English translation of the daily Hukamnama.
(Siri Guru Granth Sahib Ji Page:467)

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sloku m Ú 1 ]
salok mehlaa 1.
 piV piV gfI ldIAih piV piV BrIAih swQ ]
parh parh gadee ladee-ah parh parh bharee-ah saath.
 piV piV byVI pweIAY piV piV gfIAih Kwq ]
parh parh bayrhee paa-ee-ai parh parh gadee-ah khaat.
 pVIAih jyqy brs brs pVIAih jyqy mws ]
parhee-ah jaytay baras baras parhee-ah jaytay maas.
 pVIAY jyqI Awrjw pVIAih jyqy sws ]
parhee-ai jaytee aarjaa parhee-ah jaytay saas.
 nwnk lyKY iek gl horu haumY JKxw JwK ]1]
naanak laykhai ik gal hor ha-umai jhakh-naa jhaakh. ||1||
 m Ú 1 ]
mehlaa 1.
 iliK iliK piVAw ]
likh likh parhi-aa.
 qyqw kiVAw ]
taytaa karhi-aa.
 bhu qIrQ BivAw ]
baho tirath bhavi-aa.
 qyqo livAw ]
tayto lavi-aa.
 bhu ByK kIAw dyhI duKu dIAw ]
baho bhaykh kee-aa dayhee dukh dee-aa.
 shu vy jIAw Apxw kIAw ]
saho vay jee-aa apnaa kee-aa.
 AMnu n KwieAw swdu gvwieAw ]
ann na khaa-i-aa saad gavaa-i-aa.
 bhu duKu pwieAw dUjw BwieAw ]
baho dukh paa-i-aa doojaa bhaa-i-aa.
 bsqR n pihrY ]
bastar na pahirai.
 Aihinis khrY ]
ahinis kahrai.
 moin ivgUqw ]
mon vigootaa.
 ikau jwgY gur ibnu sUqw ]
ki-o jaagai gur bin sootaa.
 pg aupyqwxw ]
pag upaytaanaa.
 Apxw kIAw kmwxw ]
apnaa kee-aa kamaanaa.
 Alu mlu KweI isir CweI pweI ]
al mal khaa-ee sir chhaa-ee paa-ee.
 mUriK AMDY piq gvweI ]
moorakh anDhai pat gavaa-ee.
 ivxu nwvY ikCu Qwie n pweI ]
vin naavai kichh thaa-ay na paa-ee.
 rhY bybwxI mVI mswxI ]
rahai baybaanee marhee masaanee.
 AMDu n jwxY iPir pCuqwxI ]
anDh na jaanai fir pachhutaanee.
pMnw 468
 siqguru Byty so suKu pwey ]
satgur bhaytay so sukh paa-ay.
 hir kw nwmu mMin vswey ]
har kaa naam man vasaa-ay.
 nwnk ndir kry so pwey ]
naanak nadar karay so paa-ay.
 Aws AMdysy qy inhkyvlu haumY sbid jlwey ]2]
aas andaysay tay nihkayval ha-umai sabad jalaa-ay. ||2||
 pauVI ]
pa-orhee.
 Bgq qyrY min Bwvdy dir sohin kIriq gwvdy ]
bhagat tayrai man bhaavday dar sohan keerat gaavday.
 nwnk krmw bwhry dir FoA n lhn@I Dwvdy ]
naanak karmaa baahray dar dho-a na lehn^Hee Dhaavday.
 ieik mUlu n buJin@ Awpxw Axhodw Awpu gxwiedy ]
ik mool na bujhni^H aapnaa anhodaa aap ganaa-iday.
 hau FwFI kw nIc jwiq hoir auqm jwiq sdwiedy ]
ha-o dhaadhee kaa neech jaat hor utam jaat sadaa-iday.
 iqn@ mMgw ij quJY iDAwiedy ]9]
tin^H mangaa je tujhai Dhi-aa-iday. ||9||

Waheguru Ji Ka Khlasa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh!

