Gems of Gurbani

Guru Granth Sahib

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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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