
The Guru Granth Sahib - Raag Kaanraa

Section 32 - Raag Kaanraa - Part 001
Raag Kaanraa, Chau-Padas, Fourth Mehl, First House:
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:
Meeting with the Holy people, my mind blossoms
forth.
I am a sacrifice, a sacrifice, a sacrifice, a sacrifice to
those Holy beings; joining the Sangat, the Congregation, I am
carried across to the other side. ||1||Pause||
O Lord, Har,
Har, please bless me with Your Mercy, God, that I may fall at
the feet of the Holy.
Blessed, blessed are the Holy, who
know the Lord God. Meeting with the Holy, even sinners are saved.
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The mind roams and rambles all around in all directions.
Meeting with the Holy, it is overpowered and brought under control,
just as when the fisherman spreads his net over the water, he
catches and overpowers the fish. ||2||
The Saints, the Saints
of the Lord, are noble and good. Meeting with the humble Saints,
filth is washed away.
All the sins and egotism are washed
away, like soap washing dirty clothes. ||3||
According to
that pre-ordained destiny inscribed on my forehead by my Lord
and Master, I have enshrined the Feet of the Guru, the True
Guru, within my heart.
I have found God, the Destroyer of
all poverty and pain; servant Nanak is saved through the Naam.
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Kaanraa, Fourth Mehl:
My mind is the dust of
the feet of the Saints.
Joining the Sangat, the Congregation,
I listen to the sermon of the Lord, Har, Har. My crude and uncultured
mind is drenched with the Love of the Lord. ||1||Pause||
I am thoughtless and unconscious; I do not know God's state
and extent. The Guru has made me thoughtful and conscious.
God is Merciful to the meek; He has made me His Own. My mind
chants and meditates on the Name of the Lord, Har, Har. ||1||
Meeting with the Lord's Saints, the Beloveds of the mind, I
would cut out my heart, and offer it to them.
Meeting with
the Lord's Saints, I meet with the Lord; this sinner has been
sanctified. ||2||
The humble servants of the Lord are said
to be exalted in this world; meeting with them, even stones
are softened.
Section 32 - Raag Kaanraa - Part 002
I cannot even describe the noble grandeur of such humble
beings; the Lord, Har, Har, has made them sublime and exalted.
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You, Lord are the Great Merchant-Banker; O God, my
Lord and Master, I am just a poor peddler; please bless me with
the wealth.
Please bestow Your Kindness and Mercy upon servant
Nanak, God, so that he may load up the merchandise of the Lord,
Har, Har. ||4||2||
Kaanraa, Fourth Mehl:
O mind, chant
the Name of the Lord, and be enlightened.
Meet with the Saints
of the Lord, and focus your love; remain balanced and detached
within your own household. ||1||Pause||
I chant the Name
of the Lord, Nar-Har, within my heart; God the Merciful has
shown His Mercy.
Night and day, I am in ecstasy; my mind
has blossomed forth, rejuvenated. I am trying - I hope to meet
my Lord. ||1||
I am in love with the Lord, my Lord and Master;
I love Him with every breath and morsel of food I take.
My
sins were burnt away in an instant; the noose of the bondage
of Maya was loosened. ||2||
I am such a worm! What karma
am I creating? What can I do? I am a fool, a total idiot, but
God has saved me.
I am unworthy, heavy as stone, but joining
the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation, I am carried across to
the other side. ||3||
The Universe which God created is all
above me; I am the lowest, engrossed in corruption.
With
the Guru, my faults and demerits have been erased. Servant Nanak
has been united with God Himself. ||4||3||
Kaanraa, Fourth
Mehl:
O my mind, chant the Name of the Lord, through the
Guru's Word.
The Lord, Har, Har, has shown me His Mercy, and my evil-mindedness,
love of duality and sense of alienation are totally gone, thanks
to the Lord of the Universe. ||1||Pause||
There are so many
forms and colors of the Lord. The Lord is pervading each and
every heart, and yet He is hidden from view.
Meeting with
the Lord's Saints, the Lord is revealed, and the doors of corruption
are shattered. ||1||
The glory of the Saintly beings is absolutely
great; they lovingly enshrine the Lord of Bliss and Delight
within their hearts.
Meeting with the Lord's Saints, I meet
with the Lord, just as when the calf is seen - the cow is there
as well. ||2||
The Lord, Har, Har, is within the humble Saints
of the Lord; they are exalted - they know, and they inspire
others to know as well.
The fragrance of the Lord permeates
their hearts; they have abandoned the foul stench. ||3||
You make those humble beings Your Own, God; You protect Your
Own, O Lord.
The Lord is servant Nanak's companion; the Lord
is his sibling, mother, father, relative and relation. ||4||4||
Kaanraa, Fourth Mehl:
O my mind, consciously chant the Name
of the Lord, Har, Har.
The commodity of the Lord, Har, Har,
is locked in the fortress of Maya; through the Word of the Guru's
Shabad, I have conquered the fortress. ||1||Pause||
In false
doubt and superstition, people wander all around, lured by love
and emotional attachment to their children and families.
But just like the passing shade of the tree, your body-wall
shall crumble in an instant. ||1||
The humble beings are
exalted; they are my breath of life and my beloveds; meeting
them, my mind is filled with faith.
Deep within the heart,
I am happy with the Pervading Lord; with love and joy, I dwell
upon the Steady and Stable Lord. ||2||
Section 32 - Raag Kaanraa - Part 003
The humble Saints, the Saints of the Lord, are noble and
sublime; meeting them, the mind is tinged with love and joy.
The Lord's Love never fades away, and it never wears off. Through
the Lord's Love, one goes and meets the Lord, Har, Har. ||3||
I am a sinner; I have committed so many sins. The Guru has cut
them, cut them, and hacked them off.
The Guru has placed
the healing remedy of the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, into my
mouth. Servant Nanak, the sinner, has been purified and sanctified.
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Kaanraa, Fourth Mehl:
Chant, O my mind, the Name
of the Lord, the Lord of the Universe.
I was caught in the
whirlpool of poisonous sin and corruption. The True Guru gave
me His Hand; He lifted me up and pulled me out. ||1||Pause||
O my Fearless, Immaculate Lord and Master, please save me -
I am a sinner, a sinking stone.
I am lured and enticed by
sexual desire, anger, greed and corruption, but associating
with You, I am carried across, like iron in the wooden boat.
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You are the Great Primal Being, the most Inaccessible
and Unfathomable Lord God; I search for You, but cannot find
Your depth.
You are the farthest of the far, beyond the beyond,
O my Lord and Master; You alone know Yourself, O Lord of the
Universe. ||2||
I meditate on the Name of the Unseen and
Unfathomable Lord; joining the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation,
I have found the Path of the Holy.
Joining the congregation,
I listen to the Gospel of the Lord, Har, Har; I meditate on
the Lord, Har, Har, and speak the Unspoken Speech. ||3||
My God is the Lord of the World, the Lord of the Universe; please
save me, O Lord of all Creation.
Servant Nanak is the slave
of the slave of Your slaves. O God, please bless me with Your
Grace; please protect me and keep me with Your humble servants.
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Kaanraa, Fourth Mehl, Partaal, Fifth House:
One
Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
O mind,
meditate on the Lord, the Lord of the World.
The Lord is
the Jewel, the Diamond, the Ruby.
The Lord fashions the Gurmukhs
in His Mint.
O Lord, please, please, be Merciful to me. ||1||Pause||
Your Glorious Virtues are inaccessible and unfathomable; how
can my one poor tongue describe them? O my Beloved Lord, Raam,
Raam, Raam, Raam.
O Dear Lord, You, You, You alone know Your
Unspoken Speech. I have become enraptured, enraptured, enraptured,
meditating on the Lord. ||1||
The Lord, my Lord and Master,
is my Companion and my Breath of Life; the Lord is my Best Friend.
My mind, body and tongue are attuned to the Lord, Har, Haray,
Haray. The Lord is my Wealth and Property.
She alone obtains
her Husband Lord, who is so pre-destined. Through the Guru's
Teachings, she sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord, Har,
Har, Haray, Haray. I am a sacrifice, a sacrifice, I am a sacrifice,
a sacrifice to the Lord, O servan
Kaanraa, Fourth Mehl:
Sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord, the Lord of the Universe.
Let my one tongue become two hundred thousand
- with them
all, I will meditate on the Lord, Har, Har, and chant the Word
of the Shabad.
O Lord, please, please, be Merciful to me.
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O Lord, my Lord and Master, please be Merciful
to me; please enjoin me to serve You. I chant and meditate on
the Lord, I chant and meditate on the Lord, I chant and meditate
on the Lord of the Universe.
Your humble servants chant and
meditate on You, O Lord; they are sublime and exalted. I am
a sacrifice, a sacrifice, a sacrifice, a sacrifice to them.
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Section 32 - Raag Kaanraa - Part 004
O Lord, You are the Greatest of the Great, the Greatest of
the Great, the most Lofty and High. You do whatever You please.
Servant Nanak drinks in the Ambrosial Nectar through the Guru's
Teachings. Blessed, blessed, blessed, blessed, blessed and praised
is the Guru. ||2||2||8||
Kaanraa, Fourth Mehl:
O mind,
meditate and vibrate on the Lord, Raam, Raam.
He has no form
or feature - He is Great!
Joining the Sat Sangat, the True
Congregation, vibrate and meditate on the Lord.
This is the
high destiny written on your forehead. ||1||Pause||
That
household, that mansion, in which the Lord's Praises are sung
- that home is filled with ecstasy and joy; so vibrate and meditate
on the Lord, Raam, Raam, Raam.
Sing the Glorious Praises
of the Name of the Lord, the Beloved Lord. Through the Teachings
of the Guru, the Guru, the True Guru, you shall find peace.
