Ang-901 — Chapter 96
Maaroo, Fourth Mehl, Third House:
One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
Take the treasure of the Name of the Lord, Har, Har. Follow the Guru's Teachings, and the Lord shall bless you with honor.
Here and hereafter, the Lord goes with you; in the end, He shall deliver you.
Where the path is difficult and the street is narrow, there the Lord shall liberate you. ||1||
O my True Guru, implant within me the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.
The Lord is my mother, father, child and relative; I have none other than the Lord, O my mother. ||1||Pause||
I feel the pains of love and yearning for the Lord, and the Name of the Lord. If only someone would come and unite me with Him, O my mother.
I bow in humble devotion to one who inspires me to meet with my Beloved.
The almighty and merciful True Guru unites me with the Lord God instantaneously. ||2||
Those who do not remember the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, are most unfortunate, and are slaughtered.
They wander in reincarnation, again and again; they die, and are re-born, and continue coming and going.
Bound and gagged at Death's Door, they are cruelly beaten, and punished in the Court of the Lord. ||3||
O God, I seek Your Sanctuary; O my Sovereign Lord King, please unite me with Yourself.
O Lord, Life of the World, please shower me with Your Mercy; grant me the Sanctuary of the Guru, the True Guru.
The Dear Lord, becoming merciful, has blended servant Nanak with Himself. ||4||1||3||
Maaroo, Fourth Mehl:
I inquire about the commodity of the Naam, the Name of the Lord. Is there anyone who can show me the wealth, the capital of the Lord?
I cut myself into pieces, and make myself a sacrifice to that one who leads me to meet my Lord God.
I am filled with the Love of my Beloved; how can I meet my Friend, and merge with Him? ||1||
O my beloved friend, my mind, I take the wealth, the capital of the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.
The Perfect Guru has implanted the Naam within me; the Lord is my support - I celebrate the Lord. ||1||Pause||
O my Guru, please unite me with the Lord, Har, Har; show me the wealth, the capital of the Lord.
Without the Guru, love does not well up; see this, and know it in your mind.
The Lord has installed Himself within the Guru; so praise the Guru, who unites us with the Lord. ||2||
The ocean, the treasure of devotional worship of the Lord, rests with the Perfect True Guru.
When it pleases the True Guru, He opens the treasure, and and the Gurmukhs are illuminated by the Lord's Light.
The unfortunate self-willed manmukhs die of thirst, on the very bank of the river. ||3||
The Guru is the Great Giver; I beg for this gift from the Guru,
that He may unite me with God, from whom I was separated for so long! This is the great hope of my mind and body.
If it pleases You, O my Guru, please listen to my prayer; this is servant Nanak's prayer. ||4||2||4||
Maaroo, Fourth Mehl:
O Lord God, please preach Your sermon to me. Through the Guru's Teachings, the Lord is merged into my heart.
Meditate on the sermon of the Lord, Har, Har, O very fortunate ones; the Lord shall bless you with the most sublime status of Nirvaanaa.
✦ Connected Across Traditions
The Golden Rule
Matthew 7:12
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
Hadith (An-Nawawi 13)
“None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.”
Leviticus 19:18
“Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Mahabharata 5.1517
“One should never do to another what one regards as injurious to oneself.”
Divine Compassion & Mercy
Quran 1:1
“In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.”
Psalm 23:1
“The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.”
Luke 6:36
“Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.”
Snp 1.8
“As a mother would risk her life to protect her child, her only child, even so should one cultivate a limitless heart with regard to all beings.”
Impermanence & Letting Go
Dhammapada 20:277
“All conditioned things are impermanent. When one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.”
Tao Te Ching 76
“A man is born gentle and weak. At his death he is hard and stiff. The soft and yielding is the disciple of life.”
Ecclesiastes 3:1-2
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.”
Bhagavad Gita 2:22
“As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.”
Humility & Surrender
Bhagavad Gita 18:66
“Abandon all varieties of dharma and simply surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions; do not fear.”
Matthew 5:5
“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”
Tao Te Ching 22
“If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial. If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.”
Quran 2:45
“Seek help through patience and prayer. It is indeed exacting, but not for those who are humble.”
Good vs Evil / Light vs Darkness
Yasna 30:3
“Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action.”
John 1:5
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
Dhammapada 1:1-2
“Mind is the forerunner of all actions. If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows like a shadow.”
Genesis 1:3
“And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.”