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NITNEM


English Translation by:
Dr. Kulwant Singh Khokhar

Cut & Paste by:
M.P.Singh

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HH| H|J
JAPJI SAHIB

W H| H N |
| mNM H| mH| H N
H|U v
God is everywhere and in everyone, He is the Truth -
Immortal, Creator, Without-Fear, Without-Enmity, Unborn,
and Self-Created. This understanding comes by the Guru's
Grace.
v H v

m|U H8 HN|U H8 v
God was the Truth in the beginning, and has been so in all
the ages.
J | H8 N JH| | H8 v9v
Nanak, He is the Truth now, and shall forevere be so. (This
is a Salok a form of poetry. Truth - Immortal).
H8 H|8 JU| H H8| M v
Simply by contemplating on God, we cannot understand
Him, even though we may think hundreds of thousands of
times.
8 8 JU| H M|U J |M v
By keeping silent (Thinking), the mind does not receive
satisfaction even though it thinks with constant absorption.
|m | H |m v
Hunger for God is not appeased - Knowledge of God is not
obtained, though one may study the relevant literature of
the world.
HJH |HmF M J|J |UN 8M
|M v
We may have a hundred thousand folds of wisdom, even
this does not help us understand God.
|N H|8m JU|m |N N |M v
Then, how can we know the Truth (The True One), and
how can we remove our doubts?
JN|H HU| 8MF N |M|m
|M v9v
Nanak says, the answer is to stay in the Will of God
(doubts will clear up and we will attain Him). ||1||
JNH| J| mN JNH N|Jm
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HU| v
By His Order the Creation (living beings) come into being,
but His Order cannot be known.
JNH| J| H|m JN|H |HM |KmU| v
By His Will the living-beings get created, and with His
Will these obtain honor (of being a human. He determines
what should they become a human being or anything else).
JNH| H |8 JN|H |M| U H
U|m|J v
By His Will the living beings (Including the people)
become high and low, by His Will (Destiny of the people
and deeds) they suffer or get pleasure or enjoyment.
|UN JNH| H|H |U|N JNH| HU
U|m|J v
Some obtain His Blessings (liberation) through His Will,
and others by His Will keep trapped in the cycle of birth
and death.
JNH mU| H N J| JNH N|U v
All are under His will none is out of it.
N JNH H JH NJ
N|U v7v
Nanak says, if it is realized that His Will is beyond our
understanding, the self-pride I know it, will disappear
and humility will emerge. ||2||
N N F J |NH F v
Only those can sing of His Greatness, who have the power
to do so. (No one has this ability to tell about His
Greatness. No one has the knowledge of His Qualities, to
tell about Him!)
N N U| HF |HF v
Some take His Boons as signs of His existence and sing of
His praise.
N N NF |KmU|m 8 v
Some sing of His praise on beholding His great qualities.
N N ||Um |H |8 v
Some, sing of His praise after realizing that it is difficult to
attain wisdom to meet Him.
N N H|H N J v
Some sing that He creates and then destroys it (Some sing
impressed by the great power of the Lord that He creates a
body and can destroy it as well).
N N H|m M || UJ v
Some sing (impressed by the fact) that God has the power
to takes away life and then restore it too.
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N N H |UH U| v
Some sing, God seems and appears to be too far away
(impressed that God is unreachable).
N N JU JU| v
Some sing that He beholds them - They are in His presence.
N N| m | v
There are many who sing His praise. (There is no dearth of
views about God. There is no end to those who give
opinions about God. Thinkers tell about Him in many ways
that He is).
N| N| N| N| N| N| v
Many praise Him. (Millions give descriptions of God).
UU U MU |N |J v
The Giver (God) keeps on giving, though the recipients
may become weary of receiving.
HN HN| J| |J v
Since ages the people have been eating and consuming (His
provisions).
JNH| JNH 8MU J v
The Lord sets up (Establishes) everything within His
System (Discipline, Order).
N |NH J vv
Nanak God stays in joy and is carefree (The world
continues in the System He has set). ||3||
H8 H|J H8 |U |m
m v
True is the Lord, True His Name and people recite His
Name with great love. (The Lord is the Truth, True is His
Justice, and He accepts the True Love).
m|J HN|J U|J U|J U| N U v
The People pray, beg, and ask for His Boons, the Giver; the
Lord, fulfills their desires.
| |N mN |m |H |UH U v
When everything comes from Him, He gives, then what is
ours that we should offer to Him so that we can enter His
Court, go to His presence! (We realize Him).
HJ |N MF M|m |H H|F |m v
What should we say that on hearing it He starts loving us!
m|H M H8 |KmU| |8 v
(For this) Early in the morning, think about (recite) the
Greatness of the True Name (Waheguru, God). Recite
His Name.
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NH| m N U| H Um v
By good deeds the Saropa (Robe of honor - this body) is
obtained, and by His Kindness the door of salvation opens
(gets Mukti - liberation, freedom from the worldly
bindings; the cycle of birth and death ends).
N U HF|m H m H|8m v0v
Nanak, this way (by contemplating on Waheguru,- God)
we realize that everything is nothing but the Lord Himself -
He is everywhere, in everything. ||4||
|m H|U N| J|U v
Nobody can establish (Fix up) or create Waheguru - God.
m m| |H H|U v
Niranjan (Stainless - the Lord), is Self-Created. (The Pure-
One Himself is everything).
|H| H|m || |Um H v
Those who served (remembered Him), obtained honor
got His acceptance.
N N|m NF| | v
Nanak, sing the praise of the Lord who is the Treasure of
Excellence (Qualities).
N|m HF|m H| |m v
Sing the praise of the Lord (recite His Name), listen to it,
and keep His love in your mind.
U J| H W| M H|U v
(This way), we are relieved of pain and sorrow, and peace
settles down in the mind.
NH| U NH| U NH| |Jm
HHU| v
The Shabad resides in the mind of the Gurmukh and in the
mind of the Gurmukh is His Knowledge (of Vedas),
because he always remembers the Lord in his mind.
(Shabad - His Name. Gurbani - the Word of God. Gurmukh
- God-Oriented, one in submission to God),
N U|H N N H N |
HU| v
The Guru (God) Himself is Isar - Shiva god of
destruction; Gorakh - Vishnu god of provisions; Brahma -
god of creation; and Parbati - wife of god Shiva. (Just for
the knowledge sake, Vishnu's wife is Lakhshmi and
Brahma's is Saraswati).
H J HF m J| NJF N
HU| v
Had I known about God, should I not have disclosed it? He
is difficult to describe. (Even if I Know about God, it is
impossible to tell, because He is above description).
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N |UN U|J U| v
The Guru has made me understand one thing,
H H|m N |UN U H H |H|
HU| vv
(That) God gives (His Boons, life) to everyone, (I should)
never forget Him. ||5||
|| H |H |F F |N |U
N| v
Getting accepted by Him is my bath at a pilgrimage, and
without being accepted, there is no (sense of any) such a
bath.
H| |H| U| |F NH |N |HM
MU| v
I look upon His Creation, (and find) what can anyone have
from Him without His Kindness (his destiny, good deeds!).
H| ||8 HJ H|FN H |UN N
N| |H HF| v
In the mind are gems, jewels and rubies (all goodness), if
you listen to (act upon) even a single piece of advice of the
Guru.
N |UN U|J U| v
The Guru has explained (made me understand) one thing,
H H|m N |UN U H H |H|
HU| vv
(That) There is but One Giver (Master) for all beings, and I
should never forget it (I may never forget Him!). ||6||
H HN 8 mH J UHF| J|U v
If the age of a man be equal to four ages (periods of time,
eras, aeons. A period is of thousands of years), and may
even become ten times more.
K ||8 HF|m |M 8M H
N|U v
May be he gets known all over the world and all the people
accompany him out of respect.
8N |U N HH N|| H|N M|U v
He may win praise (honor, good name) in the world (nine
continents), and out of respect people may start following
him wherever he goes.
H |H U| mU| N v
If the Lord is not kind, no one will care even to speak with
(Inquire after) him.
N| mU| N| N| UH| UH v
Such a person is considered the worst worm, and even the
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sinners accuse him of sins.
N |N|F NF N NF|m
NF U v
Nanak, God gives goodness (virtues) even to those with
none, and to those with virtues, He gives more.
J N|U HU| |H |H NF N|U
N v?v
But, I cannot think of anyone who has power enough to add
to the Qualities of God. ||7||
H|Fm |H | H| v
By listening to God's Name, Sidha - those with power to do
miracles; Peer Muslim spiritual leaders; Sur gods, and
Yogis came into being. (Yogi - one who practices Yoga.
Yoga: a way to meet God. By listening to the Name of
God, one becomes like sidha, Peer, Sur, and Nath - one
becomes knowledgeable like them).
H|Fm | M mNH v
By listening to God's Name, the earth, Dhaval, and Akash
(Sky, space, ether) came into being. (Dhaval - White Bull
that is said to carry the earth on its horns - the principle that
keeps the earth set in the System of the Lord. By listening
By listening to His Name, you come to know the secrets of
the earth, Dhaval and space).
H|Fm U| Mm M v
By listening to the Lord's Name (By His Kindness), the
continents, Loa, and nether worlds came into being. (By
listening to the Name of God, one attains the knowledge of
the continents, different Mandals Mandalas: levels,
worlds, and nether worlds. Loa - Worlds - ancestors-level,
demi-gods level, etc. Nether world - the other side:
bottoms of the earth.
H|Fm |J HN NM v
By listening to the Lord's Name, death cannot touch the
man. (He is no longer afraid of death).
N N HU |NH v
Nanak, (understanding these Qualities of God), the
devotees are ever in ecstasy (Joy, bliss).
H|Fm U N H vcv
By listening to God's Name, sorrows and sins are
destroyed. ||8||
H|Fm U|H H |UU v
By listening to the Lord's Name (By virtue of Waheguru,
Gods Name), Shiv (Shiva - god of destruction and death),
Brahma (god of creation), and Indar (Indra - god of rain)
came into being. (By hearing the Name of God, one
becomes like Shiv, Brahma, and Indar - one attains their
wisdom, qualities. Impressed by their status - evolved
states, one becomes eager to worship God).
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H|Fm H| HMJF HU v
Anyone who listens to God's Name, even the evil ones,
start praising him.
H|Fm HN HN| | U v
By hearing God's Name, man understands the ways of Jog
(Yoga a method of realizing Him) and the secrets of the
body (that it is the house of God, He creates and runs it,
how to control the mind).
H|Fm HH |H|H| U v
By hearing the Lord's Name, the Shastras, Simritis and
Vedas came into being. (By listening to the Name of God,
one gains the knowledge in these Holy Books. One attains
the knowledge of the worldly things - body, soul, and God).
The Shastar Shastras, six books of the Hindu philosophy.
Samritis - 27 books of the Hindu ceremonial procedures.
Veds Vedas, four Hindu ancient books.
N N HU |NH v
Nanak, (realizing these Virtues of the Lord), the saints
always stay in bliss.
H|Fm U N H vcv
By listening to the Lord's Name, one becomes free from
troubles (pains) and sins. (Sins and sorrows do not effect
his mind). ||9||
H|Fm H H |Nm v
By listening to the Lord's Name, one realizes the Truth (He
is Ever-constant - Immortal), contentment (accepting His
will), and receives the Divine Knowledge (That God is the
Doer, He is present everywhere and in everything etc.)
H|Fm mH| N |UH v
Listening to the Lord's Name equals the bath at 68 Hindu
places of pilgrimages (Fruit of the bath at sixty-eight places
of pilgrimage is obtained. Hindu philosophy is that such
baths cleanse the soul of its sins).
H|Fm | | |J H v
By hearing and constantly reading the Scriptures (God's
Name), one receives honor, and achieves acceptance by
Him.
H|Fm MN HJ|H |m v
By hearing the Name of the Lord, one gets effortlessly
attached to His Name.
N N HU |NH v
Nanak, (realizing such Qualities of God), His devotees
constantly remain in the bliss.
H|Fm U N H v9Ov
By hearing God's Name, sufferings (Mental agony, disease)
and sins are washed away. ||10||
H|Fm H NF N NJ v
By hearing the Lord's Name, one attains the knowledge of
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His innumerable Virtues.
H|Fm H | |HJ v
By virtue of listening to the Lord 's Name, one becomes a
Sheikh, a Peer (Muslim saint, their religious leader), and a
Pateshah Badshah i.e. a king. (Sheikh - a sect of Muslims,
a Hindu converted to Islam, a good Muslim. The Lords
Name changes the people to supreme beings).
H|Fm m |J J v
By listening to Gods Name, even the blind (spiritually
blind, those having no faith in the Lord) find their way (the
path of union with God).
H|Fm J J mHNJ v
By hearing the Master's Name, we get the knowledge of He
Who is beyond our understanding.
N N HU |NH v
Nanak, by beholding such Virtues of the Name of God, the
saints stay in constant bliss (They remain eager to recite
His Name).
H|Fm U N H v99v
Hearing the Lord's Name, destroys agonies (mental,
physical) and sins. |11||
H N| N| NJ| H|U v
It is not possible to describe the higher mental state of one
who accepts the Will of God (has faith in Him).
H N NJ | |U v
If someone tries to describe, he repents that he could not
tell anything (he did not have the wisdom to do so).
NN|U NMH |MFJ v
There is no paper, pen, and scribe, who has the ability to do
so (To write about the elevated state of the mind of one
who surrenders to God),
H N |J N| |8 v
(That) they may reflect on the one who has faith in the Lord
(accepts the Will of God, practices Nam i.e. recites His
Name).
mH H |H J|U v
Such is the effect of the Name of the Lord. (So pure is His
Name!),
H N H| HF H| N|U v97v
Provided, one has the firm faith in His Name (accepts His
Will, believes in the Virtues of His Name). ||12||
H H| J H| | v
By believing in the Lord's Name (surrendering to Him),
one comes to know the state of his mind (understands his
self, self-realization. By having faith in His Name, he gets
Divine-Understanding).
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H HNM F N| H| v
By believing in God's Name, one gains the knowledge of
all the places (That the Lord is present everywhere. One
becomes aware of God and of ones own mind).
H H|J 8 |U v
With faith in His Name (God), one is saved from pain,
sorrow, frustration (Lust, anger, greed, attachment, and ego
do not bother him. He becomes contented and no more
goes from door to door to beg the knowledge of God).
H HH N H| H|U v
Through belief in the Lord's Name, one does not go with
the death's messenger. (There is no more fear of death).
mH H |H J|U v
Such is the Name of the Spotless (God),
H N H| HF H| N|U v9v
If in the mind someone has faith in the Lord's Name. ||13||
H H|N N |U v
The believer in God's Name has no obstacles (like those of
lust, anger, greed, attachments and ego) on his way (of the
spiritual development) to meet the Lord.
H | |H N H|U v
The believer in the Lord (His Name), departs with honor
and renown (into Gods Presence).
H HN 8M v
The believer on the way of His Name (Recitation of His
Name), does not consider any other path (any other method
of meeting God. He becomes contented).
H H H| H v
The believer adopts good (truthful) discipline of life
(becomes spiritual minded).
mH H |H J|U v
Such is the Name of the Pure-One (God),
H N H| HF H| N|U v90v
Provided someone has faith in the Lord's Name (in what He
says). ||14||
H |J H Um v
One who submits to the Will of God (One who practices
the Nam-Jap: recitation of His Name, follows what He: the
Scriptures say) attains Mukti (liberation from the worldly
bindings, the soul gets peace, his cycle of birth and death
ends).
H H v
One with faith in God, reforms (Redeems) his family also.
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H N |H v
The Gur-Sikh (Guru-Oriented person) swims away across
the worldly-ocean and also, takes others along with him
(Lives his life successfully and as well, makes others do
so).
H N |J | v
Nanak, one with faith in the Lord does not go about
begging (becomes content, stops demands, becomes
satiated, is no more a slave of his desires, gets liberated
from the worldly bindings, becomes appeased and no more
asks others the way to God).
mH H |H J|U v
Such is (the powerful, full of miracles) the Name of God,
H N H| HF H| N|U v9v
If in the mind, someone has faith in the Lord's Name. ||15||
8 F 8 v
Those with faith in the Name of God are His selected
(chosen) ones, are acceptable to Him, and become
Pardhaan the spiritual leaders (the honored ones).
8 |J UN|J H v
Such God-Oriented persons attain honor in His Court.
8 HJ|J U| H v
Such selected ones (God-Oriented) grace the court of kings
(spiritual people).
8 N N UN |m v
The attention of the chosen ones stays fixed only on Guru
(God).
H N NJ N |8 v
If someone comments or thinks about such God-Oriented
people (and God),
N N NF J| HH v
No one can count the Doings (Blessings) of the Creator. (It
is hard to describe such God-Oriented people or about their
mental state, as they are also His Creation,).
M H U|Um N v
The White Bull is the outcome of Dharam - Dharma: Right
discipline, and Daya: Compassion. (White Bull - Mythical
bull holding up the earth is the Lords Discipline, Principle,
or System. There is nothing like such a white-bull and the
world is supported by the discipline of Dharam and Daya).
H | |m |H| H| v
These (Dharam and Daya) combined with Santokh hold the
earth in its Order System. (Santokh - Contentment,
forbearance, patience, satiation, tolerance. Right-Discipline
to live is Dharam, Daya, plus Santokh).
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H N J H|8m v
Sachyara (The man of truth, and knowledge, He knows the
Truth that God is everything) is one who understands the
Truth,
M | N v
As to how much load the white-bull carries (Understanding
that the extent of Creation is unlimited).
| J J J v
Beyond this earth, there are more earths, and there is no
end to His Creation (Worlds).
|H M NF H v
If this mythical bull is supporting the earth, then what
power is supporting this bull? (The universe has not only
this earth but is a vast Creation, what power supports all
this? Only Waheguru - God, takes care of everything. His
Discipline supports everything).
H|m H| N N v
Living beings are of innumerable kinds, colors and names.
H |M|m | NMH v
People have continuously written about His Creation.
UJ M |M| HF N|U v
If someone knows to make this assessment (Is there anyone
who can make the assessment of His Creation?),
M |M|m N J|U v
(Then) how big will be this account? (Will anyone be able
to write it down! The Creation of the Lord is beyond our
capacity to assess).
N F Hm|MJ v
How powerful is the Lord and Wonderful His Creation!
N| U| HF NF N v
What a great Giver is He! (How many Boons He gives!)
Who has the power to know it!
N| H UN N v
Lord, You created the universe with One Word!
(The Bang Theory of the scientists states that the world
was created by division of another planet with a bang).
|H JU M U|m v
With His Word, hundreds of thousands of rivers began to
flow! (In the universe).
NU| NF NJ |8 v
I have no power to contemplate on, or tell about Him (His
Boons, Power, Kindness etc.)
|m H UN v
I do not even have the worth of appreciating You once!
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(Sacrifice to is an expression of deep love and care. Sikhs
do not offer sacrificial animals to God, Gurus or to anyone
else).
H HU| M| N v
God, the right thing is one that pleases You (Whatever You
desire, I cannot say any thing).
HU HMH| |N v9v
Nirankar (Formless, God), You are Ever-Constant
(Unchanged, Eternal, Immortal. Your Will prevails). ||16||
mH H mH v
There are countless who recite Your Name (do the Naam-
Jaap), and numberless who love (worship) You.
mH H mH v
Countless worship You, and numberless revere You in the
hard ways. (Your worship is done in many ways).
mH N H| U v
Countless recite the Scriptures and read the Vedas (as a
way to meet You).
mH HN H| J|J UH v
Countless practice Yoga (Yogis practice Yoga - a method
to meet God) and stay detached from the world.
mH N NF |Nm |8 v
Countless are the Bhagats (Devotees) who ponder on Him,
or worship by reflecting on the Virtues of God.
mH H| mH U v
Countless are the men of piety, and numberless practice
charity (to meet Him. Consider charity a part of worship).
mH H HJ H v
Countless are the warriors who bravely confront the enemy
(Taking it as their worship to the Lord).
mH H| |M M|U v
Countless are the silent-sages who center their love and
attention on God.
NU| NF NJ |8 v
Lord, I have no power to describe You (Your Qualities,
numerous methods of worshipping You).
|m H UN v
I cannot even once be a sacrifice (appreciation) to You.
H HU| M| N v
Whatever pleases You, is the right deed!
HU HMH| |N v9?v
Formless One (God), You are For-Ever (Immortal,
Eternal). ||17||
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mH H m W v
Numberless are the fools with no wisdom (ignorant). (In
the Creation, the evil and virtue go side by side. Now, listen
about it).
mH 8 JH v
Numberless are thieves and deceitful persons.
mH mH N| H|J H v
Numberless are the highhanded men.
mH NM J|m NH|J v
Numberless are persons who do not hesitate to commit the
sin of murder.
mH | N| H|J v
Numberless are sinners who go on committing sins.
mH N|m N ||J v
Numberless are liars who keep on lying.
mH HM HM | |J v
Numberless degraded persons keep on eating filthy things
(Some saints call meat and alcohol the filth).
mH |UN |H| N|J v
Numberless are slanderers who continue speaking ill of
others.
N |8 NJ |8 v
Lowly Nanak holds the opinion (Guru ji says it with
humility),
|m H UN v
He cannot even once be a sacrifice (appreciation) to You!
(You are beyond access).
H HU| M| N v
What ever pleases You, is the right thing (deed)!
HU HMH| |N v9cv
Formless One (God), You are Eternal. ||18||
mH mH v
Innumerable are the names (Creation), uncountable are the
worlds.
mNH mNH mH Mm v
Your worlds are inaccessible and innumerable (You are
everywhere, at all places, unreachable).
mH NJ|J |H| J|U v
Even to call them countless is carrying the load (sin) on the
head (because, it will not be correct).
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m| H m| HMJ v
(This counting becomes an issue, because) we take Your
Name through letters (words, by speaking) and through
words (letters) You are praised.
m| |Nm N| NF NJ v
Through the knowledge of words (speech), the songs of
Your Attributes are sung.
m| |MF MF |F v
With words (Letters) we write and speak out Bani (Hymns,
the Name of God).
m |H| HHN |F v
With letters the Lord inscribes (Writes) destiny on the
foreheads.
|H| U|J |M |H |H| |J v
The Lord scribes destinies on all the foreheads, but is there
anyone who can do so on His Head?
|H HU | | |J v
The destiny of the people is what He Ordains.
H N| v
All that You have created, is the manifestation of Your
Name everything has been created by You. You are
everything! (As vast as your Creation, so great is Your
Name. Your Creation is as great as Your Name!).
|F J| N v
There is no place (Creation) without the Grace of Your
Name. You are everything!
NU| NF NJ |8 v
What power have I to give my views on anything about
You?
|m H UN v
I am not worth a sacrifice (appreciation) to You even once!
H HU| M| N v
What ever pleases You, is the right thing.
HU HMH| |N v9cv
Formless One (God), You are Immortal! ||19||
|m J UJ v
If the hands, feet and body become dirty with dust,
F| H J v
This dirt gets cleansed by washing with water.
H M|| N J|U v
If a cloth gets soiled and polluted with urine,
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U HF MU|m UJ |U v
It is washed clean with soap.
|m H| N H|N v
If the mind gets polluted (Defiled) with sins,
UJ N |N v
It gets cleaned with the love of God's Name (Recitation of
His Name).
| | mF |J v
Simply by saying so, nobody becomes virtuous, or vicious.
N| N| NF |M| M HJ v
Our deeds (actions, whatever we do), become our destiny.
m ||H m J| J v
Whatever the man sows, he reaps (The man bears the
reactions to his actions).
N JNH| mJ HJ v7Ov
Nanak, the man is born and dies under the Will of God
(reincarnates under His will, due to his deeds). ||20||
| U|Um U U v
Pilgrimage, penance (hard worship), compassion (kindness)
and charity (Hard worship by torturing the body is not the
Sikh way),
H N |M N H v
Bring you just a little bit of respect (Merit),
H|Fm H|m H| N| v
(But) Whosoever listens to the Gods Dictates (Gurbani
Scriptures), adopts these in his life, and develops His love,
mN| || H|M v
Without going anywhere, that fellow obtains from within
the benefit of bathing at the 68 places of pilgrimages.
H| NF H J| N|U v
Whatever duty is assigned to me (avocation, work I do, my
virtues) is a gift from You, and nothing is mine.
|F NF N| N| J|U v
Without carrying out the duty (virtue) assigned to me, my
any worship is not complete.
HmH| m| F| H v
(By carrying out my duty assigned by You) my body is in
the radiant health, and there is truth in my speech (the
Name of God, worship).
H| HJF HU H| 8 v
(By doing the duty assigned by God) the truth and
goodness resides in the mind, and it (the mind) stays eager
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(To do this duty) for the love of God.
Deeper meanings of the preceding four lines - My
profession is the duty assigned by You, and there is no
worship if I do not carry it out with dedication. Hail the
Lord, You Yourself are the Mundane, Celestial-Sound,
Truth, Joy and Eagerness to care for the Creation. (S.
Sobha Singh Artist).
NF H M NF NF || NF
v
(And of Your Wonderful Play, the wonder is) what was the
occasion, what time, what lunar day, what weekday,
N|F |H | HJ NF |H Jm
mN v
And what season, what month was it, when the Creation
came into being?
M U|m K| |H J M F v
The scholars did not know such a time, otherwise they
would have written a book on the creation of the world.
|UU NU|m |H |M| M
NF v
Nor do the Qazis (Muslim scholars, those who dispense
justice according to the Muslim religious law) know this
time, had they known, they would have put it down in the
Holy Koran.
|| HN| HF | HJ NU| v
Neither any Yogi (who usually claim to know the unknown
things) nor any one else knows the time and day, season
and the month (of Creation).
H N |H| N HH m HF HU| v
Only the Creator (God) who created the world, knows
when He created it.
|N N| m |N HMJ| |N |
|N HF v
How to express, how to praise You, how to describe and
how to know about You?
N m|F H N m |UN U |UN
|HmF v
Nanak, everyone describes You, and each one tries to be
wiser than the other.
K H|J K| U| N| H N J v
Great is the Master, Great is His Name, and everything
happens according to His Will.
N H N m HF mN N|Um HJ
v79v
Nanak, if someone is proud that he knows the Doings of the
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Lord, he will not be approved, or accepted, in His Court.
(Will not be considered fit to enter His Court). ||21||
M M M mNH mNH v
There are countless nether worlds, and millions of skies.
UN UN |M N U NJ|
|UN v
Searching after God's Creation the people reached no end,
and even the Holy Vedas (Hindu Scriptures) say one thing
(same thing, that the Lord is limitless).
HJH mJ NJ| N mHM
|UN v
The Semitic (Jews, Christian, Muslim) Scriptures say that
there are eighteen thousand worlds, but in reality there is
only one essence (that Creation of the Lord is limitless).
M J|U |M|m M J|U |FH v
If there be any account possible (estimate of His Creation),
then can a man do it? This calculation finishes not and the
person doing it goes away (finishes, dies his life-time is
too short. None can do it).
N K m|m m HF m v77v
Nanak, He is Great, and only He knows the extent of his
Greatness! ||22||
HMJ| HM|J U| H| U|m v
The devotees who praise the Lord, even they cannot define
His limits,
U|m m J |J HH|U
HF|m|J v
And It is like the streams getting lost on falling into the sea.
(If a stream goes to know the sea, it vanishes into it.
Searching His limits, the man gets lost into Him).
HHU HJ HM |NJ H| HM v
A vast ocean - the treasure of so many things and riches, in
which even the rivers get lost, and if there be such a great
king,
N|| |M J| H |H HJ |H|J
v7v
He is not equal to that ant that does not forget the Lord.
||23||
m |H| NJ|F m v
There is no end to the praise of the Lord, and there are
countless who praise Him.
m NF U|F m v
Limitless is His Creation, and there is no end to His Gifts
(Blessings).
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m |F HF|F m v
We cannot know about God even by watching (seeing) His
Creation, or by hearing about Him.
m H |Nm H| H v
We cannot know the limits of His Mind (His Motive, Will).
m H N| mN v
We cannot know the extent (limits) of His Creation.
m H v
We cannot know His limits (His Creation).
m N|F N |MM|J v
Many yearn to know His limits (His vastness).
N m U H|J v
But, they cannot reach these (limits).
UJ m HF N|U v
No one can know His (His Creations) vastness.
J NJ|m J J|U v
The more we describe (that He is Great), the more (Greater
still) He becomes.
K H|J 8 v
Great is the Lord and high is His Place (beyond reach, He
is above understanding).
8 | 8 v
His Name is Greater than the Great, limitless!
UK 8 J N|U v
If someone is as Great as God (equal to Him),
|H 8 N HF H|U v
Only then can he understand such a Great One (God).
HK m| HF m| m| v
Only God knows His Greatness.
N U| NH| U| v70v
Nanak, one gets this gift (understanding of the Greatness of
God) through good deeds and Kindness of Him. ||24||
J NH |M|m H|U v
It is hard to describe His limitless Kindness (His Bounties).
K U |M H|U v
He is a Great Giver and has not even a bit of greed (Gives
His Boons liberally).
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N HN|J H m v
Numberless great fighters (warriors) beg the Boons from
the Lord.
N|m NF J| |8 v
How many are (asking for the Boons), it is hard to give a
count.
N | |J N v
Many exhaust themselves in their useless efforts to make
counts (assessment) of those who beg from Him.
N M M HN |J v
Some keep getting the Gifts (from Waheguru) and even
then deny this.
N H J| |J v
Many such fools (though deny, take Boons from God) keep
using His Gifts.
N|m U HU H v
(In comparison to them) there are many who keep suffering
from the pain of hunger (stay deprived of the Boons).
U|J | U| | U v
Even this (deprivation) is a sort of Your Gift (Will), O
Lord!
|U MH| F J|U v
One gets liberation from the worldly bindings by the Will
of God.
J m| HN N|U v
(This is the Will of God), none else has any say in it.
H N |UN m|F |U v
If any fool tries to interfere in His Will,
UJ HF H|m H|J |U v
He realizes the hits (slaps) he bears on his face (How much
he gets degraded!).
m HF m U|U v
Giver - the Lord, knows (to whom and how much to give)
and gives (as per His Kindness).
m|J |H | NU| N|U v
Some understand it (Gods Kindness) and say so (That He
gives according to His Mercy).
|HH H |H| HMJ v
(Leave aside pain and pleasure) he to whom the Lord
grants His Worship - Praise,
N |HJ| |HJ v7v
Nanak, he is the real king of the kings. ||25||
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mHM NF mHM v
Priceless are Your merits: virtues, and priceless: countless,
are Your dealings: trading (Blessings). (This step Hymn,
tells that God and His Creation are limitless).
mHM |U mHM K v
Priceless are Your Traders (Those who recite Your Name)
and precious are Your Treasures (of Naam - Your Name).
mHM m|J mHM M H|J v
Priceless are those who come to You (God-Oriented
people), and precious are those who get the Goods (Naam
the Name of God) from You.
mHM |U mHM HH|J v
Priceless is the love (with You), and precious is the
absorption (in Your Name).
mHM H mHM U|F v
Priceless is Your Dharm (Dharma Discipline: all that You
do), and priceless is Your Divine Court (Your Will).
mHM M mHM F v
A wonder is Your testing of others, and equally a wonder is
Your accepting them (Forgiving them).
mHM H|H mHM |HF v
Wonderful are Your Boons that prove Your existence.
mHM NH mHM HF v
A wonder is Your Kindness and equally wondrous is Your
Hukam (Will, Command).
mHM mHM m|m H|U v
It is not possible to describe the Wonderful (Limitless)
Lord,
m| m| J |M M|U v
Although the people try to describe You single minded
(with their wisdom).
m|J U F v
The Mantras of the Holy Vedas and Puranas also describe
(discuss) You.
m|J N|J |mF v
The scholars study and discuss You (Give lectures about
You).
m|J H m|J |UU v
Brahma and Indar also talk about You. (Brahma, Indra - the
mythical gods).
m|J N| N|U v
The milkmaids and Krishan (Playmates of Krishna) talk of
You.
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m|J U|H m|J |H v
The mythical god Shiv (Shiva), and the Sidh (Sidha
adept, the miracle-men) tell about You.
m|J N N| v
Your Creation Budha: learned people (Gautam-Budh,
scholars), discuss You.
m|J U m|J U v
The demons and gods speak of You. (Sing Your praise).
m|J H| H| H H v
The gods and men, the silent-saints and Your servants
(devotees), narrate about You.
N m|J m|F |J v
A good many attempt to discuss You.
N N|J N|J | | H|J v
Many depart die, attempting to describe You.
U N| J| N|J v
If You create as many more as already created,
m| HN|J NU| N|U v
Even then, they will not be able to tell about You.
HK K J|U v
The Lord becomes limitless (Great) as limitless He wants
to be.
N HF H8 H|U v
Nanak, the True Lord Himself knows how Great (limitless),
He is.
H N m M |N v
If, out of ego someone claims that he can describe God,
|M|m |H| N N v7v
Then, take him as a great fool. ||26||
H U NJ H W NJ |H |J H
HHM v
Place (World) from where You take care of everyone is
beautiful.
H U mN mH N FJ v
Countless musical instruments, flutes (played with breath),
resound there, and countless are the musicians. (Every
thing is unlimited).
N N | |H NJ|m| N
NFJ v
So many musical measures and sub-measures are rendered,
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and so many are the singers!
N|J J F F| H N H
H Um v
The wind, water and fire praise You, and Dharamraj (the
mythical god of Justice) sings Your praise at Your door.
N|J |8 N |M| HF|J |M| |M|
H |8 v
Chittar and Guptt (The record keeping angels messengers
of Dharam-Raj) who maintain the records, and based on
which Dharam-Raj makes judgments, also sing Your
praise.
N|J U|H H U| HJ| HU
H v
Your adorned (Honored) gods: Shiva (god of death and
destruction), Brahma (god of creation) and goddesses, look
nice (Beautiful) singing Your praise.
N|J |UU |UUH|F U|m U|
M v
The god Indar (Indra) seated on his throne with other gods,
sings Your praise.
N|J |H HH| mU| N| H
|8 v
The Sidh (the perfect ones, miracle-men) in their
meditation, and Sadhu (Saints) in their contemplation, sing
Your praise.
N| H| H| H| N|J | N v
The Jattee (Abstinents: those with sex-control), Sattee
(Sincere, truthful), Santokhee (Those with contentment),
and fearless warriors, sing Your praise.
N| |K | |H HN HN U
M v
The Pandit (Scholars), Rishi (Learned saints) ) from
different periods of time, and Ved (Vedas) sing Your
praise. (Rishis are of seven types, called sapat-Rishi
authors of Vedas, preachers of Vedas, leaders selected by
other Rishis, those watching the working of the kings
court, those with self-control, the scholars of Vedas, and
those with the knowledge of God).
N|J HJF|m H HJ| HN H
|UmM v
The attractive (captivating, enchanting) beauties sing Your
praise in the heaven, on the earth, and in the nether-region.
N| U mH| |
M v
The jewels (Precious stones, things that please, evolved
persons) created by You, along with sixty-eight places of
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pilgrimages, sing Your praise. (Jewels Rattans.
According to the Shastras: ancient literature, the Rattans
are 14 in number. The mythology is that gods and devils
churned the sea and 14 things came out Amrit (the drink
that bestows immortality), poison, alcohol, fairy named
Apachhran, Lachhmi, elephant named Aeravatt, horse
named Ouchaaysarva (loud braying), cow named
Kamdhaen, and tree named Kalapp etc.)
N|J H HJM H N|J F| 8 v
The mighty warriors, super heroes, produce from the
mines, and all four types of the living Creation, sing Your
praise.
N|J K HKM K N| N|
v
All the worlds, solar-systems, and the universe, that You
have created and bound in Your Order, chant Your Glories.
HU| N|J H |
N HM v
Only those accepted by You can sing Your praise, and
such persons are the devotees who enjoy the Bliss (of Your
Name).
J| N N| H H |8| m| N
|Nm |8 v
Nanak, how many more sing You, how can I contemplate
on this, I cannot make an estimate of it!
HU| HU| HU H8 H|J H8 H8|
U| v
Only the Lord is Immortal and the real Truth is He and His
Name.
J | JH| H|U HH| 8 |H|
8U| v
The One Who has made this Creation, He is, shall ever be,
and shall not go away anywhere (will not die, is Immortal).
N| N| | N| N| |HH| H|Um
|H| U| v
God has created the Maya (worldly things) in different
kinds and styles.
N| N| N| mF |H |H U|
|KmU| v
He enjoys His Creation the way He likes it (deems fit).
H |H HU| NH| JNH NF
HU| v
He will do according to His Pleasure, and nobody can tell
(order) Him any thing.
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H |HJ HJ |H|J N JF
HU| v7?v
He is the King, King of the kings. Nanak, it behoves (is
right) for all to stay under His Will. ||27||
HU H HH M| |m N| N|J
|| v
O Yogi, make contentment your ear-rings, hard work
(worship) your begging-bowl and bag, and concentration
on God the ashes (to apply on your body).
| NM Nm| N|Um HN| KK
|| v
Let the thought of death be your patched quilt, technique of
your Yog (Yoga) be maintaining chastity, and your staff
(Stick) be the faith in God.
mU| | HNM HH| H| H|
HN H| v
Take all the groups belonging to the Ayee Panth like that
of your own i.e. consider all equal (classmates, friends),
and deem the mind-control (self control) as conquering the
world. (Aye-Panth - a Yogic sect considered to be superior
to all other groups. Jamaatee of the same class or group,
equal, friends, your own).
mUH |H mUH v
Bow to the Lord,
m|U m|M m|U mJ| HN HN UN
H v7cv
(Who) is Primal: from the beginning, Pure, free from the
beginning, immortal, and without change. (Aad from the
beginning. Aneel pure. Anaad timeless: even before the
beginning. Anahat free from hurt, immortal).
N| |Nm U|Um K|F W| W|
H|J U v
Divine knowledge is the food, compassion is its distributor.
(Impart Divine-Knowledge and compassion to all, because)
the Divine Music is in every heart (God is present in
everyone, all are equal).
m| | H H N| || |H|
m HU v
He is the Lord and all others are His subordinates. To attain
the name, fame and supernatural powers is absurd (On
death, nothing worldly goes with soul).
HHN |HN U|U N 8M|J M m|J
N v
Union and separation is the way of the world (life), and
what one gets (pleasure or pain) is the destiny.
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mUH |H mUH v
Bow to the Lord,
m|U m|M m|U mJ| HN HN UN
H v7cv
(He) is the Primal (Cause of every thing), Pure, without
beginning, Indestructible, and is Constant (Unchanged).
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UN HU| HN| |mU| ||
8M F v
(The myth is that) the mother (Maya mundane, the
worldly aspect) gave birth to (produced) three approved
disciples (Mythology is that three gods came into being to
run the world),
|UN HH| |UN K| |UN MU U|F v
One the creator (Brahma), other to give sustenance
(Vishnu), and third the destroyer (Shiva).
|H |H | 8M |H
J HF v
(But the truth is that) God runs the world as it pleases Him,
and according to His Will.
UJ U U| m J UJ
|KF v
God beholds runs the Creation, but nobody realizes that
He makes everything work, this is the wonder!
mUH |H mUH v
Bow to the Lord,
m|U m|M m|U mJ| HN HN UN
H vOv
Who is Primal (The source of all), Pure, Without-
Beginning, Indestructible, and Unchanged (Constant). ||30||
mHF M|U M|U K v
(The seat of the Lord), and His storehouses are in all the
worlds. (The Lord established His storehouses in all the
worlds to take care of His Creation).
H |N |Um H UN v
Whatever was to be put into them, He did that once for all
times (These stay always filled).
N| N| |HHFJ v
After creating, the Lord takes care of it (Nurses it.
Provisions have been arranged).
N H8 N| H8| N v
Nanak, True (Great, Perfect) are the Undertakings (Works)
of the True (Great) Lord.
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mUH |H mUH v
Obeisance is to the Lord.
m|U m|M m|U mJ| HN HN UN
H v9v
He is Primal (Creator of every thing), Pure, without a
beginning, Indestructible and Unchanged (The same)
throughout the ages (time-periods). ||31||
|UN U H| M J|J M J|J M |H v
The tongue may divide into hundreds of thousands, and
these may become two million.
M M N m|m|J UN H HNU|H v
With each tongue, in cycles be recited the Lords Name
millions of times.
U |J | |m 8|m
J|U |UN|H v
This (continuous worship of the Lord) is the ladder (Steps)
on the way to meet Him, and by going up this (Reciting His
Name), one evolves.
H|F NM mNH N| N| mU| |H v
By hearing such high talks (of the outcome of worship),
even the insects (common men) get excited to try it
(worship).
N U| U|m N| N |H v7v
(You may copy the saints, recite His Name with millions of
tongues, but) Nanak, God is obtained by His Grace.
Otherwise, however one may worship, the result will be
nothing, and it will equal to the false boasting of a liar
devoid of truth (with no outcome). ||32||
m|F H 8 J H v
It is not in my power to speak, or to keep silent (all is under
His Will).
H HN|F U|F H v
It is not in anyones power to ask for anything, or to give
something to anyone.
H H||F H|F J H v
It is not under my will to live, or to die. There is nothing in
my hands.
H |H H|M H| H v
It is not in my control to acquire power to rule (authority),
or wealth that generates commotion (ego) in the mind.
H H| |Nm| |8| v
Awareness, knowledge and contemplation are not in my
control (Power to deeply contemplate with all the
knowledge I may possess, is not under my will).
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H HN| HH v
It is not in my power to get liberated from the world
(Worldly attachments ) by any means.
|HH J| H N| H|U v
The Lord, Who has this Power, creates everything and
takes care of (Watches) these.
N H |8 N|U vv
(Only God is the Doer, nothing is in the power of anyone,
and so) Nanak, there is none high (wise) and none low
(fool). ||33||
| | || v
Nights, seasons, lunar-days, weekdays,
F F| mN| M v
Wind, water, fire and nether worlds, were created by the
Lord.
|H ||8 | | | H HM v
In the midst of these, He set the earth (world) as the place
to practice Dharam (Dharma virtues, and the recitation of
His Name).
|H ||8 H|m HN| N N v
Therein, He created various beings with different living-
modes,
| N H mN m v
(And) their names are uncountable and limitless.
NH| NH| J|U |8 v
(Leave aside their names and kinds), these are judged
according to their deeds and destiny (His Kindness),
H8 m| H8 U v
(Because) in the Court of the True Lord, only the Truth is
considered.
| HJ| 8 F v
There (In His Court) only the accepted ones (His devotees)
stay,
U| N|H |HF v
(And for their permission to enter that Place) they are
bestowed with the mark of identity due to the Kindness
(Benevolence) of the Lord and their own destiny (Good
deeds create good luck).
N8 NU| U |U v
The ordinary and the elevated (advanced) ones are tested
(decided, judged) there (In His Court),
N N|Um H H|U v0v
(And) Nanak, this (status of the person - ordinary or
elevated) is known at that Place (His Court). ||34||
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H K N UJ H v
(Aforesaid) is the Level of the Right-Doing (Truthfulness
of the Man), and of the Kindness of the Lord.
|Nm K N mJ NH v
(Now), here is the description of the doings of the Level
(Realm) of Knowledge. (Whole of this step Hymn, gives
the awareness that the Creation of the Lord is limitless).
N F F| H N N HJH v
Many are wind, water, fire, Krishana and Shiva.
N H W| W|m|J N
N H v
There are many Brahmas (the mythical gods of creation)
busy with the creation of different colors and kinds.
N|m NH H| H N N UH v
Numberless are the earths and the mountains (to work out
destinies, for doing the virtuous deeds recitation of the
Name of God), and numberless are the Dhru-like
instructions (Sermons given by or to the saint Dhru. There
is no limit to any thing).
N |UU 8U H N N HKM UH v
Numberless are Indar (gods like Indra), the moons and
suns, numberless are the universes - solar-systems.
N |H N N U| H v
Innumerable are the Sidh (Adepts), Budh (Gautam Budh,
the wise ones), Nath (Yogi), and numberless are the
goddesses of different forms.
N U U H| N N HHU v
Many are gods, demons, and silent-sages, many are oceans
and jewels (Precious stones, God-Oriented people).
N|m F| N|m F| N
|U v
Numberless are mines, languages (The people), and many
are rulers and kings.
N|m H| HN N N m m
vv
How many are (countless) the practitioners of focusing
attention on God and how many are (numberless) devoted
to the Divine service? Nanak, there is no limit to all such
things (the Creation). ||35||
|Nm K H|J |Nm 8K v
At the level of the Divine-Knowledge, this Knowledge
(Realization of God) is everything (it reigns supreme).
| U |U NK mU v
At this place - level, there is Celestial (Divine) Sound,
Plays (performances, spiritual surprises, spiritual scenes or
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experiences, miracles), and Joy.
HH K N| F| v
The way (method, dealing) at the Level of Deeds actions:
spiritual effort (Worship), is charming (beautiful, alluring).
| W| W|m J m v
There, (by virtue of the worship) the mind is given a
beautiful shape (The mind gets evolved, advanced. The
eagerness for worship arises, awakens).
N|m NM N|m H|J v
It is very hard to tell or say anything about this Place (this
state of mind).
H N NJ | |U v
If any one tries to describe this Place (State of the
worshipping mind), he shall repent that he could not tell
anything.
| W|m H| H| H| | v
There (In that state of mind), consciousness, intellect, mind
and understanding (wisdom) are given a new shape (Get
evolved due to worship. The desire for meditation
awakens).
| W|m H |H N| H| vv
There (In this mental region of worship) the gods (evolved
persons) and Sidhs (adepts) attain more of knowledge, the
Truth gets known further, and realization is attained. (One
gains the knowledge of the mental state of the gods and
adepts that worship makes a man spiritually perfect, and
due to this one takes to worship more intensely) ||36||
NH K N| F| H v
At the mental Level of His Grace, the rule is His Own
Power - Kindness, His Will. (To gain His Kindness the man
has to do hard work do worship i.e. recitation of the
Name of God, offer selfless-service, practice virtues, and
adopt ethical worldly activities).
| J NU| J v
At this level are those hard workers (saints) who have been
blessed by God (It is like only God being there and none
else),
| H HJM H v
And these (with mental strength blessed by the Lord) are
the real warriors, brave people, and heroes (The people
who are virtuous, dedicated to selfless service etc. and
worship God boldly without any fear).
| H|J H |Jm v
They are filled with the love of God.
| H| H| H|JH H|J v
At this mental level, they are set with a single mind at the
remembrance of the Lord.
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N N H|J v
It is hard to tell the beauty of (the purity of) their minds.
U|J H|J N H|J v
Such people do not die or get cheated.
|H N H H H H|J v
Those who have set their minds on God.
| N H|J N Mm v
There, the saints of many worlds live together. (In that high
state of mind, the saints of different places, faiths and
thoughts, are presumed to stay at one and the same level
one place (as all of them are at the same elevated mental
level of God-Orientation).
N|J mU H8 H| H|U v
God being in their minds, they stay in the state of joy.
H8 |K H |N v
In Sach-Khand lives Nirankar. (Sach-Khand Heaven.
This is the Region of Truth - the mental state of worship.
Nirankar - the Formless Lord. Nirankar resides in the
absolutely pure mind).
N| N| U| |JM v
After His Creation, God watches It with His Benevolence.
| K HKM K v
In that region (elevated mental state), there are continents,
worlds, solar systems (The devotee gains the knowledge of
the Creation of God - he becomes spiritually advanced. He
realizes that God is the Creator and He is present
everywhere and in everything).
H N N m m v
If someone tries to describe His Creation (claims that he

