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On page 465 of Guru Granth Sahib Guru Nanak ji make the Nirbhau and Nirankar aspect of the Lord clearer in two stanzas and shlokas. He says: When the merciful Master shows His benevolence only then He is obtained. He is obtained when the self conceit is purged from within. He says; the hours of the day are like milk-maids (Gopis) of the Krisna and his herdsmen are like the four parts of the day. The wind, the water and the fire are like ornaments, the sun and moon are like incarnations that He has created to make earth His abode. Man exploits this earth and uses all its wealth to create wealth and gets more and more entangled in all this but without the knowledge of the divine all his plundering will not help and the messengers of death will devour him. There are many Gurus who along with their disciples play music and dance till they get their head and hair covered with dust, people laugh at them and then go home. They do this to earn their daily bread and sing of Krishna and gopis, of Sita and King Ram. Fearless and Formless is the True Master who has created this whole world.

Guru Nanak says; everything spins around in this world goes round and round like the oil press (Kolhu), the spinning wheel (charkha), the potter’s wheel, the top (lattu) and the endless whirl winds of the desert (Wavrola), the milk churner (madhani), the tumbling of the birds till they get breathless. All the entanglements of the world make a mortal like he is spinning on a stick. Nanak says; while pondering over Guru he has come to the fact that only the merciful Master can ferry the mortals across (Ocean or bhavsagar). We sing and dance around according to our deeds and the ways He wants us to do. We grow yearnings for all this dance and merry making then why not grow fear of Him that is love as well.

By reciting the Name of the Formless Lord one doesn’t go to hell. Your body and soul belong to Him. You eat what He gives you. Searching for anything else would be just waste of words. Then why not do virtuous deeds and be called humble being. Death is inevitable and comes in the form of old age whenever the measure of your breath is full.

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In Mul Mantra Guru Nanak has given many definitions to God and one of them is Nirbhau the literal meaning of which is without fear. Guru Nanak says; He is the only Being that has no fear but all His Creation like the sun, the moon, the earth, the fire , the wind, the ocean and the man moves under the grip of His fear. In the following stanza he explains this:

Bhay wich pawan vahe sadvau

Bhay wich chalehai lakh daryau

Bhay wich agan kadhe vaigar

Bhay wich dharti dabbi bhar

Bhay wic indu phire sir bhaar

Bhay wich raja dharma duaar

Bhay wich suraj bhay wich chandu

Koh crori chalat naa anant.

The fear of Almighty makes the wind to blow, the rivers to flow, fire to burn hot, earth to carry all the weight, the clouds to move head long ( rains to pour), Kings to follow the path of dharma, sun to shine and moon to spread light and for that they travel miles without an end.

God alone is the fearless Being, He is sovereign. Everything else moved under His discipline. Next in line of Guru Nanak is His formless Existence which he calls Nirankar in Mul Mantra. Nanak says; this Formless Being alone is fearless. Loads of Ramas came and ended in dust, there were stories of Krishna and recites of Vedas, many beggars who bend and turn and dance to many beats, the bazaars are full of pretenders who come and display all their exhibits of falsehood, there are Kings and queens O Nanak who wear earrings and necklaces worth lakhs on their bodies which will ultimately turn in to ashes. The divine knowledge is not sought by mere words. It is difficult to explain the Truth of His Being because it is hard like iron. It is His Grace alone that a recipient if obtains becomes exalted. All other means like pilgrimages, walking bare foot, offerings and many other instruments that man thinks can work to achieve are ruinous.

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The glory of Lord (The God) and His Creation that we have learned in Japuji Sahib has been again consolidated in Asa di waar. Guru Nanak has confirmed that His Creation is not an illusion instead it is a reality and a higher Truth. Creation and then taking care of it, destroying and regeneration on this principle the universe is sustaining. In the regeneration process the creation takes a new format and in this changed format its existence is sustained. In mul mantra Guru Nanak has maintained that God can never be destroyed so is His Creation. Birth and death are under His Command (Hukam) and due to His Will a mortal comes and goes: jamun marna hukam hai bhane aave jaye II pg 472.

