The Guru Granth Sahib - Raag Raamkalee
Section 22 - Raag Raamkalee - Part 001
Raamkalee, First Mehl, First House, Chau-Padas:
One Universal
Creator God. Truth Is The Name. Creative Being Personified.
No Fear. No Hatred. Image Of The Undying. Beyond Birth. Self-Existent.
By Guru's Grace:
Some read the Sanskrit scriptures, and some
read the Puraanas.
Some meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord, and chant
it on their malas, focusing on it in meditation.
I know nothing,
now or ever; I recognize only Your One Name, Lord. ||1||
I do not know, Lord, what my condition shall be.
I am foolish
and ignorant; I seek Your Sanctuary, God. Please, save my honor
and my self-respect. ||1||Pause||
Sometimes, the soul soars
high in the heavens, and sometimes it falls to the depths of
the nether regions.
The greedy soul does not remain stable;
it searches in the four directions. ||2||
With death pre-ordained,
the soul comes into the world, gathering the riches of life.
I see that some have already gone, O my Lord and Master; the
burning fire is coming closer! ||3||
No one has any friend,
and no one has any brother; no one has any father or mother.
Prays Nanak, if You bless me with Your Name, it shall be my
help and support in the end. ||4||1||
Raamkalee, First Mehl:
Your Light is prevailing everywhere.
Wherever I look, there
I see the Lord. ||1||
Please rid me of the desire to live,
O my Lord and Master.
My mind is entangled in the deep dark
pit of Maya. How can I cross over, O Lord and Master? ||1||Pause||
He dwells deep within, inside the heart; how can He not be outside
as well?
Our Lord and Master always takes care of us, and
keeps us in His thoughts. ||2||
He Himself is near at hand,
and He is far away.
He Himself is all-pervading, permeating
everywhere.
Meeting the True Guru, the darkness is dispelled.
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Wherever I look, there I see Him pervading. ||3||
There
is doubt within me, and Maya is outside; it hits me in the eyes
like an arrow.
Prays Nanak, the slave of the Lord's slaves:
such a mortal suffers terribly. ||4||2||
Raamkalee, First
Mehl:
Where is that door, where You live, O Lord? What is
that door called? Among all doors, who can find that door?
For the sake of that door, I wander around sadly, detached from
the world; if only someone would come and tell me about that
door. ||1||
How can I cross over the world-ocean?
While
I am living, I cannot be dead. ||1||Pause||
Pain is the door,
and anger is the guard; hope and anxiety are the two shutters.
Maya is the water in the moat; in the middle of this moat, he
has built his home. The Primal Lord sits in the Seat of Truth.
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You have so many Names, Lord, I do not know their limit.
There is no other equal to You.
Do not speak out loud - remain
in your mind. The Lord Himself knows, and He Himself acts. ||3||
As long as there is hope, there is anxiety; so how can anyone
speak of the One Lord?
In the midst of hope, remain untouched
by hope; then, O Nanak, you shall meet the One Lord. ||4||
In this way, you shall cross over the world-ocean.
This
is the way to remain dead while yet alive. ||1||Second Pause||3||
Raamkalee, First Mehl:
Awareness of the Shabad and the Teachings
is my horn; the people hear the sound of its vibrations.
Honor is my begging-bowl, and the Naam, the Name of the Lord,
is the charity I receive. ||1||
O Baba, Gorakh is the Lord
of the Universe; He is always awake and aware.
He alone is
Gorakh, who sustains the earth; He created it in an instant.
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Binding together water and air, He infused the
breath of life into the body, and made the lamps of the sun
and the moon.
To die and to live, He gave us the earth, but
we have forgotten these blessings. ||2||
There are so many
Siddhas, seekers, Yogis, wandering pilgrims, spiritual teachers
and good people.
If I meet them, I chant the Lord's Praises,
and then, my mind serves Him. ||3||
Paper and salt, protected
by ghee, remain untouched by water, as the lotus remains unaffected
in water.
Those who meet with such devotees, O servant Nanak
- what can death do to them? ||4||4||
Raamkalee, First Mehl:
Listen, Machhindra, to what Nanak says.
One who subdues the
five passions does not waver.
One who practices Yoga in such
a way,
saves himself, and saves all his generations. ||1||
He alone is a hermit, who attains such understanding.
Day
and night, he remains absorbed in deepest Samaadhi. ||1||Pause||
He begs for loving devotion to the Lord, and lives in the Fear
of God.
He is satisfied, with the priceless gift of contentment.
Becoming the embodiment of meditation, he attains the true Yogic
posture.
He focuses his consciousness in the deep trance
of the True Name. ||2||
Nanak chants the Ambrosial Bani.
Listen, O Machhindra: this is the insignia of the true hermit.
One who, in the midst of hope, remains untouched by hope,
shall truly find the Creator Lord. ||3||
Prays Nanak, I share
the mysterious secrets of God.
The Guru and His disciple
are joined together!
One who eats this food, this medicine
of the Teachings,
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has the wisdom of the six Shaastras. ||4||5||
Raamkalee,
First Mehl:
My boat is wobbly and unsteady; it is filled
with sins. The wind is rising - what if it tips over?
As
sunmukh, I have turned to the Guru; O my Perfect Master; please
be sure to bless me with Your glorious greatness. ||1||
O
Guru, my Saving Grace, please carry me across the world-ocean.
Bless me with devotion to the perfect, imperishable Lord God;
I am a sacrifice to You. ||1||Pause||
He alone is a Siddha,
a seeker, a Yogi, a wandering pilgrim, who meditates on the
One Perfect Lord.
Touching the feet of the Lord Master, they
are emancipated; they come to receive the Word of the Teachings.
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I know nothing of charity, meditation, self-discipline
or religious rituals; I only chant Your Name, God.
Nanak
has met the Guru, the Transcendent Lord God; through the True
Word of His Shabad, he is set free. ||3||6||
Raamkalee, First
Mehl:
Focus your consciousness in deep absorption on the
Lord.
Make your body a raft, to cross over.
Deep within
is the fire of desire; keep it in check.
Day and night, that
lamp shall burn unceasingly. ||1||
Float such a lamp upon
the water;
this lamp will bring total understanding. ||1||Pause||
This understanding is good clay;
a lamp made of such clay
is acceptable to the Lord.
So shape this lamp on the wheel
of good actions.
In this world and in the next, this lamp
shall be with you. ||2||
When He Himself grants His Grace,
then, as Gurmukh, one may understand Him.
Within the heart,
this lamp is permanently lit.
It is not extinguished by water
or wind.
Such a lamp will carry you across the water. ||3||
Wind does not shake it, or put it out.
Its light reveals
the Divine Throne.
The Kh'shaatriyas, Brahmins, Soodras and
Vaishyas
cannot find its value, even by thousands of calculations.
If any of them lights such a lamp,
O Nanak, he is emancipated.
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Raamkalee, First Mehl:
To place one's faith in
Your Name, Lord, is true worship.
With an offering of Truth,
one obtains a place to sit.
If a prayer is offered with truth
and contentment,
the Lord will hear it, and call him in to
sit by Him. ||1||
O Nanak, no one returns empty-handed;
such is the Court of the True Lord. ||1||Pause||
The treasure
I seek is the gift of Your Grace.
Please bless this humble
beggar - this is what I seek.
Please, pour Your Love into
the cup of my heart.
This is Your pre-determined value. ||2||
The One who created everything, does everything.
He Himself
appraises His own value.
The Sovereign Lord King becomes
manifest to the Gurmukh.
He does not come, and He does not
go. ||3||
People curse at the beggar; by begging, he does
not receive honor.
O Lord, You inspire me to speak Your Words,
and tell the Story of Your Court. ||4||8||
Raamkalee, First
Mehl:
The drop is in the ocean, and the ocean is in the drop.
Who understands, and knows this?
He Himself creates the wondrous
play of the world. He Himself contemplates it, and understands
its true essence. ||1||
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How rare are those who contemplate this spiritual wisdom.
Through this, the supreme state of liberation is attained. ||1||Pause||
The night is in the day, and the day is in the night. The same
is true of hot and cold.
No one else knows His state and
extent; without the Guru, this is not understood. ||2||
The
female is in the male, and the male is in the female. Understand
this, O God-realized being!
The meditation is in the music,
and knowledge is in meditation. Become Gurmukh, and speak the
Unspoken Speech. ||3||
The Light is in the mind, and the
mind is in the Light. The Guru brings the five senses together,
like brothers.
Nanak is forever a sacrifice to those who
enshrine love for the One Word of the Shabad. ||4||9||
Raamkalee,
First Mehl:
When the Lord God showered His Mercy,
egotism
was eradicated from within me.
That humble servant who contemplates
the Word of the Guru's Shabad, is very dear to the Lord. ||1||
That humble servant of the Lord is pleasing to his Lord God;
day and night, he performs devotional worship, day and night.
Disregarding his own honor, he sings the Glorious Praises of
the Lord. ||1||Pause||
The unstruck melody of the sound current
resonates and resounds;
my mind is appeased by the subtle
essence of the Lord.
Through the Perfect Guru, I am absorbed
in Truth.
Through the Guru, I have found the Lord, the Primal
Being. ||2||
Gurbani is the sound current of the Naad, the
Vedas, everything.
My mind is attuned to the Lord of the
Universe.
He is my sacred shrine of pilgrimage, fasting and
austere self-discipline.
The Lord saves, and carries across,
those who meet with the Guru. ||3||
One whose self-conceit
is gone, sees his fears run away.
That servant grasps the
Guru's feet.
The Guru, the True Guru, has expelled my doubts.
Says Nanak, I have merged into the Word of the Shabad. ||4||10||
Raamkalee, First Mehl:
He runs around, begging for clothes
and food.
He burns with hunger and corruption, and will suffer
in the world hereafter.
He does not follow the Guru's Teachings;
through his evil-mindedness, he loses his honor.
Only through
the Guru's Teachings will such a person become devoted. ||1||
The way of the Yogi is to dwell in the celestial home of bliss.
He looks impartially, equally upon all. He receives the charity
of the Lord's Love, and the Word of the Shabad, and so he is
satisfied. ||1||Pause||
The five bulls, the senses, pull
the wagon of the body around.
By the Lord's power, one's
honor is preserved.
But when the axle breaks, the wagon falls
and crashes.
It falls apart, like a pile of logs. ||2||
Contemplate the Word of the Guru's Shabad, Yogi.
Look upon
pain and pleasure as one and the same, sorrow and separation.
Let your food be contemplative meditation upon the Naam, the
Name of the Lord, and the Word of the Guru's Shabad.
Your
wall shall be permanent, by meditating on the Formless Lord.
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Wear the loin-cloth of poise, and be free of entanglements.
The Guru's Word shall release you from sexual desire and anger.
In your mind, let your ear-rings be the Sanctuary of the Guru,
the Lord.
O Nanak, worshipping the Lord in deep devotion,
the humble are carried across. ||4||11||
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One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
Raamkalee, Third Mehl, First House:
In the Golden Age of
Sat Yuga, everyone spoke the Truth.
In each and every home,
devotional worship was performed by the people, according to
the Guru's Teachings.
In that Golden Age, Dharma had four
feet.
How rare are those people who, as Gurmukh, contemplate
this and understand. ||1||
In all four ages, the Naam, the
Name of the Lord, is glory and greatness.
One who holds tight
to the Naam is liberated; without the Guru, no one obtains the
Naam. ||1||Pause||
In the Silver Age of Traytaa Yuga, one
leg was removed.
Hypocrisy became prevalent, and people thought
that the Lord was far away.
The Gurmukhs still understood
and realized;
the Naam abided deep within them, and they
were at peace. ||2||
In the Brass Age of Dwaapur Yuga, duality
and double-mindedness arose.
Deluded by doubt, they knew
duality.
In this Brass Age, Dharma was left with only two
feet.
Those who became Gurmukh implanted the Naam deep within.
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In the Iron Age of Kali Yuga, Dharma was left with
only one power.
It walks on just one foot; love and emotional
attachment to Maya have increased.
Love and emotional attachment
to Maya bring total darkness.
If someone meets the True Guru,
he is saved, through the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||4||
Throughout the ages, there is only the One True Lord.
Among
all, is the True Lord; there is no other at all.
Praising
the True Lord, true peace is attained.
How rare are those,
who as Gurmukh, chant the Naam. ||5||
Throughout all the
ages, the Naam is the ultimate, the most sublime.
How rare
are those, who as Gurmukh, understand this.
One who meditates
on the Lord's Name is a humble devotee.
O Nanak, in each
and every age, the Naam is glory and greatness. ||6||1||
Raamkalee, Fourth Mehl, First House:
One Universal Creator
God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
If someone is very fortunate,
and is blessed with great high destiny, then he meditates on
the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.
Chanting the Naam, the Name
of the Lord, he finds peace, and merges in the Naam. ||1||
O mortal, as Gurmukh, worship the Lord in devotion forever.
Your heart shall be illumined; through the Guru's Teachings,
lovingly attune yourself to the Lord. You shall merge in the
Name of the Lord, Har, Har. ||1||Pause||
The Great Giver
is filled with diamonds, emeralds, rubies and pearls;
one
who has good fortune and great destiny inscribed upon his forehead,
digs them out, by following the Guru's Teachings. ||2||
The
Lord's Name is the jewel, the emerald, the ruby; digging it
out, the Guru has placed it in your palm.
The unfortunate,
self-willed manmukh does not obtain it; this priceless jewel
remains hidden behind a curtain of straw. ||3||
If such pre-ordained
destiny is written upon one's forehead, then the True Guru enjoins
him to serve Him.
O Nanak, then he obtains the jewel, the
gem; blessed, blessed is that one who follows the Guru's Teachings,
and finds the Lord. ||4||1||
Raamkalee, Fourth Mehl:
Meeting
with the humble servants of the Lord, I am in ecstasy; they
preach the sublime sermon of the Lord.
The filth of evil-mindedness
is totally washed away; joining the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation,
one is blessed with understanding. ||1||
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O humble servant of the Lord, follow the Guru's Teachings,
and chant the Name of the Lord.
Whoever hears and speaks
it is liberated; chanting the Lord's Name, one is embellished
with beauty. ||1||Pause||
If someone has supremely high destiny
written on his forehead, the Lord leads him to meet the humble
servants of the Lord.
Be merciful, and grant me the Blessed
Vision of the Saints' Darshan, which shall rid me of all poverty
and pain. ||2||
The Lord's people are good and sublime; the
unfortunate ones do not like them at all.
The more the Lord's
exalted servants speak of Him, the more the slanderers attack
and sting them. ||3||
Cursed, cursed are the slanderers who
do not like the humble, the friends and companions of the Lord.
Those who do not like the honor and glory of the Guru are faithless,
black-faced thieves, who have turned their backs on the Lord.
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Have mercy, have mercy, please save me, Dear Lord.
I am meek and humble - I seek Your protection.
I am Your
child, and You are my father, God. Please forgive servant Nanak
and merge him with Yourself. ||5||2||
Raamkalee, Fourth Mehl:
The friends of the Lord, the humble, Holy Saints are sublime;
the Lord spreads out His protecting hands above them.
The
Gurmukhs are the Holy Saints, pleasing to God; in His mercy,
He blends them with Himself. ||1||
O Lord, my mind longs
to meet with the humble servants of the Lord.
The sweet,
subtle essence of the Lord is immortalizing ambrosia. Meeting
the Saints, I drink it in. ||1||Pause||
The Lord's people
are the most lofty and exalted. Meeting with them, the most
exalted status is obtained.
I am the slave of the slave of
the Lord's slaves; my Lord and Master is pleased with me. ||2||
The humble servant serves; one who enshrines love for the Lord
in his heart, mind and body is very fortunate.
One who talks
too much without love, speaks falsely, and obtains only false
rewards. ||3||
Take pity on me, O Lord of the World, O Great
Giver; let me fall at the feet of the Saints.
I would cut
off my head, and cut it into pieces, O Nanak, and set it down
for the Saints to walk upon. ||4||3||
Raamkalee, Fourth Mehl:
If I am blessed with supreme high destiny, I will meet the humble
servants of the Lord, without delay.
The Lord's humble servants
are pools of ambrosial nectar; by great good fortune, one bathes
in them. ||1||
O Lord, let me work for the humble servants
of the Lord.
I carry water, wave the fan and grind the corn
for them; I massage and wash their feet. I apply the dust of
their feet to my forehead. ||1||Pause||
The Lord's humble
servants are great, very great, the greatest and most exalted;
they lead us to meet the True Guru.
No one else is as great
as the True Guru; meeting the True Guru, I meditate on the Lord,
the Primal Being. ||2||
Those who seek the Sanctuary of the
True Guru find the Lord. My Lord and Master saves their honor.
Some come for their own purposes, and sit before the Guru; they
pretend to be in Samaadhi, like storks with their eyes closed.
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Associating with the wretched and the lowly, like the
stork and the crow, is like feeding on a carcass of poison.
Nanak: O God, unite me with the Sangat, the Congregation. United
with the Sangat, I will become a swan. ||4||4||
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Raamkalee, Fourth Mehl:
O True Guru, please be kind, and
unite me with the Lord. My Sovereign Lord is the Beloved of
my breath of life.
I am a slave; I fall at the Guru's feet.
He has shown me the Path, the Way to my Lord God. ||1||
The
Name of my Lord, Har, Har, is pleasing to my mind.
I have
no friend except the Lord; the Lord is my father, my mother,
my companion. ||1||Pause||
My breath of life will not survive
for an instant, without my Beloved; unless I see Him, I will
die, O my mother!
Blessed, blessed is my great, high destiny,
that I have come to the Guru's Sanctuary. Meeting with the Guru,
I have obtained the Blessed Vision of the Lord's Darshan. ||2||
I do not know or understand any other within my mind; I meditate
and chant the Lord's Chant.
Those who lack the Naam, wander
in shame; their noses are chopped off, bit by bit. ||3||
O Life of the World, rejuvenate me! O my Lord and Master, enshrine
Your Name deep within my heart.
O Nanak, perfect is the Guru,
the Guru. Meeting the True Guru, I meditate on the Naam. ||4||5||
Raamkalee, Fourth Mehl:
The True Guru, the Great Giver, is
the Great, Primal Being; meeting Him, the Lord is enshrined
within the heart.
The Perfect Guru has granted me the life
of the soul; I meditate in remembrance on the Ambrosial Name
of the Lord. ||1||
O Lord, the Guru has implanted the Name
of the Lord, Har, Har, within my heart.
As Gurmukh, I have
heard His sermon, which pleases my mind; blessed, blessed is
my great destiny. ||1||Pause||
Millions, three hundred thirty
millions of gods meditate on Him, but they cannot find His end
or limitation.
With sexual urges in their hearts, they beg
for beautiful women; stretching out their hands, they beg for
riches. ||2||
One who chants the Praises of the Lord is the
greatest of the great; the Gurmukh keeps the Lord clasped to
his heart.
If one is blessed with high destiny, he meditates
on the Lord, who carries him across the terrifying world-ocean.
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The Lord is close to His humble servant, and His humble
servant is close to the Lord; He keeps His humble servant clasped
to His Heart.
O Nanak, the Lord God is our father and mother.
I am His child; the Lord cherishes me. ||4||6||18||
Raag
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl, First House:
One Universal Creator
God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
Have mercy on me, O Generous
Giver, Lord of the meek; please do not consider my merits and
demerits.
How can dust be washed? O my Lord and Master, such
is the state of mankind. ||1||
O my mind, serve the True
Guru, and be at peace.
Whatever you desire, you shall receive
that reward, and you shall not be afflicted by pain any longer.
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He creates and adorns the earthen vessels; He
infuses His Light within them.
As is the destiny pre-ordained
by the Creator, so are the deeds we do. ||2||
He believes
the mind and body are all his own; this is the cause of his
coming and going.
He does not think of the One who gave him
these; he is blind, entangled in emotional attachment. ||3||
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One who knows that God created him, reaches the Incomparable
Mansion of the Lord's Presence.
Worshipping the Lord, I sing
His Glorious Praises. Nanak is Your slave. ||4||1||
Raamkalee,
Fifth Mehl:
Place yourself beneath all men's feet, and you
will be uplifted; serve Him in this way.
Know that all are
above you, and you shall find peace in the Court of the Lord.
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O Saints, speak that speech which purifies the gods
and sanctifies the divine beings. As Gurmukh, chant the Word
of His Bani, even for an instant. ||1||Pause||
Renounce your
fraudulent plans, and dwell in the celestial palace; do not
call anyone else false.
Meeting with the True Guru, you shall
receive the nine treasures; in this way, you shall find the
essence of reality. ||2||
Eradicate doubt, and as Gurmukh,
enshrine love for the Lord; understand your own soul, O Siblings
of Destiny.
Know that God is near at hand, and ever-present.
How could you try to hurt anyone else? ||3||
Meeting with
the True Guru, your path shall be clear, and you shall easily
meet your Lord and Master.
Blessed, blessed are those humble
beings, who, in this Dark Age of Kali Yuga, find the Lord. Nanak
is forever a sacrifice to them. ||4||2||
Raamkalee, Fifth
Mehl:
Coming does not please me, and going does not bring
me pain, and so my mind is not afflicted by disease.
I am
in bliss forever, for I have found the Perfect Guru; my separation
from the Lord is totally ended. ||1||
This is how I have
joined my mind to the Lord.
Attachment, sorrow, disease and
public opinion do not affect me, and so, I enjoy the subtle
essence of the Lord, Har, Har, Har. ||1||Pause||
I am pure
in the heavenly realm, pure on this earth, and pure in the nether
regions of the underworld. I remain apart from the people of
the world.
Obedient to the Lord, I enjoy peace forever; wherever
I look, I see the Lord of glorious virtues. ||2||
There is
no Shiva or Shakti, no energy or matter, no water or wind, no
world of form there,
where the True Guru, the Yogi, dwells,
where the Imperishable Lord God, the Unapproachable Master abides.
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Body and mind belong to the Lord; all wealth belongs
to the Lord; what glorious virtues of the Lord can I describe?
Says Nanak, the Guru has destroyed my sense of 'mine and yours'.
Like water with water, I am blended with God. ||4||3||
Raamkalee,
Fifth Mehl:
It is beyond the three qualities; it remains
untouched. The seekers and Siddhas do not know it.
There
is a chamber filled with jewels, overflowing with Ambrosial
Nectar, in the Guru's Treasury. ||1||
This thing is wonderful
and amazing! It cannot be described.
It is an unfathomable
object, O Siblings of Destiny! ||1||Pause||
Its value cannot
be estimated at all; what can anyone say about it?
By speaking
and describing it, it cannot be understood; only one who sees
it realizes it. ||2||
Only the Creator Lord knows it; what
can any poor creature do?
Only He Himself knows His own state
and extent. The Lord Himself is the treasure overflowing. ||3||
Tasting such Ambrosial Nectar, the mind remains satisfied and
satiated.
Says Nanak, my hopes are fulfilled; I have found
the Guru's Sanctuary. ||4||4||
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Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
God has made me His own, and vanquished
all my enemies.
Those enemies who have plundered this world,
have all been placed in bondage. ||1||
The True Guru is my
Transcendent Lord.
I enjoy countless pleasures of power and
tasty delights, chanting Your Name, and placing my faith in
You. ||1||Pause||
I do not think of any other at all. The
Lord is my protector, above my head.
I am carefree and independent,
when I have the Support of Your Name, O my Lord and Master.
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I have become perfect, meeting with the Giver of peace,
and now, I lack nothing at all.
I have obtained the essence
of excellence, the supreme status; I shall not forsake it to
go anywhere else. ||3||
I cannot describe how You are, O
True Lord, unseen, infinite,
immeasurable, unfathomable and
unmoving Lord. O Nanak, He is my Lord and Master. ||4||5||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
You are wise; You are eternal and
unchanging. You are my social class and honor.
You are unmoving
- You never move at all. How can I be worried? ||1||
You
alone are the One and only Lord;
You alone are the king.
By Your Grace, I have found peace. ||1||Pause||
You are the
ocean, and I am Your swan; the pearls and rubies are in You.
You give, and You do not hesitate for an instant; I receive,
forever enraptured. ||2||
I am Your child, and You are my
father; You place the milk in my mouth.
I play with You,
and You caress me in every way. You are forever the ocean of
excellence. ||3||
You are perfect, perfectly all-pervading;
I am fulfilled with You as well.
I am merged, merged, merged
and remain merged; O Nanak, I cannot describe it! ||4||6||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
Make your hands the cymbals, your
eyes the tambourines, and your forehead the guitar you play.
Let the sweet flute music resound in your ears, and with your
tongue, vibrate this song.
Move your mind like the rhythmic
hand-motions; do the dance, and shake your ankle bracelets.
||1||
This is the rhythmic dance of the Lord.
The Merciful
Audience, the Lord, sees all your make-up and decorations. ||1||Pause||
The whole earth is the stage, with the canopy of the sky overhead.
The wind is the director; people are born of water.
From
the five elements, the puppet was created with its actions.
||2||
The sun and the moon are the two lamps which shine,
with the four corners of the world placed between them.
The
ten senses are the dancing girls, and the five passions are
the chorus; they sit together within the one body.
They all
put on their own shows, and speak in different languages. ||3||
In each and every home there is dancing, day and night; in each
and every home, the bugles blow.
Some are made to dance,
and some are whirled around; some come and some go, and some
are reduced to dust.
Says Nanak, one who meets with the True
Guru, does not have to dance the dance of reincarnation again.
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Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
He sings the song of the One Universal
Creator; he sings the tune of the One Lord.
He lives in the
land of the One Lord, shows the way to the One Lord, and remains
attuned to the One Lord.
He centers his consciousness on
the One Lord, and serves only the One Lord, who is known through
the Guru. ||1||
Blessed and good is such a kirtanee, who
sings such Praises.
He sings the Glorious Praises of the
Lord,
and renounces the entanglements and pursuits of Maya.
||1||Pause||
He makes the five virtues, like contentment,
his musical instruments, and plays the seven notes of the love
of the Lord.
The notes he plays are the renunciation of pride
and power; his feet keep the beat on the straight path.
He
does not enter the cycle of reincarnation ever again; he keeps
the One Word of the Shabad tied to the hem of his robe. ||2||
To play like Naarad, is to know that the Lord is ever-present.
The tinkling of the ankle bells is the shedding of sorrows and
worries.
The dramatic gestures of acting are celestial bliss.
Such a dancer is not reincarnated again. ||3||
If anyone,
out of millions of people, becomes pleasing to his Lord and
Master, he sings the Lord's Praises in this way.
I have taken
the Support of the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy.
Says Nanak, the Kirtan of the One Lord's Praises are sung there.
||4||8||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
Some call Him, 'Raam,
Raam', and some call Him, 'Khudaa-i'.
Some serve Him as 'Gusain',
others as 'Allaah'. ||1||
He is the Cause of causes, the
Generous Lord.
He showers His Grace and Mercy upon us. ||1||Pause||
Some bathe at sacred shrines of pilgrimage, and some make the
pilgrimage to Mecca.|
Some perform devotional worship services,
and some bow their heads in prayer. ||2||
Some read the Vedas,
and some the Koran.
Some wear blue robes, and some wear white.
||3||
Some call themselves Muslim, and some call themselves
Hindu.
Some yearn for paradise, and others long for heaven.
||4||
Says Nanak, one who realizes the Hukam of God's Will,
knows the secrets of his Lord and Master. ||5||9||
Raamkalee,
Fifth Mehl:
The wind merges into the wind.
The light blends
into the light.
The dust becomes one with the dust.
What
support is there for the one who is lamenting? ||1||
Who
has died? O, who has died?
O God-realized beings, meet together
and consider this. What a wondrous thing has happened! ||1||Pause||
No one knows what happens after death.
The one who is lamenting
will also arise and depart.
Mortal beings are bound by the
bonds of doubt and attachment.
When life becomes a dream,
the blind man babbles and grieves in vain. ||2||
The Creator
Lord created this creation.
It comes and goes, subject to
the Will of the Infinite Lord.
No one dies; no one is capable
of dying.
The soul does not perish; it is imperishable. ||3||
That which is known, does not exist.
I am a sacrifice to
the one who knows this.
Says Nanak, the Guru has dispelled
my doubt.
No one dies; no one comes or goes. ||4||10||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
Meditate on the Lord of the Universe,
the Beloved Lord of the World.
Meditating in remembrance
on the Lord's Name, you shall live, and the Great Death shall
not consume you ever again. ||1||Pause||
Through millions
of incarnations, you have come, wandering, wandering, wandering.
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By the highest destiny, you found the Saadh Sangat, the Company
of the Holy. ||1||
Without the Perfect Guru, no one is saved.
This is what Baba Nanak says, after deep reflection. ||2||11||
Raag Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl, Second House:
One Universal Creator
God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
The four Vedas proclaim
it, but you don't believe them.
The six Shaastras also say
one thing.
The eighteen Puraanas all speak of the One God.
Even so, Yogi, you do not understand this mystery. ||1||
The celestial harp plays the incomparable melody,
but in
your intoxication, you do not hear it, O Yogi. ||1||Pause||
In the first age, the Golden Age, the village of truth was inhabited.
In the Silver Age of Traytaa Yuga, things began to decline.
In the Brass Age of Dwaapur Yuga, half of it was gone.
Now,
only one leg of Truth remains, and the One Lord is revealed.
||2||
The beads are strung upon the one thread.
By means
of many, various, diverse knots, they are tied, and kept separate
on the string.
The beads of the mala are lovingly chanted
upon in many ways.
When the thread is pulled out, the beads
come together in one place. ||3||
Throughout the four ages,
the One Lord made the body His temple.
It is a treacherous
place, with several windows.
Searching and searching, one
comes to the Lord's door.
Then, O Nanak, the Yogi attains
a home in the Mansion of the Lord's Presence. ||4||
Thus,
the celestial harp plays the incomparable melody;
hearing
it, the Yogi's mind finds it sweet. ||1||Second Pause||1||12||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
The body is a patch-work of threads.
The muscles are stitched together with the needles of the bones.
The Lord has erected a pillar of water.
O Yogi, why are you
so proud? ||1||
Meditate on your Lord Master, day and night.
The patched coat of the body shall last for only a few days.
||1||Pause||
Smearing ashes on your body, you sit in a deep
meditative trance.
You wear the ear-rings of 'mine and yours'.
You beg for bread, but you are not satisfied.
Abandoning
your Lord Master, you beg from others; you should feel ashamed.
||2||
Your consciousness is restless, Yogi, as you sit in
your Yogic postures.
You blow your horn, but still feel sad.
You do not understand Gorakh, your guru.
Again and again,
Yogi, you come and go. ||3||
He, unto whom the Master shows
Mercy
- unto Him, the Guru, the Lord of the World, I offer
my prayer.
One who has the Name as his patched coat, and
the Name as his robe,
O servant Nanak, such a Yogi is steady
and stable. ||4||
One who meditates on the Master in this
way, night and day,
finds the Guru, the Lord of the World,
in this life. ||1||Second Pause||2||13||
Raamkalee, Fifth
Mehl:
He is the Creator, the Cause of causes;
I do not
see any other at all.
My Lord and Master is wise and all-knowing.
Meeting with the Gurmukh, I enjoy His Love. ||1||
Such is
the sweet, subtle essence of the Lord.
How rare are those
who, as Gurmukh, taste it. ||1||Pause||
The Light of the
Ambrosial Name of the Lord is immaculate and pure.
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Drinking it in, one becomes immortal and free of desire.
The body and mind are cooled and soothed, and the fire is extinguished.
Such a being is the embodiment of bliss, famous throughout the
world. ||2||
What can I offer You, Lord? Everything belongs
to You.
I am forever a sacrifice to You, hundreds of thousands
of times.
You blessed me, and fashioned my body, mind and
soul.
By Guru's Grace, this lowly being was exalted. ||3||
Opening the door, You summoned me to the Mansion of Your Presence.
As You are, so You have revealed Yourself to me.
Says Nanak,
the screen is totally torn away;
I am Yours, and You are
enshrined within my mind. ||4||3||14||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
He has linked His servant to His service.
The Divine Guru
has poured the Ambrosial Naam, the Name of the Lord, into his
mouth.
He has subdued all his anxiety.
I am forever a
sacrifice to that Guru. ||1||
The True Guru has perfectly
resolved my affairs.
The True Guru vibrates the unstruck
melody of the sound current. ||1||Pause||
His Glory is profound
and unfathomable.
One whom He blesses with patience becomes
blissful.
One whose bonds are shattered by the Sovereign
Lord
is not cast into the womb of reincarnation again. ||2||
One who is illuminated by the Lord's radiance within,
is
not touched by pain and sorrow.
He holds in his robe the
gems and jewels.
That humble being is saved, along with all
his generations. ||3||
He has no doubt, double-mindedness
or duality at all.
He worships and adores the One Immaculate
Lord alone.
Wherever I look, I see the Merciful Lord.
Says Nanak, I have found God, the source of nectar. ||4||4||15||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
My self-conceit has been eliminated
from my body.
The Will of God is dear to me.
Whatever
He does, seems sweet to my mind.
And then, these eyes behold
the wondrous Lord. ||1||
Now, I have become wise and my demons
are gone.
My thirst is quenched, and my attachment is dispelled.
The Perfect Guru has instructed me. ||1||Pause||
In His Mercy,
the Guru has kept me under His protection.
The Guru has attached
me to the Lord's Feet.
When the mind is totally held in check,
one sees the Guru and the Supreme Lord God as one and the same.
||2||
Whoever You have created, I am his slave.
My God
dwells in all.
I have no enemies, no adversaries.
I walk
arm in arm, like brothers, with all. ||3||
One whom the Guru,
the Lord, blesses with peace,
does not suffer in pain any
longer.
He Himself cherishes all.
Nanak is imbued with
the love of the Lord of the World. ||4||5||16||
Raamkalee,
Fifth Mehl:
You read the scriptures, and the commentaries,
but the Perfect Lord does not dwell in your heart.
You preach
to others to have faith,
but you do not practice what you
preach. ||1||
O Pandit, O religious scholar, contemplate
the Vedas.
Eradicate anger from your mind, O Pandit. ||1||Pause||
You place your stone god before yourself,
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but your mind wanders in the ten directions.
You apply
a ceremonial tilak mark to its forehead, and fall at its feet.
You try to appease the people, and act blindly. ||2||
You
perform the six religious rituals, and sit wearing your loin-cloth.
In the homes of the wealthy, you read the prayer book.
You
chant on your mala, and beg for money.
No one has ever been
saved in this way, friend. ||3||
He alone is a Pandit, who
lives the Word of the Guru's Shabad.
Maya, of the three qualities,
leaves him.
The four Vedas are completely contained within
the Lord's Name.
Nanak seeks His Sanctuary. ||4||6||17||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
Millions of troubles do not come near
him;
the many manifestations of Maya are his hand-maidens;
countless sins are his water-carriers;
he is blessed with
the Grace of the Creator Lord. ||1||
One who has the Lord
God as his help and support
- all his efforts are fulfilled.
||1||Pause||
He is protected by the Creator Lord; what harm
can anyone do to him?
Even an ant can conquer the whole world.
His glory is endless; how can I describe it?
I am a sacrifice,
a devoted sacrifice, to His feet. ||2||
He alone performs
worship, austerities and meditation;
he alone is a giver
to various charities;
he alone is approved in this Dark Age
of Kali Yuga,
whom the Lord Master blesses with honor. ||3||
Joining the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, I am enlightened.
I have found celestial peace, and my hopes are fulfilled.
The Perfect True Guru has blessed me with faith.
Nanak is
the slave of His slaves. ||4||7||18||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
Don't blame others, O people;
as you plant, so shall you
harvest.
By your actions, you have bound yourself.
You
come and go, entangled in Maya. ||1||
Such is the understanding
of the Saintly people.
You shall be enlightened, through
the Word of the Perfect Guru. ||1||Pause||
Body, wealth,
spouse and ostentatious displays are false.
Horses and elephants
will pass away.
Power, pleasures and beauty are all false.
Without the Naam, the Name of the Lord, everything is reduced
to dust. ||2||
The egotistical people are deluded by useless
doubt.
Of all this expanse, nothing shall go along with you.
Through pleasure and pain, the body is growing old.
Doing
these things, the faithless cynics are passing their lives.
||3||
The Name of the Lord is Ambrosial Nectar in this Dark
Age of Kali Yuga.
This treasure is obtained from the Holy.
O Nanak, whoever pleases the Guru,
the Lord of the Universe,
beholds the Lord in each and every heart. ||4||8||19||
Raamkalee,
Fifth Mehl:
The Panch Shabad, the five primal sounds, echo
the perfect sound current of the Naad.
The wondrous, amazing
unstruck melody vibrates.
The Saintly people play there with
the Lord.
They remain totally detached, absorbed in the Supreme
Lord God. ||1||
It is the realm of celestial peace and bliss.
The Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, sits and sings the
Glorious Praises of the Lord. There is no disease or sorrow
there, no birth or death. ||1||Pause||
There, they meditate
only on the Naam, the Name of the Lord.
How rare are those
who find this place of rest.
The love of God is their food,
and the Kirtan of the Lord's Praise is their support.
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They obtain a permanent seat in the infinite. ||2||
No
one falls there, or wavers, or goes anywhere.
By Guru's Grace,
some find this mansion.
