One Oankar, the primal energy, realised through the grace of divine preceptor
It is said that after churning the Unfathomable Ocean, fourteen jewels were brought out of it.
These jewels are-moon, sarang bow, wine, kaustub mani, Laksmi, the physician;
The Rambha fairy, Kanadhenu, Parijat, Uchchaisrava horse and nectar offered to gods to drink.
Airavat elephant, conch and poison were distributed jointly among the gods and the demons.
All were given rubies, pearls and valuable diamonds.
Out of the ocean, conch came out empty, which tells (even today) weeping and wailing its own story that none should remain hollow and empty.
If they do not adopt the discourses and teachings of the Guru heard in the holy congregation.
They lose their life uselessly.
It is a pond full of pure and fine water wherein the lotuses blossom.
Lotuses are of beautiful form and they make the environment fragrant.
Black bees live in bamboo forest but they somehow search and get the lotus.
With the sunrise, they come attracted from far and wide and meet the lotus.
With the sunrise, the lotuses of the pond also turn their faces toward the sun.
Frond lives in the nearby mire close to the lotus but not understanding the real delight it cannot enjoy like lotus.
Those unfortunate persons who listening to the teachings of the Guru in the holy congregation do not adopt them.
They are most unfortunate in life like the frogs.
On pilgrimage centres, because of the anniversary festivals, millions of people get together from all the four directions.
The followers of six philosophies and the four varnas make recitations, charities and take ablutions there.
Performing recitations, offering burnt offerings, fast and undertaking rigorous disciples, they listen to the recitals from the vedas.
Meditating, they adopt they techniques of recitations.
Worship of gods and goddesses is performed at their respective abodes - temples.
White-clad persons remain engaged in trance but like a crane as and when they get opportunity they immediately stoop to commit crime.
Listening to the word of the Guru in the holy congregation, the fake lovers who do not adopt it in their life, do not attain any fruit (in their life).
In the month of Savan, the whole forest becomes green but akk, a wild plant of sandy region ( Calatropis procera) and javah (a prickly plant used in medicine) go dry.
Getting rain drops in the savanti nakstr (a special formation of stars in the sky) the rain bird (Paphia) gets satisfied and if the same drop falls in the mouth of a shell, it is transformed into a pearl.
In the banana fields, the same drop becomes camphor but on alkaline earth and lotus hat drop has no impact.
That drop, if it goes into the mouth of a snake, becomes deadly poison. Therefore, a thing given to a genuine and undeserving person has different effects.
Likewise, those who are engrossed in the worldly delusions do not get peace even though they listen to the word of the Guru in the holy congregation.
The gurmukh attains the pleasure fruit of the love of the Lord, but manmukh, the mind orientated one, goes on following the evil path.
Manmukh always suffers loss whereas the Gurmukh earns profit.
In all the forests vegetation is there and at all the places there is the same earth and the same water.
This sameness notwithstanding, the fragrance, taste and colour of fruits and flowers are wondrously different.
The tall silk - cotton tree is of big expanse and fruitless chil tree touches the sky (these both like an egotist's person are proud of their size).
Bamboo keeps scorching thinking of its greatness.
Sandal makes the whole vegetation fragrant but bamboo remains devoid of fragrance.
Those who even listening to the word of Guru in the holy congregation do not adopt it in the heart are unfortunate.
They engrossed in ego and delusions go astray.
The sun with its bright rays dispels darkness and scatters light all around.
Seeing it the whole world gets engaged in business. The sun alone liberates all from the bondage (of darkness).
Animals, birds and the herds of deer speak in their loving tongue.
Qazis give call (azan) for prayer, yogis blow their trumpet (sringi) and at the doors of kings drums are beaten.
Owl does not listen to either of these and spends its day in a desolate place.
Those who even listening to the word of the Guru in the holy congregation do not cultivate loving devotion in their heart, are manmukhs.
They spend their life in vain.
The moon, loving the redlegged partridge, makes its light shining.
It pours the nectar of peace by which the crop, trees etc. are blest.
