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Shabad 26
Gauree, Third Mehl:
ang 232
The mind has intuitively healed itself, through the Fear of God.
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The mind has intuitively healed itself, through the Fear of God. The mind is attuned to the Word of the Shabad; it is lovingly attuned to the Lord.It abides within its own home, in harmony with the Lord's Will. ||1||
Serving the True Guru, egotistical pride departs, and the Lord of the Universe, the Treasure of Excellence, is obtained. ||1||Pause||
The mind becomes detached and free of desire, when it experiences the Fear of God, through the Shabad. My Immaculate God is pervading and contained among all. By Guru's Grace, one is united in His Union. ||2||
The slave of the Lord's slave attains peace. My Lord God is found in this way. By the Grace of the Lord, one comes to sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||3||
Cursed is that long life, during which love for the Lord's Name is not enshrined. Cursed is that comfortable bed which lures one into the darkness of attachment to sexual desire. Fruitful is the birth of that person who takes the Support of the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||4||
Cursed, cursed is that home and family, in which the love of the Lord is not embraced.He alone is my friend, who sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord. Without the Lord's Name, there is no other for me. ||5||
From the True Guru, I have obtained salvation and honor. I have meditated on the Name of the Lord, and all my sufferings have been erased. I am in constant bliss, lovingly attuned to the Lord's Name. ||6||
Meeting the Guru, I came to understand my body. The fires of ego and desire have been totally quenched. Anger has been dispelled, and I have grasped hold of tolerance. ||7||
The Lord Himself showers His Mercy, and bestows the Naam. How rare is that Gurmukh, who receives the jewel of the Naam. O Nanak, sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord, the Unknowable, the Incomprehensible. ||8||8||
[Notes: The shabad speaks about the effect of the Fear of God on Mind. The fear of God helps the mind to be in equipoise.It is the state where the real devotion begins. The word of shabad has been extensively used by the translators. It generally stands for the The dibvine 'word' or Naam as is generally implied and referred to in the scriptures.One may call it 'sabad', word., Naam or akhar etc. By instilling the Fear one also sheds off the ego and also seeks detachment and finally it reaches the stage where there is no hope and desires left in the mind.]
The mind has intuitively healed itself, through the Fear of God. The mind is attuned to the Word of the Shabad; it is lovingly attuned to the Lord.It abides within its own home, in harmony with the Lord's Will. ||1||
Serving the True Guru, egotistical pride departs, and the Lord of the Universe, the Treasure of Excellence, is obtained. ||1||Pause||
The mind becomes detached and free of desire, when it experiences the Fear of God, through the Shabad. My Immaculate God is pervading and contained among all. By Guru's Grace, one is united in His Union. ||2||
The slave of the Lord's slave attains peace. My Lord God is found in this way. By the Grace of the Lord, one comes to sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||3||
Cursed is that long life, during which love for the Lord's Name is not enshrined.Cursed is that comfortable bed which lures one into the darkness of attachment to sexual desire. Fruitful is the birth of that person who takes the Support of the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||4||
Cursed, cursed is that home and family, in which the love of the Lord is not embraced.He alone is my friend, who sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord.
Without the Lord's Name, there is no other for me. ||5|| From the True Guru, I have obtained salvation and honor. I have meditated on the Name of the Lord, and all my sufferings have been erased. I am in constant bliss, lovingly attuned to the Lord's Name. ||6||
Meeting the Guru, I came to understand my body. The fires of ego and desire have been totally quenched. Anger has been dispelled, and I have grasped hold of tolerance. ||7||
The Lord Himself showers His Mercy, and bestows the Naam. How rare is that Gurmukh, who receives the jewel of the Naam. O Nanak, sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord, the Unknowable, the Incomprehensible. ||8||8||
Make your intellect your instrument, and love your tambourine; thus bliss and lasting pleasure shall be produced in your mind. This is devotional worship, and this is the practice of penance. So dance in this love, and keep the beat with your feet. ||1||
Know that the perfect beat is the Praise of the Lord; other dances produce only temporary pleasure in the mind. ||1||Pause||
Play the two cymbals of truth and contentment. Let your ankle bells be the lasting Vision of the Lord. Let your harmony and music be the elimination of duality. So dance in this love, and keep the beat with your feet. ||2||
Let the fear of God within your heart and mind be your spinning dance, and keep up, whether sitting or standing.To roll around in the dust is to know that the body is only ashes.So dance in this love, and keep the beat with your feet. ||3||
Keep the company of the disciples, the students who love the teachings. As Gurmukh, listen to the True Name. O Nanak, chant it, over and over again. So dance in this love, and keep the beat with your feet. ||4||6||
[Notes: In this shabad also the soul has been referred to as the Bride. The Almighy is referred to as The Lord Himself and the Place of His seat is stated to be the 'in-laws house'. The soul has to receive/get the glane of His grace for being eligible for seeing HIM or meeting Him. In this shabad also there is a reflection of the helplessness of the soul as everything it receives is only after He has castes His glance. One comes to know of His likings through the Guru. Here ,for us, Guru would mean the 'sabad Guru' i.e. the only Guru that we have with us for guidance.Since the Bani has been given the status of the God we also have the God Himself guiding us.In the end of the sabad the fear of God and the love of Lord are stated to be the ornaments that every soul should wear.Thus getting His grace itself become th sub-objective of our life and drawing one step backward we should always try to do things that are pleasant to Him. We do not come across many 'tuks' that deal with the subject matter. I am quoting one of these below.
