Gurbani is the answer to everything

[Guest SikhForLife]

good stuff here.. make it a sticky!

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I second that :wub:

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Hypocrites

This Shabad is by Guru Nanak Dev Ji in Raag Maaroo on Pannaa 990

Maaroo, First Mehl:

In the pure, immaculate waters, both the lotus and the slimy scum are found.

The lotus flower is with the scum and the water, but it remains untouched by any pollution. ||1||

You frog, you will never understand.

You eat the dirt, while you dwell in the immaculate waters. You know nothing of the ambrosial nectar there. ||1||Pause||

You dwell continually in the water; the bumble bee does not dwell there, but it is intoxicated with its fragrance from afar.

Intuitively sensing the moon in the distance, the lotus bows its head. ||2||

The realms of nectar are irrigated with milk and honey; you think you are clever to live in the water.

You can never escape your own inner tendencies, like the love of the flea for blood. ||3||

The fool may live with the Pandit, the religious scholar, and listen to the Vedas and the Shaastras.

You can never escape your own inner tendencies, like the crooked tail of the dog. ||4||

Some are hypocrites; they do not merge with the Naam, the Name of the Lord. Some are absorbed in the Feet of the Lord, Har, Har.

The mortals obtain what they are predestined to receive; O Nanak, with your tongue, chant the Naam. ||5||4||

Everything is fake

This Shabad is by Guru Arjan Dev Ji in Raag Raamkalee on Pannaa 889

Raamkalee, Fifth M

ehl:

Your home, power and wealth will be of no use to you.

Your corrupt worldly entanglements will be of no use to you.

Know that all your dear friends are fake.

Only the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, will go along with you. ||1||

Sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord's Name, O friend; remembering the Lord in meditation, your honor shall be saved.

Remembering the Lord in meditation, the Messenger of Death will not touch you. ||1||Pause||

Without the Lord, all pursuits are useless.

Gold, silver and wealth are just dust.

Chanting the Word of the Guru's Shabad, your mind shall be at peace.

Here and hereafter, your face shall be radiant and bright. ||2||

Even the greatest of the great worked and worked until they were exhausted.

None of them ever accomplished the tasks of Maya.

Any humble being who chants the Name of the Lord, Har, Har,

will have all his hopes fulfilled. ||3||

The Naam, the Name of the Lord, is the anchor and support of the Lord's devotees.

The Saints are victorious in this priceless human life.

Whatever the Lord's Saint does, is approved and accepted.

Slave Nanak is a sacrifice to him. ||4||11||22||

This Shabad is by Guru Nanak Dev Ji in Siree Raag on Pannaa 15

Siree Raag, First Mehl:

The Great Giver has given the intoxicating drug of falsehood.

The people are intoxicated; they have forgotten death, and they have fun for a few days.

Those who do not use intoxicants are true; they dwell in the Court of the Lord. ||1||

O Nanak, know the True Lord as True.

Serving Him, peace is obtained; you shall go to His Court with honor. ||1||Pause||

The Wine of Truth is not fermented from molasses. The True Name is contained within it.

I am a sacrifice to those who hear and chant the True Name.

Only one who obtains a room

in the Mansion of the Lord's Presence is deemed to be truly intoxicated. ||2||

Bathe in the waters of Goodness and apply the scented oil of Truth to your body,

and your face shall become radiant. This is the gift of 100,000 gifts.

Tell your troubles to the One who is the Source of all comfort. ||3||

How can you forget the One who created your soul, and the praanaa, the breath of life?

Without Him, all that we wear and eat is impure.

Everything else is false. Whatever pleases Your Will is acceptable. ||4||5||

This Shabad is by Guru Arjan Dev Ji in Raag Gauree on Pannaa 268

False are body, wealth, and all relations.

False are ego, possessiveness and Maya.

False are power, youth, wealth and property.

False are se*ual desire and wild anger.

False are chariots, elephants, horses and expensive clothes.

False is the love of gathering wealth, and reveling in the sight of it.

False are deception, emotional attachment and egotistical pride.

False are pride and self-conceit.

Only devotional worship is permanent, and the Sanctuary of the Holy.

Nanak lives by meditating, meditating on the Lotus Feet of the Lord. ||4||

Eat Sleep and Talk Little

This Shabad is by Guru Arjan Dev Ji in Raag Gauree on Pannaa 320

Shalok, Fifth Mehl:

O Nanak, approved is the birth of those, within whose consciousness the Lord abides.

