One Oankar, the primal energy, realized through the grace of divine preceptor
That homogenous supreme reality (God) ) first was written as numeral one mulmantr – the credal formula) and then He was inscribed as Ura syllable of Gurmukhi, further pronounced as Oankar.
Then He was called satinamu, the truth by name. Kartapurakh, the creator Lord, nirbhau, the fearless one, and Nirvair, withou rancour.
Then emerging as the timeless akal murati to caIled as unborn and self-existent.
Realized through the grace of Guru, the divine preceptor, the current of this primeval truth (God) has continuously moving since before the beginning and throughout the Ages.
He is verily the truth and will continue to be the truth for ever.
The true Guru has made available (for me) the glimpse of this truth.
One who merging his iousness in the Word establishes a relationship of Guru and disciple, that disciple devoting himself to the Guru and progressing from worldliness attunes his consciousness in and with the Lord.
The gurmukhs had the glimpse of imperceptible Lord who is the fruit of delights
On assuming form that formless Lord was called as the boundless Ekankar.
Ekankar became Oankar whose one vibration spread as the creation.
Then were created the five elements and five friends (truth, contentment and compassion etc.) and five enemies (the five evil propensities) of the creatures.
Man harnessed the incurable ailments of five evil propensities and three qualities of nature and maintained his virtuous reputation of being a sadhu.
Five Gurus one after the other composed thousands of hymns, bat in praise of Ekankar.
The bearer of fivelettered name, Nanak Dev, became prominent like God and was called Guru.
These Guru are the true Guru Nanak Dev who created Guru Angad out of his own limbs.
From Guru Angad, Guru Amar Das, the attainer of immortal status of Guru and from him getting the nectar name of the Lord, Guru Ram Das was loved by the people.
From Guru Ram Das, like his shadow emerged Guru Arjan Dev
The first five Gurus held the hands of the people and the sixth Guru Hargobind is incomparable God-Guru.
He is the king of spirituality as well as temporality and is in fact irremovable emperor of all the kings.
Assimilating the unbearable knowledge of the earlier five cups (Gurus) in the inner core of his mind he re,mains merry and wise mediator for humanity.
In spite of the six philosophies spread around, he reaching the turiyä (highest stage of meditation) has attained the supreme reality.
He has strung all the six philosophies and their sects in the strung of one philosophy.
He has churned the essence of the lives of celebate ascetics, the followers of truth, contented people, the siddhs and naths (yogis) and the (so called) incarnations of God.
All the eleven Rudrs remain in the ocean but those (divers) who seek life in death get the invaluable jewels.
All the twelve zodiac sings of sun, sixteen phases of moon and numerous constellations have provided a beautiful swing for him.
This Guru is omniscient yet he possesses a childlike innocence.
Guru Hargobind is the Lord in the form of Guru. Earlier a disciple he is now a. Guru i.e. earlier Gurus and Guru Hargobind are the same.
First, the formless Lord assumed the form of the Ekarikar and later he created all the forms (i.e. universe).
In the form of Oatikär (Guru) lacs of streams of life take shelter.
Lacs of rivers flow into seas, and all the seven seas merge in the oceans.
In the cauldron of desires of fire, the creatures of lacs of oceans hooked in skewers are getting roasted.
All these burning creatures attain peace by the one drop of sandal-delight of the Guru.
And lacs of such sandals have got created from the wash of the Guru's lotus feet.
By the order of the transcendent, primeaval perfect God, the canopy
And the royal umbrella are held over the head of Guru Hargobind.
When moon reaches the house of sun then (according to astrology) many enmities and oppositions erupt.
And if sun enters the house of moon, the enmity is forgotten and love emerges.
The Gurmukh, having established his identity with the supreme light, always cherishes that flame in his heart.
Understanding the mystery of the ways of the world, cultivating values and the knowledge of the Shastras, he quaffs the cup of love in the assembly (the holy congregation).
As the six seasons are caused by one sun, similarly all the six philosophies are the result of the consolidated knowledge of the one Guru (the Lord).
As eight metals mix to make one alloy, similarly meeting the Guru, all the vamas and sects turn out to be the followers of the way of the Guru.
Nine limbs form nine separate houses, but only the tenth gate of tranquillity, leads further to liberation.
Understanding the void (Sany), Jiv becomes infinite like the numbers of nil and anti and enjoys impossible water fall of His love.
Then this jiv goes beyond the counts of twenty, twenty-one, millions or crores, innumerables, sad yugs, tretas yugs i.e. Jiv gets liberated from the time-cycle.