Husband meets wife and prepares her for further joy.
All meet in the night but the male and the female ruddy sheldrake go away from each other.
This way, even listening to the Guru's teachings in the holy congregation the fake lover does not know the depth of love.
As the person having eaten garlic spreads malodour.
The results of duality are the most bad of the worst.
Mixing various juices sweet and sour in the kitchen food is cooked of thirty-six kinds.
The cook serves it to the people of all the four varnas and the followers of six philosophies.
He alone who having eaten has satisfied himself, can understand the taste of it,
The ladle moves into all the dainty dishes of thirty-six type without knowing the taste of them.
The red ladybug cannot mix-up among rubies and jewels because the latter are used in the strings whereas the red ladybug cannot be used in this way.
Having even listened to the teachings of Guru in the holy congregation the cheat who does not get inspired.
They do not obtain a place in the court of the Lord.
Rivers and streams become Ganges after meeting the latter.
The cheats undertake to go at sixty-eight pilgrimage centres and serve gods and goddesses.
They, from people during their discussions over good and knowledge, listen to the name of the Lord, the saviour of the fallen ones;
But, it is like the elephant who is bathed in water but coming out of it spreads dusts all round.
The cheats listen to the teachings of the Guru in the holy congregation but do not adopt them in the mind.
Even if irrigated by nectar, the seeds of colocynth never become sweet,
The cheating lovers never follow the straight path i.e. they do not follow the way of truth.
The king keeps hundred of queens and turn by turn visit their beds.
For the king, all are principal queens and he loves them all much and more.
Decorating the chamber and the bed, they all enjoy coition with the king.
All the queens conceive and one or two come out to be barren.
For this, no king or queen is to be blamed; all this is due to the writ of previous births,
Those who after listening to the word of the Guru and the teachings of the Guru do not adopt it in their mind.
They are of evil intellect and unfortunate.
With the touch of philosopher's stone the eight metals become one metal and people call it gold.
That beautiful metal becomes gold and the jewellers also prove it to be gold.
Stone does not become philosopher's stone even after getting touched by it because the pride of family and hardness remains present in it (in fact the philosopher's stone is also but a stone).
Thrown in water, the stone full of pride of its weight sinks at once.
Hard-hearted stone never gets wet and from inside remains as dry as it was earlier. It only learns how to break pitchers.
It cracks when put in fire and becomes brittle when hammered on anvil.
Such person's also even after listening to the teachings of the Guru in the holy congregation do not keep to their heart the importance of the teachings.
Showing fake affection, none can forcibly prove to be truthful.
Pure water, rubies and pearls adorn into the Manasarovar (lake).
The family of the swans is of steadfast wisdom and they all live in groups and lines.
They enhance their prestige and delight by picking up rubies and pearls.
The crow there remains nameless, shelterless and dejected,
The inedible it considers edible and to edible inedible, and goes on wandering from forest to forest.
So long as a person listening to the word of Guru in the holy congregation does not stabilise his body and mind.
His stony gate (of wisdom) is not unlocked.
Suffering disease man goes about asking for treatment from many a physician.
Since the inexperienced physician does not know the problem of the patient as well as the medicine for the same.
The suffering person goes suffering more and more.
If a mature physician is found, he prescribes the right medicine, which removes the malady.
Now, if the patient does not follow the prescribed discipline and goes on to eat everything sweet and sour, the physician is not to be blamed.
For want of temperance the malady of the patient goes on increasing day and night.
If a cheat even comes to the holy congregation and sits there.
He being controlled by wickedness gets perished in his duality.
Mixing the sandal oil, fragrance of the musk-cat, camphor, musk etc.
The perfumer prepares the scent.
When using it, some one comes to the assembly of the experts, they all become full of fragrance.
If the same fragrance is applied to an ass, it does not understand its importance and goes on wandering at dirty places.
Listening to the words of the Guru, one who does not adopt loving devotion in his heart.
They are blind and deaf though they have eyes and ears.
In fact, he goes to the holy congregation under some compulsion.
The invaluable clothes made of silk come out bright when washed.
