Gems of Gurbani

Guru Granth Sahib

Vaar Malar        3

Shlok Second Guru

The month of Sawan has come O my dear friend! It is time to think of your groom.

Nanak, the deceiving beloved who has started looking for another is discarded and ultimately wails herself to death (the mortal is the bride who has come to doubt about the oneness of the Lord and start believing and looking for another).

Second Guru

The sawan has come O my dear friend and the clouds are bursting and water is showering. Nanak says the beloveds who love their groom are sleeping in peace II 2 II

Pauri

God has Himself arranged the tournaments and created the arenas for the wrestlers ( Chhinj are wrestling tournaments that are very popular game in Punjab and arranged by several villages with fanfare).

Making noise the wrestlers enter in to the arena and from them the Guruwards are in joy and foolish and false egocentric ones stand defeated.

God Himself stages this play, wrestles and defeats. By Guru’s grace alone it is learned that the Lord is only One. The Lord alone is writer od destinies that too without the ink and the pen.

In the company of truthful saints where the praises of the Lord are sung a union with Lord is obtained.

Nanak says, by praising the True Lord one comes to realize the Lord’s truth II 4 II

Shlok Third Guru

When man comes to ageing his body bends forward and assumes another colour.

How can I know, how my love shall deal with the sovereign Lord?

Eternal becomes the love of those brides (mortals) who love the Lord from their heart and remain His fear (fear of not losing Him).

Nanak says all those brides who lose fear and love of their Lord become bereft of peace.

Third Guru

Descending low, very low the clouds shower the pure water.

In this season a bride whose mind is torn from her groom suffers pain (of separation) II 2 II

Pauri

God, Himself has created both sides, He the One Lord is pervading both. He created Vedas and the strife between the two.

One side is attachment and the other is sacrifice and created faith to make judgment between both sides.

False and worthless are ego ridden people and they definitely lose in the Lord’s court.

All those become warriors of the Lord who follow Guru’s word and control their lust and wrath.

Those who merge with the word and Name enter into the True Lord’s Mansion.

All those true devotees of thee O Lord who love your Name become pleasing to You.

I sacrifice to them who serve the True Guru II 5 II