One Oankar, the primal energy, realized through the grace of divine preceptor
Vaar 8
The Lord’s one word (order) established and spread the whole nature in the form of the cosmos.
Making the five elements authentic (He) regularized the working of the four mines of origin (egg, fetus, sweat, vegetation) of life.
How to tell the expanse of earth and extension of sky?
How mush wider is air and what is the weight of water?
How mush is the mass of fire cannot be estimated. The stores of that Lord cannot be counted and weighed.
When His creation can not be counted how can one know how great the Creator is.
Water earth and the nether world are full of eighty-four lacs of species.
In each species innumerable creatures are there.
Having created myriad universe He provides sustenance for them.
In each particle that Lord has extended Himself.
On the forehead of each creature are written his accounts; Only that creator is beyond all accounts and counts.
Who can ponder upon His greatness?
How great are the truth, contentment, compassion, dharma, the meaning (of a concept) and its further elaboration?
How much is the expansion of lust, anger, greed and infatuation?
Visitors are of many kind and how many are forms and their hues?
How great is the consciousness and how much is the extension of Word?
How many are the founts of flavor and what is the working of various fragrances?
Nothing can be told about the edible delights and inedible.
His expanse is infinite and beyond description.
What is the ambit of suffering and pleasure, happiness and sorrow?
How can the truth be described and how to say about the count of liars?
To divide seasons into months, days and nights is an awe-inspiring idea.
How bigger are the hopes and desires and what is the circumference of sleep and hunger?
What could be told about love, fear, peace, equipoise, altruism and evil propensities?
These all are infinite and none can know about them.
How to think about the periphery of meeting (Sanjog) and separation (vijog), because meeting and separation is part of a continuous process among the creatures.
What is laughing and what are the limits of weeping and wailing?
How to tell the perimeter of indulgence and repudiation?
How to describe the virtue, sin and the doors of liberation.
Nature is indescribable because in it one extends to millions and millions.
The evaluation of that (great) Giver cannot be done and nothing can be told about His expansion.
His ineffable story, beyond all bases is always unmanifest.
Among the eighty-four lacs of births, the human life is the rare one.
This human got divided into four varnas and dharmas as also into Hindu and Musalman.
How many are the males and females cannot be counted.
This world is fraudulent display of maya who with its there qualities has created even Brahma, Visan and Mahesa.
Hindus read Vedas and Muslims kaebas but the Lord is one while two ways have been devised to reach Him.
Out of the Siva-Sakti i.e. maya, the illusions of yoga and bhoga (enjoyment) have been created.
One gets good or bad results according to the company of sadh or evildoers he keeps.
Hinduism put up expositions of the four varnas, six philosophies, Shastras, Bedas and Puranas.
People worship gods and goddesses and undertake pilgrimage of holy place.
Within Hinduism are defined ganas, gandharvas, fairies, Indra, Indrasan, the throne of Indra.
Yetis, satis, contented men, siddhas, naths and incarnations of God are included in it.
Modes of worship through recitation, penances, continence, burnt offerings, fasts, dos, don’ts, and oblations are there in it.
Hairknot, sacred thread, rosary, (sandal) mark on forehead, last rites for ancestors, rituals for gods are (also) prescribed in it.
The teaching of virtuous alms – giving is repeated in it time and again.
In this religion (Islam) the pirs, prophets, aulias, gauns, qutbs and waliullah are well known.
Millions of sheikhs , mashaiks (practitioners) and dervishes are described in it.
Millions of mean people, martyrs, faquirs and carefree persons are there.
Millions of sindhi rukhans, ulmas and maulanas (all religious denominations) are available in it.
Many are there who give exposition to the Muslim code of conduct (shariat) and many go on debating on the basis of tariqat, the methods of spiritual purification.
Myriad people have become famous by reaching the last stage of knowledge, the marfati and many in His divine Will have merged into the haqiqat, the truth.
