Gems of Gurbani

Guru Granth Sahib

Onkar 16

Then alone the Pandit is said to be educated if he keeps his mind at calm and serene disposition and reflective on knowledge of the Lord, find its quintessence and enshrine love for the Lord’s Name. The wayward educated person sells his knowledge. He earns poison and poison he eats. A fool cannot contemplate on the Name; he has no understanding and comprehension II 53 II

He alone is said to be God- conscious teacher if he imparts true instructions to his pupils. Contemplating on True Name and store this Name and impart others then you earn the profit of the Name. Make your mind to be a wooden plate (In earlier times children in Punjab wrote alphabets and digits on a wooden plate called patti with an ink that could be wiped with a piece of cloth to write again on it and the plate didn’t get the colour of the ink) on which you scribe the Name of the Lord and His Supreme, sublime word. Nanak he alone is the educated and learned Pandit who wears the necklace of Lord’s Name II 54 II

Note; This is the concluding verse of Bani Onkar in other words the explanation to the concept of Lord to a Brahmin who didn’t allow education to all castes and used his knowledge of God to earn him an earning.