ja-o ham
baaNDhay moh
faas ham paraym baDhan tum
baaDhay ||
ja-o ham
baaNDhay moh
faas - ja-o When I was baanDhay - entangled woth
the faas - noose of moh - attachment,
what did I do? If we go to the next line Bhagat Ravidaas Ji says : apnay
chhootan ko
jatan karahu - I did jatan - I
tried, a way, a method, jatan means a method, karaho
- I tried this method of chhootan, of escaping. What was
that? ham chhootay tum aaraaDhayThat
method of liberation was aaraaDhay - was meditation and
pure, true love for you O Waheguru. That is how I cut through the noose of
entanglement, the noose of attachment which was around my neck. Bhagat
Ravidaas Ji is tellingg us at this point, the only way to escape from all of
the attachment, from all of these things, is the attachment to One. You are
going to give up many attachments, but attach yourself to only One. That is
what Gurmat is saying, that is what the wisdom of the Guru is saying. Instead
of attaching to all of these transitory things, attach yourself to the One
eternal Waheguru. And that will save you. That attachment will be true, remain
forever. because these other attachments are false and transitory. So Bhagat Ji
says ja-o ham
baaNDhay moh
faas When I was attached to moh faas- noose around
my neck; ham paraym baDhan tum
baaDhay I realized I must meditate upon you, I liberate andbaaDhay - I bound you down O Lord with thebanDhan - strings of paraym - of love.
Bhagat Ji is talking to us about this pure state of love for Waheguru. He says
when I escaped from the entanglement of attachment, the only way I escaped was
through the meditation upon the Lord, and now ham paraym baDhan tum baaDhay I
have bound down the Lord with my love. Bhagat Naamdev Ji mentions the same state
of existence on Ang 1252 of Guru Granth Sahib Ji. mayree banDhee
bhagat chhudaa-veh These words are God speaking to Bhagat Naamdev Ji.mayree banDhee bhagat chhudaa-veh ; bhagat - My beloved,
devotee chhudaa-veh can liberate someone from banDhee
- my rule, my bounds. par banDheh bhagat na chhootay mohay
but when I am banDhay - when I am bound down with love by mybhagat I cannot chhootay escape. This is
such an amazing and enlightening knowledge Bhagat Ji is sharing with us today
that if we bound down the Lord, there is only one way binding down the Lord who
pervades through all the universes, through all creatures and the beings. The
one way to attaching yourself to Him forever and forever is love. Bhagat Ji has
this conversation with Waheguru Ji, he says, O Lord, Waheguru if you tie me
down with entanglements of attachment, I bound you now down with love.
apnay chhootan ko jatan karahu
ham chhootay tum aaraaDhay. ||1||
Dojatan - try to escape from these strings of love which are
bind you down. Try in some way, its like saying to Waheguru Ji - go ahead and
try to escape. ham chhootay tum aaraaDhay I am
already liberated by meditating upon you. So Bhagat Ji is saying, Waheguru Ji
if there is one thing to bind down the Lord is, that is love. It is playful and
most divine experience with the Lord that Bhagat Ravidaas Ji is sharing with
us.
maaDhvay
jaanat hahu jaisee taisee.|| /span>
maaDhvay- O my Lord, jaanat hahu -
Waheguru Ji you know jaisee - the one which you know;taisee - the love that I have for you, Waheguru Ji you know
how great that love is for you. And only you know the greatness of that love
because love must be limitless by itself.
ab kahaa
karhugay aisee. ||1|| rahaa-o.||
ab
- now; kahaa karhugay aisee - you will never put me throughaisee - the attachments of moh again. . kahaa
- why would you do that? It is a rhetorical question. Bhagat Ji is telling us
today that those who attach themselves in love to the Lord, will not be entangled
in attachments to the world. rahaa-o Pause and think about
this.
meen
pakar faaNki-o ar
kaati-o raaNDh kee-o
baho baanee.||
meen
pakar And now God asks Bhagat Ji how much love do you have for me. And
Bhagat says, meen pakar - the fish is caught;faanki-o - is cut up; ar - kaati-o and
diced up into small pieces; raaNDh kee-o baho baanee - baho baanee - in many ways with many different spices israaNDh - is cooked.