They are not touched by doubt, fear,
attachment or the traps of Maya.
They enter the deepest state
of Samaadhi, through the kind mercy of God. ||3||
He has
no end or limitation.
He Himself is unmanifest, and He Himself
is manifest.
One who enjoys the taste of the Lord, Har, Har,
deep within himself,
O Nanak, his wondrous state cannot be
described. ||4||9||20||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
Meeting
with the Sangat, the Congregation, the Supreme Lord God has
come into my consciousness.
In the Sangat, my mind has found
contentment.
I touch my forehead to the feet of the Saints.
Countless times, I humbly bow to the Saints. ||1||
This mind
is a sacrifice to the Saints;
holding tight to their support,
I have found peace, and in their mercy, they have protected
me. ||1||Pause||
I wash the feet of the Saints, and drink
in that water.
Gazing upon the Blessed Vision of the Saints'
Darshan, I live.
My mind rests its hopes in the Saints.
The Saints are my immaculate wealth. ||2||
The Saints have
covered my faults.
By the Grace of the Saints, I am no longer
tormented.
The Merciful Lord has blessed me with the Saints'
Congregation.
The Compassionate Saints have become my help
and support. ||3||
My consciousness, intellect and wisdom
have been enlightened.
The Lord is profound, unfathomable,
infinite, the treasure of virtue.
He cherishes all beings
and creatures.
Nanak is enraptured, seeing the Saints. ||4||10||21||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
Your home, power and wealth will be
of no use to you.
Your corrupt worldly entanglements will
be of no use to you.
Know that all your dear friends are
fake.
Only the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, will go along
with you. ||1||
Sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord's Name,
O friend; remembering the Lord in meditation, your honor shall
be saved.
Remembering the Lord in meditation, the Messenger
of Death will not touch you. ||1||Pause||
Without the Lord,
all pursuits are useless.
Gold, silver and wealth are just
dust.
Chanting the Word of the Guru's Shabad, your mind shall
be at peace.
Here and hereafter, your face shall be radiant
and bright. ||2||
Even the greatest of the great worked and
worked until they were exhausted.
None of them ever accomplished
the tasks of Maya.
Any humble being who chants the Name of
the Lord, Har, Har,
will have all his hopes fulfilled. ||3||
The Naam, the Name of the Lord, is the anchor and support of
the Lord's devotees.
The Saints are victorious in this priceless
human life.
Whatever the Lord's Saint does, is approved and
accepted.
Slave Nanak is a sacrifice to him. ||4||11||22||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
You gather wealth by exploiting people.
It is of no use to you; it was meant for others.
You practice
egotism, and act like a blind man.
In the world hereafter,
you shall be tied to the leash of the Messenger of Death. ||1||
Give up your envy of others, you fool!
You only live here
for a night, you fool!
You are intoxicated with Maya, but
you must soon arise and depart.
You are totally involved
in the dream. ||1||Pause||
In his childhood, the child is
blind.
In the fullness of youth, he is involved in foul-smelling
sins.
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In the third stage of life, he gathers the wealth of Maya.
And when he grows old, he must leave all this; he departs regretting
and repenting. ||2||
After a very long time, one obtains
this precious human body, so difficult to obtain.
Without
the Naam, the Name of the Lord, it is reduced to dust.
Worse
than a beast, a demon or an idiot,
is that one who does not
understand who created him. ||3||
Listen, O Creator Lord,
Lord of the Universe, Lord of the World,
Merciful to the
meek, forever compassionate
- If You emancipate the human,
then his bonds are broken.
O Nanak, the people of world are
blind; please, Lord, forgive them, and unite them with Yourself.
||4||12||23||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
Joining the elements
together, the robe of the body is fashioned.
The ignorant
fool is engrossed in it.
He cherishes it, and constantly
takes care of it.
But at the very last moment, he must arise
and depart. ||1||
Without the Naam, the Name of the Lord,
everything is false, O mortal.
Those who do not vibrate and
meditate on the Lord of the Universe, but instead are imbued
with other things, - all those mortals are plundered by Maya.
||1||Pause||
Bathing at sacred shrines of pilgrimage, filth
is not washed off.
Religious rituals are all just egotistical
displays.
By pleasing and appeasing people, no one is saved.
Without the Naam, they shall depart weeping. ||2||
Without
the Lord's Name, the screen is not torn away.
I have studied
all the Shaastras and Simritees.
He alone chants the Naam,
whom the Lord Himself inspires to chant.
He obtains all fruits
and rewards, and merges in peace. ||3||
O Savior Lord, please
save me!
All peace and comforts are in Your Hand, God.
Whatever you attach me to, to that I am attached, O my Lord
and Master.
O Nanak, the Lord is the Inner-knower, the Searcher
of hearts. ||4||13||24||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
Whatever
He does makes me happy.
The ignorant mind is encouraged,
in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy.
Now, it does
not waver at all; it has become stable and steady.
Receiving
Truth, it is merged in the True Lord. ||1||
Pain is gone,
and all illness is gone.
I have accepted the Will of God
in my mind, associating with the Great Person, the Guru. ||1||Pause||
All is pure; all is immaculate.
Whatever exists is good.
Wherever He keeps me, that is the place of liberation for me.
Whatever He makes me chant, is His Name. ||2||
That is the
sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage, where the Holy place
their feet,
and that is heaven, where the Naam is chanted.
All bliss comes, when one obtains the Blessed Vision of the
Lord's Darshan.
I sing continuously, continually, the Glorious
Praises of the Lord. ||3||
The Lord Himself is pervading
in each and every heart.
The glory of the Merciful Lord is
radiant and manifest.
The shutters are opened, and doubts
have run away.
Nanak has met with the Perfect Guru. ||4||14||25||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
Millions of meditations and austerities
rest in him,
along with wealth, wisdom, miraculous spiritual
powers and angelic spiritual insight.
He enjoys the various
shows and forms, pleasures and delicacies;
the Naam, the
Name of the Lord, dwells within the heart of the Gurmukh. ||1||
Such is the glorious greatness of the Name of the Lord.
Its
value cannot be described. ||1||Pause||
He alone is brave,
patient and perfectly wise;
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he is intuitively in Samaadhi, profound and unfathomable.
He is liberated forever and all his affairs are perfectly resolved;
the Lord's Name abides within his heart. ||2||
He is totally
peaceful, blissful and healthy;
he looks upon all impartially,
and is perfectly detached.
He does not come and go, and he
never wavers;
the Naam abides in his mind. ||3||
God is
Merciful to the meek; He is the Lord of the World, the Lord
of the Universe.
The Gurmukh meditates on Him, and his worries
are gone.
The Guru has blessed Nanak with the Naam;
he
serves the Saints, and works for the Saints. ||4||15||26||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
Sing the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises,
and the Beej Mantra, the Seed Mantra.
Even the homeless find
a home in the world hereafter.
Fall at the feet of the Perfect
Guru;
you have slept for so many incarnations - wake up!
||1||
Chant the Chant of the Lord's Name, Har, Har.
By
Guru's Grace, it shall be enshrined within your heart, and you
shall cross over the terrifying world-ocean. ||1||Pause||
Meditate on the eternal treasure of the Naam, the Name of the
Lord, O mind,
and then, the screen of Maya shall be torn
away.
Drink in the Ambrosial Nectar of the Guru's Shabad,
and then your soul shall be rendered immaculate and pure. ||2||
Searching, searching, searching, I have realized
that without
devotional worship of the Lord, no one is saved.
So vibrate,
and meditate on that Lord in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of
the Holy;
your mind and body shall be imbued with love for
the Lord. ||3||
Renounce all your cleverness and trickery.
O mind, without the Lord's Name, there is no place of rest.
The Lord of the Universe, the Lord of the World, has taken pity
on me.
Nanak seeks the protection and support of the Lord,
Har, Har. ||4||16||27||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
In the
Saints' Congregation, play joyfully with the Lord,
and you
will not have to meet the Messenger of Death hereafter.
Your
egotistical intellect shall be dispelled,
and your evil-mindedness
will be totally taken away. ||1||
Sing the Glorious Praises
of the Lord's Name, O Pandit.
Religious rituals and egotism
are of no use at all. You shall go home with happiness, O Pandit.
||1||Pause||
I have earned the profit, the wealth of the
Lord's praise.
All my hopes have been fulfilled.
Pain
has left me, and peace has come to my home.
By the Grace
of the Saints, my heart-lotus blossoms forth. ||2||
One who
is blessed with the gift of the jewel of the Name,
obtains
all treasures.
His mind becomes content, finding the Perfect
Lord.
Why should he ever go begging again? ||3||
Hearing
the Lord's sermon, he becomes pure and holy.
Chanting it
with his tongue, he finds the way to salvation.
He alone
is approved, who enshrines the Lord within his heart.
Nanak:
such a humble being is exalted, O Siblings of Destiny. ||4||17||28||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
No matter how hard you try to grab
it, it does not come into your hands.
No matter how much
you may love it, it does not go along with you.
Says Nanak,
when you abandon it,
then it comes and falls at your feet.
||1||
Listen, O Saints: this is the pure philosophy.
Without
the Lord's Name, there is no salvation. Meeting with the Perfect
Guru, one is saved. ||1||Pause||
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When someone tries to appease her,
then she takes pride
in herself.
But when someone puts her out of his thoughts,
then she serves him like a slave. ||2||
She seems to please,
but in the end, she deceives.
She does not remain in any
one place.
She has bewitched a great many worlds.
The
Lord's humble servants cut her apart into pieces. ||3||
Whoever
begs from her remains hungry.
Whoever is infatuated with
her obtains nothing.
But one who renounces her, and joins
the Society of the Saints,
by great good fortune, O Nanak,
is saved. ||4||18||29||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
See the
Lord, the Universal Soul, in all.
The One God is perfect,
and all-pervading.
Know that the priceless jewel is within
your own heart.
Realize that your essence is within your
own self. ||1||
Drink in the Ambrosial Nectar, by the Grace
of the Saints.
One who is blessed with high destiny, obtains
it. Without a tongue, how can one know the taste? ||1||Pause||
How can a deaf person listen to the eighteen Puraanas and the
Vedas?
The blind man cannot see even a million lights.
The beast loves grass, and remains attached to it.
One who
has not been taught - how can he understand? ||2||
God, the
Knower, knows all.
He is with His devotees, through and through.
Those who sing God's Praises with joy and delight,
O Nanak
- the Messenger of Death does not even approach them. ||3||19||30||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
Blessing me with His Name, He has
purified and sanctified me.
The Lord's wealth is my capital.
False hope has left me; this is my wealth.
Breaking my bonds,
the Lord has linked me to His service.
I am a devotee of
the Lord, Har, Har; I sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord.
||1||
The unstruck sound current vibrates and resounds.
The Lord's humble servants sing His Glorious Praises with love
and delight; they are honored by the Divine Guru. ||1||Pause||
My pre-ordained destiny has been activated;
I have awakened
from the sleep of countless incarnations.
In the Saadh Sangat,
the Company of the Holy, my aversion is gone.
My mind and
body are imbued with love for the Lord. ||2||
The Merciful
Savior Lord has saved me.
I have no service or work to my
credit.
In His Mercy, God has taken pity on me;
He lifted
me up and pulled me out, when I was suffering in pain. ||3||
Listening, listening to His Praises, joy has welled up within
my mind.
Twenty-four hours a day, I sing the Glorious Praises
of the Lord.
Singing, singing His Praises, I have obtained
the supreme status.
By Guru's Grace, Nanak is lovingly focused
on the Lord. ||4||20||31||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
In exchange
for a shell, he gives up a jewel.
He tries to get what he
must give up.
He collects those things which are worthless.
Enticed by Maya, he takes the crooked path. ||1||
You unfortunate
man - have you no shame?
You do not remember in your mind
the ocean of peace, the perfect Transcendent Lord God. ||1||Pause||
Nectar seems bitter to you, and poison is sweet.
Such is
your condition, you faithless cynic, which I have seen with
my own eyes.
You are fond of falsehood, fraud and egotism.
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If you hear the Naam, the Name of the Lord, you feel like
you have been stung by a scorpion. ||2||
You continually
yearn for Maya,
and you never chant the Lord's Praises with
your mouth.
The Lord is fearless and formless; He is the
Great Giver.
But you do not love Him, you fool! ||3||
God, the True King, is above the heads of all kings.
He is
the independent, perfect Lord King.
People are intoxicated
by emotional attachment, entangled in doubt and family life.
Nanak: they are saved only by Your Mercy, Lord. ||4||21||32||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
Night and day, I chant the Lord's
Name.
Hereafter, I shall obtain a seat in the Court of the
Lord.
I am in bliss forever; I have no sorrow.
The disease
of ego never afflicts me. ||1||
O Saints of the Lord, seek
out those who know God.
You shall be wonderstruck with wonder
at the wonderful Lord; meditate in remembrance on the Lord,
O mortal, and obtain the supreme status. ||1||Pause||
Calculating,
measuring, and thinking in every way,
see that without the
Naam, no one can be carried across.
Of all your efforts,
none will go along with you.
You can cross over the terrifying
world-ocean only through the love of God. ||2||
By merely
washing the body, one's filth is not removed.
Afflicted by
egotism, duality only increases.
That humble being who takes
the medicine of the Name of the Lord, Har, Har
- all his
diseases are eradicated. ||3||
Take pity on me, O merciful,
Supreme Lord God;
let me never forget the Lord of the World
from my mind.
Let me be the dust of the feet of Your slaves;
O God, please fulfill Nanak's hope. ||4||22||33||
Raamkalee,
Fifth Mehl:
You are my Protection, O perfect Divine Guru.
There is no other than You.
You are all-powerful, O perfect
Supreme Lord God.
He alone meditates on You, whose karma
is perfect. ||1||
You Name, God, is the boat to carry us
across.
My mind has grasped Your protection alone. Other
than You, I have no place of rest at all. ||1||Pause||
Chanting,
meditating on Your Name, I live,
and hereafter, I will obtain
a seat in the Court of the Lord.
Pain and darkness are gone
from my mind;
my evil-mindedness is dispelled, and I am absorbed
in the Lord's Name. ||2||
I have enshrined love for the Lord's
lotus feet.
The lifestyle of the Perfect Guru is immaculate
and pure.
My fear has run away, and the fearless Lord dwells
within my mind.
My tongue continually chants the Ambrosial
Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||3||
The nooses of millions
of incarnations are cut away.
I have obtained the profit
of the true wealth.
This treasure is inexhaustible; it will
never run out.
O Nanak, the devotees look beautiful in the
Court of the Lord. ||4||23||34||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
The Naam, the Name of the Lord, is a jewel, a ruby.
It brings
Truth, contentment and spiritual wisdom.
The Lord entrusts
the treasures of peace, intuition and kindness to His devotees.
||1||
This is the treasure of my Lord.
Consuming and expending
it, it is never used up. The Lord has no end or limitation.
||1||Pause||
The Kirtan of the Lord's Praise is a priceless
diamond.
It is the ocean of bliss and virtue.
In the Word
of the Guru's Bani is the wealth of the unstruck sound current.
The Saints hold the key to it in their hands. ||2||
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They sit there, in the cave of deep Samaadhi;
the unique,
perfect Lord God dwells there.
God holds conversations with
His devotees.
There is no pleasure or pain, no birth or death
there. ||3||
One whom the Lord Himself blesses with His Mercy,
obtains the Lord's wealth in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of
the Holy.
Nanak prays to the merciful Primal Lord;
the
Lord is my merchandise, and the Lord is my capital. ||4||24||35||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
The Vedas do not know His greatness.
Brahma does not know His mystery.
Incarnated beings do not
know His limit.
The Transcendent Lord, the Supreme Lord God,
is infinite. ||1||
Only He Himself knows His own state.
Others speak of Him only by hearsay. ||1||Pause||
Shiva does
not know His mystery.
The gods gave grown weary of searching
for Him.
The goddesses do not know His mystery.
Above
all is the unseen, Supreme Lord God. ||2||
The Creator Lord
plays His own plays.
He Himself separates, and He Himself
unites.
Some wander around, while others are linked to His
devotional worship.
By His actions, He makes Himself known.
||3||
Listen to the true story of the Saints.
They speak
only of what they see with their eyes.
He is not involved
with virtue or vice.
Nanak's God is Himself all-in-all. ||4||25||36||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
I have not tried to do anything through
knowledge.
I have no knowledge, intelligence or spiritual
wisdom.
I have not practiced chanting, deep meditation, humility
or righteousness.
I know nothing of such good karma. ||1||
O my Beloved God, my Lord and Master,
there is none other
than You. Even though I wander and make mistakes, I am still
Yours, God. ||1||Pause||
I have no wealth, no intelligence,
no miraculous spiritual powers; I am not enlightened.
I dwell
in the village of corruption and sickness.
O my One Creator
Lord God,
Your Name is the support of my mind. ||2||
Hearing,
hearing Your Name, I live; this is my mind's consolation.
Your Name, God, is the Destroyer of sins.
You, O Limitless
Lord, are the Giver of the soul.
He alone knows You, unto
whom You reveal Yourself. ||3||
Whoever has been created,
rests his hopes in You.
All worship and adore You, God, O
treasure of excellence.
Slave Nanak is a sacrifice to You.
My merciful Lord and Master is infinite. ||4||26||37||
Raamkalee,
Fifth Mehl:
The Savior Lord is merciful.
Millions of incarnations
are eradicated in an instant, contemplating the Lord.
All
beings worship and adore Him.
Receiving the Guru's Mantra,
one meets God. ||1||
My God is the Giver of souls.
The
Perfect Transcendent Lord Master, my God, imbues each and every
heart. ||1||Pause||
My mind has grasped His Support.
My
bonds have been shattered.
Within my heart, I meditate on
the Lord, the embodiment of supreme bliss.
My mind is filled
with ecstasy. ||2||
The Lord's Sanctuary is the boat to carry
us across.
The Lord's Feet are the embodiment of life itself.
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They are the Support of the breath of life of the Saints.
God is infinite, the highest of the high. ||3||
That mind
is excellent and sublime, which meditates in remembrance on
the Lord.
In His Mercy, the Lord Himself bestows it.
Peace,
intuitive poise and bliss are found in the Lord's Name.
Meeting
with the Guru, Nanak chants the Name. ||4||27||38||
Raamkalee,
Fifth Mehl:
Abandon all your clever tricks.
Become His
servant, and serve Him.
Totally erase your self-conceit.
You shall obtain the fruits of your mind's desires. ||1||
Be awake and aware with your Guru.
Your hopes and desires
shall be fulfilled, and you shall obtain all treasures from
the Guru. ||1||Pause||
Let no one think that God and Guru
are separate.
The True Guru is the Immaculate Lord.
Do
not believe that He is a mere human being;
He gives honor
to the dishonored. ||2||
Hold tight to the Support of the
Guru, the Lord.
Give up all other hopes.
Ask for the treasure
of the Name of the Lord,
and then you shall be honored in
the Court of the Lord. ||3||
Chant the Mantra of the Guru's
Word.
This is the essence of true devotional worship.
When the True Guru becomes merciful,
slave Nanak is enraptured.
||4||28||39||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
Whatever happens,
accept that as good.
Leave your egotistical pride behind.
Day and night, continually sing the Glorious Praises of the
Lord.
This is the perfect purpose of human life. ||1||
Meditate on the Lord, O Saints, and be in bliss.
Renounce
your cleverness and all your tricks. Chant the Immaculate Chant
of the Guru's Mantra. ||1||Pause||
Place the hopes of your
mind in the One Lord.
Chant the Immaculate Name of the Lord,
Har, Har.
Bow down to the Guru's Feet,
and cross over
the terrifying world-ocean. ||2||
The Lord God is the Great
Giver.
He has no end or limitation.
All treasures are
in His home.
He will be your Saving Grace in the end. ||3||
Nanak has obtained this treasure,
the immaculate Name of
the Lord, Har, Har.
Whoever chants it, is emancipated.
It is obtained only by His Grace. ||4||29||40||
Raamkalee,
Fifth Mehl:
Make this invaluable human life fruitful.
You shall not be destroyed when you go to the Lord's Court.
In this world and the next, you shall obtain honor and glory.
At the very last moment, He will save you. ||1||
Sing the
Glorious Praises of the Lord.
In both this world and the
next, you shall be embellished with beauty, meditating on the
wondrous Primal Lord God. ||1||Pause||
While standing up
and sitting down, meditate on the Lord,
and all your troubles
shall depart.
All your enemies will become friends.
Your
consciousness shall be immaculate and pure. ||2||
This is
the most exalted deed.
Of all faiths, this is the most sublime
and excellent faith.
Meditating in remembrance on the Lord,
you shall be saved.
You shall be rid of the burden of countless
incarnations. ||3||
Your hopes shall be fulfilled,
and
the noose of the Messenger of Death will be cut away.
So
listen to the Guru's Teachings.
O Nanak, you shall be absorbed
in celestial peace. ||4||30||41||
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Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
Honor the One, to whom everything
belongs.
Leave your egotistical pride behind.
You belong
to Him; everyone belongs to Him.
Worship and adore Him, and
you shall be at peace forever. ||1||
Why do you wander in
doubt, you fool?
Without the Naam, the Name of the Lord,
nothing is of any use at all. Crying out, 'Mine, mine', a great
many have departed, regretfully repenting. ||1||Pause||
Whatever
the Lord has done, accept that as good.
Without accepting,
you shall mingle with dust.
His Will seems sweet to me.
By Guru's Grace, He comes to dwell in the mind. ||2||
He
Himself is carefree and independent, imperceptible.
Twenty-four
hours a day, O mind, meditate on Him.
When He comes into
the consciousness, pain is dispelled.
Here and hereafter,
your face shall be radiant and bright. ||3||
Who, and how
many have been saved, singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord?
They cannot be counted or evaluated.
Even the sinking iron
is saved, in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy,
O
Nanak, as His Grace is received. ||4||31||42||
Raamkalee,
Fifth Mehl:
In your mind, meditate on the Lord God.
This
is the Teaching given by the Perfect Guru.
All fears and
terrors are taken away,
and your hopes shall be fulfilled.
||1||
Service to the Divine Guru is fruitful and rewarding.
His value cannot be described; the True Lord is unseen and mysterious.
||1||Pause||
He Himself is the Doer, the Cause of causes.
Meditate on Him forever, O my mind, and continually serve Him.
You shall be blessed with truth, intuition and peace, O my friend.
||2||
My Lord and Master is so very great.
In an instant,
He establishes and disestablishes.
There is no other than
Him.
He is the Saving Grace of His humble servant. ||3||
Please take pity on me, and hear my prayer,
that Your servant
may behold the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan.
Nanak chants
the Chant of the Lord,
whose glory and radiance are the highest
of all. ||4||32||43||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
Reliance
on mortal man is useless.
O God, my Lord and Master, You
are my only Support.
I have discarded all other hopes.
I have met with my carefree Lord and Master, the treasure of
virtue. ||1||
Meditate on the Name of the Lord alone, O my
mind.
Your affairs shall be perfectly resolved; sing the
Glorious Praises of the Lord, Har, Har, Har, O my mind. ||1||Pause||
You are the Doer, the Cause of causes.
Your lotus feet, Lord,
are my Sanctuary.
I meditate on the Lord in my mind and body.
The blissful Lord has revealed His form to me. ||2||
I seek
His eternal support;
He is the Creator of all beings.
Remembering the Lord in meditation, the treasure is obtained.
At the very last instant, He shall be your Savior. ||3||
Be the dust of all men's feet.
Eradicate self-conceit, and
merge in the Lord.
Night and day, meditate on the Naam, the
Name of the Lord.
O Nanak, this is the most rewarding activity.
||4||33||44||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
He is the Doer, the
Cause of causes, the bountiful Lord.
The merciful Lord cherishes
all.
The Lord is unseen and infinite.
God is great and
endless. ||1||
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I humbly pray to invoke the Universal Lord God, the Lord
of the World.
The Creator Lord is all-pervading, everywhere.
||1||Pause||
He is the Lord of the Universe, the Life of
the World.
Within your heart, worship and adore the Destroyer
of fear.
The Master Rishi of the senses, Lord of the World,
Lord of the Universe.
He is perfect, ever-present everywhere,
the Liberator. ||2||
You are the One and only merciful Master,
spiritual teacher, prophet, religious teacher.
Master of
hearts, Dispenser of justice,
more sacred than the Koran
and the Bible. ||3||
The Lord is powerful and merciful.
The all-pervading Lord is the support of each and every heart.
The luminous Lord dwells everywhere.
His play cannot be known.
||4||
Be kind and compassionate to me, O Creator Lord.
Bless me with devotion and meditation, O Lord Creator.
Says
Nanak, the Guru has rid me of doubt.
The Muslim God Allah
and the Hindu God Paarbrahm are one and the same. ||5||34||45||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
The sins of millions of incarnations
are eradicated.
Meditating on the Lord, Har, Har, pain will
not afflict you.
When the Lord's lotus feet are enshrined
in the mind,
all terrible evils are taken away from the body.
||1||
Sing the Praise of the Lord of the World, O mortal
being.
The Unspoken Speech of the True Lord God is perfect.
Dwelling upon it, one's light merges into the Light. ||1||Pause||
Hunger and thirst are totally quenched;
by the Grace of the
Saints, meditate on the immortal Lord.
Night and day, serve
God.
This is the sign that one has met with the Lord. ||2||
Worldly entanglements are ended, when God becomes merciful.
Gazing upon the Blessed Vision of the Guru's Darshan, I am enraptured.
My perfect pre-destined karma has been activated.
With my
tongue, I continually sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord.
||3||
The Saints of the Lord are accepted and approved forever.
The foreheads of the Saintly people are marked with the Lord's
insignia.
One who is blessed with the dust of the feet of
the Lord's slave,
O Nanak, obtains the supreme status. ||4||35||46||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
Let yourself be a sacrifice to the
Blessed Vision of the Lord's Darshan.
Focus your heart's
meditation on the Lord's lotus feet.
Apply the dust of the
feet of the Saints to your forehead,
and the filthy evil-mindedness
of countless incarnations will be washed off. ||1||
Meeting
Him, egotistical pride is eradicated,
and you will come to
see the Supreme Lord God in all. The Perfect Lord God has showered
His Mercy. ||1||Pause||
This is the Guru's Praise, to chant
the Name of the Lord.
This is devotion to the Guru, to sing
forever the Glorious Praises of the Lord.
This is contemplation
upon the Guru, to know that the Lord is close at hand.
Accept
the Word of the Guru's Shabad as Truth. ||2||
Through the
Word of the Guru's Teachings, look upon pleasure and pain as
one and the same.
Hunger and thirst shall never afflict you.
The mind becomes content and satisfied through the Word of the
Guru's Shabad.
Meditate on the Lord of the Universe, and
He will cover all your faults. ||3||
The Guru is the Supreme
Lord God; the Guru is the Lord of the Universe.
The Guru
is the Great Giver, merciful and forgiving.
One whose mind
is attached to the Guru's feet,
O slave Nanak, is blessed
with perfect destiny. ||4||36||47||
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Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
What supports you in this world?
You ignorant fool, who is your companion?
The Lord is your
only companion; no one knows His condition.
You look upon
the five thieves as your friends. ||1||
Serve that home,
which will save you, my friend.
Chant the Glorious Praises
of the Lord of the Universe, day and night; in the Saadh Sangat,
the Company of the Holy, love Him in your mind. ||1||Pause||
This human life is passing away in egotism and conflict.
You are not satisfied; such is the flavor of sin.
Wandering
and roaming around, you suffer terrible pain.
You cannot
cross over the impassable sea of Maya. ||2||
You do the deeds
which do not help you at all.
As you plant, so shall you
harvest.
There is none other than the Lord to save you.
You will be saved, only if God grants His Grace. ||3||
Your
Name, God, is the Purifier of sinners.
Please bless Your
slave with that gift.
Please grant Your Grace, God, and emancipate
me.
Nanak has grasped Your Sanctuary, God. ||4||37||48||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
I have found peace in this world.
I will not have to appear before the Righteous Judge of Dharma
to give my account.
I will be respected in the Court of the
Lord,
and I will not have to enter the womb of reincarnation
ever again. ||1||
Now, I know the value of friendship with
the Saints.
In His Mercy, the Lord has blessed me with His
Name. My pre-ordained destiny has been fulfilled. ||1||Pause||
My consciousness is attached to the Guru's feet.
Blessed,
blessed is this fortunate time of union.
I have applied the
dust of the Saints' feet to my forehead,
and all my sins
and pains have been eradicated. ||2||
Performing true service
to the Holy,
the mortal's mind is purified.
I have seen
the fruitful vision of the Lord's humble slave.
God's Name
dwells within each and every heart. ||3||
All my troubles
and sufferings have been taken away;
I have merged into the
One, from whom I originated.
The Lord of the Universe, incomparably
beautiful, has become merciful.
O Nanak, God is perfect and
forgiving. ||4||38||49||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
The tiger
leads the cow to the pasture,
the shell is worth thousands
of dollars,
and the elephant nurses the goat,
when God
bestows His Glance of Grace. ||1||
You are the treasure of
mercy, O my Beloved Lord God.
I cannot even describe Your
many Glorious Virtues. ||1||Pause||
The cat sees the meat,
but does not eat it,
and the great butcher throws away his
knife;
the Creator Lord God abides in the heart;
the net
holding the fish breaks apart. ||2||
The dry wood blossoms
forth in greenery and red flowers;
in the high desert, the
beautiful lotus flower blooms.
The Divine True Guru puts
out the fire.
He links His servant to His service. ||3||
He saves even the ungrateful;
my God is forever merciful.
He is forever the helper and support of the humble Saints.
Nanak has found the Sanctuary of His lotus feet. ||4||39||50||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
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God killed the five tigers.
He has driven out the ten
wolves.
The three whirl-pools have stopped spinning.
In
the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, the fear of reincarnation
is gone. ||1||
Meditating, meditating in remembrance on the
Lord of the Universe, I live.
In His Mercy, He protects His
slave; the True Lord is forever and ever the forgiver. ||1||Pause||
The mountain of sin is burnt down, like straw,
by chanting
and meditating on the Name, and worshipping God's feet.
God,
the embodiment of bliss, becomes manifest everywhere.
Linked
to His loving devotional worship, I enjoy peace. ||2||
I
have crossed over the world-ocean, as if it were no bigger than
a calf's footprint on the ground.
I shall never again have
to endure suffering or grief.
The ocean is contained in the
pitcher.
This is not such an amazing thing for the Creator
to do. ||3||
When I am separated from Him, then I am consigned
to the nether regions.
When He lifts me up and pulls me out,
then I am enraptured by His Glance of Grace.
Vice and virtue
are not under my control.
With love and affection, Nanak
sings His Glorious Praises. ||4||40||51||
Raamkalee, Fifth
Mehl:
Neither your body nor your mind belong to you.
Attached
to Maya, you are entangled in fraud.
You play like a baby
lamb.
But suddenly, Death will catch you in its noose. ||1||
Seek the Sanctuary of the Lord's lotus feet, O my mind.
Chant
the Name of the Lord, which will be your help and support. As
Gurmukh, you shall obtain the true wealth. ||1||Pause||
Your
unfinished worldly affairs will never be resolved.
You shall
always regret your sexual desire, anger and pride.
You act
in corruption in order to survive,
but not even an iota will
go along with you, you ignorant fool! ||2||
You practice
deception, and you know many tricks;
for the sake of mere
shells, you throw dust upon your head.
You never even think
of the One who gave you life.
The pain of false greed never
leaves you. ||3||
When the Supreme Lord God becomes merciful,
this mind becomes the dust of the feet of the Holy.
With
His lotus hands, He has attached us to the hem of His robe.
Nanak merges in the Truest of the True. ||4||41||52||
Raamkalee,
Fifth Mehl:
I seek the Sanctuary of the Sovereign Lord.
I have become fearless, singing the Glorious Praises of the
Lord of the Universe. In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the
Holy, my pains have been taken away. ||1||Pause||
That person,
within whose mind the Lord abides,
does not see the impassible
world-ocean.
All one's affairs are resolved,
by chanting
continually the Name of the Lord, Har, Har. ||1||
Why should
His slave feel any anxiety? The Guru places His hand upon my
forehead.
The fear of birth and death is dispelled;
I
am a sacrifice to the Perfect Guru. ||2||
I am enraptured,
meeting with the Guru, the Transcendent Lord.
He alone obtains
the Blessed Vision of the Lord's Darshan, who is blessed by
His Mercy.
One who is blessed by the Grace of the Supreme
Lord God,
crosses over the terrifying world-ocean in the
Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy. ||3||
Drink in the
Ambrosial Nectar, O Beloved Holy people.
Your face shall
be radiant and bright in the Court of the Lord.
Celebrate
and be blissful, and abandon all corruption.
O Nanak, meditate
on the Lord and cross over. ||4||42||53||
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Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
The fire runs away from the fuel.
The water runs away from the dust in all directions.
The
feet are above, and the sky is beneath.
The ocean appears
in the cup. ||1||
Such is our all-powerful dear Lord.
His devotees do not forget Him, even for an instant. Twenty-four
hours a day, O mind, meditate on Him. ||1||Pause||
First
comes the butter, and then the milk.
The dirt cleans the
soap.
The fearless are afraid of fear.
The living are
killed by the dead. ||2||
The visible body is hidden, and
the etheric body is seen.
The Lord of the world does all
these things.
The one who is cheated, is not cheated by the
cheat.
With no merchandise, the trader trades again and again.
||3||
So join the Society of the Saints, and chant the Lord's
Name.
So say the Simritees, Shaastras, Vedas and Puraanas.
Rare are those who contemplate and meditate on God.
O Nanak,
they attain the supreme status. ||4||43||54||
Raamkalee,
Fifth Mehl:
Whatever pleases Him happens.
Forever and
ever, I seek the Sanctuary of the Lord.There is none other than
God. ||1||Pause||
You look upon your children, spouse and
wealth; none of these will go along with you.
Eating the
poisonous potion, you have gone astray. You will have to go,
and leave Maya and your mansions. ||1||
Slandering others,
you are totally ruined; because of your past actions, you shall
be consigned to the womb of reincarnation.
Your past actions
will not just go away; the most horrible Messenger of Death
shall seize you. ||2||
You tell lies, and do not practice
what you preach. Your desires are not satisfied - what a shame.
You have contracted an incurable disease; slandering the Saints,
your body is wasting away; you are utterly ruined. ||3||
He embellishes those whom He has fashioned. He Himself gave
life to the Saints.
O Nanak, He hugs His slaves close in
His Embrace. Please grant Your Grace, O Supreme Lord God, and
be kind to me as well. ||4||44||55||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
Such is the Perfect Divine Guru, my help and support.
Meditation
on Him is not wasted. ||1||Pause||
Gazing upon the Blessed
Vision of His Darshan, I am enraptured.
The dust of His feet
snaps the noose of Death.
His lotus feet dwell within my
mind,
and so all the affairs of my body are arranged and
resolved. ||1||
One upon whom He places His Hand, is protected.
My God is the Master of the masterless.
He is the Savior
of sinners, the treasure of mercy.
Forever and ever, I am
a sacrifice to Him. ||2||
One whom He blesses with His Immaculate
Mantra,
renounces corruption; his egotistical pride is dispelled.
Meditate on the One Lord in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of
the Holy.
Sins are erased, through the love of the Naam,
the Name of the Lord. ||3||
The Guru, the Transcendent Lord,
dwells among all.
The treasure of virtue pervades and permeates
each and every heart.
Please grant me the Blessed Vision
of Your Darshan;
O God, I place my hopes in You. Nanak continually
offers this true prayer. ||4||45||56||
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Raag Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl, Second House, Du-Padas:
One
Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
Sing
the songs of Praise of the Lord.
Chanting the Naam, the Name
of the Lord, total peace is obtained; coming and going is ended,
my friend. ||1||Pause||
Singing the Glorious Praises of the
Lord, one is enlightened,
and comes to dwell in His lotus
feet. ||1||
In the Society of the Saints, one is saved.
O Nanak, he crosses over the terrifying world-ocean. ||2||1||57||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
My Guru is perfect, my Guru is perfect.
Chanting the Lord's Name, I am always at peace; all my illness
and fraud is dispelled. ||1||Pause||
Worship and adore that
One Lord alone.
In His Sanctuary, eternal peace is obtained.
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One who feels hunger for the Naam sleeps in peace.
Meditating in remembrance on the Lord, all pains are dispelled.
||2||
Enjoy celestial bliss, O my Siblings of Destiny.
The Perfect Guru has eradicated all anxiety. ||3||
Twenty-four
hours a day, chant God's Chant.
O Nanak, He Himself shall
save you. ||4||2||58||
Raag Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl, Partaal,
Third House:
One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The
True Guru:
I humbly bow to the Lord, the Supreme Being.
The One, the One and Only Creator Lord permeates the water,
the land, the earth and the sky. ||1||Pause||
Over and over
again, the Creator Lord destroys, sustains and creates.
He
has no home; He needs no nourishment. ||1||
The Naam, the
Name of the Lord, is deep and profound, strong, poised, lofty,
exalted and infinite.