Thousands of elderly people were born and got perished.
Many brahmins of sarasuat gotra, priests and lagait (a sount Indian sect) have existed.
Many are gaur, kanaujie brahmins who reside in pilgrimage centres.
Lacs of people are called sanaudhie, pandhe, pandit and vaid.
Many lacs are astrologers and many people will-versed in Vedas and the Veduc lore have been.
Lacs of people are known by the names of brahmins, bhats (eulogists) and poets.
Becoming mendicants many people undertaking spying work go on begging and eating.
Many are there who forecast about the good and bad omens and thus earn their livelihood.
Many khatris (Khatris in Punjab) belong to twelve and many to fifty-two clans.
Many among them are called pavadhe, pachadhia, phalian, khokharain.
Many are chaurotari and many serin have passed away.
Many were universal kings in the forms of incarnation (of God).
Many are known as belonging to sun and moon dynasties.
Many religious persons like the god of dharma and thinkers on dharma and then many caring for none have been.
The real khatris is he who gives charitably, wears arms and remembers God with loving devotion.
Among vais rajput and many others have been considered.
Many, such as tuars, gaur, pavar, malan, Has, chauhan etc, are remembered.
Kachavahe, Rauthor etc. many kings and landlords have passed away.
Bagh, Baghele and many other powerful Bundele have existed earlier.
Many were Bhats who were courtiers in the bigger courts.
Many talented persons belonging to Bhadaurie were acknowledged in the country and abroad.
But they all perished in their ego, which they could not decimate.
Many are Sud and many are kaith, the bookkeepers.
Many are traders and many more Jain goldsmiths.
In this world millions are Jats and millions are calico printers.
Many are coppersmiths and many are considered ironsmiths.
Many are oilmen and many confectioners are available in the market.
Many are messengers, many barbers and many more businessmen.
In fact, in all the four varnas, there are many castes and sub castes.
Many are householders and millions are spending indifferent life.
Many are Yogisuras (great yogis) and many are Sanniasi.
Sanniasi are of then names and yogis have been divided into twelve sects.
Many are ascetics of highest order (paramhans) and many are living in the jungles.
Many keep sticks in the hands and many are compassionate Jains.
Six are the Shastras, six their teachers and six their guises, disciplines and teachings.
Six seasons and twelve months are there but moving into each of the twelve zodiac signs the sun is the only one.
The Guru of the gurus, the true Guru (God) is indestructible).
Many sadhus are there who move in the holy congregation and are benevolent.
Millions of saints are there who continuously go on filling the coffers of their devotion.
Many are liberated in life; they have knowledge of Brahm and meditate upon Brahm.
Many are egalitarians and many more are spotless, clean and followers of the formless Lord.
Many are there with analytical wisdom; many are body less though they have bodies i.e. they are above the desires of body.
They conduct themselves in loving devotion and make equipoise and detachment their vehicle to move around.
Erasing ego from the self, gurmukhs obtain the fruits of the supreme delight.
In this world are myrids of wicked persons, thieves, bad characters and gamblers.
Many are highway robbers. Dupers, backbiters and devoid of thinking.
Many are ungrateful, apostate and have spoiled conduct.
Killers of their masters, unfaithful, not true to their salt and morons are also there.
Many are deeply engrossed in evil propensities, untrue to their salt, drunkards and evil-doers.
Many by becoming mediators raise antagonism and many are mere tellers of lies.
Without surrendering before they true Guru, all will run from pillar to post (and will get nothing).
Many are Christians, Sunnis and followers of Moses. Many are Rafizis and Mulahids
(those who do not believe in the day of judgement).
Millions are firangis (Europeans), Arminis, Rumis and other warriors fighting the enemy.
In the world many are known by the names of Sayyads and Turks.
Many are Mughals, Pathans, Negroes and Kilmaks (followers of Solomon).
Many are spending honest life and many live by dishonesty.