khand khand kar bhojan keeno ta-oo na bisri-o paanee. ||2||
khand
khand - then it is beaten down into bits; kar bhojan keeno
and then made into food and digested. ta-oo na
bisri-o paanee even then the fish does not bisri-o
- forget paanee - water. The idea behind this is that if
someone eats fish they still feel thirsty. The love that fish has for water
even when it is cut up, even when it has been diced up, chewed up and digested that
love for the water still remains. In the same way in Sikh history we see Bhai
Mati Daas Ji when they were cut up in half, they were reading Japji Sahib Dee
Baanee. Our history tells us that they were at the paurhee, panch parvaan
panch parDhaan pancheh paaveh dargeh maan Those two halves of Bhai
Mati Daas JI which were cut up carried on the Paath of Japji Sahib. The story
of Bhai Mani Singh Ji Shaheed when they were cut into bits they were reading
Sukhmani Sahib. And when they were cut into bits, when all their body had
become into tiny, tiny pieces they had got to the line bhramgi-aanee
sarab ka Dhanee. The bhramgi-aanee - conscious
being is the wealthiest with the spiritual wealth. And it is said that from
here onwards those pieces of Bhai Mani Singh Ji body carried on the Paath of
Sukhmani Sahib and it carried on through them. Bhai Dayala Ji again reciting
Sukhmani Sahib whilst he was boiling in the cauldron. So these lines of Gurbani
has been lived by Guru Kay Sikh even when they cut into tiny pieces - khand
khand; ta-oo na
bisri-o paanee even then they don't forget paanee.
Who is the water in this case? The nectar of Guru's name.
aapan
baapai naahee kisee ko bhaavan
ko har raajaa. ||
aapan
baapai naahee kisee ko - No one
is able to buy God . This is what Bhagat Ji says. baapai -
father. In Punjabi we say, eh teray pay-o da hai In veryThayt - rough Punjabi; saying to someone, this belongs to
you, did your father bought it? In the same way Bhagat Ji says that God is not
owned by anyone, God is not an ancestral object which is passed to from one to
another. bhaavan ko
har raajaa, that raajaa - king, Waheguru, Hari
abide in those who have love. That is the only way binding Him down.
moh
patal sabh jagat bi-aapi-o bhagat nahee santaapaa. ||3||
moh
patal sabh jagat bi-aapi-o; patal
- the veil, the wall of moh - attachment sabh
means all; jagat means world; bi-aapi-o
means to attack this. Wall of attachment engulfs the whole world but bhagat nahee santaapaa Bhagats
are not inflicted by this disease of attachment.
kahi
ravidaas bhagat ik baadhee ab ih kaa si-o
kahee-ai.||
kahi
ravidaas Bhagat Sahib Ji speaks, bhagat ik baadhee; baadhee means
to increase and increase. Within me the meditation upon ik -
one, remember we talked about this in the Hukamnama that we must give up our
attachments to many in order to attach ourselves to the One. Bhagat Ji says
that bhagtee - meditation upon One is increasing within me
day by day. ab ih kaa si-o kahee-ai
How can I explain this to anyone? kaa si-o - who can I
explain this? I cannot explain the beauty of these words to anyone.
jaa
kaaran ham tum aaraaDhay
so dukh ajhoo sahee-ai. ||4||2||
Thatkaaran - that reason being bound down by attachment, the
pain I felt there was the reason that ham tum aaraaDhay that
I meditate upon you. so dukh ajhoo sahee-ai
- Bhagat Ji asks a rhetorical question. why will I have tosahee-ai - endure that pain again? ajhoo
- even now. Bhagat Ravidaas Ji says that I will not have to suffer the pain, because
I have attached myself to the One. And Satgur Arjan Sahib Ji tells us the same
idea in their Banee on Ang 288 of Sri Guru Granth Shib Ji. Aik aas
raakho-ho man ma-hay Keep hope and faith in that One in your mind. sarab
roog naanak mit jaa-hay - And all of your diseases will be
eradicated.
kahi
ravidaas bhagat ik baadhee ab ih kaa si-o
kahee-ai ||
jaa kaaran ham tum
aaraaDhay so dukh ajhoo sahee-ai. ||4||2|| ||
Waheguru ji ka Khalsa ! Waheguru ji ki Fateh !
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