vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw, vwihgurU jI kI &qh!
Waheguru ji ka Khalsa ! Waheguru ji ki Fateh !!

Guru Arjun Dev ji – Dayv-Gandhaaree Raag – Ang 530

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Katha by Ek Ong Kaar Kaur ji

The Hukamnama today is by Guru Arjun Devji Maharaj, in Dayv-Gandhaaree Raag, on Ang 530 of Siri Guru Granth Sahib ji Maharaj.

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Dayv-Gandhaaree, Fifth Mehl:

mngurimil nwmu ArwiDE ]
man gur mil naam araadhiou |
mn gur imil nwmu ArwiDE ]
O mind, meet with the Guru, and worship the Naam in adoration.

sUK shj AwnMd mMgl rs jIvn kw mUlu bwiDE ]1] rhwau ]
sookh sehaj aanandh mangal ras jeevan kaa mool baadhiou |1| rehaao |
sUK shj AwnMd mMgl rs jIvn kw mUlu bwiDE ]1] rhwau ]
You shall obtain peace, poise, bliss, joy and pleasure, and lay the foundation of eternal life. ||1||Pause||

kir ikrpw Apunw dwsu kIno kwty mwieAw PwiDE ]
kar kirapaa apunaa dhaas keeno kaattae maaeiaa faadhiou |
kir ikrpw Apunw dwsu kIno kwty mwieAw PwiDE ]
Showing His Mercy, the Lord has made me His slave, and shattered the bonds of Maya.

Bwau Bgiq gwie gux goibd jm kw mwrgu swiDE ]1]
bhaao bhagath gaae gun gobidh jam kaa maarag saadhiou |1|
Bwau Bgiq gwie gux goibd jm kw mwrgu swiDE ]1]
Through loving devotion, and singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord of the Universe, I have escaped the Path of Death. ||1||

BieE AnugRhu imitE morcw Amol pdwrQu lwiDE ]
bhaeiou anugrahu mittiou morachaa amol padhaarath laadhiou |
BieE AnugRhu imitE morcw Amol pdwrQu lwiDE ]
When he became Merciful, the rust was removed, and I found the priceless treasure.

bilhwrY nwnk lK byrw myry Twkur Agm AgwiDE ]2]13]
balihaarai naanak lakh baeraa maerae thaakur agam agaadhiou |2|13|
bilhwrY nwnk lK byrw myry Twkur Agm AgwiDE ]2]13]
O Nanak, I am a sacrifice, a hundred thousand times, to my unapproachable, unfathomable Lord and Master. ||2||13||

Katha by Ek Ong Kaar Kaur ji

The Hukamnama today is by Guru Arjun Dev ji and it’s a very small, short but very, very powerful Hukam today. Guru Arjun ji is giving us the formula in the first line for how to attain peace, bliss and happiness and how to overcome death. It’s a very simple formula in Sikh Dharma of how to live in a tremendously joyful and a happy consciousness and also how to escape the experience of death. One of the tricks of being in Maya is that we die in the physical body but the Naam, the Divine identity lives within us. It doesn’t die because it has never been born, it will never die. It just goes from one experience to the next. The problem with the moment of death is not that the physical body has to go because the physical body is very finite and its only given to us for a brief period of time. The problem with death is mostly the mind. The mind experiences its own end if it has not learnt how to identify with the deathless spirit that lives within the temple of the body.

So in our human existence if we don’t’ make the effort while we are alive, for the mind to experience that Divine identity then we have no choice but to go through the mental experience of death. When our physical body is done, the mind doesn’t know where to go, doesn’t know what to do, gets trapped in its fears. It is a very terrible experience to go through death if there is no recognition of the jot, of the Light that lives within you.

man gur mil naam araadhiou
So the first line is just a very, very simple formula that gets repeated over and over in Gurbani and Guru Arjun ji is giving it to us again today which is man gur mil naam araadhiou. It is just the most distinct statement about what the formula is about for the Sikhs. When the thought waves of the mind allow themselves to intermix with the Gur, for us the Gur is the shabad, the sound current, if we can mix up our thoughts with the sound current of the Guru’s then the Naam, the Divine identity, we can start to apprehend and experience. If we are then focusing the mind on that Divine identity we are really appreciating it, worshiping it and being in a state of adoration with it then our mind is always going to be directed in the Infinite direction. When the mind takes off on its own with its trips and its fears, its dreams and its ambitions, it’s going in a very finite direction but when the mind thought patterns are intermixed with the shabad and the Divine identity is perceived, then the mind can become very infinitely directed. To adore the experience of the Divine identity is to harness the energy of the mind and focus it in a good way. So Guru Arjun ji gives us the formula and the rest of this Hukam is just going to talk about all of the amazing benefits that come to the human being when this formula is applied.

