Gems of Gurbani

Guru Granth Sahib

Vaar Maajh     12

                                   Pauri

Your Command is the truth O Lord a Guru ward recognizes it because he has erased his self and conceit and followed Guru’s instructions to know this truth. Your court is the truth which becomes manifest with Guru’s word (shabad). Contemplating on the true word I have been absorbed in the True One.

The self willed (Manmukh) are all false as they go way ward they get more deluded by doubt. Living in the filth of their falseness and doubt they do not know the taste of God’s Name. Without Lord’s Name the pain of coming and going (cycle of rebirth) continues for them.

Nanak says; the Lord Himself is the judge to distinguish between genuine and the false ones II 13 II

                                  Shlok First Guru

He (God) can make tigers, hawks, kites and falcons (all pray eating animals) eat grass.

He can make grass eaters eat meat. He can change this order of life if He Wills.

He can create sand dunes in the midst of Rivers and create deserts into unfathomable oceans.

He can make a mere worm into a King and reduce an army into ashes in a moment.

All the living being live on breath and what can a breath do if He wants to sustain life?

As it pleases the Lord so does He sustains O Nanak II 1 II

                                  First Guru

Some are carnivorous others live on grass.

Some live on thirty six varieties of delicacies.

Some live on soil and eat soil.

Some can control their breath and even count them.

Some live on the adoration of the Formless One and obtain His Name as support.

The Benevolent Lord lives eternally and never lets paucity come in His giving.

Nanak, those who do not get themselves and their mind attuned to the Lord are themselves beguiled II 2 II

                               Pauri

Only good fortune brings man in the service of Lord.

Effacing his self by Guru’s instructions a mortal does meditation on God’s name.

Doing some way ward tasks mortal wastes his time.

Without Lord’s Name all that man wears and eats is poison.

By praising the true Name man merges in the True Lord.

Without serving the True Lord the abode of peace is not obtained and man becomes subject to cycle of rebirth.

With the false capital the falsehood is earned in the world.

Nanak, by singing the praises of the Pure, True Lord the life in the nether world gets self respect and honour II 14 II