[salok] Bhagat Kabeer Jeeo Kae

[lowest of the low singhni]

vaheguru ji ka khalsa vaheguru ji ki fateh

ਕਬੀਰ ਦੀਨੁ ਗਵਾਇਆ ਦੁਨੀ ਸਿਉ ਦੁਨੀ ਨ ਚਾਲੀ ਸਾਥਿ ॥

kabeer deen gavaa-i-aa dunee si-o dunee na chaalee saath

Kabeer, the mortal loses his faith, for the sake of the world, but the world shall not go along with him in the end.

ਪਾਇ ਕੁਹਾੜਾ ਮਾਰਿਆ ਗਾਫਲਿ ਅਪੁਨੈ ਹਾਥਿ ॥੧੩॥

paa-ay kuhaarhaa maari-aa gaafal apunai haath

The <banned word filter activated> strikes his own foot with the axe by his own hand.

“deen” = faith, dharam

“gavaa-i-aa” = loses

“duni” = world

“chaali” = to come or go

“saath” = with

“paa-ay” = inflict – not sure if this is similar to “maari-aa” below

“kaharra” = axe

“maari-aa” = hit

“gaafal” = <banned word filter activated> or fool

“apunai” = his own

“haath” = hand

In this Salok Bhagat Kabeer Ji describes the situation many of us get into in this world. We don’t realise that we make life so difficult for ourselves. With Gurbani to guide us, life can be easy peasy. Maharaj has basically set down how we should live our lives, how to attain peace and how to fall in love with Him. But the choice is ours, and most of the time we end up axing ourselves in the foot – as Bhagat Ji describes here.

With minds as easily amused and distracted as ours, we become obsessed with the world around us – the wonderful illusion Maharaj has created to entrance us. As soon as things go wrong, we get depressed and lose hope and faith. If this happens continually we end up losing our trust in Maharaj and remain disillusioned.

Why do we lose our faith because of the things happening around us, when those things will pass away, die and leave us eventually? No matter how huge we think our battles are, essentially they will leave. Just keep Satguru Ji in mind, and remember that He is always loving us, nourishing us and taking care of everything.

If we do not take this opportunity that Maharaj has given us, we are wasting our lives in vain…and are basically hacking our jeevans apart. At the end of the day, no-one is going to accompany us to Dharamraj. By keeping this in mind, we can save ourselves from the pain of attachment which is *painful* lol.

Read Gurbani.

Axes:

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~l~

vaheguru ji ka khalsa vaheguru ji ki fateh