Useless talk and babbling is useless, my friend. ||1||

This Shabad is by Guru Nanak Dev Ji in Raag Raamkalee on Pannaa 938

"Away from stores and highways, we live in the woods, among plants and trees.

For food, we take fruits and roots. This is the spiritual wisdom spoken by the renunciates.

We bathe at sacred shrines of pilgrimage, and obtain the fruits of peace; not even an iota of filth sticks to us.

Luhaareepaa, the disciple of Gorakh says, this i

s the Way of Yoga.""||7||

In the stores and on the road, do not sleep; do not let your consciousness covet anyone else's home.

Without the Name, the mind has no firm support; O Nanak, this hunger never departs.

The Guru has revealed the stores and the city within the home of my own heart, where I intuitively carry on the true trade.

Sleep little, and eat little; O Nanak, this is the essence of wisdom. ||8||

This Shabad is by Guru Nanak Dev Ji in Raag Prabhaatee on Pannaa 1331

Prabhaatee, First Mehl:

Eating too much, one's filth only increases; wearing fancy clothes, one's home is disgraced.

Talking too much, one only starts arguments. Without the Name, everything is poison - know this well. ||1||

O Baba, such is the treacherous trap which has caught my mind;

riding out the waves of the storm, it will be enlightened by intuitive wisdom. ||1||Pause||

They eat poison, speak poison and do poisonous deeds.

Bound and gagged at Death's door, they are punished; they can be saved only through the True Name. ||2||

As they come, they go. Their actions are recorded, and go along with them.

The self-willed manmukh loses his capital, and is punished in the Court of the Lord. ||3||

The world is false and polluted; only the True One is Pure. Contemplate Him through the Word of the Guru's Shabad.

Those who have God's spiritual wisdom within, are known to be very rare. ||4||

They endure the unendurable, and the Nectar of the Lord, the Embodiment of Bliss, trickles into them continuously.

O Nanak, the fish is in love with the water; if it pleases You, Lord, please enshrine such love within me. ||5||13||

[Jaspaul Singh]

Great post veerji!!! :wub:

This section has soo many great inspirational posts, i suggest we make all of the posts 'stickies' ... :e:

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Unexpected things happen in life

This Shabad is by Bhagat Sheikh Fareed Ji in Salok Fareed Jee on Pannaa 1383

Fareed, the crane perches on the river bank, playing joyfully.

While it is playing, a hawk suddenly pounces on it.

When the Hawk of God attacks, playful sport is forgotten.

God does what is not expected or even considered. ||99||

This Shabad is by Guru Tegh Bahaadur Ji in Salok Mehl 9 on Pannaa 1429

People become anxious, when something unexpected happens.

This is the way of the world, O Nanak; nothing is stable or permanent. ||51||

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Who is insane?

This Shabad is by Bhagat Ravi Daas Ji in Raag Sorath on Pannaa 658

I obtained this precious human life as a reward for my past actions, but without discriminating wisdom, it is wasted in vain.

Tell me, without devotional worship of the Lord, of what use are mansions and thrones like those of King Indra? ||1||

You have not considered the sublime essence of the Name of the Lord, our King;

this sublime essence shall cause you to forget all other essences. ||1||Pause||

We do not know what we need to know, and we have become insane. We do not consider what we should consider; our days are passing away.

Our passions are strong, and our discriminating intellect is weak; we have no access to the supreme objective. ||2||

We say one thing, and do something else; entangled in endless Maya, we do not understand anything.

Says Ravi Daas, Your slave, O Lord, I am disillusioned and detached; please, spare me Your anger, and have mercy on my soul. ||3||3||

This Shabad is by Bhagat Kabeer Ji in Raag Bilaaval on Pannaa 855

Bilaaval:

I do not read books of knowledge, and I do not understand the debates.

I have gone insane, chanting and hearing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||1||

O my father, I have gone insane; the whole world is sane, and I am insane.

I am spoiled; let no one else be spoiled like me. ||1||Pause||

I have not made myself go insane - the L

ord made me go insane.

The True Guru has burnt away my doubt. ||2||

I am spoiled; I have lost my intellect.

Let no one go astray in doubt like me. ||3||

He alone is insane, who does not understand himself.

When he understands himself, then he knows the One Lord. ||4||

One who is not intoxicated with the Lord now, shall never be intoxicated.

Says Kabeer, I am imbued with the Lord's Love. ||5||2||

This Shabad is by Guru Nanak Dev Ji in Raag Maaroo on Pannaa 991

Maaroo, First Mehl:

Some call him a ghost; some say that he is a demon.

