Gems of Gurbani
Guru Granth Sahib
Rehras Sahib 4
Raag Asa Mahala 1: Everyone who says You are great says it from hearing others but the one who was able to see You knows how great You are! Only those can say who are absorbed in You. O my great Master of unfathomable depth You are an ocean of excellences. No one can ever estimate the vastness of Your expanse IIRahaoII
All those who contemplate on you are just practising contemplation. Having met together, to contemplate on you could they find your real worth? The theologians, the contemplatives and they who are preachers of the preachers have described you. But they could not describe even an iota of your praises and greatness II2II All truths, austerities and all magnificence of the Sidhas (who attain occult powers) may not have been possible without You. Only with your grace they have obtained all such powers II3II All those without all such powers are just poor narrators. The treasure of your praises and qualities are overflowing so why should they think of some other means? O Nanak the True one is Himself, His own decorator II4II
Asa Mahala 1
By repeating Your Name I live. By forgetting I will die. Uttering your Name is a difficult task. Only if someone feels the hunger for Your Name, that hunger shall consume his pain II1II
O mother! True is the Lord and true is His Name. How can He be forgotten? IIrahaoII Men have been weary of describing His qualities but still they could not even tell an iota of His praises. Even when all would meet together and try to describe His Glory, He shall not become greater or lesser II2II Lord does not die and there is no mourning. He continues to give and there is never any shortage. This alone is His merit and He is not comparable. There has been none like Him and there shall be none like Him. As you are great O Lord! so are your gifts. You are (that personality) who has created day and night. Vile are those who forget You O Master. O Nanak, by forgetting You, men have themselves lowered to wretches II4II 3II.
Guru Granth Sahib
Rehras Sahib 4
Raag Asa Mahala 1: Everyone who says You are great says it from hearing others but the one who was able to see You knows how great You are! Only those can say who are absorbed in You. O my great Master of unfathomable depth You are an ocean of excellences. No one can ever estimate the vastness of Your expanse IIRahaoII
All those who contemplate on you are just practising contemplation. Having met together, to contemplate on you could they find your real worth? The theologians, the contemplatives and they who are preachers of the preachers have described you. But they could not describe even an iota of your praises and greatness II2II All truths, austerities and all magnificence of the Sidhas (who attain occult powers) may not have been possible without You. Only with your grace they have obtained all such powers II3II All those without all such powers are just poor narrators. The treasure of your praises and qualities are overflowing so why should they think of some other means? O Nanak the True one is Himself, His own decorator II4II
Asa Mahala 1
By repeating Your Name I live. By forgetting I will die. Uttering your Name is a difficult task. Only if someone feels the hunger for Your Name, that hunger shall consume his pain II1II
O mother! True is the Lord and true is His Name. How can He be forgotten? IIrahaoII Men have been weary of describing His qualities but still they could not even tell an iota of His praises. Even when all would meet together and try to describe His Glory, He shall not become greater or lesser II2II Lord does not die and there is no mourning. He continues to give and there is never any shortage. This alone is His merit and He is not comparable. There has been none like Him and there shall be none like Him. As you are great O Lord! so are your gifts. You are (that personality) who has created day and night. Vile are those who forget You O Master. O Nanak, by forgetting You, men have themselves lowered to wretches II4II 3II.
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