Ang-1101 — Chapter 41
Entangled in disease, they cannot stay still, even for an instant.
Without the True Guru, the disease is never cured. ||3||
When the Supreme Lord God grants His Mercy,
He grabs hold of the mortal's arm, and pulls him up and out of the disease.
Reaching the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, the mortal's bonds are broken.
Says Nanak, the Guru cures him of the disease. ||4||7||20||
Bhairao, Fifth Mehl:
When He comes to mind, then I am in supreme bliss.
When He comes to mind, then all my pains are shattered.
When He comes to mind, my hopes are fulfilled.
When He comes to mind, I never feel sadness. ||1||
Deep within my being, my Sovereign Lord King has revealed Himself to me.
The Perfect Guru has inspired me to love Him. ||1||Pause||
When He comes to mind, I am the king of all.
When He comes to mind, all my affairs are completed.
When He comes to mind, I am dyed in the deep crimson of His Love.
When He comes to mind, I am ecstatic forever. ||2||
When He comes to mind, I am wealthy forever.
When He comes to mind, I am free of doubt forever.
When He comes to mind, then I enjoy all pleasures.
When He comes to mind, I am rid of fear. ||3||
When He comes to mind, I find the home of peace and poise.
When He comes to mind, I am absorbed in the Primal Void of God.
When He comes to mind, I continually sing the Kirtan of His Praises.
Nanak's mind is pleased and satisfied with the Lord God. ||4||8||21||
Bhairao, Fifth Mehl:
My Father is Eternal, forever alive.
My brothers live forever as well.
My friends are permanent and imperishable.
My family abides in the home of the self within. ||1||
I have found peace, and so all are at peace.
The Perfect Guru has united me with my Father. ||1||Pause||
My mansions are the highest of all.
My countries are infinite and uncountable.
My kingdom is eternally stable.
My wealth is inexhaustible and permanent. ||2||
My glorious reputation resounds throughout the ages.
My fame has spread in all places and interspaces.
My praises echo in each and every house.
My devotional worship is known to all people. ||3||
My Father has revealed Himself within me.
The Father and son have joined together in partnership.
Says Nanak, when my Father is pleased,
then the Father and son are joined together in love, and become one. ||4||9||22||
Bhairao, Fifth Mehl:
The True Guru, the Primal Being, is free of revenge and hate; He is God, the Great Giver.
I am a sinner; You are my Forgiver.
That sinner, who finds no protection anywhere
- if he comes seeking Your Sanctuary, then he becomes immaculate and pure. ||1||
Pleasing the True Guru, I have found peace.
Meditating on the Guru, I have obtained all fruits and rewards. ||1||Pause||
I humbly bow to the Supreme Lord God, the True Guru.
My mind and body are Yours; all the world is Yours.
When the veil of illusion is removed, then I come to see You.
You are my Lord and Master; You are the King of all. ||2||
When it pleases Him, even dry wood becomes green.
When it pleases Him, rivers flow across the desert sands.
When it pleases Him, all fruits and rewards are obtained.
Grasping hold of the Guru's feet, my anxiety is dispelled. ||3||
✦ 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.”
Impermanence & Letting Go
Dhammapada 20:277
“All conditioned things are impermanent. When one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.”
Tao Te Ching 76
“A man is born gentle and weak. At his death he is hard and stiff. The soft and yielding is the disciple of life.”
Ecclesiastes 3:1-2
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.”
Bhagavad Gita 2:22
“As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.”
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.”