Gems of Gurbani

Guru Granth Sahib

Tithi   7                 

Teras (thirteenth lunar day); the mortal is like a tree on the seashore. The Immortal can become its roots if the mortal and his mind remain attached with string of Lord’s love. He then no ways dies of fear and dread nor is he ever drowned. The mortal loses his honour in a death that he gets from fear and dread. Instead of fear and dread of death, he who enshrines fear of the Lord in his mind gets honour of sitting on a throne and becomes pleasing to the Lord II 17 II

Chaudas (fourteenth lunar day); the man who deeply enters into the fourth state (four states are Jagrit, supan, sakopat and turia- awake, in dream, sound sleep and fourth state turia is when mind is totally absorbed in the Love of Lord), who overcomes time and three qualities of optimism, pessimism and egoism, who let in the sun of wisdom in the moon’s house of darkness and also who knows the worth of the way of union with the Lord, who is all pervading the fourteen worlds, nether land, continents and the solar systems II 18 II

Note; the beauty of Guruji’s thought process is so evident here, it touches scientific knowledge of environment that moon gets its light from the sun otherwise it is just a dark house. The comparison of sun with wisdom as without the light of sun there is no existence of life on this planet.

Chaudas is also the day of no moon because on that night the moon remains invisible in the sky.

O wise man, understand and contemplate on the Lord’s Name, when the moon rises in the sky its light illuminates the three worlds. The Creator has created all this process and enjoys seeing it. A person who understands the message of Guru that all this is play of Lord he gets merged into the Lord II 19 II Those who fail to understand the play of Lord become astray instead being God oriented and fall prey to the cycle of birth and death. Only those who perform the setting of hearth and home as per the Will of Lord get permanent seat in Lord’s court and a beauteous life. The one who merges into the Lord starts understanding his self. Where there are desires there comes destruction and ruin. The begging bowl of a person with duality and selfishness bursts. Nanak prays to be a slave of Him who remains detached from the worldly snares of attachments II 20 II