has attained His knowledge), there is no limit to it
(Creation).
| Mm Mm mN v
There (In His Creation, in that state of the mind of the
saint) are innumerable universes, and limitless Creation
(The devotee attains awareness that the Creation and its
Creator: God, are limitless).
|H |H JNH | | N v
Every thing happens according to the Will of God (May be
it is His worship or the knowledge of His Creation to the
devotee).
|NH N| |8 v
This is the Lord who takes care of His Creation, with
pleasure.
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N N N H v?v
Nanak, to describe His Creation, Qualities, Kindness and
Greatness is as difficult as eating steel. ||37||
H J |H H|m v
Let abstinence (self-control) be the furnace, and patience
the goldsmith.
mJ|F H| U J|m v
Let wisdom be the anvil, Divine-Knowledge the tools.
M mN| v
Let God's Fear be the bellows, and penance (worship) the
fire.
lK m|H | |M v
Let the love (of God) be the Crucible, and in this melt the
Amrit (Prepare Amrit i.e. set God in the mind - recite the
Name of God).
W|m HU H8| NHM v
Thus(described above), in this True-Mint the Divine
Word (Name of God) is prepared (fixed in the mind, Name
of the Lord is recited).
|H N U| NH | N v
This can be done only by those who are blessed by the
Mercy of God.
N U| U| |JM vcv
Nanak, the Lord blesses all with delight out of His
Kindness (By giving the love of His Name to recite). ||38||
HMN v
Salok (The is the last Sermon of this Scripture).
F N F| | H | HJ v
Air is the Guru, water the Father, and earth is the Great
Mother (These are the Gifts of the Lord to nurse the living
beings).
|UH | U|U UU| U|Um M HNM
HN v
Day and night are the nurse and the baby-sitter, and in their
laps the whole world plays. (These Gifts are to take care of
the Creation).
(The word in Gurmukhi is Jagat and it is wrong to
pronounce it J-gatt).
8|NmU|m |mU|m 8 H
JU| v
(Mans) virtues and vices are read out by Dharam-Raj (The
mythical god of justice) in the Court of God.
NH| m mF| N N U| v
According to their deeds (destiny, result of their actions),
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some shall be in the presence of the Lord, and others shall
not be allowed to come close to Him.
|H| H |m|Um NU HHN| W|M v
Those who did the Naam-Jaap (Recited the Name of God,
remembered Him, stayed in His Fear, did good deeds), they
put in the real hard labor. (The word written in Gurmukhi
msakktte, is phonated as msakkatte or even as
mshakktte, and it is wrong to say it out musakaktte or
mushakktte).
N H HM N| | |M v9v
Nanak, their own faces glow (are honored in the Court of
the Lord, earn respect), and along with them, they liberate
many more. ||1||
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H H|J
JAAP SAHIB

