One Oankar, the primal energy, realized through the grace of divine preceptor
Merchandise (of truth) is available only at that centre wherein sits the pit of the pits and the perfect Guru of the gurus.
He is saviour of the fallen, dispeller of sufferings, and shelter of the shelterless.
He takes away our demerits and bestows virtues.
Instead, ocean of delights, the Lord makes us forget grief and disappointment.
He, the decimater of lacs of evils, is benevolent and ever present. He whose name is Truth, creator Lord, the truth form, never becomes incomplete i.e. He is ever complete.
Residing in the holy congregation, the abode of truth,
He blows the trumpet of unstruck melody and shatters the sense of duality.
The philosopher's stone when showering benevolence (of making gold)
Does not take into consideration the kind, and caste of the eight metals (alloy).
Sandal makes all trees fragrant and their fruitlessness and fruitfulness never occurs to its mind.
The sun rises and spreads its rays equally at all the places.
Tolerance is the virtue of earth which accepts the refuse of others and never beholds their demerits.
Similarly, jewels, rubies, pearls, iron, philosopher's stone, gold etc. preserve their innate nature.
No limits are there of (the benevolence of) the holy congregation.
Philosopher's stone transforms metal into gold but the dross of iron does not become gold and is hence disappointed.
Sandalwood makes the whole vegetation fragrant but the nearby bamboo remains devoid of fragrance.
On sowing seed, the earth produces thousand times more but in the alkaline soil the seed does not germinate.
The owl cannot see (the sun) but the true Guru bestowing the understanding about that Lord makes one see Him really and clearly.
Only that which is sown in the earth is reaped but by serving the true Guru all sorts of fruits are attained.
As whoever boards the ship gets across, similarly the true Guru makes no distinction between the virtuous
And the wicked and makes even animals and ghosts follow a godly life.
Gold is made by the (touch of the) philosopher's stone but gold itself cannot produce gold.
Sandal tree makes other tree fragrant but the latter cannot further make other trees fragrant.
Sown seed sprouts only after it rains but adopting the teachings of the Guru, one attain fruit instantly.
The sun sets at the fall of night but the perfect Guru is there all the time.
As a ship cannot mount the mountain forcibly similarly, forced control over the senses is not liked by the true Guru.
The earth may be scared of a quake and it becomes restive in its place but the Gurmat, Guru's tenets are steadfast and unconcealed.
The true Guru, in fact, is a bag full of jewels.
On sun-rise, the owls blind like wall hide themselves in the world.
When the lion roars in the jungle, the jackals, deer etc. are not found around.
Moon in the sky cannot be concealed behind a small plate.
Seeing a hawk all the birds in the forest leave their places and become restive (and flutter for their safety).
Thieves, adulterers and corrupt ones are not seen around after day break.
Those, who have knowledge in their heart improve the intellect of lacs of ignorants.
The glimpse of the holy congregation decimates all the tensions suffered in the kaliyug, the dark age.
I am sacrifice unto the holy congregation.
The lacs of stars shine in the dark night but with the moon rise they become dim.
Some of them go in hiding while some continue to twinkle.
With the sun rise, the stars, the moon and the dark night, all vanish.
Before the servants, accomplished through the word of the true Guru, four vamas and four ashrams (astclhätu), the Vedas, Katebas are negligible
And the idea about gods, goddesses, their servants, tantra, mantra etc. does not even occur in the mind.
The way of gurmukhs is delightful. Blest is the Guru and also blessed are his beloved ones.
The glory of the holy congregation is manifest in the whole world.
All the four vamas, four sects (of Muslims), six philosophies and their conducts,
Ten incarnations, thousands of names of the Lord and all holy seats are His travelling traders.
Having taken commodities from the store of that supreme reality, they spread them far and wide in the country and beyond.
That carefree true Guru (Lord) is their perfect banker and His warehouses are unfathomable (and never ending).
All take from Him and disavow but He, the true Guru, never gets tired bestowing gifts.
That Oankar Lord, extending His one vibrational sound, creates one and all.
I am sacrifice unto this trancendental Brahm in the form of true Guru.
Many are the pirs, prophets, auliyas, gauris, qutubs and ulemas (all spiritual designations among Muslims).
Many shaikhs, sadiks(contented ones), and martyrs are there. Many are Qazis mullahs, maulavis (all Muslim religious and judicial designations).
(Similarly among the Hindus) Rsis, munis, Jain Digambars (Jain naked ascetics) and many miracle-makers knowing black magic are also known in this world.
Innumerable are the practising, siddhs (yogis) who publicise themselves as great persons.
None gets liberated without the true Guru without whom their ego goes on increasing further,
Without holy congregation, the sense of ego stares at the jtv menacingly,
I am sacrifice unto this trancendental Brahm in the form of true Guru.
Upon some He bestows miraculous powers (riddhis, siddhis) and to some He gives wealth and to some other miracles.