Nanak hukami likhiye lekh II jeha vekhe teha vekh II pg 466

Destiny of a mortal is written under His Will and as a mortal sees Him so does He sees them. He has delightfully created this universe as His Abode and we realize this Truth that He has created continents and the solar system. His Truth, His command, His deliberations, His orders, His true Grace are sign of His presence, even though lacs and millions call Him true, His power and might is His Omnipresent existence but those who are born and die are the false ones.

Great is His glory that His Name is great, His justice is great, His throne is stable, His knowledge about our utterances and His grace to give us without asking, O Nanak ! He is all in all and cannot be narrated because what he does and why He does, He alone is aware of that. Guru Nanak says: ikanna hukam samai ikanna hukame kare vinas II ikanna bhane kadh laye ikanna maya wich niwas II meaning; It is His pleasure that some He absorbs in Himself and others he destroys. Some He withdraws from the illusion and others He leaves in such illusions. This He does because He can recognize those who are Gurmukh or God oriented and He reveals Himself to them with His enlightenment.

Guru Nanak wonders at the mysteries of The Lord which he explains in the next stanza (Pauri) : Marvelous is your word, your knowledge, your forms and colors, beings who roam about naked, the wind and the water, the fire that plays and works wonders, the wonderful earth with several mines that has   several sources of production, your ideas of merry making to which mortals get attached, you unite and then cause separation, you cause hunger and then satiate it, your praises and your eulogy, the great wilderness and a path is shown, your nearness and then going away. Your wonderful way to be there and beholding your position that O Nanak! I keep wondering upon your all wonderful ways and I am sure all those who recognize and realize this are perfectly fortunate ones.

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In northern India waar a type of poetry is usually sung to praise a knight who has achieved fame in the battlefields to invoke Bir- ras a kind of mood or feeling and prepare people for heroic deeds. Guru Nanak has written three Banis in bir ras or waar form but all these banis are in three different ragas. We shall be explaining the contents of Asa di Waar a poetry of bir ras that is sung in the early hours of the morning from Gurudwaras in the world. Asa di waar is not to invoke bir- ras but it is nothing less than that because it invokes awakening in people to learn the contemporary social conditions where Guru Nanak has literally challenged the rulers, religious heads and high caste people to show their short comings. By singing this poetry Guru Nanak has invoked Bir ras in his self and dared the mighty by a very sharp criticism. Even the Mogul rulers of his time couldn't touch him because his words were so full of truth and might have ashamed many mighty people who were doing wrong to the humanity.

 Asa di waar is also a true analysis of tenets of Sikhism which are explained in poetry form and remind us every day of the righteousness that we shall adopt to live a life of truthful person who believes in the greatness of God and His Creation and acts accordingly. In these bani he has stressed upon equality of the human race, equality to women, criticism of the rituals suggested by Brahman because they take you away from the existence of God and leave you entangled in the fake daily chores that are meaningless, he has criticized the different dressing of the so called religious heads to keep themselves above the masses. He has explained the meaningless acts like pilgrimages, bathing at holy places and visiting fake Gurus which are suggested to reach a union with the Almighty.

Asa di waar explains us why we should fear God, wonder about His existence and His Creations, the most important of all how we should aim in our life to become a perfect being that enlightens the part of God present in every being and merges into the Perfect One.