He stages His plays; His Virtues are
priceless. Nanak is a sacrifice to Him. ||2||1||59||
Raamkalee,
Fifth Mehl:
You must abandon your beauty, pleasures, fragrances
and enjoyments; beguiled by gold and sexual desire, you must
still leave Maya behind. ||1||Pause||
You gaze upon billions
and trillions of treasures and riches, which delight and comfort
your mind,
but these will not go along with you. ||1||
Entangled with children, spouse, siblings and friends, you are
enticed and fooled; these pass like the shadow of a tree.
Nanak seeks the Sanctuary of His lotus feet; He has found peace
in the faith of the Saints. ||2||2||60||
One Universal Creator
God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
Raag Raamkalee, Ninth
Mehl, Ti-Padas:
O mind, take the sheltering support of the
Lord's Name.
Remembering Him in meditation, evil-mindedness
is dispelled, and the state of Nirvaanaa is obtained. ||1||Pause||
Know that one who sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord is
very fortunate.
The sins of countless incarnations are washed
off, and he attains the heavenly realm. ||1||
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At the very last moment, Ajaamal became aware of the Lord;
that state which even the supreme Yogis desire - he attained
that state in an instant. ||2||
The elephant had no virtue
and no knowledge; what religious rituals has he performed?
O Nanak, behold the way of the Lord, who bestowed the gift of
fearlessness. ||3||1||
Raamkalee, Ninth Mehl:
Holy people:
what way should I now adopt,
by which all evil-mindedness
may be dispelled, and the mind may vibrate in devotional worship
to the Lord? ||1||Pause||
My mind is entangled in Maya; it
knows nothing at all of spiritual wisdom.
What is that Name,
by which the world, contemplating it, might attain the state
of Nirvaanaa? ||1||
When the Saints became kind and compassionate,
they told me this.
Understand, that whoever sings the Kirtan
of God's Praises, has performed all religious rituals. ||2||
One who enshrines the Lord's Name in his heart night and day
- even for an instant
- has his fear of Death eradicated.
O Nanak, his life is approved and fulfilled. ||3||2||
Raamkalee,
Ninth Mehl:
O mortal, focus your thoughts on the Lord.
Moment by moment, your life is running out; night and day, your
body is passing away in vain. ||1||Pause||
You have wasted
your youth in corrupt pleasures, and your childhood in ignorance.
You have grown old, and even now, you do not understand, the
evil-mindedness in which you are entangled. ||1||
Why have
you forgotten your Lord and Master, who blessed you with this
human life?
Remembering Him in meditation, one is liberated.
And yet, you do not sing His Praises, even for an instant. ||2||
Why are you intoxicated with Maya? It will not go along with
you.
Says Nanak, think of Him, remember Him in your mind.
He is the Fulfiller of desires, who will be your help and support
in the end. ||3||3||81||
Raamkalee, First Mehl, Ashtapadees:
One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
The same moon rises, and the same stars; the same sun shines
in the sky.
The earth is the same, and the same wind blows.
The age in which we dwell affects living beings, but not these
places. ||1||
Give up your attachment to life.
Those who
act like tyrants are accepted and approved - recognize that
this is the sign of the Dark Age of Kali Yuga. ||1||Pause||
Kali Yuga has not been heard to have come to any country, or
to be sitting at any sacred shrine.
It is not where the generous
person gives to charities, nor seated in the mansion he has
built. ||2||
If someone practices Truth, he is frustrated;
prosperity does not come to the home of the sincere.
If someone
chants the Lord's Name, he is scorned. These are the signs of
Kali Yuga. ||3||
Whoever is in charge, is humiliated. Why
should the servant be afraid,
when the master is put in chains?
He dies at the hands of his servant. ||4||
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Chant the Praises of the Lord; Kali Yuga has come.
The
justice of the previous three ages is gone. One obtains virtue,
only if the Lord bestows it. ||1||Pause||
In this turbulent
age of Kali Yuga, Muslim law decides the cases, and the blue-robed
Qazi is the judge.
The Guru's Bani has taken the place of
Brahma's Veda, and the singing of the Lord's Praises are good
deeds. ||5||
Worship without faith; self-discipline without
truthfulness; the ritual of the sacred thread without chastity
- what good are these?
You may bathe and wash, and apply
a ritualistic tilak mark to your forehead, but without inner
purity, there is no understanding. ||6||
In Kali Yuga, the
Koran and the Bible have become famous.
The Pandit's scriptures
and the Puraanas are not respected.
O Nanak, the Lord's Name
now is Rehmaan, the Merciful.
Know that there is only One
Creator of the creation. ||7||
Nanak has obtained the glorious
greatness of the Naam, the Name of the Lord. There is no action
higher than this.
If someone goes out to beg for what is
already in his own home, then he should be chastised. ||8||1||
Raamkalee, First Mehl:
You preach to the world, and set up
your house.
Abandoning your Yogic postures, how will you
find the True Lord?
You are attached to possessiveness and
the love of sexual pleasure.
You are not a renunciate, nor
a man of the world. ||1||
Yogi, remain seated, and the pain
of duality will run away from you.
You beg from door to door,
and you don't feel ashamed. ||1||Pause||
You sing the songs,
but you do not understand your own self.
How will the burning
pain within be relieved?
Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad,
let your mind be absorbed in the Lord's Love,
and you will
intuitively experience the charity of contemplation. ||2||
You apply ashes to your body, while acting in hypocrisy.
Attached to Maya, you will be beaten by Death's heavy club.
Your begging bowl is broken; it will not hold the charity of
the Lord's Love.
Bound in bondage, you come and go. ||3||
You do not control your seed and semen, and yet you claim to
practice abstinence.
You beg from Maya, lured by the three
qualities.
You have no compassion; the Lord's Light does
not shine in you.
You are drowned, drowned in worldly entanglements.
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You wear religious robes, and your patched coat assumes
many disguises.
You play all sorts of false tricks, like
a juggler.
The fire of anxiety burns brightly within you.
Without the karma of good actions, how can you cross over? ||5||
You make ear-rings of glass to wear in your ears.
But liberation
does not come from learning without understanding.
You are
lured by the tastes of the tongue and sex organs.
You have
become a beast; this sign cannot be erased. ||6||
The people
of the world are entangled in the three modes; the Yogis are
entangled in the three modes.
Contemplating the Word of the
Shabad, sorrows are dispelled.
Through the Shabad, one becomes
radiant, pure and truthful.
One who contemplates the true
lifestyle is a Yogi. ||7||
The nine treasures are with You,
Lord; You are potent, the Cause of causes.
You establish
and disestablish; whatever You do, happens.
One who practices
celibacy, chastity, self-control, truth and pure consciousness
- O Nanak, that Yogi is the friend of the three worlds. ||8||2||
Raamkalee, First Mehl:
Above the six chakras of the body
dwells the detached mind.
Awareness of the vibration of the
Word of the Shabad has been awakened deep within.
The unstruck
melody of the sound current resonates and resounds within; my
mind is attuned to it.
Through the Guru's Teachings, my faith
is confirmed in the True Name. ||1||
O mortal, through devotion
to the Lord, peace is obtained.
The Lord, Har, Har, seems
sweet to the Gurmukh, who merges in the Name of the Lord, Har,
Har. ||1||Pause||
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Eradicating attachment to Maya, one merges into the Lord.
Meeting with the True Guru, we unite in His Union.
The Naam,
the Name of the Lord, is a priceless jewel, a diamond.
Attuned
to it, the mind is comforted and encouraged. ||2||
The diseases
of egotism and possessiveness do not afflict
one who worships
the Lord. Fear of the Messenger of Death runs away.
The Messenger
of Death, the enemy of the soul, does not touch me at all.
The Immaculate Name of the Lord illuminates my heart. ||3||
Contemplating the Shabad, we become Nirankaari - we come to
belong to the Formless Lord God.
Awakening to the Guru's
Teachings, evil-mindedness is taken away.
Remaining awake
and aware night and day, lovingly focused on the Lord,
one
becomes Jivan Mukta - liberated while yet alive. He finds this
state deep within himself. ||4||
In the secluded cave, I
remain unattached.
With the Word of the Shabad, I have killed
the five thieves.
My mind does not waver or go to the home
of any other.
I remain intuitively absorbed deep within.
||5||
As Gurmukh, I remain awake and aware, unattached.
Forever detached, I am woven into the essence of reality.
The world is asleep; it dies, and comes and goes in reincarnation.
Without the Word of the Guru's Shabad, it does not understand.
||6||
The unstruck sound current of the Shabad vibrates day
and night.
The Gurmukh knows the state of the eternal, unchanging
Lord God.
When someone realizes the Shabad, then he truly
knows.
The One Lord is permeating and pervading everywhere
in Nirvaanaa. ||7||
My mind is intuitively absorbed in the
state of deepest Samaadhi;
renouncing egotism and greed,
I have come to know the One Lord.
When the disciple's mind
accepts the Guru,
O Nanak, duality is eradicated, and he
merges in the Lord. ||8||3||
Raamkalee, First Mehl:
You
calculate the auspicious days, but you do not understand
that the One Creator Lord is above these auspicious days.
He alone knows the way, who meets the Guru.
When one follows
the Guru's Teachings, then he realizes the Hukam of God's Command.
||1||
Do not tell lies, O Pandit; O religious scholar, speak
the Truth.
When egotism is eradicated through the Word of
the Shabad, then one finds His home. ||1||Pause||
Calculating
and counting, the astrologer draws the horoscope.
He studies
it and announces it, but he does not understand reality.
Understand, that the Word of the Guru's Shabad is above all.
Do not speak of anything else; it is all just ashes. ||2||
You bathe, wash, and worship stones.
But without being imbued
with the Lord, you are the filthiest of the filthy.
Subduing
your pride, you shall receive the supreme wealth of God.
The mortal is liberated and emancipated, meditating on the Lord.
||3||
You study the arguments, but do not contemplate the
Vedas.
You drown yourself - how will you save your ancestors?
How rare is that person who realizes that God is in each and
every heart.
When one meets the True Guru, then he understands.
||4||
Making his calculations, cynicism and suffering afflict
his soul.
Seeking the Sanctuary of the Guru, peace is found.
I sinned and made mistakes, but now I seek Your Sanctuary.
The Guru led me to meet the Lord, according to my past actions.
||5||
If one does not enter the Guru's Sanctuary, God cannot
be found.
Deluded by doubt, one is born, only to die, and
come back again.
Dying in corruption, he is bound and gagged
at Death's door.
The Naam, the Name of the Lord, is not in
his heart, and he does not act according to the Shabad. ||6||
Some call themselves Pandits, religious scholars and spiritual
teachers.
Tinged with double-mindedness, they do not find
the Mansion of the Lord's Presence.
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One who takes the Support of the Naam, by Guru's Grace,
is a rare person, one among millions, incomparable. ||7||
One is bad, and another good, but the One True Lord is contained
in all.
Understand this, O spiritual teacher, through the
support of the True Guru:
rare indeed is that Gurmukh, who
realizes the One Lord.
His comings and goings cease, and
he merges in the Lord. ||8||
Those who have the One Universal
Creator Lord within their hearts,
possess all virtues; they
contemplate the True Lord.
One who acts in harmony with the
Guru's Will,
O Nanak, is absorbed in the Truest of the True.
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Raamkalee, First Mehl:
Practicing restraint by
Hatha Yoga, the body wears away.
The mind is not softened
by fasting or austerities.
Nothing else is equal to worship
of the Lord's Name. ||1||
Serve the Guru, O mind, and associate
with the humble servants of the Lord.
The tyrannical Messenger
of Death cannot touch you, and the serpent of Maya cannot sting
you, when you drink in the sublime essence of the Lord. ||1||Pause||
The world reads the arguments, and is softened only by music.
In the three modes and corruption, they are born and die.
Without the Lord's Name, they endure suffering and pain. ||2||
The Yogi draws the breath upwards, and opens the Tenth Gate.
He practices inner cleansing and the six rituals of purification.
But without the Lord's Name, the breath he draws is useless.
||3||
The fire of the five passions burns within him; how
can he be calm?
The thief is within him; how can he taste
the taste?
One who becomes Gurmukh conquers the body-fortress.
||4||
With filth within, he wanders around at places of pilgrimage.
His mind is not pure, so what is the use of performing ritual
cleansings?
He carries the karma of his own past actions;
who else can he blame? ||5||
He does not eat food; he tortures
his body.
Without the Guru's wisdom, he is not satisfied.
The self-willed manmukh is born only to die, and be born again.
||6||
Go, and ask the True Guru, and associate with the Lord's
humble servants.
Your mind shall merge into the Lord, and
you shall not be reincarnated to die again.
Without the Lord's
Name, what can anyone do? ||7||
Silence the mouse scurrying
around within you.
Serve the Primal Lord, by chanting the
Lord's Name.
O Nanak, God blesses us with His Name, when
He grants His Grace. ||8||5||
Raamkalee, First Mehl:
The
created Universe emanated from within You; there is no other
at all.
Whatever is said to be, is from You, O God.
He
is the True Lord and Master, throughout the ages.
Creation
and destruction do not come from anyone else. ||1||
Such
is my Lord and Master, profound and unfathomable.
Whoever
meditates on Him, finds peace. The arrow of the Messenger of
Death does not strike one who has the Name of the Lord. ||1||Pause||
The Naam, the Name of the Lord, is a priceless jewel, a diamond.
The True Lord Master is immortal and immeasurable.
That tongue
which chants the True Name is pure.
The True Lord is in the
home of the self; there is no doubt about it. ||2||
Some
sit in the forests, and some make their home in the mountains.
Forgetting the Naam, they rot away in egotistical pride.
Without the Naam, what is the use of spiritual wisdom and meditation?
The Gurmukhs are honored in the Court of the Lord. ||3||
Acting stubbornly in egotism, one does not find the Lord.
Studying the scriptures, reading them to other people,
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and wandering around at places of pilgrimage, the disease
is not taken away.
Without the Naam, how can one find peace?
||4||
No matter how much he tries, he cannot control his
semen and seed.
His mind wavers, and he falls into hell.
Bound and gagged in the City of Death, he is tortured.
Without
the Name, his soul cries out in agony. ||5||
The many Siddhas
and seekers, silent sages and demi-gods
cannot satisfy themselves
by practicing restraint through Hatha Yoga.
One who contemplates
the Word of the Shabad, and serves the Guru
- his mind and
body become immaculate, and his egotistical pride is obliterated.
||6||
Blessed with Your Grace, I obtain the True Name.
I remain in Your Sanctuary, in loving devotion.
Love for
Your devotional worship has welled up within me.
As Gurmukh,
I chant and meditate on the Lord's Name. ||7||
When one is
rid of egotism and pride, his mind is drenched in the Lord's
Love.
Practicing fraud and hypocrisy, he does not find God.
Without the Word of the Guru's Shabad, he cannot find the Lord's
Door.
O Nanak, the Gurmukh contemplates the essence of reality.
||8||6||
Raamkalee, First Mehl:
As you come, so will you
leave, you fool; as you were born, so will you die.
As you
enjoy pleasures, so will you suffer pain. Forgetting the Naam,
the Name of the Lord, you will fall into the terrifying world-ocean.
||1||
Gazing upon your body and wealth, you are so proud.
Your love for gold and sexual pleasures increases; why have
you forgotten the Naam, and why do you wander in doubt? ||1||Pause||
You do not practice truth, abstinence, self-discipline or humility;
the ghost within your skeleton has turned to dry wood.
You
have not practiced charity, donations, cleansing baths or austerities.
Without the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, your life
has gone in vain. ||2||
Attached to greed, you have forgotten
the Naam. Coming and going, your life has been ruined.
When
the Messenger of Death grabs you by your hair, you will be punished.
You are unconscious, and have fallen into Death's mouth. ||3||
Day and night, you jealously slander others; in your heart,
you have neither the Naam, nor compassion for all.
Without
the Word of the Guru's Shabad, you will not find salvation or
honor. Without the Lord's Name, you shall go to hell. ||4||
In an instant, you change into various costumes, like a juggler;
you are entangled in emotional attachment and sin.
You gaze
here and there upon the expanse of Maya; you are intoxicated
with attachment to Maya. ||5||
You act in corruption, and
put on ostentatious shows, but without awareness of the Shabad,
you have fallen into confusion.
You suffer great pain from
the disease of egotism. Following the Guru's Teachings, you
shall be rid of this disease. ||6||
Seeing peace and wealth
come to him, the faithless cynic become proud in his mind.
But He who owns this body and wealth, takes them back again,
and then the mortal feels anxiety and pain deep within. ||7||
At the very last instant, nothing goes along with you; all is
visible only by His Mercy.
God is our Primal and Infinite
Lord; enshrining the Lord's Name in the heart, one crosses over.
||8||
You weep for the dead, but who hears you weeping? The
dead have fallen to the serpent in the terrifying world-ocean.
Gazing upon his family, wealth, household and mansions, the
faithless cynic is entangled in worthless worldly affairs. ||9||
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He comes when the Lord sends him; when the Lord calls him
back, he goes.
Whatever he does, the Lord is doing. The Forgiving
Lord forgives him. ||10||
I seek to be with those who have
tasted this sublime essence of the Lord.
Wealth, miraculous
spiritual powers, wisdom and spiritual knowledge, are obtained
from the Guru. The treasure of liberation is obtained in His
Sanctuary. ||11||
The Gurmukh looks upon pain and pleasure
as one and the same; he remains untouched by joy and sorrow.
Conquering his self-conceit, the Gurmukh finds the Lord; O Nanak,
he intuitively merges into the Lord. ||12||7||
Raamkalee,
Dakhanee, First Mehl:
Abstinence, chastity, self-control
and truthfulness have been implanted within me; I am imbued
with the sublime essence of the True Word of the Shabad. ||1||
My Merciful Guru remains forever imbued with the Lord's Love.
Day and night, He remains lovingly focused on the One Lord;
gazing upon the True Lord, He is pleased. ||1||Pause||
He
abides in the Tenth Gate, and looks equally upon all; He is
imbued with the unstruck sound current of the Shabad. ||2||
Wearing the loin-cloth of chastity, He remains absorbed in the
all-pervading Lord; His tongue enjoys the taste of God's Love.
||3||
The One who created the creation has met the True Guru;
contemplating the Guru's lifestyle, He is pleased. ||4||
All are in the One, and the One is in all. This is what the
True Guru has shown me. ||5||
He who created the worlds,
solar systems and galaxies - that God cannot be known. ||6||
From the lamp of God, the lamp within is lit; the Divine Light
illuminates the three worlds. ||7||
The Guru sits on the
true throne in the true mansion; He is attuned, absorbed in
the Fearless Lord. ||8||
The Guru, the detached Yogi, has
enticed the hearts of all; He plays His harp in each and every
heart. ||9||
O Nanak, in God's Sanctuary, one is emancipated;
the True Guru becomes our true help and support. ||10||8||
Raamkalee, First Mehl:
He has made His home in the monastery
of the heart; He has infused His power into the earth and the
sky. ||1||
Through the Word of the Shabad, the Gurmukhs have
saved so very many, O Saints. ||1||Pause||
He conquers attachment,
and eradicates egotism, and sees Your Divine Light pervading
the three worlds, Lord. ||2||
He conquers desire, and enshrines
the Lord within his mind; he contemplates the Word of the True
Guru's Shabad. ||3||
The horn of consciousness vibrates the
unstruck sound current; Your Light illuminates each and every
heart, Lord. ||4||
He plays the flute of the universe in
his mind, and lights the fire of God. ||5||
Bringing together
the five elements, day and night, the Lord's lamp shines with
the Immaculate Light of the Infinite. ||6||
The right and
left nostrils, the sun and the moon channels, are the strings
of the body-harp; they vibrate the wondrous melody of the Shabad.
||7||
The true hermit obtains a seat in the City of God,
the invisible, inaccessible, infinite. ||8||
The mind is
the king of the city of the body; the five sources of knowledge
dwell within it. ||9||
Seated in his home, this king chants
the Shabad; he administers justice and virtue. ||10||
What
can poor death or birth say to him? Conquering his mind, he
remains dead while yet alive. ||11||
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Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are manifestations of the One God.
He Himself is the Doer of deeds. ||12||
One who purifies
his body, crosses over the terrifying world-ocean; he contemplates
the essence of his own soul. ||13||
Serving the Guru, he
finds everlasting peace; deep within, the Shabad permeates him,
coloring him with virtue. ||14||
The Giver of virtue unites
with Himself, one who conquers egotism and desire. ||15||
Eradicating the three qualities, dwell in the fourth state.
This is the unparalleled devotional worship. ||16||
This
is the Yoga of the Gurmukh: Through the Shabad, he understands
his own soul, and he enshrines within his heart the One Lord.
||17||
Imbued with the Shabad, his mind becomes steady and
stable; this is the most excellent action. ||18||
This true
hermit does not enter into religious debates or hypocrisy; the
Gurmukh contemplates the Shabad. ||19||
The Gurmukh practices
Yoga - he is the true hermit; he practices abstinence and truth,
and contemplates the Shabad. ||20||
One who dies in the Shabad
and conquers his mind is the true hermit; he understands the
Way of Yoga. ||21||
Attachment to Maya is the terrifying
world-ocean; through the Shabad, the true hermit saves himself,
and his ancestors as well. ||22||
Contemplating the Shabad,
you shall be a hero throughout the four ages, O hermit; contemplate
the Word of the Guru's Bani in devotion. ||23||
This mind
is enticed by Maya, O hermit; contemplating the Shabad, you
shall find release. ||24||
He Himself forgives, and unites
in His Union; Nanak seeks Your Sanctuary, Lord. ||25||9||
Raamkalee, Third Mehl, Ashtapadees:
One Universal Creator
God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
Make humility your ear-rings,
Yogi, and compassion your patched coat.
Let coming and going
be the ashes you apply to your body, Yogi, and then you shall
conquer the three worlds. ||1||
Play that harp, Yogi,
which vibrates the unstruck sound current, and remain lovingly
absorbed in the Lord. ||1||Pause||
Make truth and contentment
your plate and pouch, Yogi; take the Ambrosial Naam as your
food.
Make meditation your walking stick, Yogi, and make
higher consciousness the horn you blow. ||2||
Make your stable
mind the Yogic posture you sit in, Yogi, and then you shall
be rid of your tormenting desires.
Go begging in the village
of the body, Yogi, and then, you shall obtain the Naam in your
lap. ||3||
This harp does not center you in meditation, Yogi,
nor does it bring the True Name into your lap.
This harp
does not bring you peace, Yogi, nor eliminate egotism from within
you. ||4||
Make the Fear of God, and the Love of God, the
two gourds of your lute, Yogi, and make this body its neck.
Become Gurmukh, and then vibrate the strings; in this way, your
desires shall depart. ||5||
One who understands the Hukam
of the Lord's Command is called a Yogi; he links his consciousness
to the One Lord.
His cynicism is dispelled, and he becomes
immaculately pure; this is how he finds the Way of Yoga. ||6||
Everything that comes into view shall be destroyed; focus your
consciousness on the Lord.
Enshrine love for the True Guru,
and then you shall obtain this understanding. ||7||
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This is not Yoga, O Yogi, to abandon your family and wander
around.
The Name of the Lord, Har, Har, is within the household
of the body. By Guru's Grace, you shall find your Lord God.
||8||
This world is a puppet of clay, Yogi; the terrible
disease, the desire for Maya is in it.
Making all sorts of
efforts, and wearing religious robes, Yogi, this disease cannot
be cured. ||9||
The Name of the Lord is the medicine, Yogi;
the Lord enshrines it in the mind.
One who becomes Gurmukh
understands this; he alone finds the Way of Yoga. ||10||
The Path of Yoga is very difficult, Yogi; he alone finds it,
whom God blesses with His Grace.
Inside and outside, he sees
the One Lord; he eliminates doubt from within himself. ||11||
So play the harp which vibrates without being played, Yogi.
Says Nanak, thus you shall be liberated, Yogi, and remain merged
in the True Lord. ||12||1||10||
Raamkalee, Third Mehl:
The treasure of devotional worship is revealed to the Gurmukh;
the True Guru has inspired me to understand this understanding.
||1||
O Saints, the Gurmukh is blessed with glorious greatness.
||1||Pause||
Dwelling always in Truth, celestial peace wells
up; sexual desire and anger are eliminated from within. ||2||
Eradicating self-conceit, remain lovingly focused on the Naam,
the Name of the Lord; through the Word of the Shabad, burn away
possessiveness. ||3||
By Him we are created, and by Him we
are destroyed; in the end, the Naam will be our only help and
support. ||4||
He is ever-present; don't think that He is
far away. He created the creation. ||5||
Deep within your
heart, chant the True Word of the Shabad; remain lovingly absorbed
in the True Lord. ||6||
The Priceless Naam is in the Society
of the Saints; by great good fortune, it is obtained. ||7||
Do not be deluded by doubt; serve the True Guru, and keep your
mind steady in one place. ||8||
Without the Name, everyone
wanders around in confusion; they waste away their lives in
vain. ||9||
Yogi, you have lost the Way; you wander around
confused. Through hypocrisy, Yoga is not attained. ||10||
Sitting in Yogic postures in the City of God, through the Word
of the Guru's Shabad, you shall find Yoga. ||11||
Restrain
your restless wanderings through the Shabad, and the Naam will
come to dwell in your mind. ||12||
This body is a pool, O
Saints; bathe in it, and enshrine love for the Lord. ||13||
Those who cleanse themselves through the Naam, are the most
immaculate people; through the Shabad, they wash off their filth.
||14||
Trapped by the three qualities, the unconscious person
does not think of the Naam; without the Name, he wastes away.
||15||
The three forms of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are trapped
in the three qualities, lost in confusion. ||16||
By Guru's
Grace, this triad is eradicated, and one is lovingly absorbed
in the fourth state. ||17||
The Pandits, the religious scholars,
read, study and discuss the arguments; they do not understand.
||18||
Engrossed in corruption, they wander in confusion;
who can they possibly instruct, O Siblings of Destiny? ||19||
The Bani, the Word of the humble devotee is the most sublime
and exalted; it prevails throughout the ages. ||20||
One
who is committed to this Bani is emancipated, and through the
Shabad, merges in Truth. ||21||
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One who searches the village of the body, through the Shabad,
obtains the nine treasures of the Naam. ||22||
Conquering
desire, the mind is absorbed in intuitive ease, and then one
chants the Lord's Praises without speaking. ||23||
Let your
eyes gaze upon the Wondrous Lord; let your consciousness be
attached to the Unseen Lord. ||24||
The Unseen Lord is forever
absolute and immaculate; one's light merges into the Light.
||25||
I praise my Guru forever, who has inspired me to understand
this true understanding. ||26||
Nanak offers this one prayer:
through the Name, may I find salvation and honor. ||27||2||11||
Raamkalee, Third Mehl:
It is so hard to obtain that devotional
worship of the Lord, O Saints. It cannot be described at all.
||1||
O Saints, as Gurmukh, find the Perfect Lord,
and
worship the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||1||Pause||
Without
the Lord, everything is filthy, O Saints; what offering should
I place before Him? ||2||
Whatever pleases the True Lord
is devotional worship; His Will abides in the mind. ||3||
Everyone worships Him, O Saints, but the self-willed manmukh
is not accepted or approved. ||4||
If someone dies in the
Word of the Shabad, his mind become immaculate, O Saints; such
worship is accepted and approved. ||5||
Sanctified and pure
are those true beings, who enshrine love for the Shabad. ||6||
There is no worship of the Lord, other than the Name; the world
wanders, deluded by doubt. ||7||
The Gurmukh understands
his own self, O Saints; he lolvingly centers his mind on the
Lord's Name. ||8||
The Immaculate Lord Himself inspires worship
of Him; through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, it is accepted
and approved. ||9||
Those who worship Him, but do not know
the Way, are polluted with the love of duality. ||10||
One
who becomes Gurmukh, knows what worship is; the Lord's Will
abides within his mind. ||11||
One who accepts the Lord's
Will obtains total peace, O Saints; in the end, the Naam will
be our help and support. ||12||
One who does not understand
his own self, O Saints, falsely flatters himself. ||13||
The Messenger of Death does not give up on those who practices
hypocrisy; they are dragged away in disgrace. ||14||
Those
who have the Shabad deep within, understand themselves; they
find the way of salvation. ||15||
Their minds enter into
the deepest state of Samaadhi, and their light is absorbed into
the Light. ||16||
The Gurmukhs listen constantly to the Naam,
and chant it in the True Congregation. ||17||
The Gurmukhs
sing the Lord's Praises, and erase self-conceit; they obtain
true honor in the Court of the Lord. ||18||
True are their
words; they speak only the Truth; they lovingly focus on the
True Name. ||19||
My God is the Destroyer of fear, the Destroyer
of sin; in the end, He is our only help and support. ||20||
He Himself pervades and permeates everything; O Nanak, glorious
greatness is obtained through the Naam. ||21||3||12||
Raamkalee,
Third Mehl:
I am filthy and polluted, proud and egotistical;
receiving the Word of the Shabad, my filth is taken away. ||1||
O Saints, the Gurmukhs are saved through the Naam, the Name
of the Lord.
The True Name abides deep within their hearts.
The Creator Himself embellishes them. ||1||Pause||
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Touching the philosopher's stone, they themselves become
the philosopher's stone; the Dear Lord Himself blesses them
with His Mercy. ||2||
Some wear religious robes, and wander
around in pride; they lose their life in the gamble. ||3||
Some worship the Lord in devotion, night and day; day and night,
they keep the Lord's Name enshrined in their hearts. ||4||
Those who are imbued with Him night and day, are spontaneously
intoxicated with Him; they intuitively conquer their ego. ||5||
Without the Fear of God, devotional worship is never performed;
through the Love and the Fear of God, devotional worship is
embellished. ||6||
The Shabad burns away emotional attachment
to Maya, and then one contemplates the essence of spiritual
wisdom. ||7||
The Creator Himself inspires us to act; He
Himself blesses us with His treasure. ||8||
The limits of
His virtues cannot be found; I sing His Praises and contemplate
the Word of the Shabad. ||9||
I chant the Lord's Name, and
praise my Dear Lord; egotism is eradicated from within me. ||10||
The treasure of the Naam is obtained from the Guru; the treasures
of the True Lord are inexhaustible. ||11||
He Himself is
pleased with His devotees; by His Grace, He infuses His strength
within them. ||12||
They always feel hunger for the True
Name; they sing and contemplate the Shabad. ||13||
Soul,
body and everything are His; it is so difficult to speak of,
and contemplate Him. ||14||
Those humble beings who are attached
to the Shabad are saved; they cross over the terrifying world-ocean.
||15||
Without the True Lord, no one can cross over; how
rare are those who contemplate and understand this. ||16||
We obtain only that which is pre-ordained; receiving the Lord's
Shabad, we are embellished. ||17||
Imbued with the Shabad,
the body becomes golden, and loves only the True Name. ||18||
The body is then filled to overflowing with Ambrosial Nectar,
obtained by contemplating the Shabad. ||19||
Those who seek
God, find Him; others burst and die from their own egotism.
||20||
The debaters waste away, while the servants serve,
with love and affection for the Guru. ||21||
He alone is
a Yogi, who contemplates the essence of spiritual wisdom, and
conquers egotism and thirsty desire. ||22||
The True Guru,
the Great Giver, is revealed to those upon whom You bestow Your
Grace, O Lord. ||23||
Those who do not serve the True Guru,
and who are attached to Maya, are drowned; they die in their
own egotism. ||24||
As long as there is breath within you,
so long you should serve the Lord; then, you will go and meet
the Lord. ||25||
Night and day, she remains awake and aware,
day and night; she is the darling bride of her Beloved Husband
Lord. ||26||
I offer my body and mind in sacrifice to my
Guru; I am a sacrifice to Him. ||27||
Attachment to Maya
will end and go away; only by contemplating the Shabad will
you be saved. ||28||
They are awake and aware, whom the Lord
Himself awakens; so contemplate the Word of the Guru's Shabad.
||29||
O Nanak, those who do not remember the Naam are dead.
The devotees live in contemplative meditation. ||30||4||13||
Raamkalee, Third Mehl:
Receiving the treasure of the Naam,
the Name of the Lord, from the Guru, I remain satisfied and
fulfilled. ||1||
O Saints, the Gurmukhs attain the state
of liberation.
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The One Name abides deep within my heart; such is the glorious
greatness of the Perfect Lord. ||1||Pause||
He Himself is
the Creator, and He Himself is the Enjoyer. He Himself gives
sustenance to all. ||2||
Whatever He wants to do, He is doing;
no one else can do anything. ||3||
He Himself fashions and
creates the creation; He links each and every person to their
task. ||4||
If you serve Him, then you will find peace; the
True Guru will unite you in His Union. ||5||
The Lord Himself
creates Himself; the Unseen Lord cannot be seen. ||6||
He
Himself kills, and brings back to life; He does not have even
an iota of greed. ||7||
Some are made givers, and some are
made beggars; He Himself inspires us to devotional worship.
||8||
Those who know the One Lord are very fortunate; they
remain absorbed in the True Lord. ||9||
He Himself is beautiful,
He Himself is wise and clever; His worth cannot be expressed.
||10||
He Himself infuses pain and pleasure; He Himself makes
them wander around in doubt. ||11||
The Great Giver is revealed
to the Gurmukh; without the Guru, the world wanders in darkness.
||12||
Those who taste, enjoy the flavor; the True Guru imparts
this understanding. ||13||
Some, the Lord causes to forget
and lose the Name; others become Gurmukh, and are granted this
understanding. ||14||
Forever and ever, praise the Lord,
O Saints; how glorious is His greatness! ||15||
There is
no other King except Him; He administers justice, as He has
made it. ||16||
His justice is always True; how rare are
those who accept His Command. ||17||
O mortal, meditate forever
on the Lord, who has made the Gurmukh in His making. ||18||
That humble being who meets with the True Guru is fulfilled;
the Naam abides in his heart. ||19||
The True Lord is Himself
forever True; He announces His Bani, the Word of His Shabad.
||20||
Nanak is wonderstruck, hearing and seeing His Lord;
my God is all-pervading, everywhere. ||21||5||14||
Raamkalee,
Fifth Mehl, Ashtapadees:
One Universal Creator God. By The
Grace Of The True Guru:
Some make a big show of their worldly
influence.
Some make a big show of devotional worship.
Some practice inner cleansing teahniques, and control the breath
through Kundalini Yoga.
I am meek; I worship and adore the
Lord, Har, Har. ||1||
I place my faith in You alone, O Beloved
Lord.
I do not know any other way. ||1||Pause||
Some abandon
their homes, and live in the forests.
Some put themselves
on silence, and call themselves hermits.
Some claim that
they are devotees of the One Lord alone.
I am meek; I seek
the shelter and support of the Lord, Har, Har. ||2||
Some
say that they live at sacred shrines of pilgrimage.
Some
refuse food and become Udaasis, shaven-headed renunciates.
Some have wandered all across the earth.
I am meek; I have
fallen at the door of the Lord, Har, Har. ||3||
Some say
that they belong to great and noble families.
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Some say that they have the arms of their many brothers to
protect them.
Some say that they have great expanses of wealth.
I am meek; I have the support of the Lord, Har, Har. ||4||
Some dance, wearing ankle bells.
Some fast and take vows,
and wear malas.
Some apply ceremonial tilak marks to their
foreheads.
I am meek; I meditate on the Lord, Har, Har, Har.
||5||
Some work spells using the miraculous spiritual powers
of the Siddhas.
Some wear various religious robes and establish
their authority.
Some perform Tantric spells, and chant various
mantras.
I am meek; I serve the Lord, Har, Har, Har. ||6||
One calls himself a wise Pandit, a religious scholar.
One
performs the six rituals to appease Shiva.
One maintains
the rituals of pure lifestyle, and does good deeds.
I am
meek; I seek the Sanctuary of the Lord, Har, Har, Har. ||7||
I have studied the religions and rituals of all the ages.
Without the Name, this mind is not awakened.
Says Nanak,
when I found the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy,
my
thirsty desires were satisfied, and I was totally cooled and
soothed. ||8||1||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
He created you
out of this water.
From clay, He fashioned your body.
He blessed you with the light of reason and clear consciousness.
In your mother's womb, He preserved you. ||1||
Contemplate
your Savior Lord.
Give up all others thoughts, O mind. ||1||Pause||
He gave you your mother and father;
he gave you your charming
children and siblings;
he gave you your spouse and friends;
enshrine that Lord and Master in your consciousness. ||2||
He gave you the invaluable air;
He gave you the priceless
water;
He gave you burning fire;
let your mind remain
in the Sanctuary of that Lord and Master. ||3||
He gave you
the thirty-six varieties of tasty foods;
He gave you a place
within to hold them;
He gave you the earth, and things to
use;
enshrine in your consciousness the feet of that Lord
and Master. ||4||
He gave you eyes to see, and ears to hear;
He gave you hands to work with, and a nose and a tongue;
He gave you feet to walk upon, and the crowning glory of your
head;
O mind, worship the Feet of that Lord and Master. ||5||
He transformed you from impure to pure;
He installed you
above the heads of all creatures;
now, you may fulfill your
destiny or not;
Your affairs shall be resolved, O mind, meditating
on God. ||6||
Here and there, only the One God exists.
Wherever I look, there You are.
My mind is reluctant to serve
Him;
forgetting Him, I cannot survive, even for an instant.
||7||
I am a sinner, without any virtue at all.
I do not
serve You, or do any good deeds.
By great good fortune, I
have found the boat - the Guru.
