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One Oankar, the primal energy, realized through the grace of divine preceptor.
Pauri-1 Invocation
That homogeneous supreme reality (God) firs t was written as numeral one mulmantra and then he was inscribed as Uda syllable of gurmukhi further pronounced as Oankar. Then He was called Satnam, the truth by name, Kartapurukh, the creator Lord, nirbhai, the fearless one, and Nirvair without rancour. Then emerging as timeless akal murati to called as unborn and self existent. Realized through the grace of Guru, the current of the primeval truth- God- has continuously moving since before the beginning and throughout the ages. He is verily the truth and will continue to be truth for ever. The true Guru has made available for me the glimpse of this truth. One who merging his consciousness in the word establishes a relationship of Guru and Disciple, that disciple devoting himself to the Guru and progressing from worldliness attunes his consciousness in and with the Lord. The gurmukhs had the glimpse of imperceptible Lord who is the fruit of delights.
Pauri-2 Five Gurus.
On assuming form that formless Lord was called as boundless Ekankar. Ekankar became Oankar whose one vibration spread as the creatiion. Then were created the five elements and five friends- truth, contentment,etc. And five foes-evil propensities- of the creatures. Mann harnessed the incurable ailments of the five evil propensities and three qualities of nature and maintained his virtuous reputation of being a sadhu. Five gurus one after another composed thousands of hymns but in praise of Ekankar. The bearer of five lettered name, Nanak Dev , became prominent like God and was called Guru. These Gurus are the true Gurus, Guru Nanak Dev created Angad out of his own limbs. From Guru Angad, Guru Amar Das, the attainer of immortal status of Guru and from him getting the name of Lord, Guru Ram Das was loved by the people. From Guru Ram Das, like his shadow emerged Guru Arjan Dev.
Pauri-3 Guru Hargobind.Sahib.
The first five Gurus held the hands of the people and the sixth Guru Hargobind is incomparable God-Guru. He is the King of spirituality as well as temporality and is in fact irremovable emperor of all the Kings. Assimilating the unbearable knowledge of the earlier five cups – Gurus- in the inner core of his mind he remains merry and wise mediator of humanity. Despite six philosophies spread around, he reaching the turiya – highest stage of meditation- has attained the supreme reality. He has strung all the six philosophies and their sects in the string of one philosophy. He has churned the essence of the lives of celibate ascetics, the followers of truth,contented people, the siddhs and naths, and the so called incarnations of God. All the eleven Rudrs remain in the ocean but those who seek life in death get the invaluable jewels. All the sixteen zodiac signs of sun, sixteen phases of moon and numerous constellations have provided a beautiful swing for him. This Guru is omniscient yet he possesses a childlike innocence.
Pauri-4 The glory of the wash of the Guru’s feet.
Guru Hargobind is the Lord in the form of Guru. Earlier a disciple he how a Guru that is all the Gurus are same. First, the formless Lord assumed the form of Eainkar and later he created all forms. In the form of Oankar – Guru- lacs of streams of life take shelter. Lacs of rivers flow into seas, and all the seven seas merge in the oceans. In the cauldron of desires of fire, the creatures of lacs of oceans hooked in skewers are getting roasted. All these burning creatures attain peace by the one drop of sandal-delight of the Guru. And lacs of such sandals have got created from the wash of Guru’s lotus feet. By the order of transcendent, primeval perfect God, the canopy. And the royal umbrella are held over the head of Guru Hargobind.
Pauri-5 Benevolent great men.
When moon reaches the house of Sum then many enmities and oppositions erupt. And if Sun enters the house of moon, the enmity is forgotten and love emerges. The Gurmukh, having established his identity with the supreme light, always cherishes that flame in his heart. Understanding the mystery of the ways of the world, cultivating values and the knowledge of Shastras, he quaffs the cup of love in the holy congregation. As the six seasons are caused by one Sun, likewise all the six philosophies are the result of consolidated knowledge of the one Guru. As eight metals mix to make one alloy, likewise meeting the Guru, all the varnas and sects turn out to be the followers of the way of the Guru. Nine limbs from nine separate houses, but only the tenth gate of tranquillity leads to liberation. Understanding the void Jiv becomes infinite like the numbers of nil and anti and enjoys impossible waterfall of His love. Then the Jiv goes beyond the counts of twenty, twenty one, millions innumerable, sadyugs, treta yugs that is he is liberated from time cycle. As the four ingredients in a betel become beautiful and homogeneous, likewise this benevolent Guru, transforms animals and ghosts into deities. How can this land of saintliness be procured by money and wealth.
