GEMS OF GURBANI

Guru Granth Sahib – 7

       

Kal kati raje kaasai dharma pankh kar uderia II

Kur amawas sachuh chandrama dise nahin charia II GG ang 145

Meaning: This Dark Age (kalyug) is butcher’s knife and the Kings have become butchers themselves. The moonless nights of falsehood and wrong doings the truth doesn’t seem to rise anywhere. Guru Nanak bewilders in pain to see the pain of mortals and asks the Lord in what way the mortals can be delivered? In another verse he says;

Andhi rayyat gyan vihuni bhauh bhare murdaar II GG ang 468 M1

The subjects (humanity) have become blind and they have lost their wisdom because they satisfy the fire of greed of officials with bribes (Carrion or murdaar). In this verse Guru Nanak further takes on all the false knowledgeable men who decorate themselves as religious men and wander place to place showing their wisdom by dancing and playing musical instruments and singing the praises of the knights and epic poems and calling themselves Pundits and amass wealth by false means. They leave home and hearth not knowing the real values of living.

This was an awaken call to ignorant people to wake up and recognize the truth.

Murakh pundit hikmat hujjat sanjjeh kare piyar II GG ang 469 M1

The fools call themselves scholars (Pundit) but do not hesitate to amass wealth by all falsehood and treacherous means because their love is wealth.

He further criticizes and challenges these so called scholars (Pundits): par pustak sandhya badeh II sill pujas bagul samadh II mukh jhhuth bhibhukan saruh II trey paal tihar bicharam II GG ang 470 M1  Guru Nanak says; you read the religious scriptures, you argue their contents, you do your evening pryares and sit in a trance like a crane. You put ashes on your forhead to show your religious side but speak falsehood. You recite the gaytri mantra three times and pretend to be religious by applying frontal mark, wearing rosary around your neck and wearing dhoti as dress and perform the religious rites but if you know the nature of the True Lord, isn’t all these rites and ways in vain?

He further challenges the Brahmin in another verse and calls them man eaters, having false trade, who don’t hesitate to eat the food earned by falsehood and who have abandoned the righteousness and piety and have become the butchers of the world.

Manaskhane karuh niwaz II chhuri vagayan tin gal tag II GG ang 471 M1

To continue…….