Slave Nanak has crossed over,
with Him. ||8||2||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
Some pass their
lives enjoying pleasures and beauty.
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Some pass their lives with their mothers, fathers and children.
Some pass their lives in power, estates and trade.
The Saints
pass their lives with the support of the Lord's Name. ||1||
The world is the creation of the True Lord.
He alone is the
Master of all. ||1||Pause||
Some pass their lives in arguments
and debates about scriptures.
Some pass their lives tasting
flavors.
Some pass their lives attached to women.
The
Saints are absorbed only in the Name of the Lord. ||2||
Some
pass their lives gambling.
Some pass their lives getting
drunk.
Some pass their lives stealing the property of others.
The humble servants of the Lord pass their lives meditating
on the Naam. ||3||
Some pass their lives in Yoga, strict
meditation, worship and adoration.
Some, in sickness, sorrow
and doubt.
Some pass their lives practicing control of the
breath.
The Saints pass their lives singing the Kirtan of
the Lord's Praises. ||4||
Some pass their lives walking day
and night.
Some pass their lives on the fields of battle.
Some pass their lives teaching children.
The Saints pass
their lives singing the Lord's Praise. ||5||
Some pass their
lives as actors, acting and dancing.
Some pass their lives
taking the lives of others.
Some pass their lives ruling
by intimidation.
The Saints pass their lives chanting the
Lord's Praises. ||6||
Some pass their lives counseling and
giving advice.
Some pass their lives forced to serve others.
Some pass their lives exploring life's mysteries.
The Saints
pass their lives drinking in the sublime essence of the Lord.
||7||
As the Lord attaches us, so we are attached.
No
one is foolish, and no one is wise.
Nanak is a sacrifice,
a sacrifice to those who are blessed by His Grace to receive
His Name. ||8||3||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
Even in a forest
fire, some trees remain green.
The infant is released from
the pain of the mother's womb.
Meditating in remembrance
on the Naam, the Name of the Lord, fear is dispelled.
Just
so, the Sovereign Lord protects and saves the Saints. ||1||
Such is the Merciful Lord, my Protector.
Wherever I look,
I see You cherishing and nurturing. ||1||Pause||
As thirst
is quenched by drinking water;
as the bride blossoms forth
when her husband comes home;
as wealth is the support of
the greedy person
- just so, the humble servant of the Lord
loves the Name of the Lord, Har, Har. ||2||
As the farmer
protects his fields;
as the mother and father show compassion
to their child;
as the lover merges on seeing the beloved;
just so does the Lord hug His humble servant close in His Embrace.
||3||
As the blind man is in ecstasy, when he can see again;
and the mute, when he is able to speak and sing songs;
and
the cripple, being able to climb over the mountain
- just
so, the Name of the Lord saves all. ||4||
As cold is dispelled
by fire,
sins are driven out in the Society of the Saints.
As cloth is cleaned by soap,
just so, by chanting the Naam,
all doubts and fears are dispelled. ||5||
As the chakvi bird
longs for the sun,
as the rainbird thirsts for the rain drop,
as the deer's ears are attuned to the sound of the bell,
the Lord's Name is pleasing to the mind of the Lord's humble
servant. ||6||
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By Your Grace, we love You.
When You show Mercy, then
You come into our minds.
When the Support of the earth granted
His Grace,
then I was released from my bonds. ||7||
I
have seen all places with my eyes wide open.
There is no
other than Him.
Doubt and fear are dispelled, by Guru's Grace.
Nanak sees the wondrous Lord everywhere. ||8||4||
Raamkalee,
Fifth Mehl:
All beings and creatures that are seen, God,
depend on Your Support. ||1||
This mind is saved through
the Name of the Lord. ||1||Pause||
In an instant, He establishes
and disestablishes, by His Creative Power. All is the Creation
of the Creator. ||2||
Sexual desire, anger, greed, falsehood
and slander are banished in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of
the Holy. ||3||
Chanting the Naam, the Name of the Lord,
the mind becomes immaculate, and life is passed in absolute
peace. ||4||
That mortal who enters the Sanctuary of the
devotees, does not lose out, here or hereafter. ||5||
Pleasure
and pain, and the condition of this mind, I place before You,
Lord. ||6||
You are the Giver of all beings; You cherish
what You have made. ||7||
So many millions of times, Nanak
is a sacrifice to Your humble servants. ||8||5||
Raamkalee,
Fifth Mehl, Ashtapadee:
One Universal Creator God. By The
Grace Of The True Guru:
Receiving the Blessed Vision of His
Darshan, all sins are erased, and He unites me with the Lord.
||1||
My Guru is the Transcendent Lord, the Giver of peace.
He implants the Naam, the Name of the Supreme Lord God within
us; in the end, He is our help and support. ||1||Pause||
The source of all pain within is destroyed; I apply the dust
of the feet of the Saints to my forehead. ||2||
In an instant,
He purifies the sinners, and dispels the darkness of ignorance.
||3||
The Lord is all-powerful, the Cause of causes. Nanak
seeks His Sanctuary. ||4||
Shattering the bonds, the Guru
implants the Lord's lotus feet within, and lovingly attunes
us to the One Word of the Shabad. ||5||
He has lifted me
up, and pulled me out of the deep, dark pit of sin; I am attuned
to the True Shabad. ||6||
The fear of birth and death is
taken away; I shall never wander again. ||7||
This mind is
imbued with the sublime elixir of the Naam; drinking in the
Ambrosial Nectar, it is satisfied. ||8||
Joining the Society
of the Saints, I sing the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises; I dwell
in the eternal, unchanging place. ||9||
The Perfect Guru
has given me the perfect teachings; there is nothing except
the Lord, O Siblings of Destiny. ||10||
I have obtained the
treasure of the Naam, by great good fortune; O Nanak, I shall
not fall into hell. ||11||
Clever tricks have not worked
for me; I shall act according to the Instructions of the Perfect
Guru. ||12||
He is chanting, intense meditation, austere
self-discipline and purification. He Himself acts, and causes
us to act. ||13||
In the midst of children and spouse, and
utter corruption, the True Guru has carried me across. ||14||
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You Yourself take care of Your beings; You Yourself attach
them to the hem of Your robe. ||15||
I have built the boat
of true Dharmic faith, to cross over the terrifying world-ocean.
||16||
The Lord Master is unlimited and endless; Nanak is
a sacrifice, a sacrifice to Him. ||17||
Being of Immortal
Manifestation, He is not born; He is self-existent; He is the
Light in the darkness of Kali Yuga. ||18||
He is the Inner-knower,
the Searcher of hearts, the Giver of souls; gazing upon Him,
I am satisfied and fulfilled. ||19||
He is the One Universal
Creator Lord, immaculate and fearless; He is permeating and
pervading all the water and the land. ||20||
He blesses His
devotees with the Gift of devotional worship; Nanak longs for
the Lord, O my mother. ||21||1||6||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl,
Shalok:
Study the Word of the Shabad, O beloveds. It is your
anchoring support in life and in death.
Your face shall be
radiant, and you will be at peace forever, O Nanak, meditating
in remembrance on the One Lord. ||1||
My mind and body are
imbued with my Beloved Lord; I have been blessed with loving
devotion to the Lord, O Saints. ||1||
The True Guru has approved
my cargo, O Saints.
He has blessed His slave with the profit
of the Lord's Name; all my thirst is quenched, O Saints. ||1||Pause||
Searching and searching, I have found the One Lord, the jewel;
I cannot express His value, O Saints. ||2||
I focus my meditation
on His Lotus Feet; I am absorbed in the True Vision of His Darshan,
O Saints. ||3||
Singing, singing His Glorious Praises, I
am enraptured; meditating in remembrance on the Lord, I am satisfied
and fulfilled, O Saints. ||4||
The Lord, the Supreme Soul,
is permeating within all; what comes, and what goes, O Saints?
||5||
At the very beginning of time, and throughout the ages,
He is, and He shall always be; He is the Giver of peace to all
beings, O Saints. ||6||
He Himself is endless; His end cannot
be found. He is totally pervading and permeating everywhere,
O Saints. ||7||
Nanak: the Lord is my friend, companion,
wealth, youth, son, father and mother, O Saints. ||8||2||7||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
In thought, word and deed, I contemplate
the Lord's Name.
The horrible world-ocean is very treacherous;
O Nanak, the Gurmukh is carried across. ||1||Pause||
Inwardly,
peace, and outwardly, peace; meditating on the Lord, evil tendencies
are crushed. ||1||
He has rid me of what was clinging to
me; my Dear Lord God has blessed me with His Grace. ||2||
The Saints are saved, in His Sanctuary; the very egotistical
people rot away and die. ||3||
In the Saadh Sangat, the Company
of the Holy, I have obtained this fruit, the Support of the
One Name alone. ||4||
No one is strong, and no one is weak;
all are manifestations of Your Light, Lord. ||5||
You are
the all-powerful, indescribable, unfathomable, all-pervading
Lord. ||6||
Who can estimate Your value, O Creator Lord?
God has no end or limitation. ||7||
Please bless Nanak with
the glorious greatness of the gift of the Naam, and the dust
of the feet of Your Saints. ||8||3||8||22||
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Raamkalee, Third Mehl, Anand ~ The Song Of Bliss:
One
Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
I am
in ecstasy, O my mother, for I have found my True Guru.
I
have found the True Guru, with intuitive ease, and my mind vibrates
with the music of bliss.
The jewelled melodies and their
related celestial harmonies have come to sing the Word of the
Shabad.
The Lord dwells within the minds of those who sing
the Shabad.
Says Nanak, I am in ecstasy, for I have found
my True Guru. ||1||
O my mind, remain always with the Lord.
Remain always with the Lord, O my mind, and all sufferings will
be forgotten.
He will accept You as His own, and all your
affairs will be perfectly arranged.
Our Lord and Master is
all-powerful to do all things, so why forget Him from your mind?
Says Nanak, O my mind, remain always with the Lord. ||2||
O my True Lord and Master, what is there which is not in Your
celestial home?
Everything is in Your home; they receive,
unto whom You give.
Constantly singing Your Praises and Glories,
Your Name is enshrined in the mind.
The divine melody of
the Shabad vibrates for those, within whose minds the Naam abides.
Says Nanak, O my True Lord and Master, what is there which is
not in Your home? ||3||
The True Name is my only support.
The True Name is my only support; it satisfies all hunger.
It has brought peace and tranquility to my mind; it has fulfilled
all my desires.
I am forever a sacrifice to the Guru, who
possesses such glorious greatness.
Says Nanak, listen, O
Saints; enshrine love for the Shabad.
The True Name is my
only support. ||4||
The Panch Shabad, the five primal sounds,
vibrate in that blessed house.
In that blessed house, the
Shabad vibrates; He infuses His almighty power into it.
Through
You, we subdue the five demons of desire, and slay Death, the
torturer.
Those who have such pre-ordained destiny are attached
to the Lord's Name.
Says Nanak, they are at peace, and the
unstruck sound current vibrates within their homes. ||5||
Without the true love of devotion, the body is without honor.
The body is dishonored without devotional love; what can the
poor wretches do?
No one except You is all-powerful; please
bestow Your Mercy, O Lord of all nature.
There is no place
of rest, other than the Name; attached to the Shabad, we are
embellished with beauty.
Says Nanak, without devotional love,
what can the poor wretches do? ||6||
Bliss, bliss - everyone
talks of bliss; bliss is known only through the Guru.
Eternal
bliss in known only through the Guru, when the Beloved Lord
grants His Grace.
Granting His Grace, He cuts away our sins;
He blesses us with the healing ointment of spiritual wisdom.
Those who eradicate attachment from within themselves, are adorned
with the Shabad, the Word of the True Lord.
Says Nanak, this
alone is bliss - bliss which is known through the Guru. ||7||
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O Baba, he alone receives it, unto whom You give it.
He
alone receives it, unto whom You give it; what can the other
poor wretched beings do?
Some are deluded by doubt, wandering
in the ten directions; some are adorned with attachment to the
Naam.
By Guru's Grace, the mind becomes immaculate and pure,
for those who follow God's Will.
Says Nanak, he alone receives
it, unto whom You give it, O Beloved Lord. ||8||
Come, Beloved
Saints, let us speak the Unspoken Speech of the Lord.
How
can we speak the Unspoken Speech of the Lord? Through which
door will we find Him?
Surrender body, mind, wealth, and
everything to the Guru; obey the Order of His Will, and you
will find Him.
Obey the Hukam of the Guru's Command, and
sing the True Word of His Bani.
Says Nanak, listen, O Saints,
and speak the Unspoken Speech of the Lord. ||9||
O fickle
mind, through cleverness, no one has found the Lord.
Through
cleverness, no one has found Him; listen, O my mind.
This
Maya is so fascinating; because of it, people wander in doubt.
This fascinating Maya was created by the One who has administered
this potion.
I am a sacrifice to the One who has made emotional
attachment sweet.
Says Nanak, O fickle mind, no one has found
Him through cleverness. ||10||
O beloved mind, contemplate
the True Lord forever.
This family which you see shall not
go along with you.
They shall not go along with you, so why
do you focus your attention on them?
Don't do anything that
you will regret in the end.
Listen to the Teachings of the
True Guru - these shall go along with you.
Says Nanak, O
beloved mind, contemplate the True Lord forever. ||11||
O
inaccessible and unfathomable Lord, Your limits cannot be found.
No one has found Your limits; only You Yourself know.
All
living beings and creatures are Your play; how can anyone describe
You?
You speak, and You gaze upon all; You created the Universe.
Says Nanak, You are forever inaccessible; Your limits cannot
be found. ||12||
The angelic beings and the silent sages
search for the Ambrosial Nectar; this Amrit is obtained from
the Guru.
This Amrit is obtained, when the Guru grants His
Grace; He enshrines the True Lord within the mind.
All living
beings and creatures were created by You; only some come to
see the Guru, and seek His blessing.
Their greed, avarice
and egotism are dispelled, and the True Guru seems sweet.
Says Nanak, those with whom the Lord is pleased, obtain the
Amrit, through the Guru. ||13||
The lifestyle of the devotees
is unique and distinct.
The devotees' lifestyle is unique
and distinct; they follow the most difficult path.
They renounce
greed, avarice, egotism and desire; they do not talk too much.
The path they take is sharper than a two-edged sword, and finer
than a hair.
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By Guru's Grace, they shed their selfishness and conceit;
their hopes are merged in the Lord.
Says Nanak, the lifestyle
of the devotees, in each and every age, is unique and distinct.
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As You make me walk, so do I walk, O my Lord and Master;
what else do I know of Your Glorious Virtues?
As You cause
them to walk, they walk - You have placed them on the Path.
In Your Mercy, You attach them to the Naam; they meditate forever
on the Lord, Har, Har.
Those whom You cause to listen to
Your sermon, find peace in the Gurdwara, the Guru's Gate.
Says Nanak, O my True Lord and Master, you make us walk according
to Your Will. ||15||
This song of praise is the Shabad, the
most beautiful Word of God.
This beauteous Shabad is the
everlasting song of praise, spoken by the True Guru.
This
is enshrined in the minds of those who are so pre-destined by
the Lord.
Some wander around, babbling on and on, but none
obtain Him by babbling.
Says Nanak, the Shabad, this song
of praise, has been spoken by the True Guru. ||16||
Those
humble beings who meditate on the Lord become pure.
Meditating
on the Lord, they become pure; as Gurmukh, they meditate on
Him.
They are pure, along with their mothers, fathers, family
and friends; all their companions are pure as well.
Pure
are those who speak, and pure are those who listen; those who
enshrine it within their minds are pure.
Says Nanak, pure
and holy are those who, as Gurmukh, meditate on the Lord, Har,
Har. ||17||
By religious rituals, intuitive poise is not
found; without intuitive poise, skepticism does not depart.
Skepticism does not depart by contrived actions; everybody is
tired of performing these rituals.
The soul is polluted by
skepticism; how can it be cleansed?
Wash your mind by attaching
it to the Shabad, and keep your consciousness focused on the
Lord.
Says Nanak, by Guru's Grace, intuitive poise is produced,
and this skepticism is dispelled. ||18||
Inwardly polluted,
and outwardly pure.
Those who are outwardly pure and yet
polluted within, lose their lives in the gamble.
They contract
this terrible disease of desire, and in their minds, they forget
about dying.
In the Vedas, the ultimate objective is the
Naam, the Name of the Lord; but they do not hear this, and they
wander around like demons.
Says Nanak, those who forsake
Truth and cling to falsehood, lose their lives in the gamble.
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Inwardly pure, and outwardly pure.
Those who are
outwardly pure and also pure within, through the Guru, perform
good deeds.
Not even an iota of falsehood touches them; their
hopes are absorbed in the Truth.
Those who earn the jewel
of this human life, are the most excellent of merchants.
Says Nanak, those whose minds are pure, abide with the Guru
forever. ||20||
If a Sikh turns to the Guru with sincere
faith, as sunmukh
- if a Sikh turns to the Guru with sincere
faith, as sunmukh, his soul abides with the Guru.
Within
his heart, he meditates on the lotus feet of the Guru; deep
within his soul, he contemplates Him.
Renouncing selfishness
and conceit, he remains always on the side of the Guru; he does
not know anyone except the Guru.
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Says Nanak, listen, O Saints: such a Sikh turns toward the
Guru with sincere faith, and becomes sunmukh. ||21||
One
who turns away from the Guru, and becomes baymukh - without
the True Guru, he shall not find liberation.
He shall not
find liberation anywhere else either; go and ask the wise ones
about this.
He shall wander through countless incarnations;
without the True Guru, he shall not find liberation.
But
liberation is attained, when one is attached to the feet of
the True Guru, chanting the Word of the Shabad.
Says Nanak,
contemplate this and see, that without the True Guru, there
is no liberation. ||22||
Come, O beloved Sikhs of the True
Guru, and sing the True Word of His Bani.
Sing the Guru's
Bani, the supreme Word of Words.
Those who are blessed by
the Lord's Glance of Grace - their hearts are imbued with this
Bani.
Drink in this Ambrosial Nectar, and remain in the Lord's
Love forever; meditate on the Lord, the Sustainer of the world.
Says Nanak, sing this True Bani forever. ||23||
Without the
True Guru, other songs are false.
The songs are false without
the True Guru; all other songs are false.
The speakers are
false, and the listeners are false; those who speak and recite
are false.
They may continually chant, 'Har, Har' with their
tongues, but they do not know what they are saying.
Their
consciousness is lured by Maya; they are just reciting mechanically.
Says Nanak, without the True Guru, other songs are false. ||24||
The Word of the Guru's Shabad is a jewel, studded with diamonds.
The mind which is attached to this jewel, merges into the Shabad.
One whose mind is attuned to the Shabad, enshrines love for
the True Lord.
He Himself is the diamond, and He Himself
is the jewel; one who is blessed, understands its value.
Says Nanak, the Shabad is a jewel, studded with diamonds. ||25||
He Himself created Shiva and Shakti, mind and matter; the Creator
subjects them to His Command.
Enforcing His Order, He Himself
sees all. How rare are those who, as Gurmukh, come to know Him.
They break their bonds, and attain liberation; they enshrine
the Shabad within their minds.
Those whom the Lord Himself
makes Gurmukh, lovingly focus their consciousness on the One
Lord.
Says Nanak, He Himself is the Creator; He Himself reveals
the Hukam of His Command. ||26||
The Simritees and the Shaastras
discriminate between good and evil, but they do not know the
true essence of reality.
They do not know the true essence
of reality without the Guru; they do not know the true essence
of reality.
The world is asleep in the three modes and doubt;
it passes the night of its life sleeping.
Those humble beings
remain awake and aware, within whose minds, by Guru's Grace,
the Lord abides; they chant the Ambrosial Word of the Guru's
Bani.
Says Nanak, they alone obtain the essence of reality,
who night and day remain lovingly absorbed in the Lord; they
pass the night of their life awake and aware. ||27||
He nourished
us in the mother's womb; why forget Him from the mind?
Why
forget from the mind such a Great Giver, who gave us sustenance
in the fire of the womb?
Nothing can harm one, whom the Lord
inspires to embrace His Love.
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He Himself is the love, and He Himself is the embrace; the
Gurmukh contemplates Him forever.
Says Nanak, why forget
such a Great Giver from the mind? ||28||
As is the fire within
the womb, so is Maya outside.
The fire of Maya is one and
the same; the Creator has staged this play.
According to
His Will, the child is born, and the family is very pleased.
Love for the Lord wears off, and the child becomes attached
to desires; the script of Maya runs its course.
This is Maya,
by which the Lord is forgotten; emotional attachment and love
of duality well up.
Says Nanak, by Guru's Grace, those who
enshrine love for the Lord find Him, in the midst of Maya. ||29||
The Lord Himself is priceless; His worth cannot be estimated.
His worth cannot be estimated, even though people have grown
weary of trying.
If you meet such a True Guru, offer your
head to Him; your selfishness and conceit will be eradicated
from within.
Your soul belongs to Him; remain united with
Him, and the Lord will come to dwell in your mind.
The Lord
Himself is priceless; very fortunate are those, O Nanak, who
attain to the Lord. ||30||
The Lord is my capital; my mind
is the merchant.
The Lord is my capital, and my mind is the
merchant; through the True Guru, I know my capital.
Meditate
continually on the Lord, Har, Har, O my soul, and you shall
collect your profits daily.
This wealth is obtained by those
who are pleasing to the Lord's Will.
Says Nanak, the Lord
is my capital, and my mind is the merchant. ||31||
O my tongue,
you are engrossed in other tastes, but your thirsty desire is
not quenched.
Your thirst shall not be quenched by any means,
until you attain the subtle essence of the Lord.
If you do
obtain the subtle essence of the Lord, and drink in this essence
of the Lord, you shall not be troubled by desire again.
This
subtle essence of the Lord is obtained by good karma, when one
comes to meet with the True Guru.
Says Nanak, all other tastes
and essences are forgotten, when the Lord comes to dwell within
the mind. ||32||
O my body, the Lord infused His Light into
you, and then you came into the world.
The Lord infused His
Light into you, and then you came into the world.
The Lord
Himself is your mother, and He Himself is your father; He created
the created beings, and revealed the world to them.
By Guru's
Grace, some understand, and then it's a show; it seems like
just a show.
Says Nanak, He laid the foundation of the Universe,
and infused His Light, and then you came into the world. ||33||
My mind has become joyful, hearing of God's coming.
Sing
the songs of joy to welcome the Lord, O my companions; my household
has become the Lord's Mansion.
Sing continually the songs
of joy to welcome the Lord, O my companions, and sorrow and
suffering will not afflict you.
Blessed is that day, when
I am attached to the Guru's feet and meditate on my Husband
Lord.
I have come to know the unstruck sound current and
the Word of the Guru's Shabad; I enjoy the sublime essence of
the Lord, the Lord's Name.
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Says Nanak, God Himself has met me; He is the Doer, the Cause
of causes. ||34||
O my body, why have you come into this
world? What actions have you committed?
And what actions
have you committed, O my body, since you came into this world?
The Lord who formed your form - you have not enshrined that
Lord in your mind.
By Guru's Grace, the Lord abides within
the mind, and one's pre-ordained destiny is fulfilled.
Says
Nanak, this body is adorned and honored, when one's consciousness
is focused on the True Guru. ||35||
O my eyes, the Lord has
infused His Light into you; do not look upon any other than
the Lord.
Do not look upon any other than the Lord; the Lord
alone is worthy of beholding.
This whole world which you
see is the image of the Lord; only the image of the Lord is
seen.
By Guru's Grace, I understand, and I see only the One
Lord; there is no one except the Lord.
Says Nanak, these
eyes were blind; but meeting the True Guru, they became all-seeing.
||36||
O my ears, you were created only to hear the Truth.
To hear the Truth, you were created and attached to the body;
listen to the True Bani.
Hearing it, the mind and body are
rejuvenated, and the tongue is absorbed in Ambrosial Nectar.
The True Lord is unseen and wondrous; His state cannot be described.
Says Nanak, listen to the Ambrosial Naam and become holy; you
were created only to hear the Truth. ||37||
The Lord placed
the soul to the cave of the body, and blew the breath of life
into the musical instrument of the body.
He blew the breath
of life into the musical instrument of the body, and revealed
the nine doors; but He kept the Tenth Door hidden.
Through
the Gurdwara, the Guru's Gate, some are blessed with loving
faith, and the Tenth Door is revealed to them.
There are
many images of the Lord, and the nine treasures of the Naam;
His limits cannot be found.
Says Nanak, the Lord placed the
soul to the cave of the body, and blew the breath of life into
the musical instrument of the body. ||38||
Sing this true
song of praise in the true home of your soul.
Sing the song
of praise in your true home; meditate there on the True Lord
forever.
They alone meditate on You, O True Lord, who are
pleasing to Your Will; as Gurmukh, they understand.
This
Truth is the Lord and Master of all; whoever is blessed, obtains
it.
Says Nanak, sing the true song of praise in the true
home of your soul. ||39||
Listen to the song of bliss, O
most fortunate ones; all your longings shall be fulfilled.
I have obtained the Supreme Lord God, and all sorrows have been
forgotten.
Pain, illness and suffering have departed, listening
to the True Bani.
The Saints and their friends are in ecstasy,
knowing the Perfect Guru.
Pure are the listeners, and pure
are the speakers; the True Guru is all-pervading and permeating.
Prays Nanak, touching the Guru's Feet, the unstruck sound current
of the celestial bugles vibrates and resounds. ||40||1||
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Raamkalee, Sadd ~ The Call Of Death:
One Universal Creator
God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
He is the Great Giver
of the Universe, the Lover of His devotees, throughout the three
worlds.
One who is merged in the Word of the Guru's Shabad
does not know any other.
Dwelling upon the Word of the Guru's
Shabad, he does not know any other; he meditates on the One
Name of the Lord.
By the Grace of Guru Nanak and Guru Angad,
Guru Amar Das obtained the supreme status.
And when the call
came for Him to depart, He merged in the Name of the Lord.
Through devotional worship in this world, the imperishable,
immovable, immeasurable Lord is found. ||1||
The Guru gladly
accepted the Lord's Will, and so the Guru easily reached the
Lord God's Presence.
The True Guru prays to the Lord, "Please,
save my honor. This is my prayer".
Please save the honor
of Your humble servant, O Lord; please bless him with Your Immaculate
Name.
At this time of final departure, it is our only help
and support; it destroys death, and the Messenger of Death.
The Lord God heard the prayer of the True Guru, and granted
His request.
The Lord showered His Mercy, and blended the
True Guru with Himself; He said, "Blessed! Blessed! Wonderful!"||2||
Listen O my Sikhs, my children and Siblings of Destiny; it is
my Lord's Will that I must now go to Him.
The Guru gladly
accepted the Lord's Will, and my Lord God applauded Him.
One who is pleased with the Lord God's Will is a devotee, the
True Guru, the Primal Lord.
The unstruck sound current of
bliss resounds and vibrates; the Lord hugs him close in His
embrace.
O my children, siblings and family, look carefully
in your minds, and see.
The pre-ordained death warrant cannot
be avoided; the Guru is going to be with the Lord God. ||3||
The True Guru, in His Own Sweet Will, sat up and summoned His
family.
Let no one weep for me after I am gone. That would
not please me at all.
When a friend receives a robe of honor,
then his friends are pleased with his honor.
Consider this
and see, O my children and siblings; the Lord has given the
True Guru the robe of supreme honor.
The True Guru Himself
sat up, and appointed the successor to the Throne of Raja Yoga,
the Yoga of Meditation and Success.
All the Sikhs, relatives,
children and siblings have fallen at the Feet of Guru Ram Das.
||4||
Finally, the True Guru said, "When I am gone,
sing Kirtan in Praise of the Lord, in Nirvaanaa."
Call
in the long-haired scholarly Saints of the Lord, to read the
sermon of the Lord, Har, Har.
Read the sermon of the Lord,
and listen to the Lord's Name; the Guru is pleased with love
for the Lord.
Do not bother with offering rice-balls on leaves,
lighting lamps, and other rituals like floating the body out
on the Ganges; instead, let my remains be given up to the Lord's
Pool.
The Lord was pleased as the True Guru spoke; he was
blended then with the all-knowing Primal Lord God.
The Guru
then blessed the Sodhi Ram Das with the ceremonial tilak mark,
the insignia of the True Word of the Shabad. ||5||
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And as the True Guru, the Primal Lord spoke, and the Gursikhs
obeyed His Will.
His son Mohri turned sunmukh, and become
obedient to Him; he bowed, and touched Ram Das' feet.
Then,
everyone bowed and touched the feet of Ram Das, into whom the
Guru infused His essence.
And any that did not bow then because
of envy - later, the True Guru brought them around to bow in
humility.
It pleased the Guru, the Lord, to bestow glorious
greatness upon Him; such was the pre-ordained destiny of the
Lord's Will.
Says Sundar, listen, O Saints: all the world
fell at His feet. ||6||1||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl, Chhant:
One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
Friend, my Friend - standing so near to me is my Friend!
Beloved, the Lord my Beloved - with my eyes, I have seen the
Lord, my Beloved!
With my eyes I have seen Him, sleeping
upon the bed within each and every heart; my Beloved is the
sweetest ambrosial nectar.
He is with all, but he cannot
be found; the fool does not know His taste.
Intoxicated with
the wine of Maya, the mortal babbles on about trivial affairs;
giving in to the illusion, he cannot meet the Lord.
Says
Nanak, without the Guru, he cannot understand the Lord, the
Friend who is standing near everyone. ||1||
God, my God -
the Support of the breath of life is my God.
Merciful Lord,
my Merciful Lord - the Giver of gifts is my Merciful Lord.
The Giver of gifts is infinite and unlimited; deep within each
and every heart, He is so beautiful!
He created Maya, His
slave, so powerfully pervasive - she has enticed all beings
and creatures.
One whom the Lord saves, chants the True Name,
and contemplates the Word of the Guru's Shabad.
Says Nanak,
one who is pleasing to God - God is very dear to him. ||2||
I take pride, I take pride in God; I take pride in my God.
Wise, God is wise; my Lord and Master is all-wise, and all-knowing.
All-wise and all-knowing, and forever supreme; the Name of the
Lord is Ambrosial Nectar.
Those who have such pre-ordained
destiny recorded upon their foreheads, taste it, and are satisfied
with the Lord of the Universe.
They meditate on Him, and
find Him; they place all their pride in Him.
Says Nanak,
He is seated on His eternal throne; True is His royal court.
||3||
The song of joy, the Lord's song of joy; listen to
the song of joy of my God.
The wedding song, God's wedding
song; the unstruck sound current of His wedding song resounds.
The unstruck sound current vibrates, and the Word of the Shabad
resounds; there is continuous, continual rejoicing.
Meditating
on that God, everything is obtained; He does not die, or come
or go.
Thirst is quenched, and hopes are fulfilled; the Gurmukh
meets with the absolute, unmanifest Lord.
Says Nanak, in
the Home of my God, the songs of joy are continuously, continually
heard. ||4||1||
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Raamkalee Fifth Mehl:
Meditate on the Lord, Har, Har,
O mind; don't forget Him, even for an instant.
Enshrine the
Lord, Raam, Raam, Raam, Raam, within your heart and throat.
Enshrine within your heart the Primal Lord, Har, Har, the all-pervading,
supreme, immaculate Lord God.
He sends fear far away; He
is the Destroyer of sin; He eradicates the unbearable pains
of the terrifying world-ocean.
Contemplate the Lord of the
World, the Cherisher of the World, the Lord, the Virtuous Lord
of the Universe.
Prays Nanak, joining the Saadh Sangat, the
Company of the Holy, remember the Lord, day and night. ||1||
His lotus feet are the support and anchor of His humble servants.
He takes the Naam, the Name of the Infinite Lord, as his wealth,
property and treasure.
Those who have the treasure of the
Lord's Name, enjoy the taste of the One Lord.
They meditate
on the Infinite Lord with each and every breath, as their pleasure,
joy and beauty.
The Naam, the Name of the Lord, is the Destroyer
of sins, the only deed of redemption. The Naam drives out the
fear of the Messenger of Death.
Prays Nanak, the support
of His lotus feet is the capital of His humble servant. ||2||
Your Glorious Virtues are endless, O my Lord and Master; no
one knows them all.
Seeing and hearing of Your wondrous plays,
O Merciful Lord, Your devotees narrate them.
All beings and
creatures meditate on You, O Primal Transcendent Lord, Master
of men.
All beings are beggars; You are the One Giver, O
Lord of the Universe, Embodiment of mercy.
He alone is holy,
a Saint, a truly wise person, who is accepted by the Dear Lord.
Prays Nanak, they alone realize You, unto whom You show Mercy.
||3||
I am unworthy and without any master; I seek Your Sanctuary,
Lord.
I am a sacrifice, a sacrifice, a sacrifice to the Divine
Guru, who has implanted the Naam within me.
The Guru blessed
me with the Naam; happiness came, and all my desires were fulfilled.
The fire of desire has been quenched, and peace and tranquility
have come; after such a long separation, I have met my Lord
again.
I have found ecstasy, pleasure and true intuitive
poise, singing the great glories, the song of bliss of the Lord.
Prays Nanak, I have obtained the Name of God from the Perfect
Guru. ||4||2||
Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
Rise early each
morning, and with the Saints, sing the melodious harmony, the
unstruck sound current of the Shabad.
All sins and sufferings
are erased, chanting the Lord's Name, under Guru's Instructions.
Dwell upon the Lord's Name, and drink in the Nectar; day and
night, worship and adore Him.
The merits of Yoga, charity
and religious rituals are obtained by grasping His lotus feet.
Loving devotion to the merciful, enticing Lord takes away all
pain.
Prays Nanak, cross over the world-ocean, meditating
on the Lord, your Lord and Master. ||1||
Meditation on the
Lord of the Universe is an ocean of peace; Your devotees sing
Your Glorious Praises, Lord.
Ecstasy, bliss and great happiness
are obtained by grasping hold of the Guru's feet.
Meeting
with the treasure of peace, their pains are taken away; granting
His Grace, God protects them.
Those who grasp the Lord's
feet - their fears and doubts run away, and they chant the Name
of the Lord.
He thinks of the One Lord, and he sings of the
One God; he gazes upon the One Lord alone.
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Prays Nanak, God has granted His Grace, and I have found
the Perfect True Guru. ||2||
Meet with the holy, humble servants
of God; meeting with the Lord, listen to the Kirtan of His Praises.
God is the Merciful Master, the Lord of wealth; there is no
end to His Virtues.
The Merciful Lord is the Dispeller of
pain, the Giver of Sanctuary, the Eradicator of all evil.
Emotional attachment, sorrow, corruption and pain - chanting
the Naam, the Name of the Lord, one is saved from these.
All beings are Yours, O my God; bless me with Your Mercy, that
I may become the dust under the feet of all men.
Prays Nanak,
O God, be kind to me, that I may chant Your Name, and live.
||3||
God saves His humble devotees, attaching them to His
feet.
Twenty-four hours a day, they meditate in remembrance
on their God; they meditae on the One Name.
Meditating on
that God, they cross over the terrifying world-ocean, and their
comings and goings cease.
They enjoy eternal peace and pleasure,
singing the Kirtan of God's Praises; His Will seems so sweet
to them.
All my desires are fulfilled, meeting with the Perfect
True Guru.
Prays Nanak, God has blended me with Himself;
I shall never suffer pain or sorrow again. ||4||3||
Raamkalee,
Fifth Mehl, Chhant.
Shalok:
In the Sanctuary of His lotus
feet, I sing His Glorious Praises in ecstasy and bliss.
O
Nanak, worship God in adoration, the Eradicator of misfortune.
||1||
Chhant:
God is the Eradicator of misfortune; there
is none other than Him.
Forever and ever, remember the Lord
in meditation; He is permeating the water, the land and the
sky.
He is permeating and pervading the water, the land and
the sky; do not forget Him from your mind, even for an instant.
Blessed was that day, when I grasped the Guru's feet; all virtues
rest in the Lord of the Universe.
So serve Him day and night,
O servant; whatever pleases Him, happens.
Nanak is a sacrifice
to the Giver of peace; his mind and body are enlightened. ||1||
Shalok:
Meditating in remembrance on the Lord, the mind and
body find peace; the thought of duality is dispelled.
Nanak
takes the support of the Lord of the World, the Lord of the
Universe, the Destroyer of troubles. ||1||
Chhant:
The
Merciful Lord has eradicated my fears and troubles.
In ecstasy,
I sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord; God is the Cherisher,
the Master of the meek.
The Cherishing Lord is imperishable,
the One and only Primal Lord; I am imbued with His Love.
When I placed my hands and forehead upon His Feet, He blended
me with Himself; I became awake and aware forever, night and
day.
My soul, body, household and home belong to Him, along
with my body, youth, wealth and property.
Forever and ever,
Nanak is a sacrifice to Him, who cherishes and nurtures all
beings. ||2||
Shalok:
My tongue chants the Name of the
Lord, and chants the Glorious Praises of the Lord of the Universe.
Nanak has grasped the sheltering support of the One Transcendent
Lord, who shall save him in the end. ||1||
Chhant:
He
is God, our Lord and Master, our Saving Grace. Grab hold of
the hem of His robe.
Vibrate, and meditate on the Merciful
Divine Lord in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy; renounce
your intellectual mind.
