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

Guru Nanak Dev Ji – Raag Aasaa – Ang  467

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The Hukamnama today is by Guru Nanak Dev Ji in Raag Aasaa on Ang 467 of Siri Guru Granth Sahib ji Maharaj.

slokmÚ1]
salok mehlaa 1.
slok mÚ 1 ]
Shalok, First Mehl:

piVpiVgfIldIAihpiVpiVBrIAihswQ]
parh parh gadee ladee-ah parh parh bharee-ah saath.
piV piV gfI ldIAih piV piV BrIAih swQ ]
You may read and read loads of books; you may read and study vast multitudes of books.

piVpiVbyVIpweIAYpiVpiVgfIAihKwq]
parh parh bayrhee paa-ee-ai parh parh gadee-ah khaat.
piV piV byVI pweIAY piV piV gfIAih Kwq ]
You may read and read boat-loads of books; you may read and read and fill pits with them.

pVIAihjyqybrsbrspVIAihjyqymws]
parhee-ah jaytay baras baras parhee-ah jaytay maas.
pVIAih jyqy brs brs pVIAih jyqy mws ]
You may read them year after year; you may read them as many months are there are.

pVIAYjyqIAwrjwpVIAihjyqysws]
parhee-ai jaytee aarjaa parhee-ah jaytay saas.
pVIAY jyqI Awrjw pVIAih jyqy sws ]
You may read them all your life; you may read them with every breath.

nwnklyKYiekglhoruhaumYJKxwJwK]1]
naanak laykhai ik gal hor ha-umai jhakh-naa jhaakh. ||1||
nwnk lyKY iek gl horu haumY JKxw JwK ]1]
O Nanak, only one thing is of any account: everything else is useless babbling and idle talk in ego. ||1||

mÚ1]
mehlaa 1.
mÚ 1 ]
First Mehl:

iliKiliKpiVAw]
likh likh parhi-aa.
iliK iliK piVAw ]
The more one write and reads,

qyqwkiVAw]
taytaa karhi-aa.
qyqw kiVAw ]
the more one burns.

bhuqIrQBivAw]
baho tirath bhavi-aa.
bhu qIrQ BivAw ]
The more one wanders at sacred shrines of pilgrimage,

qyqolivAw]
tayto lavi-aa.
qyqo livAw ]
the more one talks uselessly.

bhuByKkIAwdyhIduKudIAw]
baho bhaykh kee-aa dayhee dukh dee-aa.
bhu ByK kIAw dyhI duKu dIAw ]
The more one wears religious robes, the more pain he causes his body.

shuvyjIAwApxwkIAw]
saho vay jee-aa apnaa kee-aa.
shu vy jIAw Apxw kIAw ]
O my soul, you must endure the consequences of your own actions.

AMnunKwieAwswdugvwieAw]
ann na khaa-i-aa saad gavaa-i-aa.
AMnu n KwieAw swdu gvwieAw ]
One who does not eat products of grain, misses out on the taste.

bhuduKupwieAwdUjwBwieAw]
baho dukh paa-i-aa doojaa bhaa-i-aa.
bhu duKu pwieAw dUjw BwieAw ]
Love other than that of God causes great pain.

bsqRnpihrY]
bastarna pahirai.
bsqR n pihrY ]
One who does not wear any clothes,

AihiniskhrY]
ahinis kahrai.
Aihinis khrY ]
suffers night and day.

moinivgUqw]
mon vigootaa.
moin ivgUqw ]
Through silence, he is ruined.

ikaujwgYguribnusUqw]
ki-o jaagai gur bin sootaa.
ikau jwgY gur ibnu sUqw ]
How can the sleeping one be awakened without the Guru?

pgaupyqwxw]
pag upaytaanaa.
pg aupyqwxw ]
One who goes barefoot

ApxwkIAwkmwxw]
apnaa kee-aa kamaanaa.
Apxw kIAw kmwxw ]
suffers by his own actions.

AlumluKweIisirCweIpweI]
al mal khaa-ee sir chhaa-ee paa-ee.
Alu mlu KweI isir CweI pweI ]
One who eats filth and throws ashes on his head

mUriKAMDYpiqgvweI]
moorakh anDhai pat gavaa-ee.
mUriK AMDY piq gvweI ]
the blind fool loses his honor.

ivxunwvYikCuQwienpweI]
vin naavai kichh thaa-ay na paa-ee.
ivxu nwvY ikCu Qwie n pweI ]
Without the Name, nothing is of any use.

rhYbybwxImVImswxI]
rahai baybaanee marhee masaanee.
rhY bybwxI mVI mswxI ]
One who lives in the wilderness, in cemetaries and cremation grounds

AMDunjwxYiPirpCuqwxI]
anDh na jaanai fir pachhutaanee.
AMDu n jwxY iPir pCuqwxI ]
that blind man does not know the Lord; he regrets and repents in the end.

siqguruBytysosuKupwey]
satgur bhaytay so sukh paa-ay.
siqguru Byty so suKu pwey ]
One who meets the True Guru finds peace.

hirkwnwmumMinvswey]
har kaa naam man vasaa-ay.
hir kw nwmu mMin vswey ]
He enshrines the Name of the Lord in his mind.

nwnkndirkrysopwey]
naanak nadar karay so paa-ay.
nwnk ndir kry so pwey ]
O Nanak, when the Lord grants His Grace, He is obtained.