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The glory of Japuji Sahib:

In japuji Sahib Guru Nanak has asked questions like; How is Truth to be obtained? And how the falsehood or Kur (ignorance and darkness) can be vanished? He answers these questions himself by explaining and bringing us closer to the Truth that there is only Ond God and His Greatness, His Creation cannot be measured by human beings and once we know this Truth Guru Nanak makes us aware that He has also created His Will that works like an unwritten law for the whole of Universe that moves under His Command. In the final shloka Guruji remind us that:

Pawan Guru pani pita mata dharat mahat II diavas raat dui dai daiya khele sagal jagat II changyaiya buryaiya vache dharma hadoor II karmi appo apni ken ere ke dur II jinni naam dhiyaya gaye muskat ghaal II Nanak ke mukh ujjale keti chhutti naal II

Air is Guru, water is father and earth is great mother, the day and night are like matrons in whose lap the whole world plays (our immediate atmosphere is created with air or oxygen and the water element the combining of these both elements makes earth fertile and livable and sun revolve around it creating day and night and day and night on their basis the whole world comes to life and that is the great play created by the Almighty). In this whole play the merits and demerits of a person will be measured according to his deeds. With their actions some may come closer to the Almighty and some may go farther. Those who meditate on His Name may get a chance to be in His divine presence. After receiving His Grace their faces will brighten and all those who keep the company of such enlightened souls may benefit of His Grace.

The answer Guru Nanak has given in Japuji Sahib is so simple, he first guides us to acquire the knowledge and learn the truth about His Presence and then meditate on His Name to remove all malice from your being and purge all the animosity from within you and become ego free. Once humbled, getting His audience is not difficult and His Grace (Nadar) is bestowed upon you.

Human nature is very forgetful and distractive so reading this Bani is like an alarm clock in the ambrosial hours of the morning that reminds us that we have to now wake up and carry on our duties of the day.

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The glory of Japuji Sahib; God is the mainstay of the world

Guru Nanak says; In Puranas they say earth is held by a bull but who is holding the bull? He rejects this theory and says the mainstay of this world is God Himself and science has proved his version that earth moves on its own axis.

Kar kar vekhe nadir nihal II tithe khand mandal varbhand II je ke kathe ta ant naa ant II

God beholds the Creation which He has created and renders them happy (By casting His merciful glance). In that realm there are continents, worlds, solar system. If someone tries to describe them there are no limits and bounds of them (this proves Guru Nanak’s concept of God that he is trying to tell us in Mul Mantra or invocation).

Nanak says mystery of the world cannot be solved by anyone and we can never know why there are universes and laws of their functions. God beholds this world and He is the only one who can contemplate on it.

Nanak kathna karda saar II Jatuh pahara dhiraj suniyar II ahirun mattt ved hathiyar II bhau khala agan tap tao II Bhanda bhao amrit tit dhal II

Guru Nanak further says to know the truth of God and His creation one must learn that it is like iron that cannot be bent the way we want. We shall have patience like a Goldsmith who keeps hammering the gold on his anvil very patiently till it gets in desired shape and the rhythm of this hammering doesn’t disturb him and the temperature of his furnace to mould the gold doesn’t bother him. One must learn to be like a goldsmith; have patience like him, have knowledge hammered on you like his anvil, the fear of God like his blow pipe with which he blows in his furnace, meditate on His name like the temperature of the furnace, and make yourself like a utensil in which nectar of God’s name can be filled.

This is the realm of truth about the existence of God that Nanak has tried to explain us and guided us to the path to achieve it. He names this realm of His truth as Sachuh Khand which is God’s abode. His Will or Hukam prevails here and He constantly contemplates and has ingrained His Will in everyone and we shall follow His discipline to merge in His light. Those who are successful achieve His Grace and that is the salvation.

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His creation is infinite in other words His creation is limitless in space or size, His care and affection, His ways of creating the variety in environment, people of different races and colours, temperaments, characters and habits.

Aad anil anad anahat jug jug eko ves II Asan loi loi bhandar II joi kichhu payiya eko vaar II kar kar vekhe sirjunhaar II Nanak sacche ki sachi kar II

In other words: The primal being, pure sans beginning, indestructible who remain the same in all ages has His seat in all the worlds and His store houses are in all the world and whatever He has put in there was at once (contrary to the theory of evolution). Having created His creation He is beholding it.

