Jaithasaree
mehalaa 4 ghar 1 choupadhae
Sathiguru
Ram Das Jee Maharaj is blessing us today with Jaithasareeragini. Maharaj sachhe paatshah,Sodhi Sultan, Sathiguru
Ram Das Jee Maharaj blesses us in the ghar 1,
in the first house of rhythm and beat. Sathiguru Maharaj Jee’s shabad
is in choupadhae, padhae
meaning feet, chou meaning four – four parts to
this shabad. Sathigur Maharaj Sahib Jee begins with
the magalaacharan, with the introduction -
Ik
oankaar sathigur prasaadh l
This is the
first shabad of the Jaithasareeragini, and with this Sathiguru Maharaj Jee begins
this mangalaacharan, there is One Eternal Lord God
Waheguru, who is found through the prasaadh, the Grace
of the Guru. Sathiguru Maharaj Sahib Jee begins the shabad
-
Maerai
heearai rathan naam har basiaa gur haath dhariou maerai maathaa l
Sathiguru
Maharaj Sahib Jee says that maerai - within, my heearai
- within my heart, rathan naam har
basiaa – the true rathan, the true
jewel, the true diamond of the Naam, of the Name of
the Lord, of God, of Hari, of that Nourisher of the world, basiaa
– has come to abide. In our Ardaas everyday we ask,
SIKHAN
NOO SIKHI DAN, KES DAN, REHAT DAN, BIBEK DAN, BHAROSA DAN, DANAN SIR DAN NAAM
DAN. Everyday
we are asking for this gift of Naam. Sathiguru Ram
Das Jee is telling us, Guru Amar Das Jee blessed me, the rathan,
the diamond of the Name of the Lord God, basiaa –
has come to abide within my heearai – within my
heart, within my soul, with me at all times. How did this happen? When Guru
Amar Das Jee, my True Guru dhariou – placed their haath
– their hand, upon maerai maathaa
– upon my forehead. What does this mean? The placing of the hand upon the
forehead, we may ask how can this happen now with Sri Guru Granth Sahib Jee Maharaj.
It happens in exactly the same way. Placing the hand upon the forehead of a
Sikh is simply another way of saying gurprasaadh –
with the Grace of the Guru. Guru Ram Dass Maharaj is saying it is through the Grace
of Guru Amar Das Jee, and is explaining to us that it will be through the Grace
of Guru Granth Sahib Jee Maharaj that the Name of the Lord will come to abide
in our minds as well, within our hearts and souls. Sathiguru Maharaj is saying
if you’re asking for Naam daan
everyday, this is the way of obtaining it. By falling to the feet of the Guru,
and by being blessed through gurprasaadh, the Grace
of the Guru. Guru Amar Das Jee Maharaj blessed me with this diamond of the Name
of the Lord shining within me. What happens when through gurprasaadh
you are blessed with this Naam?
Janam
janam kae kilabikh dhukh outharae gur naam dheeou rin laathaa l 1 l
The kilabikh
– the sins, of janam janam
– of countless lifetimes, and the dhukh – the pain
of being being born and dying again and again in reincarnation, outharae
– these things left me. All of my sins fell away through the Naam,
through the Name of the Lord. All of my pains were eradicated. Gur
naam dheeou – when the Guru blessed me with the Name, rin
laathaa, rin means the debt, laathaa
means to be removed. The debts were wiped away, all of these sins which I’d
been carrying around with me, all of the pains which were results of these sins
of many lifetimes were all wiped out. There were no debts left, there were no
accounts left, there was no bad or good, the Guru wiped away all of these with
the Naam. Sathiguru Maharaj Sahib Jee is telling
us, O Sikh of the Guru, if you wish for all of your pain to be removed, if you
wish to merge in with that Almighty Lord God, serve the Guru, and the Guru and
his Grace will Bless you with the Naam. Through theNaam, you will be liberated.