Pauri-6 Everything is below truth.
The dealings of the four sects of muslims, four varnas of hindus, and the six schools of philosophy are prevailing in the world. In all the shops of fourteen worlds, that great banker, is doing business in the form of Shiva and Shakti- the all pervading cosmic show. The true merchandise is available in the Guru’s shop, the holy congregation, wherein praises and glory of Lord are sung. Knowledge, meditation, remembrance, loving devotion,and the fear of the Lord are always propounded and discussed there. Gurmukhs, who are steadfast in remembering the name of Lord, ablution and charity, make bargains of jewels virtues there. The true Guru is benevolent and in his abode of truth, the formless Lord resides Practising all the fourteen skills, the gumukhs have identified love towards the truth as the fruit of all delights. Everything is below truth but for the gurmukh truthful conduct is higher than the truth. As the fragrance of sandal makes the whole vegetation fragrant, the whole world gets across through the teachings of the Guru. Drinking the nectar of Guru’s teachings, the jiv becomes awake and alert.
Pauri-7 Among the Gurmukhs pervade the Guru.
Servants,addict as well as teetotaller, may be in the vicinity, but the minister who knows the ins and outs of the court never accepts their advice. The ignorant one who tries to be clever or feigns indifference is expelled by the minister from the court. In speaking and writing like this minister,loyal devoted disciples, have been created by the Guru. Those addicts, who have not had glimpse of the Lord through the wisdom of the Guru, never associate with the teetotallers. The addicts are acquainted with addicts similarly teetotallers meet the teetotallers. The affection between a King and his minister is such as if same one life current is moving in two bodies. The realtionship is like the relationship of sword in the sheath, the two may be separate yet they are one. Similarly the relation of gurmukhs with the Guru; they are subsumed in each other in such a manner as is the juice and sugarcane.
Pauri-8 Devout gursikhs and vain scholars.
Servants, addicts of Lord’s Name, as well as teetotallers devoid of Mint came to the Lord King’s presence. Those present were marked present and those absent were declared absent. The intelligent King- God- selected a few to be his courtiers. He, a clever person, made both the clever and the indifferent happy and put them to work. Now the so called teetotallers were engaged to serve drinks – nam- to the addicts. The latter became joyful in the name of the Lord and attained tranquillity. But the so called religious person remained involved in the so called prayer and ritualistic worship. They under the tyranny of their religious books-Vedas and Katebas- kept busy in arrogant debates and discussions. Only rare Gurmukh attains the fruit of delight of drinking the drink of Lord’s Name,
Pauri-9 The devout offer joy to the vain scholars but they deny it. The emperor sitting in a window of holy congregation, gives audience to the people in an arranged court. Inside gather the privileged persons but outside assemble the commoners. The Emperor Himself quaffs the cup of love and arranges to serve the select ones inside. Keeping in view two categories of likely addicts and the teetotallers He Himself distributes the wine of love to them. The teetotaller neither drinks the wine of love himself nor allows others to drink. Getting pleasant, that Lord goes on giving the cup of His grace to the rare ones and never regrets. None is to blame, lie himself makes the creature commit crime and himself pardons their sins in the hukam the divine will. None else understands the mystery of the delight of His love; only He Himself knows the one whom He makes to know. Any rare gurmukh beholds the glimpse of that imperceptible Lord.
Pauri-10 The condition of non- addicts or hollow scholars.
Devoid of love of God, Hindu and Muslim scholars describe the Vedas and the Katebas respectively. Muslims are men of Allah and the Hindus love Hari or Vishnu the supreme God. Muslims have faith in Kalma, the sacred formula of muslims, sunnatnand circumcision. With the Hindus, sandal paste mark and the sacred Janeu. The pilgrimage centre of Muslims is Mecca and that of Hindus is Benares on the bank of Ganges. The former undertake rozas and namaz while the latter feel joy in their worships and fasts. They each have four sects and Hindus have six philosophies which they preach in every home. Mislims have tradition of Murids and Pirs. While the Hindus believe in ten incarnations of Vishnu, the Muslims have their single Khuda- Allah. They both have in vain created many tensions.
Pauri-11 The condition of special addicts.
The special admirers gathered in the holy congregation, through the cup of love, have beholden the imperceptible God. They break the restrictions of beads and for them the number of beads as hundred or one hundred and eight are immaterial. They combine Meru and Imam- last beads of rosary and keep no distinction between Ram and Rahim. Joining together they become one body and consider this world as game of oblong dice. Transcending the illusory phenomenon of the actions of Shiva and Shakti, they quaff the cup of love and stabilize in their own self. Going beyond the three qualities of nature, they attain the fourth stage of supreme equipoise. Guru, Gobind,and Khuda and Pir are all one, and the Sikhs of the Guru hold and know the inner truth of the Pir and Murid, that is the spiritual leader and disciple. Enlightened by the true word and merging their consciousness in the word they absorb their own truth into the supreme truth. They love only the true Emperor and the truth.
Pauri-12 The abode of true Guru is the holy congregation.
The true Guru is the transcendent Brahm and resides in the holy congregation. By absorbing the consciousness in the Word, He is adored, and cherishing love, devotion and His awe, He spontaneously blooms in the heart. He never dies nor becomes sorrowful. He always goes on giving and his bounties never end. People say that Guru has passed away but the holy congregation smilingly accepts Him as indestructible. Guru Hargobind is the sixth generation of Gurus but who can tell about the generations of the Sikhs. The concepts of true Name, true glimp;se, and th etrue abode get their explanation only in the holy congregation. The cup of love is quaffed in the holy congregation and there only the touch of philosopher’s stone (God) loving to devotees is received. In the holy congregation, the formless one assumes form and there is only the unborn. In the holy congregation, the formless one assumes form and there only the unborn timeless. Being is eulogized . The truth only prevails there and everyone is tested on the touchstone of truth there.
Pauri-13 Holy congregation is abode of truth.
The supreme Reality assuming the form of Oankar created three qualities of matter and the five elements. Creating Brahma, Vishnu, and Mahesh he performed the sport of ten incarnations. Producing six seasons, twelve months, and seven days he created the whole world. Scribing th ewrits of birth and death, He recited the Vedas,Shastras, and the Puranas. About the beginning and end of holy congregation He did not prescribe any date, day or month. Holy congregation is abode of truth wherein resides the formless One in the form of Word. Creating fruit from tree and tree from fruit that is making disciple of the Guru, and then from disciple the Guru, the Lord has laid down the mystery of His perfect imperceptible form. The Gurus themselves bowed before the primeval Lord and made others also bow before Him. The true Guru is primordial Lord who is pervading this creation as does a thread in the rosary. Guru Himself is the wonder who is one with the Supreme wonder.
Pauri-14 Actions of Brahma.
Brahma gave four Vedas and created four varnas and four ashrams of life. He created six philosophies,their six texts, teachings and their corresponding sects. He distributed the whole world into the four corners, seven continents, nine divisions and ten directions. Water, earth, forests, mountains, pilgrimage centres, and the abode of gods were created. He made the traditions of recitations, ascetic discipline, continence, burnt offerings,rituals, worships, charity and like. None has identified the formless Lord, because only holy congregation explains about the Lord but none goes there to ask about Him. People talk and hear about Him only on the basis of hearsay.
Pauri-15 Actions of Vishnu.
In his ten incanations Vishnu caused the opposing warriors fight each other. He created two factions of gods and demons and out of them he helped the gods win and caused the defeat of demons. He created incarnations in the form of fish, Tortoise, Varah, Narsingh, Vaman and the Buddh. The names of Parshuram, Ram, Krishna, Kalki are also counted among his incarnations. Through their deceptive and frolicsome characters, they increased delusions, deceits and convolutions. Nothing was done to have the glimpse of fearless, formless, transcendent, perfect Brahm, Kshatriyas were annihilated. And the Ramayana, Mahabharat epics were composed to please the people. Lust and anger were not decimated, nor greed, infatuation, and ego were wiped out. Without the holy congregation the human birth was lost in vain.