So vibrate and meditate on the Lord, Har, Haray, Har, Haray,
Haray, the Lord, Raam, Raam,
You are the Support of the whole
universe, Lord; O Merciful Lord, You, You, You are the Creator
of all, Raam, Raam, Raam.
Servant Nanak seeks Your Sanctuary;
please bless him with the Guru's Teachings, that he may vibrate
and meditate on the Lord, Raam, Raam, Raam. ||2||3||9||
Kaanraa,
Fourth Mehl:
I eagerly kiss the Feet of the True Guru.
Meeting Him, the Path to the Lord becomes smooth and easy.
I lovingly vibrate and meditate on the Lord, and gulp down His
Sublime Essence.
The Lord has written this destiny on my
forehead. ||1||Pause||
Some perform the six rituals and rites;
the Siddhas, seekers and Yogis put on all sorts of pompous shows,
with their hair all tangled and matted.
Yoga - Union with
the Lord God - is not obtained by wearing religious robes; the
Lord is found in the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation, and
the Guru's Teachings. The humble Saints throw the doors wide
open. ||1||
O my Lord and Master, You are the farthest of
the far, utterly unfathomable. You are totally pervading the
water and the land. You alone are the One and Only Unique Lord
of all creation.
You alone know all Your ways and means.
You alone understand Yourself. Servant Nanak's Lord God is in
each heart, in every heart, in the home of each and every heart.
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Kaanraa, Fourth Mehl:
O mind, chant and meditate
on the Lord, the Lord of the Universe.
The Lord, Har, Har,
is inaccessible and unfathomable.
Through the Guru's Teachings,
my intellect attains the Lord God.
This is the pre-ordained
destiny written on my forehead. ||1||Pause||
Collecting the
poison of Maya, people think of all sorts of evil. But peace
is found only by vibrating and meditating on the Lord; with
the Saints, in the Sangat, the Society of the Saints, meet the
True Guru, the Holy Guru.
Just as when the iron slag is transmuted
into gold by touching the Philosopher's Stone - when the sinner
joins the Sangat, he becomes pure, through the Guru's Teachings.
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Just like the heavy iron which is carried across on
the wooden raft, sinners are carried across in the Saadh Sangat,
the Company of the Holy, and the Guru, the True Guru, the Holy
Guru.
There are four castes, four social classes, and four
stages of life. Whoever meets the Guru, Guru Nanak, is himself
carried across, and he carries all his ancestors and generations
across as well. ||2||5||11||
Kaanraa, Fourth Mehl:
Sing
the Praises of the Lord God.
Singing His Praises, sins are
washed away.
Through the Word of the Guru's Teachings, listen
to His Praises with your ears.
The Lord shall be Merciful
to you. ||1||Pause||
Section 32 - Raag Kaanraa - Part 005
Your humble servants focus their consciousness and meditate
on You with one-pointed mind; those Holy beings find peace,
chanting the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, the Treasure of Bliss.
They sing Your Praises, God, meeting with the Holy, the Holy
people, and the Guru, the True Guru, O Lord God. ||1||
They
alone obtain the fruit of peace, within whose hearts You, O
my Lord and Master, abide. They cross over the terrifying world-ocean
- they are known as the Lord's devotees.
Please enjoin me
to their service, Lord, please enjoin me to their service. O
Lord God, You, You, You, You, You are the Lord of servant Nanak.
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Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl, Second House:
One Universal
Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
Sing the Glorious
Praises of the Lord of the World, the Treasure of Mercy.
The True Guru is the Destroyer of pain, the Giver of peace;
meeting Him, one is totally fulfilled. ||1||Pause||
Meditate
in remembrance on the Naam, the Support of the mind.
Millions
of sinners are carried across in an instant. ||1||
Whoever
remembers his Guru,
shall not suffer sorrow, even in dreams.
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Whoever keeps his Guru enshrined within
- that humble
being tastes the sublime essence of the Lord with his tongue.
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Says Nanak, the Guru has been Kind to me;
here and
herafter, my face is radiant. ||4||1||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
I worship and adore You, my Lord and Master.
Standing up
and sitting down, while sleeping and awake, with each and every
breath, I meditate on the Lord. ||1||Pause||
The Naam, the
Name of the Lord, abides within the hearts of those,
whose
Lord and Master blesses them with this gift. ||1||
Peace
and tranquility come into the hearts of those
who meet their
Lord and Master, through the Word of the Guru. ||2||
Those
whom the Guru blesses with the Mantra of the Naam are wise,
and blessed with all powers,. ||3||
Says Nanak, I am a sacrifice
to those
who are blessed with the Name in this Dark Age of
Kali Yuga. ||4||2||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
Sing the Praises
of God, O my tongue.
Humbly bow to the Saints, over and over
again; through them, the Feet of the Lord of the Universe shall
come to abide within you. ||1||Pause||
The Door to the Lord
cannot be found by any other means.
When He becomes Merciful,
we come to meditate on the Lord, Har, Har. ||1||
The body
is not purified by millions of rituals.
The mind is awakened
and enlightened only in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the
Holy. ||2||
Thirst and desire are not quenched by enjoying
the many pleasures of Maya.
Chanting the Naam, the Name of
the Lord, total peace is found. ||3||
When the Supreme Lord
God becomes Merciful,
says Nanak, then one is rid of worldly
entanglements. ||4||3||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
Beg for such
blessings from the Lord of the Universe:
to work for the
Saints, and the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy. Chanting
the Name of the Lord, the supreme status is obtained. ||1||Pause||
Worship the Feet of Your Lord and Master, and seek His Sanctuary.
Take joy in whatever God does. ||1||
This precious human
body becomes fruitful,
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when the True Guru shows His Kindness. ||2||
The house
of ignorance, doubt and pain is destroyed,
for those within
whose hearts the Guru's Feet abide. ||3||
In the Saadh Sangat,
lovingly meditate on God.
Says Nanak, you shall obtain the
Perfect Lord. ||4||4||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
Devotion is
the natural quality of God's devotees.
Their bodies and minds
are blended with their Lord and Master; He unites them with
Himself. ||1||Pause||
The singer sings the songs,
but
she alone is saved, within whose consciousness the Lord abides.
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The one who sets the table sees the food,
but only
one who eats the food is satisfied. ||2||
People disguise
themselves with all sorts of costumes,
but in the end, they
are seen as they truly are. ||3||
Speaking and talking are
all just entanglements.
O slave Nanak, the true way of life
is excellent. ||4||5||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
Your humble
servant listens to Your Praises with delight. ||1||Pause||
My mind is enlightened, gazing upon the Glory of God. Wherever
I look, there He is. ||1||
You are the farthest of all, the
highest of the far, profound, unfathomable and unreachable.
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You are united with Your devotees, through and through;
You have removed Your veil for Your humble servants. ||3||
By Guru's Grace, Nanak sings Your Glorious Praises; he is intuitively
absorbed in Samaadhi. ||4||6||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
I
have come to the Saints to save myself. ||1||Pause||
Gazing
upon the Blessed Vision of their Darshan, I am sanctified; they
have implanted the Mantra of the Lord, Har, Har, within me.
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The disease has been eradicated, and my mind has become
immaculate. I have taken the healing medicine of the Lord, Har,
Har. ||2||
I have become steady and stable, and I dwell in
the home of peace. I shall never again wander anywhere. ||3||
By the Grace of the Saints, the people and all their generations
are saved; O Nanak, they are not engrossed in Maya. ||4||7||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
I have totally forgotten my jealousy
of others,
since I found the Saadh Sangat, the Company of
the Holy. ||1||Pause||
No one is my enemy, and no one is
a stranger. I get along with everyone. ||1||
Whatever God
does, I accept that as good. This is the sublime wisdom I have
obtained from the Holy. ||2||
The One God is pervading in
all. Gazing upon Him, beholding Him, Nanak blossoms forth in
happiness. ||3||8||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
O my Dear Lord
and Master, You alone are my Support.
You are my Honor and
Glory; I seek Your Support, and Your Sanctuary. ||1||Pause||
You are my Hope, and You are my Faith. I take Your Name and
enshrine it within my heart.
You are my Power; associating
with You, I am embellished and exalted. I do whatever You say.
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Through Your Kindness and Compassion, I find peace;
when You are Merciful, I cross over the terrifying world-ocean.
Through the Name of the Lord, I obtain the gift of fearlessness;
Nanak places his head on the feet of the Saints. ||2||9||
Section 32 - Raag Kaanraa - Part 007
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
In the Sanctuary of the Holy, I focus
my consciousness on the Lord's Feet.
When I was dreaming,
I heard and saw only dream-objects. The True Guru has implanted
the Mantra of the Naam, the Name of the Lord, within me. ||1||Pause||
Power, youth and wealth do not bring satisfaction; people chase
after them again and again.
I have found peace and tranquility,
and all my thirsty desires have been quenched, singing His Glorious
Praises. ||1||
Without understanding, they are like beasts,
engrossed in doubt, emotional attachment and Maya.
But in
the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, the noose of Death
is cut, O Nanak, and one intuitively merges in celestial peace.
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Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
Sing of the Lord's Feet
within your heart.
Meditate, meditate in constant remembrance
on God, the Embodiment of soothing peace and cooling tranquility.
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All your hopes shall be fulfilled, and the pain
of millions of deaths and births shall be gone. ||1||
Immerse
yourself in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, and you
shall obtain the benefits of giving charitable gifts, and all
sorts of good deeds.
Sorrow and suffering shall be erased,
O Nanak, and you shall never again be devoured by death. ||2||11||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl, Third House:
One Universal Creator God.
By The Grace Of The True Guru:
Speak of God's Wisdom in the
Sat Sangat, the True Congregation.
Meditating in remembrance
on the Perfect Supreme Divine Light, the Transcendent Lord God,
honor and glory are obtained. ||1||Pause||
One's comings
and goings in reincarnation cease, and suffering is dispelled,
meditating in remembrance in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of
the Holy.
Sinners are sanctified in an instant, in the love
of the Supreme Lord God. ||1||
Whoever speaks and listens
to the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises is rid of evil-mindedness.
All hopes and desires, O Nanak, are fulfilled. ||2||1||12||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
The Treasure of the Naam, the Name of
the Lord, is found in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy.
It is the Companion of the soul, its Helper and Support. ||1||Pause||
Continually bathing in the dust of the feet of the Saints,
the sins of countless incarnations are washed away. ||1||
The words of the humble Saints are lofty and exalted.
Meditating,
meditating in remembrance, O Nanak, mortal beings are carried
across and saved. ||2||2||13||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
O
Holy people, sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord, Har, Haray.
Mind, body, wealth and the breath of life - all come from God;
remembering Him in meditation, pain is taken away. ||1||Pause||
Why are you entangled in this and that? Let your mind be attuned
to the One. ||1||
The place of the Saints is utterly sacred;
meet with them, and meditate on the Lord of the Universe. ||2||
O Nanak, I have abandoned everything and come to Your Sanctuary.
Please let me merge with You. ||3||3||14||
Kaanraa, Fifth
Mehl:
Gazing upon and beholding my Best Friend, I blossom
forth in bliss; my God is the One and Only. ||1||Pause||
He is the Image of Ecstasy, Intuitive Peace and Poise. There
is no other like Him. ||1||
Meditating in remembrance on
the Lord, Har, Har, even once, millions of sins are erased.
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Uttering His Glorious Praises, suffering is eradicated, and
the heart becomes tranquil and calm. ||3||
Drink in the Sweet,
Sublime Ambrosial Nectar, O Nanak, and be imbued with the Love
of the Lord. ||4||4||15||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
O friends,
O Saints, come to me. ||1||Pause||
Singing the Glorious Praises
of the Lord with pleasure and joy, the sins will be erased and
thrown away. ||1||
Touch your forehead to the feet of the
Saints, and your dark household shall be illumined. ||2||
By the Grace of the Saints, the heart-lotus blossoms forth.
Vibrate and meditate on the Lord of the Universe, and see Him
near at hand. ||3||
By the Grace of God, I have found the
Saints. Over and over again, Nanak is a sacrifice to that moment.
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Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
I seek the Sanctuary
of Your Lotus Feet, O Lord of the World.
Save me from emotional
attachment, pride, deception and doubt; please cut away these
ropes which bind me. ||1||Pause||
I am drowning in the world-ocean.
Meditating in remembrance on the Lord, the Source of Jewels,
I am saved. ||1||
Your Name, Lord, is cooling and soothing.
God, my Lord and Master, is Perfect. ||2||
You are the Deliverer,
the Destroyer of the sufferings of the meek and the poor.
The Lord is the Treasure of Mercy, the Saving Grace of sinners.
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I have suffered the pains of millions of incarnations.
Nanak is at peace; the Guru has implanted the Naam, the Name
of the Lord, within me. ||4||6||17||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
Blessed is that love, which is attuned to the Lord's Feet.
The peace which comes from millions of chants and deep meditations
is obtained by perfect good fortune and destiny. ||1||Pause||
I am Your helpless servant and slave; I have given up all other
support.
Every trace of doubt has been eradicated, remembering
God in meditation. I have applied the ointment of spiritual
wisdom, and awakened from my sleep. ||1||
You are Unfathomably
Great and Utterly Vast, O my Lord and Master, Ocean of Mercy,
Source of Jewels.
Nanak, the beggar, begs for the Name of
the Lord, Har, Har; he rests his forehead upon God's Feet. ||2||7||18||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
I am filthy, hard-hearted, deceitful
and obsessed with sexual desire.
Please carry me across,
as You wish, O my Lord and Master. ||1||Pause||
You are All-powerful
and Potent to grant Sanctuary. Exerting Your Power, You protect
us. ||1||
Chanting and deep meditation, penance and austere
self-discipline, fasting and purification - salvation does not
come by any of these means.
Please lift me up and out of
this deep, dark ditch; O God, please bless Nanak with Your Glance
of Grace. ||2||8||19||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl, Fourth House:
One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
The one who bows in humble reverence to the Primal Lord, the
Lord of all beings
- I am a sacrifice, a sacrifice to such
a Guru; He Himself is liberated, and He carries me across as
well. ||1||Pause||
Which, which, which of Your Glorious Virtues
should I chant? There is no end or limitation to them.
There
are thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, many
millions of them, but those who contemplate them are very rare.
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Section 32 - Raag Kaanraa - Part 009
I am wonder-struck, wonder-struck, wonder-struck and amazed,
dyed in the deep crimson color of my Beloved.
Says Nanak,
the Saints savor this sublime essence, like the mute, who tastes
the sweet candy, but only smiles. ||2||1||20||
Kaanraa, Fifth
Mehl:
The Saints do not know any other except God.
They
look upon all equally, the high and the low; they speak of Him
with their mouths, and honor Him in their minds. ||1||Pause||
He is pervading and permeating each and every heart; He is the
Ocean of Peace, the Destroyer of fear. He is my praanaa - the
Breath of Life.
My mind was enlightened, and my doubt was
dispelled, when the Guru whispered His Mantra into my ears.
||1||
He is All-powerful, the Ocean of Mercy, the All-knowing
Searcher of Hearts.
Twenty-four hours a day Nanak sings His
Praises, and begs for the Gift of the Lord. ||2||2||21||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
Many speak and talk about God.
But
one who understands the essence of Yoga - such a humble servant
is very rare||1||Pause||
He has no pain - he is totally at
peace. With his eyes, he sees only the One Lord.
No one seems
evil to him - all are good. There is no defeat - he is totally
victorious. ||1||
He is never in sorrow - he is always happy;
but he gives this up, and does not take anything.
Says Nanak,
the humble servant of the Lord is himself the Lord, Har, Har;
he does not come and go in reincarnation. ||2||3||22||
Kaanraa,
Fifth Mehl:
I pray that my heart may never forget my Beloved.
My body and mind are blended with Him, but the Enticer, Maya,
is enticing me, O my mother. ||1||Pause||
Those unto whom
I tell my pain and frustration - they themselves are caught
and stuck.
In all sorts of ways, Maya has cast the net; the
knots cannot be loosened. ||1||
Wandering and roaming, slave
Nanak has come to the Sanctuary of the Saints.
The bonds
of ignorance, doubt, emotional attachment and the love of Maya
have been cut; God hugs me close in His Embrace. ||2||4||23||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
My home is filled with ecstasy, pleasure
and joy.
I sing the Naam, and I meditate on the Naam. The
Naam is the Support of my breath of life. ||1||Pause||
The
Naam is spiritual wisdom, the Naam is my purifying bath. The
Naam resolves all my affairs.
The Naam, the Name of the Lord,
is glorious grandeur; the Naam is glorious greatness. The Name
of the Lord carries me across the terrifying world-ocean. ||1||
The Unfathomable Treasure, the Priceless Gem - I have received
it, through the Guru's Feet.
Says Nanak, God has become Merciful;
my heart is intoxicated by the Blessed Vision of His Darshan.
||2||5||24||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
My Friend, my Best Friend,
my Lord and Master, is near.
He sees and hears everything;
He is with everyone. You are here for such short time - why
do you do evil? ||1||Pause||
Except for the Naam, whatever
you are involved with is nothing - nothing is yours.
Hereafter,
everything is revealed to your gaze; but in this world, all
are enticed by the darkness of doubt. ||1||
People are caught
in Maya, attached to their children and spouses. They have forgotten
the Great and Generous Giver.
Section 32 - Raag Kaanraa - Part 010
Says Nanak, I have one article of faith; my Guru is the One
who releases me from bondage. ||2||6||25||
Kaanraa, Fifth
Mehl:
Your Saints have overwhelmed the wicked army of corruption.
They take Your Support and place their faith in You, O my Lord
and Master; they seek Your Sanctuary. ||1||Pause||
Gazing
upon the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan, the terrible sins of
countless lifetimes are erased.
I am illumined, enlightened
and filled with ecstasy. I am intuitively absorbed in Samaadhi.
||1||
Who says that You cannot do everything? You are Infinitely
All-powerful.
O Treasure of Mercy, Nanak savors Your Love
and Your Blissful Form, earning the Profit of the Naam, the
Name of the Lord. ||2||7||26||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
The
drowning mortal is comforted and consoled, meditating on the
Lord.
He is rid of emotional attachment, doubt, pain and
suffering. ||1||Pause||
I meditate in remembrance, day and
night, on the Guru's Feet.
Wherever I look, I see Your Sanctuary.
||1||
By the Grace of the Saints, I sing the Glorious Praises
of the Lord.
Meeting with the Guru, Nanak has found peace.
||2||8||27||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
Meditating in remembrance
on the Naam, peace of mind is found.
Meeting the Holy Saint,
sing the Praises of the Lord. ||1||Pause||
Granting His Grace,
God has come to dwell within my heart.
I touch my forehead
to the feet of the Saints. ||1||
Meditate, O my mind, on
the Supreme Lord God.
As Gurmukh, Nanak listens to the Praises
of the Lord. ||2||9||28||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
My mind
loves to touch the Feet of God.
My tongue is satisfied with
the Food of the Lord, Har, Har. My eyes are contented with the
Blessed Vision of God. ||1||Pause||
My ears are filled with
the Praise of my Beloved; all my foul sins and faults are erased.