W H|N H|U v
The Lord, Blessings of the True Guru!
God is realized through the Kindness of the True Guru.
H| HN |HJ| 9Ov
Composed by the Tenth Master - Guru Gobind Singh. 10
is pronounced as Dasveen which means Tenth.
U v H|U v
Chhapaae Chhand (A style of poetry). Composed by
Your Grace.
8N |8J m H| m | |J
|HJ v
You are free of figure or features (Form), color or cast, or
lineage. You have no physical form.
N m N N|J HN
|NJ v
Nobody can tell about Your figure, color, features, and
clothes. You have no appearance.
m8M H| m NH m|H|H
N|JH v
You are called of the Permanent-Form (Immortal), Self-
Created, and Extremely- Powerful. You are Self-Created,
Eternal and the Doer.
N| |UU |UU|F HJ HJ|F N|FH v
You are considered King of god Indra, and King of the
kings. You are the Highest of All.
|F HJ| H mH
|F NJ v
Kings of the three worlds (Powerful kings), gods, people,
demons, and even grass and straws call You Limitless.
(You are Limitless).
H H N N NH H
HH v9v
Who can tell Your real Name? The ability is this much only
that I can tell Your Names based only on Your deeds
(Actions).
HN U U v
Bhujung Pryaat Chhand,.
HH mNM v HH |NM v
I bow to You the Deathless (Immortal), I bow to You the
Benevolent.
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HH m v HH m v7v
I bow to You the Formless, I bow to You the Only One
(One that cannot be compared with anything else).
HH m v HH mM v
I bow to You without a special dress (Form), I bow to You
the Unexplainabe (Above description).
HH mNU v HH mHU vv
I bow to You the Formless (Without physical body), I bow
to You the Unborn (Self-Created).
HH mNH v HH mH v
I bow to You Who cannot be defeated, I bow to You the
Indestructible.
HH mH v HH mH v0v
I bow to You the Nameless (Beyond names), I bow to You
without a home (No single specific place: You are all over
Omnipresent).
HH mNH v HH mH v
I bow to You higher than actions, and higher to Dharma -
Responsibilities, disciplines, righteousness.
HH mH v HH mH vv
I bow to You free from names, I bow to You free from any
set place.
HH mH| v HH m| v
I bow to You the Unconquerable (Not winnable), I bow to
You the Fearless (Fears none).
HH mJ v HH mJ vv
I bow to You the Unchangeable, I bow to You the
Immortal.
HH m|M v HH mU v
I bow to You the Colorless, I bow to You the Beginningless
HH mU v HH mN v?v
I bow to You the Indestructible, I bow to You the
Immeasurable (Who cannot be Fathomed).
HH mNH v HH mH v
I bow to You the Unconquerable (One that cannot be won),
I bow to You the Indestructible.
HH U v HH m vcv
I bow to You the Broadminded (Generous) One, I bow to
You the Limitless.
HH H UN v HH mN v
I bow to You the Only One, I bow to You the Countless
(Multitude of Your Creation is You).
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HH m v HH mH vcv
I bow to You free from five elements (Not made of earth,
water, air, fire, ether Bodiless). I bow to You the Free
One (Unbound, Not belonging to one place or person).
HH |NH v HH |H v
I bow to You free from actions, I bow to You free from
doubts.
HH |UH v HH |H v9Ov
I bow to You free from a set place, I bow to You free from
a set dress. (All places and dresses are Yours).
HH |H v HH |NH v
I bow to You, the Nameless (No one Name, all names are
Yours), I bow to You the Desireless.
HH | v HH |W v99v
I bow to You the Elementless (Bodiless), I bow to You the
Deathless.
HH | v HH m v
I bow to You the Constant One (Unchangable), I bow to
you the Elementless (Bodiless, free from the physical
body).
HH mMN v HH mHN v97v
I bow to You the Invisible (Cannot be seen), I bow to You
Who is free from Sorrow
HH | v HH m v
I bow to You Who has no afflictions. I bow to You Who
cannot be set-up (Who cannot be installed like a statue in a
temple).
HH |H v HH | v9v
I bow to You the One worshipped in the three worlds. I
bow to You the Treasure of everything. (Three Worlds -
earth, nether world bottom of earth, and sky).
HH mNJ v HH mJ v
I bow to the Immeasurable (Unfathomable). I bow to the
Constant (The Steady One, unshakable, unchangeable).
HH |N v HH mHN v90v
I bow to the Master of three attributes Truth,
Consciousness, and Bliss. (Worldly attributes - the world
has ego, truth and meanness).
HH N v HH HHN v
I bow to the Enjoyer of everything. I bow to the One
present in everything (All Pervasive).
HH mN v HH mN v9v
I bow to the Colorless. I bow to the One who cannot be
destroyed (Indestructible).
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HH mNH v HHH H v
I bow to the Unreachable. I bow to the All Pervasive.
HH HMH v HH |H v9v
I bow to the Support of water (The Creator of water). I bow
to the One Who needs no support.
HH mH v HH m v
I bow to the One above all castes. I bow to the One above
sub-castes (Lineage).
HH mHH v HHH mH v9?v
I bow to the One above religions. I bow to the Wonderful
One.
mUH mUH v HH mH v
Obeisance (I bow) to the One unattached to the lands. I
bow to the One who is free of clothes (Above dresses,
Formless).
HH |H v HH |H v9cv
I bow to Him Who needs no homes (All places are His). I
bow to the One Who is not born of a woman: is Self-
Created.
H H NM v H H |UmM v
I bow to You the death to all. I bow to One Kind to all
H H v H H v9cv
I bow to the One Who is the Form of All (Who is in
everyone). I bow to the King of All.
H H v H H v
Obeisance (I bow) to the One Who absorbs everything back
into Him. Obeisance to the Creator of All.
H H NM v H H M v7Ov
I bow to the Death to All. I bow to the One Who nurses
(Provides) all.
HHH U v HH m v
Obeisance to the One Who is worshipped by all (Deity of
all). I bow to the One Whose mystery we cannot know (He
is a Mystery).
HH mHH v HH HH v79v
I bow to the One Who is not born (like others do).
Obeisance to the One Who is the Beauty.
H H N v H H v
I bow to the One Who can reach everywhere. Obeisance to
the One Who is at all places: Omnipresent).
H H N v H H N v77v
I bow to Him Who is present in all colors (In all states:
conditions, in everyone, attached to all). I bow to the One
Who can destroy everything.
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H NM NM v HHH |UmM v
Supreme-Death (Lord of Death) I bow to You. I bow to
You the Benevolent One.
HH m v HH mH v7v
Above Castes, I bow to You. The Immortal One, I bow to
you.
HH H v HH |N v
Beyond old age, I bow to You. I bow to You the Creator.
H H v H H m v70v
I bow to You the avocation of all (Engagements, jobs). I
bow to the True One, not bound to anything.
HH |HN v HH |N v
Free from relations (relatives), obeisance to You (I bow to
You)! Obeisance to the Fearless One.
HH J|H v HH N|H v7v
Obeisance to the Merciful. The Kind One, I bow to You.
HH m v HH HJ v
The Limitless, I bow to You. The Supreme One, I bow to
You.
HHH N v HH HJN v7v
The Love, obeisance to You. The Fortune of all, I bow to
You.
H H H v H H v
The Drier (Destroyer, Killer) of all, I bow to You. The
Sustainer of all, I bow to You.
H H N v H H J v7?v
I bow to You the Creator. I bow to You the Destroyer.
H HN HN v H N N v
The Supreme Yoga, (Detached One) I bow to You. The
Worldly Man, I bow to You. (Yoga, a technique to meet
God. Yogis believe in renunciation detachment from the
world).
H H |UmM v H H M v7cv
Obeisance to You the Kind One. Obeisance to the
Sustainer.
88| U v H|U v
Chaacharee Chhand, composed by Your Grace.
m J v m J v
You are formless, and unique.
mH J v m J v7cv
You are not born (Manifested without birth), You are not
made of five elements (Water, earth, air, fire, ether).
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mM J v m J v
You are beyond description (without form). You are not
bound by dress (Appearance).
mH J v mNH J vOv
You have no name. You are Desireless.
m J v m J v
You cannot be brought into imagination. Your Mystery
cannot be known.
mH| J v m| J v9v
None can win You (Unconquerable). You are without fear.
|H J v | J v
You are honored in the three worlds (Earth, sky, nether-
world bottom of the world).
|N J v mHN J v7v
You are above the three dimensions of the world
(virtue,evil, ego).
m|M J v m|U J v
You are above color and caste. You are above the
beginning.
mH J v mH|U J vv
Nobody can win You. You are Azaad Free. (But, if we
stick to the word Ajaade, it will mean above birth).
mHH J v m J v
You are above birth (Self Born), and free from color and
caste (You are in all).
m J v m J v0v
You are above five elements (Not made of elements -
bodiless), You do not need anyone to nurse (Sustain) You.
mNH J v mH J v
You are Unconquerable. No one can hurt You no one can
destroy You.
m J v m J vv
None can face i.e. stand You (in battle). You are not
involved in the worldly problems.
mH|N J v |N J v
You are too deep (Calm, composed). You are the Friend of
all.
m J v m J vv
You have no worldly botherations You are not attached to
anything.
| J v mH J v
You are not knowable (You cannot be known), and are
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beyond understanding.
mNM J v mHM J v?v
You are not bound by time. You have no worldly
entanglements (Bindings).
mMJ J v mHJ J v
You are a Mystery (Inaccessible), and not bound to one
place (You are everywhere: all pervading).
m J v HJ J vcv
You are Limitless, Great.
mM|N J v |H|N J v
You are beyond description (Formless). There is none other
like You (No rival).
|M J v mH J vcv
You are Supportless (Self Sustained ), beyond imagination
(Self-Created).
mNH J v mHH J v
You are beyond reach, above birth.
m J v m J v0Ov
Yor are not made of elements (Bodiless), none can touch
You.
mMN J v mHN J v
You cannot be seen. You are above sorrow.
mNH J v mH J v09v
You are not affected by Your actions (Deeds). You are
above doubts. (No doubt about Your existence. You are a
Reality).
mH| J v m| J v
No one can win You. You have no fear of anyone.
mJ J v mNJ J v07v
You are Steadfast - Unshakable. You are Immeasurable -
Immense, limitless.
mH J v | J v
You cannot be measured. You are the Treasure of
everything.
mN J v | UN J v0v
You are many countless (by being in all), yet You are
One.
HN U U v
Bhujang Prayaat Chhand,.
H H H v HHH| | v
I bow to the One worshipped by all. You are the Treasure
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of everything.
H U U v m| m v00v
I bow to You God of gods. You are above dresses
(Formless), and are Mysterious.
H NM NM v H H M v
I bow to the death of death. I bow to the Sustainer of all.
(Death is in His control).
H H NF v H H F v0v
I bow to Him Who can reach everywhere. I bow to Him
Who is all over (Omnipresent).
mN| m v |HN| H v
You are above body (Free from elements), and free from
any master. You are free from any companions
(Friendless), and the Destroyer.
H v H H H v0v
Sun of suns, I bow to You (The source of light and heat
of suns). I bow to You the Worshipped By All.
H 8U 8U v H v
I bow to You Moon of moons. I bow to You Sun of
suns. (You are the source of light to the moons and suns).
H N| N| v H v0?v
Song of the songs, I bow to You (Supreme Song).
Melodious Note of the melodies, I bow to You.
H | | v H U U v
Dance of the dances, I bow to You (Supreme Dancer).
Melody of the melodies, I bow to You (Super melody).
H v H U U v0cv
Hand of the hands, I bow to You (Art or delicacy of the
hands). I bow to You the Player of players. (Player of the
musical instruments, drums etc. You create the music and
manage it too).
mN| mH v HHH| H v
You are above body, and above name. All the forms are
Yours. (All bodies and names are Yours).
N| H v HHH| | v0cv
You are the Destroyer of all, and the Killer of everyone.
You are the Giver of all powers (Miracles).
NMN | NMN| H v
You are the Blameless, and the Pure Form.
H H HH H vOv
I bow to the King of kings, the Supreme-Beauty.
H HN HNH H |H v
I bow to You the Greatest Yogi of all, the Supreme Miracle
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Maker.
H H HH H | v9v
I bow to You the King of kings, the Great-Elderly (Old
One, Wise-One).
H HHF v H mHHF v
I bow to You the Bearer of arms, and the Enjoyer of the
throwing-weapons.
H H |Nm v H MN H v7v
I bow to You, the great Knowledgeable. I bow to You the
Mother of the world.
m| mH| mN| mN v
You are above the dresses (Forms), free from delusions
(Doubts), indulgences (Enjoyment of His Creation), and
unaffected by such involvements.
H HN HNH H HN vv
I bow to you, the Greatest of the Yogis, and the Master of
all Techniques (All techniques to realize You are lower to
the recitation of Your Name).
H | |UF N NH v
I bow to You, the Protector and the Destroyer of all.
H m U HH v0v
I bow to You the Lord of ghosts and good spirits, and the
Person with Dharma (Good discipline).
H N J v H N v
I bow to the Healer of diseses. I bow to the Love-Manifest
(Embodiment of Love).
H HJ HJ v H vv
I bow to the King of kings, and the Ruler of rulers.
H U U v H H H v
Obeisance to the Great Giver I bow to the most Revered
One.
H N N v HH |UH v
Disease of diseases (Disease remover, a cure), I bow to
You. I bow to the Cause of Bath (the bath marking
recovery from disease).
H H H v H H H v
I bow to You, Supreme to the mantras (Your Name is the
Greatest Mantra). I bow to You, Supreme to the charms
(Your Name is the greatest Talisman).
H |UH |UH v H v?v
I bow to You the greatest of deities. I bow to You the
greatest of Tantras - magical-offerings (Spells: magical
techniques, such as used to control others or spirits, or for
the fulfillment of wishes).
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HU H|8UU H FH| v
You are the Immortal - Truth, Awareness, Bliss (God),
and the Cause of destruction.
m m HHHM |H| vcv
There is none other like You (Unique), You are Formless,
and present all over (Omnipresent).
HU |HU U | N v
You are Giver of spiritual attainments, wisdom, and
success.
m m mW UW J vcv
You destroy the sins in the sky, nether world (bottom of the
earth), and land (Everywhere), and You give success
(Promote i.e. evolve everything).
H HH M v
O God, You are Highest of the high (Supreme), and
invisibly nurse everyone.
HU HU |H| U |UmM vOv
You are Kind and give miraculous powers ever and to
everyone.
mU| mU| mH mNH v
None can hurt, or injure You (Immortal). You are above
names and desires (All names are Yours).
HHH H| HHHH H v9v
You are the Supreme Winner (Conqueror), and every place
is Your residence (You are everywhere).
H v 88| U v
By virtue of Your Power (Might), I composed the
Chachree Chhand.
HM J v M J v
You are in water, and on land.
m| J v m J v v7v
You are Fearless, no one can understand Your Mystery.
J v mH J v
You are the Lord, and Birthless (Self-created).
mUH J v mH J vv
You are above the countries (All countries: places, are
Yours). You are dress-less: Formless.
HN U U v
This is Bhujang Pr;yaat named poetry.
mN m v mU| H v
You are Immeasurable, with no obstacles on Your Way.
You are a Bliss.
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H H H v HHH| | v0v
All revere You. You are the Treasure for everyone.
HH | v HH H v
You are above any master (You are the Master of all), and
are the Destroyer of everyone.
HH mNH v HH mH vv
Unconquerable (Invincible: none can win You) I bow to
You. I bow to You Indestructible (Immortal).
HH mNM v HH mM v
I bow to You, the Timeless (Not bound by the time). I bow
to You are Unsupported One (Needs no, provider or nurse).
H H UH v H H H vv
I bow to the Lord of all places. I bow to the One to Whom
all dresses (clothes: garbs, appearances) belong.
H H H v H HH HH v
I bow to the King of kings, the Creator of all.
H HJ HJ v H HJ HJ v?v
I bow to the Supreme Monarch, Moon of the moons (The
source of light to the moons).
H N| N| v H | | v
I bow to the Supreme Song (Essence: Creator of the songs).
I bow to the Super-Love (Source of love).
H v H H H vcv
I bow to the Super-Anger (Source of anger), Supreme
Destroyer.
H H N v H H N v
I bow to the Super-Disease (Source of afflictions:
maladies). I bow to the Enjoyer of everything (Gives joy to
all).
H H H| v H H | vcv
I bow to the Supreme Conqueror, the Fear of all.
H H |Nm v H H v
I bow to You the All Knowing (Omniscient), the
Omnipotent (All Powerful) I bow to You.
H H H v H H H v?Ov
I bow to You the Supreme-Mantra (Source of all mantras:
Your Name is the greatest of all mantras). I bow to the
Supreme-Jantra (Super-Charm).
H H |UH v H H |NH v
Protector (Caretaker, keeps an eye on everyone) of all, I
bow to You. I bow to You the Attraction of all.
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H H N v |N| mN v?9v
I bow to Him Who exists in all colors (states of the mind),
and is the Destroyer of all afflictions.
H H| H| v H |H |H v
I bow to the Spirit (Life) of all living beings, Who is the
Essence (Power to grow) of all seeds.
m|H m|H v HHH |HH v?7v
You dont get irritated, or attached (Become friendly). You
are Gracious to all.
|NM H v NNH FH| v
You are Compassionate (Kind). You remove (Destroy) the
sins.
HU HU || |H |H| v?v
Ever the miracles abide (manifest, stay) in You.
8 U v H|U v
Charpat Chhand, composed by Your Grace.
m|H NH v m| H v
Your deeds are immortal (True). Your discipline is
unpurturbed (Pure).
mM HN v m8M N v?0v
You are attached to the worldly things. You are Constant
Enjoyer of the Creation.
m8M H v mM HH v
Immortal is Your Kingdom. Constant (Unchanged) is Your
Creation.
mM H v mM NH v?v
Your Dharma (Discipline, righteousness) is complete
(abiding). Unseen are Your blessings.
H U v H |Nm v
You are the Giver, and You know everyone (You are aware
of the deeds of others).
H v H H v?v
You are the sun to others (Light i.e. the Knowledge-Giver).
H F v H F v
You are the Soul, and Strength to others.
H N v H HN v??v
You are the Enjoyer of All, and one with everything.
H U v H v
You are the Deity to everyone, and You are the Knower of
All.
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H NM v H M v?cv
You are Death to Every one, and yet You sustain all.
mM U v H|U v
Roo-aal Chhand written with Your Grace.
m|U m|U H| mH|
m v
You are the Starting-Being (Primordial Being) - from
before the beginning of the time, Beyond Birth (Do not
Incarnate), and Limitless.
H H |H U m m|U U v
All revere You, You are worshipped in the three worlds
(earth, sky, nether world: bottom of the earth), a Secret-
Unsolved, and Big generous from the beginning.
H MN H WMN H N |
NM v
You sustain everyone, You send the people here (Cause of
their births), and in the end You are their Destroyer.
H |HJ| m |HM v?cv
You are present here and there: everywhere (Omnipresent),
and yet You are not attached to anyone (Detached), but still
you are the Enjoyer of All.
H H H| HN N
You are without a name, place, caste, color, and are
Formless.
m|U U H| mH| m|U
mH v
You are the cause of everything right from the beginning
(Primal Being), big hearted, You do not get born, but You
are the origin (Beginning) of everything, and are complete.
UH m H HN N v
He is the One without a specific place and dress
(Appearance). He is Formless and Detached - Not attached
to anyone. (Not bound to one place, He is everywhere. He
has no specific appearance every appearance is His).
H |UH |H J|U |MU mN
vcOv
Here, there, everywhere, You are the love prevailing in all
the directions.
H NH |J| H J |J H|J v
We think of Him as Nameless, Desireless, and Placeless.
(All names, desires and places are His).
H H H H HU H |J v
All revere You, You are revered everywhere, You are
revered always.
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UN H| mN UH N| mN v
He is One, and still seen as many, because in His Creation
all the forms are His.
M M mM M m N || UN
vc9v
When, after playing the play of Creation He ends it,
everything goes back into Him, and again He becomes
One.
U HJ| |HJ U m N v
His Mystery is not known to gods, Vedas, and Kateb -
Qouran and other books related to this.
N H| | H HU| |NJ H v
Greatness of the One Who is without color, form, caste,
sub-caste, etc. can only be known to that One only.
H H HN HH H
|J| v
He has no father, mother, caste (or children), and is above
birth and death.
8N N | 8 8N HJ| |
vc7v
His terrifying sharp-ring (Sharp circular-throwing weapon)
works in all four directions, and the three worlds (earth,
sky, nether world), revere Him.
MN 8UJ N | HN HJ| |HJ H v
In all the fourteen levels (Mandals, worlds - In the
universe), He is revered. (In the Hindu and Islamic
philosophy, there are seven levels below the earth and
seven above it).
m|U U m|U H| |U H |HJ
v
You have been the Worshipful Being since before the
beginning of the time, and You created everything.
H | H| m v
God is Supreme, the Purest-Form (Immaculate, Truth),
Complete (Perfect-Being), and Limitless (All Pervading).
H |H |8U HU N HJ
vcv
He has created whole of the Universe, but He Himself is
Self-Created, and He is the Creator and the Destroyer.
NM J| NM HHN| mNM
mUH v
He is the Deathless Being, has the power to create
everything, is Immortal, Akaal-Purakh (not bound by time),
and has no specific place (He is present all over).
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H H H H |J m mM
mH v
He is the source of Dharma (Discipline, righteousness) and
is the Truth (He really is, there is no illusion about it). He is
not made of elements (Is without body) and so He cannot
be seen, and has no dress (appearance, form).
mN N N HN|J H| |
H v
He is without a body, has no attachment, no color, no caste
or sub caste (Clan), and is without name.
N NH UH H HN| U|UN NH
vc0v
He is the remover of ego, breaker of evil, and liberator
from desires (He Fulfills desires).
m mH|N m H| UN
m v
He is Self-Created, too deep to understand, beyond praise,
and the Detached Being.
N NH H H m|U mH v
He is destroyer of ego, killer of all, from the beginning
(Primordial Being), and Self-Created.
mN J| mN mH UN m v
He has no body - Bodiless, He cannot be destroyed -
Indestructible, He is deathless - Immortal, the Supreme-
Soul - the source of soul to everyone, and is Limitless
Being - Infinite.
H M|UN H W|UN H N |
vcv
He can do everything (Omnipotent), He is the destroyer of
all, and as well the sustainer of everything.
H N H J H m v
Nothing is out of His reach, He can destroy everything, and
He keeps Himself separate from everyone (Unattached,
distinct).
H HH HJ| |HJ N
m v
All the religious books (Scriptures) do not know His
appearance, color, and form.
H U F HN|J | v
Supreme Vedas and Puranas, constantly claim, He is not
this, He is not this. (These do not know what He is).
N| |H|H HH mU| J
|8| vcv
Even with the knowledge of the millions of the books of
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religious philosophy, you cannot bring God into your
imagination (Mind).
H U v H|U v
Poetry named Madhubhar Chhand. Written by the
Grace of God.
N N U v H|JH m v
He is the Treasure of Virtues, Big Hearted (Broad Minded),
and His praise (Grace) is endless.
mH mN v H mN vc?v
No one can disturb His seat - He is Constant, Eternal,
Immortal. None equals His praise - No other equals Him.
m NH v |H|U mH v
The knowledge of Your Self is to You only - only You
know Your Self. Nobody can ever destroy You.
mH J v HJ HJ vccv
The ways (Methods) of birth (Creation) are in Your hands.
You are the King of kings.
H H v v
You are the Monarch of monarchs, the Sun of suns. (The
monarchs serve You. The suns get light and heat from
You).
U U v H HJ vccv
You are God of gods. Your appreciation (Glory) is great.
|UU |UU v M M v
You are God of god Indra - God of gods. You are a Child
of child Innocent. (In the Hindu mythology Indra is the
god of rain, and is the king of gods).
N N v NM NM vcOv
You are Poorest of the poor - Supreme poor. Your Grace is
in the poor. You are Death of death - death is under Your
control.
m mN v m mN v
You dont have the body made of five elements. Your
Glory is for ever (Indestructible).
N| |H| m v N N U vc9v
Your State and Limit (Condition, Glory) is Unlimited i.e.
Limitless. You are the Treasure of Virtues (Merits), and
Kind - Gracious.
H| N H v | |NH v
The groups of Munnis (Saints. Saints who do not speak)
bow to You. You are fearless and without desires.
m| U| 8K v |H| N| mK vc7v
Your Glory is great (Unbearable). Your State: Condition,
