Gems of Gurbani

Guru Granth Sahib

Sukhmani Sahib 37

Ashtapadi 15 continues: The merchandise that you have come to earn in this world (O brother is the bliss of God’s Name because obtaining that all the worldly bliss will be yours) is the Name of the Omnipresent Lord is available in the house of Saints. Renounce your ego and self conceit, weigh the Name of Lord in your mind’s scale and purchase (God’s Name) with your soul by setting out in the company of the Saints. Abandon all other entanglements so that everyone knows you as blessed, blessed. Your face will be illuminated in His court so is this merchandise successful for you. Very few will have this rare merchandise and those who do this merchandise Nanak offers his sacrifice to them (pad 5).

Washing Saints feet and partaking that water and dedicating your soul to the Saints, bathing with the dust of the Saints feet and sacrificing yourself to the Saints (these are the process of humbling down by abandoning your pride, ego and worldly love and nothing of these things matter anymore) by serving the Saints you are blessed and fortunate. (Because) In the saints congregation praises of Lord are sung and the Saints will save you from various dangers (from getting stray) and he who sings God’s glory tastes the ambrosial Nectar. O Nanak, the one who comes to seek the protection from Saints all the bliss will come to him (pad 6).

God has that power to revive a dead, he satiates all hungry, all the treasure are in His glance, but the man obtains what He writes in his destiny. All that we see in this world belongs to Him the Omnipotent Lord. Neither there has been nor is there going to be anyone like Him therefore O men remember Him alone day and night. The most immaculate and pure is living thus. And all those O Nanak who are blesses with this grace of meditating on His Name will become pure (pad 7).

The one who has faith in Guru comes to meditate on the Name of God Lord. That person comes to be known as His devotee in all three worlds in whose mind the Unique Lord has come to reside. He (the mortal-) becomes truthful in his ways and doings. His heart becomes truthful and whatever he utters is truthful. His vision becomes true so does his form (one can notice that a person is truthful because that shows in his eyes). He distributes truth and truth he spreads. He who recognizes the Supreme Lord as True, that man O Nanak gets merged in to the True Being (pad 8). End of Ashtapadi 15.