Ang-401 — Chapter 48
Aasaa, Fourth Mehl, Chhant:
My Lord of the Universe is great, unapproachable, unfathomable, primal, immaculate and formless.
His condition cannot be described; His Glorious Greatness is immeasurable. My Lord of the Universe is invisible and infinite.
The Lord of the Universe is invisible, infinite and unlimited. He Himself knows Himself.
What should these poor creatures say? How can they speak of and describe You?
That Gurmukh who is blessed by Your Glance of Grace contemplates You.
My Lord of the Universe is great, unapproachable, unfathomable, primal, immaculate and formless. ||1||
You, O Lord, O Primal Being, are the Limitless Creator; Your limits cannot be found.
You are pervading and permeating each and every heart, everywhere, You are contained in all.
Within the heart is the Transcendent, Supreme Lord God, whose limits cannot be found.
He has no form or shape; He is unseen and unknown. The Gurmukh sees the unseen Lord.
He remains in continual ecstasy, day and night, and is spontaneously absorbed into the Naam.
You, O Lord, O Primal Being, are the Limitless Creator; Your limits cannot be found. ||2||
You are the True, Transcendent Lord, forever imperishable. The Lord, Har, Har, is the treasure of virtue.
The Lord God, Har, Har, is the One and only; there is no other at all. You Yourself are the all-knowing Lord.
You are the all-knowing Lord, the most exalted and auspicious; there is no other as great as You.
The Word of Your Shabad is pervading in all; whatever You do, comes to pass.
The One Lord God is permeating all; the Gurmukh comes to understand the Lord's Name.
You are the True, Transcendent Lord, forever imperishable. The Lord, Har, Har, is the treasure of virtue. ||3||
You are the Creator of all, and all greatness is Yours. As it pleases Your Will, so do we act.
As it pleases Your Will, so do we act. All are merged into Your Shabad.
When it pleases Your Will, we obtain greatness through Your Shabad.
The Gurmukh obtains wisdom, and eliminates his self-conceit, and remains absorbed in the Shabad.
The Gurmukh obtains Your incomprehensible Shabad; O Nanak, he remains merged in the Naam.
You are the Creator of all, and all greatness is Yours. As it pleases Your Will, so do we act. ||4||7||14||
One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
Aasaa, Fourth Mehl, Chhant, Fourth House:
My eyes are wet with the Nectar of the Lord, and my mind is imbued with His Love, O Lord King.
The Lord applied His touch-stone to my mind, and found it one hundred per cent gold.
As Gurmukh, I am dyed in the deep red of the poppy, and my mind and body are drenched with His Love.
✦ 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.”