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Publications: Japji Sahib: The Song of the Soul by Guru Nanak translated by Ek Ong Kaar Kaur Khalsa. Anand Sahib: The Song of Bliss by Guru Amar Das translated by Ek Ong Kaar Kaur Khalsa. Available through www.sikhdharma.org.

Monday, February 12, 2007

Anand Sahib: Paurees 36-40

You!
Eyes of mine!

The Creator placed
The Divine Light
Inside of you.

There is
Nothing else
For you to see
But Divinity.

There is nothing else
For you to see
But Divinity.

And when the
Divine One
Looks back at you

And you see
The Divine Essence
In all around you

Then you have truly
Seen something!

This poisonous world
That you behold

Is really simply
The Divine
In form.

It is just
The Divine in form.

Let yourself see it
This way.

Through the blessing
And gift
Of the Divine Teacher

You will
Understand this
In the depth of your being.

Then
All that you see
Will be
The Energy
Of the One.

There is nothing else
But Divinity.

Says Naanak,
These eyes were blind.

Yet by
Intermixing and intermingling
My being
With the
True Sound of Wisdom

They became bright
With Divine Sight. (36)


You!
Ears of mine!

You were sent here
To listen deeply
To the Ultimate Reality.

You were sent here
To listen deeply
To the Ultimate Reality.

Attached to the body

Listen.
Listen
With all of your being
To that frequency
And vibration
Which expresses
The Truth.

Those who deeply listen

Their minds and bodies
Become fresh and lush
Renewed,
Healed,
Every-growing,

And their tongues
Merge with
The Essential Taste.

The Ultimate Reality
Which is
Beyond mental comprehension

To experience it
Is so awesome.

For those who are
In this state

They can't even
Talk about it.

Says Naanak,
Deeply listen
And remember
The Deathless Identity
Inside you.

Then you will be
In your
Original Purity.

Deeply listening
To the Ultimate Reality
Is what you
Have been sent here
To do. (37)


Divine One,
After you placed
The being
In the cave
Of the body

The breath
Was played
Like a musical instrument.

And as the breath
Was played
Like a musical instrument

The nine doors
Of the body
(Eyes, ears,
Nose, mouth
And the lower functions)

Opened.

But the Tenth Door

The mystical crown
Where the heavens
And earthly reality
Meet

Was kept secret.
Concealed.

Those who
Attach themselves
With trust
To the Door
Of the Teacher

For some of them,
The Tenth Door
Shall be shown.

There, the Infinite Forms
Of the Divine Spirit
Reveal themselves

And you will see
The nine treasures
As forms of the One.

There is no end
To it.

The Divine
In all Its forms
Is Limitless.

Says Naanak,
Beloved Ones,
After the Creator
Placed
The being
In the cave
Of the body

The breath
Was played
Like a musical instrument. (38)


Sing this
Wisdom Song
Of the Ultimate Reality

In the family home
Where Such Truth lives.

Sing this
Wisdom Song
In the family home
Where Such Truth lives

And there
Meditate always
On the Formless One
In all the forms.

Those who you
Rely upon,
Divine One,
They meditate
On this Ultimate Reality.

By flowing
With the Sound of Wisdom
They understand it
In the depth of their being.

This Ultimate Reality
Is the Husband
Of all.

And for those
Who are extraordinarily blessed,

They obtain Him.

Says Naanak,
Sing this
Wisdom Song
Of the Ultimate Reality

In the family home
Where Such Truth lives. (39)


Listening Deeply
To this Wisdom Song

The consciousness
Of living every breath
In tune with
The reality of the Spirit

Has appeared.

We are so
Blessed and lucky!

All of our
Wishes, hopes
And intentions
Are fulfilled.

The Great Transcendent
Lord and Master
Has been received

And we cross over
All sorrows, agony,
And afflictions.

We cross over
Suffering
Sickness
And pain

By deeply listening
To the frequency and vibration
That opens us
To the experience
Of the Formless One
In all.

The realized souls
Have adorned themselves
In their finest.

Brothers and sisters
Celebrate.

Everything is
Fulfilled and completed
Through the knowledge
That the Teacher’s
Sound of Wisdom
Brings.