My feet follow the Path of Peace to my Lord and Master; my body
and limbs joyfully blossom forth in the Society of the Saints.
||1||
I have taken Sanctuary in my Perfect, Eternal, Imperishable
Lord. I do not bother trying anything else.
Taking them by
the hand, O Nanak, God saves His humble servants; they shall
not perish in the deep, dark world-ocean. ||2||10||29||
Kaanraa,
Fifth Mehl:
Those fools who bellow with rage and destructive
deceit, are crushed and killed innumerable times. ||1||Pause||
Intoxicated with egotism and imbued with other tastes, I am
in love with my evil enemies. My Beloved watches over me as
I wander through thousands of incarnations. ||1||
My dealings
are false, and my lifestyle is chaotic. Intoxicated with the
wine of emotion, I am burning in the fire of anger.
O Merciful
Lord of the World, Embodiment of Compassion, Relative of the
meek and the poor, please save Nanak; I seek Your Sanctuary.
||2||11||30||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
The Giver of the soul,
the breath of life and honor
- forgetting the Lord, all is
lost. ||1||Pause||
You have forsaken the Lord of the Universe,
and become attached to another - you are throwing away the Ambrosial
Nectar, to take dust.
What do you expect from corrupt pleasures?
You fool! What makes you think that they will bring peace? ||1||
Section 32 - Raag Kaanraa - Part 011
Engrossed in unfulfilled sexual desire, unresolved anger
and greed, you shall be consigned to reincarnation.
But I
have entered the Sanctuary of the Purifier of sinners. O Nanak,
I know that I shall be saved. ||2||12||31||
Kaanraa, Fifth
Mehl:
I gaze on the Lotus-like Face of the Lord.
Searching
and seeking, I have found the Jewel. I am totally rid of all
anxiety. ||1||Pause||
Enshrining His Lotus Feet within my
heart,
pain and wickedness have been dispelled. ||1||
The Lord of all the Universe is my kingdom, wealth and family.
In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, Nanak has earned
the Profit; he shall never die again. ||2||13||32||
Kaanraa,
Fifth Mehl, Fifth House:
One Universal Creator God. By The
Grace Of The True Guru:
Worship God, and adore His Name.
Grasp the Feet of the Guru, the True Guru.
The Unfathomable
Lord shall come into your mind,
and by Guru's Grace, you
shall be victorious in this world. ||1||Pause||
I have studied
countless ways of worship in all sorts of ways, but that alone
is worship, which is pleasing to the Lord's Will.
This body-puppet
is made of clay - what can it do by itself?
O God, those
humble beings meet You, whom You grasp by the arm, and place
on the Path. ||1||
I do not know of any other support; O
Lord, You are my only Hope and Support.
I am meek and poor
- what prayer can I offer?
God abides in every heart.
My mind is thirsty for the Feet of God.
Servant Nanak, Your
slave, speaks: I am a sacrifice, a sacrifice, forever a sacrifice
to You. ||2||1||33||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl, Sixth House:
One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
Your Name, O my Beloved, is the Saving Grace of the world.
The Lord's Name is the wealth of the nine treasures.
One
who is imbued with the Love of the Incomparably Beautiful Lord
is joyful.
O mind, why do you cling to emotional attachments?
With your eyes, gaze upon the Blessed Vision, the Darshan of
the Holy.
They alone find it, who have such destiny inscribed
upon their foreheads. ||1||Pause||
I serve at the feet of
the Holy Saints.
I long for the dust of their feet, which
purifies and sanctifies.
Just like the sixty-eight sacred
shrines of pilgrimage, it washes away filth and pollution.
With each and every breath I meditate on Him, and never turn
my face away.
Of your thousands and millions, nothing shall
go along with you.
Only the Name of God will call to you
in the end. ||1||
Let it be your wish to honor and obey the
One Formless Lord.
Abandon the love of everything else.
What Glorious Praises of Yours can I utter, O my Beloved?
I cannot describe even one of Your Virtues.
My mind is so
thirsty for the Blessed Vision of His Darshan.
Please come
and meet Nanak, O Divine Guru of the World. ||2||1||34||
Section 32 - Raag Kaanraa - Part 012
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
How may I obtain the Blessed Vision
of Your Darshan? ||1||Pause||
I hope and thirst for Your
wish-fulfilling image; my heart yearns and longs for You. ||1||
The meek and humble Saints are like thirsty fish; the Saints
of the Lord are absorbed in Him.
I am the dust of the feet
of the Lord's Saints.
I dedicate my heart to them.
God
has become Merciful to me.
Renouncing pride and leaving behind
emotional attachment, O Nanak, one meets with the Dear Lord.
||2||2||35||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
The Playful Lord imbues
all with the Color of His Love.
From the ant to the elephant,
He is permeating and pervading all. ||1||Pause||
Some go
on fasts, make vows, and take pilgrimages to sacred shrines
on the Ganges.
They stand naked in the water, enduring hunger
and poverty.
They sit cross-legged, perform worship services
and do good deeds.
They apply religious symbols to their
bodies, and ceremonial marks to their limbs.
They read through
the Shaastras, but they do not join the Sat Sangat, the True
Congregation. ||1||
They stubbornly practice ritualistic
postures, standing on their heads.
They are afflicted with
the disease of egotism, and their faults are not covered up.
They burn in the fire of sexual frustration, unresolved anger
and compulsive desire.
He alone is liberated, O Nanak, whose
True Guru is Good. ||2||3||36||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl, Seventh
House:
One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True
Guru:
My thirst has been quenched, meeting with the Holy.
The five thieves have run away, and I am in peace and poise;
singing, singing, singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord,
I obtain the Blessed Vision of my Beloved. ||1||Pause||
That
which God has done for me - how can I do that for Him in return?
I make my heart a sacrifice, a sacrifice, a sacrifice, a sacrifice,
a sacrifice to You. ||1||
First, I fall at the feet of the
Saints; I meditate, meditate, lovingly attuned to You.
O
God, where is that Place, where You contemplate all Your beings?
Countless slaves sing Your Praises.
He alone meets You, who
is pleasing to Your Will. Servant Nanak remains absorbed in
his Lord and Master.
You, You, You alone, Lord. ||2||1||37||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl, Eighth House:
One Universal Creator
God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
Give up your pride and
your self-conceit; the Loving, Merciful Lord is watching over
all. O mind, become the dust of His Feet. ||1||Pause||
Through
the Mantra of the Lord's Saints, experience the spiritual wisdom
and meditation of the Lord of the World. ||1||
Within your
heart, sing the Praises of the Lord of the Universe, and be
lovingly attuned to His Lotus Feet. He is the Fascinating Lord,
Merciful to the meek and the humble.
O Merciful Lord, please
bless me with Your Kindness and Compassion.
Nanak begs for
the Gift of the Naam, the Name of the Lord.
I have abandoned
emotional attachment, doubt and all egotistical pride. ||2||1||38||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
Speaking of God, filth and pollution
are burnt away; This comes by meeting with the Guru, and not
by any other efforts. ||1||Pause||
Section 32 - Raag Kaanraa - Part 013
Making pilgrimages to sacred rivers, observing the six rituals,
wearing matted and tangled hair, performing fire sacrifices
and carrying ceremonial walking sticks - none of these are of
any use. ||1||
All sorts of efforts, austerities, wanderings
and various speeches - none of these will lead you to find the
Lord's Place.
I have considered all considerations, O Nanak,
but peace comes only by vibrating and meditating on the Name.
||2||2||39||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl, Ninth House:
One Universal
Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
The Purifier
of sinners, the Lover of His devotees, the Destroyer of fear
- He carries us across to the other side. ||1||Pause||
My
eyes are satisfied, gazing upon the Blessed Vision of His Darshan;
my ears are satisfied, hearing His Praise. ||1||
He is the
Master of the praanaa, the breath of life; He is the Giver of
Support to the unsupported. I am meek and poor - I seek the
Sanctuary of the Lord of the Universe.
He is the Fulfiller
of hope, the Destroyer of pain. Nanak grasps the Support of
the Feet of the Lord. ||2||1||40||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
I seek the Sanctuary of the Feet of my Merciful Lord and Master;
I do not go anywhere else.
It is the Inherent Nature of our
Lord and Master to purify sinners. Those who meditate on the
Lord are saved. ||1||Pause||
The world is a swamp of wickedness
and corruption. The blind sinner has fallen into the ocean of
emotional attachment and pride,
bewildered by the entanglements
of Maya.
God Himself has taken me by the hand and lifted
me up and out of it; save me, O Sovereign Lord of the Universe.
||1||
He is the Master of the masterless, the Supporting
Lord of the Saints, the Neutralizer of millions of sins.
My mind thirsts for the Blessed Vision of His Darshan.
God
is the Perfect Treasure of Virtue.
O Nanak, sing and savor
the Glorious Praises of the Lord, the Kind and Compassionate
Lord of the World. ||2||2||41||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
Countless
times, I am a sacrifice, a sacrifice
to that moment of peace,
on that night when I was joined with my Beloved. ||1||Pause||
Mansions of gold, and beds of silk sheets - O sisters, I have
no love for these. ||1||
Pearls, jewels and countless pleasures,
O Nanak, are useless and destructive without the Naam, the Name
of the Lord.
Even with only dry crusts of bread, and a hard
floor on which to sleep, my life passes in peace and pleasure
with my Beloved, O sisters. ||2||3||42||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
Give up your ego, and turn your face to God.
Let your yearning
mind call out, "Guru, Guru".
My Beloved is the
Lover of Love. ||1||Pause||
The bed of your household shall
be cozy, and your courtyard shall be comfortable; shatter and
break the bonds which tie you to the five thieves. ||1||
You shall not come and go in reincarnation; you shall dwell
in your own home deep within, and your inverted heart-lotus
shall blossom forth.