(Glory) is forevere.
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m|MHX NH v m|UHX H v
Your deeds are smart - You need not bother about Your
activities, these continue on their own. None can see
(check) Your Dharma: discipline - Everything is under
Your Invisible-discipline.
H FU v mKK U vcv
You are the Beauty (Charm, adoration) of all. None can
punish (Reprimand) You.
88| U v H|U v
Chaachree Chhand, written by Your Grace.
N|U v HNU v U v m vc0v
You are the Knower of the Minds, Liberator, Big Hearted,
and Limitless.
J|m v N|m v |H v mNH vcv
You are the Destroyer, Compassionate, Nameless,
Desireless.
HN U U v
Bhujang Pr;yaat type of poetry.
8 8N N v 8 8N J v
You are the Creator in all directions. In all directions, You
are the Destroyer.
8 8N U v 8 8N H vcv
You are the Giver in all directions. In all directions You are
the Knower of the hearts (Minds).
8 8N | v 8 8N | v
You are present in all four directions. In all four directions
You are the Provider.
8 8N M v 8 8N NM vc?v
You are the Provider in all four directions. In all four
directions You are the Destroyer.
8 8N H v 8 8N H v
You are detached in all directions. In all four directions
You are there (Pervading).
8 8N HU v 8 8N UU vccv
You are revered (Worshipped) in all four directions. In all
four directions You are the Giver.
88| U v
Poetry named Chaachree Chhand.
H v |H v
H v | vccv
You have no enemies, no friends. You are free from doubts
(Delusions), and free from double-mindedness.
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NH v NU v
mHH v mHU v9OOv
You are above the effect of actions (Deeds), are Bodiless
(above the body), above birth, and needed no woman to
give You birth.
|8 v |H v
J v | v9O9v
You are above pictures (Appearance or form) and friends,
Highest (Transcendent. Immanent), and the Purest
(Immaculate).
||H v mU|H v
m|UH v m|NH v9O7v
You are the Lord of Land - planet earth), and from the
beginning -Primordial. You cannot be seen - Invisible, and
are not weak - You Are Mighty.
N| U v H|U N v
Bhagwati Chhand, composed by His Grace.
|N m|H UH v |N m|H H v
Your place (Existence) does not wear down (decay,
Immortal). Your dress (Appearance) cannot be damaged
(destroyed. You stay unchanged).
|N mNH NH v |N mH H v9Ov
You cannot be appeased by actions (rituals). You are not
affected by doubts (Duality of the people).
|N m|H MN v |N m|U HN v
You belong to the place - existence, Mandals: level, that
cannot be destroyed (You are Immortal). You can dry up
even the sun (that dries up everything).
|N m v |N | N v9O0v
The worldly things Maya: the mundane, cannot allure
(attract) You. You are the Giver of everything, including
the name and fame.
|N H J v |N H H Jv
You are the Glory of kings. You are the Flag (Standard,
Ensign) of Dharma (Ethics, righteousness, discipline,
principles).
|N mHN v
|N H m v9Ov
You have no worries. You are the Grace and Glory to all.
|N HN |N| J v |N | J v
You are the Creator of the universe, and the Bravest One
(The courage and bravery comes from You).
|N JH H v |N m m v9Ov
You are the Supreme-Beauty the Fountain of Beauty, the
Source of beauty to all. Your Understanding (Intuition) is
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unparalleled, unique.
|N m|U mU J v |N m| m J v
You are from the beginning, there is none other
(Worshipful) above You.
|N |8 |J| v |N UN m| v9O?v
You are above picture (Form), and are Self-Controlled.
|N H| HN v J|H JN v
You are the giver of subsistence (Provisions, job,
avocation), Kind and the Liberator.
|N N |m J v
|N NM N J v9Ocv
You are the Purest and Spotless (Blameless). You are a
Great Mystery.
|N mM NJ J v |N HJ HJ J v
You forgive sinners, and are King of kings.
|N N N|U J v
|N H| |UJU J v9Ocv
You Create the occasions (Provide chances. Fulfill desires),
and give subsistence: provisions.
|N HN J|H J v |N NH N|H J v
You are the Provider, Kind, Compassionate, and
Benevolent.
|N H NM| J v
|N H UM| J v99Ov
You are All Powerful (Omnipotent), and the Destroyer of
all.
|N H H|U v |N H U|U v
You are worshipped everywhere, and are the Giver
everywhere.
|N H N v
|N H v999v
You are present everywhere, every place is Yours.
|N H UH v |N H H v
You are in every country (Place), all the dresses
(Appearances, forms) are Yours.
|N H H v |N H HH v997v
You are the King everywhere, You Create everything.
|N H U| v |N H M| v
You are the Giver to all, and are present everywhere.
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|N H HJ v |N H J v99v
Your Glory (Splendor) is everywhere. Everywhere is your
Grace (Light, radiance)
|N H UH v |N H H v
You are in all regions (Places), in every form You are
there.
|N H NM v |N H M v990v
You are the Death to all, and are the Sustainer of everyone.
|N H J v |N H N v
You are the Destroyer of all, and can reach everywhere.
|N H | v |N H | v99v
In every form You are there. You take care of everyone.
|N H NH v |N H H v
Everywhere it is Your Creation, You are the King (Your
Glory is) everywhere.
|N H H v |N H v99v
You dry up everything (Destroy), Everywhere You are the
Sustainer.
|N H F v |N H F v
Your Strength prevails everywhere (All Mighty).
Everywhere it is the soul (Life) blessed by You (You are
the life of everything).
|N H UH v |N H H v99?v
You are at every place. In different forms, You are
everywhere.
|N H H|U v HU |U v
You are revered everywhere. Everywhere You are the
Supreme Being.
|N H H|U v
|N H |U v99cv
Your Name is recited everywhere (Worshipped).
Everywhere You are established (Exist i.e. revered).
|N H v |N H H v
You are the Sun (Glory) to everyone. You are worshipped
everywhere.
|N H |UU v |N H 8U v99cv
Your Kingdom (Glory) is everywhere. Everywhere You are
the Moon (Your Coolness and Calmness is everywhere).
|N H NM|H v |N H J|H v
You are the source of speech to all. You are the Wisest
Being.
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|N m|NM mMH v
|N H|J NMH v97Ov
You are the most intelligent, and the Greatest Scholar
(Wise Being). You are the Master of Speech. (You are the
source of all intelligence, wisdom, and speech).
|N JHM H J v HHM H J v
You are the Great Beauty. You care for all.
JHHM HMH v HM| HUH v979v
You are ever existent (Immortal). Your Ways are constant:
unchanged.
N|HM |HNH v N|M H v
You surrender the enemies. You protect the poor.
|MUM HN v HH|M HH v977v
You are the Highest (None is equal to You). You are ever
present on the earth.
H|HM HH v HmM | v
You are the Good Manners (Ethics) of all. You are the
Treasure of Attention for everyone.
J|M mH|H v H|UN UN| v97v
You are the Mighty Opponent, and as well a Great
Provider.
mNM N J v mU J mN J v
You are Countless Waves (You are like a huge ocean and
its living beings are your waves). You are a Mystery, and
are not destructible (You are Immortal).
mH|HM |H J v
N|HM |H J v970v
You give Glory to all who love You, and punish the
enemies.
|N H J v |HN| | J v
You are Indescribable Being (Cannot be described). You
have Great Glory and are above the worldly attachments.
N| J v HHN| H J v97v
All enjoy Your Glory well. You are well blended Great
Essence (You are the Essence present in all).
HU H J v mU| m J v
You are always there (Ever-Existent), one with the
Creation, and none other is like You (Unique).
HHH H J v
HU H HH J v97v
You defeat all, You are always the Creator of everyone.
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HHHM HMH J v HUM mNH J v
You are support of the welfare of everyone. You are ever
Desireless.
| H J v
mN| J m J v97?v
There is no obstacle to Your ways. You are Limitless
(Immense), and Unique (Incomparable).
Um m|U v m|U H v
You are from the beginning, and Yourself are the
Beginningless.
mN| mH v |N| |NH v97cv
You are Bodiless, nameless, destroyer of the three worlds
sky, land, nether world, and desireless.
|N | v mNH mN v
You are Three Boons. Under Your Control are three
worlds. None can conquer You, You are Limitless.
Three Boons - 1. Dharma - discipline, ethics,
righteousness 2. Wealth: worldly things or gains; 3.
Fulfilment of desires.
Three Worlds - earth, sky, and nether world: bottom of
the earth.
H H N v H H mN v97cv
You are the Beauty in every aspect (You are present all
over). You love everyone.
|N H J v m|H J m J v
You are the Enjoyer of the three worlds. You dont get
weared out (Aged, old, rubbed off, torn), and none can
touch You.
|N N FH J v
||M H J v9Ov
You are the Destroyer of Hell - Liberate the people from
hell. On the earth, You are like a visitor: unattached. (In the
form of all beings who come here for a short time and then
go away, You are a visitor on the earth).
|N| J v HU HU J v
Your Glory is above description. You are for ever here:
Immortal.
|N| H J v
HN| m J v99v
You are the Giver of Boons for all. You are present in
everything, and You are Unique.
|N| HU J v |N| J v
None can ever tell anything about You, but all enjoy Your
Glory.
mN| H J v
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HN| m J v97v
Nobody can describe You. You are there in everything, and
are Unique.
88| U v
Chaachree type of poetry.
mN J v mN J v
You are Immortal, and above body (Without a body).
m J v mM J v9v
You are above appearance (Form), beyond description (or
destiny).
(All forms are Yours, and You are the destiny of all).
mH J v mNH J v
You are above doubts or duality. You are not bound to the
deeds - You are above the effect of what You do.
m|U J v HN|U J v90v
You have been since before the beginning of the time, or
the time-periods (aeons).
mH J v m J v
You are Unconquerable, and Immortal.
m J v m J v9v
You are not made of elements. You are ever set:
established, Unchangeable (Ever uniform, constant).
mH J v UH J v
You are Indestructible, You are detached from everything.
m J v m J v9v
You are free from botherations (Entanglements). You have
no bindings.
mN J v |N J v
You have no devotion for anyone (You are equally attached
to all), and are unattached.
mH J v NH J v9?v
You are free from destruction, and are Light (Radiance,
Glow).
||8 J v H| J v
You are free from worry or anxiety. You exist always, (or,
You listen to everyone).
m|M J v m|U J v9cv
You are beyond description, and Invisible.
mM J v m J v
You cannot be described in writing. You are above a dress -
without an appearance, or form.
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mJ J v mNJ J v9cv
None can destroy You. You are Limitless.
mH J v mN J v
You are beyond birth (or are above thinking or
comprehension). You are Unimaginable i.e. out of reach.
m|M J v m|U J v90Ov
You are beyond calculation (count, estimation), color or
appearance, and are Limitless. You are Beginningless.
m| J v H| J v
You are not like things visible (are unusual), and exist
always.
mH J v mHU J v909v
You are unborn, beyond birth, but are the beginning of all.
8 U v H|U v
Charpat Chhand type of poetry, composed by Your
Grace.
H J v H N v
You are the Destroyer of all. You can reach everywhere.
H |m v H |Nm v907v
You are the Famous, and Know everyone.
H J v H N v
You are the Universal Killer, and Cause of Birth to all.
H F v H F v90v
You are the Life and Soul of everyone, and the Strength of
all.
H NH v H H v
You are in all actions, and in all Dharma: right disciplines.
H HN v H HN v900v
You are merged with all, and still detached.
HM U v H|U v
Rasaval chhand, composed by Your Grace.
H N H v HU NH v
I bow to You, the Deliverer (Savior) from hell, You are the
Constant Light (Knowledge).
mN H v mN | v90v
You are above body, and Immortal is Your Glory.
H H v HU H H v
You destroy those who torment others. You are always
there to protect all.
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mN H v | | v90v
You are the Limitless Being. Nobody can interfere with
Your Glory.
mN| mH v |N| |NH v
You are higher to the body and name, the Destroyer of
afflictions in the three worlds, and love everyone.
|N| H v HN| m v90?v
You are the Immortal Being, and none has limbs (Body)
like You.
v H |H v
You have not got (are free from) sons or grandsons,
enemies, or friends.
H v H v90cv
You are not bound by the father or mother, caste, sub-caste
or clan: family.
|HN H|N J v m|H mH|N J v
You are free from relatives and rivals. You are Immense,
and too deep (Limitless).
HU J v mH J mH J v90cv
Your Glory is ever constant. You are Unconquerable and
free from birth.
N| U v H|U v
Bhagwati Chhand, written by Your Grace.
|N HJ HJ J v |N JH JH J v
Your manifestation is visible all over. You are present
everywhere.
JHHM HMH J v
HHHM NMH J v9Ov
You are Immortal, all praise You.
|N H|J |UHN J v
|N JHM 8N J v
You are the Wisest, and the Source of Beauty.
|N NHM N|H J v
|N HN J|H J v99v
You are Kindest, Sustainer (Provider), and Merciful.
|N H| |U|JU J v |N HN |JU J v
You are the Provider, Sustainer, and Liberator.
N|HM NHM J v
|N JHM HHM J v97v
You are wonderfully Compassionate, and are the Beauty
Manifest (Beauty of the Glory).
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N|HM |H J v N|M |H J v
You levy the enemies - fine, punish them. You honor the
poor.
J|M |HN J v
|JHM |N J v9v
You destroy the enemy, and remove fear.
NMN FH J v HHHM |H J v
You clean off the blames, and manifest in everyone.
mNHM N|H J v
H|UN J|H J v90v
Enemies cannot conquer You. You are the Provider and
Merciful.
HHHM Hl J v |N H|J |Nl J v
You are the voice of all, the Master with Great Glory.
|N N FH J v
|JHM |H J v9v
You save from hell, and bless with heaven.
|N HM N J v JHHM J v
You prevail everywhere. You are the Bliss, and revered by
everyone.
HHM H|H J v
HHHM mH|H J v9v
You are the source of wisdom to make distinction between
one and the other thing. You are loved by everyone
H U|H J v HHHM mU|H J v
You are the Greatest Master. You are the Lord of all.
mUHM mM J v
JHHM m J v9?v
You have no fixed place, You cannot be sketched
(Described), and You have no set dress: are above
Appearance.
HH|M HH J v mH|NM |UH J v
You are at every place, and present at every time. Your
Mystery is deeper to the signs hinting at You.
N|HM NHM J v
|N Hm| HHM J v9cv
You are a Wonderful Compassion (Kindness), and a Great
Courage.
|N m8M NH J v |N m|H HH J v
You are an ever Constant Light (Giver of Wisdom), a
Limitless Fragrance.
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|N mH H J v
|N m|H | J v9cv
You are a Super (Wonderful) Beauty, a Limitless Glory.
|N m|H H J v |N mH J v
You are the Creation-Limitless. Your Self is the Light (You
are Self-Born).
|N m8M mN J v
|N m|H mN J v9Ov
You are Immortal, Bodiless, Limitless, and Indestructible.
H U v H|U v
Madhubaar Chhand, composed by Your Grace.
H| H| H v N| N HUH v
Silent-Worshippers (Saints who keep silent) bow to You in
their minds (recite Your Name). You are ever the Treasure
of Merits.
m| mNH v J| H v99v
Even Your great enemies cannot win You. You are the
Master of the people and can destroy them.
m N H v H| H| HMH v
Numberless bow to You. Silent-saints bow to You in their
hearts (Minds).
J| mK v mHK v97v
You are the Master of the people, You are Indestructible.
m mH v H| H| NH v
Your knowledge is from Your own Self (Self-Enlightened),
and are Indestructible. You are the Source of Knowledge to
the silent-saints.
N| N H v HM M HUH v9v
O God, the Treasure of Virtues, I bow to You. All the time
You are there in the water and on land (Everywhere).
m|H mN v mH mN v
Your Being does not age - wear out, and get old. Your Seat
is Immortal (You are Eternal).
H m v N| |H| U v90v
Your Glory is Great. Your State is Indescribable.
HM M mHK v |UH |H mK v
In the water or on land, Your Glory is Great. In all
directions, there is none who can belittle, You.
HM M HJ v |UH |H |m v9v
You are the Greatest in the water or on Land. In all
directions, Unlimited: Supreme, You are.
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m mH v | H v
You are Self-Enlightened, Indestructible. You are top in
patience, and are center and support of the earth (Support
of the living beings).
mH J v UN HUJ v9v
You provide and control the Creation, and are Immortal.
UmN m|U v N| m|U v
You are the Beginning of all (Pervading all over right from
the beginning). No one can tell about Your Beginning.
M K |mM v N mNM v9?v
You destroy the evil ones just by thought (in a moment).
You are very powerful (Mighty), and not bound by the time
(Deathless).
W W| H v |8 8 H v
You are worshipped in every house (Everywhere). You are
there in every heart.
m|H N v m|HH v9cv
You dont get worn out (Old). You do not become
dependent on anyone.
m N v mH v
You are above the worldly problems. Your working is
anger-free.
m K v m m v9cv
Your Provisions are endless. No one can fix You at one
spot, You are everywhere (All Pervading).
mK| H v m| | NH v
In Your Dharma (Discipline, ethics, righteousness) none
equals You. You work very boldly (Control the Creation
boldly).
mFF m v U HJ v9?Ov
None can hurt You, You are Limitless. You are a Great
Giver.
J|MH U v H|U v
Harbolmanaa Chhand, composed by Your Grace.
NFMU J v m| WMU J v
You are Kind. You destroy the enemy.
M K J v H|J HK J v9?9v
You destroy the evil doers. You beautify (Glorify) the
earth.
HNH J v HH J v
You are the Master of the universe. You are the Great
Master.
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N|M NF J v H F J v9?7v
You are the Trouble-Maker - All troubles are by Your Will
- under Your Control. As well, You are the Protector of all.
| N F J v HN N NF J v
You are the Support of the world, and the Creator of the
universe.
H H|U J v HN H|U J v9?v
In all the hearts, You are worshipped. In whole of the
world, everyone knows You.
H J v H N J v
You are Sustainer, and the Creator of all.
H |HU J v H |HU J v9?0v
You are close-by (Protector of) everyone, and as well You
destroy all.
NFN J v |H J v
You are the Source of Kindness, and the Sustainer of the
whole world.
HH J v HNH J v9?v
You are the Master of everyone, and of the whole world.
JHKH J v M KH J v
You are the Master of the universe, and the Destroyer of
the enemies.
J v NFN J v9?v
You are the Greatest of the great, and the source of
compassion (Kindness).
mH H J v m J v
You are an Effortless-Meditation - Beyond the reach of the
recitation of Your Name even. You cannot be set (fixed to
one place) - You are all over.
m|N |N J v m|H |H J v9??v
No one can create You. You are beyond death.
m|H |H J v NF |N J v
You are beyond death, and are Compassionate.
m|N |N J v F| | J v9?cv
You are beyond creation, and the support of world.
m|HH J v HH J v
You are the Master of Immortality - You are not mortal.
You are the Great Master.
m|N |N J v m|H |H J v9?cv
No one can create You. You are beyond death.
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mH |N J v m|H |H J v
You are the Unique Creation. Death cannot touch You
(You are Immortal).
|UN J v M W|UN J v9cOv
You are the Master of the people, and Destroyer of the evil
ones.
|H J v NFMU J v
You are Sustainer, and the Treasure of Compassion.
| |UN J v H |UN J v9c9v
You are the Leader of kings, the Sustainer of all.
H J v m| NH J v
You are the Liberator from the cycle of birth and death
(from reincarnation), and the Destroyer of the enemies.
| J v H H J v9c7v
You punish the enemies, and are the Mantra - the formula
for recitation: Worshipful.
mNM |N J v H |N J v
None can defame You, and You are the Perfect Being.
N N J v J J| J v9cv
You are the Creator of the creator - Creator of Brahma,
who is said to do creation. You are the Destroyer of the
destroyer - Destroyer of Shiva - who is said to destroy this
creation.
HH J v HH J v
You are Supreme Soul, and the soul of everyone -
consciousness of the souls.
mH H J v HH N HH J v9c0v
You are in the control of Your own Self, and are of the
Supreme Glory.
HN U U v
This is Bhujag Pryaat Chhand.
H HH HH H 8U 8U v
I bow to You the Sun of suns - the Giver of heat and light
to the suns, and bow to You the Moon of moons - light and
calmness of the moons.
H H H H |UU |UU v
I bow to You the King of kings, and Indra of Indra (Indra is
said to be the king of gods).
H mN H H H v
I bow to You the Darkness, and the Light of lights - I bow
to You the Manifestation (Cause) of darkness and light.
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H |U |U H |H |H v9cv
I bow to You the Congregation of congregations
(Controller of the population), and the origin of all seeds
(Power of seeds to grow and develop).
H HH HH Hl v
I bow to You the three qualities of the world purity:
virtues; ego; and evilness: without viles.
H H m H v
I bow to You the Supreme Essence, Elementless-Being (not
made of five elements, Bodiless).
H HN HN H |Nm |Nm v
I bow to You the Greatest of the Yogis, and a Great
Intellectual Being - the Wise One.
H H H H |m |m v9cv
I bow to You the Greatest of the Mantras - only Your Name
is the formula for recitation. I bow to You Meditation of the
meditations - You are the only object for meditation.
H H H H |Nm |Nm v
I bow to You the Greatest of the Wars (Fight against evils),
and to the Highest Knowledge.
H H H H v
I bow to You the Food of foods, and the Drink of drinks
(Source of foods, essence of drinks. The Sustainer of the
world).
H NMJ N H Hl v
I bow to You the Source of trouble (Discord, strife, are
under Your Will), and the Peace Manifest (Embodiment of
Peace).
H |UU |UU mU | v9c?v
I bow to You Indra of Indra - King of Indra, and to the
Glory Without a Beginning. (Indra is the king of gods).
NMN mMN mMN v
You are the Spotless Being: the Ornament of ornaments -
the Embodiment of Beauty.
H mH mH H lN N v
I bow to You Hope of the hopes, and to the Top Grace
(Elegant, Most Beautiful).
mN| H mN| mH v
You are Indestructible, Bodiless, and Nameless.
|N| |NM mN| mNH v9ccv
You are the Destroyer of the three worlds. You are there in
the present, past, and future (Exist at all the times). You are
Bodiless, and Desireless.
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UN m| U v
This is the name of Chhand (Style of poetry named
Aek-Achhree - word by word).
mH v mM v m v m v9ccv
Nobody can conquer You, You do not get destroyed, You
are Fearless, and You do not change.
m v mH v mH v mNH v9cOv
You do not get born, exist constantly, are above
destruction, and are All-Pervading.
mNH v mH v mM v m v9c9v
None can win You, no one can harm You, You are
invisible, You dont need any food - Sustenance.
mNM v |UmM v mM v m v9c7v
You are above death, are kind, You cannot be described,
and are free from any dress - appearance.
mH v mNH v mNJ v mJ v9cv
You are Nameless, Desireless, Immeasurable - Limitless,
Indestructible.
m v H v mH| v mH| v9c0v
There is no Master above You, You are the Destroyer, free
from birth, and You do not observe the silence You are
not like silent saints (Are active).
N v N v v v9cv
You are free from attachments, colorless, and above form
or appearance.
mNH v mH v
mNH v mM v9cv
You are above actions: deeds, You have no doubts (about
Yourself - are decisive - resolute), none can win You, You
are not effected by destiny.
HN U U v
Name of this Chhand is Bhujag Priyaat
HHM FH HHHM FH v
I bow to the Venerable, the Destroyer of everything.
mNHM mH HHHM |H v
No one can win You the Nameless, You exist in everyone.
|NH | HHHM H v
Your are free from the desire for Glory, and You are the
Form of all.
NNH FH| HH | v9c?v
He destroys the evils (Sins). His Dharma (Right-discipline,
principles) is His Glory.
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HU H|8UU H FH| v
You are ever the Truth (Ever Existent, Immortal),
Consciousness (All Knowing), Bliss (Joy), and the
Destroyer of Enemies.
N|HM N|U HHHM |H| v
You are ever Kind, and are there in everyone.
mH|U | NH|U N|H v
Your Glory is unique, You punish the evil doers (Tyrants).
J|m N|m N|HM J|H v9ccv
You are the Destroyer, and as well compassionate and kind.
8 8N | 8 8N N v
You exist in all directions (in Creation), and You are the
Enjoyer of it Creation, everywhere.
HU H HU H HN v
You are Self-Created, a Beauty, and are always one with
His Creation.
UNM FH| |UmM H v
You liberate from the pain of birth and death, and are the
Kind Being.
HU mN HN mN | v9ccv
He is always with everyone, and is of the Immortal Glory.

