Ang-501 — Chapter 89
The True Guru meets with those upon whose foreheads such blessed destiny is recorded. ||7||
Salok, Third Mehl:
They alone worship the Lord, who remain dead while yet alive; the Gurmukhs worship the Lord continually.
The Lord blesses them with the treasure of devotional worship, which no one can destroy.
They obtain the treasure of virtue, the One True Lord, within their minds.
O Nanak, the Gurmukhs remain united with the Lord; they shall never be separated again. ||1||
Third Mehl:
He does not serve the True Guru; how can he reflect upon the Lord?
He does not appreciate the value of the Shabad; the fool wanders in corruption and sin.
The blind and ignorant perform all sorts of ritualistic actions; they are in love with duality.
Those who take unjustified pride in themselves, are punished and humiliated by the Messenger of Death.
O Nanak, who else is there to ask? The Lord Himself is the Forgiver. ||2||
Pauree:
You, O Creator, know all things; all beings belong to You.
Those who are pleasing to You, You unite with Yourself; what can the poor creatures do?
You are all-powerful, the Cause of causes, the True Creator Lord.
Only those unite with you, Beloved Lord, whom you approve and who meditate on Guru's Word.
I am a sacrifice to my True Guru, who has allowed me to see my unseen Lord. ||8||
Salok, Third Mehl:
He is the Assayer of jewels; He contemplates the jewel.
He is ignorant and totally blind - he does not appreciate the value of the jewel.
The Jewel is the Word of the Guru's Shabad; the Knower alone knows it.
The fools take pride in themselves, and are ruined in birth and death.
O Nanak, he alone obtains the jewel, who, as Gurmukh, enshrines love for it.
Chanting the Naam, the Name of the Lord, forever and ever, make the Name of the Lord your daily occupation.
If the Lord shows His Mercy, then I keep Him enshrined within my heart. ||1||
Third Mehl:
They do not serve the True Guru, and they do not embrace love for the Lord's Name.
Do not even think that they are alive - the Creator Lord Himself has killed them.
Egotism is such a terrible disease; in the love of duality, they do their deeds.
O Nanak, the self-willed manmukhs are in a living death; forgetting the Lord, they suffer in pain. ||2||
Pauree:
Let all bow in reverence, to that humble being whose heart is pure within.
I am a sacrifice to that humble being whose mind is filled with the treasure of the Naam.
He has a discriminating intellect; he meditates on the Name of the Lord.
That True Guru is a friend to all; everyone is dear to Him.
The Lord, the Supreme Soul, is pervading everywhere; reflect upon the wisdom of the Guru's Teachings. ||9||
Salok, Third Mehl:
Without serving the True Guru, the soul is in the bondage of deeds done in ego.
Without serving the True Guru, one finds no place of rest; he dies, and is reincarnated, and continues coming and going.
Without serving the True Guru, one's speech is vapid and insipid; the Naam, the Name of the Lord, does not abide in his mind.
✦ 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.”
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.”