salok
mehlaa 4 ||
Satguru
Ram Daas Ji begins the Shabad with Salok.
Satgur Ji begins with:
bin satgur
sayvay jee-a kay banDhnaa jaytay karam kamaahi ||
Maharaj
Ji says bin which means without, sayvay
means serving,satgur - the eternal Guru; without serving the
eternal Guru, Satguru Paadshah Ji says all of those people, jaytay,
who do not serve the Guru and serving the Guru means in all different levels,
on physical level - physical sayva but internally following what the Guru says.
All of the karam, all of the actions that we dokaram kamaahi - Guru Ji says all of the actions that we are
doing, Maharaj Ji says, jee-a kay baDhanaa, jee means soul
and banDhnaa literally means tying it down, shackles.
Maharaj Ji says without serving the Guru, without following what the Guru says,
without trying to walk upon the Guru's path; everything that we do will end up
tying us down. Everything we do will be a shackle upon us. Everything we do
will imprison us. Now what does this mean? It means those actions we do without
Guru in mind they are harmful to our soul. If we are living our daily life
those actions which we do without Guru in our mind, Guru Sahib ji says, they
will surely tie you down. But if you follow what the Guru says then Sri Guru
Amar Daas Ji will tell us later in the Hukamnama what happens to those people.
bin satgur
sayvay thavar na paavhee
mar jameh aavahi jaahi ||
Without
serving sayvay the eternal Guru satgur,
will not find rest, thavar means somewhere to rest. It means
where you can find peace. Only through sayva, serving the
true Guru with your mind, body and soul can you find true peace. There is no
other peace in the world. Satgur Ji says without serving the true Guru
,mar - we diejameh - we are born again and aavahi
jaahi and we are struck in this cycle of death and birth, coming and
going onto this earth. aavahi jaahi literally means to come
and go. Why is it we may say that without serving our Guru, that our actions
tie us down; why is it we come and go. Because
those actions which we do according to
our si-aanap, according to our own cleverness, according to
our own thinking, without the Guru in our mind, they will tie us down. Our mind
is crying out loud to indulge in lust, anger, greed, ego but when we join with
the Guru, when we entrust in the Guru, then the Guru saves us from these
entanglements.
bin satgur
sayvay fikaa bolnaa naam na vasai man aa-ay||
Satguru
Paadshah Ji says without serving the Guru, following what the Guru says,fikaa bolnaa all of the words we speak arefikaa - completely tasteless. So those words spoken without
Guru in mind, without serving Guru, they are fikaa they are
tasteless, they have no essence in them of love. And in fact the wordfikaa has a negative connotation of being actually sour in
taste. without serving Guru, our words are all tasteless. This means they do
not inspire love anymore. They do not inspire compassion anymore. Guru Ji goes
on in explaining naam na vasai man aa-ay, vasai means to
abide, man aa-ay means our mind, naam
means name of God, Akaal Purakh. without serving the true Guru each one of our
words are insipid, tasteless. If we ask Guru Sahib why are these words
tasteless, Guru Ram Daas Ji says because the naam, name of God does notvasia, does not abide in that person's heart, in that
person's mind. Those people who speak without Simran, remembrance of God their
words are tasteless. But those people who have remembrance of God running
though them each one of their words is beautiful. Each one of their words is
embellished by God himself.
naanak
bin satgur sayvay jam pur baDhay maaree-ah muhi kaalai uth jaahi. ||1||
Satgur
Ram Daas Jii says without serving the eternal Guru jam pur
baDhay maaree-ah you will be bound down,baDhay and if we remember what Guru Sahib Ji said in the
first tuk it will be our own deeds which will tie us down.jam pur in the city of death, maaree-ah
we will be beaten to death due to our own
actions, muhi kaalai with faces blackened, uth
jaahi they will leave this world. Satgur Paadshah Ji is saying muhi
kaalai - dishonored. Honor is not bought through money, honor is not
bought through status, those are honorable beings who meditate upon Waheguru
and those who haven't Guru Sahib Ji is explaining what happens when we do not
connect to Akaal Purakh, Waheguru.