Pauri-16 Actions of Shiva-shakti
From one there became eleven Rudrs. Even being a householder was called a recluse. He loved celibates, followers of truth, contented ones,Siddhs and naths, controllers of senses. Sanyasins adopted ten names and yogis also promulgated their twelve sects. Riddhis, Siddhis, treasures, chemical elixir, tantra, mantra and conjurations were introduced. Shivaratri was celebrated as a far ad it increased the debates and the use of miraculous powers. The cups of hemp, opium, and wine were consumed and enjoyed. Rules for blowing instruments like singhi and conch were set. The primal Lord was slauted and invoked with the shouts of Alakh but no one has perceived the alakh. Without holy congregation all remained duped by delusions.
Pauri- 17 The true Conduct as way to liberation.
The formless One has assumed form as the true Guru Nanak Dev is the eternal Guru of the Gurus. He is known as the pir of pirs and that master of masters reside in holy congregation. He promulgated gurmukh panth, the way of the Gurmukhs,and the Sikhs of the Guru remain detached even in Maya. Those present themselves before the Guru are known as panches and reputation pf each panch is protected by the Lord. Meeting the Gurmukhs such panchs get accepted and move happily in the holy congregation, the abode of truth. The word of the Guru is the glimpse of the Guru and getting settled in one’s own self, the discipline of loving devotion is observed. This discipline consists in sweet speech, humble conduct, honest labour, hospitality and in remaining detached among hopes and disappointments. Living in equipoise and indifference is true renunciation in the Kaliyuga- the dark age. Meeting the holy congregation only, one gets libeerated from the cycle of transmigration.
Pauri-18 The Gurmukh generation.
Woman loves man and man also loves his woman. By the union of husband and wife, in this world sons, worthy and unworthy are born. Those who remain absorbed in the Lord God, the male of all males, are rare pure ones. From the primeval Lord, the male is produced in the same way as by reflection upon the Word, the true disciple of the Guru is created. Philosopher’s stone produces another philosopher’s stone that is from Guru emerges disciple and the same disciple eventually becomes a virtuous Guru. The gurmukhs belong to the lineage of the super swans. The Sikhs of Guru are benevolent like sadhus. The Guru’s disciples keeps fraternal relationship with fellow disciples and they salute one another with the word of the Guru. They have renounced other’s body, other’s wealth, slander and ego. I a sacrifice unto such holy congregation which brings such transformation.
Pauri-19 Relationship of the discipleship of the Guru is the true relation.
From father, grandfather,great grand father are born son, grand son and great grand son, respectively and from great grand son is born simply a relative. The relationship of mother, grandmother and great grand mother, father’s sister, sister, daughter, and daughter-in-law is also respected. Maternal grand father and mother and maternal great grand father and mother are also known. Father’s elder brother, younger brother, their wives, et al also remain absorbed in worldly affairs. Mama- mami, masa masi, all look dyed in their own colours. Masar, Phupher, father-in-law, mother-in-law, sister-in-law,and brother-in-law are also close. The relations of uncle-in-law and those of mana-in-law and Phuphad-in-law are known as inconvenient relations. The relations of sister-in law’s husband and father-in-law of your daughter or son, Kuram, are momentary and fake like those passengers of a boat sitting in a group. The true relationship is with those brothers who meet in the holy congregation. They never get separated. Through the holy congregation the gurmukh learns the technique of renunciations amidst enjoyments.
Pauri-20 The love of father’s sister or cousins is not equal to the father’s love. Love of mother cannot be equalled by the love of the children of maternal uncle and mother’s sister. By eating mango flowers the desire for eating magoes is not fulfilled. The smells of radish leaves and betel are different and are identified through smell and eructation. Lacs of lighted lamps and stars cannnot compete with the sun and the moon. The colour of madder is steadfast and the colour of safflower changes very soon. Neither mother nor father nor all the gods can be as gracious as the true Guru. All these relations have been thoroughly tested.
Pauri-21 Love of the true Guru.
Love of parents cannot be equal to the love of true Guru, the giver of consciousness. Trust in the bankers cannot match the reliance upon the true Guru who has boundless capacity. Of none’s lordship is equal to the Lordship of true Guru, That true Guru is the real master. The charities given by others cannot be equal to the charities bestowed by the true Guru because the true Guru bestows steadfastness in the truth. The treatment of the physicians cannot reach the true physician;s treatment because the true Guru cures the malady of egoism. Worship of gods and goddesses is also not equal to the constant pleasure giving worship of the true Guru. Even jewels of ocean cannot be equated with holy congregation because the holy congregation is adorned by the word of Guru. Ineffable is the story of the grandeur of the true Guru; His glory is great.
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