To some He gives life-elixir, to some the fabulous gem, to some the philosopher's stone and due to His grace in the inner self of some trickles the nectar;
Some in His will practise tantra mantra hypocrisies and worship of Vas (S aivite worship) and some others He causes to wander in far off places.
Upon some He bestows the wishfulfilling cow, upon some the wishfulfilling tree and on whomsoever He likes He bestows Laksami (goddess of wealth).
To delude many, He gives asans (postures), niolf kannas --the yogic exercises, and miracles and dramatic activities to many a person.
He gives asceticism to yogis and luxuries to bhogis (enjoyers of the wordly pleasures).
Meeting and parting i.e. taking birth and dying always cojointly exist. These all are (various) forms of Oankar.
Four ages, four mines of life, four speeches (para, pasyanti, madhyama and vaikhari) and creatures living in lacs of species
He has created. Human species known to be a rare one is the best of ail the species.
Making all the species subordinate to human species, the Lord has given it superiority.
Most of the human beings in the world remain subordinated to each other and are unable to understand anything.
Among them, those are real slaves who have lost their lives in evil deeds.
The transmigration in the eighty four lac species of life is ended if the holy congregation is pleased.
Real excellence is achieved by cultivating the Guru's word.
The gurmukh getting up in arobrosial hours of the early morning takes bath in the sacred tank.
Reciting the holy hymns of the Guru, he moves towards gurudvara, the central place for Sikh.
There, joining the holy congregation,he lovingly listens to Gurbant, the holy hymns of the Guru.
Effacing all doubt from his mind he serves the Sikhs of the Guru.
Then by righteous means he earns his livelihood and he distributes the hard-earned meal among the needy ones.
Offering first, to the Sikhs of Guru, the remainder he himself eats.
In this dark age, illumined by such feelings, the disciple becomes Guru and the Guru disciple.
The gurmukhs tread on such a highway (of religious life).
The Oankar whose form is the true Guru, is the true creator of universe.
From His one word the whole creation spreads, and in the holy congregation, the consciousness is merged in His word.
Even Brahma Visnu Mahes'a and the ten incarnations jointly, cannot ponder upon His mystery.
Vedas, Katebas, Hindus, Muslims - none knows His secrets.
Rare is a person who comes to the shelter of the feet of the true Guru and makes his life fruitful.
Rare is a person who listening to the teachings of Guru becomes disciple, remains dead to passions, and prepares himself to be a true servant.
Any rare one absorbs himself in graveyard (i.e. permanent haven) of the true Guru.
Recitations, austerities, persistences, many renunciaitions explanations on Vedas and all the fourteen skills are known in the world.
Even Sesanag, Sanaks, and rishi Lomas do not know the mystery of that infinite.
Celebates, follower of truth, contented ones, siddhs, naths(yogis) all becoming masterless are wandering in delusions.
Searching Him all the pars, prophets, auliyas and thousands of old men are wonderstruck (because they could not know Him).
Yogas (austerties), bhogs (joys), lacs of ailments, sufferings and separations, all are illusions.
Ten sects of sannyasis are wandering in delusions.
Disciple yogis of the Guru always remain alert whereas others have hidden themselves in the jungles, i.e. they are unconcerned with the problems of the world.
Joining the holy congregation, the Sikhs of the Guru eulogize the glory of the name of the Lord.
The light of lacs of moons and suns cannot become equal to an iota of the wisdom of the true Guru.
Millions of nether worlds and millions of skies exist but there is not the slightest maladjustment in their alignment.
Lacs of airs and waters join to create moving waves of different hues.
Millions of creations and millions of dissolutions continuously alternate without the beginning, middle and end of the process.
Lacs of forbearing earths and mountains cannot equate the teachings of the true Guru in perseverance and righteousness.
Millions types of knowledges and meditations are not equal to even a particle of the knowledge of the wisdom of Guru (gunnat).
I have sacrified Lacs of rays of lights for one ray of the meditation upon the Lord.
In the one word of the Lord lacs of rivers (of life) flow and lacs of waves come up in them.
In His one wave again, lacs of rivers (of life) flow.
In each river, in the form of incarnations, lacs of jivs assuming many forms are roaming about.
Incarnations in the form of fish and tortoise dive into it but they cannot fathom its depth, i.e. they cannot know the limits of that supreme reality.
That sustainer Lord is beyond all limits; none can know the bounds of his waves.
That true Guru is the excellent purus and the disciples of the Guru bear the unbearable, through the wisdom of the Guru (gurmat).
Rare are the people who undertake such devotional worship.
What could be said about the greatness of that great Lord whose one word is beyond all measures.
None can know His mystery whose base is only One Gallia. How could His long life be counted whose half a breath is unfathomable.
His creation cannot be evaluated; how can then that imperceptible one be beholden (understood).