AwsAMdysyqyinhkyvluhaumYsbidjlwey]2]
aas andaysay tay nihkayval ha-umai sabad jalaa-ay. ||2||
Aws AMdysy qy inhkyvlu haumY sbid jlwey ]2]
He becomes free of hope and fear, and burns away his ego with the Shabad, the Guru’s Word. ||2||

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Pauree: (468 -2)

BgqqyrYminBwvdydirsohinkIriqgwvdy]
bhagat tayrai man bhaavday dar sohan keerat gaavday.
Bgq qyrY min Bwvdy dir sohin kIriq gwvdy ]
Your devotees are pleasing to Your Mind, Lord. They look beautiful at Your door, singing Your Praises.

nwnkkrmwbwhrydirFoAnlhn@IDwvdy]
naanak karmaa baahray dar dho-a na lehnHee Dhaavday.
nwnk krmw bwhry dir FoA n lhn@I Dwvdy ]
O Nanak, those who are denied Your Grace, find no shelter at Your Door; they continue wandering.

ieikmUlunbuJin@AwpxwAxhodwAwpugxwiedy]
ik mool na bujhniH aapnaa anhodaa aap ganaa-iday.
ieik mUlu n buJin@ Awpxw Axhodw Awpu gxwiedy ]
Some do not understand their origins, and without cause, they display their self-conceit.

hauFwFIkwnIcjwiqhoirauqmjwiqsdwiedy]
ha-o dhaadhee kaa neech jaat hor utam jaat sadaa-iday.
hau FwFI kw nIc jwiq hoir auqm jwiq sdwiedy ]
I am the Lord’s minstrel, of low social status; others call themselves high caste.

iqn@mMgwijquJYiDAwiedy]9]
tinH mangaa je tujhai Dhi-aa-iday. ||9||
iqn@ mMgw ij quJY iDAwiedy ]9]
I seek those who meditate on You. ||9||

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

Guru Nanak Dev ji is talking to us today through the beautiful bani Asaji Di Vaar. This particular Salok, it is said, was quoted by Guru Nanak Dev ji to Shekh Braham. When Shekh Brahamji asked Guru Nanak Dev ji whether liberation can be found through mere accumulation of knowledge. This Shabad was Guru Nanak Dev ji’s answer. Also the Salok which makes up the first part of this Shabad is said to have been spoken by Satguru Guru Nanak Dev ji when Guru Nanak Dev ji 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 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 Dev ji, Guru Nanak Dev ji 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 Dev ji says,

Parh parh gadee ladee-ah. Parh parh bharee-ah saath
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. 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 gadee-ah khaat
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! You may read so many books, Guru Nanak says, that you may have to gadee-ah, may have to dig pits and bury them in the khaat, in the ground.

Parhee-ah jaytay baras baras. Parhee-ah jaytay maas
You may read these books for baras baras, year after year. 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.Parhee-ah jaytay saas
You may read for all of your aarjaa, all of your life. You may read with every breath, with every saas. But Guru Nanak Dev ji 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, 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 Dev ji 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 Dev ji 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 Dev ji 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 Dev ji’s feet. Guru ji is saying that Only ik, the One will help you. Repeat the name of the One.Then Guru Nanak Dev ji says,

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 Dev ji 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. tayto lavi-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 Dev ji 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 Dev ji says,

Baho bhaykh kee-aa. dayhee dukh dee-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, what you will sow you have to reap. “Ann na khaa-i-aa saad gavaa-i-aa.

Ann na khaa-i-aa saad gavaa-i-aa
What Guru Nanak Dev ji 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(Japji Sahib). Guru Nanak Dev ji 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.ahinis kahrai
Guru Nanak Dev ji 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 Dev ji 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 Dev ji 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 their 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 Dev ji nails it on the head and says, How can that person jaagai; be awakened, who is gur bin sootaa; who is without the Guru. Without the Guru how can a sleeping person be awakened. The Guru is the one who can awaken them.

Pag upaytaanaa.Apnaa kee-aa kamaanaa
Guru Nanak Dev ji 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, moorakh anDhai pat gavaa-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 Dev ji 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 Dev ji is saying, By eating filth and putting ashes on your head you are not getting closer to Waheguru. Guru Nanak Dev ji then says,

vin naavai kichh thaa-ay na paa-ee. rahai baybaanee marhee masaanee.anDh na jaanai fir pachhutaanee.
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. Fir 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 Dev ji says,

satgur bhaytay so sukh paa-ay.
Satgur bhaytay those people who meet the True Guru, so sukh paa-ay, those people find eternal peace.

har kaa naam man vasaa-ay. naanak nadar karay so paa-ay
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 Dev ji 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 Dev ji 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 dar dho-a na lehnHee Dhaavday
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 anhodaa aap ganaa-iday.
Ik mool na bujhniH aapnaa, they do not understand their mool; their root that they came from, they do not understand that they came from 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 hor utam jaat sadaa-iday. tinH mangaa je tujhai Dhi-aa-iday.
Ha-o dhaadhee kaa neech jaat. Guru ji 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 Guru ji 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 Dev ji 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. Guru ji 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.

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