syeI quDuno gwvih jo quDu Bwvin rqy qyry Bgq rswly ] (6-11, jpu, mÚ 1)
They alone sing, who are pleasing to Your Will. Your devotees are imbued with the Nectar of YourEssence.
In similar fashion the following Lines also contain as to How to please Him.
gieAw su jobnu Dn pCuqwnI ]3] (357-2, Awsw, mÚ 1)
My beautiful youth has run away, and now I, the soul-bride, repent and regret. ||3||
[Notes: As per Sikh scriptures the devotional worship is of supreme importance. Without devotional worship it is difficult to realize Him. To do meaningful devotional worship one has to be in the state of equipoise .The equipoise has become a concept in Sikhism and talks of as to how should we accept the two extremes without getting our mind really bothered by these extremes like pleasure and pain or heat and cold. These extremes are stated to be the stimuli for the senses only and should be suitably reacted to. Anyone who is above the three dispositions is the one who can attain the equipoise or the intuitive peace. It is at this stage that the devotional worship begins. We may struggle through out our lives but if we are not able to develop fear and love of God the devotional worship is not possible.It is essential to do simran on wahegure and with passage of time and after some delay the love for god develops.[Maskeen ji].If one can get even the blessings for devotional worship the purpose of life should be treated as fulfilled to a great extent.Gyani ji has laid lot of importance on Simran. The present shabad is a summary of the concepts of equipoise, devotional worship, subduing of senses and Fear of god besides the five passions that are to be suitably controlled and corrected.]
When someone dies, the five passions meet and mourn his death.Overcoming self-conceit, he washes off his filth with the Word of the Shabad.One who knows and understands, enters the home of peace and poise.Without understanding, he loses all his honor. ||1||
Who dies, and who weeps for him?O Lord, Creator, Cause of causes, You are over the heads of all. ||1||Pause||
Who weeps over the pain of the dead?Those who weep, do so over their own troubles.God knows the condition of those who are so affected.Whatever the Creator does, comes to pass. ||2||
One who remains dead while yet alive, is saved, and saves others as well.Celebrate the Victory of the Lord; taking to His Sanctuary, the supreme status is obtained.I am a sacrifice to the feet of the True Guru.The Guru is the boat; through the Shabad of His Word, the terrifying world-ocean is crossed over. ||3||
He Himself is Fearless; His Divine Light is contained in all. Without the Name, the world is defiled and untouchable. Through evil-mindedness, they are ruined; why should they cry out and weep?They are born only to die, without hearing the music of devotional worship. ||4||
Only one's true friends mourn one's death.Those under the sway of the three dispositions continue to mourn on and on. Disregarding pain and pleasure, center your consciousness on the Lord.Dedicate your body and mind to the Love of the Lord. ||5||
The One Lord dwells within the various and countless beings. There are so many rituals and religious faiths, their number is innumerable.Without the Fear of God, and devotional worship, one's life is in vain.Singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord, the supreme wealth is obtained. ||6||
He Himself dies, and He Himself kills.He Himself establishes, and having established, disestablishes.He created the Universe, and by His Divine Nature, instilled His Divine Light into it. One who reflects upon the Word of the Shabad, meets the Lord, without doubt. ||7||
Pollution is the burning fire, which is consuming the world. Pollution is in the water, upon the land, and everywhere. O Nanak, people are born and die in pollution.By Guru's Grace, they drink in the Lord's sublime elixir. ||8||4||
Those whom the Lord has caused to drink in the Ambrosial Nectar, naturally, intuitively, enjoy the sublime essence. The True Lord is care-free; he does not have even an iota of greed. ||1||
The True Ambrosial Nectar rains down, and trickles into the mouths of the Gurmukhs.Their minds are forever rejuvenated, and they naturally, intuitively, sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||1||Pause||
The self-willed manmukhs are forever forsaken brides; they cry out and bewail at the Lord's Gate.Those who do not enjoy the sublime taste of their Husband Lord, act according to their pre-ordained destiny. ||2||
The Gurmukh plants the seed of the True Name, and it sprouts. He deals in the True Name alone.Those whom the Lord has attached to this profitable venture, are granted the treasure of devotional worship. ||3||
The Gurmukh is forever the true, happy soul-bride; she adorns herself with the fear of God and devotion to Him.Night and day, she enjoys her Husband Lord; she keeps Truth enshrined within her heart. ||4||
I am a sacrifice to those who have enjoyed their Husband Lord. They dwell forever with their Husband Lord; they eradicate self-conceit from within. ||5||
Their bodies and minds are cooled and soothed, and their faces are radiant, from the love and affection of their Husband Lord. They enjoy their Husband Lord upon His cozy bed, having conquered their ego and desire. ||6||