The turmoil of egotism shall be silenced.
Nanak sings - he sings the Praises of God, the Ocean of Virtue.
||2||4||43||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl, Ninth House:
This is
why you should chant and meditate on the Lord, O mind.
The
Vedas and the Saints say that the path is treacherous and difficult.
You are intoxicated with emotional attachment and the fever
of egotism. ||Pause||
Those who are imbued and intoxicated
with the wretched Maya, suffer the pains of emotional attachment.
||1||
That humble being is saved, who chants the Naam; You
Yourself save him.
Emotional attachment, fear and doubt are
dispelled, O Nanak, by the Grace of the Saints. ||2||5||44||
Section 32 - Raag Kaanraa - Part 014
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl, Tenth House:
One Universal Creator
God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
Give me that blessing,
O Dear Saints, for which my soul would be a sacrifice.
Enticed
by pride, entrapped and plundered by the five thieves, still,
you live near them. I have come to the Sanctuary of the Holy,
and I have been rescued from my association with those demons.
||1||Pause||
I wandered through millions of lifetimes and
incarnations. I am so very tired - I have fallen at God's Door.
||1||
The Lord of the Universe has become Kind to me; He
has blessed me with the Support of the Naam.
This precious
human life has become fruitful and prosperous; O Nanak, I am
carried across the terrifying world-ocean. ||2||1||45||
Kaanraa,
Fifth Mehl, Eleventh House:
One Universal Creator God. By
The Grace Of The True Guru:
He Himself has come to me, in
His Natural Way.
I know nothing, and I show nothing.
I
have met God through innocent faith, and He has blessed me with
peace. ||1||Pause||
By the good fortune of my destiny, I
have joined the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy.
I
do not go out anywhere; I dwell in my own home.
God, the
Treasure of Virtue, has been revealed in this body-robe. ||1||
I have fallen in love with His Feet; I have abandoned everything
else.
In the places and interspaces, He is All-pervading.
With loving joy and excitement, Nanak speaks His Praises. ||2||1||46||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
It is so hard to meet the Lord of the
Universe, my Lord and Master.
His Form is Immeasurable, Inaccessible
and Unfathomable; He is All-pervading everywhere. ||1||Pause||
By speaking and wandering, nothing is gained; nothing is obtained
by clever tricks and devices. ||1||
People try all sorts
of things, but the Lord is only met when He shows His Mercy.
God is Kind and Compassionate, the Treasure of Mercy; servant
Nanak is the dust of the feet of the Saints. ||2||2||47||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
O mother, I meditate on the Lord, Raam,
Raam, Raam.
Without God, there is no other at all.
I remember
His Lotus Feet with every breath, night and day. ||1||Pause||
He loves me and makes me His Own; my union with Him shall never
be broken.
He is my breath of life, mind, wealth and everything.
The Lord is the Treasure of Virtue and Peace. ||1||
Here
and hereafter, the Lord is perfectly pervading; He is seen deep
within the heart.
In the Sanctuary of the Saints, I am carried
across; O Nanak, the terrible pain has been taken away. ||2||3||48||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
God's humble servant is in love with
Him.
You are my Friend, my very best Friend; everything is
in Your Home. ||1||Pause||
I beg for honor, I beg for strength;
please bless me with wealth, property and children. ||1||
You are the Technology of liberation, the Way to worldly success,
the Perfect Lord of Supreme Bliss, the Transcendent Treasure.
Section 32 - Raag Kaanraa - Part 015
In the Fear of God and loving devotion, Nanak is exalted
and enraptured, forever and ever a sacrifice to Him. ||2||4||49||
Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:
The debaters debate and argue their
arguments.
The Yogis and meditators, religious and spiritual
teachers roam and ramble, wandering endlessly all over the earth.
||1||Pause||
They are egotistical, self-centered and conceited,
foolish, stupid, idiotic and insane.
Wherever they go and
wander, death is always with them, forever and ever and ever
and ever. ||1||
Give up your pride and stubborn self-conceit;
death, yes, death, is always close and near at hand.
Vibrate
and meditate on the Lord, Har, Haray, Haray. Says Nanak, listen
you fool: without vibrating, and meditating, and dwelling on
Him, your life is uselessly wasting away. ||2||5||50||12||62||
Kaanraa, Ashtapadees, Fourth Mehl, First House:
One Universal
Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
Chant the Name
of the Lord, O mind, and find peace.
The more you chant and
meditate, the more you will be at peace; serve the True Guru,
and merge in the Lord. ||1||Pause||
Each and every instant,
the humble devotees long for Him; chanting the Naam, they find
peace.
The taste of other pleasures is totally eradicated;
nothing pleases them, except the Name. ||1||
Following the
Guru's Teachings, the Lord seems sweet to them; the Guru inspires
them to speak sweet words.
Through the Word of the True Guru's
Bani, the Primal Lord God is revealed; so focus your consciousness
on His Bani. ||2||
Hearing the Word of the Guru's Bani, my
mind has been softened and saturated with it; my mind has returned
to its own home deep within.
The Unstruck Melody resonates
and resounds there continuously; the stream of nectar trickles
down constantly. ||3||
Singing the Name of the One Lord each
and every instant, and following the Guru's Teachings, the mind
is absorbed in the Naam.
Listening to the Naam, the mind
is pleased with the Naam, and satisfied with the Naam. ||4||
People wear lots of bracelets, glittering with gold; they wear
all sorts of fine clothes.
But without the Naam, they are
all bland and insipid. They are born, only to die again, in
the cycle of reincarnation. ||5||
The veil of Maya is a thick
and heavy veil, a whirlpool which destroys one's home.
Sins
and corrupt vices are totally heavy, like rusted slag. They
will not let you cross over the poisonous and treacherous world-ocean.
||6||
Let the Fear of God and neutral detachment be the boat;
the Guru is the Boatman, who carries us across in the Word of
the Shabad.
Meeting with the Lord, the Name of the Lord,
merge in the Lord, the Name of the Lord. ||7||
Attached to
ignorance, people are falling asleep; attached to the Guru's
spiritual wisdom, they awaken.
O Nanak, by His Will, He makes
us walk as He pleases. ||8||1||
Kaanraa, Fourth Mehl:
O mind, chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, and be carried
across.
Whoever chants and meditates on it is emancipated.
Like Dhroo and Prahlaad, they merge in the Lord. ||1||Pause||
Section 32 - Raag Kaanraa - Part 016
Mercy, mercy, mercy - O Dear Lord, please shower Your Mercy
on me, and attach me to Your Name.
Please be Merciful, and
lead me to meet the True Guru; meeting the True Guru, I meditate
on the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||1||
The filth of egotism
from countless incarnations sticks to me; joining the Sangat,
the Holy Congregation, this filth is washed away.
As iron
is carried across if it is attached to wood, one who is attached
to the Word of the Guru's Shabad finds the Lord. ||2||
Joining
the Society of the Saints, joining the Sat Sangat, the True
Congregation, you shall come to receive the Sublime Essence
of the Lord.
But not joining the Sangat, and committing actions
in egotistical pride, is like drawing out clean water, and throwing
it in the mud. ||3||
The Lord is the Protector and Saving
Grace of His humble devotees. The Lord's Sublime Essence seems
so sweet to these humble beings.
Each and every instant,
they are blessed with the Glorious Greatness of the Naam; through
the Teachings of the True Guru, they are absorbed in Him. ||4||
Bow forever in deep respect to the humble devotees; if you bow
to those humble beings, you shall obtain the fruit of virtue.
Those wicked enemies who slander the devotees are destroyed,
like Harnaakhash. ||5||
Brahma, the son of the lotus, and
Vyaas, the son of the fish, practiced austere penance and were
worshipped.
Whoever is a devotee - worship and adore that
person. Get rid of your doubts and superstitions. ||6||
Do
not be fooled by appearances of high and low social class. Suk
Dayv bowed at the feet of Janak, and meditated.
Even though
Janak threw his left-overs and garbage on Suk Dayv's head, his
mind did not waver, even for an instant. ||7||
Janak sat
upon his regal throne, and applied the dust of the nine sages
to his forehead.
Please shower Nanak with your Mercy, O my
Lord and Master; make him the slave of Your slaves. ||8||2||
Kaanraa, Fourth Mehl:
O mind, follow the Guru's Teachings,
and joyfully sing God's Praises.
If my one tongue became
hundreds of thousands and millions, I would meditate on Him
millions and millions of times. ||1||Pause||
The serpent
king chants and meditates on the Lord with his thousands of
heads, but even by these chants, he cannot find the Lord's limits.
You are Utterly Unfathomable, Inaccessible and Infinite. Through
the Wisdom of the Guru's Teachings, the mind becomes steady
and balanced. ||1||
Those humble beings who meditate on You
are noble and exalted. Meditating on the Lord, they are at peace.
Bidur, the son of a slave-girl, was an untouchable, but Krishna
hugged him close in His Embrace. ||2||
Wood is produced from
water, but by holding onto wood, one is saved from drowning.
The Lord Himself embellishes and exalts His humble servants;
He confirms His Innate Nature. ||3||
I am like a stone, or
a piece of iron, heavy stone and iron; in the Boat of the Guru's
Congregation, I am carried across,
like Kabeer the weaver,
who was saved in the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation. He became
pleasing to the minds of the humble Saints. ||4||
Standing
up, sitting down, rising up and walking on the path, I meditate.
The True Guru is the Word, and the Word is the True Guru, who
teaches the Path of Liberation. ||5||
By His Training, I
find strength with each and every breath; now that I am trained
and tamed, I meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord.