Jis ghar jor kar vekhe soi II Nanak uttam neecch na koi II rati ruti, tith vaar pavan pani agni patal II tis wicch dharti thaap rakhi dharm saal II

He the creator has the power in His hand to exercises and see it. He has created nights, seasons, lunar and week days, the wind, water fire and nether worlds. In the midst of all this He created earth as home for His meditation. Guru Nanak further says: He placed beings of various types and colours, various and endless are their deeds and actions, endless are their names. All these being will be judged by their deeds and actions and those who reach the mark of acceptance by Him will be bestowed with His grace and will carry the mark of His merci the others will be examined for good or bad. This action of the Master is His duty for the realm of righteousness.

In the realm of knowledge He created many Brahmas, many Krishnas and Shivas to fashion and forms the earth with countless virtuous deeds and receives the orders and sermons. Countless moons, Indras, suns and universes, countless countries, innumerable proficient Gautamas, Yogis, innumerable gods and goddesses, many deities and demons and silent sages, oceans and jewels, numberless mines, languages, and kings and people with divine knowledge. There is no limit to His bounds. But in the domain of knowledge the divine deliberations are the only ones that dazzle or glitter. It takes you to the feel of celestial sounds where joy and amusement persist.

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God is ineffable means His greatness cannot be described. Kiv kar akha kiv salahi kiyo varni kiv jana II How to express, how to praise, how to describe and how to know (Thee O Lord)? Nanak! All are trying to describe you and one is wiser than the other. But The Master is great like His name and whatever He does, he knows only. There are nether worlds below the nether worlds and lacs of skies. The Hindu scriptures Vedas have tried to describe Him but are still trying and tired because nobody can fathom His greatness. Then there are Semitic scriptures like Torah, Quran and Anjil or Bible called Kateb in Guru Nanak’s times that claim there are eighteen thousand worlds but there is only one essence (that the Lord is limitless).
His greatness is so ineffable that Nanak says: Nanak wadda akhiye appe jane aap II salahi salah eti surat na payiya II nadia ate vahuh pave samund na janiye II In other words: O Nanak call Him great. He Himself knows His greatness. All those who praise Him they may never know His extent as rivers and rivulets they all ultimately fall into ocean but can never fathom its extent.
Limitless are His ways and limitless are His bounties. One cannot find any limits to His seeing and hearing. There is no limit of His creations. For knowing the vastness of His creation if one makes efforts He becomes more and more obscure.
O Lord your merits are priceless and your dealings are priceless, your treasures are priceless from which thousand take away but they remain priceless because your affection is priceless and your divine law is priceless. Your scales are priceless because your measurements for giving your affection and accepting the praises are priceless. Your benevolence is priceless and so is your order priceless. Beyond price and invaluable Lord cannot be expressed.
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The glory of japuji Sahib;

 God is Supreme – in the beginning stanzas of Japuji Guru Nanak ji explain us the Supreme nature of God. He is the truth, He was truth and He will ever be truth and from the beginning of ages His truth has been maintained by Himself. Even if one ponders lacs of times His conception are beyond human understanding so vast is His realm that we may collect all the wealth, knowledge, we may keep the vows of silence and all these material achievements will not go with us when it is time to depart it is His preordained Will that is maintained. It is His Will that bodies are created and souls are transmitted and greatness can be achieved. Though millions of description are made, His praises, His magnificence and excellences, His bounties and His power of Creation and then reducing to dust are sung, some say that He gives life and then takes it away but He is a great Giver and He will keep giving and man can get tired of taking from Him but He is the Supreme Commander who will keep walking on His path. Then how do we achieve Him? People ask for alms and He keeps bestowing, how should we chant His name, how can we see the door to His realm? Nanak says; chant His name in the ambrosial hours of the day and His benediction of life and clothing your soul that is human body and its salvation will be bestowed. Know thus O Nanak that He is True One and He is all by Himself and He is neither established nor created by anyone. They who serve Him obtain the honour of His benediction, all the pain will be gone and happiness can be taken home. Gurbani (reciting which one becomes Gurmukh- God centric) is the divine Word, Lords knowledge and through Gurbani Lord is realized that He is Supreme and all Pervading. He is the Guru,He is Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva and Parvati. Guru has explained to me that I cannot narrate Him, I cannot describe Him but He is the One Whom I shall not forget.

