbage around. The elephant even bathed in water puts dust on its head. The colocynth even if irrigated with nectar does not part with its bitterness. Even if the silk cotton tree is well served with water and manure no fruit is gained from it. The backbiters being devoid of the name of the Lord, do not like the holy congregation. If the leader is blind, the whole company is bound to be robbed of their valuables.
Pauri-3 Same as above- Backbiter.
The smell of garlic cannot be concealed even if it is eaten in a remote corner. No soap how so much applied, can turn a black blanket into white. Whosoever will touch the hive of poisonous wasps will find his face swollen. The cooked vegetable devoid of salt is absolutely useless. Without the knowledge of the true Guru, the backbiter has neglected the name of the Lord. He gets happiness neither here nor there and always laments and repents.
Pauri-4 Vilification of the Guru.
The witch is man eater but she also does not contemplate wrong for her son. Even known as the most vicious man, he also feels ashamed before his daughter and sister. The Kings, treacherous for each other, put no harm to the ambassadors. The sins committed at Ganges are as hard as the thunderbolt and never fade out. Listening to the naked meanness of the slanderer, Yama of the hell also trembles. Backbiting of any one is bad but the vilification of the Guru is the worst way of life.
Pauri-5 Examples of Guru’s vilification.
Hiranaksha talked adversely about God and the result gained is clear that he eventually got killed. Ravan also for the same reason got Lanka looted and his ten heads slayed. Kansa was killed along with his full army and his all demons perished. The Kauravas lost their dynasty and got their myriad of army destroyed. For the same reason, Dantavaktr and Shishupal got a crushing defeat. The Vedas also delineate that no success is possible through back biting. Due to this vilification Durvasas cursed Yadavs and vanquished them all.
Pauri-6 Guru’s fault-finder always suffers.
The hair of all are dressed but the bald lady mumbles. The beautiful woman wears the earrings but the earless one grumbles. The newly wed girls wear nose rings but a person without the nose feels uncomfortable for not being able to wear ring. The deer eyed ladies put in the collyrium but the one eyed wails and cries. All have a pleasing gait but the lame limps. Those who slander the Guru spend their life in pain.
Pauri-7 The life of Guru-slanderer is meaningless.
The leafless wild caper Karin does not grow green but it blames the spring season. The barren woman does not bear the child but she blames her husband. The rains of the cloud cannot make alkaline field grow and produce. The meritorious people get evils and embarrassments in the company of vicious people. In the ocean, one gets many a pearl even from the shells, that is the association with the good produces good results. Slandering the Guru, the whole life elapses in vain.
Pauri-8 The Ungrateful.
The sky touching mountains also are not of much weight than the ungrateful person. The visible forts area also not as weighty as an ungrateful person. Those oceans in which will the rivers merge are also not as heavy as an ungrateful person. The fruit laden trees are also not as heavy as an ungrateful man. And nor those innumerable creatures are as heavy as an ungrateful person. In fact, the ungrateful person is burden on earth and he is evil of evils.
Pauri-9 Example of Ungratefulness.
The meat of dog cooked in the wine was, along with its foul smell, kept in the human skull. It was covered with blood stained cloth. Covering thus, the scavenger woman after appeasing her lust was carrying that bowl. On being asked about the abominable covered material, she cleared the doubt by saying that she had covered the meat to hide. It is from the sight of an ungrateful person to avoid its pollution.
Pauri-10 The Ungrateful.
A thief entered the house of a rich person. Carefully watching the four corners he came to the upper room. He gathered the money and gold and tied them in a bundle but still his greed delayed him. Getting impatient in greed he caught hold of a salt-pot. A bit of it he took out and tasted; he left everything and came out. That their also knew, that an ungrateful man is beaten like a drum in the Lord’s court.
Pauri-11 The number of the faithful ones.
Having eaten salt of a person, man becoming servant fetches water and grinds the corn. Such a faithful, in the battle field gets killed piece to piece for the master. The faithful sons and daughters wash all the shames of the family. The salt eater servant always stands with folded hands. The passerby eulogizes the person whose salt he has eaten. But the ungrateful person commits sins and he loses his life in vain and dies.
Pauri-12 Expectation from a religious place.
As the cos meat is forbidden in Hindu code of conduct. The Muslims pledge against the pork and the interest on money. For father-in-law, even the water of the house of son-in-law is prohibited like the wine. The scavenger eats not rabbit, though he be hard of money. As the dead fly makes the taste of sweet bad and the sweet getting poisonous becomes worthless. Likewise to set one’s eye upon the earning of the religious place is like eating of sugar coated poison.