As the four ingredients in a betel become beautiful and homogenous, similarly this benevolent Guru, transforms animals and ghosts into gods.
How can this land of saintliness be procured by money and wealth.
The dealings of the four sects (of Muslims), four vamas (of Hindus) and the six schools of philosophy are current in the world.
In all the shops of fourteen worlds, that great banker (the Lord God) is doing business in the form of Siva and Sakti, the all pervading cosmic law.
The true merchandise is available in the Guru's shop, the holy congregation, wherein praises and glory of the Lord are sung.
Knowledge, meditation, remembrance, loving devotion and the fear of the Lord are always propounded and discussed there.
Gurmukhs, who are steadfast in remembering the name of Lord, ablution and charity, make bargains of jewels (virtues) there.
The true Guru is benevolent and in his abode of truth, the formless Lord resides.
Practising all the fourteen skills, the gurmukhs have identified love towards the truth as the fruit of all delights.
Everything is below truth but, for the gurmukhs truthful conduct is higher than the truth.
As the fragrance of sandal makes the whole vegetation fragrant, the whole world gets across through the teachings of the Guru.
Drinking the nectar of the Guru's teaching, the Jiv becomes awake and alert.
Servants, addict as well as teetotaller, may be in the vicinity, but the minister
Who knows ins and outs of the court never accepts their advice.
The ignorant one who tries to be clever or feigns indifference is expelled by the minister from the court.
In speaking and writing like this minister, loyal devoted disciples, have been created by the Guru.
Those addicts, who have not had the glimpse of the Lord through the wisdom of the Guru, never associate with the teetotallers (the holy ones).
The addicts are acquainted with addicts, likewise, teetotallers meet the teetotallers.
The affection between a king and his minister is such as if the same one life current is moving in two bodies.
This relationship is also like the relation of the sword in the sheath; the two may be separate, yet they are one ( i.e. sword in sheath is yet called sword only).
Likewise is the relation of gurmukhs with the Guru; they are subsumed in each other in such a manner as is the juice and the sugarcane.
Servants, addict (of the Lord's name) as well as teetotallers devoid of Mitn came to the Lord king's presence.
Those present are marked present and those absent are declared absent.
The intelligent king (God) selected a few to be his courtiers.
He, a clever person, made both the clever and the indifferent happy and put them to work.
Now, the so called teetotallers (religious persons) were engaged to serve drinks (nam) to the addicts.
The latter became exhilerated in the name of the Lord and attained tranquility
But the so-called religious persons (teetotallers who served mans to others) remained involved in the so-called prayer and ritualistic worship.
They under the tyranny of their religious books, the Vedas and the Katebas, kept busy in arrogant debates and discussions.
Any rare gurmukh attains the fruit of the delight (of quaffing the drink of Lord's name).
The emperor (Lord) sitting in a window (holy congregation) gives audience to the people in a arranged court.
Inside gather the privileged persons but outside assemble the commoners.
The Emperor (Lord) Himself quaffes the cup (of love) and arranges to serve the select ones inside.
Keeping in view the two categories of the likely addicts and the teetotallers (so-called religious persons) He Himself distributes the wine of love to them.
The teetotaller (engaged in ritualism) neither drinks the wine of love himself nor allows others to drink.
Getting pleased, that Lord goes on giving the cup of His grace to the rare ones and never regrets.
None is to blame, lie himself makes the creatures commit crime and himself pardons their sins in the hukam, the divine will.
None else understands the mystery of the delight of His love; only He himself knows or the one whom He makes to know.
Any rare gurmukh beholds the glimpse of that imperceptible Lord.
Devoid of the love (of the Lord) Hindu and Muslim scholars describe the Vedas and the Katebas respectively.
Muslims are men of Allah and the Hindus love Hari (Visnu), the supreme god. Muslims have faith in Kalima, the sacred formula of Muslims, sunnat,
And circumcision, and Hindus feel comfortable with the flak, sandal paste mark and the sacred thread, janett
The pilgrimage centre of Muslims is Mecca and that of the Hindus Banaras situated on the bank of Ganges.
The former undertake rozas, fasts, and namaz, prayer, whereas the latter feel ecstasy (in their worship and fasts).
They each have four sects or castes. Hindus have their six philosophies which they preach in every home.
Muslims have the traditions of Murids and Pirs
Whereas the Hindus love to ten incarnations (of God), the Muslims have their single Khuda, Allah.
They both have in vain created many tensions.
