Ang-151 — Chapter 40
With my feet, I walk on the Path of my Lord and Master. ||1||
It is a good time, when I remember Him in meditation.
Meditating on the Naam, the Name of the Lord, I cross over the terrifying world-ocean. ||1||Pause||
With your eyes, behold the Blessed Vision of the Saints.
Record the Immortal Lord God within your mind. ||2||
Listen to the Kirtan of His Praises, at the Feet of the Holy.
Your fears of birth and death shall depart. ||3||
Enshrine the Lotus Feet of your Lord and Master within your heart.
Thus this human life, so difficult to obtain, shall be redeemed. ||4||51||120||
Gauree, Fifth Mehl:
Those, upon whom the Lord Himself showers His Mercy,
chant the Naam, the Name of the Lord, with their tongues. ||1||
Forgetting the Lord, superstition and sorrow shall overtake you.
Meditating on the Naam, doubt and fear shall depart. ||1||Pause||
Listening to the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises, and singing the Lord's Kirtan,
misfortune shall not even come near you. ||2||
Working for the Lord, His humble servants look beautiful.
The fire of Maya does not touch them. ||3||
Within their minds, bodies and mouths, is the Name of the Merciful Lord.
Nanak has renounced other entanglements. ||4||52||121||
Gauree, Fifth Mehl:
Renounce your cleverness, and your cunning tricks.
Seek the Support of the Perfect Guru. ||1||
Your pain shall depart, and in peace, you shall sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord.
Meeting the Perfect Guru, let yourself be absorbed in the Lord's Love. ||1||Pause||
The Guru has given me the Mantra of the Name of the Lord.
My worries are forgotten, and my anxiety is gone. ||2||
Meeting with the Merciful Guru, I am in ecstasy.
Showering His Mercy, He has cut away the noose of the Messenger of Death. ||3||
Says Nanak, I have found the Perfect Guru;
Maya shall no longer harass me. ||4||53||122||
Gauree, Fifth Mehl:
The Perfect Guru Himself has saved me.
The self-willed manmukhs are afflicted with misfortune. ||1||
Chant and meditate on the Guru, the Guru, O my friend.
Your face shall be radiant in the Court of the Lord. ||1||Pause||
Enshrine the Feet of the Guru within your heart;
your pains, enemies and bad luck shall be destroyed. ||2||
The Word of the Guru's Shabad is your Companion and Helper.
O Siblings of Destiny, all beings shall be kind to you. ||3||
When the Perfect Guru granted His Grace,
says Nanak, I was totally, completely fulfilled. ||4||54||123||
Gauree, Fifth Mehl:
Like beasts, they consume all sorts of tasty treats.
With the rope of emotional attachment, they are bound and gagged like thieves. ||1||
Their bodies are corpses, without the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy.
They come and go in reincarnation, and are destroyed by pain. ||1||Pause||
They wear all sorts of beautiful robes,
but they are still just scarecrows in the field, frightening away the birds. ||2||
All bodies are of some use,
but those who do not meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord, are totally useless. ||3||
Says Nanak, those unto whom the Lord becomes Merciful,
join the Saadh Sangat, and meditate on the Lord of the Universe. ||4||55||124||
Gauree, Fifth Mehl:
✦ 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.”
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.”