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Seek the Support of the One Lord, and surrender your soul
to Him; place your hopes only in the Sustainer of the World.
Those who are imbued with the Lord's Name, in the Saadh Sangat,
cross over the terrifying world-ocean.
The corrupting sins
of birth and death are eradicated, and no stain ever sticks
to them again.
Nanak is a sacrifice to the Perfect Primal
Lord; His marriage is eternal. ||3||
Shalok:
Righteous
faith, wealth, sexual success and salvation; the Lord bestows
these four blessings.
One who has such pre-ordained destiny
upon his forehead, O Nanak, has all his desires fulfilled. ||1||
Chhant:
All my desires are fulfilled, meeting with my Immaculate,
Sovereign Lord.
I am in ecstasy, O very fortunate ones; the
Dear Lord has become manifest in my own home.
My Beloved
has come to my home, because of my past actions; how can I count
His Glories?
The Lord, the Giver of peace and intuition,
is infinite and perfect; with what tongue can I describe His
Glorious Virtues?
He hugs me close in His embrace, and merges
me into Himself; there is no place of rest other than Him.
Nanak is forever a sacrifice to the Creator, who is contained
in, and permeating all. ||4||4||
Raag Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
Sing the melodious harmonies, O my companions, and meditate
on the One Lord.
Serve your True Guru, O my companions, and
you shall obtain the fruits of your mind's desires.
Raamkalee,
Fifth Mehl, Ruti ~ The Seasons. Shalok:
One Universal Creator
God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
Bow to the Supreme Lord
God, and seek the dust of the feet of the Holy.
Cast out
your self-conceit, and vibrate, meditate, on the Lord, Har,
Har. O Nanak, God is all-pervading. ||1||
He is the Eradicator
of sins, the Destroyer of fear, the Ocean of peace, the Sovereign
Lord King.
Merciful to the meek, the Destroyer of pain: O
Nanak, always meditate on Him. ||2||
Chhant:
Sing His
Praises, O very fortunate ones, and the Dear Lord God shall
bless you with His Mercy.
Blessed and auspicious is that
season, that month, that moment, that hour, when you chant the
Lord's Glorious Praises.
Blessed are those humble beings,
who are imbued with love for His Praises, and who meditate single-mindedly
on Him.
Their lives become fruitful, and they find that Lord
God.
Donations to charities and religious rituals are not
equal to meditation on the Lord, who destroys all sins.
Prays
Nanak, meditating in remembrance on Him, I live; birth and death
are finished for me. ||1||
Shalok:
Strive for the inaccessible
and unfathomable Lord, and bow in humility to His lotus feet.
O Nanak, that sermon alone is pleasing to You, Lord, which inspires
us to take the Support of the Name. ||1||
Seek the Sanctuary
of the Saints, O friends; meditate in remembrance on your infinite
Lord and Master.
The dried branch shall blossom forth in
its greenery again, O Nanak, meditating on the Lord God. ||2||
Chhant:
The season of spring is delightful; the months of
Chayt and Baisaakhi are the most pleasant months.
I have
obtained the Dear Lord as my Husband, and my mind, body and
breath have blossomed forth.
The eternal, unchanging Lord
has come into my home as my Husband, O my companions; dwelling
upon His lotus feet, I blossom forth in bliss.
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The Lord of the Universe is beautiful, proficient, wise and
all-knowing;
His Virtues are priceless. By great good fortune,
I have found Him; my pain is dispelled, and my hopes are fulfilled.
Prays Nanak, I have entered Your Sanctuary, Lord, and my fear
of death is eradicated. ||2||
Shalok:
Without the Saadh
Sangat, the Company of the Holy, one dies wandering around in
confusion, performing all sorts of rituals.
O Nanak, all
are bound by the attractive bonds of Maya, and the karmic record
of past actions. ||1||
Those who are pleasing to God are
united with Him; He separates others from Himself.
Nanak
has entered the Sanctuary of God; His greatness is glorious!
||2||
Chhant:
In the summer season, in the months of Jayt'h
and Asaarh, the heat is terrible, intense and severe.
The
discarded bride is separated from His Love, and the Lord does
not even look at her.
She does not see her Lord, and she
dies with an aching sigh; she is defrauded and plundered by
her great pride.
She flails around, like a fish out of water;
attached to Maya, she is alienated from the Lord.
She sins,
and so she is fearful of reincarnation; the Messenger of Death
will surely punish her.
Prays Nanak, take me under Your sheltering
support, Lord, and protect me; You are the Fulfiller of desire.
||3||
Shalok:
With loving faith, I am attached to my Beloved;
I cannot survive without Him, even for an instant.
He is
permeating and pervading my mind and body, O Nanak, with intuitive
ease. ||1||
My Friend has taken me by the hand; He has been
my best friend, lifetime after lifetime.
He has made me the
slave of His feet; O Nanak, my consciousness is filled with
love for God. ||2||
Chhant:
The rainy season is beautiful;
the months of Saawan and Bhaadon bring bliss.
The clouds
are low, and heavy with rain; the waters and the lands are filled
with honey.
God is all-pervading everywhere; the nine treasures
of the Lord's Name fill the homes of all hearts.
Meditating
in remembrance on the Lord and Master, the Searcher of hearts,
all one's ancestry is saved.
No blemish sticks to that being
who remains awake and aware in the Love of the Lord; the Merciful
Lord is forever forgiving.
Prays Nanak, I have found my Husband
Lord, who is forever pleasing to my mind. ||4||
Shalok:
Thirsty with desire, I wander around; when will I behold the
Lord of the World?
Is there any humble Saint, any friend,
O Nanak, who can lead me to meet with God? ||1||
Without
meeting Him, I have no peace or tranquility; I cannot survive
for a moment, even for an instant.
Entering the Sanctuary
of the Lord's Holy Saints, O Nanak, my desires are fulfilled.
||2||
Chhant:
In the cool, autumn season, in the months
of Assu and Katik, I am thirsty for the Lord.
Searching for
the Blessed Vision of His Darshan, I wander around wondering,
when will I meet my Lord, the treasure of virtue?
Without
my Beloved Husband Lord, I find no peace, and all my necklaces
and bracelets become cursed.
So beautiful, so wise, so clever
and knowing; still, without the breath, it is just a body.
I look here and there, in the ten directions; my mind is so
thirsty to meet God!
Prays Nanak, shower Your Mercy upon
me; unite me with Yourself, O God, O treasure of virtue. ||5||
Shalok:
The fire of desire is cooled and quenched; my mind
and body are filled with peace and tranquility.
O Nanak,
I have met my Perfect God; the illusion of duality is dispelled.
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The Lord Himself sent His Holy Saints, to tell us that He
is not far away.
O Nanak, doubt and fear are dispelled, chanting
the Name of the all-pervading Lord. ||2||
Chhant:
In the
cold season of Maghar and Poh, the Lord reveals Himself.
My burning desires were quenched, when I obtained the Blessed
Vision of His Darshan; the fraudulent illusion of Maya is gone.
All my desires have been fulfilled, meeting the Lord face-to-face;
I am His servant, I serve at His feet.
My necklaces, hair-ties,
all decorations and adornments, are in singing the Glorious
Praises of the unseen, mysterious Lord.
I long for loving
devotion to the Lord of the Universe, and so the Messenger of
Death cannot even see me.
Prays Nanak, God has united me
with Himself; I shall never suffer separation from my Beloved
again. ||6||
Shalok:
The happy soul bride has found the
wealth of the Lord; her consciousness does not waver.
Joining
together with the Saints, O Nanak, God, my Friend, has revealed
Himself in my home. ||1||
With her Beloved Husband Lord,
she enjoys millions of melodies, pleasures and joys.
The
fruits of the mind's desires are obtained, O Nanak, chanting
the Lord's Name. ||2||
Chhant:
The snowy winter season,
the months of Maagh and Phagun, are pleasing and ennobling to
the mind.
O my friends and companions, sing the songs of
joy; my Husband Lord has come into my home.
My Beloved has
come into my home; I meditate on Him in my mind. The bed of
my heart is beautifully adorned.
The woods, the meadows and
the three worlds have blossomed forth in their greenery; gazing
upon the Blessed Vision of His Darshan, I am fascinated.
I have met my Lord and Master, and my desires are fulfilled;
my mind chants His Immaculate Mantra.
Prays Nanak, I celebrate
continuously; I have met my Husband Lord, the Lord of excellence.
||7||
Shalok:
The Saints are the helpers, the support
of the soul; they carry us cross the terrifying world-ocean.
Know that they are the highest of all; O Nanak, they love the
Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||1||
Those who know Him, cross
over; they are the brave heroes, the heroic warriors.
Nanak
is a sacrifice to those who meditate on the Lord, and cross
over to the other shore. ||2||
Chhant:
His feet are exalted
above all. They eradicate all suffering.
They destroy the
pains of coming and going. They bring loving devotion to the
Lord.
Imbued with the Lord's Love, one is intoxicated with
intuitive peace and poise, and does not forget the Lord from
his mind, even for an instant.
Shedding my self-conceit,
I have entered the Sanctuary of His Feet; all virtues rest in
the Lord of the Universe.
I bow in humility to the Lord of
the Universe, the treasure of virtue, the Lord of excellence,
our Primal Lord and Master.
Prays Nanak, shower me with Your
Mercy, Lord; throughout the ages, You take the same form. ||8||1||6||8||
Raamkalee, First Mehl, Dakhanee, Ongkaar:
One Universal Creator
God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
From Ongkaar, the One
Universal Creator God, Brahma was created.
He kept Ongkaar
in his consciousness.
From Ongkaar, the mountains and the
ages were created.
Ongkaar created the Vedas.
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Ongkaar saves the world through the Shabad.
Ongkaar saves
the Gurmukhs.
Listen to the Message of the Universal, Imperishable
Creator Lord.
The Universal, Imperishable Creator Lord is
the essence of the three worlds. ||1||
Listen, O Pandit,
O religious scholar, why are you writing about worldly debates?
As Gurmukh, write only the Name of the Lord, the Lord of the
World. ||1||Pause||
Sassa: He created the entire universe
with ease; His One Light pervades the three worlds.
Become
Gurmukh, and obtain the real thing; gather the gems and pearls.
If one understands, realizes and comprehends what he reads and
studies, in the end he shall realize that the True Lord dwells
deep within his nucleus.
The Gurmukh sees and contemplates
the True Lord; without the True Lord, the world is false. ||2||
Dhadha: Those who enshrine Dharmic faith and dwell in the City
of Dharma are worthy; their minds are steadfast and stable.
Dhadha: If the dust of their feet touches one's face and forehead,
he is transformed from iron into gold.
Blessed is the Support
of the Earth; He Himself is not born; His measure and speech
are perfect and True.
Only the Creator Himself knows His
own extent; He alone knows the Brave Guru. ||3||
In love
with duality, spiritual wisdom is lost; the mortal rots away
in pride, and eats poison.
He thinks that the sublime essence
of the Guru's song is useless, and he does not like to hear
it. He loses the profound, unfathomable Lord.
Through the
Guru's Words of Truth, the Ambrosial Nectar is obtained, and
the mind and body find joy in the True Lord.
He Himself is
the Gurmukh, and He Himself bestows the Ambrosial Nectar; He
Himself leads us to drink it in. ||4||
Everyone says that
God is the One and only, but they are engrossed in egotism and
pride.
Realize that the One God is inside and outside; understand
this, that the Mansion of His Presence is within the home of
your heart.
God is near at hand; do not think that God is
far away. The One Lord permeates the entire universe.
There
in One Universal Creator Lord; there is no other at all. O Nanak,
merge into the One Lord. ||5||
How can you keep the Creator
under your control? He cannot be seized or measured.
Maya
has made the mortal insane; she has administered the poisonous
drug of falsehood.
Addicted to greed and avarice, the mortal
is ruined, and then later, he regrets and repents.
So serve
the One Lord, and attain the state of Salvation; your comings
and goings shall cease. ||6||
The One Lord is in all actions,
colors and forms.
He manifests in many shapes through wind,
water and fire.
The One Soul wanders through the three worlds.
One who understands and comprehends the One Lord is honored.
One who gathers in spiritual wisdom and meditation, dwells in
the state of balance.
How rare are those who, as Gurmukh,
attain the One Lord.
They alone find peace, whom the Lord
blesses with His Grace.
In the Gurdwara, the Guru's Door,
they speak and hear of the Lord. ||7||
His Light illuminates
the ocean and the earth.
Throughout the three worlds, is
the Guru, the Lord of the World.
The Lord reveals His various
forms;
granting His Grace, He enters the home of the heart.
The clouds hang low, and the rain is pouring down.
The Lord
embellishes and exalts with the Sublime Word of the Shabad.
One who knows the mystery of the One God,
is Himself the
Creator, Himself the Divine Lord. ||8||
When the sun rises,
the demons are slain;
the mortal looks upwards, and contemplates
the Shabad.
The Lord is beyond the beginning and the end,
beyond the three worlds.
He Himself acts, speaks and listens.
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He is the Architect of Destiny; He blesses us with mind and
body.
That Architect of Destiny is in my mind and mouth.
God is the Life of the world; there is no other at all.
O
Nanak, imbued with the Naam, the Name of the Lord, one is honored.
||9||
One who lovingly chants the Name of the Sovereign Lord
King,
fights the battle and conquers his own mind;
day
and night, he remains imbued with the Lord's Love.
He is
famous throughout the three worlds and the four ages.
One
who knows the Lord, becomes like Him.
He becomes absolutely
immaculate, and his body is sanctified.
His heart is happy,
in love with the One Lord.
He lovingly centers his attention
deep within upon the True Word of the Shabad. ||10||
Don't
be angry - drink in the Ambrosial Nectar; you shall not remain
in this world forever.
The ruling kings and the paupers shall
not remain; they come and go, throughout the four ages.
Everyone
says that they will remain, but none of them remain; unto whom
should I offer my prayer?
The One Shabad, the Name of the
Lord, will never fail you; the Guru grants honor and understanding.
||11||
My shyness and hesitation have died and gone, and
I walk with my face unveiled.
The confusion and doubt from
my crazy, insane mother-in-law has been removed from over my
head.
My Beloved has summoned me with joyful caresses; my
mind is filled with the bliss of the Shabad.
Imbued with
the Love of my Beloved, I have become Gurmukh, and carefree.
||12||
Chant the jewel of the Naam, and earn the profit of
the Lord.
Greed, avarice, evil and egotism;
slander, inuendo
and gossip;
the self-willed manmukh is blind, foolish and
ignorant.
For the sake of earning the profit of the Lord,
the mortal comes into the world.
But he becomes a mere slave
laborer, and is mugged by the mugger, Maya.
One who earns
the profit of the Naam, with the capital of faith,
O Nanak,
is truly honored by the True Supreme King. ||13||
The world
is ruined on the path of Death.
No one has the power to erase
Maya's influence.
If wealth visits the home of the lowliest
clown,
seeing that wealth, all pay their respects to him.
Even an idiot is thought of as clever, if he is rich.
Without
devotional worship, the world is insane.
The One Lord is
contained among all.
He reveals Himself, unto those whom
He blesses with His Grace. ||14||
Throughout the ages, the
Lord is eternally established; He has no vengeance.
He is
not subject to birth and death; He is not entangled in worldly
affairs.
Whatever is seen, is the Lord Himself.
Creating
Himself, He establishes Himself in the heart.
He Himself
is unfathomable; He links people to their affairs.
He is
the Way of Yoga, the Life of the World.
Living a righteous
lifestyle, true peace is found.
Without the Naam, the Name
of the Lord, how can anyone find liberation? ||15||
Without
the Name, even one's own body is an enemy.
Why not meet the
Lord, and take away the pain of your mind?
The traveller
comes and goes along the highway.
What did he bring when
he came, and what will he take away when he goes?
Without
the Name, one loses everywhere.
The profit is earned, when
the Lord grants understanding.
In merchandise and trade,
the merchant is trading.
Without the Name, how can one find
honor and nobility? ||16||
One who contemplates the Lord's
Virtues is spiritually wise.
Through His Virtues, one receives
spiritual wisdom.
How rare in this world, is the Giver of
virtue.
The True way of life comes through contemplation
of the Guru.
The Lord is inaccessible and unfathomable. His
worth cannot be estimated.
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They alone meet Him, whom the Lord causes to meet.
The
virtuous soul bride continually contemplates His Virtues.
O Nanak, following the Guru's Teachings, one meets the Lord,
the true friend. ||17||
Unfulfilled sexual desire and unresolved
anger waste the body away,
as gold is dissolved by borax.
The gold is touched to the touchstone, and tested by fire;
when its pure color shows through, it is pleasing to the eye
of the assayer.
The world is a beast, and arrogent Death
is the butcher.
The created beings of the Creator receive
the karma of their actions.
He who created the world, knows
its worth.
What else can be said? There is nothing at all
to say. ||18||
Searching, searching, I drink in the Ambrosial
Nectar.
I have adopted the way of tolerance, and given my
mind to the True Guru.
Everyone calls himself true and genuine.
He alone is true, who obtains the jewel throughout the four
ages.
Eating and drinking, one dies, but still does not know.
He dies in an instant, when he realizes the Word of the Shabad.
His consciousness becomes permanently stable, and his mind accepts
death.
By Guru's Grace, he realizes the Naam, the Name of
the Lord. ||19||
The Profound Lord dwells in the sky of the
mind, the Tenth Gate;
singing His Glorious Praises, one dwells
in intuitive poise and peace.
He does not go to come, or
come to go.
By Guru's Grace, he remains lovingly focused
on the Lord.
The Lord of the mind-sky is inaccessible, independent
and beyond birth.
The most worthy Samaadhi is to keep the
consciousness stable, focused on Him.
Remembering the Lord's
Name, one is not subject to reincarnation.
The Guru's Teachings
are the most Excellent; all other ways lack the Naam, the Name
of the Lord. ||20||
Wandering to countless doorsteps and
homes, I have grown weary.
My incarnations are countless,
without limit.
I have had so many mothers and fathers, sons
and daughters.
I have had so many gurus and disciples.
Through a false guru, liberation is not found.
There are
so many brides of the One Husband Lord - consider this.
The
Gurmukh dies, and lives with God.
Searching in the ten directions,
I found Him within my own home.
I have met Him; the True
Guru has led me to meet Him. ||21||
The Gurmukh sings, and
the Gurmukh speaks.
The Gurmukh evaluates the value of the
Lord, and inspires others to evaluate Him as well.
The Gurmukh
comes and goes without fear.
His filth is taken away, and
his stains are burnt off.
The Gurmukh contemplates the sound
current of the Naad for his Vedas.
The Gurmukh's cleansing
bath is the performance of good deeds.
For the Gurmukh, the
Shabad is the most excellent Ambrosial Nectar.
O Nanak, the
Gurmukh crosses over. ||22||
The fickle consciousness does
not remain stable.
The deer secretly nibbles at the green
sprouts.
One who enshrines the Lord's lotus feet in his heart
and consciousness
lives long, always remembering the Lord.
Everyone has worries and cares.
He alone finds peace, who
thinks of the One Lord.
When the Lord dwells in the consciousness,
and one is absorbed in the Lord's Name,
one is liberated,
and returns home with honor. ||23||
The body falls apart,
when one knot is untied.
Behold, the world is on the decline;
it will be totally destroyed.
Only one who looks alike upon
sunshine and shade
has his bonds shattered; he is liberated
and returns home.
Maya is empty and petty; she has defrauded
the world.
Such destiny is pre-ordained by past actions.
Youth is wasting away; old age and death hover above the head.
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The body falls apart, like algae upon the water. ||24||
God Himself appears throughout the three worlds.
Throughout
the ages, He is the Great Giver; there is no other at all.
As it pleases You, You protect and preserve us.
I ask for
the Lord's Praises, which bless me with honor and credit.
Remaining awake and aware, I am pleasing to You, O Lord.
When You unite me with Yourself, then I am merged in You.
I chant Your Victorious Praises, O Life of the World.
Accepting
the Guru's Teachings, one is sure to merge in the One Lord.
||25||
Why do you speak such nonsense, and argue with the
world?
You shall die repenting, when you see your own insanity.
He is born, only to die, but he does not wish to live.
He
comes hopeful, and then goes, without hope.
Regretting, repenting
and grieving, he is dust mixing with dust.
Death does not
chew up one who sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord.
The
nine treasures are obtained through the Name of the Lord;
the Lord bestows intuitive peace and poise. ||26||
He speaks
spiritual wisdom, and He Himself understands it.
He Himself
knows it, and He Himself comprehends it.
One who takes the
Words of the Guru into his very fiber,
is immaculate and
holy, and is pleasing to the True Lord.
In the ocean of the
Guru, there is no shortage of pearls.
The treasure of jewels
is truly inexhaustible.
Do those deeds which the Guru has
ordained.
Why are you chasing after the Guru's actions?
O Nanak, through the Guru's Teachings, merge in the True Lord.
||27||
Love is broken, when one speaks in defiance.
The
arm is broken, when it is pulled from both sides.
Love breaks,
when the speech goes sour.
The Husband Lord abandons and
leaves behind the evil-minded bride.
The broken knot is tied
again, through contemplation and meditation.
Through the
Word of the Guru's Shabad, one's affairs are resolved in one's
own home.
One who earns the profit of the True Name, will
not lose it again;
the Lord and Master of the three worlds
is your best friend. ||28||
Control your mind, and keep it
in its place.
The world is destroyed by conflict, regretting
its sinful mistakes.
There is one Husband Lord, and all are
His brides.
The false bride wears many costumes.
He stops
her from going into the homes of others;
He summons her to
the Mansion of His Presence, and no obstacles block her path.
She is embellished with the Word of the Shabad, and is loved
by the True Lord.
She is the happy soul bride, who takes
the Support of her Lord and Master. ||29||
Wandering and
roaming around, O my companion, your beautiful robes are torn.
In jealousy, the body is not at peace; without the Fear of God,
multitudes are ruined.
One who remains dead within her own
home, through the Fear of God, is looked upon with favor by
her all-knowing Husband Lord.
She maintains fear of her Guru,
and chants the Name of the Fearless Lord.
Living on the mountain,
I suffer such great thirst; when I see Him, I know that He is
not far away.
My thirst is quenched, and I have accepted
the Word of the Shabad. I drink my fill of the Ambrosial Nectar.
Everyone says, "Give! Give!" As He pleases, He gives.
Through the Gurdwara, the Guru's Door, He gives, and quenches
the thirst. ||30||
Searching and seeking, I fell down and
collapsed upon the bank of the river of life.
Those who are
heavy with sin sink down, but those who are light swim across.
I am a sacrifice to those who meet the immortal and immeasurable
Lord.
The dust of their feet brings emancipation; in their
company, we are united in the Lord's Union.
I gave my mind
to my Guru, and received the Immaculate Name.
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I serve the One who gave me the Naam; I am a sacrifice to
Him.
He who builds, also demolishes; there is no other than
Him.
By Guru's Grace, I contemplate Him, and then my body
does not suffer in pain. ||31||
No one is mine - whose gown
should I grasp and hold? No one ever was, and no one shall ever
be mine.
Coming and going, one is ruined, afflicted with
the disease of dual-mindedness.
Those beings who lack the
Naam, the Name of the Lord, collapse like pillars of salt.
Without the Name, how can they find release? They fall into
hell in the end.
Using a limited number of words, we describe
the unlimited True Lord.
The ignorant lack understanding.
Without the Guru, there is no spiritual wisdom.
The separated
soul is like the broken string of a guitar, which does not vibrate
its sound.
God unites the separated souls with Himself, awakening
their destiny. ||32||
The body is the tree, and the mind
is the bird; the birds in the tree are the five senses.
They
peck at the essence of reality, and merge with the One Lord.
They are never trapped at all.
But the others fly away in
a hurry, when they see the food.
Their feathers are clipped,
and they are caught in the noose; through their mistakes, they
are caught in disaster.
Without the True Lord, how can anyone
find release? The jewel of the Lord's Glorious Praises comes
by the karma of good actions.
When He Himself releases them,
only then are they released. He Himself is the Great Master.
By Guru's Grace, they are released, when He Himself grants His
Grace.
Glorious greatness rests in His Hands. He blesses
those with whom He is pleased. ||33||
The soul trembles and
shakes, when it loses its mooring and support.
Only the support
of the True Lord brings honor and glory. Through it, one's works
are never in vain.
The Lord is eternal and forever stable;
the Guru is stable, and contemplation upon the True Lord is
stable.
O Lord and Master of angels, men and Yogic masters,
You are the support of the unsupported.
In all places and
interspaces, You are the Giver, the Great Giver.
Wherever
I look, there I see You, Lord; You have no end or limitation.
You are pervading and permeating the places and interspaces;
reflecting upon the Word of the Guru's Shabad, You are found.
You give gifts even when they are not asked for; You are great,
inaccessible and infinite. ||34||
O Merciful Lord, You are
the embodiment of mercy; creating the Creation, You behold it.
Please shower Your Mercy upon me, O God, and unite me with Yourself.
In an instant, You destroy and rebuild.
You are all-wise
and all-seeing; You are the Greatest Giver of all givers.
He is the Eradicator of poverty, and the Destroyer of pain;
the Gurmukh realizes spiritual wisdom and meditation. ||35||
Losing his wealth, he cries out in anguish; the fool's consciousness
is engrossed in wealth.
How rare are those who gather the
wealth of Truth, and love the Immaculate Naam, the Name of the
Lord.
If by losing your wealth, you may become absorbed in
the Love of the One Lord, then just let it go.
Dedicate your
mind, and surrender your head; seek only the Support of the
Creator Lord.
Worldly affairs and wanderings cease, when
the mind is filled with the bliss of the Shabad.
Even one's
enemies become friends, meeting with the Guru, the Lord of the
Universe.
Wandering from forest to forest searching, you
will find that those things are within the home of your own
heart.
United by the True Guru, you shall remain united,
and the pains of birth and death will be ended. ||36||
Through
various rituals, one does not find release. Without virtue,
one is sent to the City of Death.
One will not have this
world or the next; committing sinful mistakes, one comes to
regret and repent in the end.
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He has neither spiritual wisdom or meditation; neither Dharmic
faith mor meditation.
Without the Name, how can one be fearless?
How can he understand egotistical pride?
I am so tired -
how can I get there? This ocean has no bottom or end.
I have
no loving companions, whom I can ask for help.
O Nanak, crying
out, "Beloved, Beloved", we are united with the Uniter.
He who separated me, unites me again; my love for the Guru is
infinite. ||37||
Sin is bad, but it is dear to the sinner.
He loads himself with sin, and expands his world through sin.
Sin is far away from one who understands himself.
He is not
afflicted by sorrow or separation.
How can one avoid falling
into hell? How can he cheat the Messenger of Death?
How can
coming and going be forgotten? Falsehood is bad, and death is
cruel.
The mind is enveloped by entanglements, and into entanglements
it falls.
Without the Name, how can anyone be saved? They
rot away in sin. ||38||
Again and again, the crow falls into
the trap.
Then he regrets it, but what can he do now?
Even though he is trapped, he pecks at the food; he does not
understand.
If he meets the True Guru, then he sees with
his eyes.
Like a fish, he is caught in the noose of death.
Do not seek liberation from anyone else, except the Guru, the
Great Giver.
Over and over again, he comes; over and over
again, he goes.
Be absorbed in love for the One Lord, and
remain lovingly focused on Him.
In this way you shall be
saved, and you shall not fall into the trap again. ||39||
She calls out, "Brother, O brother - stay, O brother!"
But he becomes a stranger.
Her brother departs for his own
home, and his sister burns with the pain of separation.
In
this world, her father's home, the daughter, the innocent soul
bride, loves her Young Husband Lord.
If you long for your
Husband Lord, O soul bride, then serve the True Guru with love.
How rare are the spiritually wise, who meet the True Guru, and
truly understand.
All glorious greatness rests in the Lord
and Master's Hands. He grants them, when He is pleased.
How
rare are those who contemplate the Word of the Guru's Bani;
they become Gurmukh.
This is the Bani of the Supreme Being;
through it, one dwells within the home of his inner being. ||40||
Shattering and breaking apart, He creates and re-creates; creating,
He shatters again. He builds up what He has demolished, and
demolishes what He has built.
He dries up the pools which
are full, and fills the dried tanks again. He is all-powerful
and independent.
Deluded by doubt, they have gone insane;
without destiny, what do they obtain?
The Gurmukhs know that
God holds the string; wherever He pulls it, they must go.
Those who sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord, are forever
imbued with His Love; they never again feel regret.
Bhabha:
If someone seeks, and then becomes Gurmukh, then he comes to
dwell in the home of his own heart.
Bhabha: The way of the
terrifying world-ocean is treacherous. Remain free of hope,
in the midst of hope, and you shall cross over.
By Guru's
Grace, one comes to understand himself; in this way, he remains
dead while yet alive. ||41||
Crying out for the wealth and
riches of Maya, they die; but Maya does not go along with them.
The soul-swan arises and departs, sad and depressed, leaving
its wealth behind.
The false mind is hunted by the Messenger
of Death; it carries its faults along when it goes.
The mind
turns inward, and merges with mind, when it is with virtue.
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Crying out, "Mine, mine!", they have died, but
without the Name, they find only pain.
So where are their
forts, mansions, palaces and courts? They are like a short story.
O Nanak, without the True Name, the false just come and go.
He Himself is clever and so very beautiful; He Himself is wise
and all-knowing. ||42||
Those who come, must go in the end;
they come and go, regretting and repenting.
They will pass
through 8.4 millions species; this number does not decrease
or rise.
They alone are saved, who love the Lord.
Their
worldly entanglements are ended, and Maya is conquered.
Whoever
is seen, shall depart; who should I make my friend?
I dedicate
my soul, and place my body and mind in offering before Him.
You are eternally stable, O Creator, Lord and Master; I lean
on Your Support.
Conquered by virtue, egotism is killed;
imbued with the Word of the Shabad, the mind rejects the world.
||43||
Neither the kings nor the nobles will remain; neither
the rich nor the poor will remain.
When one's turn comes,
no one can stay here.
The path is difficult and treacherous;
the pools and mountains are impassable.
My body is filled
with faults; I am dying of grief. Without virtue, how can I
enter my home?
The virtuous take virtue, and meet God; how
can I meet them with love?
If ony I could be like them, chanting
and meditating within my heart on the Lord.
He is overflowing
with faults and demerits, but virtue dwells within him as well.
Without the True Guru, he does not see God's Virtues; he does
not chant the Glorious Virtues of God. ||44||
God's soldiers
take care of their homes; their pay is pre-ordained, before
they come into the world.
They serve their Supreme Lord and
Master, and obtain the profit.
They renounce greed, avarice
and evil, and forget them from their minds.
In the fortress
of the body, they announce the victory of their Supreme King;
they are never ever vanquished.
One who calls himself a servant
of his Lord and Master, and yet speaks defiantly to Him,
shall forfeit his pay, and not be seated upon the throne.
Glorious greatness rests in the hands of my Beloved; He gives,
according to the Pleasure of His Will.
He Himself does everything;
who else should we address? No one else does anything. ||45||
I cannot conceive of any other, who could be seated upon the
royal cushions.
The Supreme Man of men eradicates hell; He
is True, and True is His Name.
I wandered around searching
for Him in the forests and meadows; I contemplate Him within
my mind.
The treasures of myriads of pearls, jewels and emeralds
are in the hands of the True Guru.
Meeting with God, I am
exalted and elevated; I love the One Lord single-mindedly.
O Nanak, one who lovingly meets with his Beloved, earns profit
in the world hereafter.
He who created and formed the creation,
made your form as well.
As Gurmukh, meditate on the Infinite
Lord, who has no end or limitation. ||46||
Rharha: The Dear
Lord is beautiful;
There is no other king, except Him.
Rharha: Listen to the spell, and the Lord will come to dwell
in your mind.
By Guru's Grace, one finds the Lord; do not
be deluded by doubt.
He alone is the true banker, who has
the capital of the wealth of the Lord.
The Gurmukh is perfect
- applaud him!
Through the beautiful Word of the Guru's Bani,
the Lord is obtained; contemplate the Word of the Guru's Shabad.
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Self-conceit is eliminated, and pain is eradicated; the soul
bride obtains her Husband Lord. ||47||
He hoards gold and
silver, but this wealth is false and poisonous, nothing more
than ashes.
He calls himself a banker, gathering wealth,
but he is ruined by his dual-mindedness.
The truthful ones
gather Truth; the True Name is priceless.
The Lord is immaculate
and pure; through Him, their honor is true, and their speech
is true.
You are my friend and companion, all-knowing Lord;
You are the lake, and You are the swan.
I am a sacrifice
to that being, whose mind is filled with the True Lord and Master.
Know the One who created love and attachment to Maya, the Enticer.
One who realizes the all-knowing Primal Lord, looks alike upon
poison and nectar. ||48||
Without patience and forgiveness,
countless hundreds of thousands have perished.
Their numbers
cannot be counted; how could I count them? Bothered and bewildered,
uncounted numbers have died.
One who realizes his Lord and
Master is set free, and not bound by chains.
Through the
Word of the Shabad, enter the Mansion of the Lord's Presence;
you shall be blessed with patience, forgiveness, truth and peace.
Partake of the true wealth of meditation, and the Lord Himself
shall abide within your body.
With mind, body and mouth,
chant His Glorious Virtues forever; courage and composure shall
enter deep within your mind.
Through egotism, one is distracted
and ruined; other than the Lord, all things are corrupt.
Forming His creatures, He placed Himself within them; the Creator
is unattached and infinite. ||49||
No one knows the mystery
of the Creator of the World.
Whatever the Creator of the
World does, is certain to occur.
For wealth, some meditate
on the Lord.
By pre-ordained destiny, wealth is obtained.
For the sake of wealth, some become servants or thieves.
Wealth does not go along with them when they die; it passes
into the hands of others.
Without Truth, honor is not obtained
in the Court of the Lord.
Drinking in the subtle essence
of the Lord, one is emancipated in the end. ||50||
Seeing
and perceiving, O my companions, I am wonder-struck and amazed.
My egotism, which proclaimed itself in possessiveness and self-conceit,
is dead. My mind chants the Word of the Shabad, and attains
spiritual wisdom.
I am so tired of wearing all these necklaces,
hair-ties and bracelets, and decorating myself.
Meeting with
my Beloved, I have found peace; now, I wear the necklace of
total virtue.
O Nanak, the Gurmukh attains the Lord, with
love and affection.
Without the Lord, who has found peace?
Reflect upon this in your mind, and see.
Read about the Lord,
understand the Lord, and enshrine love for the Lord.
Chant
the Lord's Name, and meditate on the Lord; hold tight to the
Support of the Name of the Lord. ||51||
The inscription inscribed
by the Creator Lord cannot be erased, O my companions.
He
who created the universe, in His Mercy, installs His Feet within
us.
Glorious greatness rests in the Hands of the Creator;
reflect upon the Guru, and understand this.
This inscription
cannot be challenged. As it pleases You, You care for me.
By Your Glance of Grace, I have found peace; O Nanak, reflect
upon the Shabad.
The self-willed manmukhs are confused; they
rot away and die. Only by reflecting upon the Guru can they
be saved.
What can anyone say, about that Primal Lord, who
cannot be seen?
I am a sacrifice to my Guru, who has revealed
Him to me, within my own heart. ||52||
That Pandit, that
religious scholar, is said to be well-educated, if he contemplates
knowledge with intuitive ease.
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Considering his knowledge, he finds the essence of reality,
and lovingly focuses his attention on the Name of the Lord.
The self-willed manmukh sells his knowledge; he earns poison,
and eats poison.
The fool does not think of the Word of the
Shabad. He has no understanding, no comprehension. ||53||
That Pandit is called Gurmukh, who imparts understanding to
his students.
Contemplate the Naam, the Name of the Lord;
gather in the Naam, and earn the true profit in this world.
With the true notebook of the true mind, study the most sublime
Word of the Shabad.
O Nanak, he alone is learned, and he
alone is a wise Pandit, who wears the necklace of the Lord's
Name. ||54||1||
Raamkalee, First Mehl, Sidh Gosht ~ Conversations
With The Siddhas:
One Universal Creator God. By The Grace
Of The True Guru:
The Siddhas formed an assembly; sitting
in their Yogic postures, they shouted, "Salute this gathering
of Saints."
I offer my salutation to the One who is
true, infinite and incomparably beautiful.
I cut off my head,
and offer it to Him; I dedicate my body and mind to Him.
O Nanak, meeting with the Saints, Truth is obtained, and one
is spontaneously blessed with distinction. ||1||
What is
the use of wandering around? Purity comes only through Truth.
Without the True Word of the Shabad, no one finds liberation.
||1||Pause||
"Who are you? What is your name? What is
your way? What is your goal?
We pray that you will answer
us truthfully; we are a sacrifice to the humble Saints.
Where
is your seat? Where do you live, boy? Where did you come from,
and where are you going?
Tell us, Nanak - the detached Siddhas
wait to hear your reply. What is your path?"||2||
He
dwells deep within the nucleus of each and every heart. This
is my seat and my home. I walk in harmony with the Will of the
True Guru.
I came from the Celestial Lord God; I go wherever
He orders me to go. I am Nanak, forever under the Command of
His Will.
I sit in the posture of the eternal, imperishable
Lord. These are the Teachings I have received from the Guru.
As Gurmukh, I have come to understand and realize myself; I
merge in the Truest of the True. ||3||
"The world-ocean
is treacherous and impassable; how can one cross over?
Charpat
the Yogi says, O Nanak, think it over, and give us your true
reply."
What answer can I give to someone, who claims
to understand himself?
I speak the Truth; if you have already
crossed over, how can I argue with you? ||4||
The lotus flower
floats untouched upon the surface of the water, and the duck
swims through the stream;
with one's consciousness focused
on the Word of the Shabad, one crosses over the terrifying world-ocean.
O Nanak, chant the Naam, the Name of the Lord.
One who lives
alone, as a hermit, enshrining the One Lord in his mind, remaining
unaffected by hope in the midst of hope,
sees and inspires
others to see the inaccessible, unfathomable Lord. Nanak is
his slave. ||5||
"Listen, Lord, to our prayer. We seek
your true opinion.
Don't be angry with us - please tell us:
How can we find the Guru's Door?"
This fickle mind sits
in its true home, O Nanak, through the Support of the Naam,
the Name of the Lord.
The Creator Himself unites us in Union,
and inspires us to love the Truth. ||6||
"Away from
stores and highways, we live in the woods, among plants and
trees.
For food, we take fruits and roots. This is the spiritual
wisdom spoken by the renunciates.
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We bathe at sacred shrines of pilgrimage, and obtain the
fruits of peace; not even an iota of filth sticks to us.
Luhaareepaa, the disciple of Gorakh says, this is the Way of
Yoga."||7||
In the stores and on the road, do not sleep;
do not let your consciousness covet anyone else's home.
Without
the Name, the mind has no firm support; O Nanak, this hunger
never departs.
The Guru has revealed the stores and the city
within the home of my own heart, where I intuitively carry on
the true trade.
Sleep little, and eat little; O Nanak, this
is the essence of wisdom. ||8||
"Wear the robes of the
sect of Yogis who follow Gorakh; put on the ear-rings, begging
wallet and patched coat.
Among the twelve schools of Yoga,
ours is the highest; among the six schools of philosophy, ours
is the best path.
This is the way to instruct the mind, so
you will never suffer beatings again."
Nanak speaks:
the Gurmukh understands; this is the way that Yoga is attained.
||9||
Let constant absorption in the Word of the Shabad deep
within be your ear-rings; eradicate egotism and attachment.
Discard sexual desire, anger and egotism, and through the Word
of the Guru's Shabad, attain true understanding.
For your
patched coat and begging bowl, see the Lord God pervading and
permeating everywhere; O Nanak, the One Lord will carry you
across.
True is our Lord and Master, and True is His Name.
Analyze it, and you shall find the Word of the Guru to be True.
||10||
Let your mind turn away in detachment from the world,
and let this be your begging bowl. Let the lessons of the five
elements be your cap.
Let the body be your meditation mat,
and the mind your loin cloth.
Let truth, contentment and
self-discipline be your companions.
O Nanak, the Gurmukh
dwells on the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||11||
"Who
is hidden? Who is liberated?
Who is united, inwardly and
outwardly?
Who comes, and who goes?
Who is permeating
and pervading the three worlds?"||12||
He is hidden
within each and every heart. The Gurmukh is liberated.
Through
the Word of the Shabad, one is united, inwardly and outwardly.
The self-willed manmukh perishes, and comes and goes.
O Nanak,
the Gurmukh merges in Truth. ||13||
"How is one placed
in bondage, and consumed by the serpent of Maya?
How does
one lose, and how does one gain?
How does one become immaculate
and pure? How is the darkness of ignorance removed?
One who
understands this essence of reality is our Guru."||14||
Man is bound by evil-mindedness, and consumed by Maya, the serpent.
The self-willed manmukh loses, and the Gurmukh gains.
Meeting
the True Guru, darkness is dispelled.
O Nanak, eradicating
egotism, one merges in the Lord. ||15||
Focused deep within,
in perfect absorption,
the soul-swan does not fly away, and
the body-wall does not collapse.
Then, one knows that his
true home is in the cave of intuitive poise.
O Nanak, the
True Lord loves those who are truthful. ||16||
"Why
have you left your house and become a wandering Udaasee?
Why have you adopted these religious robes?
What merchandise
do you trade?
How will you carry others across with you?"||17||
I became a wandering Udaasee, searching for the Gurmukhs.
I have adopted these robes seeking the Blessed Vision of the
Lord's Darshan.
I trade in the merchandise of Truth.
O
Nanak, as Gurmukh, I carry others across. ||18||
"How
have you changed the course of your life?
With what have
you linked your mind?
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How have you subdued your hopes and desires?
How have
you found the Light deep within your nucleus?
Without teeth,
how can you eat iron?
Give us your true opinion, Nanak."||19||
Born into the House of the True Guru, my wandering in reincarnation
ended.
My mind is attached and attuned to the unstruck sound
current.
Through the Word of the Shabad, my hopes and desires
have been burnt away.
As Gurmukh, I found the Light deep
within the nucleus of my self.
Eradicating the three qualities,
one eats iron.
O Nanak, the Emancipator emancipates. ||20||
"What
can you tell us about the beginning? In what home did the absolute
dwell then?
What are the ear-rings of spiritual wisdom? Who
dwells in each and every heart?
How can one avoid the attack
of death? How can one enter the home of fearlessness?
How
can one know the posture of intuition and contentment, and overcome
one's adversaries?"
Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad,
egotism and corruption are conquered, and then one comes to
dwell in the home of the self within.
One who realizes the
Shabad of the One who created the creation - Nanak is his slave.
||21||
"Where did we come from? Where are we going?
Where will we be absorbed?
One who reveals the meaning of
this Shabad is the Guru, who has no greed at all.
How can
one find the essence of the unmanifest reality? How does one
become Gurmukh, and enshrine love for the Lord?
He Himself
is consciousness, He Himself is the Creator; share with us,
Nanak, your wisdom."
By His Command we come, and by
His Command we go; by His Command, we merge in absorption.
Through the Perfect Guru, live the Truth; through the Word of
the Shabad, the state of dignity is attained. ||22||
We can
only express a sense of wonder about the beginning. The absolute
abided endlessly deep within Himself then.
Consider freedom
from desire to be the ear-rings of the Guru's spiritual wisdom.
The True Lord, the Soul of all, dwells within each and every
heart.
Through the Guru's Word, one merges in the absolute,
and intuitively receives the immaculate essence.
O Nanak,
that Sikh who seeks and finds the Way does not serve any other.
Wonderful and amazing is His Command; He alone realizes His
Command and knows the true way of life of His creatures.
One who eradicates his self-conceit becomes free of desire;
he alone is a Yogi, who enshrines the True Lord deep within.
||23||
From His state of absolute existence, He assumed the
immaculate form; from formless, He assumed the supreme form.
By pleasing the True Guru, the supreme status is obtained, and
one is absorbed in the True Word of the Shabad.
He knows
the True Lord as the One and only; he sends his egotism and
duality far away.
He alone is a Yogi, who realizes the Word
of the Guru's Shabad; the lotus of the heart blossoms forth
within.
If one remains dead while yet alive, then he understands
everything; he knows the Lord deep within himself, who is kind
and compassionate to all.
O Nanak, he is blessed with glorious
greatness; he realizes himself in all beings. ||24||
We emerge
from Truth, and merge into Truth again. The pure being merges
into the One True Lord.
The false come, and find no place
of rest; in duality, they come and go.
This coming and going
in reincarnation is ended through the Word of the Guru's Shabad;
the Lord Himself analyzes and grants His forgiveness.
One
who suffers from the disease of duality, forgets the Naam, the
source of nectar.
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He alone understands, whom the Lord inspires to understand.
Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, one is liberated.
O Nanak, the Emancipator emancipates one who drives out egotism
and duality. ||25||
The self-willed manmukhs are deluded,
under the shadow of death.
They look into the homes of others,
and lose.
The manmukhs are confused by doubt, wandering in
the wilderness.
Having lost their way, they are plundered;
they chant their mantras at cremation grounds.
They do not
think of the Shabad; instead, they utter obscenities.
O Nanak,
those who are attuned to the Truth know peace. ||26||
The
Gurmukh lives in the Fear of God, the True Lord.
Through
the Word of the Guru's Bani, the Gurmukh refines the unrefined.
The Gurmukh sings the immaculate, Glorious Praises of the Lord.
The Gurmukh attains the supreme, sanctified status.
The Gurmukh
meditates on the Lord with every hair of his body.
O Nanak,
the Gurmukh merges in Truth. ||27||
The Gurmukh is pleasing
to the True Guru; this is contemplation on the Vedas.
Pleasing
the True Guru, the Gurmukh is carried across.
Pleasing the
True Guru, the Gurmukh receives the spiritual wisdom of the
Shabad.
Pleasing the True Guru, the Gurmukh comes to know
the path within.
The Gurmukh attains the unseen and infinite
Lord.
O Nanak, the Gurmukh finds the door of liberation.
||28||
The Gurmukh speaks the unspoken wisdom.
In the
midst of his family, the Gurmukh lives a spiritual life.
The Gurmukh lovingly meditates deep within.
The Gurmukh obtains
the Shabad, and righteous conduct.
He knows the mystery of
the Shabad, and inspires others to know it.
O Nanak, burning
away his ego, he merges in the Lord. ||29||
The True Lord
fashioned the earth for the sake of the Gurmukhs.
There,
he set in motion the play of creation and destruction.
One
who is filled with the Word of the Guru's Shabad enshrines love
for the Lord.
Attuned to the Truth, he goes to his home with
honor.
Without the True Word of the Shabad, no one receives
honor.
O Nanak, without the Name, how can one be absorbed
in Truth? ||30||
The Gurmukh obtains the eight miraculous
spiritual powers, and all wisdom.
The Gurmukh crosses over
the terrifying world-ocean, and obtains true understanding.
The Gurmukh knows the ways of truth and untruth.
The Gurmukh
knows worldliness and renunciation.
The Gurmukh crosses over,
and carries others across as well.
O Nanak, the Gurmukh is
emancipated through the Shabad. ||31||
Attuned to the Naam,
the Name of the Lord, egotism is dispelled.
Attuned to the
Naam, they remain absorbed in the True Lord.
Attuned to the
Naam, they contemplate the Way of Yoga.
Attuned to the Naam,
they find the door of liberation.
Attuned to the Naam, they
understand the three worlds.
O Nanak, attuned to the Naam,
eternal peace is found. ||32||
Attuned to the Naam, they
attain Sidh Gosht - conversation with the Siddhas.
Attuned
to the Naam, they practice intense meditation forever.
Attuned
to the Naam, they live the true and excellent lifestyle.
Attuned to the Naam, they contemplate the Lord's virtues and
spiritual wisdom.
Without the Name, all that is spoken is
useless.
O Nanak, attuned to the Naam, their victory is celebrated.
||33||
Through the Perfect Guru, one obtains the Naam, the
Name of the Lord.
The Way of Yoga is to remain absorbed in
Truth.
The Yogis wander in the twelve schools of Yoga; the
Sannyaasis in six and four.
One who remains dead while yet
alive, through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, finds the door
of liberation.
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Without the Shabad, all are attached to duality. Contemplate
this in your heart, and see.
O Nanak, blessed and very fortunate
are those who keep the True Lord enshrined in their hearts.
||34||
The Gurmukh obtains the jewel, lovingly focused on
the Lord.
The Gurmukh intuitively recognizes the value of
this jewel.
The Gurmukh practices Truth in action.
The
mind of the Gurmukh is pleased with the True Lord.
The Gurmukh
sees the unseen, when it pleases the Lord.
O Nanak, the Gurmukh
does not have to endure punishment. ||35||
The Gurmukh is
blessed with the Name, charity and purification.
The Gurmukh
centers his meditation on the celestial Lord.
The Gurmukh
obtains honor in the Court of the Lord.
The Gurmukh obtains
the Supreme Lord, the Destroyer of fear.
The Gurmukh does
good deeds, an inspires others to do so.
O Nanak, the Gurmukh
unites in the Lord's Union. ||36||
The Gurmukh understands
the Simritees, the Shaastras and the Vedas.
The Gurmukh knows
the secrets of each and every heart.
The Gurmukh eliminates
hate and envy.
The Gurmukh erases all accounting.
The
Gurmukh is imbued with love for the Lord's Name.
O Nanak,
the Gurmukh realizes his Lord and Master. ||37||
Without
the Guru, one wanders, coming and going in reincarnation.
Without the Guru, one's work is useless.
Without the Guru,
the mind is totally unsteady.
Without the Guru, one is unsatisfied,
and eats poison.
Without the Guru, one is stung by the poisonous
snake of Maya, and dies.
O Nanak without the Guru, all is
lost. ||38||
One who meets the Guru is carried across.
His sins are erased, and he is emancipated through virtue.
The supreme peace of liberation is attained, contemplating the
Word of the Guru's Shabad.
The Gurmukh is never defeated.
In the store of the body, this mind is the merchant;
O Nanak,
it deals intuitively in Truth. ||39||
The Gurmukh is the
bridge, built by the Architect of Destiny.
The demons of
passion which plundered Sri Lanka - the body - have been conquered.
Ram Chand - the mind - has slaughtered Raawan - pride;
the
Gurmukh understands the secret revealed by Babheekhan.
The
Gurmukh carries even stones across the ocean.
The Gurmukh
saves millions of people. ||40||
The comings and goings in
reincarnation are ended for the Gurmukh.
The Gurmukh is honored
in the Court of the Lord.
The Gurmukh distinguishes the true
from the false.
The Gurmukh focuses his meditation on the
celestial Lord.
In the Court of the Lord, the Gurmukh is
absorbed in His Praises.
O Nanak, the Gurmukh is not bound
by bonds. ||41||
The Gurmukh obtains the Name of the Immaculate
Lord.
Through the Shabad, the Gurmukh burns away his ego.
The Gurmukh sings the Glorious Praises of the True Lord.
The Gurmukh remains absorbed in the True Lord.
Through the
True Name, the Gurmukh is honored and exalted.
O Nanak, the
Gurmukh understands all the worlds. ||42||
"What is
the root, the source of all? What teachings hold for these times?
Who is your guru? Whose disciple are you?
What is that speech,
by which you remain unattached?
Listen to what we say, O
Nanak, you little boy.
Give us your opinion on what we have
said.
How can the Shabad carry us across the terrifying world-ocean?"||43||
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From the air came the beginning. This is the age of the True
Guru's Teachings.
The Shabad is the Guru, upon whom I lovingly
focus my consciousness; I am the chaylaa, the disciple.
Speaking
the Unspoken Speech, I remain unattached.
O Nanak, throughout
the ages, the Lord of the World is my Guru.
I contemplate
the sermon of the Shabad, the Word of the One God.
The Gurmukh
puts out the fire of egotism. ||44||
"With teeth of
wax, how can one chew iron?
What is that food, which takes
away pride?
How can one live in the palace, the home of snow,
wearing robes of fire?
Where is that cave, within which one
may remain unshaken?
Who should we know to be pervading here
and there?
What is that meditation, which leads the mind
to be absorbed in itself?"||45||
Eradicating egotism
and individualism from within,
and erasing duality, the mortal
becomes one with God.
The world is difficult for the foolish,
self-willed manmukh;
practicing the Shabad, one chews iron.
Know the One Lord, inside and out.
O Nanak, the fire is quenched,
through the Pleasure of the True Guru's Will. ||46||
Imbued
with the True Fear of God, pride is taken away;
realize that
He is One, and contemplate the Shabad.
With the True Shabad
abiding deep within the heart,
the body and mind are cooled
and soothed, and colored with the Lord's Love.
The fire of
sexual desire, anger and corruption is quenched.
O Nanak,
the Beloved bestows His Glance of Grace. ||47||
"The
moon of the mind is cool and dark; how is it enlightened?
How does the sun blaze so brilliantly?
How can the constant
watchful gaze of Death be turned away?
By what understanding
is the honor of the Gurmukh preserved?
Who is the warrior,
who conquers Death?
Give us your thoughtful reply, O Nanak."||48||
Giving voice to the Shabad, the moon of the mind is illuminated
with infinity.
When the sun dwells in the house of the moon,
the darkness is dispelled.
Pleasure and pain are just the
same, when one takes the Support of the Naam, the Name of the
Lord.
He Himself saves, and carries us across.
With faith
in the Guru, the mind merges in Truth,
and then, prays Nanak,
one is not consumed by Death. ||49||
The essence of the Naam,
the Name of the Lord, is known to be the most exalted and excellent
of all.
Without the Name, one is afflicted by pain and death.
When one's essence merges into the essence, the mind is satisfied
and fulfilled.
Duality is gone, and one enters into the home
of the One Lord.
The breath blows across the sky of the Tenth
Gate and vibrates.
O Nanak, the mortal then intuitively meets
the eternal, unchanging Lord. ||50||
The absolute Lord is
deep within; the absolute Lord is outside us as well. The absolute
Lord totally fills the three worlds.
One who knows the Lord
in the fourth state, is not subject to virtue or vice.
One
who knows the mystery of God the Absolute, who pervades each
and every heart, knows the Primal Being, the Immaculate Divine
Lord.
That humble being who is imbued with the Immaculate
Naam,
O Nanak, is himself the Primal Lord, the Architect
of Destiny. ||51||
"Everyone speaks of the Absolute
Lord, the unmanifest void.
How can one find this absolute
void?
Who are they, who are attuned to this absolute void?"
They are like the Lord, from whom they originated.
They are
not born, they do not die; they do not come and go.
O Nanak,
the Gurmukhs instruct their minds. ||52||
By practicing control
over the nine gates, one attains perfect control over the Tenth
Gate.
There, the unstruck sound current of the absolute Lord
vibrates and resounds.
Behold the True Lord ever-present,
and merge with Him.
The True Lord is pervading and permeating
each and every heart.
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The hidden Bani of the Word is revealed.
O Nanak, the
True Lord is revealed and known. ||53||
Meeting with the
Lord through intuition and love, peace is found.
The Gurmukh
remains awake and aware; he does not fall sleep.
He enshrines
the unlimited, absolute Shabad deep within.
Chanting the
Shabad, he is liberated, and saves others as well.
Those
who practice the Guru's Teachings are attuned to the Truth.
O Nanak, those who eradicate their self-conceit meet with the
Lord; they do not remain separated by doubt. ||54||
"Where
is that place, where evil thoughts are destroyed?
The mortal
does not understand the essence of reality; why must he suffer
in pain?"
No one can save one who is tied up at Death's
door.
Without the Shabad, no one has any credit or honor.
"How
can one obtain understanding and cross over?"
O Nanak,
the foolish self-willed manmukh does not understand. ||55||
Evil thoughts are erased, contemplating the Word of the Guru's
Shabad.
Meeting with the True Guru, the door of liberation
is found.
The self-willed manmukh does not understand the
essence of reality, and is burnt to ashes.
His evil-mindedness
separates him from the Lord, and he suffers.
Accepting the
Hukam of the Lord's Command, he is blessed with all virtues
and spiritual wisdom.
O Nanak, he is honored in the Court
of the Lord. ||56||
One who possesses the merchandise, the
wealth of the True Name,
crosses over, and carries others
across with him as well.
One who intuitively understands,
and is attuned to the Lord, is honored.
No one can estimate
his worth.
Wherever I look, I see the Lord permeating and
pervading.
O Nanak, through the Love of the True Lord, one
crosses over. ||57||
"Where is the Shabad said to dwell?
What will carry us across the terrifying world-ocean?
The
breath, when exhaled, extends out ten finger lengths; what is
the support of the breath?
Speaking and playing, how can
one be stable and steady? How can the unseen be seen?"
Listen, O master; Nanak prays truly. Instruct your own mind.
The Gurmukh is lovingly attuned to the True Shabad. Bestowing
His Glance of Grace, He unites us in His Union.
He Himself
is all-knowing and all-seeing. By perfect destiny, we merge
in Him. ||58||
That Shabad dwells deep within the nucleus
of all beings. God is invisible; wherever I look, there I see
Him.
The air is the dwelling place of the absolute Lord.
He has no qualities; He has all qualities.
When He bestows
His Glance of Grace, the Shabad comes to abide within the heart,
and doubt is eradicated from within.
The body and mind become
immaculate, through the Immaculate Word of His Bani. Let His
Name be enshrined in your mind.
The Shabad is the Guru, to
carry you across the terrifying world-ocean. Know the One Lord
alone, here and hereafter.
He has no form or color, shadow
or illusion; O Nanak, realize the Shabad. ||59||
O reclusive
hermit, the True, Absolute Lord is the support of the exhaled
breath, which extends out ten finger lengths.
The Gurmukh
speaks and churns the essence of reality, and realizes the unseen,
infinite Lord.
Eradicating the three qualities, he enshrines
the Shabad within, and then, his mind is rid of egotism.
Inside and out, he knows the One Lord alone; he is in love with
the Name of the Lord.
He understands the Sushmana, Ida and
Pingala, when the unseen Lord reveals Himself.
O Nanak, the
True Lord is above these three energy channels. Through the
Word, the Shabad of the True Guru, one merges with Him. ||60||
"The
air is said to be the soul of the mind. But what does the air
feed on?
What is the way of the spiritual teacher, and the
reclusive hermit? What is the occupation of the Siddha?"
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Without the Shabad, the essence does not come, O hermit,
and the thirst of egotism does not depart.
Imbued with the
Shabad, one finds the ambrosial essence, and remains fulfilled
with the True Name.
"What is that wisdom, by which one
remains steady and stable? What food brings satisfaction?"
O Nanak, when one looks upon pain and pleasure alike, through
the True Guru, then he is not consumed by Death. ||61||
If
one is not imbued with the Lord's Love, nor intoxicated with
His subtle essence,
without the Word of the Guru's Shabad,
he is frustrated, and consumed by his own inner fire.
He
does not preserve his semen and seed, and does not chant the
Shabad.
He does not control his breath; he does not worship
and adore the True Lord.
But one who speaks the Unspoken
Speech, and remains balanced,
O Nanak, attains the Lord,
the Supreme Soul. ||62||
By Guru's Grace, one is attuned
to the Lord's Love.
Drinking in the Ambrosial Nectar, he
is intoxicated with the Truth.
Contemplating the Guru, the
fire within is put out.
Drinking in the Ambrosial Nectar,
the soul settles in peace.
Worshipping the True Lord in adoration,
the Gurmukh crosses over the river of life.
O Nanak, after
deep contemplation, this is understood. ||63||
"Where
does this mind-elephant live? Where does the breath reside?
Where should the Shabad reside, so that the wanderings of the
mind may cease?"
When the Lord blesses one with His
Glance of Grace, he leads him to the True Guru. Then, this mind
dwells in its own home within.
When the individual consumes
his egotism, he becomes immaculate, and his wandering mind is
restrained.
"How can the root, the source of all be
realized? How can the soul know itself? How can the sun enter
into the house of the moon?"
The Gurmukh eliminates
egotism from within; then, O Nanak, the sun naturally enters
into the home of the moon. ||64||
When the mind becomes steady
and stable, it abides in the heart, and then the Gurmukh realizes
the root, the source of all.
The breath is seated in the
home of the navel; the Gurmukh searches, and finds the essence
of reality.
This Shabad permeates the nucleus of the self,
deep within, in its own home; the Light of this Shabad pervades
the three worlds.
Hunger for the True Lord shall consume
your pain, and through the True Lord, you shall be satisfied.
The Gurmukh knows the unstruck sound current of the Bani; how
rare are those who understand.
Says Nanak, one who speaks
the Truth is dyed in the color of Truth, which will never fade
away. ||65||
"When this heart and body did not exist,
where did the mind reside?
When there was no support of the
navel lotus, then in which home did the breath reside?
When
there was no form or shape, then how could anyone lovingly focus
on the Shabad?
When there was no dungeon formed from egg
and sperm, who could measure the Lord's value and extent?
When color, dress and form could not be seen, how could the
True Lord be known?"
O Nanak, those who are attuned
to the Naam, the Name of the Lord, are detached. Then and now,
they see the Truest of the True. ||66||
When the heart and
the body did not exist, O hermit, then the mind resided in the
absolute, detached Lord.
When there was no support of the
lotus of the navel, the breath remained in its own home, attuned
to the Lord's Love.
When there was no form or shape or social
class, then the Shabad, in its essence, resided in the unmanifest
Lord.
When the world and the sky did not even exist, the
Light of the Formless Lord filled the three worlds.
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Color, dress and form were contained in the One Lord; the
Shabad was contained in the One, Wondrous Lord.
Without the
True Name, no one can become pure; O Nanak, this is the Unspoken
Speech. ||67||
"How, in what way, was the world formed,
O man? And what disaster will end it?"
In egotism, the
world was formed, O man; forgetting the Naam, it suffers and
dies.
One who becomes Gurmukh contemplates the essence of
spiritual wisdom; through the Shabad, he burns away his egotism.
His body and mind become immaculate, through the Immaculate
Bani of the Word. He remains absorbed in Truth.
Through the
Naam, the Name of the Lord, he remains detached; he enshrines
the True Name in his heart.
O Nanak, without the Name, Yoga
is never attained; reflect upon this in your heart, and see.
||68||
The Gurmukh is one who reflects upon the True Word
of the Shabad.
The True Bani is revealed to the Gurmukh.
The mind of the Gurmukh is drenched with the Lord's Love, but
how rare are those who understand this.
The Gurmukh dwells
in the home of the self, deep within.
The Gurmukh realizes
the Way of Yoga.
O Nanak, the Gurmukh knows the One Lord
alone. ||69||
Without serving the True Guru, Yoga is not
attained;
without meeting the True Guru, no one is liberated.
Without meeting the True Guru, the Naam cannot be found.
Without meeting the True Guru, one suffers in terrible pain.
Without meeting the True Guru, there is only the deep darkness
of egotistical pride.
O Nanak, without the True Guru, one
dies, having lost the opportunity of this life. ||70||
The
Gurmukh conquers his mind by subduing his ego.
The Gurmukh
enshrines Truth in his heart.
The Gurmukh conquers the world;
he knocks down the Messenger of Death, and kills it.
The
Gurmukh does not lose in the Court of the Lord.
The Gurmukh
is united in God's Union; he alone knows.
O Nanak, the Gurmukh
realizes the Word of the Shabad. ||71||
This is the essence
of the Shabad - listen, you hermits and Yogis. Without the Name,
there is no Yoga.
Those who are attuned to the Name, remain
intoxicated night and day; through the Name, they find peace.
Through the Name, everything is revealed; through the Name,
understanding is obtained.
Without the Name, people wear
all sorts of religious robes; the True Lord Himself has confused
them.
The Name is obtained only from the True Guru, O hermit,
and then, the Way of Yoga is found.
Reflect upon this in
your mind, and see; O Nanak, without the Name, there is no liberation.
||72||
You alone know Your state and extent, Lord; What can
anyone say about it?
You Yourself are hidden, and You Yourself
are revealed. You Yourself enjoy all pleasures.
The seekers,
the Siddhas, the many gurus and disciples wander around searching
for You, according to Your Will.
They beg for Your Name,
and You bless them with this charity. I am a sacrifice to the
Blessed Vision of Your Darshan.
The eternal imperishable
Lord God has staged this play; the Gurmukh understands it.
O Nanak, He extends Himself throughout the ages; there is no
other than Him. ||73||1||
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One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
Vaar Of Raamkalee, Third Mehl,
To Be Sung To The Tune Of
'Jodha And Veera Poorbaanee':
Shalok, Third Mehl:
The
True Guru is the field of intuitive wisdom. One who is inspired
to love Him,
plants the seed of the Name there. The Name
sprouts up, and he remains absorbed in the Name.
But this
egotism is the seed of skepticism; it has been uprooted.
It is not planted there, and it does not sprout; whatever God
grants us, we eat.
When water mixes with water, it cannot
be separated again.
O Nanak, the Gurmukh is wonderful; come,
poeple, and see!
But what can the poor people see? They do
not understand.
He alone sees, whom the Lord causes to see;
the Lord comes to dwell in his mind. ||1||
Third Mehl:
The self-willed manmukh is the field of sorrow and suffering.
He plains sorrow, and eats sorrow.
In sorrow he is born,
and in sorrow he dies. Acting in egotism, his life passes away.
He does not understand the coming and going of reincarnation;
the blind man acts in blindness.
He does not know the One
who gives, but he is attached to what is given.
O Nanak,
he acts according to his pre-ordained destiny. He cannot do
anything else. ||2||
Third Mehl:
Meeting the True Guru,
everlasting peace is obtained. He Himself leads us to meet Him.
This is the true meaning of peace, that one becomes immaculate
within oneself.
The doubt of ignorance is eradicated, and
spiritual wisdom is obtained.
Nanak comes to gaze upon the
One Lord alone; wherever he looks, there He is. ||3||
Pauree:
The True Lord created His throne, upon which He sits.
He
Himself is everything; this is what the Word of the Guru's Shabad
says.
Through His almighty creative power, He created and
fashioned the mansions and hotels.
He made the two lamps,
the sun and the moon; He formed the perfect form.
He Himself
sees, and He Himself hears; meditate on the Word of the Guru's
Shabad. ||1||
Waaho! Waaho! Hail, hail, O True King! True
is Your Name. ||1||Pause||
Shalok:
Kabeer, I have ground
myself into henna paste.
O my Husband Lord, You took no notice
of me; You never applied me to Your feet. ||1||
Third Mehl:
O Nanak, my Husband Lord keeps me like henna paste; He blesses
me with His Glance of Grace.
He Himself grinds me, and He
Himself rubs me; He Himself applies me to His feet.
This
is the cup of love of my Lord and Master; He gives it as He
chooses. ||2||
Pauree:
You created the world with its
variety; by the Hukam of Your Command, it comes, goes, and merges
again in You.
You Yourself see, and blossom forth; there
is no one else at all.
As it pleases You, You keep me. Through
the Word of the Guru's Shabad, I understand You.
You are
the strength of all. As it pleases You, You lead us on.
There
is no other as great as You; unto whom should I speak and talk?
||2||
Shalok, Third Mehl:
Deluded by doubt, I wandered
over the whole world. Searching, I became frustrated.
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My Husband Lord has not blessed me with peace and tranquility;
what will work with Him?
By Guru's Grace, I meditate on the
Lord; I enshrine Him deep within my heart.
O Nanak, seated
in his her own home, she finds her Husband Lord, when the Creator
Lord grants His Grace. ||1||
Third Mehl:
Chasing after
worldly affairs, the day is wasted, and the night passes in
sleep.
Speaking lies, one eats poison; the self-willed manmukh
departs, crying out in pain.
The Mesenger of Death holds
his club over the mortal's head; in the love of duality, he
loses his honor.
He never even thinks of the Name of the
Lord; over and over again, he comes and goes in reincarnation.
But if, by Guru's Grace, the Lord's Name comes to dwell in his
mind, then the Messenger of Death will not strike him down with
his club.
Then, O Nanak, he merges intuitively into the Lord,
receiving His Grace. ||2||
Pauree:
Some are linked to
His Praises, when the Lord blesses them with the Guru's Teachings.
Some are blessed with the Name of the eternal, unchanging True
Lord.
Water, air and fire, by His Will, worship Him.
They
are held in the Fear of God; He has formed the perfect form.
The Hukam, the Command of the One Lord is all-pervasive; accepting
it, peace is found. ||3||
Shalok:
Kabeer, such is the
touchstone of the Lord; the false cannot even touch it.
He
alone passes this test of the Lord, who remains dead while yet
alive. ||1||
Third Mehl:
How can this mind be conquered?
How can it be killed?
If one does not accept the Word of
the Shabad, egotism does not depart.
By Guru's Grace, egotism
is eradicated, and then, one is Jivan Mukta - liberated while
yet alive.
O Nanak, one whom the Lord forgives is united
with Him, and then no obstacles block his way. ||2||
Third
Mehl:
Everyone can say that they are dead while yet alive;
how can they be liberated while yet alive?
If someone restrains
himself through the Fear of God, and takes the medicine of the
Love of God,
night and day, he sings the Glorious Praises
of the Lord. In celestial peace and poise, he crosses over the
poisonous, terrifying world-ocean, through the Naam, the Name
of the Lord.
O Nanak, the Gurmukh finds the Lord; he is blessed
with His Glance of Grace. ||3||
Pauree:
God created the
love of duality, and the three modes which pervade the universe.
He created Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, who act according to His
Will.
The Pandits, the religious scholars, and the astrologers
study their books, but they do not understand contemplation.
Everything is Your play, O True Creator Lord.
As it pleases
You, You bless us with forgiveness, and merge us in the True
Word of the Shabad. ||4||
Shalok, Third Mehl:
The man
of false mind practices falsehood.
He runs after Maya, and
yet pretends to be a man of disciplined meditation.
Deluded
by doubt, he visits all the sacred shrines of pilgrimage.
How can such a man of disciplined meditation attain the supreme
status?
By Guru's Grace, one lives the Truth.
O Nanak,
such a man of disciplined meditation attains liberation. ||1||
Third Mehl:
He alone is a man of disciplined meditation,
who practices this self-discipline.
Meeting with the True
Guru, he contemplates the Word of the Shabad.
Serving the
True Guru - this is the only acceptable disciplined meditation.
O Nanak, such a man of disciplined meditation is honored in
the Court of the Lord. ||2||
Pauree:
He created the night
and the day, for the activities of the world.
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Following the Guru's Teachings, one's heart is illumined,
and the darkness is dispelled.
By the Hukam of His Command,
He creates everything; He pervades and permeates all the woods
and meadows.
He Himself is everything; the Gurmukh constantly
chants the Lord's Name.
Through the Shabad, understanding
comes; the True Lord Himself inspires us to understand. ||5||
Shalok, Third Mehl:
He is not called a renunciate, whose
consciousness is filled with doubt.
Donations to him bring
proportionate rewards.
He hungers for the supreme status
of the Fearless, Immaculate Lord;
O Nanak, how rare are those
who offer him this food. ||1||
Third Mehl:
They are not
called renunciates, who take food in the homes of others.
For the sake of their bellies, they wear various religious robes.
They alone are renunciates, O Nanak, who enter into their own
souls.
They seek and find their Husband Lord; they dwell
within the home of their own inner self. ||2||
Pauree:
They sky and the earth are separate, but the True Lord supports
them from within.
True are all those homes and gates, within
which the True Name is enshrined.
The Hukam of the True Lord's
Command is effective everywhere. The Gurmukh merges in the True
Lord.
He Himself is True, and True is His throne. Seated
upon it, He administers true justice.
The Truest of the True
is all-pervading everywhere; the Gurmukh sees the unseen. ||6||
Shalok, Third Mehl:
In the world-ocean, the Infinite Lord
abides. The false come and go in reincarnation.
One who walks
according to his own will, suffers terrible punishment.
All
things are in the world-ocean, but they are obtained only by
the karma of good actions.
O Nanak, he alone obtains the
nine treasures, who walks in the Will of the Lord. ||1||
Third Mehl:
One who intuitively serves the True Guru, loses
his life in egotism.
His tongue does not taste the sublime
essence of the Lord, and his heart-lotus does not blossom forth.
The self-willed manmukh eats poison and dies; he is ruined by
love and attachment to Maya.
Without the Name of the One
Lord, his life is cursed, and his home is cursed as well.
When God Himself bestows His Glance of Grace, then one becomes
the slave of His slaves.
And then, night and day, he serves
the True Guru, and never leaves His side.
As the lotus flower
floats unaffected in the water, so does he remain detached in
his own household.
O servant Nanak, the Lord acts, and inspires
everyone to act, according to the Pleasure of His Will. He is
the treasure of virtue. ||2||
Pauree:
For thirty-six ages,
there was utter darkness. Then, the Lord revealed Himself.
He Himself created the entire universe. He Himself blessed it
with understanding.
He created the Simritees and the Shaastras;
He calculates the accounts of virtue and vice.
He alone understands,
whom the Lord inspires to understand and to be pleased with
the True Word of the Shabad.
He Himself is all-pervading;
He Himself forgives, and unites with Himself. ||7||
Shalok,
Third Mehl:
This body is all blood; without blood, the body
cannot exist.
Those who are attuned to their Lord - their
bodies are not filled with the blood of greed.
In the Fear
of God, the body becomes thin, and the blood of greed passes
out of the body.
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As fire purifies metal, so does the Fear of the Lord eradicate
the filth of evil-mindedness.
O Nanak, beautiful are those
humble beings, who are imbued with the Lord's Love. ||1||
Third Mehl:
In Raamkalee, I have enshrined the Lord in my
mind; thus I have been embellished.
Through the Word of the
Guru's Shabad, my heart-lotus has blossomed forth; the Lord
blessed me with the treasure of devotional worship.
My doubt
was dispelled, and I woke up; the darkness of ignorance was
dispelled.
She who is in love with her Lord, is the most
infinitely beautiful.
Such a beautiful, happy soul-bride
enjoys her Husband Lord forever.
The self-willed manmukhs
do not know how to decorate themselves; wasting their whole
lives, they depart.
Those who decorate themselves without
devotional worship to the Lord, are continually reincarnated
to suffer.
They do not obtain respect in this world; the
Creator Lord alone knows what will happen to them in the world
hereafter.
O Nanak, the True Lord is the One and only; duality
exists only in the world.
He Himself enjoins them to good
and bad; they do only that which the Creator Lord causes them
to do. ||2||
Third Mehl:
Without serving the True Guru,
tranquility is not obtained. It cannot be found anywhere else.
No matter how much one may long for it, without the karma of
good actions, it cannot be found.
Those whose inner beings
are filled with greed and corruption, are ruined through the
love of duality.
The cycle of birth and death is not ended,
and filled with egotism, they suffer in pain.
Those who focus
their consciousness on the True Guru, do not remain unfulfilled.
They are not summoned by the Messenger of Death, and they do
not suffer in pain.
O Nanak, the Gurmukh is saved, merging
in the True Word of the Shabad. ||3||
Pauree:
He Himself
remains unattached forever; all others run after worldly affairs.
He Himself is eternal, unchanging and unmoving; the others continue
coming and going in reincarnation.
Meditating on the Lord
forever and ever, the Gurmukh finds peace.
He dwells in the
home of his own inner being, absorbed in the Praise of the True
Lord.
The True Lord is profound and unfathomable; through
the Word of the Guru's Shabad, He is understood. ||8||
Shalok,
Third Mehl:
Meditate on the True Name; the True Lord is all-pervading.
O Nanak, one who realizes the Hukam of the Lord's Command, obtains
the fruit of Truth.
One who merely mouths the words, does
not understand the Hukam of the True Lord's Command.
O Nanak,
one who accepts the Will of the Lord is His devotee. Without
accepting it, he is the falsest of the false. ||1||
Third
Mehl:
The self-willed manmukhs do not know what they are
saying. They are filled with sexual desire, anger and egotism.
They do not understand right places and wrong places; they are
filled with greed and corruption.
They come, and sit and
talk for their own purposes. The Messenger of Death strikes
them down.
Hereafter, they are called to account in the Court
of the Lord; the false ones are struck down and humiliated.
How can this filth of falsehood be washed off? Can anyone think
about this, and find the way?
If one meets with the True
Guru, He implants the Naam, the Name of the Lord within; all
his sins are destroyed.
Let all bow in humility to that humble
being who chants the Naam, and worships the Naam in adoration.
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The Naam washes off the filth of falsehood; chanting the
Naam, one becomes truthful.
O servant Nanak, wondrous are
the plays of the Lord, the Giver of life. ||2||
Pauree:
You are the Great Giver; no other is as great as You. Unto whom
should I speak and talk?
By Guru's Grace, I find You; You
eradicate egotism from within.
You are beyond sweet and salty
flavors; True is Your glorious greatness.
You bless those
whom You forgive, and unite them with Yourself.
You have
placed the Ambrosial Nectar deep within the heart; the Gurmukh
drinks it in. ||9||
Shalok, Third Mehl:
The stories of
one's ancestors make the children good children.
They accept
what is pleasing to the Will of the True Guru, and act accordingly.
Go and consult the Simritees, the Shaastras, the writings of
Vyaas, Suk Dayv, Naarad, and all those who preach to the world.
Those, whom the True Lord attaches, are attached to the Truth;
they contemplate the True Name forever.
O Nanak, their coming
into the world is approved; they redeem all their ancestors.
||1||
Third Mehl:
The disciples whose teacher is blind,
act blindly as well.
They walk according to their own wills,
and continually speak falsehood and lies.
They practice falsehood
and deception, and endlessly slander others.
Slandering others,
they drown themselves, and drown all their generations as well.
O Nanak, whatever the Lord links them to, to that they are linked;
what can the poor creatures do? ||2||
Pauree:
He keeps
all under His Gaze; He created the entire Universe.
He has
linked some to falsehood and deception; these self-willed manmukhs
are plundered.
The Gurmukhs meditate on the Lord forever;
their inner beings are filled with love.
Those who have the
treasure of virtue, chant the Praises of the Lord.
O Nanak,
meditate on the Naam, and the Glorious Praises of the True Lord.
||10||
Shalok, First Mehl:
Men of charity gather wealth
by committing sins, and then give it away in donations to charity.
Their spiritual teachers go to their homes to instruct them.
The woman loves the man only for his wealth;
they come and
go as they please.
No one obeys the Shaastras or the Vedas.
Everyone worships himself.
Becoming judges, they sit and
administer justice.
They chant on their malas, and call upon
God.
They accept bribes, and block justice.
If someone
asks them, they read quotations from their books.
The Muslim
scriptures are in their ears and in their hearts.
They plunder
the people, and engage in gossip and flattery.
They anoint
their kitchens to try to become pure.
Behold, such is the
Hindu.
The Yogi, with matted hair and ashes on his body,
has become a householder.
The children weep in front of him
and behind him.
He does not attain Yoga - he has lost his
way.
Why does he apply ashes to his forehead?
O Nanak,
this is the sign of the Dark Age of Kali Yuga;
everyone says
that he himself knows. ||1||
First Mehl:
The Hindu comes
to the house of a Hindu.
He puts the sacred thread around
his neck and reads the scriptures.
He puts on the thread,
but does evil deeds.
His cleansings and washings will not
be approved.
The Muslim glorifies his own faith.
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Without the Guru or a spiritual teacher, no one is accepted.
They may be shown the way, but only a few go there.
Without
the karma of good actions, heaven is not attained.
The Way
of Yoga is demonstrated in the Yogi's monastery.
They wear
ear-rings to show the way.
Wearing ear-rings, they wander
around the world.
The Creator Lord is everywhere.
There
are as many travellers as there are beings.
When one's death
warrant is issued, there is no delay.
One who knows the Lord
here, realizes Him there as well.
Others, whether Hindu or
Muslim, are just babbling.
Everyone's account is read in
the Court of the Lord;
without the karma of good actions,
no one crosses over.
One who speaks the True Name of the
True Lord,
O Nanak, is not called to account hereafter. ||2||
Pauree:
The fortress of the body is called the Mansion of
the Lord.
The rubies and gems are found within it; the Gurmukh
chants the Name of the Lord.
The body, the Mansion of the
Lord, is very beautiful, when the Name of the Lord, Har, Har,
is implanted deep within.
The self-willed manmukhs ruin themselves;
they boil continuously in attachment to Maya.
The One Lord
is the Master of all. He is found only by perfect destiny. ||11||
Shalok, First Mehl:
There is no Truth in suffering, there
is no Truth in comfort. There is no Truth in wandering like
animals through the water.
There is no Truth in shaving one's
head; there is no Truth is studying the scriptures or wandering
in foreign lands.
There is no Truth in trees, plants or stones,
in mutilating oneself or suffering in pain.
There is no Truth
in binding elephants in chains; there is no Truth in grazing
cows.
He alone grants it, whose hands hold spritual perfection;
he alone receives it, unto whom it is given.
O Nanak, he
alone is blessed with glorious greatness, whose heart is filled
with the Word of the Shabad.
God says, all hearts are mine,
and I am in all hearts. Who can explain this to one who is confused?
Who can confuse that being, unto whom I have shown the Way?
And who can show the Path to that being whom I have confused
since the beginning of time? ||1||
First Mehl:
He alone
is a householder, who restrains his passions
and begs for
meditation, austerity and self-discipline.
He gives donations
to charity with his body;
such a householder is as pure as
the water of the Ganges.
Says Eeshar, the Lord is the embodiment
of Truth.
The supreme essence of reality has no shape or
form. ||2||
First Mehl:
He alone is a detached hermit,
who burns away his self-conceit.
He begs for suffering as
his food.
In the city of the heart, he begs for charity.
Such a renunciate ascends to the City of God.
Says Gorakh,
God is the embodiment of Truth;
the supreme essence of reality
has no shape or form. ||3||
First Mehl:
He alone is an
Udasi, a shaven-headed renunciate, who embraces renunciation.
He sees the Immaculate Lord dwelling in both the upper and lower
regions.
He balances the sun and the moon energies.
The
body-wall of such an Udasi does not collapse.
Says Gopi Chand,
God is the embodiment of Truth;
the supreme essence of reality
has no shape or form. ||4||
First Mehl:
He alone is a
Paakhandi, who cleanses his body of filth.
The fire of his
body illuminates God within.
He does not waste his energy
in wet dreams.
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Such a Paakhandi does not grow old or die.
Says Charpat,
God is the embodiment of Truth;
the supreme essence of reality
has no shape or form. ||5||
First Mehl:
He alone is a
Bairaagi, who turns himself toward God.
In the Tenth Gate,
the sky of the mind, he erects his pillar.
Night and day,
he remains in deep inner meditation.
Such a Bairaagi is just
like the True Lord.
Says Bhart'har, God is the embodiment
of Truth;
the supreme essence of reality has no shape or
form. ||6||
First Mehl:
How is evil eradicated? How can
the true way of life be found?
What is the use of piercing
the ears, or begging for food?
Throughout existence and non-existence,
there is only the Name of the One Lord.
What is that Word,
which holds the heart in its place?
When you look alike upon
sunshine and shade,
says Nanak, then the Guru will speak
to you.
The students follow the six systems.
They are
neither worldly people, nor detached renunciates.
One who
remains absorbed in the Formless Lord
- why should he go
out begging? ||7||
Pauree:
That alone is said to be the
Lord's temple, where the Lord is known.
In the human body,
the Guru's Word is found, when one understands that the Lord,
the Supreme Soul, is in all.
Don't look for Him outside your
self. The Creator, the Architect of Destiny, is within the home
of your own heart.
The self-willed manmukh does not appreciate
the value of the Lord's temple; they waste away and lose their
lives.
The One Lord is pervading in all; through the Word
of the Guru's Shabad, He can be found. ||12||
Shalok, Third
Mehl:
Only a fool listens to the words of the fool.
What
are the signs of the fool? What does the fool do?
A fool
is stupid; he dies of egotism.
His actions always bring him
pain; he lives in pain.
If someone's beloved friend falls
into the pit, what can be used to pull him out?
One who becomes
Gurmukh contemplates the Lord, and remains detached.
Chanting
the Lord's Name, he saves himself, and he carries across those
who are drowning as well.
O Nanak, he acts in accordance
with the Will of God; he endures whatever he is given. ||1||
First Mehl:
Says Nanak, listen, O mind, to the True Teachings.
Opening His ledger, God will call you to account.
Those rebels
who have unpaid accounts shall be called out.
Azraa-eel,
the Angel of Death, shall be appointed to punish them.
They
will find no way to escape coming and going in reincarnation;
they are trapped in the narrow path.
Falsehood will come
to an end, O Nanak, and Truth will prevail in the end. ||2||
Pauree:
The body and everything belongs to the Lord; the
Lord Himself is all-pervading.
The Lord's value cannot be
estimated; nothing can be said about it.
By Guru's Grace,
one praises the Lord, imbued with feelings of devotion.
The
mind and body are totally rejuvenated, and egotism is eradicated.
Everything is the play of the Lord. The Gurmukh understands
this. ||13||
Shalok, First Mehl:
Branded with a thousand
marks of disgrace, Indra cried in shame.
Paras Raam returned
home crying.
Ajai cried and wept, when he was made to eat
the manure he had given, pretending it was charity.
Such
is the punishment received in the Court of the Lord.
Rama
wept when he was sent into exile,
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and separated from Sita and Lakhshman.
The ten-headed
Raawan, who stole away Sita with the beat of his tambourine,
wept when he lost Sri Lanka.
The Paandavas once lived in
the Presence of the Lord; they were made slaves, and wept.
Janmayjaa wept, that he had lost his way.
One mistake, and
he became a sinner.
The Shaykhs, Pirs and spiritual teachers
weep;
at the very last instant, they suffer in agony.
The kings weep - their ears are cut;
they go begging from
house to house.
The miser weeps; he has to leave behind the
wealth he has gathered.
The Pandit, the religious scholar,
weeps when his learning is gone.
The young woman weeps because
she has no husband.
O Nanak, the whole world is suffering.
He alone is victorious, who believes in the Lord's Name.
No other action is of any account. ||1||
Second Mehl:
Meditation, austerity and everything come through belief in
the Lord's Name. All other actions are useless.
O Nanak,
believe in the One who is worth believing in. By Guru's Grace,
he is realized. ||2||
Pauree:
The union of the body and
the soul-swan was pre-ordained by the Creator Lord.
He is
hidden, and yet pervading all. He is revealed to the Gurmukh.
Singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord, and chanting His Praises,
one merges in His Glories.
True is the True Word of the Guru's
Bani. One unites in Union with the True Lord.
He Himself
is everything; He Himself grants glorious greatness. ||14||
Shalok, Second Mehl:
O Nanak, the blind man may go to appraise
the jewels,
but he will not know their value; he will return
home after exposing his ignorance. ||1||
Second Mehl:
The Jeweller has come, and opened up the bag of jewels.
The
merchandise and the merchant are merged together.
They alone
purchase the gem, O Nanak, who have virtue in their purse.
Those who do not appreciate the value of the jewels, wander
like blind men in the world. ||2||
Pauree:
The fortress
of the body has nine gates; the tenth gate is kept hidden.
The rigid door is not open; only through the Word of the Guru's
Shabad can it be opened.
The unstruck sound current resounds
and vibrates there. The Word of the Guru's Shabad is heard.
Deep within the nucleus of the heart, the Divine Light shines
forth. Through devotional worship, one meets the Lord.
The
One Lord is pervading and permeating all. He Himself created
the creation. ||15||
Shalok, Second Mehl:
He is truly
blind, who follows the way shown by the blind man.
O Nanak,
why should the one who can see, get lost?
Do not call them
blind, who have no eyes in their face.
They alone are blind,
O Nanak, who wander away from their Lord and Master. ||1||
Second Mehl:
One whom the Lord has made blind - the Lord
can make him see again.
He acts only as he knows, although
he may be spoken to a hundred times.
Where the real thing
is not seen, self-conceit prevails there - know this well.
O Nanak, how can the purshaser purchase the real thing, if he
cannot recognize it? ||2||
Second Mehl:
How can someone
be called blind, if he was made blind by the Lord's Command?
O Nanak, one who does not understand the Hukam of the Lord's
Command should be called blind. ||3||
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Pauree:
Deep within the body is the fortress of the Lord,
and all lands and countries.
He Himself sits in primal, profound
Samaadhi; He Himself is all-pervading.
He Himself created
the Universe, and He Himself remains hidden within it.
Serving
the Guru, the Lord is known, and the Truth is revealed.
He
is True, the Truest of the True; the Guru has imparted this
understanding. ||16||
Shalok, First Mehl:
Night is the
summer season, and day is the winter season; sexual desire and
anger are the two fields planted.
Greed prepares the soil,
and the seed of falsehood is planted; attachment and love are
the farmer and hired hand.
Contemplation is the plow, and
corruption is the harvest; this is what one earns and eats,
according to the Hukam of the Lord's Command.
O Nanak, when
one is called to give his account, he will be barren and infertile.
||1||
First Mehl:
Make the Fear of God the farm, purity
the water, truth and contentment the cows and bulls,
humility
the plow, consciousness the plowman, remembrance the preparation
of the soil, and union with the Lord the planting time.
Let
the Lord's Name be the seed, and His Forgiving Grace the harvest.
Do this, and the whole world will seem false.
O Nanak, if
He bestows His Merciful Glance of Grace, then all your separation
will be ended. ||2||
Pauree:
The self-willed manmukh is
trapped in the darkness of emotional attachment; in the love
of duality he speaks.
The love of duality brings pain forever;
he churns the water endlessly.
The Gurmukh meditates on the
Naam, the Name of the Lord; he churns, and obtains the essence
of reality.
The Divine Light illuminates his heart deep within;
he seeks the Lord, and obtains Him.
He Himself deludes in
doubt; no one can comment on this. ||17||
Shalok, Second
Mehl:
O Nanak, don't be anxious; the Lord will take care
of you.
He created the creatures in water, and He gives them
their nourishment.
There are no stores open there, and no
one farms there.
No business is ever transacted there, and
no one buys or sells.
Animals eat other animals; this is
what the Lord has given them as food.
He created them in
the oceans, and He provides for them as well.
O Nanak, don't
be anxious; the Lord will take care of you. ||1||
First Mehl:
O Nanak, this soul is the fish, and death is the hungry fisherman.
The blind man does not even think of this. And suddenly, the
net is cast.
O Nanak, his consciousness is unconscious, and
he departs, bound by anxiety.
But if the Lord bestows His
Glance of Grace, then He unites the soul with Himself. ||2||
Pauree:
They are true, forever true, who drink in the sublime
essence of the Lord.
The True Lord abides in the mind of
the Gurmukh; He strikes the true bargain.
Everything is in
the home of the self within; only the very fortunate obtain
it.
The hunger within is conquered and overcome, singing
the Glorious Praises of the Lord.
He Himself unites in His
Union; He Himself blesses them with understanding. ||18||
Shalok, First Mehl:
The cotton is ginned, woven and spun;
the cloth is laid out, washed and bleached white.
The tailor
cuts it with his scissors, and sews it with his thread.
Thus,
the torn and tattered honor is sewn up again, through the Lord's
Praise, O Nanak, and one lives the true life.
Becoming worn,
the cloth is torn; with needle and thread it is sewn up again.
It will not last for a month, or even a week. It barely lasts
for an hour, or even a moment.
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But the Truth does not grow old; and when it is stitched,
it is never torn again.
O Nanak, the Lord and Master is the
Truest of the True. While we meditate on Him, we see Him. ||1||
First Mehl:
The knife is Truth, and its steel is totally
True.
Its workmanship is incomparably beautiful.
It is
sharpened on the grindstone of the Shabad.
It is placed in
the scabbard of virtue.
If the Shaykh is killed with that,
then the blood of greed will spill out.
One who is slaughtered
in this ritualistic way, will be attached to the Lord.
O
Nanak, at the Lord's door, he is absorbed into His Blessed Vision.
||2||
First Mehl:
A beautiful dagger hangs by your waist,
and you ride such a beautiful horse.
But don't be too proud;
O Nanak, you may fall head first to the ground. ||3||
Pauree:
They alone walk as Gurmukh, who receive the Shabad in the Sat
Sangat, the True Congregation.
Meditating on the True Lord,
they become truthful; they carry in their robes the supplies
of the Lord's wealth.
The devotees look beautiful, singing
the Praises of the Lord; following the Guru's Teachings, they
become stable and unchanging.
They enshrine the jewel of
contemplation within their minds, and the most sublime Word
of the Guru's Shabad.
He Himself unites in His Union; He
Himself grants glorious greatness. ||19||
Shalok, Third Mehl:
Everyone is filled with hope; hardly anyone is free of hope.
O Nanak, blessed is the birth of one, who remains dead while
yet alive. ||1||
Third Mehl:
Nothing is in the hands of
hope. How can one become free of hope?
What can this poor
being do? The Lord Himself creates confusion. ||2||
Pauree:
Cursed is the life in this world, without the True Name.
God is the Great Giver of givers. His wealth is permanent and
unchanging.
That humble being is immaculate, who worships
the Lord with each and every breath.
With your tongue, vibrate
the One Inaccessible Lord, the Inner-knower, the Searcher of
hearts.
He is all-pervading everywhere. Nanak is a sacrifice
to Him. ||20||
Shalok, First Mehl:
The union between the
lake of the True Guru, and the swan of the soul, was pre-ordained
from the very beginning, by the Pleasure of the Lord's Will.
The diamonds are in this lake; they are the food of the swans.
The cranes and the ravens may be very wise, but they do not
remain in this lake.
They do not find their food there; their
food is different.
Practicing Truth, the True Lord is found.
False is the pride of the false.
O Nanak, they alone meet
the True Guru, who are so pre-destined by the Lord's Command.
||1||
First Mehl:
My Lord and Master is immaculate, as
are those who think of Him.
O Nanak, serve Him, who gives
to you forever and ever.
O Nanak, serve Him; by serving Him,
sorrow is dispelled.
Faults and demerits vanish, and virtues
take their place; peace comes to dwell in the mind. ||2||
Pauree:
He Himself is all-pervading; He Himself is absorbed
in the profound state of Samaadhi.
He Himself instructs;
the Gurmukh is satisfied and fulfilled.
Some, He causes to
wander in the wilderness, while others are committed to His
devotional worship.
He alone understands, whom the Lord causes
to understand; He Himself attaches mortals to His Name.
O
Nanak, meditating on the Naam, the Name of the Lord, true greatness
is obtained. ||21||1||
Sudh||
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Vaar Of Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:
One Universal Creator God.
By The Grace Of The True Guru:
Shalok, Fifth Mehl:
As
I have heard of the True Guru, so I have seen Him.
He re-unites
the separated ones with God; He is the Mediator at the Court
of the Lord.
He implants the Mantra of the Lord's Name, and
eradicates the illness of egotism.
O Nanak, he alone meets
the True Guru, who has such union pre-ordained. ||1||
Fifth
Mehl:
If the One Lord is my Friend, then all are my friends.
If the One Lord is my enemy, then all fight with me.
The
Perfect Guru has shown me that, without the Name, everything
is useless.
The faithless cynics and the evil people wander
in reincarnation; they are attached to other tastes.
Servant
Nanak has realized the Lord God, by the Grace of the Guru, the
True Guru. ||2||
Pauree:
The Creator Lord created the
Creation.
He Himself is the perfect Banker; He Himself earns
His profit.
He Himself made the expansive Universe; He Himself
is imbued with joy.
The value of God's almighty creative
power cannot be estimated.
He is inaccessible, unfathomable,
endless, the farthest of the far.
He Himself is the greatest
Emperor; He Himself is His own Prime Minister.
No one knows
His worth, or the greatness of His resting place.
He Himself
is our True Lord and Master. He reveals Himself to the Gurmukh.
||1||
Shalok, Fifth Mehl:
Listen, O my beloved friend:
please show me the True Guru.
I dedicate my mind to Him;
I keep Him continually enshrined within my heart.
Without
the One and Only True Guru, life in this world is cursed.
O servant Nanak, they alone meet the True Guru, with whom He
constantly abides. ||1||
Fifth Mehl:
Deep within me is
the longing to meet You; how can I find You, God?
I will
search for someone, some friend, who will unite me with my Beloved.
The Perfect Guru has united me with Him; wherever I look, there
He is.
Servant Nanak serves that God; there is no other as
great as He is. ||2||
Pauree:
He is the Great Giver, the
Generous Lord; with what mouth can I praise Him?
In His Mercy,
He protects, preserves and sustains us.
No one is under anyone
else's control; He is the One Support of all.
He cherishes
all as His children, and reaches out with His hand.
He stages
His joyous plays, which no one understands at all.
The all-powerful
Lord gives His Support to all; I am a sacrifice to Him.
Night
and day, sing the Praises of the One who is worthy of being
praised.
Those who fall at the Guru's Feet, enjoy the sublime
essence of the Lord. ||2||
Shalok, Fifth Mehl:
He has
widened the narrow path for me, and preserved my integrity,
along with that of my family.
He Himself has arranged and
resolved my affairs. I dwell upon that God forever.
God is
my mother and father; He hugs me close in His embrace, and cherishes
me, like His tiny baby.
All beings and creatures have become
kind and compassionate to me. O Nanak, the Lord has blessed
me with His Glance of Grace. ||1||
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Fifth Mehl:
To ask for any other than You, Lord, is the
most miserable of miseries.
Please bless me with Your Name,
and make me content; may the hunger of my mind be satisfied.
The Guru has made the woods and meadows green again. O Nanak,
is it any wonder that He blesses human beings as well? ||2||
Pauree:
Such is that Great Giver; may I never forget Him
from my mind.
I cannot survive without Him, for an instant,
for a moment, for a second.
Inwardly and outwardly, He is
with us; how can we hide anything from Him?
One whose honor
He Himself has preserved, crosses over the terrifying world-ocean.
He alone is a devotee, a spiritual teacher, and a disciplined
pratictioner of meditation, whom the Lord has so blessed.
He alone is perfect and renowned as supreme, whom the Lord has
blessed with His power.
He alone endures the unendurable,
whom the Lord inspires to endure it.
And he alone meets the
True Lord, within whose mind the Guru's Mantra is implanted.
||3||
Shalok, Fifth Mehl:
Blessed are those beautiful
Ragas which, when chanted, quench all thirst.
Blessed are
those beautiful people who, as Gurmukh, chant the Name of the
Lord.
I am a sacrifice to those who single-mindedly worship
and adore the One Lord.
I yearn for the dust of their feet;
by His Grace, it is obtained.
I am a sacrifice to those who
are imbued with love for the Lord of the Universe.
I tell
them the state of my soul, and pray that I may be united with
the Sovereign Lord King, my Friend.
The Perfect Guru has
united me with Him, and the pains of birth and death have departed.
Servant Nanak has found the inaccessible, infinitely beautiful
Lord, and he will not go anywhere else. ||1||
Fifth Mehl:
Blessed is that time, blessed is that hour, blessed is that
second, excellent is that instant;
blessed is that day, and
that opportunity, when I gazed upon the Blessed Vision of the
Guru's Darshan.
The mind's desires are fulfilled, when the
inaccessible, unfathomable Lord is obtained.
Egotism and
emotional attachment are eradicated, and one leans only on the
Support of the True Name.
O servant Nanak, one who is committed
to the Lord's service - the whole world is saved along with
him. ||2||
Pauree:
How rare are those who are blessed
to praise the Lord, in devotional worship.
Those who are
blessed with the Lord's treasures are not called to give their
account again.
Those who are imbued with His Love are absorbed
in ecstasy.
They take the Support of the One Name; the One
Name is their only food.
For their sake, the world eats and
enjoys.
Their Beloved Lord belongs to them alone.
The
Guru comes and meets them; they alone know God.
I am a sacrifice
to those who are pleasing to their Lord and Master. ||4||
Shalok, Fifth Mehl:
My friendship is with the One Lord alone;
I am in love with the One Lord alone.
The Lord is my only
friend; my companionship is with the One Lord alone.
My conversation
is with the One Lord alone; He never frowns, or turns His face
away.
He alone knows the state of my soul; He never ignores
my love.
He is my only counselor, all-powerful to destroy
and create.
The Lord is my only Giver. He places His hand
upon the heads of the generous in the world.
I take the Support
of the One Lord alone; He is all-powerful, over the heads of
all.
The Saint, the True Guru, has united me with the Lord.
He placed His hand on my forehead.
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The Guru led me to meet the greatest Lord and Master; He
saved the whole world.
The desires of the mind are fulfilled;
I have attained my pre-destined Union with God.
Nanak has
obtained the True Name; He enjoys the enjoyments forever. ||1||
Fifth Mehl:
Friendship with the self-willed manmukhs is an
alliance with Maya.
As we watch, they run away; they never
stand firm.
As long as they get food and clothing, they stick
around.
But on that day when they receive nothing, then they
start to curse.
The self-willed manmukhs are ignorant and
blind; they do not know the secrets of the soul.
The false
bond does not last; it is like stones joined with mud.
The
blind do not understand themselves; they are engrossed in false
worldly entanglements.
Entangled in false attachments, they
pass their lives in egotism and self-conceit.
But that being,
whom the Lord has blessed with His Mercy from the very beginning,
does perfect deeds, and accumulates good karma.
O servant
Nanak, those humble beings alone are saved, who enter the Sanctuary
of the True Guru. ||2||
Pauree:
Those who are imbued with
the Lord's Vision, speak the Truth.
How can I obtain the
dust of those who realize their Lord and Master?
The mind,
stained by corruption, becomes pure by associating with them.
One sees the Mansion of the Lord's Presence, when the door of
doubt is opened.
That one, unto whom the Mansion of the Lord's
Presence is revealed, is never pushed or shoved.
My mind
and body are enraptured, when the Lord blesses me, even for
an instant, with His Glance of Grace.
The nine treasures,
and the treasure of the Naam are obtained by commitment to the
Word of the Guru's Shabad.
He alone is blessed with the dust
of the feet of the Saints, upon whose forehead such pre-ordained
desiny is inscribed. ||5||
Shalok, Fifth Mehl:
O deer-eyed
bride, I speak the Truth, which shall save you.
Listen to
these beautiful words, O beauteous bride; your Beloved Lord
is your mind's only support.
You have fallen in love with
an evil person; tell me - show me why!
I lack nothing, and
I am not sad or depressed; I have no deficiency at all.
I
abandoned and lost my fascinating and beautiful Husband Lord;
in this evil-mindedness, I have lost my good fortune.
I am
not mistaken, and I am not confused; I have no egotism, and
commit no offense.
As You have linked me, so I am linked;
listen to my true message.
She alone is the blessed soul-bride,
and she alone is fortunate, upon whom the Husband Lord has showered
His Mercy.
Her Husband Lord takes away all her faults and
mistakes; hugging her close in His embrace, He embellishes her.
The unfortunate soul-bride makes this prayer: O Nanak, when
will my turn come?
All the blessed soul-brides celebrate
and make merry; bless me as well with a night of bliss, O Lord.
||1||
Fifth Mehl:
Why do you waver, O my mind? The Lord
is the Fulfiller of hopes and desires.
Meditate on the True
Guru, the Primal Being; He is the Destroyer of all pains.
Worship and adore the Lord's Name, O my mind; all sins and corruption
shall be washed away.
Those who are blessed with such pre-ordained
destiny, are in love with the Formless Lord.
They abandon
the tastes of Maya, and gather in the infinite wealth of the
Naam.
Twenty-four hours a day, they are lovingly absorbed
in the One Lord; they surrender and accept the Will of the Infinite
Lord.
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Servant Nanak begs for this one gift: please bless me, Lord,
with the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan; my mind is in love
with You. ||2||
Pauree:
One who is conscious of You finds
everlasting peace.
One who is conscious of You does not suffer
at the hands of the Messenger of Death.
One who is conscious
of You is not anxious.
One who has the Creator as his Friend
- all his affairs are resolved.
One who is conscious of You
is renowned and respected.
One who is conscious of You becomes
very wealthy.
One who is conscious of You has a great family.
One who is conscious of You saves his ancestors. ||6||
Shalok,
Fifth Mehl:
Blind inwardly, and blind outwardly, he sings
falsely, falsely.
He washes his body, and draws ritual marks
on it, and totally runs after wealth.
But the filth of his
egotism is not removed from within, and over and over again,
he comes and goes in reincarnation.
Engulfed in sleep, and
tormented by frustrated sexual desire, he chants the Lord's
Name with his mouth.
He is called a Vaishnav, but he is bound
to deeds of egotism; by threshing only husks, what rewards can
be obtained?
Sitting among the swans, the crane does not
become one of them; sitting there, he keeps staring at the fish.
And when the gathering of swans looks and sees, they realize
that they can never form an alliance with the crane.
The
swans peck at the diamonds and pearls, while the crane chases
after frogs.
The poor crane flies away, so that his secret
will not be exposed.
Whatever the Lord attaches one to, to
that he is attached. Who is to blame, when the Lord wills it
so?
The True Guru is the lake, overflowing with pearls. One
who meets the True Guru obtains them.
The Sikh-swans gather
at the lake, according to the Will of the True Guru.
The
lake is filled with the wealth of these jewels and pearls; they
are spent and consumed, but they never run out.
The swan
never leaves the lake; such is the Pleasure of the Creator's
Will.
O servant Nanak, one who has such pre-ordained destiny
inscribed upon his forehead - that Sikh comes to the Guru.
He saves himself, and saves all his generations as well; he
emancipates the whole world. ||1||
Fifth Mehl:
He is called
a Pandit, a religious scholar, and yet he wanders along many
pathways. He is as hard as uncooked beans.
He is filled with
attachment, and constantly engrossed in doubt; his body cannot
hold still.
False is his coming, and false is his going;
he is continually on the lookout for Maya.
If someone speaks
the truth, then he is aggravated; he is totally filled with
anger.
The evil fool is engrossed in evil-mindedness and
false intellectualizations; his mind is attached to emotional
attachment.
The deceiver abides with the five deceivers;
it is a gathering of like minds.
And when the Jeweller, the
True Guru, appraises him, then he is exposed as mere iron.
Mixed and mingled with others, he was passed off as genuine
in many places; but now, the veil has been lifted, and he stands
naked before all.
One who comes to the Sanctuary of the True
Guru, shall be transformed from iron into gold.
The True
Guru has no anger or vengeance; He looks upon son and enemy
alike. Removing faults and mistakes, He purifies the human body.
O Nanak, one who has such pre-ordained destiny inscribed upon
his forehead, is in love with the True Guru.
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The Word of the Perfect True Guru's Bani is Ambrosial Nectar;
it dwells in the heart of one who is blessed by the Guru's Mercy.
His coming and going in reincarnation is ended; forever and
ever, he is at peace. ||2||
Pauree:
He alone understands
You, Lord, with whom You are pleased.
He alone is approved
in the Court of the Lord, with whom You are pleased.
Egotism
is eradicated, when You bestow Your Grace.
Sins are erased,
when You are thoroughly pleased.
One who has the Lord Master
on his side, becomes fearless.
One who is blessed with Your
Mercy, becomes truthful.
One who is blessed with Your Kindness,
is not touched by fire.
You are forever Merciful to those
who are receptive to the Guru's Teachings. ||7||
Shalok,
Fifth Mehl:
Please grant Your Grace, O Merciful Lord; please
forgive me.
Forever and ever, I chant Your Name; I fall at
the feet of the True Guru.
Please, dwell within my mind and
body, and end my sufferings.
Please give me Your hand, and
save me, that fear may not afflict me.
May I sing Your Glorious
Praises day and night; please commit me to this task.
Associating
with the humble Saints, the disease of egotism is eradicated.
The One Lord and Master is all-pervading, permeating everywhere.
By Guru's Grace, I have truly found the Truest of the True.
Please bless me with Your Kindness, O Kind Lord, and bless me
with Your Praises.
Gazing upon the Blessed Vision of Your
Darshan, I am in ecstasy; this is what Nanak loves. ||1||
Fifth Mehl:
Meditate on the One Lord within your mind, and
enter the Sanctuary of the One Lord alone.
Be in love with
the One Lord; there is no other at all.
Beg from the One
Lord, the Great Giver, and you will be blessed with everything.
In your mind and body, with each breath and morsel of food,
meditate on the One and only Lord God.
The Gurmukh obtains
the true treasure, the Ambrosial Naam, the Name of the Lord.
Very fortunate are those humble Saints, within whose minds the
Lord has come to abide.
He is pervading and permeating the
water, the land and the sky; there is no other at all.
Meditating
on the Naam, and chanting the Naam, Nanak abides in the Will
of his Lord and Master. ||2||
Pauree:
One who has You
as his Saving Grace - who can kill him?
One who has You as
his Saving Grace conquers the three worlds.
One who has You
on his side - his face is radiant and bright.
One who has
You on his side, is the purest of the Pure.
One who is blessed
with Your Grace is not called to give his account.
One with
whom You are pleased, obtains the nine treasures.
One who
has You on his side, God - unto whom is he subservient?
One
who is blessed with Your Kind Mercy is dedicated to Your worship.
||8||
Shalok, Fifth Mehl:
Be Merciful, O my Lord and Master,
that I may pass my life in the Society of the Saints.
Those
who forget You are born only to die and be reincarnated again;
their sufferings will never end. ||1||
Fifth Mehl:
Meditate
in remembrance within your heart on the True Guru, whether you
are on the most difficult path, on the mountain or by the river
bank.
Chanting the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, no one shall
block your way. ||2||
Pauree:
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Where You are, Almighty Lord, there is no one else.
There,
in the fire of the mother's womb, You protected us.
Hearing
Your Name, the Messenger of Death runs away.
The terrifying,
treacherous, impassible world-ocean is crossed over, through
the Word of the Guru's Shabad.
Those who feel thirst for
You, take in Your Ambrosial Nectar.
This is the only act
of goodness in this Dark Age of Kali Yuga, to sing the Glorious
Praises of the Lord of the Universe.
He is Merciful to all;
He sustains us with each and every breath.
Those who come
to You with love and faith are never turned away empty-handed.
||9||
Shalok, Fifth Mehl:
Those whom You bless with the
Support of Your Name, O Supreme Lord God, do not know any other.
Inaccessible, Unfathomable Lord and Master, All-powerful True
Great Giver:
You are eternal and unchanging, without vengeance
and True; True is the Darbaar of Your Court.
Your worth cannot
be described; You have no end or limitation.
To forsake God,
and ask for something else, is all corruption and ashes.
They alone find peace, and they are the true kings, whose dealings
are true.
Those who are in love with God's Name, intuitively
enjoy the essence of peace.
Nanak worships and adores the
One Lord; he seeks the dust of the Saints. ||1||
Fifth Mehl:
Singing the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises, bliss, peace and rest
are obtained.
Forsake other clever tricks, O Nanak; only
through the Name will you be saved. ||2||
Pauree:
No one
can bring You under control, by despising the world.
No one
can bring You under control, by studying the Vedas.
No one
can bring You under control, by bathing at the holy places.
No one can bring You under control, by wandering all over the
world.
No one can bring You under control, by any clever
tricks.
No one can bring You under control, by giving huge
donations to charities.
Everyone is under Your power, O inaccessible,
unfathomable Lord.
You are under the control of Your devotees;
You are the strength of Your devotees. ||10||
Shalok, Fifth
Mehl:
The Lord Himself is the true physician.
These physicians
of the world only burden the soul with pain.
The Word of
the Guru's Shabad is Ambrosial Nectar; it is so delicious to
eat.
