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The Guru continued his journey to the north. He wore leather on his feet and on his head, twisted a rope round his bo…
Brahm Das was then the most eminent of the Kashmiri pandits. On hearing of the Guru’s arrival, he went to pay him a f…
There is but one road, one door; the Guru is the ladder to reach one’s home. Beautiful is God; Nanak, all happiness i…
Pauri
God Himself created and recognized His creation. He separated the earth from the sky and spread a canopy over it. He …
After a pause the Guru again burst forth in God’s praises:—
Thou, God, who didst diffuse truth, art the truest of the true. Thou sittest in an attitude of contemplation conceale…
Brahm Das then recognizing the Guru’s piety and genius fell at his feet, and asked him what existed before creation? …
No incantations or spells, no hypocrisy, nor did any one play on the flute. There were no acts attaching to the soul,…
Then were no Veds or Muhammadan books, 1 no Simritis, no Shastars ;
No reading of the Purans, no sunrise, no sunset.
The Imperceptible God was Himself the speaker and preacher ; Himself unseen He saw everything.
When He pleased He created the world ;
Without supports He sustained the sky.
He created Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiv, and extended the love of mammon.
He communicated the Guru s words to some few persons.
He issued His order and watched over all.
He began with the continents, the universe, and the nether regions, and brought forth what had been hidden. His limit…
From the True Guru I have learned,
Nanak, that they who are imbued with the truth are wonderful, and delight in singing God s praises.
Upon this Brahm Das again fell at the Guru s feet, cast away the idol from his neck, and, becoming a worshipper of Go…
At one of their meetings the Guru told him to take a guru. He inquired, What guru shall I take ? The Guru bade him go…
1 They are described as the Psalms of David, the Old Testa ment, the New Testament, and the Quran. patched him on the…
Indar wept after his thousandfold punishment; Paras Ram wept on his return home; King Ajai wept after eating what he …
No other act is of any avail. The Guru, leaving Srinagar, penetrated the Himalaya mountains, and scaled numerous loft…
The Kal age is a knife, kings are butchers ; justice hath taken wings and fled. In this completely dark night of fals…
On this the Sidhs requested the Guru to join them in praising God. Having done so he put his subse quent conversation…
The Sidhs holding an assembly sat in religious attitude hail to the assembly of the saints !
I offer my prayer to Him who is the true and Infinite One. I will cut off my head and lay it before Him ; I will plac…
Speak the truth ; this is what we urge ; we are a sacrifice to saintly men.
Where is thy seat ; where dwellest thou, O youth ?
Whence hast thou come, and whither goest thou ?
Hear, O Nanak, said the Sidhs, What are thy tenets ?
1 Majh ki War. Nanak—’I dwell in God who hath His seat in every heart; I act according to the will of the True Guru.
I came in the course of nature, and according to God’s order shall I depart. Nanak is ever subject to His will.
To be fixed in God is my prayerful attitude; such know ledge have I obtained from the Guru.
’If one understand the Guru s instruction and know him self, then he being true shall be absorbed in the True One.’
A Sidh called Charpat asked:—
The world is an ocean, and is said to be difficult to cross; how shall man traverse it ?
Saith Chaipat, O Audhut Nanak, give a true reply.
Nanak—’Thou sayest so; thou thyself understandest; What answer can I give thee?
I speak truly; thou hast reached the distant shore; how can I argue with thee?
’As a lotus in the water remaineth dry, as also a water fowl in the stream,
’So by meditating on the Word and repeating God s name, shalt thou be unaffected by the world.’
Nanak is a slave to those who remain apart from the world, in whose hearts the one God abideth, who live without desi…
And who see and show to others the inaccessible and incomprehensible God.
The Sidhs then said ’All hail!’ The Guru replied, ’All hail to the Primal Being!’
Several Sikhs suppose that Guru Nanak composed the Sidh Gosht on that occasion when he found leisure and retirement f…