By Guru's Grace, egotism is extinguished, and then, through
the Guru's Teachings, I merge in the Naam. ||6||
Section 32 - Raag Kaanraa - Part 017
The True Guru is the Giver of the life of the soul, but the
unfortunate ones do not love Him.
This opportunity shall
not come into their hands again; in the end, they will suffer
in torment and regret. ||7||
If a good person seeks goodness
for himself, he should bow low in humble surrender to the Guru.
Nanak prays: please show kindness and compassion to me, O my
Lord and Master, that I may apply the dust of the True Guru
to my forehead. ||8||3||
Kaanraa, Fourth Mehl:
O mind,
be attuned to His Love, and sing.
The Fear of God makes me
fearless and immaculate; I am dyed in the color of the Guru's
Teachings. ||1||Pause||
Those who are attuned to the Lord's
Love remain balanced and detached forever; they live near the
Lord, who comes into their house.
If I am blessed with the
dust of their feet, then I live. Granting His Grace, He Himself
bestows it. ||1||
Mortal beings are attached to greed and
duality. Their minds are unripe and unfit, and will not accept
the Dye of His Love.
But their lives are transformed through
the Word of the Guru's Teachings. Meeting with the Guru, the
Primal Being, they are dyed in the color of His Love. ||2||
There are ten organs of sense and action; the ten wander unrestrained.
Under the influence of the three dispositions, they are not
stable, even for an instant.
Coming in contact with the True
Guru, they are brought under control; then, salvation and liberation
are attained. ||3||
The One and Only Creator of the Universe
is All-pervading everywhere. All shall once again merge into
the One.
His One Form has one, and many colors; He leads
all according to His One Word. ||4||
The Gurmukh realizes
the One and Only Lord; He is revealed to the Gurmukh.
The
Gurmukh goes and meets the Lord in His Mansion deep within;
the Unstruck Word of the Shabad vibrates there. ||5||
God
created all the beings and creatures of the universe; He blesses
the Gurmukh with glory.
Without meeting the Guru, no one
obtains the Mansion of His Presence. They suffer the agony of
coming and going in reincarnation. ||6||
For countless lifetimes,
I have been separated from my Beloved; in His Mercy, the Guru
has united me with Him.
Meeting the True Guru, I have found
absolute peace, and my polluted intellect blossoms forth. ||7||
O Lord, Har, Har, please grant Your Grace; O Life of the World,
instill faith in the Naam within me.
Nanak is the Guru, the
Guru, the True Guru; I am immersed in the Sanctuary of the True
Guru. ||8||4||
Kaanraa, Fourth Mehl:
O mind, walk on the
Path of the Guru's Teachings.
Just as the wild elephant is
subdued by the prod, the mind is disciplined by the Word of
the Guru's Shabad. ||1||Pause||
The wandering mind wanders,
roams and rambles in the ten directions; but the Guru holds
it, and lovingly attunes it to the Lord.
The True Guru implants
the Word of the Shabad deep within the heart; the Ambrosial
Naam, the Name of the Lord, trickles into the mouth. ||1||
The snakes are filled with poisonous venom; the Word of the
Guru's Shabad is the antidote - place it in your mouth.
Maya,
the serpent, does not even approach one who is rid of the poison,
and lovingly attuned to the Lord. ||2||
The dog of greed
is very powerful in the village of the body; the Guru strikes
it and drives it out in an instant.
Truth, contentment, righteousness
and Dharma have settled there; in the village of the Lord, sing
the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||3||
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The mortal beings are sinking in the swamp of emotional attachment;
the Guru lifts them up, and saves them from sinking.
Crying, "Save
me! Save me!", the humble come to His Sanctuary; the Guru
reaches out His Hand, and lifts them up. ||4||
The whole
world is like a game in a dream, all a game. God plays and causes
the game to be played.
So earn the Profit of the Naam by
following the Guru's Teachings; you shall go to the Court of
the Lord in robes of honor. ||5||
They act in egotism, and
make others act in egotism; they collect and gather up the blackness
of sin.
And when death comes, they suffer in agony; they
must eat what they have planted. ||6||
O Saints, gather the
Wealth of the Lord's Name; if you depart after packing these
provisions, you shall be honored.
So eat, spend, consume
and give abundantly; the Lord will give - there will be no deficiency.
||7||
The wealth of the Lord's Name is deep within the heart.
In the Sanctuary of the Guru, this wealth is found.
O Nanak,
God has been kind and compassionate; He has blessed me. Removing
pain and poverty, He has blended me with Himself. ||8||5||
Kaanraa, Fourth Mehl:
O mind, seek the Sanctuary of the True
Guru, and meditate.
Iron is transformed into gold by touching
the philosopher's stone; it takes on its qualities. ||1||Pause||
The True Guru, the Great Primal Being, is the philosopher's
stone. Whoever is attached to Him receives fruitful rewards.
Just as Prahlaad was saved by the Guru's Teachings, the Guru
protects the honor of His servant. ||1||
The Word of the
True Guru is the most Sublime and Noble Word. Through the Guru's
Word, the Ambrosial Nectar is obtained.
Ambreek the king
was blessed with the status of immortality, meditating on the
Word of the True Guru. ||2||
The Sanctuary, the Protection
and Sanctuary of the True Guru is pleasing to the mind. It is
sacred and pure - meditate on it.
The True Guru has become
Merciful to the meek and the poor; He has shown me the Path,
the Way to the Lord. ||3||
Those who enter the Sanctuary
of the True Guru are firmly established; God comes to protect
them.
If someone aims an arrow at the Lord's humble servant,
it will turn around and hit him instead. ||4||
Those who
bathe in the Sacred Pool of the Lord, Har, Har, Har, Har, Har,
are blessed with honor in His Court.
Those who meditate on
the Guru's Teachings, the Guru's Instructions, the Guru's Wisdom,
are united in the Lord's Union; He hugs them close in His Embrace.
||5||
The Guru's Word is the Sound-current of the Naad, The
Guru's Word is the wisdom of the Vedas; coming in contact with
the Guru, meditate on the Naam.
In the Image of the Lord,
Har, Har, one becomes the Embodiment of the Lord. The Lord makes
His humble servant worthy of worship. ||6||
The faithless
cynic does not submit to the True Guru; the Lord makes the non-believer
wander in confusion.
The waves of greed are like packs of
dogs. The poison of Maya sticks to the body-skeleton. ||7||
The Lord's Name is the Saving Grace of the whole world; join
the Sangat, and meditate on the Naam.
O my God, please protect
and preserve Nanak in the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation;
save him, and let him merge in You. ||8||6||
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Kaanraa, Chhant, Fifth Mehl:
One Universal Creator God.
By The Grace Of The True Guru:
They alone are saved, who
meditate on the Lord.
Working for Maya is useless.
Meditating
on the Lord, all fruits and rewards are obtained. They are blessed,
blessed and very fortunate.
They are awake and aware in the
True Congregation; attached to the Naam, they are lovingly attuned
to the One.
I have renounced pride, emotional attachment,
wickedness and corruption; attached to the Holy, I am carried
across at their feet.
Prays Nanak, I have come to the Sanctuary
of my Lord and Master; by great good fortune, I obtain the Blessed
Vision of His Darshan. ||1||
The Holy meet together, and
continually vibrate and meditate on the Lord.
With love and
excitement, they sing the Glorious Praises of their Lord and
Master.
Singing His Praises they live, drinking in the Lord's
Nectar; the cycle of birth and death is over for them.
Finding
the True Congregation and meditating on the Lord, one is never
again afflicted with pain.
By the Grace of the Great Giver,
the Architect of Destiny, we work to serve the Saints.
Prays
Nanak, I long for the dust of the feet of the humble; I am intuitively
absorbed in the Blessed Vision of the Lord. ||2||
All beings
vibrate and meditate on the Lord of the World.
This brings
the merits of chanting and meditation, austere self-discipline
and perfect service.
Vibrating and meditating continuously
on our Lord and Master, the Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts,
one's life becomes totally fruitful.
Those who sing and meditate
continually on the Lord of the Universe - their coming into
the world is blessed and approved.
The Immaculate Lord, Har,
Har, is meditation and chanting, and austere self-discipline;
only the Wealth of the Lord of the Universe shall go along with
you in the end.
Prays Nanak, please grant Your Grace, O Lord,
and bless me with the Jewel, that I may carry it in my pocket.
||3||
His Wondrous and Amazing Plays are blissful
- granting
His Grace, He bestows supreme ecstasy.
God, my Lord and Master,
the Bringer of peace, has met me, and the desires of my mind
are fulfilled.
Congratulations pour in; I am intuitively
absorbed in the Lord. I shall never again cry out in pain.
He hugs me close in His Embrace, and blesses me with peace;
the evil of sin and corruption is gone.
Prays Nanak, I have
met my Lord and Master, the Primal Lord, the Embodiment of Bliss.
||4||1||
Vaar Of Kaanraa, Fourth Mehl, Sung To The Tune Of
The Ballad Of Musa:
One Universal Creator God. By The Grace
Of The True Guru:
Shalok, Fourth Mehl:
Follow the Guru's
Teachings, and enshrine the Treasure of the Lord's Name within
your heart.
Become the slave of the Lord's slaves, and conquer
egotism and corruption.
You shall win this treasure of life;
you shall never lose.
Blessed, blessed and very fortunate
are those, O Nanak, who savor the Sublime Essence of the Lord
through the Guru's Teachings. ||1||
Fourth Mehl:
Govind,
Govind, Govind - the Lord God, the Lord of the Universe is the
Treasure of Virtue.
Meditating on Govind, Govind, the Lord
of the Universe, through the Guru's Teachings, you shall be
honored in the Court of the Lord.
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Meditating on God, chanting Govind, Govind, Govind, your
face shall be radiant; you shall be famous and exalted.
