Ang-701 — Chapter 98
Says Nanak, loving the True Lord, the mind's egotism and self-conceit is eradicated.
Those who speak and listen to the Lord's Name, all find peace. Those who believe in it, obtain the supreme treasure. ||4||4||
Bilaaval, Third Mehl:
The Lord Himself attaches the Gurmukh to His Love;
joyful melodies permeate his home, and he is embellished with the Word of the Guru's Shabad.
The women come and sing the songs of joy.
Meeting with their Beloved, lasting peace is obtained. ||1||
I am a sacrifice to those, whose minds are filled with the Lord.
Meeting with the humble servant of the Lord, peace is obtained, and one intuitively sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||1||Pause||
They are always imbued with Your Joyful Love;
O Dear Lord, You Yourself come to dwell in their minds.
They obtain eternal glory.
The Gurmukhs are united in the Lord's Union. ||2||
The Gurmukhs are imbued with the love of the Word of the Shabad.
They abide in the home of their own being, singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord.
They are dyed in the deep crimson color of the Lord's Love; they look so beautiful.
This dye never fades away; they are absorbed in the True Lord. ||3||
The Shabad deep within the nucleus of the self dispels the darkness of ignorance.
Meeting with my Friend, the True Guru, I have obtained spiritual wisdom.
Those who are attuned to the True Lord, do not have to enter the cycle of reincarnation again.
O Nanak, my Perfect Guru implants the Naam, the Name of the Lord, deep within. ||4||5||
Bilaaval, Third Mehl:
From the Perfect Guru, I have obtained glorious greatness.
The Naam, the Name of the Lord, has spontaneously come to abide in my mind.
Through the Word of the Shabad, I have burnt away egotism and Maya.
Through the Guru, I have obtained honor in the Court of the True Lord. ||1||
I serve the Lord of the Universe; I have no other work to do.
Night and day, my mind is in ecstasy; as Gurmukh, I beg for the bliss-giving Naam. ||1||Pause||
From the mind itself, mental faith is obtained.
Through the Guru, I have realized the Shabad.
How rare is that person, who looks upon life and death alike.
She shall never die again, and shall not have to see the Messenger of Death. ||2||
Within the home of the self are all the millions of treasures.
The True Guru has revealed them, and my egotistical pride is gone.
I keep my meditation always focused on the Cosmic Lord.
Night and day, I sing the One Name. ||3||
I have obtained glorious greatness in this age,
from the Perfect Guru, meditating on the Naam.
Wherever I look, I see the Lord permeating and pervading.
He is forever the Giver of peace; His worth cannot be estimated. ||4||
By perfect destiny, I have found the Perfect Guru.
He has revealed to me the treasure of the Naam, deep within the nucleus of my self.
The Word of the Guru's Shabad is so very sweet.
O Nanak, my thirst is quenched, and my mind and body have found peace. ||5||6||4||6||10||
Raag Bilaaval, Fourth Mehl, Third House:
One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
Effort and intelligence come from God, the Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts; as He wills, they act.
As the violinist plays upon the strings of the violin, so does the Lord play the living beings. ||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.”
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.”