goojree
mehlaa 5||
Satguru
Arjan Dev Ji Maharaj in today's Shabad is telling us, O human being all other
life supports in your life will fall away. The only support, the onlyaasraa, the only support that will remain forever is that of
God, of Akaal Purakh, Waheguru Ji. Satgur JiBegins the Shabad in Goojri Raag ,
Mehlaa 5.
maat pitaa bhaa-ee sut banDhap tin kaa bal hai thoraa ||
maat
means mother; pitaa means father; bhaa-ee
means brothers; sut means sons; banDhap
means all other relatives. tin kaa
bal hai thoraa Guru Ji says they all have bal
sort of power, but it is thoraa - means a small amount. Our
mother, our father, our brothers and sisters, our siblings, our children, our
friends, our relatives, they may have some sort of power in their hands.
Someone may have power of village on their hands, someone may have power of
town on their hands, someone may have of the city, someone may have power of
this world, but ultimately their power is finite. Ultimately the day comes and
it is your funeral, the power is burning. Their power ends. In this world we
say that, in Punjab there is a saying: a doctor which is a God, but there comes
a time when the doctor puts up her or his hands in the air and says I cannot do
anything. This is the end. There is
nothing humanly possible beyond this point. par
piaario, there is a support from this point which goes beyond all
human points, all physical points. There is support in or lives which we can
grab on, help us even beyond the flames of our funeral pyre. Guru Ji saysmaat pitaa bhaa-ee sut banDhap tin kaa bal hai thoraa
Recognize that your mother, father, daughters, sons, your brothers, your
sisters, your friends, they have bal they have power, they
have some sort of capacity but it is thoraa, there is a
limit.
anik
rang maa-i-aa kay paykhay kichh saath
na chaalai bhoraa ||1||
The
human being says, well, what about all of this world that I see around me? What
about all of these beautiful joys and pleasures, what about them? OK my
relatives may not be able to help me in those last moments. My mother and
father may not be able to help me. My friends may not be able to help me, but
what about this maa-i-aa around me, what about all these
pleasures of the world. Guru Ji says, anik, anik means
countless. There are countless rang - pleasures of this
world, maa-i-aa kay of this world which is an
illusion. Why is this an illusion? Because it does not remain forever, because
it is not eternal. The transitory pleasures of this world which only remain for
a few days, maa-i-aa kay paykhay Guru Ji says I have
seen them. I have tasted them. But Guru Ji says kichh saath na chaalai bhoraa, bhoraa means a tiny amount, saath
means to go with you, means to be with you, na chaalai means
to not go. In the end all of what you got together none of that goes with you.
In Sukhmani Sahib we read, Guru Ji says, jeh maat pita sut meet na
bhaa-i teh ooha naam terai sang sahaa-ee O human being where your
mother and father cannot help you, those who nourished you, raised you, who
brought you up in this world, they cannot help you. Guru Ji says the name of
God will be there to help you. And when we talk to Guru Gobind SIngh Ji
Maharaj, Guru JI says Paun Bhandaar Dharaa garh jaytak Chhadat paraan
bigaan gahe. All of that stuff Paun Bhandaar - all
of the treasures that you have got together in your life, Chhadat
paraan when you die bigaan gahe that same ten pound,
ten dollars, ten rupees in your pocket suddenly goes into the pocket of someone
else. They become bigaan, they become belonging to someone
else. And amongst all of this because
Gurmat always brings a positive light.
thaakur tujh bin aahi na moraa||
Guru
Ji says after seeing all of this, the transitory pleasures of the world, none
will go with me. My mother, father, sisters, brothers and relatives, their
power has a limit. Who have I come to, thaakur, O Master,
Lord, Waheguru, O divine light, tujh bin aahi na
moraa, tujh - you; bin means without,aahi na moraa there is no one else who I
can look to. There is no one who is truly mine. aahi na
moraa There is no one who I can call mine. How can you
call them yours? They leave you. Guru Nanak Dev Ji Maharaj says sajjan
say-ee naal mai chaldi-aan naal mai chalan That is a true friend who
goes with me where ever I go, even through the fires of the funeral fire. God
is that true friend, God is that friend, that divine light who will be with you
beyond even physical death.
mohi
anaath nirgun gun naahee
mai aahi-o tumHraa Dhoraa. ||1|| rahaa-o||
Guru Ji says mohi anaath, anaath means
with no master, literally I am a orphan. nirgun - I have no
virtues, gun naahee mai - I have no merits at all. Guru Ji
says it again: mai aahi-o tumHraa Dhoraa, aahi-o means to long
for, to want, to desire. Guru Ji I am anaath, I amnirgun. Guru Ji is teaching us something here. We cannot
come to the Guru and have any other Master. We cannot come to the Guru Ji and
say, Guru Ji, I can be your Sikh for sometime but my mind body and soul belongs
to someone else or something else for the rest of the time. And even when we
look at other traditions, when we look at the Bible, in the gospel of Luke, it
says that no one can serve two masters. Either ou hate one and love the other.