The hukamnama today is by Guru Nanak Devji Maharaj. It is from Asa Di Vaar, on Ang 467 of Siri Guru Granth Sahib Ji.

Guru Nanak Devji is talking to us today through the beautiful bani Asaji Di Vaar. This particular Salok, it is said, was quoted by Guru Nanak Devji to Shekh Braham. When Shekh brahamji asked Guru Nanak Devji whether liberation can be found through mere accumulation of knowledge. This shabad was Guru Nanak Devji’s answer. Also the Salok which makes up the first part of this Shabad is said to have been spoken by Satguru Guru Nanak Devji when Guru Nanak Devji met a pandit who was walking through the Himalayas’ mountains. What the pandit used to do was he used to have debates with another pandit, have debates about holy men. His bet, his gamble always used to be that if the other holy men lost then lost in this debate then they would have to give him all of their books. Any books they had on them, any Granths, any Pothis, anything they had they had to hand it over to him. He was a very good debater. He was very cunning. So every single holy man that he met he got their books. Because of this he had many mules that used to follow him around. They used to carry all of his books that he had won. There was a whole line of mules behind him. When he saw Guru Nanak Devji, Guru Nanak Devji said this shabad.

If you want to retouch more into where this shabad was said then you can look in the book “Nanak Prakash” and you will see the story there, look in Utrar Dhayey number 14, you can find the whole history of where it was said. Guru Nanak Devji says, “Parh parh gadee ladee-ah.” You may read gadee loads, gadee means truck loads. You may fill up so many mules, you may fill up so many gadeean, so many cars, so many trucks, so many trollies worth of books. “Parh parh bharee-ah saath.” You can read so many books that they gather around you but “bharee-ah saath”. Saath can also mean by filling the donkeys, the camels around you. You may read so many books that you have to carry them with you on the animals around you. “Parh parh bayrhee paa-ee-ai.” Parh parh means by reading and reading, bayrhee means boat, paa-ee-ai means to put. You may read boat loads of books. You may have so many books that you may have to fill boats with them. Not just a library but boats! “Parh parh gadee-ah khaat.” “You may read so many books”, Guru Nanak says, “that you may have to gadee-ah, may have to dig pits and burry them in the khaat, in the ground.”

“Parhee-ah jaytay baras baras.” You may read these books for baras baras, year after year. “Parhee-ah jaytay maas.” You may read books for jaytay maas, for as many months as there are in a year, for all twelve months of a year. “Parhee-ai jaytee aarjaa.” You may read for all of your aarjaa, all of your life. “Parhee-ah jaytay saas.” You may read with every breath, with every saas. But Guru Nanak Devji says, “Oh Panditji listen to this one thing I have to say; naanak laykhai ik gal hor ha-umai jhakh-naa jhaakh.” Nanak says to you, “In laykhai only one thing, ik gal will be held to account, into laykhai hor ha-umai jhakh-naa jhaakh; the rest will be ha-umai, the egotism and jhakh-naa jhaakh, will be idle talk.” What is this gal that Guru Nanak Devji has taught us, he is saying ik gal, “Japo tan eko Nama aval nirafal Kama.” The only one thing that you may gain by reading all these books, the one knowledge you have to gain is that you are separate from God and you need to merge into God by doing what? By repeating the one Name. if you haven’t received one knowledge by reading all these books then Guru Nanak Devji says, “There is no point reading that many books.” If you are reading the book and you are gaining the knowledge and you are putting that knowledge into use Guru Nanak Devji says, “That’s good!” But if you are merely reading them for the sake of showing your cleverness over others, for duping others, for deceiving others, for showing how great you are, to show your ego then that’s wrong! After hearing this Shabad the pandit fell at Guru Nanak Devji’s feet. Guruji is saying that “Only ik, the One will help you. Repeat the name of the one.”

