Without naam

Sikh80 · #1 (**permalink**) 13-12-2007, 09:46 PM

This Shabad is by Guru Arjan Dev Ji in Raag Gauree on Pannaa 240

gauVI mhlw 5 ]
imlu myry goibMd Apnw nwmu dyhu ]
nwm ibnw iDRgu iDRgu Asnyhu ]1] rhwau ]
nwm ibnw jo pihrY Kwie ]
ijau kUkru jUTn mih pwie ]1]
nwm ibnw jyqw ibauhwru ] ijau imrqk imiQAw sIgwru ]2]
nwmu ibswir kry rs Bog ]
suKu supnY nhI qn mih rog ]3]
nwmu iqAwig kry An kwj ]
ibnis jwie JUTy siB pwj ]4]
nwm sMig min pRIiq n lwvY ]
koit krm krqo nrik jwvY ]5]
hir kw nwmu ijin min n AwrwDw ]
cor kI inAweI jm puir bwDw ]6]
lwK AfMbr bhuqu ibsQwrw ]
nwm ibnw JUTy pwswrw ]7]
hir kw nwmu soeI jnu lyie ]
kir ikrpw nwnk ijsu dyie ]8]10]

gourree mehalaa 5 ||
mil maerae gobi(n)dh apanaa naam dhaehu ||
naam binaa dhhrig dhhrig asanaehu ||1|| rehaao ||
naam binaa jo pehirai khaae ||
jio kookar joot(h)an mehi paae ||1||
naam binaa jaethaa biouhaar || jio mirathak mithhiaa seegaar ||2||
naam bisaar karae ras bhog ||
sukh supanai nehee than mehi rog ||3||
naam thiaag karae an kaaj ||
binas jaae jhoot(h)ae sabh paaj ||4||
naam sa(n)g man preeth n laavai ||
kott karam karatho narak jaavai ||5||
har kaa naam jin man n aaraadhhaa ||
chor kee niaaee jam pur baadhhaa ||6||
laakh adda(n)bar bahuth bisathhaaraa ||
naam binaa jhoot(h)ae paasaaraa ||7||
har kaa naam soee jan laee ||
kar kirapaa naanak jis dhaee ||8||10||

Gauree, Fifth Mehla:
Meet me, O my Lord of the Universe. Please bless me with Your Name.
Without the Naam, the Name of the Lord, cursed, cursed is love and intimacy. ||1||Pause||
Without the Naam, one who dresses and eats well
is like a dog, who falls in and eats impure foods. ||1||
Without the Naam, all occupations are useless, like decorations on a dead body. ||2||
One who forgets the Naam and indulges in pleasures,
shall find no peace, even in dreams; his body shall become diseased. ||3||
One who renounces the Naam and engages in other occupations,
shall see all of his false pretenses fall away. ||4||
One whose mind does not embrace love for the Naam
shall go to hell, even though he may perform millions of ceremonial rituals. ||5||
One whose mind does not contemplate the Name of the Lord
is bound like a thief, in the City of Death. ||6||
Hundreds of thousands of ostentatious shows and great expanses
- without the Naam, all these displays are false. ||7||
That humble being repeats the Name of the Lord,
O Nanak, whom the Lord blesses with His Mercy. ||8||10||

Sikh80 · #2 (**permalink**) 16-12-2007, 10:00 AM

imlu myry goibMd Apnw nwmu dyhu ] (240-3, gauVI, mÚ 5)
Meet me, O my Lord of the Universe. Please bless me with Your Name.
nwm ibnw iDRgu iDRgu Asnyhu ]1] rhwau ] (240-4, gauVI, mÚ 5)
Without the Naam, the Name of the Lord, cursed, cursed is love and intimacy. ||1||Pause||
nwm ibnw jo pihrY Kwie ] (240-4, gauVI, mÚ 5)
Without the Naam, one who dresses and eats well
ijau kUkru jUTn mih pwie ]1] (240-4, gauVI, mÚ 5)
is like a dog, who falls in and eats impure foods. ||1||
nwm ibnw jyqw ibauhwru ] ijau imrqk imiQAw sIgwru ]2] (240-5, gauVI, mÚ 5)
Without the Naam, all occupations are useless, like decorations on a dead body. ||2||
nwmu ibswir kry rs Bog ] (240-5, gauVI, mÚ 5)
One who forgets the Naam and indulges in pleasures,
suKu supnY nhI qn mih rog ]3] (240-6, gauVI, mÚ 5)
shall find no peace, even in dreams; his body shall become diseased. ||3||

Sikh80 · #3 (**permalink**) 18-12-2007, 09:25 PM

nwmu iqAwig kry An kwj ] (240-6, gauVI, mÚ 5)
One who renounces the Naam and engages in other occupations,
ibnis jwie JUTy siB pwj ]4] (240-6, gauVI, mÚ 5)
shall see all of his false pretenses fall away. ||4||
nwm sMig min pRIiq n lwvY ] (240-7, gauVI, mÚ 5)
One whose mind does not embrace love for the Naam
koit krm krqo nrik jwvY ]5] (240-7, gauVI, mÚ 5)
shall go to hell, even though he may perform millions of ceremonial rituals. ||5||

Sikh80 · #4 (**permalink**) 19-12-2007, 09:40 AM

hir kw nwmu ijin min n AwrwDw ] (240-7, gauVI, mÚ 5)
One whose mind does not contemplate the Name of the Lord
cor kI inAweI jm puir bwDw ]6] (240-8, gauVI, mÚ 5)
is bound like a thief, in the City of Death. ||6||
lwK AfMbr bhuqu ibsQwrw ] (240-8, gauVI, mÚ 5)
Hundreds of thousands of ostentatious shows and great expanses
nwm ibnw JUTy pwswrw ]7] (240-8, gauVI, mÚ 5)
- without the Naam, all these displays are false. ||7||

Sikh80 · #5 (**permalink**) 20-12-2007, 07:23 PM

hir kw nwmu soeI jnu lyie ] (240-9, gauVI, mÚ 5)
That humble being repeats the Name of the Lord,
kir ikrpw nwnk ijsu dyie ]8]10] (240-9, gauVI, mÚ 5)
O Nanak, whom the Lord blesses with His Mercy. ||8||10||
2.One repents without NAAM
hir kw nwmu n buJeI AMiq gieAw pCuqwie ]3] (491-17, gUjrI, mÚ 3)
It does not understand the Name of the Lord; it departs repenting in the end. ||3||
3.Unfortunate
ijn@ hir hir hir rsu nwmu n pwieAw qy BwghIx jm pwis ] (492-12, gUjrI, mÚ 4)
Those who have not obtained the essence of the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, are most unfortunate; they are taken away by the Messenger of Death.

