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Overcoming Death - Worshipping/Remembering The Guru
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Overcoming Death - Worshipping/Remembering The Guru
For a Devotee or Gurmukh, The
Guru is the world. Please note world is limited, the perception of
Gurmukh can be limited, but Guru is completeness. Guru
knows about every moment, every emotion and every entity of all living or
non-living beings which have ever existed, which are existing and which will
exist in future. Hence Guru is epitome of calmness. He
has seen everything; He knows everything that’s why He
remains unperturbed in pain and pleasure. Else how anyone could explain Paatshahi
10 being unmoved watching Two Young Sons being brutally killed
by Mughals?
It brings tear to those who have surrendered to His Door when they read
or hear or speak or write about ‘Battle of Chamkaur’ even after
centuries but One Who had seen with His eyes, is in Eternal Bliss, so
calm that pain failed to move Him. Hail to such Guru!
And that’s why Dhan Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji say in following words look upon
pain and pleasure like one through the Guru and death will not touch you:
ਨਾਨਕ ਦੁਖੁ ਸੁਖੁ ਸਮ ਕਰਿ ਜਾਪੈ ਸਤਿਗੁਰ ਤੇ ਕਾਲੁ ਨ ਗ੍ਰਾਸੈ ॥੬੧॥[1]
नानक दुखु सुखु सम करि जापै सतिगुर ते कालु न ग्रासै ॥६१॥
(O Nanak, when one looks upon pain
and pleasure alike, through the True Guru, then he is not consumed by Death.)
The world is delusion and an individual
who put his hopes in other surely disappointed. Not only is the world selfish
but also the creatures of this world are limited. So Dhan Shri Guru Arjan Dev Ji
asks every one to put hope on Guru, Who is all capable and
then even death will not touch an individual, in following words:
ਜਿਨਿ ਜਿਨਿ ਕੀਨੀ ਮੇਰੇ ਗੁਰ ਕੀ ਆਸਾ ॥ਤਿਸ ਕੀ ਕਟੀਐ ਜਮ ਕੀ ਫਾਸਾ ॥੭॥[2]
जिनि जिनि कीनी मेरे गुर की आसा ॥तिस की कटीऐ जम की फासा ॥७॥
(Whoever places his hopes in
my Guru;
Has the noose of death cut away.)
If world is delusion then it is bound to
have distractions. Distraction can be of any form, whether is it beauty or
knowledge or wealth or power. One thing is certain it requires a conscious
effort; consciousness has to be involved, to chase such entities. But what good
is such chase, what good is focusing consciousness on such things which will
not save from clutches of death. That’s why Dhan Shri Guru Amar Das Ji
and Dhan
Shri Guru Arjan Dev Ji are advising us to focus our consciousness and meditate
on The
Guru if we want to escape death in following words:
ਜਿਨ੍ਹ੍ਹਾ ਸਤਿਗੁਰ ਸਿਉ ਚਿਤੁ ਲਾਇਆ ਸੁ ਖਾਲੀ ਕੋਈ ਨਾਹਿ ॥ਤਿਨ ਜਮ ਕੀ ਤਲਬ ਨ ਹੋਵਈ ਨਾ ਓਇ ਦੁਖ ਸਹਾਹਿ ॥[3]जिन्हा सतिगुर सिउ चितु लाइआ सु खाली कोई नाहि ॥तिन जम की तलब न होवई ना ओइ दुख सहाहि ॥
(Those who center their
consciousness on the True Guru, never go empty-handed. They are not summoned by the Messenger of Death,
and they do not suffer in pain.)
ਸਤਿਗੁਰੁ ਜਿਨੀ ਧਿਆਇਆ ਤਿਨ ਜਮ ਡਰੁ ਨਾਹੀ ॥[4]
सतिगुरु जिनी धिआइआ तिन जम डरु नाही ॥
(Those who meditate on the True Guru are
not afraid of the Messenger of Death.)
ਗੁਰੁ ਸਿਮਰਤ ਜਮ ਸੰਗਿ ਨ ਫਾਸਹਿ ॥[5]
(Meditating in remembrance on the Guru,
one is not strangled by the noose of Death.)
Paatshahi 3
continues to ask every one to attach mind, consciousness, to Guru’s
Feet to overcome death in following words:
ਗੁਰ ਚਰਨੀ ਮਨੁ ਲਾਗਾ ॥ਤਾ ਜਮ ਕਾ ਮਾਰਗੁ ਭਾਗਾ ॥[6]गुर चरनी मनु लागा ॥ता जम का मारगु भागा ॥
(When the mind is attached to the Guru's Feet,
Then the Path of Death recedes.)
Once mind is focused on True
Guru it is quite obvious it will chant Guru’s Glory or Guru’s
Shabad or Guru’s Naam. And chanting Guru’s Name saves an individual from
death as said by Dhan Shri Guru Arjan Dev Ji in following words:
ਗੁਰੁ ਮੁਖਹੁ ਅਲਾਏ ਤਾ ਸੋਭਾ ਪਾਏ ਤਿਸੁ ਜਮ ਕੈ ਪੰਥਿ ਨ ਪਾਇਣਾ ॥੧੧॥[7]गुरु मुखहु अलाए ता सोभा पाए तिसु जम कै पंथि न पाइणा ॥११॥
(Chanting the Guru's Name with the mouth, one obtains glory, and does not have to walk on the Path of Death.)
Chant Guru’s Name; keep chanting till it becomes devotion; A Worship. And once the devotion of an individual becomes worship, Dhan Shri Guru Raam Das Ji bestows His Grace on that individual in following words:
(Chanting the Guru's Name with the mouth, one obtains glory, and does not have to walk on the Path of Death.)
Chant Guru’s Name; keep chanting till it becomes devotion; A Worship. And once the devotion of an individual becomes worship, Dhan Shri Guru Raam Das Ji bestows His Grace on that individual in following words:
ਸਤਿਗੁਰੂ ਕਾ ਖੜਗੁ ਸੰਜੋਉ ਹਰਿ ਭਗਤਿ ਹੈ ਜਿਤੁ ਕਾਲੁ ਕੰਟਕੁ ਮਾਰਿ ਵਿਡਾਰਿਆ ॥[8]
सतिगुरू का खड़गु संजोउ हरि भगति है जितु कालु कंटकु मारि विडारिआ ॥
(Devotional worship of the Lord is
the sword and armor of the True Guru; He has killed and cast out Death,
the torturer.)
TO BE CONTINUED!
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