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Today on the 68 th anniversary of Indepenence are we just looking at the 'Modi'fication of India or we are still waiting for real Independence from Rapists, violence against women, girl child infanticide, suicide of farmers due to debts, violence against minorities,hunger and poverty, beggars at every traffic junction,corrupt politicians, corrupt govt. machinery, queues for reservations,guarantee for employment and many more woes troubling the people of this free country? A customary Happy Independence day!!!

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The glory of Japuji Sahib ;

In Guru Nanak’s time the practice of religion was to visit temples and undertake pilgrimages to pay obeisance and register your visits at these holy places, follow acts of mercy, charity to under privileged, undertake penance and austerities, take holy dips on auspicious days for merit in heaven and also inauspicious days to guard from evil. Then there were Naths and Jogis, sarwaryias (grave worshippers) who had sway over people’s psyche. For Guru Nanak both these paths were not acceptable as they didn’t lead to a union with God instead commerce was traded in the name of God. God has His own discipline, His own Will (Hukam). The Hindu belief in trinity of Creator, Preserver and Destroyer in Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva is not real and has no basis because they are creation of human imagination. God is Himself Brahma, Vishnu, Sihva, Parvati and Lakshmi and he performs all the functions of creation, preservation and destruction. He is all alone and all in all and there is no separate entity. Similarly he denies the role of Naths and Jogis who try to create miracles, take vow of silence, go in to trance and play scores of tricks to  show that they have established contact with the Almighty and can take devotee to His presence. Then there are Yogis who claim to overpower their senses and extend their life spans are all in vain and empty show because the strings of affairs of this world, His own creation are only in His hands. Guru Nanak names the Almighty with Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, Parvati, Lakshmi, Siddh, Buddh, nath and other myriads of Names to illustrate the functions performed by Him that are otherwise assigned to these sub Gods. He is the only Supreme Being, All pervading, Immanent, Bountiful.

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The glory of Japuji Sahib : Guru Granth Sahib ji’s message is secular thinking, no discrimination on the basis of caste, creed or social standing. Rituals, mantras, religious symbolism, pilgrimages and ceremonial acts of mercy, penance, austerities have no place in the messages. The principle line of thinking that gives us glimpses of messages that have been told in various ragas, shlokas by several Gurus, bhagatas are following:
1) God is the primal Lord and the ultimate truth. There is no other Truth than His existence ; Aad sacch jugaadh sacchuh II Hai bhi sacchuh Nanak hosi bhi sacchuh II
2) The purpose of life is to become truthful (sacchiar) and to become truthful one needs to follow the Will of God; hukam rajai cchalna Nanak likhiya naal II
3) To become truthful the veil of falsehood has to be lifted and the central theme of Japuji explains us this falsehood in which human beings are stuck up due to the prevailing religious practices that hinder our communion with Lord because we are not following His Will or Hukam. He explains us that we have a part of the Almighty in us that has to be invoked to mingle in His light as water mingles with water and remains water.
4) He mentions the existing socio- religious practices that leads to the multiplicity of Gods and Godesses by the Brahmin and then there are Naths and Jogis who go into trance and vow of silence to seek union with God and then there are Hatha yogis who try to increase the life span into four ages but all such practices are rejected by Guru Nanak. He even rejects the life style of all these so called religious movers and shakers because they are self centric and deviate from paying attention to One God concept.
5) God is Supreme
6) He is ineffable
7) His creation is infinite
8) He is All Pervading
9) He is Mainstay of the World and He is great and bountiful.
The mul mantra or invocation is technically not part of the japuji sahib but it explains the concept of God that is deciphered in Japuji sahib. Japuji sahib is not sung in to any raga but recited in the manner of meditation that is exhilarating, elevating to the mind and soul and invokes feeling of well being.

