English Translation of the Daily Hukamnama

(Siri Guru Granth Sahib Ang: 709)

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Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa! Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh!

Today’s Hukamnama is from Ang 709 of the Siri Guru Granth Sahib.

slok ]
salok.
Salok:

rsnw aucrMiq nwmM sRvxM sunMiq sbd AMimRqh ]
rasnaa uchrant naamaN sarvanaN sunant sabad amritah.
With my tongue, I chant the Lord’s Name; with my ears,
I listen to the Ambrosial Word of His Shabad.

nwnk iqn sd bilhwrM ijnw iDAwnu pwrbRhmxh ]1]
naanak tin sad balihaaraN jinaa Dhi-aan paarbrahmaneh. ||1||
Nanak is forever a sacrifice to those who meditate on
the Supreme Lord God. ||1||

hiB kUVwvy kMm ieksu sweI bwhry ]
habh koorhaavay kamm ikas saa-ee baahray.
All concerns are false, except those of the One Lord.

nwnk syeI DMnu ijnw iprhVI sc isau ]2]
naanak say-ee Dhan jinaa pirharhee sach si-o. ||2||
O Nanak, blessed are those, who are in love with their True Lord. ||2||

pauVI ]
pa-orhee.
Pauree:

sd bilhwrI iqnw ij sunqy hir kQw ]
sad balihaaree tinaa je suntay har kathaa.
I am forever a sacrifice to those who listen to the sermon of the Lord.

pUry qy prDwn invwvih pRB mQw ]
pooray tay parDhaan nivaaveh parabh mathaa.
Those who bow their heads before God are perfect and distinguished.

hir jsu ilKih byAMq sohih sy hQw ]
har jas likheh bay-ant soheh say hathaa.
Those hands, which write the Praises of the infinite Lord are beautiful.

crn punIq pivqR cwlih pRB pQw ]
charan puneet pavitar chaaleh parabh pathaa.
Those feet which walk on God’s Path are pure and holy.

sMqW sMig auDwru sglw duKu lQw ]14]
santaaN sang uDhaar saglaa dukh lathaa. ||14||
In the Society of the Saints, they are emancipated; all their
sorrows depart. ||14||

In today’s hukam the Guru is speaking to us really simply about the benefit and promise of a single minded life. A mind, that is really focused on the experience of the divine and not too concerned with other things.

The Guru says, "With the tongue and voice talk about the Naam, about the divine identity. With the ears listen to the Shabad", which brings the experience of Amrit, or the experience of your own deathlessness. The Guru says, "He is forever a sacrifice for those who meditate on the Transcendent One." That notion of being a sacrifice for: what does it mean? The Guru is there to do everything in his power to help those who are truly trying to experience the divine in the state of meditation.

Then the Guru says, "all the other works that we do, don’t come to anything." Most of what we do in our life has a very temporary outcome. We can earn money for today or money for the month. We have families, even though those families are with us our whole lives, but when we leave our body they are not with us in the experience of death. All these things that we pursue in life, do not lead to experience of truth.

When we are focusing on the identity of divinity and the truth of divinity and ourselves in the whole creation: that is the work that really means something. Guru Nanak says that the people who are in space of love and can experience truth through that love are really blessed. It’s not love for someone or love for something. It’s just the love that genuinely lives inside us. When we can be with that love and be with the truth of the divine in everything then that is a tremendous blessing.

Again the Guru is saying to those who listen to this story of this divine essence inside of everything, for people who spend their time in that way the Guru is a sacrifice to those people. So again, that notion of sacrifice, that Guru will do everything in his power to help those who really are here to listen to the story of the divine.

Those who bow their heads before the Transcendent One: the Guru says, those people are perfect and are very noble and honorable people. Those people who write about the divine essence, their hands are tremendously beautiful. So the Guru is describing what a beautiful life is: like the hands are beautiful that write about the divine essence, the people who bow to the Transcendent One are perfect and noble. So he is just giving us a vision of what the human life can be, when we are allowing ourselves to be focused on the reality of the divine inside of ourselves and inside of everything around us.

So the feet that walk this path of the divine are also very Pavitar, are also very pure. The Guru ends by saying that those who are in the company of people like this find liberation. They find liberation from pull of time and space from the play of the Maya and all of their pain, all of their sorrows, all of their sufferings just depart, just leave, just go away.

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa! Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh!