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One Oankar, the primal energy, realised through the grace of divine preceptor.
Pauri-1 Attributes of Gurmukhs
The persons having attained the status of Gurmukh in the holy congregation does not mix up with any bad company. The way and life of a Gurmukh is simple and enjoyable; he does not involve himself with the concerns of the twelve sects of Yogis. Gurmukhs go beyond the castes, colours, and go about in equanimity like the red colour of betel leaf. Gurmukhs behold the Guru’s school and put no faith in six schools of Indian tradition. Gurmukhs have steadfast wisdom and do not waste themselves in the fire of duality. They practise the Guru Shabad and never forsake the exercise of touching the feet that is they are ever humble. Gurmukhs abound in loving devotion.
Pauri-2 Attributes of Gurmukhs
The Gurmukhs single-mindedly adore the Lord and do not remain in dubiety. By leaving away ego they become liberated and do not allow the darkness of ignorance to reside in their heart. Enveloped in the teachings of the Guru, they conquer the fort of body including the five vices. They fall at the feet like dust, deem themselves as guests in this world and are respected by the world. Gurmukhs serve the Sikhs regarding them as their parents, brothers and friends. Having given up ill will and dubiousness, they merge their consciousness in the Word and teachings of Guru. They set aside frivolous arguments, falsehood and evil deeds.
Pauir-3 Companions of Gurmukhs
In their own varnas all the people of four varnas observe the tradition of their caste and tribe. The believers in the books of the six schools perform six duties according to the wisdom of their respective spiritual mentors. Servants go and salute their masters. Traders deal profusely in their own special merchandise. All the farmers sow different seeds in their different fields. Mechanics meet their fellow mechanics in the workshop. Similarly, the Sikhs of Guru, associate themselves with the company of the holy persons.
Pauri-4 Example of the companions
The addicts mix up with addicts and abstainers with abstainers. The gamblers mix up with gamblers and scoundrels with scoundrels. The love abounds among the thieves and the cheats who getting people together dupe the country. Jesters meet jesters enthusiastically and so do the backbiters. Unknown to the swimming meet similar persons and swimmers by meeting swimmers go and get across. The afflicted meet the afflicted ones and share their sufferings. Likewise the Sikhs of the Guru feel pleasure in the holy congregation.
Pauri-5 Difference between Gurmukh and others.
Someone is called pundit, someone astrologer, someone priest, and some physician. Someone is called the King, Satrap, headman, and Chaudhry. Someone is draper, someone is called goldsmith and someone a jeweller. Someone is earning through being drug seller, retailer and an agent. So called low born are millions whose names explain their vocations. The Sikh of the Guru,being in the holy congregation, while living in joys remain indifferent to desires, He by merging his consciousness in the Word beholds the Supreme Lord.
Pauri-6 Same as above
Many are the celibates, the followers of truth, the immortal ones, the siddhs, nathas,and the teachers and the taught. Many are the goddesses, gods, rishis,bhairavs, and the protector of the regions. Many are the ghosts, celestial singers, nymphs and trans genders who perform differently. Imbued with duality, may are the rakshas, the demons and the giants. All are controlled by ego, and the Gurmukhs take pleasure in holy congregation. There they, accepting the Guru’s wisdom, shed away their selfhood. In India a girl applies oil on her head implying that she is leaving her parents home after wedding, similarly Gurmukhs having oil applied on their heads are ever ready to depart from this world.
Pauri-7 The obsessions with the world and the Guru Word.
Hypocrisy by and large enters into the praxis of continence, burnt offerings, feasts, penances and gifts. Incantations and spells ultimately turn out to be hypocritical plays. The worship of the fifty two heroes,of the eighty yoginis of cemeteries and of places of cremation leads to whooping dissimulation. People are obsessed with the pranayam excerciese of inhalation, suspension of breath, the exhalation, the nioir feat and straightening of kundalini- the serpent power. Many employ themselves in sitting in the siddhasanas and thus we have seen them seeking myriad miracles. The belief in the philosopher’s stone, the jewel in the serpent’s head and the miracle of life immortalising elixir are nothing but darkness of ignorance. People are engaged in the worship of idols of gods and goddesses, in fasting, uttering and giving blessings and curses. But without the holy congregation of the saints and the recitation of the Guru-sabad even the very good person cannot find acceptance. The superstitions bind themselves with a hundred knots of falsehood.