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The glory of Japuji Sahib :

My father in law always recited first five puari of japuji that he had learned from someone as he could not read and write. The devotion and conviction with which he did that every morning was simply fascinating. I once asked him whether he understood the meaning of what he is reciting  and his answer was simple like his devotion to Gurbani, he said; ‘when you chant Gurbani loudly all those spaces where its sound reaches becomes immaculate and holy.’ That was his cosmic relation with the Almighty God and his confirmed belief in Gurbani. This mechanized recitation of all banis without understanding their message is way of life for many and they feel satisfied that they are following something divine. The contentment that they have done their religious duty is keeping them happy. The missing inquisitiveness and going in depth to understand the message doesn’t bother simple people. It is only when we start learning and questioning that in depth knowledge becomes requirement. In the beginning Guru Nanak ji put forward his message by creating melodrama and playing pranks. He needed this message to put forward by creating dramatic situation because even learned people are very adamant and they simply don’t want reasoning and arguments. For example at Haridwar where Pandas were offering water to Sun God in east and he started offering in the west where in Punjab he had his fields. By doing something unorthodox he attracted people to tell his message about the truthfulness of One God. Japuji is considered to be a bani for meditation and many recite it that way in the ambrosial hours of the morning. The message this bani gives us the actual summary of Guru Granth Sahib ji. The mul mantra or invocation that is beginning of Granth Sahib finds its explanation in the Japuji sahib. For understanding  Guru Granth Sahib ji it is important to know the message depicted in Japuji Sahib.

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Bara maha Guru Arjun Devji ;

 Guruji stress upon to strengthen personal character of the beloved (wife – Sikh) who is on path to search of union with Lord Husband.

Kaam krodh naa mohiye binse lobh suaan II sacche marag chaldiyan ustat kare jahan II athsath teerath sagal pun jiy daya parwan II

Lust and wrath shall not seduce you and the dog of greed shall be destroyed. The world praises those who walk along the path of truth. If you take pity on the fellow human beings will be acceptable in His presence than taking ablution baths at 68 pilgrimages and giving alms.

If one attains this virtue God will bestow his merciful grace.

Maagh sucche se kandhiyah jin pura guru meharwan II

In the month of maagh those become pure whom the Perfect Guru has bestowed His merciful grace.

Phalgun nit salahiye jisno til naa tamaye II jin jin naam dhiyaiya tin ke kaaj sare II

In phalgun ever praise the One who has not an iota of malice. All those who have praised and meditated on His Name have been blessed and their deeds rewarded.

Prem bhagat tin paiya bhikhiya naa jare II Kur gaye dubidha nassi puran sacchuh bhare II

All those obtain love and devotion and burn not in the sins of their own that have crossed darkness of ignorance and doubt and filled their minds with truthfulness.

Parbrahm prabhu sevde man andar ek dhare II            

They serve the Supreme Lord Master who have placed the Unique One in their heart.

True to the House of Nanak Guru Arjun Devji warn from acquiring any superstitions about the auspiciousness of the moment, day, seasons and months.

Maah divas murat bhale jis ko nadar kare II Nanak mange dars daan kirpa kareh hare II

The months, days and moments are auspicious for those on whom the Lord casts His merciful grace. Nanak asks for the boon of your Sight O God ! shower your benediction on him.

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Gems of Gurubani

Guru Granth Sahib  -  16

Bara Maha Guru Arjun Devji

Katak karam kamavane dos na kahu jog II parmesar te bhuliya viyapan sabhuh rog II vemukh hoye ram te lagan janam vijog II

In the month of katak you do the good deeds and it is not good to blame others. By forgetting the Supreme Lord all the ailments cling to the man. Those who do not believe in the presence of Omnipresent Lord suffer the pains of separation in every birth.

Katak hove sadhu sang binsay sabhuh soch II

In the month of katak by keeping the company of saints all the anxieties of mortals depart.

