One Oankar, the primal energy, realized through the grace of divine preceptor
(Kamanan=arguments. Johai=Takke. Dohan=traitor, rogue. Chohe=anger. Pohai=to cling.)
Passionate urges in the form of lacs of desires may appear in many forms.
Lacs of enemies may stare in anger; temptations in lacs and lacs of mammons may inveigle and deceive;
Maya and infatuation pretending to be virtuous may in crores of ways adorne(the world);
And ego, full of pride for having killed lacs of demons, may touch a gursikh;
But to the Sikh of the Guru, who listens to the teachings of the Guru in the holy congregation,
They all cannot affect the least.
Lacs of magician women of lacs of kamaraps (a state in east India where women were supposed to be very beautiful);
The best category of women (Padrnini) of Shilialdvi:p (modern Sri Lanka) adept in embellishments;
Chaste nymphs of Indralok (the abode of Indr, the Vedic god),
Houris of paradise and fairies in lacs;
Lacs of young girls adept in sexual arts also cannot touch
The gurmukh who resides in the grand holy congregation.
Lacs of Duryodhan, Kans and lacs of demons may be there who keep fighting;
Lacs of Ravans, Kumbhakarans and other evil demons there may be;
Lacs of Padu Rams and Sahsrbahus may be wrangling in ego with one another;
Many may be there like Hiranyakasipu and the roaring man-lion Narsinghs;
Lacs of angry people with lacs of antagonisms and lacs of enmities may be there.
They all cannot put any harm to the Sikhs of the Guru who gather in the holy congregation.
Lacs of mounds of gold and rupees and lacs of filled up store houses;
Invaluable pearls, rubies and diamonds;
Lacs of kingdoms, countries and thousands of paraganas (districts);
Riddhis, siddhis (miraculous powers), renunciations, enjoyments, ornaments. embellishments;
Kantdhenus, the wishfulfilling cows, lacs of wishfulfilling trees (parijats) and fabulous gems;
All the four ideals of life (dhrma, arth, Kam and moks);
And lacs of attractive fruits and other temptations cannot even touch that Sikh of the Guru who has got liberated in the holy congregation.
Father, son, mother, daughter, sister, brother are there.
Husband and wife love each other profusely with their hearts.
Pleasure-giving beautiful palaces, art galleries, gardens and flowers are all delightful.
Lacs of sounds, colours, flowers and forms delude people in enjoyments.
Getting engrossed in millions types of infatuations people have manyfold claims (over each other).
To the Sikhs of the Guru, adorning the holy congregation, even all these cannot affect in any way.
All the vamas (castes) do not love one another and quarrel among themselves in ego;
If there are two lions in a jungle they roar mightily at each other.
They all are like those intoxicated elephants which stubbornly fight each other.
The mighty kings capture large territories and fight with each other.
Two emperors in a country will go at war with each another.
Guided and controlled by ego lacs of wrestlers wrestle with one another.
But ego cannot touch the Sikhs of the Guru residing in the holy congregation.
Gorakh claimed to be a celebate but his teacher Machhandar (Matsyendr) lived like a virtual householder.
Sukrachary too was stigmatised for his evil mantra.
Laksaman disciplined his hunger and thirst and was proud on this account.
Hanumán (monkey god) is known to be very powerful but his mind was quite volatile.
Bhairav also because of his association with evil spirits maintained his evilmindedness.
Sikhs of the Guru who have effaced their ego are praised as (really) virtuous persons.
Harischandr abided by truth and got himself sold in the market place.
Though duped (by Visnu), King Bali observed truth and went to the netherworld.
Karn would also give gold in charity but he had to repent ultimately (because god Indr demanded his armour ana earrings of him which he readily gave and lost his powers).
The truthful Yudhisthar, son of Yama, for his one lie had to go to hell.
Many celebates, truthful and contented people have flourished but they all were proud of their conduct.
Such a humble one is the Sikh of the Guru that all these are not equal to his one trichome.
Hindus and Muslims have started two separate ways (of life).
Muslims count their mazahabs (sects) and Hindus count their varnas (castes) and call themselves pirs and gurus respectively.
Through pretension and hypocrisy they make people their followers (Sikhs and murtils) whom they give instruction.
Adoring Ram and and Rahtm they remain conceited in their sense of ego.
Separately, they go for pilgrimage and worship to Mecca, Ganges and Banaras.
They observe rozas, vrats (fasts), namaz and prostration (Muslim and Hindu way of worship).
They all are not equal to even one trichome of a Gum's Sikh who has effaced his sense of ego.
There are six schools of philosophy and fourteen lineages (of the Sufis).
Householders, riders and foot soldiers move about in circles in the world.