O
Nanak, the Guru is the Lord God, the Lord of the Universe; meeting
Him, you shall obtain the Name of the Lord. ||2||
Pauree:
You Yourself are the Siddha and the seeker; You Yourself are
the Yoga and the Yogi.
You Yourself are the Taster of tastes;
You Yourself are the Enjoyer of pleasures.
You Yourself are
All-pervading; whatever You do comes to pass.
Blessed, blessed,
blessed, blessed, blessed is the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation
of the True Guru. Join them - speak and chant the Lord's Name.
Let everyone chant together the Name of the Lord, Har, Har,
Haray, Har, Har, Haray; chanting Har, all sins are washed away.
||1||
Shalok, Fourth Mehl:
Har, Har, Har, Har is the Name
of the Lord; rare are those who, as Gurmukh, obtain it.
Egotism
and possessiveness are eradicated, and evil-mindedness is washed
away.
O Nanak, one who is blessed with such pre-ordained
destiny chants the Lord's Praises, night and day. ||1||
Fourth
Mehl:
The Lord Himself is Merciful; whatever the Lord Himself
does, comes to pass.
The Lord Himself is All-pervading. There
is no other as Great as the Lord.
Whatever pleases the Lord
God's Will comes to pass; whatever the Lord God does is done.
No one can appraise His Value; the Lord God is Endless.
O
Nanak, as Gurmukh, praise the Lord; your body and mind shall
be cooled and soothed. ||2||
Pauree:
You are the Light
of all, the Life of the World; You imbue each and every heart
with Your Love.
All meditate on You, O my Beloved; You are
the True, True Primal Being, the Immaculate Lord.
The One
is the Giver; the whole world is the beggar. All the beggars
beg for His Gifts.
You are the servant, and You are the Lord
and Master of all. Through the Guru's Teachings, we are ennobled
and uplifted.
Let everyone say that the Lord is the Master
of the senses, the Master of all faculties; through Him, we
obtain all fruits and rewards. ||2||
Shalok, Fourth Mehl:
O mind, meditate on the Name of the Lord, Har, Har; you shall
be honored in the Court of the Lord.
You shall obtain the
fruits that you desire, focusing your meditation on the Word
of the Guru's Shabad.
All your sins and mistakes shall be
wiped away, and you shall be rid of egotism and pride.
The
heart-lotus of the Gurmukh blossoms forth, recognizing God within
every soul.
O Lord God, please shower Your Mercy upon servant
Nanak, that he may chant the Lord's Name. ||1||
Fourth Mehl:
The Name of the Lord, Har, Har, is Sacred and Immaculate. Chanting
the Naam, pain is dispelled.
God comes to abide in the minds
of those who have such pre-ordained destiny.
Those who walk
in harmony with the Will of the True Guru are rid of pain and
poverty.
No one finds the Lord by his own will; see this,
and satisfy your mind.
Servant Nanak is the slave of the
slave of those who fall at the Feet of the True Guru. ||2||
Pauree:
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You are pervading and permeating all places and interspaces,
O Creator. You made all that has been made.
You created the
entire universe, with all its colors and shades; in so many
ways and means and forms You formed it.
O Lord of Light,
Your Light is infused within all; You link us to the Guru's
Teachings.
They alone meet the True Guru, unto whom You are
Merciful; O Lord, You instruct them in the Guru's Word.
Let
everyone chant the Name of the Lord, chant the Name of the Great
Lord; all poverty, pain and hunger shall be taken away. ||3||
Shalok, Fourth Mehl:
The Ambrosial Nectar of the Name of
the Lord, Har, Har, is sweet; enshrine this Ambrosial Nectar
of the Lord within your heart.
The Lord God prevails in the
Sangat, the Holy Congregation; reflect upon the Shabad and understand.
Meditating on the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, within the mind,
the poison of egotism is eradicated.
One who does not remember
the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, shall totally lose this life
in the gamble.
By Guru's Grace, one remembers the Lord, and
enshrines the Lord's Name within the heart.
O servant Nanak,
his face shall be radiant in the Court of the True Lord. ||1||
Fourth Mehl:
To chant the Lord's Praise and His Name is sublime
and exalted. This is the most excellent deed in this Dark Age
of Kali Yuga.
His Praises come through the Guru's Teachings
and Instructions; wear the Necklace of the Lord's Name.
Those
who meditate on the Lord are very fortunate. They are entrusted
with the Treasure of the Lord.
Without the Name, no matter
what people may do, they continue to waste away in egotism.
Elephants can be washed and bathed in water, but they only throw
dust on their heads again.
O Kind and Compassionate True
Guru, please unite me with the Lord, that the One Creator of
the Universe may abide within my mind.
Those Gurmukhs who
listen to the Lord and believe in Him - servant Nanak salutes
them. ||2||
Pauree:
The Lord's Name is the most sublime
and precious merchandise. The Primal Lord God is my Lord and
Master.
The Lord has staged His Play, and He Himself permeates
it. The whole world deals in this merchandise.
Your Light
is the light in all beings, O Creator. All Your Expanse is True.
All those who meditate on You become prosperous; through the
Guru's Teachings, they sing Your Praises, O Formless Lord.
Let everyone chant the Lord, the Lord of the World, the Lord
of the Universe, and cross over the terrifying world-ocean.
||4||
Shalok, Fourth Mehl:
I have only one tongue, and
the Glorious Virtues of the Lord God are Unapproachable and
Unfathomable.
I am ignorant - how can I meditate on You,
Lord? You are Great, Unapproachable and Immeasurable.
O Lord
God, please bless me with that sublime wisdom, that I may fall
at the Feet of the Guru, the True Guru.
O Lord God, please
lead me to the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation, where even
a sinner like myself may be saved.
O Lord, please bless and
forgive servant Nanak; please unite him in Your Union.
O
Lord, please be merciful and hear my prayer; I am a sinner and
a worm - please save me! ||1||
Fourth Mehl:
O Lord, Life
of the World, please bless me with Your Grace, and lead me to
meet the Guru, the Merciful True Guru.
I am happy to serve
the Guru; the Lord has become merciful to me.
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All my hopes and desires have been forgotten; my mind is
rid of its worldly entanglements.
The Guru, in His Mercy,
implanted the Naam within me; I am enraptured with the Word
of the Shabad.
Servant Nanak has obtained the inexhaustible
wealth; the Lord's Name is his wealth and property. ||2||
Pauree:
O Lord, You are the Greatest of the Great, the Greatest
of the Great, the Most Lofty and Exalted of all, the Greatest
of the Great.
Those who meditate on the Infinite Lord, who
meditate on the Lord, Har, Har, Har, are rejuvenated.
Those
who sing and listen to Your Praises, O my Lord and Master, have
millions of sins destroyed.
I know that those divine beings
who follow the Guru's Teachings are just like You, Lord. They
are the greatest of the great, so very fortunate.
Let everyone
meditate on the Lord, who was True in the primal beginning,
and True throughout the ages; He is revealed as True here and
now, and He shall be True forever and ever. Servant Nanak is
the slave of His slaves. ||5||
Shalok, Fourth Mehl:
I
meditate on my Lord, the Life of the World, the Lord, chanting
the Guru's Mantra.
The Lord is Unapproachable, Inaccessible
and Unfathomable; the Lord, Har, Har, has spontaneously come
to meet me.
The Lord Himself is pervading each and every
heart; the Lord Himself is Endless.
The Lord Himself enjoys
all pleasures; the Lord Himself is the Husband of Maya.
The
Lord Himself gives in charity to the whole world, and all the
beings and creatures which He created.
O Merciful Lord God,
please bless me with Your Bountiful Gifts; the humble Saints
of the Lord beg for them.
O God of servant Nanak, please
come and meet me; I sing the Songs of the Glorious Praises of
the Lord. ||1||
Fourth Mehl:
The Name of the Lord God
is my Best Friend. My mind and body are drenched with the Naam.
All the hopes of the Gurmukh are fulfilled; servant Nanak is
comforted, hearing the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||2||
Pauree:
The Lord's Sublime Name is energizing and rejuvenating.
The Immaculate Lord, the Primal Being, blossoms forth.
Maya
serves at the feet of those who chant and meditate on the Lord,
Har, Har, day and night.
The Lord always looks after and
cares for all His beings and creatures; He is with all, near
and far.
Those whom the Lord inspires to understand, understand;
the True Guru, God, the Primal Being, is pleased with them.
Let everyone sing the Praise of the Lord of the Universe, the
Lord, the Lord of the Universe, the Lord, the Lord of the Universe;
singing the Praise of the Lord, one is absorbed in His Glorious
Virtues. ||6||
Shalok, Fourth Mehl:
O mind, even in sleep,
remember the Lord God; let yourself be intuitively absorbed
into the Celestial State of Samaadhi.
Servant Nanak's mind
longs for the Lord, Har, Har. As the Guru pleases, he is absorbed
into the Lord, O mother. ||1||
Fourth Mehl:
I am in love
with the One and Only Lord; the One Lord fills my consciousness.
Servant Nanak takes the Support of the One Lord God; through
the One, he obtains honor and salvation. ||2||
Pauree:
The Panch Shabad, the Five Primal Sounds, vibrate with the Wisdom
of the Guru's Teachings; by great good fortune, the Unstruck
Melody resonates and resounds.
I see the Lord, the Source
of Bliss, everywhere; through the Word of the Guru's Shabad,
the Lord of the Universe is revealed.
From the primal beginning,
and throughout the ages, the Lord has One Form. Through the
Wisdom of the Guru's Teachings, I vibrate and meditate on the
Lord God.
O Merciful Lord God, please bless me with Your
Bounty; O Lord God, please preserve and protect the honor of
Your humble servant.
