The Creator blendeth men with Himself, and they are not born again.
T.The terrible ocean[1] is deep, and none findeth its end.
We have no boat or raft; we are drowning; save us, O Saviour King.
TH.He who made all things is in every place.
What do men call doubt? What mammon? That which pleaseth God is good.
D.Impute not blame to any one, but rather to thine own karma.[2]
I have suffered the consequences of my acts; I may blame no one else.
DH.He who made things after their kinds holdeth the power in His own hands.
All receive what He giveth under His most bountiful order.
N.The Master ever enjoyeth pleasure; He cannot be seen or grasped.
I am called a married woman, my sister, but in reality I have never met my Husband.[3]
P.The King, the Supreme God, made the play of the world to behold it.
He seeth, understandeth, and knoweth everything; He is within and without His creation.
PH.The whole world is entangled with a noose and bound by Death's chain.
They who by the Guru's favour have run to God for protection, are saved.
- ↑ In Sikh writings this world is likened to a terrible and stormy ocean which can only be traversed with difficulty, and in which man is ever liable to founder without spiritual guidance. The Guru supplies a boat for salvation.
- ↑ Karma are acts which follow the soul in its transmigration and hinder its progress to Nirvān.
- ↑ The Gurus speak of God as a husband and themselves as His wives; and spiritual happiness they liken to connubial bliss. This belief has to some extent a parallel in Greek mythology. Psyche, the human soul, having forfeited the love of Eros, the divine soul, endured various sufferings to regain the affection of her lover.
