Ang-151 — Chapter 42
Gauree, Fifth Mehl:
Keep the Word of the Guru's Shabad in your mind.
Meditating in remembrance on the Naam, the Name of the Lord, all anxiety is removed. ||1||
Without the Lord God, there is no one else at all.
He alone preserves and destroys. ||1||Pause||
Enshrine the Guru's Feet in your heart.
Meditate on Him and cross over the ocean of fire. ||2||
Focus your meditation on the Guru's Sublime Form.
Here and hereafter, you shall be honored. ||3||
Renouncing everything, I have come to the Guru's Sanctuary.
My anxieties are over - O Nanak, I have found peace. ||4||61||130||
Gauree, Fifth Mehl:
Remembering Him in meditation, all pains are gone.
The jewel of the Naam, the Name of the Lord, comes to dwell in the mind. ||1||
O my mind, chant the Bani, the Hymns of the Lord of the Universe.
The Holy People chant the Lord's Name with their tongues. ||1||Pause||
Without the One Lord, there is no other at all.
By His Glance of Grace, eternal peace is obtained. ||2||
Make the One Lord your friend, intimate and companion.
Write in your mind the Word of the Lord, Har, Har. ||3||
The Lord Master is totally pervading everywhere.
Nanak sings the Praises of the Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts. ||4||62||131||
Gauree, Fifth Mehl:
The whole world is engrossed in fear.
Those who have the Naam, the Name of the Lord, as their Support, feel no fear. ||1||
Fear does not affect those who take to Your Sanctuary.
You do whatever You please. ||1||Pause||
In pleasure and in pain, the world is coming and going in reincarnation.
Those who are pleasing to God, find peace. ||2||
Maya pervades the awesome ocean of fire.
Those who have found the True Guru are calm and cool. ||3||
Please preserve me, O God, O Great Preserver!
Says Nanak, what a helpless creature I am! ||4||63||132||
Gauree, Fifth Mehl:
By Your Grace, I chant Your Name.
By Your Grace, I obtain a seat in Your Court. ||1||
Without You, O Supreme Lord God, there is no one.
By Your Grace, everlasting peace is obtained. ||1||Pause||
If You abide in the mind, we do not suffer in sorrow.
By Your Grace, doubt and fear run away. ||2||
O Supreme Lord God, Infinite Lord and Master,
You are the Inner-knower, the Searcher of all hearts. ||3||
I offer this prayer to the True Guru:
O Nanak, may I be blessed with the treasure of the True Name. ||4||64||133||
Gauree, Fifth Mehl:
As the husk is empty without the grain,
so is the mouth empty without the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||1||
O mortal, chant continually the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.
Without the Naam, cursed is the body, which shall be taken back by Death. ||1||Pause||
Without the Naam, no one's face shows good fortune.
Without the Husband, where is the marriage? ||2||
Forgetting the Naam, and attached to other tastes,
no desires are fulfilled. ||3||
O God, grant Your Grace, and give me this gift.
Please, let Nanak chant Your Name, day and night. ||4||65||134||
✦ Connected Across Traditions
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.”