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W |JN H| N| J v
|HJ| 9Ov

H|U HU
H |m|N, H HN|H, |JN H| U|
|J1
HU, JK| |N U M |M 1 |HJ| UH|1

TAV PARSAAD. SVAYAE
Victory to the All Pervading God, Who is everywhere.
This style of the poetry written by His Grace. Tenth Guru.

HN H HHJ |H N U| ||U W
HN H| N v
I have watched the pure Budh-saints, gatherings of adepts,
and the places of the Yogis and celebates.
H HU H H|UN H HHJ mN
H| N v
I have also seen the heroes, demons, Godly persons, and
the saints of all sorts.
H J| UH N U| |JU H N
U|m | N v
I studied the followers of all faiths, but did not find a single
person devoted to God.
H| N N| |U |N J UN |
| UN | N v9v (79)
Any one, without the faith in God, His Mercy, and His
love, is not worth an iota (Fraction) of anything.
H HN H H HN m N HN
H v
If there is someone with wonderful, nice colored, gold
laden (decorated with golden ornaments), high, intoxicated
elephants,
N N NN H NU N N N
H | v
One may have countless horses who jump like deers, and
leave behind the fast wind as well,
| H N M| || |m H|H
H |8 v
If the powerful monarchs bow before him respectfully
beyond any belief,
U U NJ U | m N lN J|
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l|U v7v
What then if someone became such a powerful king, in the
end he left (after death) with bare feet.
H| | H UH |UH N H M
|HUN N v
Those who kept conquering their own and other countries,
and the drums of their victories kept beating.
NH N NH N HU |JH J| JUH
JH v
Those with the herds of impressive elephants trumpting,
and thousands of king-horses neighing,
| N N N J|
H |8 v
The kings of the past, present, and future, hard to count and
impossible to make an estimate,
H| | H| N H | m N m
N H |H vv
Without reciting the Name of God, all such people went to
the place of death: died.
| U|Um UH U H HHH H
mN |H v
May be one adopts high disciplines of bathing at shrines,
compassion, methods to concentrate on God, and the mind-
control,
U N N HH| HH H
N v
Someone may read Vedas, Puranas, Koran and books
related to these, and other books that came to the world at
different periods,
mJ H| H H H |8
JH N U v
Those who just subsist on air, the celibates who practice the
sex-control, may contemplate thousands of times,
H| N H | | UN | |
UN M v0v
Without reciting the Name of God, even though he be a
king, any effort to meet Him leads to nowhere.
H |HJ U UJ H H|H HJ
UH UMN v
The trained soldiers who are unconquerable, very
impressive, wearing armor, and they destroy enemies,
| NH H H N JM
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JMN v
They be filled with pride that the mountains may move, but
they will not,
| m| H| HH H HN| H
HMN v
They be strong enough to kill the stubborn opponents,
crush the enemies, and even destroy the ego of the
elephants,
H| | H| N |N | |m|N
HJ |U 8MN vv
Without the Kindness of God, in the end, they will as well
leave this world and go away.
| m K |m m|8|J H N|
U v
Those brave, and very strong ones, who fearlessly face the
sword,
UH H|MU HH H NH N H
HMU v
Those who can win the countries, destroy their enemies,
and finish the pride of the intoxicated elephants,
N N N J H J| 8N
8 MU v
Those who can break through the strong forts, and in a
moment can take the land all around them - win the world,
H|J H| H N |H|UN H8N mN H
UN |UU vv
Many brave people as described above, beg at the door of
the Lord, and the Giver is only He.
U U |U |H8 |
HN v
Demons, gods, Shesh-Naag (King-serpent - mythological
support of the world), and the elements (spirits, ghosts),
had been, are, and will ever recite Your Name.
H| |H HM H M H M J| M H H
N v
The Lord will ever be creating in a moment all the animals
on the land and in the water.
H N J H
N v
By the virtue of good deeds (and recitation of His Name),
the appreciation (Recognition) will ever grow, and all the
sins will get washed away.
H HHJ H | HN H H mMN
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8N v?v
Good people (God-Oriented) will ever be happy in the
world, and their enemies will get ashamed to see them so.
H |UU N|HU H |MN N H
NN v
The known people like god Indra, monarchs who keep
GajIndar (King-elephants) and rule the whole world,
N| |UH NH|UN U mN Hm
HH N v
Those who bathe at the numberless shrines and give
elephants in charity, and those who are great enough to set
up self-spouse-selecting functions to marry,
JH HJH |H H8|| m H HH
H N v
What of the above said people, even Brahma, Shiva,
Vishnu, and Indra too, will die in the end.
H H| | N H J N
UJ N vcv
But, those who seek the refuge of the Lord, get liberated
and do not get born again.
NJ U H U M8 HU N | |JU
N |m MN|UU v
What if a person keeps sitting with both the eyes closed and
the mind fixed like a crane on fish (Practiced hypocrisy),
||U M|U H HHU| MN NU
MN N|UU v
(In hypocrisy) he kept bathing at the seven seas (Shrines
the world over), neither he made right use of his life here,
nor he achieved the liberation.
H N|U ||m H N mH J| mH H
H ||UU v
He kept company of evils, and wasted his life for nothing.
H8 NJ H MJ H |H H N|U |
J| |UU vcv
I say the truth, listen everybody, only he realizes God who
loves Him truely (not by hypocrisy).
NJ M J H U |H NJ M |MN
N MN|UU v
Considering worth worship, someone bows to the stone
idol, and the other hangs Shivling (Oval stone symbolizing
Shiva) from his neck.
NJ M|U J| m8| |UH H|J NJ
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J N H|H ||UU v
Hindus think God is in the South - towards Dwarka: the
town of Lord Krishna, and Muslims presume Him to be in
the West - In the direction of Kaba, their Holy Shrine.
N N H J H N |H N
H |UU v
Some unwise person (keeps up to) worships the idol, and
the other one runs to worship the dead (Graves).
N |Nm |U H J| HN H| N N
U |UU v9Ov
Whole of the world is engaged in the useless things, and no
one tried to realize the Truth about God.
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N|U8 | : 9O
v 8U| v
Style of poetry, humble request, by the 10
th
Guru.
Chaupaee

JH| N J U v
Please, be my support and protect me .
J|U |8 N| |U v
This will fulfill my desire,
8 H J JH v
That my mind may stay attached to Your feet.
m H N | v9v
Take me as your own and protect me.
JH UH H H WJ v
Finish all my enemies. (Desire including sex, anger, greed.
attachment and ego are real enemies).
m J U H|J 8J v
Please, protect with Your hands and save me.
H| H H | v
May my family be ever in peace (God-Oriented people is
the real family),
HN |H H N v7v
All these, servants and devotees of the Lord.
H |H N U N|U v
Be my spport, and always protect me.
H N mH HW|U v
Destroy all the enemies, today. (Real enemies are sex,
anger, greed, attachment, and ego).
J|U JH| mH v
My wish may get fulfilled,
H N| J |mH vv
That my thirst for Your worship may get satiated
(Quenched).
H|J |K NU| m |U v
I may not leave You and worship anyone else,
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H 8J H H v
That, I may get from You the boons I seek.
HN |H JH |m|J v
Cross over the world-ocean these devotees and Sikhs
(disciples) that belong (Love) to You.
8| 8| H JH H|m|J v0v
Pick up my foes and destroy them. (Sex, anger, greed,
attachment, ego are the real enemies).
m J U H |U v
Please, extend Your hand (help) and save me.
H NM N H ||U v
Eradicate the fear of the time of death.
JH HU JH v
May You ever be on my side my support.
H| m|HH H N|UJ vv
My Lord, protect me!
| MJ H|J J v
My savior Lord, protect me,
H|J H HJ|U |U v
Helper of the Saints, my dear God,
U| UH N J v
Friend of the humble, destroyer of the wicked,
HJ | 8 UH N vv
You are the Master of the whole world.
NM |U JH v
By the Will of God, Brahma (the creator god) came into
being.
NM |U |HH m v
By the Will of God, Shiva (the destroyer god) was born.
NM |U N |H NH v
By the Will of God, Vishnu (the sustainer god) appeared.
HNM NM N N|m HH v?v
This all is the play of the Will of God.
H NM HN| |H N|U v
The Will of God that created Shiva the great Yogi,
UH JH H |U v
God Who created Brahma the physician.
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H NM H MN H v
The Will of God that created the universe,
HHN J |J JH vcv
I bow to that Lord!
H NM H HN U v
The Lord who created whole of the world,
U U H HU v
He Who created gods, demons and demi-gods,
m|U m| UN m v
One Who is the Prime-Being, from the beginning to the
end,
HU| N HH|UJ JH vcv
Undestand that He is my Guru.
HHN |H J| N JH| v
I bow to Him,
HNM H |H m H| v
To Him Who takes care of His all the beings (His
Creation),
|HN N |HN H U|U v
He bestows on His devotees the god-like qualities and
comforts.
H N M H N|U v9Ov
And, He destroys the enemies (Shortcomings) in a moment.
W W N m N| H v
God knows the mind of everyone.
M N| | v
He understands the pain equally of good or bad people.
8|| N8 mHM v
From an ant to a heavy elephant,
H |N |UH| N M v99v
He is pleased to look at everyone with His Kindness.
H U U U| v
If the saints are in pain, He feels it.
H U H N H| v
When the saints are in comfort (Happy), He is comfortable
(Happy).
UN UN N| | v
He understans the discomfort of everyone.
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W W N N| H v97v
God knows the state of every depth of each heart.
H UN N N v
When the Lord expands His Creation,
H UJ m v
Then, many types of living beings get created.
H mN N J NJ v
When You dissolve (Destroy) everything,
H H |HM UJ HJ v9v
Then, all the living beings get absorbed back into You.
H U |HH| H v
All the living beings that get created,
m m| 8 v
Each one praises You according to its understanding.
H HJ| J |MH v
But, You stay detached from everything.
H U U m mMH v90v
This is known to the Vedas, persons with deep knowledge,
and to the scholars. (Ved Vedas: ancient religious
scriptures of Hindus),
|N ||N |M v
You are without a form, Pure-Being, and Self-Sufficient
(Non-Dependant).
m|U m|M m|U mH v
You are Primal-Being, free from color (Unattached, Pure-
Being), without a beginning, and without being born (Self-
Created).
N H 8 U v
And the fools talk of His mystries,
H N U v9v
Whose secret even the Vedas could not find.
N N| J mH v
They make a stone idol and take it as God.
HJ H N U H v
These unwise people do not know the difference between
an idol and God.
HJU N NJ HU |H v
They call god Shiva the Immortal: God.
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|N N 8| |J | v9v
He does not know the Truth about the Formless God.
m m| | J H| v
According to the individual wisdom,
| | |J | v
They describe God differently.
H M H|U H v
It is not possible to know the extent of Your Creation,
|NJ || HH H HH v9?v
That how the universe was created to start with.
UN m H v
You have one Form, but You adopt other unique forms as
well.
N U NJ| v
Sometimes You become a pauper, sometimes rich, and
sometimes a King.
mKH HH HH N|| v
He set up the methods of birth through eggs, placenta
(womb), and sweat (dirt),
H | J |8 U|| v9cv
And from the earth (way the plants produce), through these
four methods the Lord brought about the Creation.
NJ M H J v
At times He becomes a King sitting on the lotus: Brahma
(The god of creation),
NJ |HH| |X HN |UN v
At times He becomes Shiva (god of death), collects
(destroys) His Creation and gathers it.
HN| |HH| |U|U m8 v
He shows whole of the universe as His wonderful play,
m|U HN|U H HU v9cv
He Who has been since the time immemorial, since before
the time-periods (Ages), and Who is Self-Created.
m H| H N v
Please, protect me now.
|H | m|H HW v
Those who follow You save, and those who do not, destroy
them.
UH |H v
All the evil persons who come into being,
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HNM HM N F W v7Ov
Fight with (take care) and destroy all such bad people.
H m|HH H| v
O God, those who seek Your refuge,
| N UH U| J H v
Their enemies die miserably.
H N |J v
Those who surrender at Your feet,
| N H HN H v79v
You remove all their afflictions - sufferings.
H N|M N |UN |m J v
Those who ponder on God even once,
N NM |N| |J mJ v
Death does not go near them. (They stop fearing death).
J|U |J H NM v
They always get Your protection.
UH m|H NM v77v
Their enemies and sufferings go away atonce.
|N |UH| H|J |J|J v
Those to whom You see (consider) with mercy,
N N H J|J v
In a moment You remove all their sufferings.
|| |H| W H H JU| v
Miracles descend at their homes: in their minds (Get the
Blessings of God).
UH J HN NU| v7v
And the evil persons cannot go near their shadows even.
UN |H H H v
Whosoever recites Your Name even once,
NM H |J v
You save him from the noose of death.
|H H |J NJ v
Anyone who recited Your Name,
U|U UH U J v70v
He got saved from the poverty and wants, evil ones, and
from those who bothered him.
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N N H H|F |J| v
Bearer of flag with the symbol of Sword (Protector: God), I
have sought Your shelter.
m J U MJ | v
Please, help and save me.
H H JJ HJU| v
Kindly help me everywhere.
UH U MJ 8U| v7v
Save me from the evil persons, and from those who bother
me.
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mU H|J
ANAND SAHIB

HNM| HJM mU
Anand, the Scripture composed by the 3
rd
Guru Amardas.
It is in the Raag Raamkalee
W H|N H|U v
By the Gurus grace: kindness, one understands that there is
none else like God, and He is present everywhere and in
everything.