Granting His Grace, He comes into our homes, through our infinite Love for the Guru.The happy soul-bride obtains the One Lord as her Husband. ||7||
All of her sins are forgiven; the Uniter unites her with Himself. O Nanak, chant such chants, that hearing them, He may enshrine love for you. ||8||12||34||
[Notes: The shabad talks of the glory of Naam and that one is to be in His meditation through the naam. The translator has stated the name of the lord as Naam in the following verse. Though it may not be the exact interpretation of the concerned line but many have suggested that as we are not aware of Naam, the Love for the same and the lord becomes Naam for the devotees.Thus Naam is also reflective of the Lord Himself as the Nam is the sagun form of the lord. As per the Sikhism the 'waheguru' Gurumantra also points out at this. The love of lord and the Fear of The lord are intermingled and as per what is gathered it is difficult to state as to which precedes but it should be the love of Lord that should precede. One can engage in devotional worship once the ornamental fear of Lord is instilled in the mind.The basic point to begin with is to develop the love of Lord that should lead to the fear of lord and this should result in the devotional worship and without it not much can be achieved. It is for the individual to develop the love of Lord. It does not happen automatically. As per Maskeen ji the constant meditation and recitation of 'waheguru' is helpful in developing the Love of Lord. Once the Naam is implanted one reaches the stage of fear of lord. It requires practice. All other attachments are temporal it is the attachment to this naam that we can swim across the tides and waves of this world.As Lord is shapeless so should be His love and His naam.We can just speculate over naam that is the insignia of the Lord. WE have to appreciate the creator and His attributes and the potency.To me Lord is in the nature, all pervasive and fathomless like its manifestation in the format of Nature."wahguru' answers all the queries. Sikhism ,in essence, boils down to the recitation and the meditation Of This naam i.e. 'waheguru'.One may point out if there is some flaw in this.I shall ,however, not reply to the same as it a matter of belief only. ]
One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
The devotees worship the Lord in loving adoration. They thirst for the True Lord, with infinite affection.They tearfully beg and implore the Lord; in love and affection, their consciousness is at peace. ||1||
Chant the Naam, the Name of the Lord, O my mind, and take to His Sanctuary.The Lord's Name is the boat to cross over the world-ocean. Practice such a way of life. ||1||Pause||
O mind, even death wishes you well, when you remember the Lord through the Word of the Guru's Shabad. The intellect receives the treasure, the knowledge of reality and supreme bliss, by repeating the Lord's Name in the mind. ||2||
The fickle consciousness wanders around chasing after wealth; it is intoxicated with worldly love and emotional attachment. Devotion to the Naam is permanently implanted within the mind, when it is attuned to the Guru's Teachings and His Shabad. ||3||
Wandering around, doubt is not dispelled; afflicted by reincarnation, the world is being ruined. The Lord's eternal throne is free of this affliction; he is truly wise, who takes the Naam as his deep meditation. ||4||
This world is engrossed in attachment and transitory love; it suffers the terrible pains of birth and death. Run to the Sanctuary of the True Guru, chant the Lord's Name in your heart, and you shall swim across. ||5||
Following the Guru's Teaching, the mind becomes stable; the mind accepts it, and reflects upon it in peaceful poise. That mind is pure, which enshrines Truth within, and the most excellent jewel of spiritual wisdom. ||6||
By the Fear of God, and Love of God, and by devotion, man crosses over the terrifying world-ocean, focusing his consciousness on the Lord's Lotus Feet. The Name of the Lord, the most pure and sacred, is within my heart; this body is Your Sanctuary, Lord. ||7||
The waves of greed and avarice are subdued, by treasuring the Lord's Name in the mind.Subdue my mind, O Pure Immaculate Lord; says Nanak, I have entered Your Sanctuary. ||8||1||5||
The milkmaid's status is very low, but she attains her Husband Lord,when she reflects upon the Word of the Guru's Shabad, and chants the Lord's Name, night and day.She who meets the True Guru, lives in the Fear of God; she is a woman of noble birth.She alone realizes the Hukam of her Husband Lord's Command, who is blessed by the Creator Lord's Mercy. She who is of little merit and ill-mannered, is discarded and forsaken by her Husband Lord. By the Fear of God, filth is washed off, and the body becomes immaculately pure. The soul is enlightened, and the intellect is exalted, meditating on the Lord, the ocean of excellence. One who dwells in the Fear of God, lives in the Fear of God, and acts in the Fear of God. He obtains peace and glorious greatness here, in the Lord's Court, and at the Gate of Salvation. Through the Fear of God, the Fearless Lord is obtained, and one's light merges in the Infinite Light. O Nanak, that bride alone is good, who is pleasing to her Lord and Master, and whom the Creator Lord Himself forgives. ||1||
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