Pauri-13 Desire from the earning of the religious place.
He is ever sorrowful who has a craving in his mind. He touches the gold and that turns into the lump of oil. Dear friends, sons, brothers, and all other relatives become unhappy with him. Such evil minded person ever suffers the curse of meeting and separation that is he undergoes the suffering of transmigration. He wanders like an abandoned woman and stands divorced from the door of the God. He gets distress,hunger, profuse poverty and reaches hell after bodily death.
Pauri-14 Earnings of worship.
The full pot of milk gets spoiled by a drop of vinegar. The thousand mounds of cotton is burnt just by one spark. The water gossamer spoils water and shellac becomes the reason for the destruction of the tree. The mad man is mined by diarrhoea and the common man is destroyed by tuberculosis. As the birds get entangled in the net out of their greed for seeds. The desire for the storage of unendurable earnings from a religious place persists in the heart of an apostate.
Pauri-15 How earnings of worship could be digested.
To crave for the material of store, for the Sikhs, is improper. But those who have such a desire,have to return the material,as the fly gone inside with food is vomited out by the body. How could he sleep peacefully who has the grass blade in his eye. As the fire cannot be kept pressed under the dry grass similarly the cravings of a craving person cannot be controlled and for him inedible becomes edible. The Sikhs of the Guru are millions but only those who attain the grace of Lord get across the world ocean.
Pauri-16 The marks of the religious earning-grabbers.
He the apostate becomes feeble and powerless as the weevil eaten wood. He is similar to life less scarce crow put up in the field to frighten the birds. How out of clouds of smoke can rain take place. As the teat of a goat in the neck do not give milk, similarly the grabber of religious earning roams here and there in the craving of the same. What is the exact mark of a man. Such a man remains deluded like that cow who considering its dead offspring alive goes on licking it.
Pauri-17 Test of the Saint and the renegade.
Why should the bunch of the bead tree be compared to grapes. No one calls the akk berries mango. Gift ornaments are not like golden ornaments. Crystals are not equal to diamonds as they are costlier. Buttermilk and milk both are white but of different quality and taste. Likewise, the holy and unholy are distinguished by their attributes and activities.
Pauri-18 The Saints among the four varnas
The betel leaves when plucked from the branch are of green and yellow colour. The betel nut getting pie bald colour is plucked from the tree. The catechu is of brown colour and light and pinch of it is used. The lime is burnt and is burnt and thrashed. When losing their ego they meet they become of one colour. Likewise are the saints, who adopting the qualities of the four varnas, live in mutual love like gurmukhs.
Pauri-19 Hypocrite Saint.
In the court of the emperor all are known as servants. Armed well, they bow most humbly. In the social and cultural gatherings they boast and brag. They have their elephants decorated and in the streets and market they roam with their horses dancing. But only in the battle field is known who is a valiant soldier who is take to his heels. Likewise are the apostates, the assassins who disguised close to the Lord remain around, but are ultimately identified.
Pauri-20 The test by the Guru.
If the mother is adulteress why should son speak ill of her. If a gem is swallowed by a cow, nobody rips its stomach to get it. If the husband enjoys immorally at many houses, the wife should preserve her chastity. If the King exercises dictatorial powers, the servants are helpless before him. If a brahmin woman is drunk, all feel ashamed and do not look up in her face. If the Guru performs a sham, the Sikh should not give up his forbearance.
Pauri-21 Rare pass the test.
During the earthquake millions of forts on earth shake and crumble. During the storm all trees oscillate. During fire, all sorts of grass in the forest gets burnt. Who can obstruct flood in the flowing river. The difficult and foolish task of sewing the torn sky like cloth could be done only be adepts in gossiping. Rare are the people who remain completely poised during the sham.
Pauri-22 If the Guru performs a sham, what can a sikh do.
If a mother gives poison to son then to whom else that son could be more dear. If the watchman breaks open the house, then, who else could be a protector. If the boatman makes the boat sink, how one could get across. If the leader himself makes the people go astray, who else could be called for help. And if the protecting fence starts eating the crop who else will take care of the fields. Likewise, if the Guru deludes a Sikh through a Sham, what a poor Sikh could do.
Pauri-23 Same as above.
Only he remains poised in a sham to whom the Guru is graceful. Applying butter to paper and salt they can be put into water and they will take no time to dissolve. With the help of oil, the wick of the lamp goes on burning the whole night. Catching hold of the string, the kite could be made to fly in the sky. By keeping a herb in the mouth, one could get bitten by serpent. If the King goes out in guise of a fakir, he could listen to the sufferings of people and remove them. In such a feat only he passes the test who is helped by the Guru.
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