Ang-1101 — Chapter 48
As Gurmukh, I chant the Name of the Lord.
My anxiety is gone, and I am in love with the Naam, the Name of the Lord.
I was asleep for countless lifetimes, but I have now awakened. ||1||
Granting His Grace, He has linked me to His service.
In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, all pleasures are found. ||1||Pause||
The Word of the Guru's Shabad has eradicated disease and evil.
My mind has absorbed the medicine of the Naam.
Meeting with the Guru, my mind is in bliss.
All treasures are in the Name of the Lord God. ||2||
My fear of birth and death and the Messenger of Death has been dispelled.
In the Saadh Sangat, the inverted lotus of my heart has blossomed forth.
Singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord, I have found eternal, abiding peace.
All my tasks are perfectly accomplished. ||3||
This human body, so difficult to obtain, is approved by the Lord.
Chanting the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, it has become fruitful.
Says Nanak, God has blessed me with His Mercy.
With every breath and morsel of food, I meditate on the Lord, Har, Har. ||4||29||42||
Bhairao, Fifth Mehl:
His Name is the Highest of all.
Sing His Glorious Praises, forever and ever.
Meditating in remembrance on Him, all pain is dispelled.
All pleasures come to dwell in the mind. ||1||
O my mind, meditate in remembrance on the True Lord.
In this world and the next, you shall be saved. ||1||Pause||
The Immaculate Lord God is the Creator of all.
He gives sustenance to all beings and creatures.
He forgives millions of sins and mistakes in an instant.
Through loving devotional worship, one is emancipated forever. ||2||
True wealth and true glorious greatness,
and eternal, unchanging wisdom, are obtained from the Perfect Guru.
When the Protector, the Savior Lord, bestows His Mercy,
all spiritual darkness is dispelled. ||3||
I focus my meditation on the Supreme Lord God.
The Lord of Nirvaanaa is totally pervading and permeating all.
Eradicating doubt and fear, I have met the Lord of the World.
The Guru has become merciful to Nanak. ||4||30||43||
Bhairao, Fifth Mehl:
Meditating in remembrance on Him, the mind is illumined.
Suffering is eradicated, and one comes to dwell in peace and poise.
They alone receive it, unto whom God gives it.
They are blessed to serve the Perfect Guru. ||1||
All peace and comfort are in Your Name, God.
Twenty-four hours a day, O my mind, sing His Glorious Praises. ||1||Pause||
You shall receive the fruits of your desires,
when the Name of the Lord comes to dwell in the mind.
Meditating on the Lord, your comings and goings cease.
Through loving devotional worship, lovingly focus your attention on God. ||2||
Sexual desire, anger and egotism are dispelled.
Love and attachment to Maya are broken.
Lean on God's Support, day and night.
The Supreme Lord God has given this gift. ||3||
Our Lord and Master is the Creator, the Cause of causes.
He is the Inner-knower, the Searcher of all hearts.
Bless me with Your Grace, Lord, and link me to Your service.
Slave Nanak has come to Your Sanctuary. ||4||31||44||
Bhairao, Fifth Mehl:
One who does not repeat the Naam, the Name of the Lord, shall die of shame.
Without the Name, how can he ever sleep in peace?
The mortal abandons meditative remembrance of the Lord, and then wishes for the state of supreme salvation;
✦ 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.”
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.”