Pauri-8 Good and Ill Omens and the Gurmukhi
The life led in the light of omens, nine planets,the twelve signs of the zodiac. Incantations, magic divination by lines and by the voice is all futile. Cries of donkeys, dogs, cats, kites, blackbirds, and jackals cannot control our lives. It is superstitious to draw good or bad omens from meeting a widow, a bare headed man, water, fire, sneezing, farting and hiccups. Lunar and week days, lucky-unlucky moments and going or not going in a particular direction. If a women behaves like a prostitute and does everything to please everybody, how can she be loved by her husband. The gurmukhs who reject all superstitions enjoy happiness with their Lord and get across the world ocean.
Pauri-9 Holiness of the Gurmukh way of life.
Rivers and small streams joining Ganga become sacred Ganga. With the touch of philosopher’s stone all mixed light metals get changed into gold. The vegetation whether fruit producing, or fruitless becomes sandal by assimilating into the fragrance of sandal. In the six seasons and twelve months nothing except Sun is there. Four varnas, six schools of philosophy and twelve sects of the yogis are there in this world. But by treading the path of Gurmukhs all the dubieties of the above sects vanish. They now with stable mind adore the one Lord.
Pauri-10 Family customs and the way of Gurmukh.
In the house of maternal grandfather, the father-in-law and the grandfather, priests and servants exist. They carry the messages on births, mundan, ceremonies, betrothals, marriages and deaths. They are even working for the family duties and customs. On occasions such as the sacred thread ceremonies, through many tricks they make the master spend lavishly and tell him about his fame reaching the skies. Deluded by them people worship departed heroes, ancestors, satis, deceased, co wives, tanks and pits, but all this is of no avail. They who do not enjoy the holy congregation and the word of the Guru, die and are born again and are rejected repeatedly by the Almighty. Gurmukh who wears God’s Name as his diamond necklace.
Pauri-11 Princes
In the armies of emperors the dear princes also move. The emperor leads and the satraps and infantry ensues. The courtesans well dressed come before all but the princes remain simple and straight. The true servants of the Kings earn applause but those who defy get humiliated in the court. In the court of the Lord only they get shelter who remain rapt in the service. With grace of the Lord, such gurmukhs become King of Kings. Only such people ever remain happy and contented.
Pauri-12 More Examples
Myriad stars exist in the darkness but with the rise of the Sun no one remains visible. Before the roar of the lion, flocks of deer flee. Seeing the large vulture even the snakes crawl into their holes. Seeing a hawk, the birds fly helter skelter and do not find a place to hide. In this world of conduct and thought, in the holy congregation one give up evil mindedness. The true Guru is the true King who obliterates dilemma, and evil propensities hide or vanish. The Gurmukhs diffuse their knowledge among others and they are not selfish people.
Pauri-13 The Gurmukh Highway
The true Guru, the real emperor has put the Guru-oriented on the high road of emancipation. He restrains the five deadly sins, the five evil inclinations and the sense of duality. Gurmukhs spend their lives while keeping their heart and mind attuned with the Shabad(word) and therefore death, the tax gatherer does not approach them. The Guru had dispersed the apostates into twelve sects of the yogis, and seated the holy congregation of the saints in the domain of Truth that is Sachkhand. By the spell of the Naam, the gurmukhs have inculcated love, devotion, fear, charity and ablutions. The gurmukhs keep themselves unaffected by the evils of the world as the louts remains dry in water. Gurmukhs efface their indivduality and do not pose to assert themselves.
Pauri-14 The true engagement.
By becoming the subject of a King, people as servants go around the countries to comply orders. On the birth of a child felicitation and auspicious songs are sung in the houses of the maternal and paternal grandfathers. On weddings the songs are sung by women in abusive language and trumpets are played on the part of the bride and bridegroom but it is not so among the Gurmukhs. Crying and wailing is there for the dead. But the Gurmukhs recite Sohila in the company of the Saints on such occasion. The Gurmukh Sikh goes beyond the holy books of the Hindus and the Muslims that Vedas and Katebas, and neither rejoice at a birth nor wail and mourn at a death. In the midst of desires he remain free from them.