Sikh80 · #6 (**permalink**) 20-12-2007, 09:50 PM

Naam literally means, the Name.
A fuller definition of the word can only be found within the SGGS itself. Naam is God’s Word, or the Divine Essence. Etymologically, the word has a striking resemblance with the Greek neumena or the Bright Essence as opposed to phenomena. Naam is not merely the ‘Name of God’ as is commonly believed; it symbolises the Being of God filling all Creation. Naam is also referred to as Shabad in the SGGS.
Where there was no creation, there was nothing in existence – no air, light, water, earth or space. God existed alone in deep meditation and self absorption. When God willed for the manifestations of his values, He created universes, worlds and all material and other living beings by uttering a single Word. His Word is all pervasive and the sole source of all Creation; the Word created the universes and supports and sustains all things within them. The Sri Guru Granth Sahib further enlightens us that God’s Word turned into waves of light, rays of which are present in all creatures and all other parts of His creation. This is consistent with a fundamental principle of physics that sound vibrations, when increased several fold, change into waves of light.
This Essence / Naam / Sabad / Logus is formless, colourless, and featureless but, as said, is present in all creation. There is no plant, no creature, in what it is not. The Earth and other heavenly bodies exist because there is Naam in this universe and when God withdraws this Naam from this Universe, there is natural calamities (Parloh / Mahaparloh) all over the universe and this is the time that the universe perishes and all the living creatures perish. Being so, the Essence can’t be seen or visualised by the mind. We can see only the physical dimension of Reality in God’s Creation – mountains, plants, trees, creatures etc. Thus the Outer Shell of Reality holds us (the appearances delude us) and we cannot penetrate deeper to experience the all pervading Reality. The physical dimensions of Reality (the outer shell) is always in flux; it keeps changing. While birth, death, creation, destruction etc. occur in the physical dimensions of creation, the Essence, being Sat (Sat-Naam) never changes, it transcends space and time.
We cannot focus our mind or attention on God, who is Absolute, the invisible Essence. The Naam (SHABAD), the Name of God is the only medium available to us for approaching Him. The Naam actually is a combination of 5 words (which actually are the name of 5 supernatural heavenly places which fall on the way when the soul is starting towards the SACHKHAND) which only a true Guru can give to its disciples. All who get Naam from the Guru have to concentrate at one point in their mind and recite the Naam in their mind without actually uttering it. When we recite Naam, our soul starts responding to it. It actually starts to shrink and starts moving towards the point in our body called the THIRD EYE.
When a person practices it for a very long time he/she reaches the SACHKHAND. Thus, it is through the Naam that we are able to think of Him, to remember Him. In other words, the Naam is God Himself, adopted to our limited powers of perception and thought, adopted to the capacities of our body and mind. Because we are endowed with the capacity to utter and attentively listen, the continuous recitation of and attentive listening to the Naam focuses our mind on the object of invocation, resulting in a ceaseless remembrance of God (DHYAAN). This Dhyaan, in turn, results in complete absorption of our consciousness on the thought of God, who responds to our earnest invocation and reveals Himself in our inner being.
The revelation of the Essence of Reality within us is the revelation of Naam. When the revelation of Naam occurs within, the devotee sees His the Essence of God pervading throughout His Creation. Gurus have taught that their teachings are for all the religion (varnas) and all have the right to get the teachings of the Gurus. To Initate our soul so that it starts towards the ultimate goal (SACHKHAND) a person has to repeatedly and continuously recite and remember the Naam, and to cherish it in the heart all the time – this is the essence of prayer and devotion to God.
In Gurbani, the word Gursabad or Shabad is synonymous with Naam. Without ceaseless recitation of Naam God cannot be realised.

Sikh80 · #7 (**permalink**) 21-12-2007, 06:30 AM

2.One repents without NAAM
hir kw nwmu n buJeI AMiq gieAw pCuqwie ]3] (491-17, gUjrI, mÚ 3)
It does not understand the Name of the Lord; it departs repenting in the end. ||3||
3.Unfortunate
ijn@ hir hir hir rsu nwmu n pwieAw qy BwghIx jm pwis ] (492-12, gUjrI, mÚ 4)
Those who have not obtained the essence of the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, are most unfortunate; they are taken away by the Messenger of Death.
4. Unfortunate
durmiq BwghIn miq PIky nwmu sunq AwvY min rohY ] (493-1, gUjrI, mÚ 4)
Evil-minded, unfortunate and shallow-minded are those who feel anger in their minds, when they hear the Naam, the Name of the Lord.
5. Wastage of life
hir nwmu n pwieAw jnmu ibrQw gvwieAw nwnk jmu mwir kry KuAwr ]2] (509-1, gUjrI kI vwr, mÚ 3)
They do not obtain the Lord's Name, and they waste away their lives in vain; O Nanak, the Messenger of Death punishes and dishonors them. ||2||
6. Unfortunate
ijn hir hir hir rsu nwmu n pwieAw qy BwghIx jm pwis ] (10-6, gUjrI, mÚ 4)
Those who have not obtained the Sublime Essence of the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, Har, are most unfortunate; they are led away by the Messenger of Death.