Some call him a mere mortal; O, poor Nanak! ||1||

Crazy Nanak has gone insane, after his Lord, the King.

I know of none other than the Lord. ||1||Pause||

He alone is known to be insane, when he goes insane with the Fear of God.

He recognizes none other than the One Lord and Master. ||2||

He alone is known to be insane, if he works for the One Lord.

Recognizing the Hukam, the Command of his Lord and Master, what other cleverness is there? ||3||

He alone is known to be insane, when he falls in love with his Lord and Master.

He sees himself as bad, and all the rest of the world as good. ||4||7||

KILL IT !!!

This Shabad is by Guru Arjan Dev Ji in Raag Gauree on Pannaa 237

Gauree, Fifth Mehl:

One who kills this is a spiritual hero.

One who kills this is perfect.

One who kills this obtains glorious greatness.

One who kills this is freed of suffering. ||1||

How rare is such a person, who kills and casts off duality.

Killing it, he attains Raja Yoga, the Yoga of meditation and success. ||1||Pause||

One who kills this has no fear.

One who kills this is absorbed in the Naam.

>One who kills this has his desires quenched.

One who kills this is approved in the Court of the Lord. ||2||

One who kills this is wealthy and prosperous.

One who kills this is honorable.

One who kills this is truly a celibate.

One who kills this attains salvation. ||3||

One who kills this - his coming is auspicious.

One who kills this is steady and wealthy.

One who kills this is very fortunate.

One who kills this remains awake and aware, night and day. ||4||

One who kills this is Jivan Mukta, liberated while yet alive.

One who kills this lives a pure lifestyle.

One who kills this is spiritually wise.

One who kills this meditates intuitively. ||5||

Without killing this, one is not acceptable, even though one may perform millions of rituals, chants and austerities.

Without killing this, one does not escape the cycle of reincarnation.

Without killing this, one does not escape death. ||6||

Without killing this, one does not obtain spiritual wisdom.

Without killing this, one's impurity is not washed off.

Without killing this, everything is filthy.

Without killing this, everything is a losing game. ||7||

When the Lord, the Treasure of Mercy, bestows His Mercy,

one obtains release, and attains total perfection.

One whose duality has been killed by the Guru,

says Nanak, contemplates God. ||8||5||

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Hatred

This Shabad is by Guru Arjan Dev Ji in Raag Gauree on Pannaa 259

Pauree:

WAWWA: Do not harbor hatred against anyone.

In each and every heart, God is contained.

The All-pervading Lord is permeating and pervading the oceans and the land.

How rare are those who, by Guru's Grace, sing of Him.

Hatred and alienation depart from those

who, as Gurmukh, listen to the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises.

O Nanak, one who becomes Gurmukh chants the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, and rises above all social classes and status symbols. ||46||

This Shabad is by Guru Amar Daas Ji in Raag Basant on Pannaa 1176

Basant, Third Mehl, Ik-Tukas:

I am just a worm, created by You, O Lord.

If you bless me, then I chant Your Primal Mantra. ||1||

I chant and reflect on His Glorious Virtues, O my mother.

Meditating on the Lord, I fall at the Lord's Feet. ||1||Pause||

By Guru's Grace, I am addicted to the favor of the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

Why waste your life in hatred, vengeance and conflict? ||2||

When the Guru granted His Grace, my egotism was eradicated,

and then, I obtained the Lord's Name with intuitive ease. ||3||

The most lofty and exalted occupation is to contemplate the Word of the Shabad.

Nanak chants the True Name. ||4||1||13||

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What kind of life should you lead

This Shabad is by Guru Arjan Dev Ji in Raag Raamkalee on Pannaa 883

Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

Place yourself beneath all men's feet, and you will be uplifted; serve Him in this way.

Know that all are above you, and you shall find peace in the Court of the Lord. ||1||

O Saints, speak that speech which purifies the gods and sanctifies the divine beings. As Gurmukh, chant the Word of His Bani, even for an instant. ||1||Pause||

Renounce your fraudulent plans, and dwell in the celestial palace; do not call anyone else false.

Meeting with the True Guru, you shall receive the nine treasures; in this way, you shall find the essence of reality. ||2||

Eradicate doubt, and as Gurmukh, enshrine love for the Lord; understand your own soul, O Siblings of Destiny.

Know that God is near at hand, and ever-present. How could you try to hurt anyone else? ||3||

Meeting with the True Guru, your path shall be clear, and you shall easily meet your Lord and Master.

