Ang-701 — Chapter 5
Salok:
Whatever I wish for, that I receive.
Meditating on the Naam, the Name of the Lord, Nanak has found total peace. ||4||
Chhant:
My mind is now emancipated; I have joined the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy.
As Gurmukh, I chant the Naam, and my light has merged into the Light.
Remembering the Lord's Name in meditation, my sins have been erased; the fire has been extinguished, and I am satisfied.
He has taken me by the arm, and blessed me with His kind mercy; He has accepted me His own.
The Lord has hugged me in His embrace, and merged me with Himself; the pains of birth and death have been burnt away.
Prays Nanak, He has blessed me with His kind mercy; in an instant, He unites me with Himself. ||4||2||
Jaitsree, Chhant, Fifth Mehl:
The world is like a temporary way-station, but it is filled with pride.
People commit countless sins; they are dyed in the color of the love of Maya.
In greed, emotional attachment and egotism, they are drowning; they do not even think of dying.
Children, friends, worldly occupations and spouses - they talk of these things, while their lives are passing away.
When their pre-ordained days have run their course, O mother, they behold the Messengers of the Righteous Judge of Dharma, and they suffer.
The karma of their past deeds cannot be erased, O Nanak, if they have not earned the wealth of the Lord's Name. ||1||
He makes all sorts of efforts, but he does not sing the Lord's Name.
He wanders around in countless incarnations; he dies, only to be born again.
As beasts, birds, stones and trees - their number cannot be known.
As are the seeds he plants, so are the pleasures he enjoys; he receives the consequences of his own actions.
He loses the jewel of this human life in the gamble, and God is not pleased with him at all.
Prays Nanak, wandering in doubt, he does not find any rest, even for an instant. ||2||
Youth has passed, and old age has taken its place.
The hands tremble, the head shakes, and the eyes do not see.
The eyes do not see, without vibrating and meditating on the Lord; he must leave behind the attractions of Maya, and depart.
He burnt his mind and body for his relatives, but now, they do not listen to him, and they throw dust on his head.
Love for the infinite, Perfect Lord does not abide in his mind, even for an instant.
Prays Nanak, the fort of paper is false - it is destroyed in an instant. ||3||
Nanak has come to the Sanctuary of the Lord's lotus feet.
God Himself has carried Him across the impassable, terrifying world-ocean.
Joining the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, I vibrate and meditate on the Lord; God has made me His own, and saved me.
The Lord has approved of me, and blessed me with His Name; He did not take anything else into consideration.
I have found the infinite Lord and Master, the treasure of virtue, which my mind had yearned for.
Prays Nanak, I am satisfied forever; I have eaten the food of the Lord's Name. ||4||2||3||
Jaitsree, Fifth Mehl, Vaar With Saloks:
One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
Salok:
In the beginning, He was pervading; in the middle, He is pervading; in the end, He will be pervading. He is the Transcendent Lord.
The Saints remember in meditation the all-pervading Lord God. O Nanak, He is the Destroyer of sins, the Lord of the universe. ||1||
✦ 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.”
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.”