Dye them in any colour they are beautiful in varied colours.
The aristocrat admirers of beauty, colour and joy purchase them and wear them.
There those clothes full of grandeur, become means of their adornment in marriage ceremonies.
But a black blanket neither gets bright when washed nor can be dyed in any colour.
Like wise even after going to the holy congregation and listening to the teachings of the Guru, if someone goes on searching the World Ocean i.e. goes on to have desires for the worldly materials.
Such a cheat is like an abandoned and desolate place.
Sesame plant growing in the field seems to be taller than all.
On growing further it spreads all around verdantly and sustains itself.
On getting ripe when reaping begins, the seedless sesame plants are distinctly left out.
They are sonsidered useless as the thick growth of elephant grass is known worthless in the fields of sugarcane.
Even listening to the word of the Guru in the holy congregation those who do not keep any discipline, move around like ghosts.
Their life becomes meaningless and they get their faces blackened here and in the hereafter.
In the abode of Yama (god of death) they are handed over the messengers of yama.
The bronze appears shining and bright. After the food eaten from the bronze-plate, it becomes impure.
Its impurity is cleaned by ashes and then it is washed in the water of Ganges.
Washing cleans externally but the blackness goes on to remain inside the inner core of heat.
The conch is impure outwardly and internally both because when blown, the spit goes in it. When it chimes, in fact it weeps because of the impurities in it.
Listening to the Word in the holy congregation the cheat talks nonsensically.
But by mere talking, none gets satisfied, as by mere uttering word sugar one cannot have his mouth sweet.
If one is to eat butter, one should not go churning water, i.e. mere talks cannot produce the right results.
Worse among the trees, castor and oleander plants appear all around.
Flowers grow on castor and piebald seeds remain in them.
It has no deep roots and fast winds uproot it.
On oleander plants grow buds which like evil sense scatter foul smell all around.
Outwardly they are like red rose but internally like a dilemmatic person they are white (because of the fear of many kinds).
Even after listening to the word of the Guru in holy congregation if some body is still lost in the calculations, he goes astray in the world.
Ashes are thrown on the face of fake lover and his countenance is blackened.
In the forest adorns the vegetation of variegated colours.
Mango is always considered a nice fruit and so is the peach, apple, pomegranate etc. which grows on trees.
Lemon sized grapes, plums, mimosaceous, mulberry, dates etc. all are delight giving fruits.
Pilu, pejhu, ber, walnut, bananas, (all small and big Indian fruits) also grow on (Indian) trees.
But the grasshopper does not like them all and jumps to sit on akk, the wild plant of sandy region.
If a leech is put on the teat of cow or buffalo, it will suck impure blood and not milk.
Even after listening to the Word of the Guru in the holy congregation those who toss between the feelings of loss and profit.
Their false love cannot reach any place.
Millions of frogs, cranes, conches, plants of sandy regions (akk), camel, thorns (javas) black snakes;
Silk cotton trees, owls, ruddy sheldrakes, ladles, elephants, barren women;
Stones, crows, patients, donkeys, black blankets;
Seedless sesame plants, castor, colocynths;
Buds, oleanders (kaner) are there (in the world). All the deadly vices of all these I have in me.
He, who even listening to the word of Guru in the holy congregation does not adopt the teachings of Guru in his heart.
Is opposed to Guru and the life of such an imbalanced person is opprobrious.
Millions are slanderers, millions are apostates and millions of wicked persons are untrue to their salt.
Unfaithful, ungrateful, thieves, vagabonds and millions of other infamous persons are there.
Thousands are there who are slayers of Brahmin, cow, and their own family.
Millions of liars, prevaricators of the Guru, guilty and ill-reputed ones are there.
Many a criminal, fallen, full of demerits and phoney people are there.
Millions are there of variegated guises, cheats and friendly to Satan, exchanging greetings with them.
O God, you all know how I am denying (after having your gifts). I am a cheat and O Lord, you are omniscient.
O Master, you are uplifter of the fallen ones and your always keep your reputation.