Those who
Deeply Listen
To this Sound
Become Pure.

Those who speak
From that consciousness
Become Pure.

Abiding with
The True Sound of Wisdom
Everything is
Perfected.

Naanak makes
One humble request.

Attach me
To the feet
Of the Teacher

And let that Teacher
Play me
As a musical instrument

Vibrating
The subtle, silent frequency
Of the Divine. (40)


All Love in the Divine,

Ek Ong Kaar Kaur

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Anand Sahib Translation: Paurees 31-35

Oh my business-minded mind,
Trade in the wealth
Of the Divine Essence.

Oh my business-minded mind
Trade in the wealth
Of the Divine Essence.

Through the True Sound of Wisdom
You will know
This wealth.

Let all beings
Continually meditate
And repeat
Har…Har…
The Essence of the Divine
In all.

You will earn
A profit
From doing this
Every day.

By the destiny given
By the Divine

This wealth
Comes to those
And intermixes
In their being.

Says Naanak,
Oh my business-minded mind,
Let it happen.
Trade in the wealth
Of the Divine Essence. (31)


Tongue!

No matter
What tastes
You sample

Your thirst
Is not going to go.

Your thirst
Is not going to go.

There is no other taste
Anywhere
That will satisfy you

So long as
You do not possess
The sweet taste
Of the Divine Essence
Inside you.

When you possess
That sweet taste
Of the Divine
Inside you

Drink it in.

Drink in the taste
Of your Inner Divinity.

After that,
No earthly desires
Will bind you
Again.

When the soul
Is ripe enough
For grace
To prevail

And the
True Sound of Wisdom
Intermixes
In your being

Then the sweet taste
Of the Divine
Comes.

Says Naanak,
All other tastes
Are completely
Forgotten

When the Divine
Comes
To live
In the mind. (32)

Body of mine!

The Creator put
The Divine Light
Inside you

And then you came
Into the world.

The Creator put
The Divine Light
Inside you

And then you came
Into the world.

That Divine Essence
Is Herself
The Mother

And Himself
The Father.

Through that Power
A being takes form
And the physical world
Becomes visible.

By the blessing
And gift
Of the Sound of Wisdom

You will understand this
In the depth of your being.

And then you
Will be able to go along
With the changes and turns of life -

Like a river
Flowing into
The ocean.

Going along
With the changes
And turns of life

You will come
To see
The Divine
In everything.

Says Naanak,
The foundation
Of the earth
Was fashioned

And the Divine Light
Placed inside it.

And then you
(Body of mine)
Came into
The world. (33)


When I heard
That my Beloved Lord and Master
Was on His way

My mind became filled
With a deep longing
To see Him.

Oh my dear girlfriends,
Sing happy happy songs
Of the Divine

Who has made
My home
A sacred place.

Sing
And keep singing
Joyous songs
Of the Divine
My sweet girl-friends.

Grief and pain
No longer
Have any power
Over me.

Attached
To the feet
Of the Teacher

Those days
Are blessed
With such good fortune

When my own
Beloved Husband
Appears to me.

Through the Shabad
The Sound Current
That cuts the ego

Given by
The Sound of Wisdom

I have come to know

The subtle
Silent
Language
Of the Divine.

How I enjoy
That Creative Lord
Who dwells
Within me
As my own Spirit.

How I enjoy
The sweet taste
Of that One.

Says Naanak,
My Lord and Master
Himself
Arranges the meeting.

He is the cause
And He – the effect –
Of that Yoga

That Union


Of the Beloved
With her One True Love. (34)

Body of mine!

After coming
Into the world

What are you doing?

What consequences
Are you creating
With your actions?

What are you doing?

What consequences
Are you creating
With your actions??

You, Body,
Who has come
Into the world?

The Divine Energy
Which created
And fashioned you

The Essence of that Divinity
Does not live
In your mind.

Through the blessing
And gift
Of the Sound of Wisdom

The Divine Essence
Comes to live
In the mind.

Then,
Your latent potential
Wakes up and
Becomes manifest

And what was written
For you
As your destiny

You receive.