His gifts such as days and nights are also invaluable and His other boons are also infinite.
Indescribable is the position of the Lord, the master of the masterless,
And His unnarratable story can only be concluded by saying neti neti (this is not, this not).
Worthy of salutation is only that primeval Lord.
If a saw is held one's head and the body is cut piece by piece to be put as burnt offerings;
If lacs of times one gets decayed in snow or adopting proper techniques one undertakes penances with body upside down;
If one becomes bodyless through water penances, fire-penances, and internal fire-penances;
If one practises fasts, rules, disciplines and wanders about the places of gods and goddesses;
If one makes throne of virtuous charities, goodness and lotus postures and sits on it;
If one practises nioli karma, serpent posture, exhalation, inhalation and suspension of vital air (pranayam);
All these together are not equal to the fruit of delight attained by the gurmukh.
Millions of wisemen through their skills cannot attain the (supreme) fruit of delight.
Millions of skillful persons with their skills and thousands of clever persons with their cleverness cannot attain Him.
Lacs of physicians, lacs of ingenious persons and other worldly wise people;
Lacs of kings, emperors and of their minister in lacs are there but no suggestion of anybody is of any use.
Celebates, truthful and contented ones, siddhs, naths, none could lay his hand upon Him.
None, including four varnas, four sects and six philosophies could behold that imperceptible Lord's fruit of delight.
Great is the glory of the fruit of delight of the gurmukhs.
Discipleship of the Guru is a difficult task; any pir or Guru of the Gurus knows it.
Accepting the teachings of the true Guru and going beyond the wordly illusions He identifies that Lord.
Only that Sikh of the Guru absorbs his self into Baba (Nanak) who has become dead to his carnal desires.
Falling at the Guru's feet he becomes the dust of his feet; people consider such dust of the feet of a humble Sikh as sacred.
Unapproachable is the way of gurmukhs; while being dead they remain alive (i.e. they make only their desires dead), and ultimately they identify the Lord.
Inspired by the teachings of the Guru and adopting the conduct of bhritigi insect (which transforms small ant into bhringt), he (the disciple) attains the grandeur and greatness of the Guru.
Who, in fact, can describe this ineffable story?
After coming to holy congregation all the four varnas (castes) become four time more powerful i.e. they become perfect sixteen types of skills in them,
Absorbing consciousness in five qualities of word (pares, pa(yantl, madhyama, vaikharf and matrika), the jilt tames all the five times five, 1.e. twenty-five proclivities of human nature.
Subsuming six philosophies In the one philosophy of the Lord, thejtv comes to know about the significance of six times six, i.e. thirty six postures (of yoga).
Beholding the light of one lamp in all the seven continents, forty nine (7x7) airs are controlled by fit),
The delight of sixty four skills is enjoyed when the asr dhatu in the form of four varnas and four ashrams associated with philosopher's stone in the form of (one) Guru is transformed into gold.
By bowing before one master of the nine naths (masters), the knowledge about the eighty-one divisions (of cosmos) is attained.
Getting freedom from the ten doors (of body) the perfect yogi gets cent percent accepted (in the court of Lord).
Gurmukhs' fruit of delight possesses a subtle mystique.
If the Sikh is hundred times, the eternal true Guru is hundred and one times.
His court is ever steadfast and he never undergoes the cycle of transmigration.
He who meditates upon Him with singleminded devotion, gets his noose of Yama, cut asunder.
That one Lord alone pervades everywhere, and only by merging consciousness in the word that true Guru can be known.
Without the glimpse of the manifest Guru (the word of Guru), thefts, wanders in eightyfour lacs of species of life.
Without the teachings of Guru, the jivgoes on taking birth and dying and is ultimately thrown in hell.
The true Guru (Lord) is without attributes and yet possesses all the qualities.
A rare one absorbes himself in the word of the Guru. There is no shelter without Guru's and this true refuge never gets destroyed.
The true Guru (Lord), Guru of all Gurus, is the immutable Guru from beginning to end.
Any rare gurmukh gets merged in the equipoise.
Basis of meditation is the form of Gum (who is with qualities as well as beyond all qualities) and basic worship is worship of the feet of the Guru.
Basis of the mantras is the word of the Guru and the true Guru recites the true word.
The wash of the feet of Guru is sacred and the Sikhs wash the lotus feet (of the Guru).
Nectar of the feet of Guru cuts asunder all sins and the dust of the Guru's feet erases all evil writs.
By its grace the true named creator Lord, Vahiguru, comes to reside in the heart.
Effacing the twelve marks of the yogis, the gurmukh puts on his forehead the mark of the grace of the Lord.
Out of all religious conducts, only one code of conduct is true that repudiating all, one should go on remembering the one Lord alone.
Following any one other than the Guru, man goes on wandering without any shelter.
Devoid of the perfect Guru, jiv goes on suffering transmigration.