English Translation of the Daily Hukamnama (Siri Guru Granth Sahib Ang: 553)

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  sloku m:5 ]
  salok ma 5 ||
  Salok, Fifth Mehla:

  hir nwmu n ismrih swDsMig qY qin aufY Kyh ]
  har naam n simarehi saadhhasa(n)g thai than ouddai khaeh ||
  That body, which does not remember the Lord’s Name in meditation in the
  Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, shall be reduced to dust.

  ijin kIqI iqsY n jwxeI nwnk iPtu AlUxI dyh ]1]
  jin keethee thisai n jaanee naanak fitt aloonee dhaeh ||1||
  Cursed and insipid is that body, O Nanak, which does not know the One
  who created it. ||1||

  m:5 ]
  ma 5 ||
  Fifth Mehla:

  Git vsih crxwribMd rsnw jpY gupwl ]
  ghatt vasehi charanaarabi(n)dh rasanaa japai gupaal ||
  Let the Lotus Feet of the Lord abide within your heart, and with your tongue,
  chant God’s Name.

  nwnk so pRBu ismrIAY iqsu dyhI kau pwil ]2]
  naanak so prabh simareeai this dhaehee ko paal ||2||
  O Nanak, meditate in remembrance on God, and nurture this body. ||2||

  pauVI ]
  pourree ||
  Pauree:

  Awpy ATsiT qIrQ krqw Awip kry iesnwnu ]
  aapae at(h)asat(h) theerathh karathaa aap karae eisanaan ||
  The Creator Himself is the sixty-eight sacred places of pilgrimage; He
  Himself takes the cleansing bath in them.

  Awpy sMjim vrqY sÍwmI Awip jpwieih nwmu ]
  aapae sa(n)jam varathai svaamee aap japaaeihi naam ||
  He Himself practices austere self-discipline; the Lord Master Himself
  causes us to chant His Name.

  Awip dieAwlu hoie Bau KMfnu Awip krY sBu dwnu ]
  aap dhaeiaal hoe bho kha(n)ddan aap karai sabh dhaan ||
  He Himself becomes merciful to us; the Destroyer of fear Himself gives in
  charity to all.

  ijs no gurmuiK Awip buJwey so sd hI drgih pwey mwnu ]
  jis no guramukh aap bujhaaeae so sadh hee dharagehi paaeae maan ||
  One whom He has enlightened and made Gurmukh, ever obtains honor in
  His Court.

  ijs dI pYj rKY hir suAwmI so scw hir jwnu ]14]
  jis dhee paij rakhai har suaamee so sachaa har jaan ||14||
  One whose honor the Lord Master has preserved, comes to know the True
  Lord. ||14||

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa! Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh!

Today’s Hukam is from Guru Arjan Dev ji and it is the most simple hukam.

The first part of the hukam is a slok that talks about simran and the state of simran and Guruji simply says to us that unless you experience the state of simran which is remembrance, remembrance of what, remembrance of your true identity, remembrance that you are God, that God flows through every sound and atom and fiber of your being. That if you don’t experience that state of simran, your body is as well as dead.

So Guruji says practice Simran in the company of the Holy. He says that when you don’t remember your true identity, it is just as if your body was nothing, was ashes and that is a curse to not remember who you are.

Then he exhorts us to keep the lotus feet of God in our hearts and to practice Jap, to repeat the Naam. He says that when you remember who you are then your body blossoms.

The pourree says that God is everywhere, that all of the places of pilgrimage, all of the people who practice tapa, all of the people who are swamis, yogis, that God is within everyone and that God is everyone and that we only Jap, we only repeat the Naam by God’s blessing.

Then he goes on to say that we experience the mercy of God, the blessing of God and our fear disappears and we experience that experience of giving of each moment, the dawn of that gift of the treasure of giving.

Then he finishes the hukam by saying that when you live as Gurmukh, that your mukh is not your mukh, but the Guru’s mukh, then you are honored in the court of God and that when you experience this state of Grace this state of honoring, then you truly know God, you truly experience God within yourself.

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa! Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh!