todee mehlaa 5 ||
Dhan
Guru Arjan Dev Ji Maharaj is speaking to us today. Satgur Ji begins in todee mehlaa 5
- in Todee Raag. Guru Sahib Ji, in this Raag, puts down two ways of
living. Either you live in remembrance or you live in forgetfulness. Satgur
Maharaj Ji says the path of remembrance is the path that gives you happiness.
The path of remembrance is the path that gives you fulfillment. The path of
remembrance is the path that brings you closer to the God or the Guru. The path
of forgetfulness is the path of pain, it is a path of poison, it is a path of
burning. And that is what Guru Ji says in the Hukamnama today.
har bisrat sadaa khu-aaree ||
Those
people who bisrat, those people who walk on the path of
forgetfulness they bisrat, they forget Hari,
Parmaatama, Waheguru, God. sadaa khu-aaree - forgetfulness, forever
and forever it leads you to khu-aaree.khu-aaree can mean ruin, khu-aaree can
mean wandering aimlessly, khu-aaree can mean being alone and
supportless. When you forget Waheguru, Guru Arjan Dev Ji says don't think that
by forgetting Waheguru, that path of forgetfulness will lead anywhere else other
than ruin. Forgetting Waheguru will only lead us further and further away and
down this path of ruin. Satgur Ji, Sachay Paadshah takes us from looking at this
path of forgetfulness and shows us sadaa khu-aaree it always
leads us to sadness, it always leads us to ruin. But on the other hand Guru Ji
brings us back to the path of remembrance.
taa ka-o Dhokhaa kahaa bi-aapai
jaa ka-o ot tuhaaree || rahaa-o ||
jaa ka-o,
that person who has, ot - support, which support? tuhaaree,
Waheguru that person who has you to support them, O God, that person who is
walking on the path of remembrance, who has your support in every part of their
life then taa ka-o Dhokhaa
kahaa bi-aapai how can Dhokhaa, how can they be
deceived? Dhokhaa means deception;
bin simran jo jeevan
balnaa sarap jaisay arjaaree ||
Maharaj
Ji brings us back to the other point of view. bin simran -
without Simran; now Simran is talking
about very deep state of meditation. Simran is constant remembrance of Waheguru and it
begins from the meditation with the tongue and becomes thisSimran which happens
again and again. And if you want to talk about Simran,
I suggest reading Shabad by Bhagat Ravi Daas Ji. chit simran karo Nain
avlokano Bhagat Ravi Daas Ji says chit simran karo inside your consciousness
remember God all times. That is simran,
but what is that borne from. That is borne from meditating from your tongue,
from calling out with your voice. Now Guru Ji says bin simran
without this path of remembrance, what happens jo jeevan balnaa,
balnaa has two meanings. Sampardayee MahaPurakh has given the meaning
"burn" like we say koyee cheez baldee hai and on
the other hand Prof. Sahib Singh and in Maha Kosh balnaa is
passing your life. And both meanings work. bin simran jo jeevan balnaa
sarap jaisay arjaaree that jeevan, those moments of your
life that passes without the loving remembrance of God, to take the meaning
from Maha Kosh , balnaa as passing; that life that passes
without the remembrance of God, walking on the path of forgetfulness is like sarap jaisay
arjaaree, asjaaree means lifetime; jaisay - of asarap - snake. Just like a snake may live for many years,
but all the snake does is build up its poison. In the same way you may do many
things but without walking on the path of remembrance of God, ultimately even
those things that you thought were sweet will turn to poison. Now to take the
Sampardayee meaning of balnaa is to burn. Without
remembering God a human being burns. But how does the human being burn? Just
like a snake burns in its own poison same way the person who does not remember
Waheguru , they burn in their own poison. kaam kroDh Kayaan ko
galai Guru Nanak Dev Ji Maharaj says lust and anger they
do not just affect other people. The lust of one person, the desire of one
person, the anger of one person may manifest upon itself, may physically burns
inside one person, may burn inside another person, but inside the body and mind
of that person, even they are affected by the anger. The anger is burning them
inside. That desire is burning them up inside. Guru ji says goes on to explain
further:
nav khandan ko raaj kamaavai ant chalaigo haaree. ||1||
nav
khandan There used to be in traditional Indian thought - there arenav khandan - nine different parts of the world. Just like
we say now there are seven continents in the world, in the same way they used
to divide this world into nine different parts. Maharaj Ji says even if you
were to rule on the entire nine parts of the world; raaj
kamaavai means to rule over; ant chalaigo haaree in the end
you may win over the many pieces of the land but you will end up, if you are
walking on the path of forgetfulness, even the king of the whole world will
leave this world defeated with nothing. Satgur Paadshah Ji Maharaj is saying O
human being this path of forgetfulness leads to ruin, it leads to burning, it
leads to poison inside and it leads to loosing the greatest gift that you got
from God, which is this human life. Now on the other side Guru Ji brings us
back to the path of remembrance . He says:
gun niDhaan gun tin hee gaa-ay jaa ka-o kirpaa Dhaaree.||
Only
those who gaa-ay sing the gun - praises
of Waheguru; niDhaan means treasure. Only those people who
sing the praises of Waheguru, who is the treasure of all praise, the treasure
of all virtue- jaa ka-o kirpaa Dhaaree who have Wahegur Ji'skirpaa, Waheguru Ji's grace. O human being if you are
sitting in the Gurdwara Sahib now, repeating the name of God, that is the grace
of God working within you. If you are listening to daily Hukamnama that is the
grace of God working inside you. If you are listening to Kirtan in the car that
is grace of God. tin hee gaa-ay jaa ka-o kirpaa Dhaaree Only those people can sing his praises, can
sing Waheguru's praises who can connect to the Almighty AkalPurakh Waheguru,
the source of all joy. Only those can connect to the source ,that Waheguru Ji,
who have Waheguru Ji's grace.
so sukhee-aa Dhan us janmaa naanak tis balihaaree. ||2||2||
Maharaj
Ji says that person who immerses himself or herself on the path of remembrance
of God so sukjee-aa only that person is happy in this world.Dhan us janmaa, Guru Arjan Dev Ji Maharaj says
blessed is that person's life, naanak tis
balihaaree if you ask me, Guru Arjan Dev Ji says I am ready to
sacrifice to that person. Walking on the path of forgetfulness there is poison,
there is ruin, there is defeat; walking onn the path of remembrance, there is
happiness, there are blessings. On the path of remembrance even the Guru is
ready to sacrifice for that person who walks on the path of remembrance.
gun niDhaan gun tin hee gaa-ay jaa ka-o kirpaa Dhaaree ||
so
sukhee-aa Dhan us
janmaa naanak tis
balihaaree. ||
Waheguru ji ka Khalsa ! Waheguru ji ki Fateh !
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