Blessed, blessed are those humble beings, who, in this Dark Age of Kali Yuga, find the Lord. Nanak is forever a sacrifice to them. ||4||2||

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This is how we spend our lives

This Shabad is by Guru Arjan Dev Ji in Raag Gauree on Pannaa 267

The Lord, our Help and Support, is always with us, but the mortal does not remember Him.

He shows love to his enemies.

He lives in a castle of sand.

He enjoys the games of pleasure and the tastes of Maya.

He believes them to be permanent - this is the belief of his mind.

Death does not even come to mind for the fool.

Hate, conflict, se*ual desire, anger, emotional attachment,

falsehood, corruption, immense greed and deceit:

So many lifetimes are wasted in these ways.

Nanak: uplift them, and redeem them, O Lord - show Your Mercy! ||7||

The true food and drink

This Shabad is by Bhai Mardana in Raag Bihaagraa on Pannaa 553

Shalok, Mardaanaa:

The Dark Age of Kali Yuga is the vessel, filled with the wine of desire; the mind is the drunkard.

Anger is the cup, filled with emotional attachment, and egotism is the server.

Drinking too much in the company of falsehood and greed, one is ruined.

So let good deeds be your distillery, and Truth your molasses; in this way, make the most excellent wine of Truth.

Make virtue your bread, good conduct the ghee, and modesty the meat to eat.

As Gurmukh, these are obtained, O Nanak; partaking of them, one's sins depart. ||1||

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Stubborn mindedness

This Shabad is by Guru Amar Daas Ji in Siree Raag on Pannaa 65

Siree Raag, Third Mehl:

Those who go around acting in egotism are struck down by the Messenger of Death with his club.

Those who serve the True Guru are uplifted and saved, in love with the Lord. ||1||

O mind, become Gurmukh, and meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

Those who are so pre-destined by the Creator are absorbed into the Naam, through the Guru's Teachings. ||1||Pause||

Without the True Guru, faith does not come, and love for the Naam is not embraced.

Even in dreams, they find no peace; they sleep immersed in pain. ||2||

Even if you chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, with great longing, your past actions are still not erased.

The Lord's devotees surrender to His Will; those devotees are accepted at His Door. ||3||

The Guru has lovingly implanted the Word of His Shabad within me. Without His Grace, it cannot be attained.

Even if the poisonous plant is watered with ambrosial nectar a hundred times, it will still bear poisonous fruit. ||4||

Those humble beings who are in love with the True Guru are pure and true.

They act in harmony with the Will of the True Guru; they shed the poison of ego and corruption. ||5||

Acting in stubborn-mindedness, no one is saved; go and study the Simritees and the Shaastras.

Joining the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, and practicing the Shabads of

the Guru, you shall be saved. ||6||

The Name of the Lord is the Treasure, which has no end or limitation.

The Gurmukhs are beauteous; the Creator has blessed them with His Mercy. ||7||

O Nanak, the One Lord alone is the Giver; there is no other at all.

By Guru's Grace, He is obtained. By His Mercy, He is found. ||8||2||19||

This Shabad is by Guru Arjan Dev Ji in Raag Gauree on Pannaa 251

Shalok:

By all sorts of religious robes, knowledge, meditation and stubborn-mindedness, no one has ever met God.

Says Nanak, those upon whom God showers His Mercy, are devotees of spiritual wisdom. ||1||

This Shabad is by Guru Nanak Dev Ji in Raag Aasaa on Pannaa 356

Aasaa, First Mehl:

He Himself does everything, the True, Invisible, Infinite Lord.

I am a sinner, You are the Forgiver. ||1||

By Your Will, everything come to pass.

One who acts in stubborn-mindedness is ruined in the end. ||1||Pause||

The intellect of the self-willed manmukh is engrossed in falsehood.

Without the meditative remembrance of the Lord, it suffers in sin. ||2||

Renounce evil-mindedness, and you shall reap the rewards.

Whoever is born, comes through the Unknowable and Mysterious Lord. ||3||

Such is my Friend and Companion;

meeting with the Guru, the Lord, devotion was implanted within me. ||4||

In all other transactions, one suffers loss.

The Name of the Lord is pleasing to Nanak's mind. ||5||24||

This Shabad is by Guru Nanak Dev Ji in Raag Aasaa on Pannaa 469

Pauree:

If an educated person is a sinner, then the illiterate holy man is not to be punished.

As are the deeds done, so is the reputation one acquires.

So do not play such a game, which will bring you to ruin at th

e Court of the Lord.

The accounts of the educated and the illiterate shall be judged in the world hereafter.