Then Guru Nanak Devji says, “Mehla Pehla.” “Likh likh parhi-aa taytaa karhi-aa.” The more one writes and writes, likh likh, the more one writes out of ego and reads, parhi-aa, out of ego, What will happen? “Taytaa karhi-aa” the more you will burn, karhi-aa. Guru Nanak Devji is saying, “If you are not getting any true Giaan, any true knowledge out of reading, out of all this education and its really an ego boost it’s merely just burning you because it is adding to your ego.” “Baho tirath bhavi-aa.” By going to tiraths; sacred pilgrim sites with ahnkaar in your mind “tayto lavi-aa”the more you waste your time speaking useless things, lavi-aa means to speak useless things. Guru Nanak Devji says to us, “Don’t go there and sit and gossip with your friends. On the path to Gurudwara don’t do idle talk. If you are going to that sacred place then repeat God’s name from the moment you leave, to the moment you arrive, to the moment you leave that place and to the moment you arrive back. When you are there do no accumulate slander upon your head as many of us do.” Then Guru Nanak Devji says, “Baho bhaykh kee-aa.” By dressing in all these different robes by doing all these outward gestures “dayhee dukh dee-aa” all you are doing is giving dukh, pain to your body. If you are doing all this external stuff merely out of ego then you are merely calling yourself pain.

“Saho vay jee-aa apnaa kee-aa.” Oh my jee-aa, oh my soul what you have done, the actions of what you have done you will sow what you have to reap. “Ann na khaa-i-aa saad gavaa-i-aa.” Ann na khaa-i-aa; what Guru Nanak Devji is saying is, “If you give up food; ann, if you merely fast then “saad gavaa-i-aa” all you are doing is missing out on tasting all these different foods.” Guru Nanak is saying to us, “Merely by fasting you will achieve nothing, Bookhian Bhook na utre je bhana purian paar.” Guru Nanak Devji is saying to us, “By giving up food you are merely missing out on this beautiful world around us, all these experiences of God around us.” “Baho dukh paa-i-aa doojaa bhaa-i-aa.” You think you are getting close? Really you are going into doojaa bhaa-i-aa; into the love of dooja, into the love of duality. What do you get out of that? “Baho dukh paa-i-aa.” You get great pain.

“Bastar na pahirai.” Guru Nanak Devji is saying, “Those people who don’t wear clothes, don’t wear bastar; those naga sadhus, whoever else, those people who believe that by staying without any clothes it is going to get them close to God. But Guru Nanak Devji says, “That simply makes you ahinis kahrai; it simply makes you kahrai; suffer day and night, ahinis. You are simply inducing suffering upon yourself.” Guru Nanak’s path is not a path of inducing suffering upon yourself. Guru Nanak’s path is a path of ease and love. Then Guru Nanak Devji says, “Mon vigootaa.” Those people who think by being silent they will achieve God, they are being vigootaa; they are simply burning themselves. Because in their silence they mind goes wild and even though they may not say anything but in their mind they are thinking all those thoughts. “Ki-o jaagai gur bin sootaa.” Guru Nanak Devji nails it on the head and says, “How can that person jag; be awakened, who is gur bin sootaa; who is without the Guru. Without the Guru how can asleep person be awakened. The Guru is the one who can awaken them.”

“Pag upaytaanaa.” Guru Nanak Devji is saying, “Those people doing upaytaanaa; those who take off their shoes and walk around bare foot everywhere they are “Apnaa kee-aa kamaanaa.” He/she is not alleviating their Karma, they will still have to sow as they expect to reap what they have sown. Simply by walking around bare feet you are not getting any close to Waheguru, Nirankar. “Aal mal khaa-ee sir chhaa-ee paa-ee.” Al mal means filth, khaa-ee means to eat. There are Sadhus in India who eat filth, who eat complete and utter filth that other people throw out, “sir chhaa-ee paa-ee.”, Guru Nanak Devji says, “People who put ashes on their head simply what are they doing they are moorakh; they are fools and they are blind, anDhai and they pat gavaa-ee; they loose their pat; their honour.” Guru Nanak Devji is saying, “By eating filth and putting ashes on your head you are not getting closer to Waheguru.”