mU |Um H| HU H|N H
|Um v
O my mother, I am in joy, because I have met the True
Master. (This Scripture is by the Third Guru Amar Das, his
Satguru: True Master, can be his preceding Guru Angad
Dev the Second Guru, or even Guru Nank Dev, and it can
as well mean Waheguru: God).
H|N |Um HJH H| H| H|m
U|m v
I have found the True Master with ease, and my mind is in
Joy. (I have found the True Master easily by His Kindness,
and my mind is in Joy: Bliss).
N |m HU NF
mU|m v
In this joy, Shabad: Hymns, the praise of God, has started
in my mind in the enchanting Raags and Raaganees:
musical measures and sub-measures. (God-sent Hymns are
being revealed).
HU NJ J| N H| |H|
H|Um v
You sing only the Shabad: Hymns, praise, of the Lord, due
to which He settled His Name in my mind: I started reciting
His Name.
NJ N mU Jm H|N H
|Um v9v
Says Guru Nanak Dev, he is in joy, because he has found
the True Guru - He has realized: understood, the Lord. ||1||
U H H|m HU J J| M v
O my mind, always keep remembering the Lord.
(In Sikhs the Name of God is Waheguru, and they recite
the Word Waheguru.).
J| |M J H H U H|
|HF v
O my mind, always remember the Lord, He removes all the
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sufferings.
mN|N UJ N NH H|
HF v
(By remembering Him) He will accept you, and all your
affairs will be set right.
H NM HH HmH| H |N HJ
|H v
God can do everything, then why do you forget Him!
NJ N H H HU J J| M v7v
Nanak says, O mind, always remember the Lord. ||2||
H8 H|J |Nm J| W| v
My True Lord, what is not there in Your house!
W| H |N J |HH U|J H
U v
Everything (Spiritual, His worship) is there with You, but
only those get to whom You give.
HU |H| HMJ | H H| HU v
(Those who receive Your gift: Your Name), they always
sing Your praise and keepYour Name in their minds -
remember You.
H |H N H| |Hm H HU W v
Those who keep the Name of God in their minds, they stay
in joy (Spiritual joy, as it is given by music and singing).
NJ N H8 H|J |Nm J| W|
vv
Nanak says, O my Lord, what is not there in Your house!
(You can do and give everything). ||3||
H8 H H m v
The True Name of God is my support.
H8 H m H |H| H|
NU|m v
His True Name is my support, and it has removed my all
other hungers (Desires have got fulfilled, appeased, I am
contented. No more any doubts).
N| Hl| H H| m|U |Hm |H| |U
H| HU|m v
The Name of God has brought peace and calm to my mind,
and it has fulfilled all my desires.
HU NF N| N |J |HH U|m
U|J |KmU|m v
I appreciate such a Guru, who possesses such great
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qualities (Gives His Name to recite and peace of mind,
removes or fulfills all desires, gives contentment).
NJ N HFJ HJ H|U J |m v
Guru Nanak says, O saints: God-Oriented people, listen,
love the Shabad: Name of the Lord, remember Him always.
H8 H H m v0v
The True Name (of God) is my support! ||4||
H 8 HU | W| HN v
In such a house (mind, where the Name of God is recited)
the Panch-Shabad (five types of sounds) set in i.e. there
comes the joy. Five-Sounds are also called Anhad
Shabad or Anhat Shabad. These sounds are of the 1.
String instrument like violin, Sarangee 2. Leather bound
instrument e.g. drum. 3. Metal instruments e.g. a gong, bell.
4. Instrument played by blowing in it, such as a flute or
trumpet. 5. The sound from space like striking an empty
earthen-pot, or from sea or conch put to ear.
W| HN HU H NM |H W|
|m v
These instruments play (Joy comes) in that lucky house
(Mind) to which God is kind.
8 U |H N| NM NN H|m v
(God, he who recites Your Name,) You get his five
enemies under control, and remove his fear of death death
does not go near him. Five enemies Desires, including
passion; sex; anger; greed; attachment, love; and ego.
| N|H |Um |H N |H |H
J| N MN v
Only those whom you bless with the destiny to remember
God, recite Your Name.
NJ N J H Jm | W| mJU
H vv
Guru Nanak says, at such a place the mind that
remembers God, peace and calm reside, and Anhad
(Celestial Sound) come to play.||5|| Anhad - A sound
without any cause e.g. striking, a continuous sound. This is
also called Panch-Shabad (Five sounds) like that of 1.
Stringed instruments: Sarangee, Veenaa etc. 2. Instruments
played by blowing in air: flute, trumpet. 3. Leather bound
instruments: drums. 4. Instruments of metal: gong, bell. 5.
Sound from space: from an empty pot, sea. Anhad may
mean the continuous recitation of the Name of God and
reading the scriptures.
H8| |M | UJ |HF| v
Without the TrueLove - Devotion to God, this body (Man)
is without any worth.
UJ |HF| |M J |Nm N
8|m v
The body (Man) is helpless without the True Love of God,
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and without it this is helpless.
HH N|U J| |N N|
|m v
Without You no one can do anything, O Lord, be kind to
him (Enable him to recite the Scriptures and chant Your
Name). (Banvaaree-aa: O Banvaaree A god named
Vishnu who puts the forests around his neck like a
necklace, Caretaker of the Forests: Gardner, It means the
Lord).
UH J J| H|U M|N
H|m v
For him there is no other place except You (For the man to
go and pray to get saved), please attach him to Your Word -
that he starts reciting Your Name, and save him.
NJ N |M J |Nm N
8|m vv
Says Nanak, without deep attachment to God, this poor
fellow is worth nothing. ||6||
mU mU H N NJ mU N
H|Fm v
Everyone talks of Joy (Bliss), but what the real bliss
(Spiritual Joy) is, is known only from The Guru (By his
Grace).
H|Fm mU HU N |N N
|m|m v
This bliss is known only from the Guru (The Master) and
may he be Kind to give this knowledge.
N| |N |NM| N |Nm mH
H|m v
By His Grace, He has removed the sins - troubles,
afflictions, by putting the Surma: eye-powder, of
knowledge, and has set right every thing. Surma -
Colerium, eye-powder of a metal named antimony. This is
considered healthy for the eyes. It means, by giving the true
knowledge about God and His Name.
mUJ |H N HJ | N HU H8
H|m v
Those who removed worldly attachments from their minds,
in fact they got evolved: lifted, by reciting the Shabad (The
Word: Name of God, Scriptures).
NJ N UJ mU J mU N
H|Fm v?v
Says Nanak, the real spiritual bliss is that knowledge which
is got from the Guru (Prophet). ||7||
|HH U|J HU| H v
O Baba (The revered one: God, Guru), he alone gets this:
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Spiritual joy, to whom You give it.
H H U|J |HH J| |Nm N|J
8|m v
Only those get this - Spiritual Joy, to whom You give it
through Your Mercy, what can the others do (They cant do
or get anything)!
|U|N |H M ||J UJ |U|H |U|N |H
M|N H|m v
Some have doubts about Your existence, and they keep
running about in all the directions - go to place to place and
person to person, but do not find peace of mind, others who
by Your Grace attach themselves to the Naam, get elevated:
uplifted, evolved.
N HU| H |Um |HM |H F
U v
By the Grace of the Guru, the minds of those become pure
who accept the Will of God.
NJ N |HH U|J |m HU| H
U vcv
Says Nanak, O Beloved Lord, only he gets it the Spiritual
Joy, to whom You give it. ||8||
mJ H |m|J mN N| NJ
NJF| v
Come, beloved saints, let us talk about: meditate on, the
Indescribable (The Lord).
NJ NJF| mN N| |N Um
U|m v
Let us think about the Indescribable (God) as to how can
we meet: achieve, understand, Him.
H H H| N N JN|H
H|m U|m v
We get God by surrendering our body, mind, and wealth to
Guru (Prophet) ), and by accepting what he tells to do.
JNH H|J N N NJ H8| F| v
(To meet Him) obey the Command of the Guru - do what
he dictates in the Scriptures, and sing the True Bani:
Hymns, of His praise.
NJ N HFJ HJ N|J mN
NJF| vcv
Says Nanak, listen dear saints: Godoriented people, to
meet Him speak of (Recite His Name, remember) the
Indescribable: God. ||9||
U H 88M 8U| |N |Um v
O restless mind, no one ever finds: realizes, the Lord
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through cleverness, smartness.
8U| |Um |N H|F H
H|m v
Through cleverness, no one can ever meet Him, O my mind
listen to it!
UJ H|Um HJF| |H| U |H
M|Um v
This Maya: worldly things, is so attractive that it puts the
people in doubt (God is or not, but the world we see fine
is visible).
H|Um HJF| | N|| |H| NM|
U|m v
The Lord Himself made the world fascinating, attractive,
by putting a swooning-drug (Intoxication, attraction) in
it.Thagaulee Intoxicating herb, attraction. God put
attraction into the worldly things, and this creates doubts
about the existence of God. The Lord puts the man to test
for him to understand that he cannot do anything on his
own without His Kindness, so weak is he.
NF N| |H |J |H| HJ H|
M|Um v
I appreciate Him, Who has put such a sweet attraction (in
the world). Gods play is beyond understanding, and I am a
sacrifice: Appreciation, to Him. (He has created such an
attraction for Maya the worldly things, and has put the
people into its sweet attachment. Such a wonderful is His
play! The man does not realize it and keeps in doubts about
God. God wants the man to learn his weakness, mistake,
and to get the real knowledge that nothing is higher to Him,
and He is the Doer).
NJ N H 88M 8U| |N
|Um v9Ov
Says Nanak, O restless mind, no one can find Him through
cleverness. (You think yourself very smart, but God has so
involved you in the world that you have lost all your
wisdom, and you do not realize the truth. Understand it,
God can be reached Understood, only by remembering
Him. ||10||
U H |m|m HU H8 HHM v
O beloved mind, always take care of: contemplate on, the
Truth (God).
UJ N |H UU 8M J| M v
This family which you see, shall not go with you on your
death.
H| 8M J| |H |M |N |8
MU|m v
The thing that will not go with you on your death, why get
attached to that!
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mH NH HM N|8 |H m|
U|m v
Do not do anything (Love with the worldly things,
forgetting God) so that you have to regret in the end. (End
the time of death, at the time of judgment by God. He did
not believe in and remember the Lord when alive. On
death, he found himself before God, and started regretting
that he did not contemplate on Him to save him from any
punishment at the time of judgment).
H|N N UH H|F J M v
Listen to the teachings of the True Guru (Be good, recite
the Scriptures and His Name) so that these go with you (Go
with your consciousness: soul as the impressions of your
deeds, and are helpful at the time of death and judgment by
God).
NJ N H |m HU H8
HHM v99v
Says Nanak, O beloved mind, always take care of the Truth
(Contemplate on: think of, the Lord). ||11||
mNH mN8 m |Um v
O Beyond Reach and Above Understanding (God),
none could assess Your limits (Your extent, greatness and
power).
m |Um |N mF m
HFJ v
None can ever find Your limits, and only You know about
Yourself.
H|m H H| M |Nm N m|
FU v
All living beings and creatures created by You, are Your
ordinary play, what can they tell about You as to how great
and vast you are!
m|J |J H J |H| HN
|Um v
The world is Your Creation, and in this Creation: the living
beings, it is You who enable them to speak of You. (The
Creation by itself has not the power: wisdom enough, to tell
anything about You. It is You who take care of the beings
and speak: enable them, to tell about You).
NJ N HU mNH J m
|Um v97v
Says Nanak, You had ever been inaccessible: beyond reach,
and nobody can understand Your limits - extent and power.
||12||
H| H| H m|H HU H m|H
N |Um v
The angelic (god like) beings, and the Sages (Saints) like
people, search for the Amrit. (Holy Drink), and this is
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obtained from the Guru, by his grace. (Amrit - Immortality
giving Holy Drink: the Name of God),
|Um m|H N| |N N|| H8 H|
H|Um v
This Amrit: the Holy Drink, has been obtained by the grace
of the Guru (Prophet), and he has placed the True One: the
Lord, His Name, in my mind.
H|m H H| U |U|N | H|F
m|Um v
All living beings: creatures, are Your Creation, but only a
few out of them come to bow to You - take Your refuge
recite Your Name.
M M mJN 8N H|N M
|Um v
(Those who visited, surrendered to the Satguru: the True
Master) their desires, greed, and ego got dispelled: went
away, by submitting to him: by following his teachings to
recite His Name.
NJ N |HH m| || m|H
N |Um v9v
Says Nanak, those with whom the Lord is pleased, obtain
the Amrit (Holy Drink, His Name to rcite) from the Guru.
||13||
N N| 8M |M| v
The lifestyle of the devotees is different from the others.
8M |M| NJ N| |H H|N
8MF v
The lifestyle of devotees' is different as they follow the
difficult path of Bhagtee: worship recitation of His Name.
M M mJN |H |H J J|
MF v
They give up the love of foods: overeating, greed, ego,
desires, and do not talk much: stop demanding, keep
reciting the Name of God.
|mJ || MJ |N| U H|N
HF v
The path they take is sharper than a Khandaa and finer than
a hair i.e. very difficult. (Khandaa - Two-edged straight
sword. To worship God is very difficult),
N HU| |H| m |Hm J| H
HHF| v
Those who by the grace of the Guru (Master) have given up
dependence on themselves (Surrender to God), His
fragrance settles down in their bodies. (His fragrance
Those who become selfless and rely on God, His Name
gets set in their bodies: minds. They start reciting His
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Name with concentration).
NJ N 8M N HNJ HN |M|
v90v
Says Nanak, the lifestyle of the devotees has been different
from the others in all the times: always (The path of
devotion is always hard, and worship of God is not easy).
||14||
|H 8M|U|J | 8MJ HmH| J
|Nm HF NF v
My Lord, we act as You desire, and we do not know any
other qualities of You You are All Powerful! (We are
under Your Will, we attach ourselves to You if You so
desire, we know only that You are All Mighty).
|H 8M|U|J | 8MJ |H H|N
J v
All act under Your Will, and You put them on the path You
desire. (You make us to do according to Your Will. You
may or may not attach us to You).
N| |N |H |H M|U|J |H J| J|
HU |mJ v
Those, whom You put to the recitation of Your-Name by
Your Kindness, they always keep reciting Your Name
(Har-e: Haree, means God, they recite the Name of God).
|HH N HF|U|J mF| |H NUm
H J v
Those, whom You give the knowledge about Yourself, they
find peace: mental peace, spiritual gains, and worldly
comforts as well, at the door of the Guru - by attaching to
You through the Guru.
NJ N H8 H|J |H |
8MJ v9v
Says Nanak, O my True Lord, you make us act according
to Your Will: You may attach us to Your Name or not. ||15||
UJ H|JM HU HJ v
This Sohila i.e. the Shabad (Hymn), is beautiful:
enchanting, it attaches to God. (Sohila - the song of Joy).
HU HJ HU H|JM H|N
HF|Um v
This is ever joy-giving beautiful Hymn, and we hear it from
the True Guru. (This is the composition revealed by the
Master: Prophet, God, and it puts us on the path to Him).
UJ | N H| |Hm |H J |M|m
m|Um v
This Hymn settles - enshrines, in the minds of those who
are so blessed by the Lord.
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|U|N ||J W N|J NM NM| |N
|Um v
Some keep on merely talking about God - practically do no
worship of Him, and only by talking no one attains:
understands, Him.
NJ N HU H|JM H|N
HF|Um v9v
Says Nanak, this Sohila: the Joy-giving Shabad, has been
spoken by the True Master (that His worship is the way to
meet Him, or it is the revealed Bani: the Hymn directly
received by the Guru from God). ||16||
| JU H H |H| J| |m|Um v
Those persons who recited the Name of God, became pure.
J| |m|Um | JU NH| |H|
|m|Um v
By reciting the Name of God they got purified, and these
were the Gurmukhs (Devotees) who recited His Name. (By
reciting His Name they became God-Oriented).
| H | N H|J |H |
HN| HU|m v
(They got purified, along with) their mothers, fathers,
families, friends, and as well all their companions became
purified.
NJU | HFU | H | |H| H|
H|Um v
Those who recited Gods Name, others who listened to it,
and also still others who got their minds attached to it, all
of them got purified.
NJ N H | |H| NH| J| J|
|m|Um v9?v
Says Nanak, all those God-Oriented people who recited His
Name became purified. ||17||
NH| HJH H |F HJH HJH
H|U v
Simply by good deeds, or rituals the mental peace (Poise) is
not attained, and without peace the doubts do not clear up
(Whether God is there or not, or that only the worldly
things etc. give happiness). (Karam: deeds, rituals, and also
destiny: luck. Rituals Mostly in the Hindu worship, the
body parts especially the hands are moved differently while
reading out the Mantras or scriptures, and as well some
other actions are also undertaken).
J H|U HJH |N HH|H J NH
NHU v
Doubts do not go away by deeds: actions or rituals (Karam)
only, and the people have tried these without gains.
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HJH H| HM|F J |N HH|H HU v
The mind (Soul) becomes filthy by doubts (Skepticism),
and then how should it be cleaned?
H J H|U MNJ J| |H JJ |8
M|U v
Wash your mind (Soul) by keeping attached to the Shabad -
read Scriptures, recite His Name, obey His Will, and keep
your mind: spirit, consciousness, focused on the Lord.
NJ N N HU| HJH H |UJ
HJH |U H|U v9cv
Says Nanak, by Guru's grace, the mental calm (Poise) is
attained, and by this the doubts get removed. ||18||
H|mJ HM JJ |HM v
Those, at heart bad: polluted within, but outwardly pure
their appear is good,
JJ |HM H|mJ HM || HH
Hm J|m v
Those outwardly pure, but polluted at heart, have lost their
lives in a gamble (Uselessly).
UJ |H K N MN HF HJ
|H|m v
They have the affliction (Disease) of the great thirst
(Greed) for the worldly things, and they do not remember
death. (That on death, all these things will be left here).
U H|J H H H HF|J J| ||J
|H |Mm v
In the Holy Vedas, the highest thing is the Lords Name,
but the people attached to the world, do not listen to it, and
keep wandering dissatisfied like the lost persons: demons,
ghosts. (Vedas - the Hindu religious ancient Holy-Books).
NJ N |H H8 |Hm N MN ||
HH Hm J|m v9cv
Says Nanak, those who give up the Truth (God), and accept
(Get attached to) the falsehood (Love of the worldly
things), lose their lives in gamble (Uselessly,
purposelessly). ||19||
H|mJ |HM JJ |HM v
Those who are pure at heart, and as well of appearance -
There is no hypocrisy, recite Gods Name and do good
deeds,
JJ |HM H|mJ |HM H|N
NF| NHF| v
Those who are outwardly pure, and also pure within (at
heart), follow the Gurus Word and perform good deeds.
(Outwardly Pure Pure in appearance, no hypocrisy, do
good deeds. Pure Within Recite the Name of God and
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Gurbani),
N N| H|U J8 J| HH H|8
HHF| v
They do not even hear about (Get attached to) the falsehood
(Worldly things), and their desires get absorbed into the
Truth. (Doing good deeds and chanting the Name of God
appeases: destroys, their desires. They desire for good
deeds).
HH |H| |m M H FH v
Those who earn the jewel of this human life, are the good
merchants. (Jewel - they chant the Name of God, do good
deeds. They do good business of good deeds and of
chanting the Name of God).
NJ N |H H |HM HU J|J N
M v7Ov
Says Guru Nanak Dev, those with pure minds, always
follow (Abide by) what the Guru says (Chant His Name, do
good deeds). ||20||
H N |H N H| HH J v
If a Sikh turns to the Guru (Desires to be in the service of
the Guru, becomes God-Oriented, accepts His Will, does
good deeds, and recites His Name),
J HH |H NU| H|mJ J
N M v
(But such a Sikh is not common,) hardly there is a Sikh
who turns to the Guru, and then keeps attached to him:
follows his dictates, and recites the Name of God from his
heart, sincerely.
N N 8 |JU |mU m mH
HHM v
(Such a Sikh: disciple, the learner), keeps the feet of the
Guru in his heart (Chants His Name), and takes care of
these with his soul: remembers God.
m |K HU J F N | m
HF NU v
Giving up his self: renouncing I, my, me i.e. ego, he the
God-Oriented one, keeps linked to the Guru, and does not
know anyone else: has faith only on the Guru and God.
NJ N HFJ HJ H |H HH
JU v79v
Says Nanak, O Saints listen, only such a Sikh: disciple or
learner, as described above, is known as turned to the
Guru- in the Gurus service, God-Oriented. ||21||
H N N H J | H|N HN|
v
Anyone who turns away from the Guru (God), cannot get
liberation without the True Guru (the Lord). Mukti
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Emancipation, salvation. It is liberation from the worldly
attachments, and from the cycle of birth and death.
HN| J NU| J |N|m
HU v
No one can find liberation from anywhere else - except
from his Guru (God), one may ask the wise ones.
mN H| |H m |F H|N HN|
U v
Due to his doubts: lack of faith on Guru (God), he gets born
again and again in different forms i.e. animals, birds, fish
etc., this is called transmigration, and without the True
Master he does not get liberation. (Without the Gurus
shelter - guidance to recite His Name, there is no
liberation).
|| HN| U M|N 8F| H|N HU
HFU v
At last, he gets liberation by getting attached to the feet of
the True Guru (God) by surrendering to him (Him), and
getting his (Gurus) Shabad Word, to chant the Name of
God.
NJ N |8| UJ |F H|N HN|
U v77v
Says Nanak, think over it, without the kindness of the True
Guru (God) there is no liberation. ||22||
mJ |H H|N N |m|J NJ H8|
F| v
Come, O beloved Sikhs of the True Guru, sing the True
Bani - Scriptures, Hymns. (True Bani The Scriptures are
revealed to the Gurus by God. Hymns given in the Guru
Granth Sahib, as well as the Bani of the Tenth Master, is
revealed Bani).
F| NJ N N| F|m |H|
F| v
Sing the Bani: Scripture, of the Guru, which is a Supreme
i.e. a Great Bani (Hymns). (Gurus Bani talks only of God).
|H N U| NH J |JU |
HHF| v
This Bani (Scripture) settles in the minds of those who get
the Grace of God.
|J m|H HU JJ J| |N H|J
H|NF| v
Drink Amrit (the Holy-Drink i.e. read the Scriptures, and
recite His Name), forever remain in the love of the Lord,
and chant the Name of the Sustainer of the World (God).
(Amrit A: no, Mrit: death i.e. Immortality-giving Holy-
Drink, Ambrosial Nectar. It is an especially prepared
sweetened drink which is given at the time of inducting a
fellow into the Sikh faith. Saarigpaan Vishnu, Sustainer
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of the earth i.e. God).
NJ N HU NJ UJ H8| F| v7v
Says Nanak, sing this True Bani (Hymns) always. ||23||
H|N | J N8| J F| v
The Bani (Scriptures, Hymns) not composed or approved
by the Gurus is merely an ordinary, untrue poetry (False
songs related to the worldly attachments with no spirituality
in them, nothing about God. There is hypocrisy, the
writers deeds and preaching are different. It has no effect
of the high deeds and spiritual strength of the Gurus. It is
not revealed: got from God).
F| N8| H|N J J N8|
F| v
The Bani (Hymns) not belonging to the True Guru is false,
(Believe it) it is untrue. (Such Hymns are about the worldly
things, with no spirituality and the effect of the high deeds
of the Guru, nothing about God, not revealed i.e. not got
from God. There is hypocrisy in this, the writers deeds and
preaching are different).
NJU N8 HFU N8 N8| m| F| v
Without the Guru all others who compose the so-called
Bani, (Scriptures) are false: not God-Oriented, and those
who listen to such compositions are untrue as well
(Attached to the worldly things).
J| J| | N|J H N|Jm N
HF| v
With their tongues, they continuously chant Gods Name,
but do not know what they say. (They are hypocrites, do
not practice what they preach).
|8 |H N |J| M|Um H|Um M|
U F| v
Those won over by the worldly attachments, go on talking
fast, (without understanding anything, reciting
mechanically about God and His Name, thinking they are
composing Bani).
NJ N H|N J J N8|
F| v70v
Says Nanak, Bani (Hymns) composed by anyone other than
the True Guru, is false. ||24||
N N HU J J| |H H v
The Word of the Guru: the Name of God, is a jewel
studded diamond. (It is precious and it makes the mind
studded with diamonds established, set in the recitation of
His Name, Scriptures).
HU |H H MN UJ Jm
HH v
The mind, which is attracted by this Jewel (Name of God),
gets attached to the Word (Starts deeply reciting His
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Name).
HU H| H |H|Mm H8 M|Um v
Anyone whose mind is attached to the Word (Bani and the
Name of God), he or she develops love for the Lord.
m J| m |HH U|U |U v
He Himself is a diamond, and a jewel of limitless qualities,
and this understanding comes by His Own Blessings.
NJ N HU J J| |H
H v7v
Says Nanak, the Shabad (Word, Name of God) is a jewel
decorated with diamonds (Shabad is precious: with great
spiritual qualities, and by its recitation the love for its
chanting develops, the mind gets attached to God, it gets
filled with the love of God). ||25||
|H HN| m| |U N N m
JNH U v
God creates Shiva: God-factor - things with soul, living
beings, and Shakti: Maya: the world, and He puts them
under His Command.
JNH U m| NH| |NH
U v
Putting everything under His Will, He enjoys His play -
provides sustenance to His Creation, but to some rare ones
He Himself gives this understanding.
J HN HU H| HU v
By keeping the mind attached to the Word by reading
Scriptures, reciting the Name of God, the worldly bonds get
broken and liberation is achieved. (Liberation freedom
from the worldly bindings, and as well from the cycle of
birth and death).
NH| |HH m| N H J UNH |H
|M MU v
The Lord Himself makes someone a Gurmukh: the one
attached to the Guru, God-Oriented, and then he or she gets
deeply linked to God.
NJ N m| N m JNH U
v7v
Says Nanak, He is the Creator, and He Himself gives the
understanding of His Will. ||26||
|H|H| HH |8U H
HF| v
The Simritees and the Shaastras tell about the good and
bad, but only by reading it the reality of God, and of
reciting His Name, cannot be known (Guru can give this
practical knowledge. Simritees and Shaastras - Hindu
ancient religious books)
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H HF| N J H
HF| v
No one can know the Truth - Essence: God and the value of
reciting His Name. Without the Guru (Master), no one can
know it.
|J| NF| HH |H H H|m |F
|JF| v
The world is ignorant due to doubts caused by three
characteristics of the world: the worldly attachments -
virtue, vile, ego. (Three faceted world 1. Sato:
truthfulness, saint-hood, virtues. 2. Tamo: dark aspects,
viles, falsehood, backbiting, meanness etc. 3. Rajo: kingly
characters - ego, boasting, talking tall etc. The people are
wasting lives by not rising above these 3 aspects of the
world).
N |N H H HN |H J| H|
|Hm M|J m|H F| v
By the grace of the Guru those people become aware of
Him and of His Name, who have set God in their minds,
and chant the Holy Scriptures.
NJ N H U |HH m|U J|
|M MN HN |F |JF| v7?v
Says Nanak, only he understands the reality - realizes God,
and the value of reciting His Name, who day and night
remains absorbed in the Lord, and passes night (Life)
awake (In His awareness). ||27||
H N U H|J |M N H |N
HJ |H|m v
(When He) takes care - nourishes, protects, in the mothers
tummy too, then why forget Him!
HJ |N |H|m UK U |H mN|
H|J mJ J8U v
Why forget from the mind such a Great Giver, who
nourishes us even in the fire (of the womb that makes-
bakes the child. This fire is also considered to bother the
child).
UH |NJ |J HN| |HH mF|
|M MU v
Nothing - affliction, pain, can touch one, whom the Lord
gives His love (Such a person rises above afflictions).
mF| |M m MU NH| HU
HHM|m v
The Lord Himself blesses with His love, we should become
God-Oriented and take care of Him (Chant His Name,
recite Gurbani).
NJ N UK U H |N HJ
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|H|m v7cv
Guru Nanak says, why forget such a Great Giver from our
minds! ||28||
HH| mN| U H|J H| J|
H|Um v
Just like fire within the womb, there is fire outside. (Fire
within the womb heat in the womb. Greed of the child for
food in the womb, without which it will die). Fire outside -
Attachment with the worldly things after birth, or greed of
the people already in the world.
H|Um mN| H |UN |HJ| N M
8|Um v
The worldly attachments and the fire (of the womb) are one
and the same, all this is the play of the Lord. (When in the
womb, a child is fully dependent on its mother, and without
her it will die. Similarly, people outside become deeply
attached to the worldly things, and do not depend (have
faith) on God).
H |H F H|Hm | M
|Um v
He Wills and the child gets born (Comes out of womb), and
this delights the family.
|M N| MN| |H H|Um mH
|Um v
(On birth) the love for the Lord disappears, child becomes
attached to the worldly desires, such is the Will of God.
(The worldly attachments have such an attraction, that God
is forgotten right after birth).
UJ H|Um |H J| |H HJ H
UH M|Um v
(After birth) due to attachment to the worldly things, the
Lord is forgotten, attachment arises (for the family and the
world), and love develops with other things (but, not with
God).
NJ N N HU| |H |M MN|
|| |8 H|Um |Um v7cv
Guru Nanak says, by the Guru's (Gods) Grace, those who
develop His love, realize (Understand) Him while enjoying
the worldly things. ||29||
J| m| mHMN J H|M |Um
H|U v
The Lord is priceless, His price cannot be estimated (None
can get Him: understand Him, by paying a price).
H|M |Um H|U |NH |J J MN
|MM|U v
His worth cannot be known or estimated the people got
tired of trying it (None can have Him at a price).
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mH H|N H |HM |H |H H|m
|8J m H|U v
If you meet such a True Guru who, with his grace, can
make you realize God, offer your head to Him: surrender to
him, this will clean your mind of ego. (Your ego will leave
you on realizing that you cannot reach God by your own
efforts, or by paying a price. This understanding will bring
humility, and faith in the Kindness of God will develop).
|HH U H| |H |H|M J J| H H|
m|U v
After ego goes away, if you keep your soul attached to
God: keep reciting His Name, then He comes to stay in
your mind, you keep in the deep remembrance of God.
J| m| mHMN J N | N N
|H J| M |U vOv
Nanak says, the Lord is priceless, and fortunate are those
who reach God - realize the Lord through the Kindness of
the Guru: True Master. ||30||
J| |H H| H FH v
The Lord is my capital (Investment) and my mind is the
merchant (My trade is remembering God, chanting His
Name is my business).
J| |H H| H FH H|N |H
HF| v
The Lord is my capital: reciting the Name of God is my
Investment, and my mind is its merchant (My mind is fixed
on Gods Name, I recite His Name). I came to know about
my capital (God, chanting His Name) from the True Guru.
J| J| | H|J H|mJ MJ |J
|UJ| v
O people, always chant the Lords Name, and every day
make bargain of this human life.
UJ | |H|Mm |H J| m
F v
This wealth (Recitation of Gods Name) is obtained by
those to whom the Lord Wills.
NJ N J| |H H| H Jm
FH v9v
Nanak says, the Lord, His Name, is my investment, and my
mind is its merchant: I chant His Name. ||31||
U H m |H |8 J| | |mH
H|U v
O tongue, you are enjoying other tastes and your thirst does
not go away (You are attached to the worldly things, you
do not recite His Name, the desires of mind do not leave
you).
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|mH H|U J |N |H8 J| H
M |U v
This thirst cannot go away by any means until you develop
the love for God. (Till you do not understand His love from
the Guru, without his Kindness and recitation of the Name
of God, you cannot reach the Lord).
J| H |U M |m J| H J|
|H MN m|U v
If you obtain the Essence: develop love for the Lord, and
drink this i.e. recite His Name, you shall not be thirsty
again - desires will not bother you, you will get the peace
of mind.
UJ J| H NH| U|m H|N |HM
|HH m|U v
The Essence: Name of the Lord, His love, is obtained by
good luck, good deeds, when the True Guru: the True
Master, meets (and tells you to recite the Name of God).
NJ N J| m H H| |H H J|
H H| m|U v7v
Says Nanak, all other tastes - longings, desires, disappear
when God - His remembrance, chanting His Name,
occupies the mind. ||32||
U H| H|m J| H H|J H| |
HN H|J m|Um v
O my body, the Lord put awareness (Soul) into you, and
then you came into the world.
J| H| | ||8 HN H|J
m|Um v
The Lord put soul into you, and then you came into the
world.
J| m H m | |H| H| |U
HN |U|Um v
The Lord Himself is your real mother and father, He put
soul into you (You were born), and showed you His play of
Creation. (You are not simply because of your mother and
father, but the Lord who put soul into you is your Real
Parents).
N HU| |m 8M Jm 8M
U| m|Um v
When, by the kindness of the Guru: the Master, he had
realization that he was created by His Grace, then the true
play started i.e. its understanding came that he himself and
whole of the Creation is His own play.
NJ N |HH| N HM |8m H| |
HN H|J m|Um vv
Says Nanak, when God started His Creation, he put soul
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into everything then the beings came into the world. ||33||
H| 8 |Um mNH H|Fm v
The mind is elated (Joyful) to hear that God is coming.
(The mind is in joy to realize that Name: the remembrance
of God, is settling down in the mind, He is caring, His
understanding is coming).
J| HNM N H| |NJ HU |Fm v
My friends, sing the songs of joy: the Lords praise,
because my mind has become a place for Him to stay.
J| N HNM | H|U HN U
|mU v
My friends (Companions), always sing His praise, by this
you will not get any sorrow and suffering.
N 8 MN |U HN mF |
HU v
Blessed is the day, when I get attached to the Guru's feet
(Come to the protection of, surrender to Him), and realize
(Understand) my Real Spouse: God.
mJ F| N H|U HF| J| H J|
H N v
I have come to understand the Anhat-Bani (Celestial
Sound) by the recitation of the Shabad: the Name of God,
Scriptures. And now, by reciting His Name, I enjoy the
Essence - remembrance of the Lord. (Anhat-Bani, Anhad-
Bani Also called Anhat-Shabad. Anhat - sound without
cause, continuous sound, Bani or Shabad. Continuous Holy
Sound of the Name of God - Celestial Sound).
NJ N m| |H|Mm NF NF
HN v0v
Says Nanak, this way: by reciting His Name, God who can
do every thing, met him. (God became accessible to Him,
he realized i.e. understood Him). ||34||
U H| H|m |UH HN H|J m|U N
|Nm NH NH|Um v
O my body, after coming into this world, what sort of deeds
you have done!
|N NH NH|Um H| H HN
H|J m|Um v
What deeds you have done, O my body, after coming into
this world!
|H| J| 8 |8m H J| H|
H|Um v
The Lord who created you, you have not placed Him into
your mind (You do not remember Him).
N HU| J| H| |Hm |
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|M|m |Um v
If good deeds have been done in the previous lives, by the
Guru's Grace, the Lord settles down in the mind.
NJ N UJ H| F Jm |H|
H|N |H |8 M|Um vv
Says Nanak, the body (this birth) of that person is
acceptable to God (Successful), when he or she develops
the love for Him. ||35||
U J H|J J| H H|J H| | J|
| m UJ NU| v
O my eyes, the Lord has given you the power to see, you
should not see anything other than Him (In everything you
should see God).
J| | m UJ NU| U| J|
|J|Mm v
Do not look at anything other than the Lord, see the Lord
only. Everywhere and in everything see only the Lord.
UJ |H HH H UU UJ J| N J
J| U| m|Um v
This whole world which you see is the image of God, the
image of the Lord is seen. Vissu Vishv whole of, all.
Viss or Vish, means poison, as well. The people took
worldly things as the source of afflictions (Poison), and so
discarded homes and left for the forests and mountains to
worship God. The Guru advises that the world is His
Creation, and so you should see through it God only and
nothing else. You need not run out to escape, but stay home
and worship.
N HU| |m H J| |UN J
J| | m NU| v
I have understood it by the Kindness of the Guru (that
whatever is seen is the image of God), now whatever is
seen appears God only, and there is nothing else except the
Lord.
NJ N U|J m H H|N| |H|Mm
|U |UH| JU| vv
Says Nanak, these bodily eyes are blind, but only on
meeting the True Guru one gets the vision of knowledge.
||36|| (Bodily eyes - cannot see the reality that whatever we
see is the image of God. Vision of knowledge - that sees
everything as the Lord).
U HFJ H|J H8 HF U v
O my ears, you have been created to hear the Truth (About
Him, His praise, His dictates, His Name, Scriptures).
H8 HF U H|| MU HFJ H|
F| v
You were created to hear the Truth (God and about Him),
and listen to the True Bani: the Scriptures that tell about
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God.
|H HF| H J|m Jm H |H
HHF| v
Hearing it the mind and body revive (Get rejuvenated, get
joy), and the tongue is absorbed in the Holy Essence
(Recitation of the Name of God).
H8 mM |KF| N| N| NJ|
HU v
The True Lord is of invisible: indescribable, not
understandable, great qualities, His state - reality,
greatness, cannot be described.
NJ N m|H H HFJ | JJ
H8 HF U v?v
Says Nanak, listen to the Holy Name of God and become
purified: holy, you were created to hear the Truth (Name of
the Lord). ||37||
Amrit Naam - The Holy Name. The Name of God by
reciting which there is no more death gives immortality.
J| H| N mU| | N H F
H|Um v
The Lord placed the soul into the cave (Body), and blew
the breath of life into this musical instrument: body -
Consciousness, soul, was put into the body, it became
activated. (Vaajaa pavann vajaa-ae-aa The breath keeps
this body alive, God blew the breath (Life) into this body
and activated it).
H|Um H F Um N
N|U UH N |Um v
He blew the breath of life into this musical instrument
(activated the body), revealed its nine doors, and kept the
tenth-door hidden. na-o du-aaray: Nine-Doors - Two eyes,
two ears, two nostrils, one mouth and two private parts.
These are visible. dassvaa: Tenth - The Tenth-Door, is the
place of soul i.e. of God, and is at the top of the head. This
is not a body-organ.
NUm M|U | |UN UH Um
|U|Um v
By developing faith in the Guru, the tenth-door even
(which is secret, hidden) gets revealed (One gets the
knowledge of the soul and God).
J mN || |H U m
HU| |Um v
There is no limit to the different treasure-giving (Boon-
giving) Names of God, and His limits cannot be found.
(Naao nav-Nidhe Naao: Name; Nav: nine; Nidhe:
treasures. Gods Name that give nine types of treasures.
These are: land, property, riches, produce of the land and
sea, children, grand children, servants, health, wisdom,
animals and rides, Name of God (Worship), name-fame,
etc. It means everything in the world.
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NJ N J| |m H| N mU|
| N H F H|Um vcv
Says Nanak, the Lord placed soul into the body, and gave
life to it with his Kindness. ||38|| (The body that depends on
breath, He put breath (life) into it by virtue of His
Kindness).
UJ H8 H|JM H8 W| NJ v
Sing the true praise of God (The Name of God, Gurbani:
Hymns i.e. Scriptures) in the True-Home (In the God-
Oriented congregation, in the mind - by concentrating on
Him).
NJ H|JM W| H8 |H HU H8
|mJ v
Sing the songs of the praise of God in the True Home,
where the Lord is remembered always by the devotees.
(Songs of praise recite His Name and Hymns. True Home
the mind i.e. by concentrating on Him, in the God-
Oriented congregation,).
H8 |m|J H |J NH| |H
J v
Only those whom You desire can remember You, and
wisdom to do so is also given to such God-Oriented people
by You.
|UJ H8 H N HH J |HH H H
H J v
This Truth is the Master: greatest of all, and one attains this
by His blessings. This Truth - Secret about God and His
Name. Attains this the knowledge about God and His
Name. God is beyond our reach and understanding. Only
the one blessed by God can understand this. With talks only
we can attain nothing. It needs all the virtues and recitation
of His Name to realize - understand, Him.
NJ N H8 H|JM H8 W|
NJ vcv
Says Nanak, the true songs of His praise (Hymns, Bani:
Scriptures) are sung in the True Home (By setting mind:
concentrating, on Him, in the congregation). ||39||
mU HFJ KN|J HNM H v
O the lucky-ones, listen to the Scripture called Anand -
the Hymn of Bliss, Joy, it will fulfill all your good desires.
JH |Um HNM |H v
By getting deeply attached to God, all worries and sorrows
go away.
U N H HF| H8| F| v
Pain, illness and suffering leave the man by listening to the
True Bani: Hymns of the praise of God. (Although at the
time of Guru Amar Das, the 3
rd
Guru, Guru Granth Sahib
was not compiled, it is right to say for the present that
Gurbani is all that is given in this Holy Book, and also the
one composed by the 10
th
Master Guru Gobind Singh).
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H HH U HH N HF| v
The Saints and friends are happy to know that this Bani
(Scripture) is the blessing of the Perfect Guru (Is the
revealed Bani, blessed by God). (The devotees are very
happy to realize that this is the True Scripture and reciting
it gives peace of mind, happiness - salvation liberation,
everything spiritual and worldly).
HF | NJ | H|N |Jm
v
Pure are those who listen, and also those become pure who
recite this Scripture, because it is filled with the praise of
God (It is God sent: revealed to the Guru).
|| N N 8F MN H mJU
v0Ov9v
Guru Nanak says, by taking the shelter of the Guru
(Surrendering to Him and reciting His Name), Anhad. i.e.
Godly - Celestial, musical sounds of joy get set in. The
practitioner of the Name of God starts listens to the sounds
of some musical instruments. ||40||1|| Gur Charan laagae
By taking shelter of the Guru (Waheguru).Anhad A
sound without any cause i.e. without striking any thing,
Celestial Sound. It is a limitless: continuous, spiritual
sound. While reciting the Name of God, some sounds may
be heard, and these are of five main types 1. String
instruments played with a bow like a violin, or Sarangee.
2. Leather bound instruments drum. 3. Instruments played
by blowing in flute, trumpet. 4. Instruments made of
metal gong, bell. 5. Sound from space by striking the
empty pot, sound from sea. Toorae Toor: a big metal,
usually brass trumpet named Narsinghaa, or Ransinghaa.
The both are same. It is played by blowing into it. Its sound
is resounding and thick. Narsinghaa announces the arrival
or departure of someone, and Ransinghaa is played in a
battle, confrontation, or to announce victory.
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J|H H|J
RAHRAAS SAHIB
The right path.