The special admirers gathered in the assembly (holy congregation), through the cup of love have beholden the imperceptible (Lord).
They break the restriction of beads (Muslim rosary) and for them the number of beads as hundred or one hundred and eight are immaterial.
They combine Meru (the last bead of Hindu rosary) and Imam (the last bead of Muslim roasary) and keep no distinction between Ram and Rahim (as names of the Lord).
Joining together they become one body and consider this world as the game of oblong dice.
Transcending the illusory phenomenon of the actions of Siva and his Sakti, they quaff the cup of love and stabilize in their own self.
Going beyond the three qualities of nature, the rajas, tamas and sattv, they attain the fourth stage of supreme equipoise.
Guru, Gobind and Khuda and Pir are all one, and the Sikhs of the Guru hold and know the inner truth of the Pir and Murid. i.e. the spiritual leader and the follower disciple.
Enlightened by the true word and merging their consciousness in the Word they absorb their own truth into the supreme truth.
They love only the true emperor (Lord) and the truth.
The true Guru is the transcendent perfect Brahm and resides in the holy congregation.
By absorbing the consciousness in the Word He is adored, and cherishing love, devotion and His awe He spontaneously blooms in the heart.
He never dies nor becomes sorrowful. He always goes on bestowing, and his bounties are never exhausted.
People say that the Guru has passed away but the holy congregation smilingly accepts Him as indestructible.
Guru (Hargobind) is the sixth generation of Gurus but who can tell about the generations of the Sikhs.
The concepts of true name, true glimpse, and the true abode get their explanation only in the holy congregation.
The cup of love is quaffed in the holy congregation and there only the touch of the philosopher's stone (Lord), loving to devotees is received.
In the holy congregation, the formless one assumes form and there only the unborn, timeless
Being is eulogized. The truth only prevails there and everyone is tested on the touchstone of truth there.
The supreme Reality assuming the form of Oankar created the three qualities (of matter) and the five elements.
Creating Brahma, Visnu and Mahes'a he performed the sports of ten incarnations.
Producing six seasons, twelve months and seven days he created the whole world.
Scribing the writs of birth and death, He recited the Vedas, Shastras and the Puranas.
About the beginning and end of the holy congregation He did not prescribe any date, day or month.
Holy congregation is the abode of truth wherein resides the formless One in the form of Word.
Creating fruit from tree and tree from fruit i.e. making disciple of the Guru and then from disciple the Guru, the Lord has laid down the mystery of His perfect imperceptible form.
The Gurus themselves bowed before the primeval Lord and made others also bow before Him.
The true Guru is the primordial Lord who is pervading this creation as does a thread in the rosary.
Guru Himself is the wonder who is one with the supreme wonder.
Brahma gave four Vedas and created four vamas and four stages of life (brahmchary, grihasth, vanaprasth and sannyas).
He created the six philosophies, their six texts. teachings and their corresponding sects.
He distributed the whole world into the four corners, seven continents, nine divisions and ten directions.
Water, earth, forests, mountains, pilgrimage centres and the abodes of gods were created.
He made the traditions of recitations, ascetic discipline, continence, burnt offerings, rituals, worships, charity etc.
None has identified the formless Lord, because only holy congregation explains about the Lord but none goes there to ask about Him.
People talk and hear about Him only on the basis of heresay (no one moves on the way of experience).
In his ten incarnations Visnu caused the opposing warriors fight each other.
He created two factions of gods and demons and out of them he helped the gods win and caused the defeat of demons.
He created incarnations in the forms of Fish, Tortoise, Varah (Boar), Narsingh (Man-lion), Vaman (Dwarf) and the Buddh.
The names of Pars'u Ram, Ram, Krsna, Kalki are also counted among his incarnations.
Through their deceptive and frolicsome characters, they increased delusions, deceits and convolutions.
Nothing was done to have the glimpse of fearless, formless, transcendent, perfect Brahm. Ksatriyas were annihilated
And the Ramayan and the Mahabharat epics were composed to please the people.
Lust and anger were not decimated, nor greed,infatuation and ego were wiped out.
Without the holy congregation, the human birth was lost in vain.
From one there became eleven Rudrs (Sivas).Even being a householder he was called a recluse.
He loved celebates, followers of truth, contented ones, Siddhs (the proven ones) and naths, controllers of senses.
Sannyasis adopted ten names and yogis also promulgated their twelve sects.
Riddhi, siddhis (miraculous powers), treasures, rasciree (chemical elixir), tantra, mantra and conjurations were introduced.