Even then, the virtue and evil cannot remain hidden
Many are doners, many beggars and many the physicians and the diseased ones.
Many being in the state of spiritual calmness are associated (with the beloved one) and many get ting separated are undergoing the pangs of separation.
Many are dying of starvation whereas many are kinds who are enjoying their kingdoms.
Many are singing happily and many are weeping and wailing.
The world is transitory; it has been created many times and still would be created again and again.
Many are leading truthful life and many are cheats and liars.
Any rare one is the true yogi and a yogi of the highest order.
Many are blind and many one-eyed.
Many are small eyed and many suffer from night-blindness.
Many are with clipped noses, many snufflers, deaf and many are earless.
Many are suffering from goiter, and many have tumors in their organs,
Many are maimed ones, bald, without hands and stricken with leprosy.
Many are suffering for being disabled, cripple and hunchback.
Many eunuchs, many dumb and many are stammerers.
Away from the perfect Guru they will all remain in the cycle of transmigration.
Many are kinds and many are their ministers.
Many are their satraps, other rankers and thousands of them are great people.
Millions are physicians adept in medicine and millions are armed rich men.
Many are servants, grass cutters, police personnel, mahouts and chieftains.
Millions of flowers, camel drivers, syces, and grooms are there.
Millions are maintenance officers and drivers of the royal carriages.
Many stick-holding gatekeepers stand and wait.
Many are kettledrum and drum-beaters and many play on clarinets.
Many are prostitutes, bards and singers of qauwali, a particular type of song sung usually in-group in particular modes mostly by Muslims.
Many are mimics, acrobats and million are jesters.
Many are torchbearers who light the torches.
Many are the keepers of army store and many are officers who wear comfortable suit of armor.
Many are water carriers and cooks who cook nans, a kind of round, flat bread.
Betel sellers and incharge of store room for precious articles of their own glory.
Many are perfume sellers and many dyers who use colors to make many designs (rangolis).
Many are servants working on contract and many are frolicsome prostitutes.
Many are personal maidservants, bomb-throwers, cannoners and many are carriers of war material.
Many are revenue officers, superintending officers, policemen and estimators.
Many are farmers who weigh and take care of the agricultural crop and its allied works.
Millions are accountants, home secretaries, oath officers, finance ministers and tribal people who prepare bows and arrows.
Many becoming custodians of property administer the country.
Many are there who have the accounts of invaluable jewels etc. and deposit them properly.
Many are jewelers, goldsmiths and cloth merchants.
Then there are itinerant traders, perfumers, coppersmiths and sellers of provision.
Many are retailers and many are brokers in the market.
Many are arms manufacturers and many are working on alchemical materials.
Many are potters, paper pounders and producers of salt.
Many are tailors, washermen, and goldplaters.
Many are grain parchers who make fire in hearths specially designed for parching grain.
Many are green grocers, many are makers of kuppas, large vessels made from raw hide usually for holding and carrying oil, and may more are butchers.
Many are toy and bangle sellers and many are leather workers and vegetable growers-cum-sellers.
Many are toy and bangle sellers and many are leather workers and vegetable growers-cum-sellers.
Millions drink hemp and many are brewers of wine from rice and barley, and confectioners are also many there.
Millions of cattle breeders, palanquin bearers and milk-men may be presently counted.
Millions of scavengers and outcaste pariahs (chandal) are there.
Thus myriads are names and places which cannot be counted.
Millions are low, medium and high but gurmukh calls himself low of the lowly.
He becoming dust of the feet and guru’s disciple erases his ego.
Going with love and respect to the holy congregation, he serves there.
He speaks mildly, behaves humbly and even by giving something to somebody wishes good of others.
Absorbing consciousness into the Word that humble person receives honour in the court of the Lord.
Considering death as the last truth and becoming unknown to cunningness he remains indifferent to hopes and desires.
The imperceptible fruit of delight is seen and received only by Gurmukh.