Gems of Gurbani

Guru Granth Sahib

Vaar Maajh    17

Shlok: First Guru

If fire is my dress, if I make snow as my house and iron as my food and drink all my problems as water and pull the cart with earth as the puller;

If I weigh the sky in a balance with copper weight;

If I become so large that I cannot be contained in anything and put noose in the nose and pull everyone by it;

If I become so powerful within my mind that I can move others to perform at my will; but all this is in vain because;

As great as Lord is so great are His gifts and He satiates everyone with them.

His merciful glance alone bestows the glory of True Name.

Second Guru

The mouth is not sated by speaking and the ears not by hearing.

The eyes don’t get sated with what they see. Every organ is a buyer of some unique quality.

Just by talking the hunger is not satiated.

The hunger but satiates if the Name of the Lord is recited by singing His praises O Nanak, uttering His Name a mortal gets absorbed in it II 2 II

Pauri

Without the True Lord all are false and practice falsehood.

Without the True One the falsehood is bound and pushed forward.

Without the true Master the body becomes dust and mixes in the dust.

Without the True Master the food and dress becomes only hunger.

Without the True name the false ones cannot enter His court.

Being attached to the false avarice man loses the Mansion of the Lord.

The whole world is deceived by the deceitful Mammon (Illusions) and that keeps the coming and going in this world.

The fire of desires in the body can be quenched only with God’s Name II 19 II