Gems of Gurbani

Guru Granth Sahib

Vaar Maajh   13

                                   Shlok First Guru

When it pleases you Lord the mortal plays music and sings.

When it pleases you, he bathes in water.

When it pleases you, he smears his body with ashes and sounds shell conk.

When it pleases You O Lord he reads Holy Scriptures of Muslim and calls himself Mullah or Sheikh.

When it pleases You he becomes King and enjoys all sweets and savoury.

When it pleases You he wields sword and and swears head from body.

When it pleases You, people go to foreign shores hear all sorts of things and come back.

When it pleases You, a mortal gets absorbed in Your Name and with your Will becomes pleasing to you.

Nanak prays that he works according to your will so that he does not fall prey to falsehood II 1 II

                                    First Guru

As you are good O Lord all the goodness emanates from You. You do nothing but good.

When you are True all that flows from you is nothing but truth. Absolutely nothing is false.

Speaking, seeing, uttering, living, walking and dying and perishing in five elements are under your will O Lord.

Nanak, the True Lord creates all under His will and He keeps all beings under His Will II 2 II

                                   Pauri

Fearlessly serve the True Lord and the doubt shall cease.

Do the work that the True Lord has assigned to you.

If the true Lord becomes merciful the one contemplates on His Name.

The illustrious and genuine profit by devotional service of the True Lord will be yours.

The wayward is pushed into the darkness of falsehood and keeps practising falsehood.

O man, reach the door of True Lord and repeat His Name.

The true ones are called within His mansion.

Nanak, the truthful person is forever true and thus gets absorbed in to the True Being II 15 II