Guru Nanak Devji then says, “Vin naavai, without the name of God, kichh thaa-ay na paa-ee, nothing else is of any use.” “Rahai baybaanee; those people who live in the jungles in the filthiness, and at marhee masaanee, cemeteries and cremation grounds they anDh na jaanai. That person is anDh is blind, does not understand, does not know, jaanai Waheguru. “Feir pachhutaanee, then in the end he regrets that all I did was made outward gestures.” I ran away from the world but I could not run away from my desires. Then Guru Nanak Devji says, “Satgur bhaytay those people who meet the true Guru, so sukh paa-ay, those people find eternal peace.” “Har kaa naam, the name of Hari, the name of Waheguru man vasaa-ay.” What do they do? How do they get eternal peace? By keeping, by enshrining, by meditating upon the name of Waheguru within their mind they obtain peace for ever. Guru Nanak Devji says, “Oh Nanak, only those people obtain this at whom naanak nadar karay, at whom Waheguruji’s glances his glance of grace, his blessings.” “Aas andaysay tay nihkayval ha-umai sabad jalaa-ay.” Those people who meditate upon Waheguru’s name he becomes freed of Aas, hopes, and of andaysay, fears. Then what does He do? “Ha-umai sabad jalaa-ay; through the Shabad, through the word of the Waheguru’s mantar he jalaa-ay; burns away ego and becomes one with Waheguru. ”

Pa-orhee

In the end Guru Nanak Devji says, “Bhagat tayrai man bhaavday dar sohan keerat gaavday.” Those bhagats, these devotees, are truly in love with you who “tayrai man bhaavday.” Oh Guru, they please your mind. Oh Waheguru, they please your mind. Because what do they do? “Dar sohan keerat gaavday” They look beautiful at your door. Why? Because they gaavday keerat at your door. They know that it’s not these outer rituals that will make them close to you. It’s only by singing your praises that they will get close to you. “Naanak karmaa baahray.” Oh Nanak those who are karmaa baahray; have low Karma, who have denied the grace of Akal Purakh “dar dho-a na lehnHee Dhaavday.” They don’t find a dho; they don’t find shelter, at your door and they merely continue wondering; Dhaavday. “Ik mool na bujhniH aapnaa”, they do not understand their mool; their root that they came from, they do not understand that they came form you Oh Waheguru. “Anhodaa aap ganaa-iday.” And without any cause, anhodaa , they are “aap ganaa-iday” they say oh, “I am so great.” They do not realise that this ego is merely an illusion. They simply become a puppet of their own ego.

“Ha-o dhaadhee kaa neech jaat.” Guruji says, “I am a lowly; neech, singer of your praises, I have neech jaat; low social status. Hor utam jaat sadaa-iday; others call themselves utam jaat; high caste, but I call myself low caste.” Then Guruji says, “tinH mangaa je tujhai Dhi-aa-iday; I am looking for those people, tinH mangaa, I am looking to associate with those people, I beg to associate with those people who je tujhai Dhi-aa-iday; who meditate upon you Waheguru.”

As Guru Nanak Devji talked about Pandit back those four hundred years ago is what He is talking to us today. “Oh my son, oh my daughter, oh my friend, do not believe that the mere appeasing of your ego so that you may loose it to Waheguru.” There are people who debate and debate and debate about God, about Sikhi, about all these things but they never sit down and meditate. Guruji is saying, “Give up all these false debates, give up all these false defences and meditate upon the Naam. Do not appease your ego. Burn away your ego through the Shabad. By these useless debates you are not going closer to Nirankar. The only way is through the Satnaam, the true name. The only way is by meditating with your mind, body and soul and by repeating his name and by repeating his mantra.

“Parh parh gadee ladee-ah parh parh bharee-ah saath. Parh parh bayrhee paa-ee-ai parh parh gadee-ah khaat.”

Khusian Da Jaikara Bolave,
Nihaal Ho Jave
Sahib Siri Guru Nanak Devji de Man Nu Bhave
Sat Siri Akal
Gur Bar Akal
Deg Teg Fateh!

Waheguru Ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh!