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One Oankar, the primal energy,realised through the grace of divine preceptor.
Pauri-1 Manglacharan
One should understand the perfect True Guru who has created the grandeur of creation around. The holy congregation of the complete is perfect and that perfect has recited the perfect mantra. The perfect has created the complete love for the Lord and has ordained the gurmukh way of life. The sight of perfect is perfect and the same perfect has caused to hear the perfect word. His sitting is also perfect and His throne is also perfect. The holy congregation is the abode of truth and being kind to the devotee. He is in the possession of the devotees. The Guru, out of his sheer love for the Sikhs, has made them comprehend the true nature of the Lord, the true name and the knowledge producing meditation. The Guru has immersed the disciple in the way of life.
Pauri-2 Invocation
All competent God Himself is the efficient as well as material cause of all but He does everything as per the will of the holy congregation. The stores of that giver are full but but he gives according the wishes of the holy congregation. That transcendental Brahm, be being the Guru, covers the holy congregation into the Word Shabad. He cannot be seen performing of Yajnas, offering sweets, yoga , concentration, ritualistic worship and ablutions. Fellows in the holy congregation enjoy father-son relationship with the Guru. And whatever he gives to eat and put on, they eat and wear. God remains indifferent in Maya.
Pauri-3 Daily routine of Gursikhs
Getting up at the ambrosial hour of the morning the Sikhs bathe in the river. By putting their mind in the unfathomable God through deep concentration, they resemble Guru the God, by reciting Japuji. Getting fully activated then they go to join the holy congregation of the saints. Becoming absorbed in remembering and loving the Shabad they sing and hear the Guru’s hymns. They love to spend their time in meditation, service and fear of Godand they serve the Guru by observing his anniversaries. They sing the Sodar in the evening and heartily associate with each other. Having recited the Sohila and made supplication at night they distribute holy food- prasad. Thus gurmukhs gladly taste the fruit of happiness.
Pauri-4 Holy Congregation- The Abode of Truth
The Oankar Lord, with one resonance created the forms. Air, water, sky, fire and earth He sustained without any support. Millions of universes exist in his each trichome. He the transcendental Brahm is the complete, within and without, in accessible, imperceptible, incomprehensible and infinite. He remains in the control of loving devotion and by becoming kind to the devotees, He creates. He is the subtle seed that takes form of the large tree of creation. The fruits contain seeds and then from one seed millions of fruits are created. The sweet fruit of Gurmukhs is the love of Lord and the Sikhs of the Guru love the true Lord. In the holy congregation, the abode of truth, the supreme formless Lord resides. The Gurmukhs get liberated through loving devotion.
Pauri-5 The meaning of stanza- Pavan Guru, Pani Pitta- of Japuji Sahib
The Guru’s word is the air, the Guru and wondrous Lord has recited Word – the Guru. The father of man is water which by flowing downwards teaches humility. The earth being tolerant is the mother and is the further base of all the creatures. The day and night are the nurses who keep the people of child wisdom busy in the plays of the world. The life of Gurmukh is meaningless because he in the holy congregation has lost his egotism. He becoming liberated in life behaves in the world with the skill to come out of the cycle of transmigration. The mother of the Gurmukhs is the wisdom of the Guru and father, the contentment through whom they attain emancipation. Forbearance and the sense of duty are their brothers, and meditations, austerities, continence- the sons. The Guru and the disciple are diffused into one another in eternity and they both are the extension of the perfect Supreme Lord. Having realised the supreme pleasure they have made others also realise the same.
Pauri-6 Detachment
The guest in the house of other person remains unconcerned among man expectations. Lotus too in the water concentrates upon Sun remains uninfluenced by water. Likewise in the holy congregation the Guru and the disciple meet through Word and meditative faculty or Surati. People of the four varnas by becoming the followers of Guru, reside in the abode of truth through the holy congregation. Like the one coloured sap of betel leaf they leave their selfhood, and are all coloured in their one fast colour. All the six philosophies and the twelve sects of Yogis covet by standing away but do not get that status because of their pride. Six seasons, twelve months, are shown to have one Sun and one moon. But the Gurmukhs have fused the Sun and the Moon into each other that is they have demolished the frontiers of the sattva and the rajas gunas. Having gone beyond the Maya of Shiva-shakti they meditate on the one Supreme. Their humility makes the world fall at their feet.
Pauri-7 Conduct of Gurmukhs
Considering the sermon of the Guru as the order they observe the code being humble. They surrender at the feet of Guru and apply the dust of his feet to their heads as frontal mark. By effacing the delusive writings of destiny, they create special love for imperceptible God. Myriads of suns and moons cannot reach their effulgence. Deleting ego from themselves they take dip into the sacred tank of the holy congregation. Holy congregation is the abode of the perfect Brahm and Gurmukhs keep their mind imbued with the lotus feet of Lord. The become the bumblebee and reside in the pleasure petals of the holy Lord.
Pauri-8 Features of a knowledgeable person.
Blessed is the glimpse and the company of the Guru because there only one visualizes God alone in all the six philosophies. Getting enlightened one identifies the teachings of Guru even in secular affairs. Having one women as wife, Sikh is a celibate and considers others wives as his daughters or sisters. To covet another man’s property is forbidden to a Sikh as swine to a Muslim and the cow to a Hindu. The Sikh being a householder abnegates tonsure, the sacred thread, etc and forsakes them like abominable faces. The Sikhs of The Guru accept transcendental Lord as the sole source of higher knowledge and meditation, In the congregation of such people any body could become authentic as well as respectable.
Pauri-9 The divine power
Though the cows are of different colours yet their milk is of same colour that is white. The vegetation has variety of trees but is the fire within of different colours ? Many behold the jewels but the jeweller is a rare person. As the diamond interlaced with other diamonds goes in the company of jewels, likewise the mind diamond intertwined with the diamond like Guru Word goes in the string of the holy congregation. Knowledgeable people get blessed with the ambrosial sight of the Guru and then have no desire whatsoever. Their body and vision turns divine and their every limb reflects the divine light of the perfect Brahm. Their relations with the true Guru are established through the holy congregation.
Pauri-10 A Gurmukh
The Gurmukh while immersing his meditational faculty in the Word listens to the Word alone even though the five types of sounds created through many instruments. Considering the ragas and nadas only as the medium, the Gurmukh discusses and recites with love. Only the Gurmukhs understand the melody of the knowledge of the supreme reality. The Sikhs ponder on the words of the Ineffable, and abstain from praise and blame. Allowing the Guru’s instruction to enter their hearts they speak politely and thus comfort one another. The Sikhs virtues cannot be concealed. As a man may hide jaggery, but ants will find it. As the sugarcane gives juice when pressed in a mill, so a Sikh suffer while conferring favours on others.
Pauri-11 A Gurmukh
Like the bumblebee they surrender at the lotus feet of Guru and enjoy the sap and remain happy. They go beyond the triveni of ira, pingala, and susumna and stabilize in their own self. They through the flame of breath, mind and the life force, recite and make others recite the soham and hans recitations (jap). The form of surati is wonderfully fragrant and enrapturing The gurmukhs calmly absorb in the pleasure-ocean of the Guru feet. When they in the form of pleasure-fruit obtain the supreme joy, they go beyond the bondages of body and formlessness and attain the highest station. Such gurmukhs have the glimpse of that invisible Lord in the holy congregation.
Pauri-12 The utility of hands
Worthy are the hands of the Sikh who in the holy congregation do the Guru’s work. Who draws water, fan the sangat, grind the flour, wash the feet of Guru and drink the water therefrom, who copy the Guru’s hymns and play the cymbals, the mridang, and the rabaab in the company of pious saints. Worthy are the hands who bow, help in prostrating and embrace a fellow sikh, who can earn a livelihood honestly and munificently confer favour to others. Worthy are the praise of the hands of such a sikh who by coming in touch with Guru becomes indifferent to worldly materials and lays not his eyes on another’s wife or property, who loves another Sikh and embraces the love, devotion and fear of God. He effaces his ego and does not assert himself.
Pauri-13 The Utility of Feet.
Blessed are the feet of the Sikhs who walk in Guru’s way, who go to Gurdwara and sit their in holy congregation. They search out the Guru’s Sikhs and hasten to do them favours. Worthy are the feet of the Sikhs who do not go on the way of duality and possessing wealth remain indifferent to it. Few are the people who abide by the orders of the Supreme Commander, pay Him homage and escape from their bonds. They adopt the custom of circumambulating the Guru’s Sikhs and fall at their feet. The Guru’s Sikhs delight in such enjoyments.
Pauri-14 Gurmukh- the Philanthropist
The enlightened mind of the Sikhs drinks and digests the unbearable cup of the love of the Lord. Armed with the knowledge of the Brahm, they meditate on the transcendental Brahm. Merging their consciousness in the Word-shabad, they recite the indescribable story of the Word-the Guru. They are competent to see incomprehensible pace of the past, present and future. Never deluding fruit of joy, the gurmukhs get, and with grace of God, kind to devotees. They rather delude the evil propensities. They work as a boat in the world ocean and ferry across the millions who follow one Gurmukh. The altruist Sikhs always come smiling.
Pauri-15 The conduct of the house holder Sikh
The snakes are said to have coiled around the sandal tree but tree remains unaffected by their poison. The Philosopher’s stone exists among stones but does not turn out to be an ordinary stone. The jewel-holding snake also roams about among the ordinary snakes. From the waves of the pond, the swans pick up only pearls and gems to eat. As the lotus remains unaffected in water, the same is the position of the householder sikh. He residing among the hopes and cravings around, adopts the skill of liberation in life and lives happily. It is nearly impossible to praise the holy congregation.
Pauri-16 The True Guru and Praise
The formless Lord has assumed the form of True Guru- the blessed one. Fortunate is the Sikh of the Guru, who listening to the teachings of the Guru has sought the shelter of the Guru-feet. The way of the Gurmukhs is blessed on which one walks through the holy congregations. Blessed are the feet of True Guru and that head is also fortunate that reposes on the feet of Guru. The glimpse of the true Guru is auspicious and the Sikh of the Guru is also blessed one who has come to behold the Guru. The Guru loves happily the devotional feelings of the Sikhs. The wisdom of Guru decimates duality.
Pauri-17- Blessed Time
Blessed is the moment, the blinking time, the hour, the date, the day during which you remember Him. Day, night, fortnight, months, seasons and the year are auspicious wherein mind tries to rise to divinity. That is the most auspicious time when one leaves lust, anger and ego. That time is fortunate wherein through meditation on God one gets the fruit of the holy dip at the sixty eight places of pilgrimage and Prayagraja. Reaching the door of Guru, mind gets absorbed in the delight of the lotus feet of Guru. Adopting the teachings of Guru, the state of fearlessness and total absorption in the Love of Lord is attained. Immersing the consciousness in Shabad (word) through holy congregation every limb of the of the devotee reverberates the lustre of the steadfast colour of the Lord. The Sikhs of the Guru have made jewel garland of the fragile thread of breath and they make full use of the same.
Pauri-18 A liberated house holder.
The polite language of a Sikh brings out what he thinks in his mind and heart. A Sikh beholds God everywhere with his own eyes, and that is equal to a yogi’s meditation. When a Sikh listens attentively, or himself sings, the word of God, that is equal to five ecstatic sounds in the brain of a yogi. Earning livelihood with his hands by a Sikh is equal to the obeisance and prostration by a Hindu. When, the Gurmukh, walks to behold the Guru, that is equal to an extremely holy circumambulation. When the Guru oriented person eats and clothes himself, that is equal to performance of Hindu sacrifice and offering. When Gurmukh sleeps, that is equal to yogi’s trance and the gurmukh withdraws not his thoughts from the object of his concentration. The householder is liberated in life, he is not afraid of the waves of the world’s ocean and fear does not enter his heart. He goes beyond the region of blessings and curses, and does not utter them.
Pauri-19 The realization by Gurmukh
That the true Guru is the truth incarnate and is the basis of meditation is well known to the him. Satnam, Karta Purakh, is accepted as the basic formula, the root mantra by the Gurmukh. He accepting the sweet sap of the lotus feet as fundamental, quaffs the joy of love for the supreme. He enters into immersion of word-consciousness through the Guru and the holy congregation. The way of the Gurmukh is beyond the ken of mind and speech and he in accordance with the wisdom of the Guru and his own steadfast will, treads on it. He can describe the importance of parable because it is beyond the vedas and the katebas- the four holy books of semitic religion. This way can be identified only by crossing the limits and anxieties about the high and low of the world.
Pauri-20 Position of a Manmukh
To get water from a stream, the dhingali- a pole with a bucket at one end and a fulcrum is used in middle to draw water- is lowered by catching hold of its neck that is it is humbled forcibly and does not go on its own. The owl is not pleased on beholding the sun or chakvi- the ruddy sheldrake – the moon. The silk cotton tree yields no fruti and the bamboo, despite growing near sandal tree, does not have any perfume. Given milk to drink, a snake does not part with its poison and the bitterness of the colocynth also does not depart. The tick clings to the cow’s udder but drinks blood instead of milk. All these demerits I have and if any one do me a favour, I return it with undesirable trait. Garlic can never have the aroma of musk.
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