The anger which barketh is despised ; it is vain to worry
with worldly occupations.
To be silent, O Nanak, is good ; without the Name the mouth is defiled.[1]
The Shaikh asked the Guru to let him hear a strain in praise of the one God. My idea is , said the Shaikh, that adoration cannot be performed without two beings, that is, God and the Prophet; Let me see whom thou makest man s intercessor/ The Guru called upon Mardana to play the rebeck and recite the first slok and pauri[2] of the Asa ki War.
I am a sacrifice, Nanak, to my Guru a hundred times a day,
Who without any delay made demigods out of men. Nanak, they who, very clever in their own estimation, think not of the Guru,
Shall be left like spurious sesames in a reaped field They shall be left in the field, saith Nanak, without an owner. The wretches may even bear fruit and flower, but these shall be as ashes within their bodies. God Himself created the world and Himself gave names to things.
He made Maya by His power ; seated He beheld His work with delight. Creator, Thou art the Giver ; being pleased Thou bestowest and practisest kindness. Thou knowest all things ; Thou givest and takest life with a word.[3] Seated Thou beholdest Thy work with delight. [4]
- ↑ Malar ki War.
- ↑ A shlok in Sanskrit is a distich or couplet, but in modern Indian poetry it may extend to the length of an English sonnet. The word pauri is literally a ladder. In the Granth Sahib it means a stanza of five lines, and always follows a slok.
- ↑ Also translated Thou givest and takest life from the body.
- ↑ Asa ki War.