Maintaining ten names, the sanyasi sects go on debating among themselves.
Ravals, the yogis, also split in twelve sects and roam mad with pride.
Leftover is grace for Jains and their contamination is never removed.
They all are not equal to one trichome of that Gursikh who has attuned himself with that great primeval Lord.
Many people are there of attractive sects of Sunnis, Sias and Rafazts.
Many hypocrites becoming atheists and deluded by illusions go on wandering here and there.
Followers of Jesus and Moses are also many who are confounded in their own pride.
Some are blackclad recluses and dervishes wearing bunches of cowaries
Around their arms who move about here and there.
They all are not equal to even a trichome of those Gursikhs who have sold themselves at the hands of the Guru.
Actions such as recitations, austerities, continence, devotion, perseverence, control over senses, etc. are performed.
For spirituality, fasts, observances, pilgrimages are undertaken.
One gets inclined towards temples for the worship of gods and goddesses.
Besides burnt offerings and charities of many kinds, Vedic hymns are chanted.
Getting stuck in such religious, ritualistic illusions, fear and doubt only leads to transmigration.
The pleasure fruit of gurmukhs is the holy congregation meeting which the ardous world-ocean is crossed.
Many such kings are there whose kingdom extends from the point of sunrise to the point of sunset.
They have wealth worth billions and choice luxuries to enjoy.
All these kings of mortals and gods are engrossed in their ego.
Rising from the abode of Siva they attain the abode of Brahma and Vaikunth, the heavens;
Many other long-lived have also flourished,
But the pleasure fruit of gurmukhs is unapproachable and better than the best one.
Millions of variegated creatures of unparallel beauty are there in this world.
Likewise millions of vibrations, dialogues and their constant music is there.
Mixing many scents millions of pure essences are prepared.
Similarly in cook houses thirtysix types of delicious dishes are there.
The fully grown up women are there decorated with silken robes and ornaments.
But association with the gurmukhs is a pleasure fruit which is unapproachable.
Plenty of practical arts, spiritual wisdom, wise sayings and skills are extent (upto day).
Lacs of powers, discretions, discourses and physical services are known.
Plenty of cleverness, consciousness and knowledge of skills are available.
Similarly knowledges, meditations, remembrances and eulogies are there in thousands.
Having all this and behaving in arrogant manner, one does not get place at the door of the Lord.
The pleasure fruit of gurmukh's coming in the shelter of Guru is unapproachable.
If truth, contentment, compassion, dharma and wealth worth lacs are combined;
If earth, sky, water, air and immensely bright heat are there;
If the combination of forgiveness, patience and myriad modesties put grandeur to shame;
If peace, equipoise, good actions motivate for the loving devotion;
And if they all join to increase the delight further, even then they cannot approach
An iota of the pleasure fruit in the form of loving devotional sentiment of the gurmukhs.
If lacs of yogis sit in meditation jointly;
If lacs of sadhus in meditation of postures go into tranquil trances;
If lacs of Sesanags keep remembering and eulogizing the Lord;
If lacs of great souls cheerfully applaud Him;
If lacs of devotees eulogize His glories and perform lacs of recitations of His name,
Even then they all cannot withstand the one moment of loving delight of a gurmukh.
Even the most wonderful wonder becomes full of wonder in the presence of loving delight.
Before love, awe also feels itself full of awe.
Love makes even the surprise full of surprise.
Unmanifest to unmanifestation, that unperceptible Lord cannot be perceived.
He is beyond all descriptions and is known as neti neti, this is not, this is not.
The pleasure fruit of gurmukhs is delight of love which causes him to say wondrous, wonderful!
The Lord spreading His one vibration, created all the universes.
Having created lacs and crores of universes He subsumes them in His each trichome.
That Murdri; killer of Mur demon, the transcendent Brahm is the perfect Guru Brahm.
Under His influence the Guru becoming disciple and the disciple becoming Guru, they ponder upon the word of the Guru, i.e. the Guru and the disciple have subsumed in each other.
Holy congregation is the abode of truth wherein resides the word of the formless One.
Bestowing loving delight on the gurmukhs, this holy congregation wipes out their ego.
Guru Nanak is the true Guru and is God Himself.
From the limb of this Guru was created Guru Angad and his flame merged in his (Guru Angad' s ) flame.
From Guru Angad the omniscient Guru Amar Das emerged who was given the status of Guru.
From Amar Das came into being Guru Ram Das who was quaffer of the nectar.
From Ram Das came Guru Arjan Dev, the companion of the Guru's word.
From Guru Arjan emerged Guru Hargobind, Guru and God in one.
The gurmukhs in the holy congregation came face to face of the pleasure fruit of loving delight.
Nothing in this world is outside the Guru and God.