Either you are devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God
and the Mennen. Mennen means maa-i-aa, this world. You can
either serve the Guru or you can serve these transitory pleasures of the world.
You can keep serving your tongue whatever it desires. You can keep serving all
the sensory pleasures, whatever they desire. Now Guru Ji says if you are
going to come to the Guru and ask for his Dhoraa, Dhoraa
means support, Waheguru Ji's support. You are going to say I amanaath , I have no other master. I have
no one else to call my own. nirgun At this point Guru Ji
stresses the point - nirgun means you have no virtues, not
just to say it but believe it. Guru Ji stresses again and again, says it again
and again nirgun gun nahee I am not just without merit
Maharaj I don't have even one gun, one praise. Those are the
two conditions we should have in our minds when we come to the Guru. To not be
serving any other master and to believe inside us. Maharaj I have no virtues.
praises or merits. To come in front of the Guru in complete humility and
completely one mindedly, single mindedly and asking for Guru's protection. mai
aahi-o tumHraa Dhoraa Rahaa-o Pause
and think about this today. This is how you are supposed to come and beg for
Guru's support.
bal bal
bal bal charan tumHaaray
eehaa oohaa tumHaaraa
joraa||
Maharaj, I am a sacrifice, I am a sacrifice, I am a
sacrifice. Sampardayi MahaPurakh they translate this as I sacrifice myman, buDh, chit, ahankaar Sacrifice myman means all of those thoughts in your mind, good and bad
thoughts. I sacrifice all of that to you. buDh means your
discerning intellect, your conscience so to speak, which tells you from bad to
wrong. Even that I have given up for you. Now you will say, well giving up your
mind as well as thoughts, that is fair enough but wh give up our intellect, why
give up your conscience. When Guru Nanak Dev Ji asked Bhai Lehnaa to eat the
dead human being, the bodyy theyy had found in the jungle. Now that is against
the conscience of many people but Bhai Lehnaa had given up his man,
buDh, chit, ahankaar Bhai Lehnaa had given up hisbuDh, he said Guru Ji you are my buDh,
youu are my chit, you are my focus. You are my conscience.
Bhai Lehnaa Ji simply asked Guru Nanak Dev Ji, Maharaj which side should I
start eating from, feet or head. When he picked up the chaddar,
the sheet, Karha Parshad was there. There was sweet food
there. Anyway, Sampardayi MahaPurakh say give up mind, man;
all of those thoughts with mind. Second thing give up your conscience even to
the Guru. Give your chit, give your focus to the Guru, your
concentration to the Guru. ahankaar give up your sense of self,
give up sense of I. charan tumHaaray
and what should I cling to after I giving up all those things - charan tumHaaray
- lotus feet of God. Take the lotus feet of God. And many times we have gone
through the Hukamnama Katha, what are the lotus feet of God? Guru Gobind Singh
Ji says in Jaap Sahib, chit charan Naam to have the name of
God in your heart, that is hanging on to the Lotus feet of God. eehaa
oohaa tumHaaraa
joraa That person who gives his man,
buDh, chit, ahankaar to the Guru, that person who hangs on to the
lotus feet of the God, what does he have eehaa in this world;oohaa means in the next world tumHaaraa
joraa he realizes, she realizes the only joraa,
the only power is of God, is of Waheguru. In this Shabad Guru Ji is talking to
Waheguru. tumHaaraa
joraa Just like sitting in front of Waheguru Ji, Waheguru, it is your
power in this world, in next world.
saaDhsang
naanak daras paa-i-o
binsi-o sagal nihoraa. ||2||7||16||
When I met with the saaDhsang, when I met
with the Guru, the true saint, what happend - daras paa-i-o
Guru Arjan Dev Ji Maharaj says that is the day I saw God, that is the day I
experienced God, that is the day I felt God. And what happens? binsi-o sagal nihoraa, nihoraa means to beg for from others, look to others.sagal means all, binsi-o means to be
eradicated, to be destroyed. All of my begging in front of others, all of my
going in front of others and asking them has all died, the day I came to the
Guru and the Guru revealed to me the life of God.
bal bal bal bal charan tumHaaray eehaa oohaa tumHaaraa joraa|| aaDhsang naanak daras paa-i-o binsi-o sagal nihoraa. ||2||7||16||
Waheguru ji ka Khalsa ! Waheguru ji ki Fateh !