H U N mH HJM 9
Gods Place, Raag Aasaa, First Guru
W H|N H|U v
All Pervading God, realized by the Grace of the True Guru.
H U NJ H W NJ |H |J H
HHM v
What like is that place where from you take care of
everyone! The wonder is Your taking care of Your
Creation!
H U mN mH N
FJ v
Your countless musical instruments resound there, and
countless are Your musicians - Your praise is being sung.
N N | |H NJ|m|J N
NFJ v
So many musical measures and sub-measures are rendered
in Your praise, and so many are the singers, all sing Your
virtues!
N| F F| H N H
H Um v
The wind, water and fire praise You, and Dharamraj: god
of justice, sings at Your door.
N| |8 N |M| HF| |M|
|M| H |8 v
Chittar and Guptt: the two messengers of Dharamraj,
whose records Dharamraj consults, also sing Your praise.
(Chittar and Guptt, the two record-keeper gods. Dharamraj
god of judgment).
N| U|H JH U| HJ|
HU H v
Your adorned gods: Shiva, Brahma, and goddesses, look
nice (Beautiful) singing Your praise.
N| |UU |UUH|F U|m
U| M v
Indra, seated on his throne, sings Your praise with the other
gods.
N| |H HH| mU| N|
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H |8 v
The adepts in their meditation, and saints in their
contemplation, sing Your praise.
N| H| H| H| N|
| N v
Those with sex-control (abstinents), truthful people, those
with contentment, and fearless warriors too, sing Your
praise.
N| |K | |H HN HN
U M v
Scholars and Rishis: Saints, and Vedas have been singing
Your praise since the time immemorial.
N| HJF|m H HJ| HN H
|UmM v
The captivating beauties: goddesses, heaven, earth and
nether-regions (Bottoms of earths) sing Your praise.
N| U mH| |
M v
Jewels (the evolved people), created by You, along with 68
places of pilgrimages, sing Your praise.
N| H HJM H N|
F| 8 v
The mighty warriors, super-heroes, minerals (produce from
the mines) i.e. everything, and all types of living beings,
sing Your praise.
N| K HKM JHK N| N|
v
All the worlds, solar-systems, and universe, that You have
created and bound in Your Order, chant Your Glories.
HU| N| H |
N HM v
Only those accepted by You can sing Your praise, and such
are Your devotees.
J| N N| H H |8| m|
N |Nm |8 v
Nanak, how many more sing You, how can I contemplate
on this, I cannot even think of it!
HU| HU| HU H8 H|J H8 H8|
U| v
Only the Lord is immortal, and the real truth is He and His
Name.
J | JH| H|U HH| 8 |H|
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8U| v
He Who created all, is, shall ever be, and will not go away -
will not end: perish.
N| N| | N| N| |HH| H|Um
|H| U| v
God has created things of the world of different kinds and
styles.
N| N| U N| mF |H |H U|
|KmU| v
He enjoys His Creation the way He likes.
H |H HU| NH| || JNH NF
HU| v
He will do according to His pleasure nobody can dictate
Him.
H |HJ HJ |H|J N JF
HU| v
He is the King, King of kings. Nanak, it is right to accept
His Will. ||
mH HJM 9 v
Aasaa, First Mehla.
H|F K m H N|U v
Hearing of Your (Gods) Greatness, everyone calls You
Great.
NK K K| J|U v
But, how Great are You, only he can tell who sees You.
N|H| |U N|Jm H|U v
No one can realize Your Value, and none can tell anything
about You.
NJF M J HH|U v9v
Those who can describe You, they stay absorbed in You,
how can they tell! ||1||
K H H|J N|J N| NF| NJ| v
My Great Master, You are the deep ocean of excellence.
N|U HF N NK 8| v9v
J v
No one knows the vastness of Your Expanse. ||1||Pause||
H| H| |H|M H| NHU| v
All the worshippers worshipped You together, to know
Your greatness.
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H N|H| |H|M N|H| U| v
All the evaluators got together and tried to evaluate You.
|Nm| |m| N NJU| v
The learned people, the worshippers, such noble ones and
the nobler still, tried to know You.
NJF HU| | |M |KmU| v7v
Whatever may be done, no one can describe even a fraction
of Your Greatness. ||2||
H| H H| H| 8|NmU|m v
Truthfulness, austerity, and goodness,
|H N|m |KmU|m v
Great qualities of adepts,
|F |H| |N U|m v
Without You, no one can find the right-path - realize You.
(Sidhi - supernatural power: ability to know Him).
N|H |HM J| |N JU|m vv
All this Your realization, is achieved by good deeds,
Your Grace, and no one can put any obstacle. ||3||
mF M |Nm 8 v
What can the poor fellow praise You!
|H| K v
Your treasures are overflowing with Your Praise
countless praise You.
|HH U|J |H |Nm 8 v
Self-efforts can get nothing, Your praise comes through
Your Blessing only.
N H8 HFJ v0v7v
Nanak, the Truth (His Name) is the only Doer sets things
right. ||4||2||
mH HJM 9 v
Aasaa, First Mehla.
m H| |H H| H v
Chanting Your Name is my life, and forgetting it is death.
m|F m H8 v
But, it is difficult to recite the True Name.
H8 H N| MN v
If one becomes hungry (eager), for the True Name,
|U 8M|m|J U v9v
Then, such a hunger (Love of God) eats away all
afflictions. ||1||
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When only the True Masters True Name is the Doer, giver
of the boons. ||1||Pause||
H |N |H H| H|U v
Dear mother, then why should one forget such a Name,
H8 H|J H8 |U v9v J v
H8 H N| |M |KmU| v
Trying to describe the Greatness of even a fraction of the
True Name,
m| N N|H| J| U| v
The people got weary of contemplating on this, but could
not evaluate Him.
H H| |H|M N mF |J v
Even if all were to come together and try to tell,
K J W| H|U v7v
No one will be able to add, or take away the Greatness of
the Lord. ||2||
UJ H J HN v
The Lord does not die, and there is never a need to mourn
Him.
UU J 8N N v
He keeps on giving, and His treasures never run out.
NF UJ J J| N|U v
His Virtue is to give, and there is none other like Him.
N Jm N J|U vv
There has never been anyone like Him, and none will ever
be. ||3||
HK m| K | U| v
As Great You are, so Great are Your Gifts.
|H| |U N| N N|| | v
You created the day to work, and with it night to rest.
HH |H|J NHH| v
One who forgets such a kind Master is mean.
N H| v0vv
Nanak, without His Name, a person is degraded one. ||4||3||
N NH| HJM 0 v
Raag Goojaree, Fourth Mehl.
J| N H H|N H | N
N |H v
Beloved of the Lord the True Guru, I offer my humble
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prayer to you.
JH N| |NH H|N HFU| N|
U|Um H N|H v9v
The True Guru, I am an insect - a worm, seeking your
refuge, kindly bless me with realization of the Naam - the
Name of God. ||1||
H H| NU H N H H
N|H v
My friend divine Guru, please enlighten me with the Name
of the Lord.
NH| H H HU| J| N||
JH| J|H v9v J v
The Name of the Lord bestowed on me by the Guru may
become the support of my life, and His praise my life's true
way. ||1||Pause||
J| H N K N K |H J| J|
H J| |mH v
The person who loves God has great fortune, he has faith
and longing for Him.
J| J| H |HM |H|J |H|M HN|
NF N|H v7v
Such persons get satiated on obtaining the Name of Hari:
the Lord, and by joining the God-Oriented people virtues
develop in them. ||2||
|H J| J| J| H H |Um
NJ|F HH |H v
Those who have not tasted the Name of the Lord are
unfortunate, they shall be dealt with by the messengers of
death.
H H|N H|F HN| J| mU |N H|
|N H||H vv
Those who did not come to the protection of the True Guru
in the holy congregation, cursed are they and their hopes of
living. ||3||
|H J| H H|N HN| U| | |
HH|N |M|m |M|H v
That servant of God who attained company of the True
Guru, has such a destiny inscribed on his foreheads (He has
the luck to meet the True Guru).
HHN| |H J| H |Um
|H|M H N H N|H v0v0v
Blessed is the True: God-Oriented, congregation where one
gets the taste of the Lord. Nanak, meeting with His servants
in the congregation, the Name of the Lord is realized. ||4||4||
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N NH| HJM v
Raag Goojaree, Fifth Mehla.
NJ H |8|J UH H mJ| J|
H| |m v
O my mind, why do you worry for your living, when the
Lord Himself is taking care of you!
HM H|J H U N |HN mN
N| |m v9v
He created the living beings even in the rocks and stones,
and supplied their provisions before hand. ||1||
H H H| HHN| |HM H |m v
My Master (of Mayaa - worldly things: God), one who
joins the True congregation is saved.
N H|U H U |Um HN NH
J|m v9v J v
By Guru's Grace the supreme status is obtained, and even
the dry wood becomes green: blossoms. ||1||Pause||
H| | MN H | N|U |NH N|
|m v
Mother, father, friend, son or spouse, no one is the support
of anyone else.
|H| |H| |HN HJ N NJ H
N|m v7v
The Lord provides sustenance to everyone, then why
should you worry, my mind? ||2||
K |K m H NH |H 8
|m v
The crane flies hundreds of miles, leaving its young ones
behind.
| NF M NF 8N H H|J
|HH N|m vv
Who provides feed to the chickens of a crane, in its mind it
keeps praying to the Lord for their protection. ||3||
H| | UH mH |H N N M
|m v
All (Nine) treasures, and (eighteen) supernatural powers,
are on the Palm of God. (Leaving aside protecting the
crane-chickens, You are all powerful to do every thing)
H N |M |M HU |M HU|m
m |m v0vv
O God, You are limitless and have no boundaries, Nanak is
in Your service, and is a sacrifice (Appreciation) to You
countless times. ||4||5||
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N mH HJM 0 H
Raag Aasaa, Fourth Mehla, So Purakh. (That
Primal Being, God).
W H|N H|U v
All Pervading God, realized by the Grace of the True Guru.
H |H J| |H J|
mNH mNH m v
God is Immaculate, the Pure Being, Inaccessible and
Limitless.
H| |m|J H| |m|J H| J|
H8 |HHFJ v
All fix their minds on You, recite Your Name, the True
Creator Lord!
H| H|m H H| H|m N U v
All living beings are Yours, You are the Giver to all.
J| |mJ HJ H| H| U
|HFJ v
O saints, recite the Name of the Lord, He is the remover of
afflictions.
J| m N J| m HN H| |Nm
N H |8 v9v
The Lord Himself is the Master, He Himself is the Servant
too. Nanak, what can the humble people do by themselves!
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W W m| H || H| J|
UN HHF v
You are in every heart, and in all things. You are there in
all beings (In everyone and everything).
|U|N U |U|N | H| H| 8H
|KF v
Some do charities, others are beggars. This is Your
wonderful play!
m U m N H| J |
m HF v
You are the Giver of charities, and You enjoy them, I know
none other (who is all powerful).
JH m m H| |Nm NF
m| F v
You are Infinite, Your are Limitless. What Virtues of
Yours can I speak of!
H H|J H H|J H| H N |
111
NF v7v
Those who serve You, Your servant Nanak is a sacrifice to
them (Is in their appreciation!) ||2||
J| |m|J J| |m|J H| H H
HN H|J HH| v
Those who think of You, recite Your Name, live in this
world with mental peace.
H HN H HN U |H J| |m|Um
H| | | HH N| H| v
They are liberated who think of You, for them the noose of
death is no more.
|H | |H J| | |m|Um
H| | N H NH|v
Those who think of the Fearless One (God), all their fears
go away.
|H H|m |H H|m H J| H|
J| J| | HHH| v
Those who serve, who serve my Lord, are absorbed into
His Being.
H H |H J| |m|Um H| H
N | |M HH| vv
Blessed are they, blessed are they, who meditate on God.
His servant Nanak is a sacrifice - an appreciation, to them
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| N| | N| K H| |m
m v
Filled up are numberless treasures and treasures of Your
worship (Great many people worship You).
N N HMJ| H| J|
m|N mN m v
Your devotees, devotees of Yours who praise You, are
many, numberless, and limitless.
| m|N | m|N N|J J| H H|
|J H|J m v
Many, so very many worship You, they worship you sitting
close to bon-fires (In hard ways), and chant Your Name in
many ways.
mN mN |J J |H|H|
HH H| N| |N|m NH N v
Your many, many of Your devotees, so very many read the
various Simritees and Shaastras. (Ancient religious books
of Hindus). They perform rituals and religious rites.
H N H N M H N H| H
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|J H J| N v0v
O servant Nanak, those devotees, only those devotees are
good, who are dear to God. ||4||
m|U m N H| HK
m NU| v
You are the Primal Being (From the beginning), Limitless,
Creator, and there is none else as Great as You.
HN HN UN HU HU UN H|
|J8M N HU| v
Age after age, You have been the One, forevere and ever
One, You have been the unchanged Creator.
m HU| H| m N|J
H JU| v
Whatever You like that happens, everything happens
according to Your Will.
m |HH| H U| H| m
|H|H H NU| v
You create the entire universe, and then Yourself destroy
this Creation.
H N NF N N N H| H HH N
HFU| vv9v
Servant Nanak sings the praise of the Creator (Who knows
everything). ||5||1||
mH HJM 0 v
Aasaa, Fourth Mehla.
N H|8m HK HlU| v
You are the Creator my True Master!
H HU| |H| H U|J HU| J
U| v9v J v
Whatever You please that happens, whatever You give that
I get. ||1||Pause||
H | H| |m|Um v
Whole of the Creation belong to You, and everyone
meditates on You.
|HH |N N|J || H
|Um v
Those to whom You are compassionate, get the jewels of
the Name of God.
NH| M HH| N|Um v
The God-Oriented people attain the (spiritual) gains, and
the self-oriented ones lose everything.
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m| ||m m| |HM|Um v9v
You (with Your pleasure) separate some from Yourself,
and unite others with You. ||1||
U|m H J| H|J v
You are the River (Vast, Limitless), and the whole of
Creation abides in You.
| UH NU| |J v
Without You, there is none else.
H|m H H| M v
All beings and all creatures are Your playthings.
|H|N |H|M ||m HHN| HM v7v
By the Principle of Separation one is away from You
(The fellow is a projection of You, but is separated due to
not reciting Your Name). By the principle of union, he is
united with You (by reciting Your Name). ||2||
|HH HF|U|J HU| H HF v
Those to whom You bless with the knowledge about
Yourself, only they understand You.
J| NF HU J| m| F v
Those persons with Your knowledge, constantly chant
Your praise.
|H| J| H|m || H |Um v
Those who recite Your Name, get comfort and peace of
mind.
HJH J| J| |H HH|Um vv
Such people, effortlessly get absorbed into the Lord's
Name. ||3||
m N N|m H J|U v
You are the Creator, everything is Your doing.
| UH m N|U v
There is none else who can do anything.
N| N| |J HF|J H|U v
You create and watch: take care of, Your Creation. You are
aware of all that happens.
H N NH| N J|U v0v7v
Servant Nanak, the Greatness of the Lord is revealed
through the Guru-Orientation. ||4||2||
mH HJM 9 v
Aasaa, First Mehl.
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| H U|M |H F| N
||J N|m v
We residence at that world-pool (World) where the Lord
has created pleasure and pain.
NH HJ N J| 8M JH U J
K|mM v9v
In the puddle (mud) of the worldly attachments the feet of
the people are stuck and they cannot move. In this swamp, I
see them drowning. ||1||
H UN 8|H H H v
O my foolish mind, why you do not remember the Lord.
J| |H NF N|Mm v9v J v
By forgetting God, ones virtues rot away. ||1||Pause||
J H| H| J| |m H HN
HH |Um v
I have Neither self-control, nor am I truthful, or
uneducated. My life is one of foolishness and ignorance.
F| N | N| HF |H J|
|H|m v7vv
Nanak prays, bless me with the company of those who do
not forget You. ||2||3||
mH HJM v
Aasaa, Fifth Mehla.
U| | H UJ|m v
This human body has been given to you.
N|U |HMF N| |UJ | |m v
This life is your occasion chance, to meet God.
m| NH |N NH v
Nothing else will give you any gain. (You wont avail
anything from other pursuits).
|HM HHN| H NM H v9v
Join the God-Oriented congregation, and only recite the
Name of God. ||1||
HH|H MN HM N v
Make efforts to swim across this terrifying world-ocean
(Recite His Name).
HH | H |N H|Um N
v9v J v
Your life is being wasted in the worldly attachments.
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H HHH H NH|Um v
I have not recited the Name of God, have not practiced any
devoted worship, self-discipline, self-restraint, and did not
have the righteous-living.
H H H|m J| |Um v
I did not serve the holy ones, and failed to realize the Lord.
NJ N JH |8 NH v
Nanak says, his deeds are deplorable.
H|F N| J HH v7v0v
My Lord, I seek Your protection, kindly preserve my
honor! ||2||4||
N|U8 | : 9O
v 8U| v
(Please read from page number 156)
v HU v
A type of poetry.
l|U NJ H H N ml
J| mX v
Since I have taken Your refuge, I never looked to the
protection of anyone else.
H J|H N mN NJ H UN
HX v
Avtar Rama, Prophet Mohammad, eighteen Puranas (Books
of the Hindu faith), Kuran (Qouran The Holy Book of
Muslims), tell a lot about their faiths, but I have depended
only on You God.
|H|H| HH U H J U NJ JH UN
HX v
All the books of the Hindu faith tell so many secrets of the
methods of union with You, but I simply kept steady in my
faith only on You.
H| m|H |N H| N| H NJX
H |J X v
The Sword-Bearer: God, my praising You is due to Your
blessing. On my own I cannot praise You, only You make
me do so!
UJ v
Dodraa is a style of poetry.
HNM Um N |K N N|JU J
Um v
Ignoring all others, I have taken Your refuge.
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l|J NJ N| MH mH N|U UH J v
Please Lord, when I am Your charge, please protect me!
HNM| HJM mU
Raamkalee, Third Mehl, Anand ~ The Song Of Bliss:
(Please read from page 170, 1-5 and 40
th
pauri)
HUF| HJM v
By 5
th
Guru, in Raag Mun:davanee.
Mundaavani means a seal it has been sealed. It means
that Gurbani in the Holy Granth has been verified.
M ||8 || H U|U H H
|8 v
In the plate are three things: Truth, Contentment, and
Contemplation (Thoughtfulness).
(The Holy Book has three things: Truth, Contentment, and
Thoughtfulness).
m|H H N N |UU |HH N HH
m v
Gods Immortal Name is also there which is a support to
everyone.
(A nice thing is also called Amrit).
H N H N 8 |H N J|U v
One who eats these things, will be saved. (Anyone who will
practice truth, Contentment, thinking about God, and recite
His Name, will be liberated).
UJ H H| J HU| | | |
v
This thing: Name of God, cannot be ignored, always keep it
in the mind.
H HH 8 M|N |m H N
JH H v9v
Nanak, whole of the Creation is the Lords play, and this
dark world is crossed by taking refuge of God.
HMN HJM v