Sivaratri was celebrated as a fair and it increased the debates and the use of miraculous powers.
The cups of hemp, opium and wine were consumed and enjoyed.
Rules for blowing instruments, like singe - and the conch were set.
The primal Lord was saluted and invoked with the shouts of Alakh (the Imperceptible) but no one had perceived the Alakh.
Without holy congregation all remained duped by delusions.
The formless One has assumed form as the true Guru (Nanak Dev) who is the eternal Guru of the Gurus.
He is known as the pir of pirs(Muslim spiritualists) and that Master of masters resides in the holy congregation.
He promulgated gurmukh panth, the way of Gurmukhs, and the Sikhs of the Guru remain detached even in maya.
Those present themselves before the Guru are known as panches (the eminent ones) and the reputation of such panches is protected by the Lord.
Meeting the Gurmukhs such panches get accepted and move happily in the holy congregation, the abode of truth.
The word of the Guru is the glimpse of the Guru and getting settled in one's own self, the discipline of loving devotion is observed.
This discipline consists in sweet speech, humble conduct, honest labour, hospitality and in remaining detached among hopes and disappointments.
Living in equipoise and indifference is true renunciation in the Kaliyug, the dark age.
Meeting the holy congregation only, one gets liberated from the cycle of transmigration
Woman loves man and man also loves his woman (wife).
By the union of husband and wife, in this world sons, worthy and unworthy are born.
Those who remain absorbed in the Lord God, the male of all the males, are rare pure ones.
From the primeval Lord, the male (the creative principle) is produced in the same way as by reflection, upon the Word, the true disciple of the Guru is created.
Philosopher's stone produces another philosopher's stone i.e. from Guru emerges disciple and the same disciple eventually becomes a virtuous Guru.
The gurmukhs belong to the lineage of the super swans i.e. they are most sacred. The Sikhs of Guru are benevolent like sadhus.
The Guru's disciple keeps fraternal relationship with fellow disciples and they salute one another with the word of the Guru.
They have renounced other's body, other's wealth, slander and ego.
I am sacrifice unto such holy congregation (which brings about such transformation).
From father, grand father, great grand father are born son, grand son,great grand son respectively and from great grand son is born simply a relative (natte, having no specific relational name).
The relationship of mother, grand mother, greatgrand mother, father's sister, sister, daughter, and daughter-in-law is also respected.
Maternal grand father and mother and maternal great grand father and mother are also known.
Father's elder brother (Taiya) younger brother (chachc7a, their wives (tayi, chachi)et al. also remain absorbed in wordly affairs (maya).
Mama, mann- (mother's brother and his wife), mast; masa; (mother's sister and her husband), all look dyed in their own colours.
Masar, phuphet (mother's sister's husband and father's sister's husband respectively), father-in-law, mother-in-law, sister-in-law (sali) and brother-in-law (sala) are also close.
The relationship of chacha's-in-law and those of the mama-in-law and phaphd-in-law are known as inconvenient relations.
The relationship of sister-in-law's husband (Sandhi) and father-in-law of your daughter or son (Kuram) are momentary and fake like those passengers of a boat sitting in a group.
The true relationship is with those brothers who meet in the holy congregation.They never get separated.
Through the holy congregation, the gurmukhs learn the technique of renunciation amidst enjoyments.
The love of father's sister or cousins are not equal to the father's love.
Love of mother cannot be equalled by the love of the children of maternal uncle and mother's sister.
By eating mango blossms the desire for eating mangoes is not fulfilled.
The smells of radish leaves and betel are different and are identified through smell and eructation.
Lacs of lighted lamps and stars cannot compete with the sun and the moon.
The colour of madder is steadfast and the colour of safflower changes very soon.
Neither mother and father nor all the gods can be as gracious as the true Guru.
All these relations have been thoroughly tested.
Love of parents cannot be equal to the love of the true Guru, the bestower of consciousness.
Trust in the bankers cannot match the reliance upon the true Guru who has boundless capacity.
Of none's lordship is equal to the Lordship of true Guru. That true Guru is the real master.
The charities given by others cannot be equal to the charities bestowed by the true Guru because the true Guru bestows steadfastness in the truth.
The treatment of the physicians cannot reach the true physician's treatment because the true Guru cures the disease of egoism.
Worship of gods and goddesses is also not equal to the constant pleasure-giving worship of the true Guru.
Even jewels of ocean cannot be equated with the holy congregation because the holy congregation is adorned by the word of Guru.
Ineffable is the story o, the grandeur of the true Guru; his glory is great.