Manghar mahu sohandiya har pir sang baithadiya II tin ki sobha kiya gani jieh sahib meladiya II

In the month of maghar beautiful are those who sit in the company of the beloved Lord. How can their glory be measured whom the Lord blends with himself.

Manghar prabhu aradhana bahud naa janamadiya II

Those who meditate on the name of the Master in the month of maghar are not born again.

Pokh tukhar na viyape kanth milya har naahu II

In the month of Poh (the coldest month) all those do not feel the cold whom God Husband hugs to His bosom.

Bihkhiya poh na sakai mil sadhu gun gaahu II jahu te upaji tehu mili sachi preet samah II

In the company of saints sing the praises of the Lord and no sin can touch you. Being absorbed in the love of the True being the soul gets blended with what it has sprung from.

Poh suhanda sarab sukh jis bakhse veparvah II

Poh is beautiful and giver of all peace to him whom the Carefree Lord grants pardon.

Maagh majanu sang sadhua dhuri kar isnaan II har ka naam dhiyaye sun sabhna nu kar daan II janam karam mal uttare man te jai guman II

Wherever there is dust due to the congregation of saints go there, deem it as a bath of ablution at holy places. Listen and meditate on the name of the Supreme Lord. Once you absorb this recitation of His Name give it as alms to others. Doing this all the filth of evil actions that man has collected in several births will get washed away and the ego gets vanished from your heart.

To continue…….

                                                        

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Gems of Gurbani

Guru Granth Sahib 15

Bara maha Guru Arjun Devji:

 Sawan sarsi kaamini charan kamal siyo piyar II man tan ratta sachhuh range ikko naam adhar II

In the month of sawan happy is that bride who has taken refuse at the Lotus feet of the Lord. Her body and mind get drenched with the colour of the Omnipotent True Lord and she feels His name is the only support she has.

Bhikhiya rang kudaviya disan sabhuh chhaar II har amrit boond suhavani mil sadhu pivanhaar II van tinuh prabh sang mauliya samarath purukh apaar II

The sinful pleasures are false and all that is apparent will turn to ashes. Every drop of His Love is like nectar that one quaffs in the company of the saints. The forests and meadows are refreshed with the love of the Omnipotent, all pervading and Infinite Lord.

Har milne nu man lochda karam milavan haar II jinni sakhiye prabh paiya houn tin ke saduh balihaar II

My heart yearns to meet Him and if His Grace be bestowed I shall meet Him. I bow to all those friends who have obtained Him unto them.

Sawan tina suhagani jin ram naam ur haar.

The month of sawan is delightful to those happy wives who are bedecked with the garland of Name of all pervading God.

Bhadui bharam bhulaniya duje lagga hatuh II lakh sigar banaiya karaj nahin ketuh II

In the month of bhadon she who cherishes love for another is lost in doubt. All her lakhs of decorations to beautify her are futile.

Se bhadui narak naa paiye guru rakhan wala hetuh II

In the month of bhadon those who enshrine love for the Guru the savior will not be consigned to the hell.

Asun prem umahada kiyon miliye har jai II man tan piyas darsan ghani koi aan milave mai II

In the month of assu the love for Him is overflowing from within me. How shall go and meet Him? There is great thirst in my body and mind for His sight O mother. Ask someone to come and enable me His sight.

Sant sahai prem ke hao tin ke lagga pai II

The saints will be my helpers in my search of love for Him (The Almighty).

Assu sukhi vasandiya jina maiya har rai II      

In the month of assu those who obtain the grace of Lord the King dwell in peace.

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Gems of Gurbani

Guru Granth Sahib – 14

Guru Nanak’s belief that the Almighty, the Creator exists in His own creation, in each and every living thing in nature, he keeps falling in love with His Creation when he sees the way season’s change and bring new version of nature and the expectations, the urge to have a union with this Creator become intensive. In raag tukhari  Bara maha Guru Nanak expresses his journey of life and his union with Lord in the context of changes in nature throughout the year whereas Guru Arjun Devji expresses the changes in nature and urges his Sikh ( beloved wife) to keep company of saints to find union with the Almighty. Saints or Sadhu sangat’s company is important because a good company can invoke good nature in a person. The Bara maha written by Guru Arjun Devi ji in Raag Maajh is recorded from page 133 onwards in Guru Granth Sahib.

