Gems of Gurbani

Guru Granth Sahib

Vaar Maajh  6

Pauri

Throughout all the months, seasons, gharries (a unit of 24 minutes is one Ghari) and murats (a unit of two gharries make one murat i.e. 48 minutes) I meditate on you O Lord !

Thus calculating none has obtained you O True unseen and illimitable Lord!

An educated person who harbours greed, avarice and pride should actually be called a fool.

 Read His Name and contemplate on it and ponder over the Guru’s instructions. With Guru’s instructions I have earned the wealth of God’s Name and now my treasure house is filled brimful with devotion to the Lord.

With a belief in His Immaculate Name a mortal also becomes immaculate and is known as true in His court.

The light of the Immortal Being that is enshrined as soul within a mortal is actually the very life within him.

You alone are true Banker O Lord! The rest of the world is just petty dealers II 6 II

                                Shlok First Guru

Make mercy your Mosque, faith your payer mat, what is just and lawful your Quran, circumcision and civility your fast only then you shall be a Muslim.

Make right conduct your Mecca, truth your spiritual guide and pious deeds your creed and prayer.

Your Rosary (prayer beads) is the one that is pleasing to the Lord, thus the Lord will preserve your honour Says Nanak II 1 II

                                First Guru

Nanak says; another’s right is swine (for Muslim) and cow (for Hindus) for him. The Guru or Prophet shall stand surety only if one eats not carrion (sucking of one, another’s blood is compared to eating carrion).

By mere talk one goes not to heaven. The deliverance is only by practising truth alone. Spicing an unlawful food one cannot make it lawful.

From false talk only falsehood is obtained says Nanak.

First Guru

There are five prayers and five times to read them and each having its Name.

The first is truthfulness, second is honest earning and third is charity in God’s Name.

The fourth is pure intent and mind and fifth is the Creator’s praise and admiration.

Repeat your initiation utterances only after doing good deeds and then call yourself a Muslim.

Nanak says all liars shall obtain what is altogether false II 3 II

The wayward putrefy and die in duality without understanding the divine comprehension.

There is but only One Lord and how can you forward your complaint in another’s presence.

Some are always poor and others have treasures full with wealth.

But if they don’t learn the God’s Name all that wealth is but poison and ashes.

Nanak says the Lord Himself has created this order and He alone makes them understand. By His Will or Hukam he brings reforms in people II 7 II

                               Shlok First Guru

To be called a Muslim is difficult. If one is really a Muslim then alone he gets to be called a Muslim, first he shall agree that other’s belief and devotion to the Lord is sweet and efface his pride of wealth and power rasped and scraped. Becoming the true disciple of the faith of the prophet let him put aside the illusion of death and life. He should heartily submit to the Lord’s Will, worship the Creator and efface his self-conceit. Thereafter if he is merciful to all sentient beings O Nanak then alone he shall be called a Musalman II 1 II