Gems of Gurbani

Guru Granth Sahib

Vaar maajh   5

Ang 140

Shlok First Guru;

 By uttering falsehood man is same as eating carrion, yet he has the impunity to preach others. O Nanak; He appears to be a leader who seems to have been tricked but tricks his comrades all the while.

Fourth Guru

He within whom the Truth comes to reside obtains the True Name and with his mouth utters the truth. He himself walks the path to God and inspires others to do the same. If there is a tank with pure water then by washing filth gets washed off. By bathing in a pond still more filth attaches to the man. The perfect place for the pilgrimage is the True Guru who has been meditating on the Name of the supreme Lord. He emancipates himself, his family and saves the whole world. Nanak, the servant sacrifices to him who himself repeats God’s Name and inspires others to utter the Name II 2 II

Pauri

Some live in forests and pick fibrous roots and fruits to survive, some wander about in orange robes as Yogis and solitarians. The great desire and fire for food and clothing keeps burning in them. They just waste their lives. They are neither householders nor renouncers. Birth and death however does not cease to hover over their heads and they remain bonded to three phased desires; of lineage, wealth and esteem. With the instructions of Guru the man becomes slave of the Lord’s slave and fear of death gets abandoned. The True Name abides in the mind and that is the homecoming of truth and man becomes detached in his own home (mind). O Nanak serving the True Lord man becomes desire-less from desires II 5 II

Shlok First Guru:

If clothes get stained with blood the garments get polluted. Those who suck the blood of human beings how can their mind be pure? Says Nanak; you utter the Name of God, from your mouth with sincere heart otherwise the worldly ostentations will lead you to practice false deeds II 1 II

First Guru

When I am nobody, what can I say? Since nothing I am what can I be?

As God made so I act. As he told me so I speak. I am brimful with sins and now I am washing them off. Myself I have not understood but I am trying to teach others such a leader I am. Nanak says; thus myself being blind I am showing the way to the companions.

 In his next world after death such a leader will be beaten with shoes and then he shall know what a leader he was II 2 II

Note; this kind of religious leaders of the society, some taking path of renunciations and becoming hermit and others sucking blood of poor people existed in the time of Guru Nanak. All those who claimed to be scholars of religious books and wanted to lead society were themselves blind as they didn’t recognize the Will of Almighty and preferred a life of degradation.