N| H J| H HN N|U| v
O God, You enabled me to complete this task, although I
did not recognize (Appreciate) Your Blessings.
H |N|Fm N NF J| m H
|UUU| v
I am without any virtue, and have no merit (Qualities), but
You took mercy on me (to enable me to do this job).
H |Um |HJH| JU| H|N HHF
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|H|Mm v
True Guru-My Lord, You took mercy, and very Kindly met
me (Gave me Your realization. I could complete this
project).
N H |HM l H|l H |
J|m v9v
Nanak, I am alive if blessed with Your Name, and then I
am in blossom (Joy).

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H|JM
Sohelaa

N N| U|N| HJM 9
Raag Gauree Deepakee, by First Mehla -
Composed by 1st Guru Nanak Dev.

W H|N H|U v
All pervading God, realized by the Grace of the True Guru.
H W| N|| m|m N N J|U
|8 v
The place where the praise of the Creator is chanted, and
He is contemplated on,
| W| NJ H|JM |H|J
|HHFJ v9v
In that place, sing the songs of His praise, and remember
the Creator. ||1||
H NJ H | N H|JM v
Sing the songs of praise of my Fearless Lord.
J | |H H|JM HU H J|U v9v
J v
I appreciate such a song of praise which brings eternal
peace. ||1||Pause|| (Pause means stop, stop for a while, stop
and think over what has been said).
| | H|m HHM|m| UN
UFJ v
God always cares for His beings, the Great Giver will take
care of you, too.
U N|H| |H U NF
HH v7v
Your gifts cannot be appraised; how can anyone assess
such a Giver! ||2||
H| HJ |M|m |H|M N| J M v
The year and the time of union with God are predestined,
prepare (encourage) me for my meeting: realizing the Lord.
(The comparative example has been taken from the
girl whose hair is oiled to prepare her for marriage).
UJ HHF mH|H|m |H J H|J |H
HM vv
Bless me my friends, so that I meet my Master. ||3||
W| W| UJ J8 HU | | v
The message of union with God reaches everyone, and His
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call for it is received every day.
HUFJ |HH|m N H |UJ m|
v0v9v
Nanak, If we keep remembering the One Who calls: God,
then the day of union with Him surely comes. ||4||1||
N mH HJM 9 v
Raag Aasaa, First Mehla:
|m W |m N |m UH v
There are six schools of philosophy, six their authors, and
as well six types of their teachings.
N N UN H mN v9v
But, the Teacher of teachers is the One God only, Who has
very many forms. (Preaching is also one recite the Name
of God). ||1||
H W| N N|| J|U v
Revered one, the system in which the praise of the Creator
is accepted,
H W KU| |U v9v J v
To follow that system is the true greatness. ||1||Pause||
|HU 8|Hm W|m J || | HJ
Jm v
The iotas of time make seconds, minutes, hours, days, and
weeks, weeks make the months.
HH UN | mN v
This way, the sun is one, but the seasons are many.
N N N N H v7v7v
Nanak, the same way the Creator has His many Forms in
His Creation. ||2||2||
N H| HJM 9 v
Raag Dhanaasaree, First Mehla.
NN H M | 8U U|N |N
HKM HN H| v
Sky is a plate, the sun and the moon are the lamps, and the
stars are pearls. (Guru ji is describing the Arti: lamp-
worship, performed by nature).
HMmM F 8 N HNM
|U M H| v9v
The (burning) incense is the wind from the hill that is laden
with the sandalwood-fragrance, and this wind is the
Chanwar: whisk (hair-wisp), fanning over You. All the
plants are an offering of the flowers to You, my Luminous-
Lord! ||1||
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NH| m| J|U v K |
m| v
What an Arti (lamp-worship) of Yours this is! The Lord,
Savior from this (fearful) world-ocean, this is Your
(wonderful, natural) Arti: lamp-worship!
mJ HU H | v9vJv
(In this joy: Arti) the flute of the Anhat-Shabad - celestial-
sound, is playing. ||1||Pause||
HJH J|J |J N HJH
H| UN J| v
Thousands of the (visible) eyes are Yours, though You
have no eyes, Yours are all these (visible) thousands of
forms. (Eyes of the people are Your eyes).
HJH U |HM UN U N | HJH
N |U 8M HJ| v7v
You have thousands of delicate feet (in the visible form),
and yet You do not have even a single foot (in invisible
form). The same way, You have no nose, but you have
thousands of noses (of the people). This play of Yours has
enchanted me. ||2||
H H|J H| H| J H|U v
The light (Life, soul, God awareness) within everyone, You
are that Light.
|H U 8|F H H|J 8F J|U v
By that Light (God), there is the light (Soul, God
awareness) in all.
N H| H| N J|U v
Through the Guru's teachings, the Light (God awareness)
shines within.
H |H H m| J|U vv
All which is going on within Your discipline, is Your Arti:
lamp-worship. ||3||
J| 8F NM HNU M| H m|U
H|J mJ| |mH v
My bumblebee mind is enchanted by the lotus-feet of the
Lord, day and night I thirst for them.
|N HM U|J N H|N N J|U H
|U H v0vv
Bestow the water of Your Mercy on the thirsty Nanak the
weaver-bird (papeehaa), so that he may ever stay attached
to Your Name. ||4||3|| (Papeehaa: weaver-bird, yearns for a
drop of rain that falls into its mouth at a certain auspicious
moment. Guru Nank says that he is yearning like a weaver-
bird, to meet You).
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N N| | HJM 0 v

N|H N| N J |m |H|M H
KM K J v
This town: body, got filled with sex and anger. Meeting
with the True Guru, cut these two into pieces (Removed the
sex and anger).
| |M |M N |Um H| J|
|M HKM HK J v9v
Due to destiny based on the deeds of the previous lives, by
meeting with the Guru the mind got fixed on the Gods
Name. ||1||
N| H mHM| K J v
To bow to the Saint: Guru, with your folded hands is the
act of great merit.
N| KK K J v9v J v
Bow down humbly (to God), this is a deed of virtue.
||1||Pause||
HN J| H HU H|Fm | m|
JH NK J v
The worldly people fail to enjoy the love of God, because
they have ego.
|H |H 8M|J 8 U |J HHNM
HJ|J |H| KK J v7v
In their lives, such people keep suffering due to ego, and
they have to bear death. ||2||
J| H J| J| |H HHF U HH
HF K J v
The devotees of the Lord stay absorbed in His Name, and
their pain of the cycle of birth and death in the world ends.
m|H| |Um HH J H
K JHK J vv
They find (Realize) the Immortal-Being: God, and get
honored throughout the world. ||3||
JH N| HHN| J|
K K J v
Though helpless (poor) and meek, I belong to You,
Greatest of the great, please, save me!
H N H m N J J| H J|
H HK J v0v0v
To Your devotee Nanak, Your Name is the sustenance and
support, from Your Name he gets peace - comfort. ||4||4||
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N N| | HJM v
Raag Gauree Poorbee, Fifth Mehla.
N | HFJ H H| H JM N|
M v
Friends, listen to what I say, now is the time (this life) to
serve the saints - God-Oriented persons (To get their
blessings to realize God).
U|J | 8MJ J| MJ mN H
HJM v9v
Recite the Name of the Lord in this world, so that you stay
in peace after death - in the next world. ||1||
m W |UH F v H N |H|M
NH H v9v J v
The life passes day and night. My mind, meet the Guru so
that he sets the things right: attaches you to the recitation of
the Name of God. ||1||Pause||
|UJ HH |N HH H|J |U JH
|Nm| v
This world stays in doubts: God is or not, but those who
understand Him cross the world-ocean.
|HH|J HN|U |m |UJ H mN N
|| H| v7v
Those, whose doubts get removed by the Grace of the Lord,
He attaches them to the recitation of His name, and they
come to know the Mysteries of His. ||2||
H N mU HU| |JJ J| N H|J
H v
Make the deal for which you have come to the world
(Recite the Name of God), and through the Grace of the
Guru the Lord will settle in your mind.
|H W| HJM J H HJH J|
J|UN vv
You will attain the state of union with God with ease and
without botherations, and your cycle of birth and death will
end. ||3||
mHH| | H H N| v
The Knower of the Mind, the Maker of the Destiny, the
Fulfiller of Desires,
N UH |UJ H HN H N N| H
N| v0vv
Your devotee Nanak begs for Your blessings to make him
the dust of the feet of the saints - put in his heart the love of
the Lord. ||4||5||