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Let everyone proclaim: Blessed is the Guru, the True Guru,
the Guru, the True Guru; meeting Him, the Lord covers their
faults and deficiencies. ||7||
Shalok, Fourth Mehl:
The
sacred pool of devotional worship is filled to the brim and
overflowing in torrents.
Those who obey the True Guru, O
servant Nanak, are very fortunate - they find it. ||1||
Fourth
Mehl:
The Names of the Lord, Har, Har, are countless. The
Glorious Virtues of the Lord, Har, Har, cannot be described.
The Lord, Har, Har, is Inaccessible and Unfathomable; how can
the humble servants of the Lord be united in His Union?
Those
humble beings meditate and chant the Praises of the Lord, Har,
Har, but they do not attain even a tiny bit of His Worth.
O servant Nanak, the Lord God is Inaccessible; the Lord has
attached me to His Robe, and united me in His Union. ||2||
Pauree:
The Lord is Inaccessible and Unfathomable. How will
I see the Blessed Vision of the Lord's Darshan?
If He were
a material object, then I could describe Him, but He has no
form or feature.
Understanding comes only when the Lord Himself
gives understanding; only such a humble being sees it.
The
Sat Sangat, the True Congregation of the True Guru, is the school
of the soul, where the Glorious Virtues of the Lord are studied.
Blessed, blessed is the tongue, blessed is the hand, and blessed
is the Teacher, the True Guru; meeting Him, the Account of the
Lord is written. ||8||
Shalok, Fourth Mehl:
The Name of
the Lord, Har, Har, is Ambrosial Nectar. Meditate on the Lord,
with love for the True Guru.
The Name of the Lord, Har, Har
is Sacred and Pure. Chanting it and listening to it, pain is
taken away.
They alone worship and adore the Lord's Name,
upon whose foreheads such pre-ordained destiny is written.
Those humble beings are honored in the Court of the Lord; the
Lord comes to abide in their minds.
O servant Nanak, their
faces are radiant. They listen to the Lord; their minds are
filled with love. ||1||
Fourth Mehl:
The Name of the Lord,
Har, Har, is the greatest treasure. The Gurmukhs obtain it.
The True Guru comes to meet those who have such pre-ordained
destiny written upon their foreheads.
Their bodies and minds
are cooled and soothed; peace and tranquility come to dwell
in their minds.
O Nanak, chanting the Name of the Lord, Har,
Har, all poverty and pain is dispelled. ||2||
Pauree:
I am a sacrifice, forever and ever, to those who have seen my
Beloved True Guru.
They alone meet my True Guru, who have
such pre-ordaind destiny written upon their foreheads.
I
meditate on the Inaccessible Lord, according to the Guru's Teachings;
God has no form or feature.
Those who follow the Guru's Teachings
and meditate on the Inaccessible Lord, merge with their Lord
and Master and become one with Him.
Let everyone proclaim
out loud, the Name of the Lord, the Lord, the Lord; the profit
of devotional worship of the Lord is blessed and sublime. ||9||
Shalok, Fourth Mehl:
The Lord's Name is permeating and pervading
all. Repeat the Name of the Lord, Raam, Raam.
The Lord is
in the home of each and every soul. God created this play with
its various colors and forms.
The Lord, the Life of the World,
dwells near at hand. The Guru, my Friend, has made this clear.
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They alone meet the Lord, the Lord God, their Lord and Master,
whose love for the Lord is pre-ordained.
Servant Nanak meditates
on the Naam, the Name of the Lord; through the Word of the Guru's
Teachings, chant it consciously with your mind. ||1||
Fourth
Mehl:
Seek the Lord God, your Best Friend; by great good
fortune, He comes to dwell with the very fortunate ones.
Through the Perfect Guru, He is revealed, O Nanak, and one is
lovingly attuned to the Lord. ||2||
Pauree:
Blessed, blessed,
beauteous and fruitful is that moment, when service to the Lord
becomes pleasing to the mind.
So proclaim the story of the
Lord, O my GurSikhs; speak the Unspoken Speech of my Lord God.
How can I attain Him? How can I see Him? My Lord God is All-knowing
and All-seeing.
Through the Word of the Guru's Teachings,
the Lord reveals Himself; we merge in absorption in the Naam,
the Name of the Lord.
Nanak is a sacrifice unto those who
meditate on the Lord of Nirvaanaa. ||10||
Shalok, Fourth
Mehl:
One's eyes are anointed by the Lord God, when the Guru
bestows the ointment of spiritual wisdom.
I have found God,
my Best Friend; servant Nanak is intuitively absorbed into the
Lord. ||1||
Fourth Mehl:
The Gurmukh is filled with peace
and tranquility deep within. His mind and body are absorbed
in the Naam, the Name of the Lord.
He thinks of the Naam,
and reads the Naam; he remains lovingly attuned to the Naam.
He obtains the Treasure of the Naam, and is rid of anxiety.
Meeting with the True Guru, the Naam wells up, and all hunger
and thirst depart.
O Nanak, one who is imbued with the Naam,
gathers the Naam in his lap. ||2||
Pauree:
You Yourself
created the world, and You Yourself control it.
Some are
self-willed manmukhs - they lose. Others are united with the
Guru - they win.
The Name of the Lord, the Lord God is Sublime.
The fortunate ones chant it, through the Word of the Guru's
Teachings.
All pain and poverty are taken away, when the
Guru bestows the Lord's Name.
Let everyone serve the Enticing
Enticer of the Mind, the Enticer of the World, who created the
world, and controls it all. ||11||
Shalok, Fourth Mehl:
The disease of egotism is deep within the mind; the self-willed
manmukhs and the evil beings are deluded by doubt.
O Nanak,
the disease is cured only by meeting with the True Guru, the
Holy Friend. ||1||
Fourth Mehl:
My mind and body are embellished
and exalted, when I behold the Lord with my eyes.
O Nanak,
meeting with that God, I live, hearing His Voice. ||2||
Pauree:
The Creator is the Lord of the World, the Master of the Universe,
the Infinite Primal Immeasurable Being.
Meditate on the Lord's
Name, O my GurSikhs; the Lord is Sublime, the Lord's Name is
Invaluable.
Those who meditate on Him in their hearts, day
and night, merge with the Lord - there is no doubt about it.
By great good fortune, they join the Sangat, the Holy Congregation,
and speak the Word of the Guru, the Perfect True Guru.
Let
everyone meditate on the Lord, the Lord, the All-pervading Lord,
by which all disputes and conflicts with Death are ended. ||12||
Shalok, Fourth Mehl:
The humble servant of the Lord chants
the Name, Har, Har. The foolish idiot shoots arrows at him.
O Nanak, the humble servant of the Lord is saved by the Love
of the Lord. The arrow is turned around, and kills the one who
shot it. ||1||
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Fourth Mehl:
The eyes which are attracted by the Lord's
Love behold the Lord through the Name of the Lord.
If they
gaze upon something else, O servant Nanak, they ought to be
gouged out. ||2||
Pauree:
The Infinite Lord totally permeates
the water, the land and the sky.
He cherishes and sustains
all beings and creatures; whatever He does comes to pass.
Without Him, we have no mother, father, children, sibling or
friend.
He is permeating and pervading deep within each and
every heart; let everyone meditate on Him.
Let all chant
the Glorious Praises of the Lord of the World, who is manifest
all over the world. ||13||
Shalok, Fourth Mehl:
Those
Gurmukhs who meet as friends are blessed with the Lord God's
Love.
O servant Nanak, praise the Naam, the Name of the Lord;
you shall go to His court in joyous high spirits. ||1||
Fourth
Mehl:
Lord, You are the Great Giver of all; all beings are
Yours.
They all worship You in adoration; You bless them
with Your Bounty, O Beloved.
The Generous Lord, the Great
Giver reaches out with His Hands, and the rain pours down on
the world.
The corn germinates in the fields; contemplate
the Lord's Name with love.
Servant Nanak begs for the Gift
of the Support of the Name of his Lord God. ||2||
Pauree:
The desires of the mind are satisfied, meditating on the Ocean
of Peace.
Worship and adore the Feet of the Lord, through
the Word of the Guru's Shabad, the jewel mine.
Joining the
Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, one is saved, and the
Decree of Death is torn up.
The treasure of this human life
is won, meditating on the Lord of Detachment.
Let everyone
seek the Sanctuary of the True Guru; let the black spot of pain,
the scar of suffering, be erased. ||14||
Shalok, Fourth Mehl:
I was seeking, searching for my Friend, but my Friend is right
here with me.
O servant Nanak, the Unseen is not seen, but
the Gurmukh is given to see Him. ||1||
Fourth Mehl:
O
Nanak, I am in love with the True Lord; I cannot survive without
Him.
Meeting the True Guru, the Perfect Lord is found, and
the tongue savors His Sublime Essence. ||2||
Pauree:
Some
sing, some listen, and some speek and preach.
The filth and
pollution of countless lifetimes is washed away, and the wishes
of the mind are fulfilled.
Coming and going in reincarnation
ceases, singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord.
They save
themselves, and save their companions; they save all their generations
as well.
Servant Nanak is a sacrifice to those who are pleasing
to my Lord God. ||15||1||
Sudh||
Raag Kaanraa, The Word
Of Naam Dayv Jee:
One Universal Creator God. By The Grace
Of The True Guru:
Such is the Sovereign Lord, the Inner-knower,
the Searcher of Hearts;
He sees everything as clearly as
one's face reflected in a mirror. ||1||Pause||
He dwells
in each and every heart; no stain or stigma sticks to Him.
He is liberated from bondage; He does not belong to any social
class. ||1||
As one's face is reflected in the water,
so does Naam Dayv's Beloved Lord and Master appear. ||2||1||
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