Remember All-Pervasive, All-Pervasive Nam1 with the Sage-Guru,
Naturally, the bliss remains day and night, my seed sprouts. Reflect.
Fortunately, met the Perfect-Guru whose limits cannot be measured,
grabbed the servant’s hand and pulled it out of the poisonous world-ocean. 1.
Guru’s teachings ended birth and death. The door of suffering no more!
Nanak bows again and again and enters the Divine sanctuary. 2.
1 Divine Identification
We are finite; our understanding is finite. Our understanding was different yesterday and may evolve tomorrow as we deepen our relationship with the Sabad. In this trans-creation, we have chosen to keep the repeating words in the Sabad same. We aspire to learn and retain the Divine attribute used in the original Sabad and avoid terms like God or Lord.
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Suggest a correction →The first fifteen saloks by Sheikh Farid Ji convey that the span of every being’s life is predetermined and finite. The being has come into this world to engage in devotion of IkOankar (the Divine) and to live a life of humility and non-attachment.
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