Maerae
man bhaj raam naam sabh arathaa l
Maraeman – O my mind, bhaj –
meditate, raam naam –
on the Name of Raam, on the Name of the Lord, on
the Name of Waheguru who is pervading through all. Sabharathaa – for everything, all your arathaa,
all your needs. Another way of interpreting this line is maeraeman – O my mind, if you meditate upon the Name of
the Lord, then you will receive everything that you need. Any Ardaas
that you have, any prayers that you have, any thoughts that you have in your
mind, lay them in front of the Guru. This line is also telling us that if you
lay your thought in front of the Guru, then the Guru will Bless you.
Gur
poorai har naam dhrirraaeiaa bin naavai jeevan birathaa l
When the poorai
– when the perfect Guru dhriraaeiaa – implanted theNaam within me, when the True Guru blessed me and
put the Name of God within my heart, within my soul, embodied it within me,
embedded it inside my soul, bin naabai jeevan birathaa.
Those that have been blessed with the Name of the Lord, how can you tell what
they are like? Guru Sahib Jee says that bin naavai
– they realise that without the Name, jeevan birathaa
– the life is wasted. They say – aakhaa jeevaa visrai mar jaao
– if I am repeating, if I am meditating, if I am remembering my Lord God, then
it is life for me. If I forget him, then it is like death for me. Aakhaa
jeevaa, Guru Nanak Dev Jee is saying, and visrai
mar jaao. This is the nishaani, this
is the way of telling that the Name is embedded within you. With the Name of
the Lord, there is life, and without it, everything is wasted, everything is
useless, that is the way gur poorai har naam dhrirraaeiaa,
when the Guru implants the Name within you, that is the feeling, that is the
state of life, that is the level that those guramukhs
have obtained.
rehaao
l
Rehaoo
– Guru Sahib Jee says pause and think about this.
Bin
gur moorr bheae hai manamukh thae moh maaeiaa nith faathaa l
Bin
gur – without the Guru, moor bheae hai manamukh,
we’ve become moor, we’ve become foolish. Why?
Because we’ve become manamukh, mind-centred. Those
who do not follow the Guru, those who are instead following their own mind, thae
moh maaeiaa nith faathaa. Day in and day out, they are entangled
in the faathaa, in the noose around the neck, and
in the entrapment of the moh, of the attachment to
the maaeiaa, to the world, to this transitory,
temporary world, to material goods, to material gain, to the pleasures of this
world. Guru Sahib Jee says that the only way of salvation, the only way we have
liberation is through the Guru, and without the Guru, there is simply only the
entanglement of maaeiaa.
Thin
saadhoo charan n saevae kabehoo thin sabh janam akaathaa l
The mind-centred
beings have never saevae, have never served, kabehoo
means at any time, n means not. They have not saevae,
they have not served the charan, the Lotus Feet of
the saadhoo, of the True Guru. Thin
sabh janam akaathaa – all, sabh, of
their janam, all of their life passes akaathaa.Akaathaa means there is nothing to say about it,
there’s nothing remarkable to say. When we say nothing when there is no remark
to make, it’s just another wasted life. Guramukh laahaa lai geae
manamukh chalae mool gavaae jeeo. It’s only remarkable, there’s
only something to say when one wins in this life, when someone man
jeethae jag jeeth as Guru Nanak Dev Jee says in Jap Ji Sahib,
someone who wins over their mind, wins the world. Then we can look at their
life and say Gurasikhaa saabaas janam savaariaa as
Bhai Gurdas Jee says in their 'Vaaraan' that those gursikhs
who have savaariaa, who have completely devoted
their lives to the Lord, decorated themselves with the Name of the God, saabaas
- they are great, All Hail! to them. However, if not, then another life just
passes away without any meaning.