Says Naanak,
This body
Becomes successful

For those
Whose awareness
Remains absorbed
With the True Sound of Wisdom. (35)

All Love in the Divine,

Ek Ong Kaar Kaur

Monday, February 05, 2007

Anand Sahib Translation: Paurees 26-30

After creating
The polarities
Of male and female

And through
the interaction
Of those energies,
Oh Love,

Your bring the Creation
Into a useful existence
Guided
By Your own command.

You bring the Creation
Into a useful existence
Guided
By Your own command

And You, Yourself,
Behold it.

Someone who flows
With the Sound of Wisdom

Comes to experience this
So deeply
They understand it
In the depth of their being.

To break out
Of the prison
That confines you

And become
Spiritually free

Let the Sound Current
That cuts the ego

Make Its home
In your mind.

This happens
For those who,
By Your Hand,
Divine One,
Flow
With the
Sound of Wisdom.

They are attuned
And attached
With devotion
To Thee.

Says Naanak,
You, Yourself,
Are the Hand
That creates
The Creation.

You, Yourself,
Cause us to understand
The Guiding Command
Behind it. (26)

There are so many
Books
Discussing
What is right
And what is wrong,

But they do not
Create realized people
Who know the Essence
Of the Game.

They do not
Create realized people
Who know the Essence
Of the Game.

Without the
Sound of Wisdom,
The Essence of the Game
Cannot be known.

Caught in the world
Of illusion and doubt,

Bound by the
Three qualities of
Earthiness, Fire
And Ether

They sleep.

And sleeping,
The night of their life
Passes away.

When the Teacher
Touches you
With kindness

Then you wake.

For those
Who have been awakened,
The Divine Essence
Makes Its home
In their minds.

And they speak
In the frequency
And vibration
Of remembering
Their own
Deathless Spirit.

Says Naanak,
This Essence
Comes to those who,
Day and night.
Are bound in love
Attuned to the Divine.

They wake up
And the darkness
Of their night
Passes away. (27)

Divine One,
You gave us
Your protection
When we were
In the womb
Of our mothers.

Oh my mind,
Why ever forget this?

Oh mind,
Why ever forget
Such a great Giver
Who brought us the food
To keep us alive
In the fire
Of the womb?

Nothing can touch
The one who,
Through her own
Spiritual Self-Identity
Stays attuned to Thee
Through love.

You, Yourself,
Are the Attunement.

You, Yourself,
Are the ties
That bind us to You.

The one who flows
With the Sound of Wisdom
Is always protected
And held
By Thee.

Says Naanak,
Oh mind,
Why ever forget
Such a great
Giver? (28)

As is
The fire
Inside the womb

So is the life
When we come out.

The fire
Of the Creative Play
Is one
And the same

And through it
The hand of the Creator
Fashions the games.

By Your own inclination,
Oh Love,
You come into form

And You love
Being in the midst
Of Your beautiful family.

But the devotional love
Of the soul slips away
And we become bound
By our own desires.

This happens
Under the pressures
Of the world around us.

And in this
Creative Play
We forget
The Essence of the Divine.

Infatuation arises.

And we focus on loving
Other people
Other things.

Says Naanak,
Those who are blessed
By the Sound of Wisdom

Become bound by love
Attuned to the Divine.

They live
With devotion

Even in the midst
Of the world. (29)


The Divine Essence
That lives inside of me
And inside
Everything around me

Is beyond price.

There is no power
Or wealth
That can purchase
The experience of it.

No person exists
Who has the power
Or wealth
To buy it.

Trying and failing
The world
Weeps in anguish-
Defeated.

In this state of defeat,
If you meet
The Teacher of Truth

Surrender your head
-Your intellect
-Your concept.

From within yourself
Let your ego
Go.

The One who
Owns you,
Dear,

Intermingle and
Abide
With that One.

The Divine Essence
Will come
And make Its home
In your mind.

The Divine Essence
That lives inside me
And inside
Everything around me

Is beyond price.

They are so very fortunate,
Naanak,
Who have come under
The protective Ownership
Of the Divine. (30)


All Love in the Divine,

Ek Ong Kaar Kaur