Ang-1001 — Chapter 7
O my mind, enshrine the Naam, the Name of the Lord, within your heart.
Love the Lord, and commit your mind and body to Him; forget everything else. ||1||Pause||
Soul, mind, body and breath of life belong to God; eliminate your self-conceit.
Meditate, vibrate on the Lord of the Universe, and all your desires shall be fulfilled; O Nanak, you shall never be defeated. ||2||4||27||
Maaroo, Fifth Mehl:
Renounce your self-conceit, and the fever shall depart; become the dust of the feet of the Holy.
He alone receives Your Name, Lord, whom You bless with Your Mercy. ||1||
O my mind, drink in the Ambrosial Nectar of the Naam, the Name of the Lord.
Abandon other bland, insipid tastes; become immortal, and live throughout the ages. ||1||Pause||
Savor the essence of the One and only Naam; love the Naam, focus and attune yourself to the Naam.
Nanak has made the One Lord his only friend, companion and relative. ||2||5||28||
Maaroo, Fifth Mehl:
He nourishes and preserves mortals in the womb of the mother, so that the fiery heat does not hurt them.
That Lord and Master protects us here. Understand this in your mind. ||1||
O my mind, take the Support of the Naam, the Name of the Lord.
Understand the One who created you; the One God is the Cause of causes. ||1||Pause||
Remember the One Lord in your mind, renounce your clever tricks, and give up all your religious robes.
Meditating in remembrance forever on the Lord, Har, Har, O Nanak, countless beings have been saved. ||2||6||29||
Maaroo, Fifth Mehl:
His Name is the Purifier of sinners; He is the Master of the masterless.
In the vast and terrifying world-ocean, he is the raft for those who have such destiny inscribed on their foreheads. ||1||
Without the Naam, the Name of the Lord, huge numbers of companions have drowned.
Even if someone does not remember the Lord, the Cause of causes, still, the Lord reaches out with His hand, and saves him. ||1||Pause||
In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, chant the Glorious Praises of the Lord, and take the Path of the Ambrosial Name of the Lord.
Shower me with Your Mercy, O Lord; listening to Your sermon, Nanak lives. ||2||7||30||
Maaroo, Anjulee ~ With Hands Cupped In Prayer, Fifth Mehl, Seventh House:
One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
Union and separation are ordained by the Primal Lord God.
The puppet is made from the five elements.
By the Command of the Dear Lord King, the soul came and entered into the body. ||1||
In that place, where the fire rages like an oven,
in that darkness where the body lies face down
- there, one remembers his Lord and Master with each and every breath, and then he is rescued. ||2||
Then, one comes out from within the womb,
and forgetting his Lord and Master, he attaches his consciousness to the world.
He comes and goes, and wanders in reincarnation; he cannot remain anywhere. ||3||
The Merciful Lord Himself emancipates.
He created and established all beings and creatures.
Those who depart after having been victorious in this priceless human life - O Nanak, their coming into the world is approved. ||4||1||31||
✦ Connected Across Traditions
The Golden Rule
Matthew 7:12
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
Hadith (An-Nawawi 13)
“None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.”
Leviticus 19:18
“Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Mahabharata 5.1517
“One should never do to another what one regards as injurious to oneself.”
Divine Compassion & Mercy
Quran 1:1
“In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.”
Psalm 23:1
“The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.”
Luke 6:36
“Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.”
Snp 1.8
“As a mother would risk her life to protect her child, her only child, even so should one cultivate a limitless heart with regard to all beings.”
The Path to Wisdom
Proverbs 4:7
“Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding.”
Dhammapada 20:282
“Wisdom springs from meditation; without meditation wisdom wanes.”
Analects 2:11
“If you study the past and use it to understand the present, you are worthy of being a teacher.”
Tao Te Ching 33
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”
Good vs Evil / Light vs Darkness
Yasna 30:3
“Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action.”
John 1:5
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
Dhammapada 1:1-2
“Mind is the forerunner of all actions. If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows like a shadow.”
Genesis 1:3
“And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.”