mehlaa 3||
Guru Amar Daas Ji Maharaj now says, is telling us the fruit
of sayva.
ik satgur
kee sayvaa karahi chaakree har naamay lagai pi-aar.||
But there are those who serve the Guru as chaakree,
chaakree means to be a slave, a servant. They serve the Guru as
slaves. They don't serve the Guru maybe once or twice, they devote their lives,
just like a slave is devoted. Same way karahi chaakree they
serve their Guru as slaves, as servants. har naamay lagai
pi-aar and through their service their pi-aar
their love inside them lagai - they are attached to love for
Naam of Hari, the name of God, the name of Waheguru.
naanak
janam savaaran aapnaa kul kaa karan uDhaar. ||2||
SatGur Amar Daas Ji Maharaj says those who serve the Guru as
slaves, those people who inside them have love for Naam, name of God, Waheguru
they savaaran - their lives are blessed, embellished,
reformed. But what else happens? kul kaa karan uDhaar TheyuDhaar - they liberate kul the
generations around them, their whole family is liberated. Because wherever a
person who meditates he or she spreads that light. goes people
pa-orhee
||
Satgur
Paadshah Ji says:
aapay
chaatsaal aap hai paaDhaa aapay chaatrhay parhan ka-o aanay.||
Waheguru
himself is the school. Now in this pa-orhee we will realize
that Guru Ram Daas Ji Maharaj is giving us an insight to that of being where
Bai Kanhai-aa Ji was. Where he could see Waheguru Ji permeating through all.
That is what Guru Ram Daas Ji Maharaj showing us , giving us the insight, a
window into this pa-orhee. aapay
chaatsaal Waheguru himself is the school. aap hai
paaDhaa Waheguru himself is the teacher, Waheguru himself
is the chaatrhay - the students, parhan ka-o
aanay Waheguru himself brings them to parhan - to
study.
aapay pitaa
maataa hai aapay aapay baalak karay si-aanay||
aapay
pitaa Waheguru himself is the father, maataa hai
aapay Waheguru himself is in the mother, aapay baalak
Waheguru himself is sitting in the children and karay
si-aanay makes them older.
ik thai
parh bujhai sabh aapay ik thai aapay karay i-aanay||
Sitting
in one place, sitting inside one body Waheguru is the one parh
bujhai who gets them to study and understand. sabh aapay ik thai
aapay karay i-aanay And in one place he himself is the one who
is making them i-aanay meaning childlike and can be
interpreted as ignorant. So in one he is childlike and on the other hand he is
sitting and giving this understanding.
iknaa andar
mahal bulaa-ay jaa aap tayrai
man sachay bhaanay ||
O
Waheguru, O sachay true Lord, those whobhaanay - who please your man - your
mind; those who have pleased you, to those people what do you do, iknaa andar
mahal bulaa-ay you bulaa-ay you call them
into your mahal. andar means into andmahal means mansion. What does this mean that you call them
into your mansion? But Waheguru Ji unites them, unites that little soul,aatma into paramaatma, unites them into
himself.
jinaa
aapay gurmukh day
vadi-aa-ee say jan sachee dargahi
jaanay. ||11||
In
this last tuk Satgur Ji says those who by following the Guru
you are blessed with the greatness of the Guru. Those who do thesayva those who serve the Guru are blessed with greatness andsay jan those humble beings sachee dargahi
jaanay they are honored, they are respected in the true court in your
presence.
So
Guru Piaa-rio Satgur Maharaj is telling us if we live our lives without sayvaa,
without serving the Guru everything we do will be tying us down, everything we
do will lead us to anger, greed, to anxieties. But if we start following the
Guru Satgur Paadshah Ji is saying not only you will be saved but all those
around you will be filled with effects by following the Guru.
iknaa andar mahal bulaa-ay jaa aap tayrai man sachay bhaanay ||
jinaa aapay gurmukh day vadi-aa-ee say jan sachee dargahi jaanay. ||
Waheguru ji ka Khalsa ! Waheguru ji ki Fateh !
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