Ang-201 — Chapter 39
As the Lord attaches someone, so is he attached.
He alone is the Lord's servant, O Nanak, who is so blessed. ||8||6||
Gauree, Fifth Mehl:
Without meditating in remembrance on the Lord, one's life is like that of a snake.
This is how the faithless cynic lives, forgetting the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||1||
One who lives in meditative remembrance, even for an instant,
lives for hundreds of thousands and millions of days, and becomes stable forever. ||1||Pause||
Without meditating in remembrance on the Lord, one's actions and works are cursed.
Like the crow's beak, he dwells in manure. ||2||
Without meditating in remembrance on the Lord, one acts like a dog.
The faithless cynic is nameless, like the prostitute's son. ||3||
Without meditating in remembrance on the Lord, one is like a horned ram.
The faithless cynic barks out his lies, and his face is blackened. ||4||
Without meditating in remembrance on the Lord, one is like a donkey.
The faithless cynic wanders around in polluted places. ||5||
Without meditating in remembrance on the Lord, one is like a mad dog.
The greedy, faithless cynic falls into entanglements. ||6||
Without meditating in remembrance on the Lord, he murders his own soul.
The faithless cynic is wretched, without family or social standing. ||7||
When the Lord becomes merciful, one joins the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation.
Says Nanak, the Guru has saved the world. ||8||7||
Gauree, Fifth Mehl:
Through the Guru's Word, I have attained the supreme status.
The Perfect Guru has preserved my honor. ||1||
Through the Guru's Word, I meditate on the Name.
By Guru's Grace, I have obtained a place of rest. ||1||Pause||
I listen to the Guru's Word, and chant it with my tongue.
By Guru's Grace, my speech is like nectar. ||2||
Through the Guru's Word, my selfishness and conceit have been removed.
Through the Guru's kindness, I have obtained glorious greatness. ||3||
Through the Guru's Word, my doubts have been removed.
Through the Guru's Word, I see God everywhere. ||4||
Through the Guru's Word, I practice Raja Yoga, the Yoga of meditation and success.
In the Company of the Guru, all the people of the world are saved. ||5||
Through the Guru's Word, my affairs are resolved.
Through the Guru's Word, I have obtained the nine treasures. ||6||
Whoever places his hopes in my Guru,
has the noose of death cut away. ||7||
Through the Guru's Word, my good karma has been awakened.
O Nanak, meeting with the Guru, I have found the Supreme Lord God. ||8||8||
Gauree, Fifth Mehl:
I remember the Guru with each and every breath.
The Guru is my breath of life, the True Guru is my wealth. ||1||Pause||
Beholding the Blessed Vision of the Guru's Darshan, I live.
I wash the Guru's Feet, and drink in this water. ||1||
I take my daily bath in the dust of the Guru's Feet.
The egotistical filth of countless incarnations is washed off. ||2||
I wave the fan over the Guru.
Giving me His Hand, He has saved me from the great fire. ||3||
I carry water for the Guru's household;
from the Guru, I have learned the Way of the One Lord. ||4||
I grind the corn for the Guru's household.
By His Grace, all my enemies have become friends. ||5||
✦ 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.”
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.”