Pauri-15 The Guru Oriented and Mind Oriented- Gurmukh and Manmukh
The Guru oriented move upon the simple and straight way and the mind oriented go astray on twelve sects of yogis. The Gurmukhs get across whereas the manmukhs get drowned in the terrible world-ocean. The life of gurmukh is the sacred tank of liberation and the mammukhs go on transmigrating and suffering the pangs of life and death. The gurmukhs is at ease in the court of the Lord but the manmukhs has to bear pain the rod of Lord of Death- Yama. The gurmukh forsake ego whereas a manmukh burns himself continuously in the fire of egotism. Rare are the people who though being in the limits of Maya yet remain immersed in His meditation.
Pauri-16 The Gursikh as a bride
In her mother’s home the girl is fondled and dearly loved by parents. Among the brothers she is a sister and lives joyfully in the full fledged families of the maternal and the paternal fathers. Then offering ornaments and dowry and the like and by spending hundreds of thousands of rupees she is married. In her father-in law’s house she is accepted with the title of married wife. She enjoys with her husband eats variety of foods and always remains bedecked. From a temporal and spiritual point of view, woman is half man’s body and assists to the door of deliverance. She assuredly brings happiness to the virtuous.
Pauri-17 Manmukh as a prostitute.
A prostitute having many lovers commit every type of sin. An outcast from her people and her country, she brings disgrace on all the three sides that is her father’s mother’s and the family of her father-in-law. Ruined herself, she ruins others and still goes on gulping and digesting poison. She is like the musical pipe which lures the deer or lamp that burns the moth. Due to the sinful activities her face in both the worlds remain pale because she behaves like a boat of stone which drowns its passengers. Similar is the mind of apostate scattered and led astray by superstitions in the company of sinners. And similar to courtesan’s son, bearing no name of his father, the apostate is also not owned by anybody.
Pauri-18 Childhood, youth & Old Age
Child’s wisdom cares not for anything and he passes his time in joyful activities. In youthful days, he is attracted by other’s body, wealth and backbiting. In old age he is caught in the large web of family affairs. Known to be seventy-two he becomes frail- both physically as well as mentally and mumbles in sleep. Ultimately he turns blind, deaf, and lame and through the body gets tired yet his mind runs in ten directions. Without holy congregation and bereft of Guru’s word he transmigrates into infinite species of life. The time lost cannot be regained.
Pauri-19 Swan- Crane; Gurmukh-Manmukh
The swan never leaves Mansarovar- the sacred tank, while the crane always comes to the dirty pool. The nightingale sings in the mango groves but the crow feels comfortable at an abominable place in the forest. The female dogs have no groups like cows that give milk and increase their lineage. The tree full of fruits is stable at one place whereas a vain person always wanders here and there. The fire is full of heat of ego and keeps its head high but the water being cold always goes downwards. The Gurmukh divests his soul of ego but manmukh, the fool always counts himself above all. Having sense of duality is not a good conduct and one is always defeated.
Pauri-20 Five creatures and Manmukh
The elephant, deer, fish, moth and bumblebee have one disease each, namely attraction for lust, sound, enjoyment, beautiful appearance, and fragrance respectively, and they are consumed by them. But the man has all the five ailments and these five always create turbulences in his life. The witches in the form of hope and desires and the happiness and sorrows further aggravate the diseases. Controlled by duality, the deluded manmukh runs hither and thither. The true Guru is the true King and the gurmukhs move on the highway pointed out by Him. Moving along with and in the holy congregation. The thieves and cheats in the form of lust for materials run away.
Pauri-21 The Guru- the true Emperor
Only one person ferries across many a man. The one commander of the imperial army gets the whole task executed. Because of only one watchman in the locality, all the rich persons sleep free from any anxiety. Guests in the marriage party remain many but the wedding is solemnized of one person only. The emperor in the country happens to be one and the rest are the public in the form of Hindus and Muslims. Similarly, the true Guru-Emperor is one and the holy congregation and the Guru Word are His identification marks. I sacrifice myself unto them who seek the shelter of the true Guru.
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