Ang-601 — Chapter 15
O my mind, meditate forever on the Perfect, Supreme Lord God, the Transcendent Lord. ||1||
Meditate in remembrance on the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, O mortal.
Your frail body shall perish, you ignorant fool. ||Pause||
Illusions and dream-objects possess nothing of greatness.
Without meditating on the Lord, nothing succeeds, and nothing will go along with you. ||2||
Acting in egotism and pride, his life passes away, and he does nothing for his soul.
Wandering and wandering all around, he is never satisfied; he does not remember the Name of the Lord. ||3||
Intoxicated with the taste of corruption, cruel pleasures and countless sins, he is consigned to the cycle of reincarnation.
Nanak offers his prayer to God, to eradicate his demerits. ||4||11||22||
Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:
Sing the Glorious Praises of the Perfect, Imperishable Lord, and the poison of sexual desire and anger shall be burnt away.
You shall cross over the awesome, arduous ocean of fire, in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy. ||1||
The Perfect Guru has dispelled the darkness of doubt.
Remember God with love and devotion; He is near at hand. ||Pause||
Drink in the sublime essence, the treasure of the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, and your mind and body shall remain satisfied.
The Transcendent Lord is totally permeating and pervading everywhere; where would He come from, and where would He go? ||2||
One whose mind is filled with the Lord, is a person of meditation, penance, self-restraint and spiritual wisdom, and a knower of reality.
The Gurmukh obtains the jewel of the Naam; his efforts come to perfect fruition. ||3||
All his struggles, sufferings and pains are dispelled, and the noose of death is cut away from him.
Says Nanak, God has extended His Mercy, and so his mind and body blossom forth. ||4||12||23||
Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:
God is the Doer, the Cause of causes, the Great Giver; God is the Supreme Lord and Master.
The Merciful Lord created all beings; God is the Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts. ||1||
My Guru is Himself my friend and support.
I am in celestial peace, bliss, joy, pleasure and wondrous glory. ||Pause||
Seeking the Sanctuary of the Guru, my fears have been dispelled, and I am accepted in the Court of the True Lord.
Singing His Glorious Praises, and worshipping in adoration the Name of the Lord, I have reached my destination. ||2||
Everyone applauds and congratulates me; the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, is dear to me.
I am forever a sacrifice to my God, who has totally protected and preserved my honor. ||3||
They are saved, who receive the Blessed Vision of His Darshan; they listen to the spiritual dialogue of the Naam.
Nanak's God has become Merciful to him; he has arrived home in ecstasy. ||4||13||24||
Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:
In God's Sanctuary, all fears depart, suffering disappears, and peace is obtained.
When the Supreme Lord God and Master becomes merciful, we meditate on the Perfect True Guru. ||1||
O Dear God, You are my Lord Master and Great Giver.
By Your Mercy, O God, Merciful to the meek, imbue me with Your Love, that I might sing Your Glorious Praises. ||Pause||
The True Guru has implanted the treasure of the Naam within me, and all my anxieties have been dispelled.
✦ 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.”