O Nanak, one whose mind is filled with this Nectar -
all his pains are dispelled. ||1||
Fifth Mehl:
By the
Hukam of Lord's Command, they move about; by the Lord's Command,
they remain still.
By His Hukam, they endure pain and pleasure
alike.
By His Hukam, they chant the Naam, the Name of the
Lord, day and night.
O Nanak, he alone does so, who is blessed.
By the Hukam of the Lord's Command, they die; by the Hukam of
His Command, they live.
By His Hukam, they become tiny, and
huge.
By His Hukam, they receive pain, happiness and bliss.
By His Hukam, they chant the Guru's Mantra, which always works.
By His Hukam, coming and going in reincarnation cease,
O
Nanak, when He links them to His devotional worship. ||2||
Pauree:
I am a sacrifice to that musician who is Your servant,
O Lord.
I am a sacrifice to that musician who sings the Glorious
Praises of the Infinite Lord.
Blessed, blessed is that musician,
for whom the Formless Lord Himself longs.
Very fortunate
is that musician who comes to the gate of the Court of the True
Lord.
That musician meditates on You, Lord, and praises You
day and night.
He begs for the Ambrosial Naam, the Name of
the Lord, and will never be defeated.
His clothes and his
food are true, and he enshrines love for the Lord within.
Praiseworthy is that musician who loves God. ||11||
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Shalok, Fifth Mehl:
The Bani of the Guru's Word is Ambrosial
Nectar; its taste is sweet. The Name of the Lord is Ambrosial
Nectar.
Meditate in remembrance on the Lord in your mind,
body and heart; twenty-four hours a day, sing His Glorious Praises.
Listen to these Teachings, O Sikhs of the Guru. This is the
true purpose of life.
This priceless human life will be made
fruitful; embrace love for the Lord in your mind.
Celestial
peace and absolute bliss come when one meditates on God - suffering
is dispelled.
O Nanak, chanting the Naam, the Name of the
Lord, peace wells up, and one obtains a place in the Court of
the Lord. ||1||
Fifth Mehl:
O Nanak, meditate on the Naam,
the Name of the Lord; this is the Teaching imparted by the Perfect
Guru.
In the Lord's Will, they practice meditation, austerity
and self-discipline; in the Lord's Will, they are released.
In the Lord's Will, they are made to wander in reincarnation;
in the Lord's Will, they are forgiven.
In the Lord's Will,
pain and pleasure are experienced; in the Lord's Will, actions
are performed.
In the Lord's Will, clay is fashioned into
form; in the Lord's Will, His Light is infused into it.
In
the Lord's Will, enjoyments are enjoyed; in the Lord's Will,
these enjoyments are denied.
In the Lord's Will, they are
incarnated in heaven and hell; in the Lord's Will, they fall
to the ground.
In the Lord's Will, they are committed to
His devotional worship and Praise; O Nanak, how rare are these!
||2||
Pauree:
Hearing, hearing of the glorious greatness
of the True Name, I live.
Even ignorant beasts and goblins
can be saved, in an instant.
Day and night, chant the Name,
forever and ever.
The most horrible thirst and hunger is
satisfied through Your Name, O Lord.
Disease, sorrow and
pain run away, when the Name dwells within the mind.
He alone
attains his Beloved, who loves the Word of the Guru's Shabad.
The worlds and solar systems are saved by the Infinite Lord.
Your glory is Yours alone, O my Beloved True Lord. ||12||
Shalok, Fifth Mehl:
I abandoned and lost my Beloved Friend,
O Nanak; I was fooled by the transitory color of the safflower,
which fades away.
I did not know Your value, O my Friend;
without You, I am not worth even half a shell. ||1||
Fifth
Mehl:
My mother-in-law is my enemy, O Nanak; my father-in-law
is argumentative and my brother-in-law burns me at every step.
They can all just play in the dust, when You are my Friend,
O Lord. ||2||
Pauree:
You relieve the pains of those,
within whose consciousness You dwell, O Lord.
Those, within
whose consciousness You dwell, never lose.
One who meets
the Perfect Guru will surely be saved.
One who is attached
to Truth, contemplates Truth.
One, into whose hands the treasure
comes, stops searching.
He alone is known as a devotee, who
loves the One Lord.
He is the dust under the feet of all;
he is the lover of the Lord's feet.
Everything is Your wonderful
play; the whole creation is Yours. ||13||
Shalok, Fifth Mehl:
I have totally discarded praise and slander, O Nanak; I have
forsaken and abandoned everything.
I have seen that all relationships
are false, and so I have grasped hold of the hem of Your robe,
Lord. ||1||
Fifth Mehl:
I wandered and wandered and went
crazy, O Nanak, in countless foreign lands and pathways.
But then, I slept in peace and comfort, when I met the Guru,
and found my Friend. ||2||
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Pauree:
When I forget You, I endure all pains and afflictions.
Making thousands of efforts, they are still not eliminated.
One who forgets the Name, is known as a poor person.
One
who forgets the Name, wanders in reincarnation.
One who does
not remember his Lord and Master, is punished by the Messenger
of Death.
One who does not remember his Lord and Master,
is judged to be a sick person.
One who does not remember
his Lord and Master, is egotistical and proud.
One who forgets
the Name is miserable in this world. ||14||
Shalok, Fifth
Mehl:
I have not seen any other like You. You alone are pleasing
to Nanak's mind.
I am a dedicated, devoted sacrifice to that
friend, that mediator, who leads me to recognize my Husband
Lord. ||1||
Fifth Mehl:
Beautiful are those feet which
walk towards You; beautiful is that head which falls at Your
Feet.
Beautiful is that mouth which sings Your Praises; beautiful
is that soul which seeks Your Sanctuary. ||2||
Pauree:
Meeting the Lord's brides, in the True Congregation, I sing
the songs of joy.
The home of my heart is now held steady,
and I shall not go out wandering again.
Evil-mindedness has
been dispelled, along with sin and my bad reputation.
I am
well-known as being calm and good-natured; my heart is filled
with Truth.
Inwardly and outwardly, the One and only Lord
is my way.
My mind is thirsty for the Blessed Vision of His
Darshan. I am a slave at His feet.
I am glorified and embellished,
when my Lord and Master enjoys me.
I meet Him through my
blessed destiny, when it is pleasing to His Will. ||15||
Shalok, Fifth Mehl:
All virtues are Yours, Dear Lord; You
bestow them upon us. I am unworthy - what can I achieve, O Nanak?
There is no other Giver as great as You. I am a beggar; I beg
from You forever. ||1||
Fifth Mehl:
My body was wasting
away, and I was depressed. The Guru, my Friend, has encouraged
and consoled me.
I sleep in total peace and comfort; I have
conquered the whole world. ||2||
Pauree:
The Darbaar of
Your Court is glorious and great. Your holy throne is True.
You are the Emperor over the heads of kings. Your canopy and
chauree (fly-brush) are permanent and unchanging.
That alone
is true justice, which is pleasing to the Will of the Supreme
Lord God.
Even the homeless receive a home, when it is pleasing
to the Will of the Supreme Lord God.
Whatever the Creator
Lord does, is a good thing.
Those who recognize their Lord
and Master, are seated in the Court of the Lord.
True is
Your Command; no one can challenge it.
O Merciful Lord, Cause
of causes, Your creative power is all-powerful. ||16||
Shalok,
Fifth Mehl:
Hearing of You, my body and mind have blossomed
forth; chanting the Naam, the Name of the Lord, I am flushed
with life.
Walking on the Path, I have found cool tranquility
deep within; gazing upon the Blessed Vision of the Guru's Darshan,
I am enraptured. ||1||
Fifth Mehl:
I have found the jewel
within my heart.
I was not charged for it; the True Guru
gave it to me.
My search has ended, and I have become stable.
O Nanak, I have conquered this priceless human life. ||2||
Pauree:
One who has such good karma inscribed upon his forehead,
is committed to the Lord's service.
One whose heart lotus
blossoms forth upon meeting the Guru, remains awake and aware,
night and day.
All doubt and fear run away from one who is
in love with the Lord's lotus feet.
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He conquers his soul, following the Guru's Teachings, and
attains the Imperishable Lord.
He alone keeps up in this
Dark Age of Kali Yuga, who meditates on the Supreme Lord God.
In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, he is immaculate,
as if he has bathed at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage.
He alone is a man of good fortune, who has met with God.
Nanak is a sacrifice to such a one, whose destiny is so great!
||17||
Shalok, Fifth Mehl:
When the Husband Lord is within
the heart, then Maya, the bride, goes outside.
When one's
Husband Lord is outside of oneself, then Maya, the bride, is
supreme.
Without the Name, one wanders all around.
The
True Guru shows us that the Lord is with us.
Servant Nanak
merges in the Truest of the True. ||1||
Fifth Mehl:
Making
all sorts of efforts, they wander around; but they do not make
even one effort.
O Nanak, how rare are those who understand
the effort which saves the world. ||2||
Pauree:
The greatest
of the great, infinite is Your dignity.
Your colors and hues
are so numerous; no one can know Your actions.
You are the
Soul within all souls; You alone know everything.
Everything
is under Your control; Your home is beautiful.
Your home
is filled with bliss, which resonates and resounds throughout
Your home.
Your honor, majesty and glory are Yours alone.
You are overflowing with all powers; wherever we look, there
You are.
Nanak, the slave of Your slaves, prays to You alone.
||18||
Shalok, Fifth Mehl:
Your streets are covered with
canopies; under them, the traders look beautiful.
O Nanak,
he alone is truly a banker, who buys the infinite commodity.
||1||
Fifth Mehl:
Kabeer, no one is mine, and I belong
to no one.
I am absorbed in the One, who created this creation.
||2||
Pauree:
The Lord is the most beautiful fruit tree,
bearing fruits of Ambrosial Nectar.
My mind longs to meet
Him; how can I ever find Him?
He has no color or form; He
is inaccessible and unconquerable.
I love Him with all my
soul; He opens the door for me.
I shall serve you forever,
if you tell me of my Friend.
I am a sacrifice, a dedicated,
devoted sacrifice to Him.
The Beloved Saints tell us, to
listen with our consciousness.
One who has such pre-ordained
destiny, O slave Nanak, is blessed with the Ambrosial Name by
the True Guru. ||19||
Shalok, Fifth Mehl:
Kabeer, the
earth belongs to the Holy, but the thieves have come and now
sit among them.
The earth does not feel their weight; even
they profit. ||1||
Fifth Mehl:
Kabeer, for the sake of
the rice, the husks are beaten and threshed.
When one sits
in the company of evil people, then he will be called to account
by the Righteous Judge of Dharma. ||2||
Pauree:
He Himself
has the greatest family; He Himself is all alone.
He alone
knows His own worth.
He Himself, by Himself, created everything.
Only He Himself can describe His own creation.
Blessed is
Your place, where You dwell, Lord.
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Blessed are Your devotees, who see You, O True Lord.
He
alone praises You, who is blessed by Your Grace.
One who
meets the Guru, O Nanak, is immaculate and sanctified. ||20||
Shalok, Fifth Mehl:
Fareed, this world is beautiful, but
there is a thorny garden within it.
Those who are blessed
by their spiritual teacher are not even scratched. ||1||
Fifth Mehl:
Fareed, blessed is the life, with such a beautiful
body.
How rare are those who are found to love their Beloved
Lord. ||2||
Pauree:
He alone obtains meditation, austerities,
self-discipline, compassion and Dharmic faith, whom the Lord
so blesses.
He alone meditates on the Naam, the Name of the
Lord, whose fire the Lord puts out.
The Inner-knower, the
Searcher of hearts, the Inaccessible Primal Lord, inspires us
to look upon all with an impartial eye.
With the support
of the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, one falls in love
with God.
One's faults are eradicated, and one's face becomes
radiant and bright; through the Lord's Name, one crosses over.
The fear of birth and death is removed, and he is not reincarnated
again.
God lifts him up and pulls him out of the deep, dark
pit, and attaches him to the hem of His robe.
O Nanak, God
forgives him, and holds him close in His embrace. ||21||
Shalok, Fifth Mehl:
One who loves God is imbued with the
deep crimson color of His love.
O Nanak, such a person is
rarely found; the value of such a humble person can never be
estimated. ||1||
Fifth Mehl:
The True Name has pierced
the nucleus of my self deep within. Outside, I see the True
Lord as well.
O Nanak, He is pervading and permeating all
places, the forests and the meadows, the three worlds, and every
hair. ||2||
Pauree:
He Himself created the Universe; He
Himself imbues it.
He Himself is One, and He Himself has
numerous forms.
He Himself is within all, and He Himself
is beyond them.
He Himself is known to be far away, and He
Himself is right here.
He Himself is hidden, and He Himself
is revealed.
No one can estimate the value of Your Creation,
Lord.
You are deep and profound, unfathomable, infinite and
invaluable.
O Nanak, the One Lord is all-pervading. You are
the One and only. ||22||1||2||
Sudh||
Vaar Of Raamkalee,
Uttered By Satta And Balwand The Drummer:
One Universal Creator
God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
One who chants the Name
of the Almighty Creator - how can his words be judged?
His
divine virtues are the true sisters and brothers; through them,
the gift of supreme status is obtained.
Nanak established
the kingdom; He built the true fortress on the strongest foundations.
He installed the royal canopy over Lehna's head; chanting the
Lord's Praises, He drank in the Ambrosial Nectar.
The Guru
implanted the almighty sword of the Teachings to illuminate
his soul.
The Guru bowed down to His disciple, while Nanak
was still alive.
The King, while still alive, applied the
ceremonial mark to his forehead. ||1||
Nanak proclaimed Lehna's
succession - he earned it.
They shared the One Light and
the same way; the King just changed His body.
The immaculate
canopy waves over Him, and He sits on the throne in the Guru's
shop.
He does as the Guru commands; He tasted the tasteless
stone of Yoga.
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The Langar - the Kitchen of the Guru's Shabad has been opened,
and its supplies never run short.
Whatever His Master gave,
He spent; He distributed it all to be eaten.
The Praises
of the Master were sung, and the Divine Light descended from
the heavens to the earth.
Gazing upon You, O True King, the
filth of countless past lives is washed away.
The Guru gave
the True Command; why should we hesitate to proclaim this?
His sons did not obey His Word; they turned their backs on Him
as Guru.
These evil-hearted ones became rebellious; they
carry loads of sin on their backs.
Whatever the Guru said,
Lehna did, and so he was installed on the throne.
Who has
lost, and who has won? ||2||
He who did the work, is accepted
as Guru; so which is better - the thistle or the rice?
The
Righteous Judge of Dharma considered the arguments and made
the decision.
Whatever the True Guru says, the True Lord
does; it comes to pass instantaneously.
Guru Angad was proclaimed,
and the True Creator confirmed it.
Nanak merely changed his
body; He still sits on the throne, with hundreds of branches
reaching out.
Standing at His door, His followers serve Him;
by this service, their rust is scraped off.
He is the Dervish
- the Saint, at the door of His Lord and Master; He loves the
True Name, and the Bani of the Guru's Word.
Balwand says
that Khivi, the Guru's wife, is a noble woman, who gives soothing,
leafy shade to all.
She distributes the bounty of the Guru's
Langar; the kheer - the rice pudding and ghee, is like sweet
ambrosia.
The faces of the Guru's Sikhs are radiant and bright;
the self-willed manmukhs are pale, like straw.
The Master
gave His approval, when Angad exerted Himself heroically.
Such is the Husband of mother Khivi; He sustains the world.
||3||
It is as if the Guru made the Ganges flow in the opposite
direction, and the world wonders: what has he done?
Nanak,
the Lord, the Lord of the World, spoke the words out loud.
Making the mountain his churning stick, and the snake-king his
churning string, He has churned the Word of the Shabad.
From
it, He extracted the fourteen jewels, and illuminated the world.
He revealed such creative power, and touched such greatness.
He raised the royal canopy to wave over the head of Lehna, and
raised His glory to the skies.
His Light merged into the
Light, and He blended Him into Himself.
Guru Nanak tested
His Sikhs and His sons, and everyone saw what happened.
When
Lehna alone was found to be pure, then He was set on the throne.
||4||
Then, the True Guru, the son of Pheru, came to dwell
at Khadoor.
Meditation, austerities and self-discipline rest
with You, while the others are filled with excessive pride.
Greed ruins mankind, like the green algae in the water.
In
the Guru's Court, the Divine Light shines in its creative power.
You are the cooling peace, whose depth cannot be found.
You
are overflowing with the nine treasures, and the treasure of
the Naam, the Name of the Lord.
Whoever slanders You will
be totally ruined and destroyed.
People of the world can
see only what is near at hand, but You can see far beyond.
Then the True Guru, the son of Pheru, came to dwell at Khadoor.
||5||
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The same mark on the forehead, the same throne, and the same
Royal Court.
Just like the father and grandfather, the son
is approved.
He took the thousand-headed serpent as his churning
string, and with the force of devotional love, he churned the
ocean of the world with his churning stick, the Sumayr mountain.
He extracted the fourteen jewels, and brought forth the Divine
Light.
He made intuition his horse, and chastity his saddle.
He placed the arrow of the Lord's Praise in the bow of Truth.
In this Dark Age of Kali Yuga, there was only pitch darkness.
Then, He rose like the sun to illuminate the darkness.
He
farms the field of Truth, and spreads out the canopy of Truth.
Your kitchen always has ghee and flour to eat.
You understand
the four corners of the universe; in your mind, the Word of
the Shabad is approved and supreme.
You eliminate the comings
and goings of reincarnation, and bestow the insignia of Your
Glance of Grace.
You are the Avataar, the Incarnation of
the all-knowing Primal Lord.
You are not pushed or shaken
by the storm and the wind; you are like the Sumayr Mountain.
You know the inner state of the soul; You are the Knower of
knowers.
How can I praise You, O True Supreme King, when
You are so wise and all-knowing?
Those blessings granted
by the Pleasure of the True Guru - please bless Satta with those
gifts.
Seeing Nanak's canopy waving over Your head, everyone
was astonished.
The same mark on the forehead, the same throne,
and the same Royal Court.
Just like the father and grandfather,
the son is approved. ||6||
Blessed, blessed is Guru Raam
Daas; He who created You, has also exalted You.
Perfect is
Your miracle; the Creator Lord Himself has installed You on
the throne.
The Sikhs and all the Congregation recognize
You as the Supreme Lord God, and bow down to You.
You are
unchanging, unfathomable and immeasurable; You have no end or
limitation.
Those who serve You with love - You carry them
across.
Greed, envy, sexual desire, anger and emotional attachment
- You have beaten them and driven them out.
Blessed is Your
place, and True is Your magnificent glory.
You are Nanak,
You are Angad, and You are Amar Daas; so do I recognize You.
When I saw the Guru, then my mind was comforted and consoled.
||7||
The four Gurus enlightened the four ages; the Lord
Himself assumed the fifth form.
He created Himself, and He
Himself is the supporting pillar.
He Himself is the paper,
He Himself is the pen, and He Himself is the writer.
All
His followers come and go; He alone is fresh and new.
Guru
Arjun sits on the throne; the royal canopy waves over the True
Guru.
From east to west, He illuminates the four directions.
Those self-willed manmukhs who do not serve the Guru die in
shame.
Your miracles increase two-fold, even four-fold; this
is the True Lord's true blessing.
The four Gurus enlightened
the four ages; the Lord Himself assumed the fifth form. ||8||1||
Raamkalee, The Word Of The Devotees.
Kabeer Jee:
One Universal
Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
Make your body
the vat, and mix in the yeast. Let the Word of the Guru's Shabad
be the molasses.
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Cut up desire, sexuality, anger, pride and envy, and let
them be the fermenting bark. ||1||
Is there any Saint, with
intuitive peace and poise deep within, unto whom I might offer
my meditation and austerities as payment?
I dedicate my body
and mind to whoever gives me even a drop of this wine from such
a vat. ||1||Pause||
I have made the fourteen worlds the furnace,
and I have burnt my body with the fire of God.
My mudra -
my hand-gesture, is the pipe; tuning into the celestial sound
current within, the Shushmanaa - the central spinal channel,
is my cooling pad. ||2||
Pilgrimages, fasting, vows, purifications,
self-discipline, austerities and breath control through the
sun and moon channels - all these I pledge.
My focused consciousness
is the cup, and the Ambrosial Nectar is the pure juice. I drink
in the supreme, sublime essence of this juice. ||3||
The
pure stream constantly trickles forth, and my mind is intoxicated
by this sublime essence.
Says Kabeer, all other wines are
trivial and tasteless; this is the only true, sublime essence.
||4||1||
Make spiritual wisdom the molasses, meditation the
flowers, and the Fear of God the fire enshrined in your mind.
The Shushmanaa, the central spinal channel, is intuitively balanced,
and the drinker drinks in this wine. ||1||
O hermit Yogi,
my mind is intoxicated.
When that wine rises up, one tastes
the sublime essence of this juice, and sees across the three
worlds. ||1||Pause||
Joining the two channels of the breath,
I have lit the furnace, and I drink in the supreme, sublime
essence.
I have burnt both sexual desire and anger, and I
have been emancipated from the world. ||2||
The light of
spiritual wisdom enlightens me; meeting with the Guru, the True
Guru, I have obtained this understanding.
Slave Kabeer is
intoxicated with that wine, which never wears off. ||3||2||
You are my Sumayr Mountain, O my Lord and Master; I have grasped
Your Support.
You do not shake, and I do not fall. You have
preserved my honor. ||1||
Now and then, here and there, You,
only You.
By Your Grace, I am forever in peace. ||1||Pause||
Relying upon You, I can live even in the cursed place of Magahar;
You have put out the fire of my body.
First, I obtained the
Blessed Vision of Your Darshan in Magahar; then, I came to dwell
at Benares. ||2||
As is Magahar, so is Benares; I see them
as one and the same.
I am poor, but I have obtained this
wealth of the Lord; the proud are bursting with pride, and die.
||3||
One who takes pride in himself is stuck with thorns;
no one can pull them out.
Here, he cries bitterly, and hereafter,
he burns in the most hideous hell. ||4||
What is hell, and
what is heaven? The Saints reject them both.
I have no obligation
to either of them, by the Grace of my Guru. ||5||
Now, I
have mounted to the throne of the Lord; I have met the Lord,
the Sustainer of the World.
The Lord and Kabeer have become
one. No one can tell them apart. ||6||3||
I honor and obey
the Saints, and punish the wicked; this is my duty as God's
police officer.
Day and night, I wash Your feet, Lord; I
wave my hair as the chauree, to brush away the flies. ||1||
I am a dog at Your Court, Lord.
I open my snout and bark
before it. ||1||Pause||
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In my past life, I was Your servant; now, I cannot leave
You.
The celestial sound current resounds at Your Door. Your
insignia is stamped upon my forehead. ||2||
Those who are
branded with Your brand fight bravely in battle; those without
Your brand run away.
One who becomes a Holy person, appreciates
the value of devotional worship to the Lord. The Lord places
him in His treasury. ||3||
In the fortress is the chamber;
by contemplative meditation it becomes the supreme chamber.
The Guru has blessed Kabeer with the commodity, saying, "Take
this commodity; cherish it and keep it secure."||4||
Kabeer gives it to the world, but he alone receives it, upon
whose forehead such destiny is recorded.
Permanent is the
marriage, of one who receives this ambrosial essence. ||5||4||
O Brahmin, how can you forget the One, from whose mouth the
Vedas and the Gayitri prayer issured forth?
The whole world
falls at His feet; why don't you chant the Name of that Lord,
O Pandit? ||1||
Why, O my Brahmin, do you not chant the Lord's
Name?
If you don't chant the Lord's Name, O Pandit, you will
only suffer in hell. ||1||Pause||
You think that you are
high, but you take food from the houses of the lowly; you fill
up your belly by forcibly practicing your rituals.
On the
fourteenth day, and the night of the new moon, you go out begging;
even though you hold the lamp in your hands, still, you fall
into the pit. ||2||
You are a Brahmin, and I am only a weaver
from Benares. How can I compare to you?
Chanting the Lord's
Name, I have been saved; relying on the Vedas, O Brahmin, you
shall drown and die. ||3||5||
There is a single tree, with
countless branches and twigs; its flowers and leaves are filled
with its juice.
This world is a garden of Ambrosial Nectar.
The Perfect Lord created it. ||1||
I have come to know the
story of my Sovereign Lord.
How rare is that Gurmukh who
knows, and whose inner being is illumined by the Lord's Light.
||1||Pause||
The bumble bee, addicted to the nectar of the
twelve-petalled flowers, enshrines it in the heart.
He holds
his breath suspended in the sixteen-petalled sky of the Akaashic
Ethers, and beats his wings in esctasy. ||2||
In the profound
void of intuitive Samaadhi, the one tree rises up; it soaks
up the water of desire from the ground.
Says Kabeer, I am
the servant of those who have seen this celestial tree. ||3||6||
Make silence your ear-rings, and compassion your wallet; let
meditation be your begging bowl.
Sew this body as your patched
coat, and take the Lord's Name as your support. ||1||
Practice
such Yoga, O Yogi.
As Gurmukh, enjoy meditation, austerities
and self-discipline. ||1||Pause||
Apply the ashes of wisdom
to your body; let your horn be your focused consciousness.
Become detached, and wander through the city of your body; play
the harp of your mind. ||2||
Enshrine the five tatvas - the
five elements, within your heart; let your deep meditative trance
be undisturbed.
Says Kabeer, listen, O Saints: make righteousness
and compassion your garden. ||3||7||
For what purpose were
you created and brought into the world? What rewards have you
received in this life?
God is the boat to carry you across
the terrifying world-ocean; He is the Fulfiller of the mind's
desires. You have not centered your mind on Him, even for an
instant. ||1||
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O Lord of the Universe, I am such a sinner!
God gave me
body and soul, but I have not practiced loving devotional worship
to Him. ||1||Pause||
Others' wealth, others' bodies, others'
wives, others' slander and others' fights - I have not given
them up.
For the sake of these, coming and going in reincarnation
happens over and over again, and this story never ends. ||2||
That house, in which the Saints speak of the Lord - I have not
visited it, even for an instant.
Drunkards, thieves, and
evil-doers - I constantly dwell with them. ||3||
Sexual desire,
anger, the wine of Maya, and envy - these are what I collect
within myself.
Compassion, righteousness, and service to
the Guru - these do not visit me, even in my dreams. ||4||
He is merciful to the meek, compassionate and benevolent, the
Lover of His devotees, the Destroyer of fear.
Says Kabeer,
please protect Your humble servant from disaster; O Lord, I
serve only You. ||5||8||
Remembering Him in meditation, the
door of liberation is found.
You shall go to heaven, and
not return to this earth.
In the home of the Fearless Lord,
the celestial trumpets resound.
The unstruck sound current
will vibrate and resonate forever. ||1||
Practice such meditative
remembrance in your mind.
Without this meditative remembrance,
liberation will never be found. ||1||Pause||
Remembering
Him in meditation, you will meet with no obstruction.
You
will be liberated, and the great load will be taken away.
Bow in humility within your heart,
and you will not have
to be reincarnated over and over again. ||2||
Remember Him
in meditation, celebrate and be happy.
God has placed His
lamp deep within you, which burns without any oil.
That lamp
makes the world immortal;
it conquers and drives out the
poisons of sexual desire and anger. ||3||
Remembering Him
in meditation, you shall obtain salvation.
Wear that meditative
remembrance as your necklace.
Practice that meditative remembrance,
and never let it go.
By Guru's Grace, you shall cross over.
||4||
Remembering Him in meditation, you shall not be obligated
to others.
You shall sleep in your mansion, in blankets of
silk.
Your soul shall blossom forth in happiness, on this
comfortable bed.
So drink in this meditative remembrance,
night and day. ||5||
Remembering Him in meditation, your
troubles will depart.
Remembering Him in meditation, Maya
will not bother you.
Meditate, meditate in remembrance on
the Lord, Har, Har, and sing His Praises in your mind.
This
meditative remembrance is obtained from the True Guru. ||6||
Forever and ever, remember Him, day and night,
while standing
up and sitting down, with every breath and morsel of food.
While awake and asleep, enjoy the essence of this meditative
remembrance.
The Lord's meditative remembrance is obtained
by good destiny. ||7||
Remembering Him in meditation, you
shall not be loaded down.
Make this meditative remembrance
of the Lord's Name your Support.
Says Kabeer, He has no limits;
no tantras or mantras can be used against Him. ||8||9||
Raamkalee,
Second House, The Word Of Kabeer Jee:
One Universal Creator
God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
Maya, the Trapper, has
sprung her trap.
The Guru, the Liberated One, has put out
the fire.
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When I came to understand this mind, from the tips of my
toes to the crown of my head,
then I took my cleansing bath,
deep within my self. ||1||
The mind, the master of the breath,
abides in the state of supreme bliss.
There is no death,
no re-birth, and no aging for me now. ||1||Pause||
Turning
away from materialism, I have found intuitive support.
I
have entered into the sky of the mind, and opened the Tenth
Gate.
The chakras of the coiled Kundalini energy have been
opened,
and I have met my Sovereign Lord King without fear.
||2||
My attachment to Maya has been eradicated;
the moon
energy has devoured the sun energy.
When I was focused and
merged into the all-pervading Lord,
then the unstruck sound
current began to vibrate. ||3||
The Speaker has spoken, and
proclaimed the Word of the Shabad.
The hearer has heard,
and enshrined it in the mind.
Chanting to the Creator, one
crosses over.
Says Kabeer, this is the essence. ||4||1||10||
The moon and the sun are both the embodiment of light.
Within
their light, is God, the incomparable. ||1||
O spiritual
teacher, contemplate God.
In this light is contained the
expanse of the created universe. ||1||Pause||
Gazing upon
the diamond, I humbly salute this diamond.
Says Kabeer, the
Immaculate Lord is indescribable. ||2||2||11||
People of
the world, remain awake and aware. Even though you are awake,
you are being robbed, O Siblings of Destiny.
While the Vedas
stand guard watching, the Messenger of Death carries you away.
||1||Pause||
He thinks that the bitter nimm fruit is a mango,
and the mango is a bitter nimm. He imagines the ripe banana
on the thorny bush.
He thinks that the ripe coconut hangs
on the barren simmal tree; what a stupid, idiotic fool he is!
||1||
The Lord is like sugar, spilled onto the sand; the
elephant cannot pick it up.
Says Kabeer, give up your ancestry,
social status and honor; be like the tiny ant - pick up and
eat the sugar. ||2||3||12||
The Word Of Naam Dayv Jee, Raamkalee,
First House:
One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The
True Guru:
The boy takes paper, cuts it and makes a kite,
and flies it in the sky.
Talking with his friends, he still
keeps his attention on the kite string. ||1||
My mind has
been pierced by the Name of the Lord,
like the goldsmith,
whose attention is held by his work. ||1||Pause||
The young
girl in the city takes a pitcher, and fills it with water.
She laughs, and plays, and talks with her friends, but she keeps
her attention focused on the pitcher of water. ||2||
The
cow is let loose, out of the mansion of the ten gates, to graze
in the field.
It grazes up to five miles away, but keeps
its attention focused on its calf. ||3||
Says Naam Dayv,
listen, O Trilochan: the child is laid down in the cradle.
Its mother is at work, inside and outside, but she holds her
child in her thoughts. ||4||1||
There are countless Vedas,
Puraanas and Shaastras; I do not sing their songs and hymns.
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In the imperishable realm of the Formless Lord, I play the
flute of the unstruck sound current. ||1||
Becoming detached,
I sing the Lord's Praises.
Imbued with the unattached, unstruck
Word of the Shabad, I shall go to the home of the Lord, who
has no ancestors. ||1||Pause||
Then, I shall no longer control
the breath through the energy channels of the Ida, Pingala and
Shushmanaa.
I look upon both the moon and the sun as the
same, and I shall merge in the Light of God. ||2||
I do not
go to see sacred shrines of pilgrimage, or bathe in their waters;
I do not bother any beings or creatures.
The Guru has shown
me the sixty-eight places of pilgrimage within my own heart,
where I now take my cleansing bath. ||3||
I do not pay attention
to anyone praising me, or calling me good and nice.
Says
Naam Dayv, my consciousness is imbued with the Lord; I am absorbed
in the profound state of Samaadhi. ||4||2||
When there was
no mother and no father, no karma and no human body,
when
I was not and you were not, then who came from where? ||1||
O Lord, no one belongs to anyone else.
We are like birds
perched on a tree. ||1||Pause||
When there was no moon and
no sun, then water and air were blended together.
When there
were no Shaastras and no Vedas, then where did karma come from?
||2||
Control of the breath and positioning of the tongue,
focusing at the third eye and wearing malas of tulsi beads,
are all obtained through Guru's Grace.
Naam Dayv prays, this
is the supreme essence of reality; the True Guru has inspired
this realization. ||3||3||
RAAMKALEE, SECOND HOUSE:
Someone
may practice austerities at Benares, or die upside-down at a
sacred shrine ofpilgrimage, or burn his body in fire, or rejuvenate
his body to life almost forever;
he may perform the horse-sacrifice
ceremony, or give donations of gold covered over, but none of
these is equal to the worship of the Lord's Name. ||1||
O
hypocrite, renounce and abandon your hypocrisy; do not practice
deception.
Constantly, continually, chant the Name of the
Lord. ||1||Pause||
Someone may go to the Ganges or the Godaavari,
or to the Kumbha festival, or bathe at Kaydaar Naat'h, or make
donations of thousands of cows at Gomti;
he may make millions
of pilgrimages to sacred shrines, or freeze his body in the
Himalayas; still, none of these is equal to the worship of the
Lord's Name. ||2||
Someone may give away horses and elephants,
or women on their beds, or land; he may give such gifts over
and over again.
He may purify his soul, and give away in
charity his body weight in gold; none of these is equal to the
worship of the Lord's Name. ||3||
Do not harbor anger in
your mind, or blame the Messenger of Death; instead, realize
the immaculate state of Nirvaanaa.
My Sovereign Lord King
is Raam Chandra, the Son of the King Dasrat'h; prays Naam Dayv,
I drink in the Ambrosial Nectar. ||4||4||
Raamkalee, The
Word Of Ravi Daas Jee:
One Universal Creator God. By The
Grace Of The True Guru:
They read and reflect upon all the
Names of God; they listen, but they do not see the Lord, the
embodiment of love and intuition.
How can iron be transformed
into gold, unless it touches the Philosopher's Stone? ||1||
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O Divine Lord, the knot of skepticism cannot be untied.
Sexual desire, anger, Maya, intoxication and jealousy - these
five have combined to plunder the world. ||1||Pause||
I am
a great poet, of noble heritage; I am a Pandit, a religious
scholar, a Yogi and a Sannyaasi;
I am a spiritual teacher,
a warrior and a giver - such thinking never ends. ||2||
Says
Ravi Daas, no one understands; they all run around, deluded
like madmen.
The Lord's Name is my only Support; He is my
life, my breath of life, my wealth. ||3||1||
Raamkalee, The
Word Of Baynee Jee:
One Universal Creator God. By The Grace
Of The True Guru:
The energy channels of the Ida, Pingala
and Shushmanaa: these three dwell in one place.
This is the
true place of confluence of the three sacred rivers: this is
where my mind takes its cleansing bath. ||1||
O Saints, the
Immaculate Lord dwells there;
how rare are those who go to
the Guru, and understand this.
The all-pervading immaculate
Lord is there. ||1||Pause||
What is the insignia of the Divine
Lord's dwelling?
The unstruck sound current of the Shabad
vibrates there.
There is no moon or sun, no air or water
there.
The Gurmukh becomes aware, and knows the Teachings.
||2||
Spiritual wisdom wells up, and evil-mindedness departs;
the nucleus of the mind sky is drenched with Ambrosial Nectar.
One who knows the secret of this device,
meets the Supreme
Divine Guru. ||3||
The Tenth Gate is the home of the inaccessible,
infinite Supreme Lord.
Above the store is a niche, and within
this niche is the commodity. ||4||
One who remains awake,
never sleeps.
The three qualities and the three worlds vanish,
in the state of Samaadhi.
He takes the Beej Mantra, the Seed
Mantra, and keeps it in his heart.
Turning his mind away
from the world, he focuses on the cosmic void of the absolute
Lord. ||5||
He remains awake, and he does not lie.
He
keeps the five sensory organs under his control.
He cherishes
in his consciousness the Guru's Teachings.
He dedicates his
mind and body to the Lord's Love. ||6||
He considers his
hands to be the leaves and branches of the tree.
He does
not lose his life in the gamble.
He plugs up the source of
the river of evil tendencies.
Turning away from the west,
he makes the sun rise in the east.
He bears the unbearable,
and the drops trickle down within;
then, he speaks with the
Lord of the world. ||7||
The four-sided lamp illuminates
the Tenth Gate.
The Primal Lord is at the center of the countless
leaves.
He Himself abides there with all His powers.
He
weaves the jewels into the pearl of the mind. ||8||
The lotus
is at the forehead, and the jewels surround it.
Within it
is the Immaculate Lord, the Master of the three worlds.
The
Panch Shabad, the five primal sounds, resound and vibrate their
in their purity.
The chauris - the fly brushes wave, and
the conch shells blare like thunder.
The Gurmukh tramples
the demons underfoot with his spiritual wisdom.
Baynee longs
for Your Name, Lord. ||9||1||
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