Jin
saadhoo charan saadh pag saevae thin safaliou janam sanaathaa l
Guru Sahib
Jee says jin – those people, those Guru centred
beings, those saadhoos, those holy beings who have saevae,
who have served the charan, the Lotus Feet, the pag
of the Guru, of the True Saadhoo of all saadhoos,
the Saint of all saints, those that have attached themselves to the Name of the
Lord, which is the Lotus Feet of the Guru, thin safaliou janam
sanaathaa. Their janam is safaliou
– their life on this earth is completely fulfilled, sanaathaa.Sanaathaa means to be liberated, and sanaathaa
means they have a naath, they have a Master, God
always above them. They are not masterless, they are not orphaned, they have
their mother and father Waheguru always standing with them.
Mo
ko keejai dhaas dhaas dhaasan ko har dhaeiaa dhaar jagannaathaa l 3 l
O Waheguru
Jee, mo ko – make me, keejai
means to make me, the slave of those people who with their mind are your dhaas,
are your servants, serve you with their mind. Dhaas
- who serve you with their bani and their Words. Dhaasanko, and with their sareer,
with their body who serve You. Make me the servant of those people. And Guru
Sahib Jee says make me the servant of your servants. O Waheguru Jee, the slave
of the slave of your servants. Naanak thae mukh oujalae kaethee
shuttee naal. The servant of the servants of your servants, O
Waheguru, those that serve you, their servant’s servant may I become. Even they
are blessed. Just as the fragrance of the sandalwood spreads throughout the
whole jungle, in the same way the fragrance of Naam
pervades through all of them who do sangat. Kaethee
shuttee naal – all of those who are naal,
who are with them are also liberated. O jagannaathaa
– Master of this world, dhaar – please bless me
with your dhaeiaa, with your Grace. O Hari, O
Waheguru, make me the slave of the slave of your slaves. The slave of those who
serve you with their mind, words and with their body.
Ham
andhulae giaaneheen agiaanee kio chaaleh maarag panthaa l
This is the
way of doing Ardass before the Guru. Waheguru Jee,
I am andhulae, I am blind, what am I blinded with? Giaaneheen,
because I don’t posess the eyes of prem and shardhaa,
the eyes of love and devotion. I don’t have giaan,
I don’t have any wisdom of your spiritual knowledge. Agiaanee,
I am completely without this, in darkness. Kio chaaleh maarag
panthaa. Kio – how can I chaaleh,
walk upon this maarag, this panthaa,
this path to you, O God.
Ham
andhulae ko gur anchal dheejai jan naanak chaleh milanthaa l 4 l 1 l
To this
blind being, O Guru, please bless your anchal, the
hem of your robe, grasping onto your robe. This is the way of meeting the Lord,
grasping onto the hem of the Guru, grasping onto the robe of the Master, of Sri
Guru Granth Sahib Jee Maharaj. However, first we have to accept, first we have
to acknowledge that we are andhule, that we are
blind, that we don’t have the knowledge. That is one of the hardest things to
do, to fall in front of the Guru, to sacrifice all, and to say Guru Sahib Jee,
I have no power, I have no wisdom, and I have no strength. Only then can you
grasp onto the robe of the Guru, that’s what Guru Sahib Jee is telling us.
Please bless me with the hem of your robe. Jan naanak chaleh
milanthaa – Sathiguru Ram Das Jee Maharaj says that your servantchaleh - walk along, milanthaa
– onto the path which unites me with You.
In this shabad today Sathiguru Maharaj Sahib Jee is talking about those Guru centred beings. How are they blessed with the Naam? Through the gurprasaadh, through the Grace of the Guru. How are we going to obtain the Grace of the Guru? By falling to the feet of the Guru, by accepting that we are in darkness, by accepting that there is no other path. Guru Sahib Jee has shown us that there is no other path without the Guru – Bin gur moorr bheae hai manamukh thae moh maaeiaa nith faathaa, there is only the faatha of the moh of maaeiaa, of attachment to this world. May our ardaas be on this day, that mo ko keejai dhaas dhaas dhaasan ko, may we become the servants of the servants of your servants O Lord God Waheguru.
Ham andhulae giaaneheen agiaanee kio chaaleh
maarag panthaa l
Ham andhulae ko gur anchal dheejai jan naanak chaleh milanthaa l 4 l 1 l