Ang-1301 — Chapter 17
They alone meet the Lord, the Lord God, their Lord and Master, whose love for the Lord is pre-ordained.
Servant Nanak meditates on the Naam, the Name of the Lord; through the Word of the Guru's Teachings, chant it consciously with your mind. ||1||
Fourth Mehl:
Seek the Lord God, your Best Friend; by great good fortune, He comes to dwell with the very fortunate ones.
Through the Perfect Guru, He is revealed, O Nanak, and one is lovingly attuned to the Lord. ||2||
Pauree:
Blessed, blessed, beauteous and fruitful is that moment, when service to the Lord becomes pleasing to the mind.
So proclaim the story of the Lord, O my GurSikhs; speak the Unspoken Speech of my Lord God.
How can I attain Him? How can I see Him? My Lord God is All-knowing and All-seeing.
Through the Word of the Guru's Teachings, the Lord reveals Himself; we merge in absorption in the Naam, the Name of the Lord.
Nanak is a sacrifice unto those who meditate on the Lord of Nirvaanaa. ||10||
Salok, Fourth Mehl:
One's eyes are anointed by the Lord God, when the Guru bestows the ointment of spiritual wisdom.
I have found God, my Best Friend; servant Nanak is intuitively absorbed into the Lord. ||1||
Fourth Mehl:
The Gurmukh is filled with peace and tranquility deep within. His mind and body are absorbed in the Naam, the Name of the Lord.
He thinks of the Naam, and reads the Naam; he remains lovingly attuned to the Naam.
He obtains the Treasure of the Naam, and is rid of anxiety.
Meeting with the True Guru, the Naam wells up, and all hunger and thirst depart.
O Nanak, one who is imbued with the Naam, gathers the Naam in his lap. ||2||
Pauree:
You Yourself created the world, and You Yourself control it.
Some are self-willed manmukhs - they lose. Others are united with the Guru - they win.
The Name of the Lord, the Lord God is Sublime. The fortunate ones chant it, through the Word of the Guru's Teachings.
All pain and poverty are taken away, when the Guru bestows the Lord's Name.
Let everyone serve the Enticing Enticer of the Mind, the Enticer of the World, who created the world, and controls it all. ||11||
Salok, Fourth Mehl:
The disease of egotism is deep within the mind; the self-willed manmukhs and the evil beings are deluded by doubt.
O Nanak, the disease is cured only by meeting with the True Guru, the Holy Friend. ||1||
Fourth Mehl:
My mind and body are embellished and exalted, when I behold the Lord with my eyes.
O Nanak, meeting with that God, I live, hearing His Voice. ||2||
Pauree:
The Creator is the Lord of the World, the Master of the Universe, the Infinite Primal Immeasurable Being.
Meditate on the Lord's Name, O my GurSikhs; the Lord is Sublime, the Lord's Name is Invaluable.
Those who meditate on Him in their hearts, day and night, merge with the Lord - there is no doubt about it.
By great good fortune, they join the Sangat, the Holy Congregation, and speak the Word of the Guru, the Perfect True Guru.
Let everyone meditate on the Lord, the Lord, the All-pervading Lord, by which all disputes and conflicts with Death are ended. ||12||
Salok, Fourth Mehl:
The humble servant of the Lord chants the Name, Har, Har. The foolish idiot shoots arrows at him.
O Nanak, the humble servant of the Lord is saved by the Love of the Lord. The arrow is turned around, and kills the one who shot it. ||1||
✦ 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.”
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.”
Humility & Surrender
Bhagavad Gita 18:66
“Abandon all varieties of dharma and simply surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions; do not fear.”
Matthew 5:5
“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”
Tao Te Ching 22
“If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial. If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.”
Quran 2:45
“Seek help through patience and prayer. It is indeed exacting, but not for those who are humble.”
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.”