One who stubbornly follows his own mind shall suffer in the world hereafter. ||12||

This Shabad is by Guru Arjan Dev Ji in Raag Gujri on Pannaa 496

Goojaree, Fifth Mehl:

He decides to go to the west, but the Lord leads him away to the east.

In an instant, He establishes and disestablishes; He holds all matters in His hands. ||1||

Cleverness is of no use at all.

Whatever my Lord and Master deems to be right - that alone comes to pass. ||1||Pause||

In his desire to acquire land and accumulate wealth, one's breath escapes him.

He must leave all his armies, assistants and servants; rising up, he departs to the City of Death. ||2||

Believing himself to be unique, he clings to his stubborn mind, and shows himself off.

That food, which the blameless people have condemned and discarded, he eats again and again. ||3||

One, unto whom the Lord shows His natural mercy, has the noose of Death cut away from him.

Says Nanak, one who meets the Perfect Guru, is celebrated as a householder as well as a renunciate. ||4||4||5||

This Shabad is by Guru Amar Daas Ji in Raag Vadhans on Pannaa 593

Shalok, Third Mehl:

No one has ever found the Lord through stubborn-mindedness. All have grown weary of performing such actions.

Through their stubborn-mindedness, and by wearing their disguises, they are deluded; they suffer in pain from the love of duality.

Riches and the supernatural spiritual powers of the Siddhas are all emotional attachments; through them, the Naam, the Name of the Lord, does not come to dwell in the mind.

Serving the Guru, the mind becomes immaculately pure, and the darkness of spiritual ignorance is dispelled.

The jewel of the Naam is revealed in the home of on

e's own being; O Nanak, one merges in celestial bliss. ||1||

This Shabad is by Guru Amar Daas Ji in Raag Sorath on Pannaa 644

Third Mehl:

The mind of the self-willed manmukh is so very stubborn; it is stuck in the love of duality.

He does not find peace, even in dreams; he passes his life in misery and suffering.

The Pandits have grown weary of going door to door, reading and reciting their scriptures; the Siddhas have gone into their trances of Samaadhi.

This mind cannot be controlled; they are tired of performing religious rituals.

The impersonators have grown weary of wearing false costumes, and bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines.

They do not know the state of their own minds; they are deluded by doubt and egotism.

By Guru's Grace, the Fear of God is obtained; by great good fortune, the Lord comes to abide in the mind.

When the Fear of God comes, the mind is restrained, and through the Word of the Shabad, the ego is burnt away.

Those who are imbued with Truth are immaculate; their light merges in the Light.

Meeting the True Guru, one obtains the Name; O Nanak, he is absorbed in peace. ||2||

This Shabad is by Guru Arjan Dev Ji in Raag Soohee on Pannaa 738

Soohee, Fifth Mehl, Third House:

One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

His service is insignificant, but his demands are very great.

He does not obtain the Mansion of the Lord's Presence, but he says that he has arrived there||1||

He competes with those who have been accepted by the Beloved Lord.

This is how stubborn the false fool is! ||1||Pause||

He wears religious robes, but he does not practice Truth.

He says that he has found the Mansion of the Lord's Presence, but he cannot even get near it. ||2||

He says that he is unattached, but he is intoxicated with Maya.

There is no love in his mind, an

d yet he says that he is imbued with the Lord. ||3||

Says Nanak, hear my prayer, God:

I am silly, stubborn and filled with <admin-profanity filter activated> desire - please, liberate me! ||4||

I gaze upon the glorious greatness of the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan.

You are the Giver of Peace, the Loving Primal Being. ||1||Second Pause||1||7||

This Shabad is by Guru Arjan Dev Ji in Raag Kaanraa on Pannaa 1308

Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:

The debaters debate and argue their arguments.

The Yogis and meditators, religious and spiritual teachers roam and ramble, wandering endlessly all over the earth. ||1||Pause||

They are egotistical, self-centered and conceited, foolish, stupid, idiotic and insane.

Wherever they go and wander, death is always with them, forever and ever and ever and ever. ||1||

Give up your pride and stubborn self-conceit; death, yes, death, is always close and near at hand.

Vibrate and meditate on the Lord, Har, Haray, Haray. Says Nanak, listen you fool: without vibrating, and meditating, and dwelling on Him, your life is uselessly wasting away. ||2||5||50||12||62||

This Shabad is by Bhagat Kabeer Ji in Salok Kabeer Jee on Pannaa 1366

Kabeer, do not struggle in stubborn pride; nothing happens just because you say so.

No one can erase the actions of the Merciful Lord. ||32||