Chet Govind aradhiye hove anand ghanna II sant janah mil paiye rasna naam bhanna II

By remembering the Master of the Universe in the month of chetra a great rejoicing emanates. By meeting the pious people and uttering His Name with the tongue the Lord can be obtained.

Vaisakh dheeran kiyo waadiya jinah prem vichhoh II har saajan purakh visar ke laggi maya dhroh II

In the month of baisakh those who are separated, how can they have patience in this separation? They forget the beloved the Lord God and go in pursuit of deceitful wealth.

Vaisakh suhave tan lagge jan sant bhette har soiye II

The month of Vaisakh becomes beautiful if the company of saints enable a union with the Lord.

Har jeth juranda loriye jis agge sabhuh nivan II har sajjan davan lagiya kise naa deyi bann II

In the month of Jeth you ought to search for That Lord whom everyone bows. No one keep the beloved in bondage who has taken the protection of the Lord.

Har jeth rangeela tis dhani jis ke bhaag mathann II

In the month of Jeth the playful Master shall meet those who are chosen by Him.

Asad tapanda tis lagge har naa nah jinna paas II

The month of Haar is hot and severe for those who do not have the bliss of God’s name with them.

Asad suhanda tis lagge jis man Har charan nivas.

The month of Haar is pleasant to those who take Abode (shelter) in His feet.

To continue…….

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Gems of Gurbani

Guru Granth Sahib – 13

Guru Nanak says; Pokh tukhar pare van trin sokhe ras sokhe II awat ki nahin man tan vaseh mukhe II man tan raveh rahi jag jeevan gurshabdi rang mani II

In the month of Poh the snow (Kora) falls and the sap of forests and grass dries up. O lord why are you not coming? You are now abiding in my soul, body and mouth. O God the Life of the World is permeating my mind and soul. Through the Guru’s word (shabad) I am enjoying His love.

Maagh punit bhaiudh teerath andar janeya II saajan sahaj mile gun gahe ank samaniya II pritam gun anke sun prabh banke tudh bhava sar nava II

In the month of Maagh I become immaculate knowing that the pilgrimages are within me. I have easily met my beloved enshrining His virtue and merging His Being into me. Hear thou O my darling and Beauteous Lord thine merits I have enshrined in my mind if it pleases thee I shall bathe in thy tank.

Nanak Maagh maharas har jup athsath teerath nahta II

Nanak says; in the month of Maagh by meditating the Supreme Elixir is obtained that equals the sixty-eight bathing pilgrimages (that Hindus perform to obtain the bliss of nirvana).

Phuagun man rehasi prem subhaiya II  andin rehus bhaiya aap gavayiya II Man moh chukaiya ja tis bhaiya kar kirpa ghar aao II       

In the month Phagun the soul of those to whom the Lords love is pleasing is in bloom. She who effaces her, self conceit, night and day abides in the spiritual bliss. When it pleases Him, efface I the worldly love from my mind and the Lord merciful comes to my home.

In the end Guru Nanak ji do not forget to tell us that;

Nanak mel lai guru apne ghar var paiya nari II 16II bedus maah ruti,tithi vaar bhale II ghadi murat pal saache aiye sahaj mile II

Nanak the Guru has united me with the Lord and I the bride have obtained my groom with the Guru’s grace in my very home. The two and ten (twelve) months, the seasons, the lunar days, the hours, the minutes and moments are all sublime when the True Lord comes and naturally meets me.

 In other words there is no importance placed on the auspiciousness of all these time figures and that they are just poetry forms. That is the important feature of the house of Nanak that doesn’t let you go stray in your belief to become superstitious even when he is praising the Lord in one of the many ways he has shown us the path to HIM.