sookh sehaj aanandh mangal ras jeevan kaa mool baadhiou
The next line is wow! Sookh sehaj aanandh mangal ras. This is to live in a state of peace, to live in a state of ease of flow. Mostly we are not peaceful but we are hustling and hassling but we have the option to live with a lot of peace, with a lot of contentment, to live in the flow of our day, to live in the flow of our breath, in the flow of the Hukam, in the flow of the Universal Will that is guiding us. Living every moment from the soul’s reality and gaining tremendous joy from that. Ras: we can taste the essence of the Divine, we don’t have a bitter taste within our mouth, we don’t have a longing within us, we actually have this tremendous satisfaction and the taste of the Love within us, which is what ras is. The next phrase jeevan kaa mool: implies that we are in touch with the source of life, that life is not just this little tiny body and these seventy or sixty of ninety years that we are given but that there is the Source of the universe from where all light flows. The experience of the Naam through the Guru brings us to the source and we are baadhiou: we are tying ourselves to all these sources. So rather than getting caught up in ambition, greed or disappointment, fantasy, worry or confusion this formula of the first line (of the mind intermixing with the shabad and giving us the worship of the Divine identity) allows us to be tied up with all the good things, with peace, with bliss, with the flow and the happiness in the ras and with being in touch with the Source of Life.

kar kirapaa apunaa dhaas keeno kaattae maaeiaa faadhiou
Guru ji is saying in the next line that it is through kindness that we get this experience and when we have this experience it’s so easy to become a servant of that universal consciousness. When we are taking this human birth and applying it to the service to the Divine in each other and to the Divine, in however it guides us, then it cuts the trap of Maya. So the five tattas and all the plays that we can get involved in, is a whole trap in a way. It traps the mind, keeps it from directing towards Infinity. When we become a servant of the Divine it actually cuts the entrapment that we have with the physical environments. We can enjoy the physical environments but we are not inflamed by them anymore.

Bhaao bhagath gaae gun gobidh jam kaa maarag saadhiou
This is a tremendously powerful line. It says that through love, by opening ourselves up to love, by living in devotion, by singing the virtues, by that, we are really talking about just deeply appreciating the Creator; instead of complaining we are appreciating. But being in that state of love, of acting from love, of singing in appreciation the virtues of what life is, what the universe is then jam kaa maarag saadhiou. There are many lines in Gurbani that can be a little scary honestly to say what they exactly mean because they are tremendously, tremendously empowering. This is one of those lines where saadhiou means that we have control over the path of death. We are very intuitively and consciously aware that the physical body is finite. We have the capacity through the extended awareness that the love and appreciating create for us to be in a conscious relationship with what the experiences of death are.

bhaeiou anugrahu mittiou morachaa amol padhaarath laadhiou
Again in this line, there is kindness of a favor that comes in from the Creator to allow this experience to open up for us. When this experience comes in, then all the erosion in the subconscious, all the junk in the mind gets completely erased, cleared away. We find this amazing Treasure and Blessing within us. This whole shabad is explaining what that treasure is that we find in this moment when awakening can happen.

balihaarai naanak lakh baeraa maerae thaakur agam agaadhiou
The last line is really lovely because there are a lot of words in Gurbani that have double meanings and usually when you translate them into English you have to pick one meaning over the other. Balihaarai on one level means to be a sacrifice but it also is an explanation of ‘Well Done!’ So this shabad starts off with the formula of the mind, the Guru and the Naam and then it talks about all these amazing experiences and gifts that come to us if we just, through the Guru, focus the mind on the Naam, on the Divine identity. So the last line on one hand says, ‘Hey well done, Congratulations that you have understood the formula, and you have applied it and you have gotten these experiences’. However, it also means that I am a sacrifice, so it has that double meaning. The rest of the line is just saying that Nanak, I am just so many, hundred thousand times, I am a sacrifice to that Master of the universe, that is beyond my ability to approach and beyond my ability to understand.

vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw, vwihgurU jI kI &qh!
Waheguru ji ka Khalsa ! Waheguru ji ki Fateh !!