I love GOD

English translation of
Guru Granth Sahib
by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa , taken from http://www.gurbanifiles.com/
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Raag Raamkalee - Part 028

903 : 1325
Chant the Praises of the Lord; Kali Yuga has come.

903 : 1326
The justice of the previous three ages is gone. One obtains virtue, only if the Lord bestows it. ||1||Pause||

903 : 1327
In this turbulent age of Kali Yuga, Muslim law decides the cases, and the blue-robed Qazi is the judge.

903 : 1328
The Guru's Bani has taken the place of Brahma's Veda, and the singing of the Lord's Praises are good deeds. ||5||

903 : 1329
Worship without faith; self-discipline without truthfulness; the ritual of the sacred thread without chastity - what good are these?

903 : 1330
You may bathe and wash, and apply a ritualistic tilak mark to your forehead, but without inner purity, there is no understanding. ||6||

903 : 1331
In Kali Yuga, the Koran and the Bible have become famous.

903 : 1332
The Pandit's scriptures and the Puraanas are not respected.

903 : 1333
O Nanak, the Lord's Name now is Rehmaan, the Merciful.

903 : 1334
Know that there is only One Creator of the creation. ||7||

903 : 1335
Nanak has obtained the glorious greatness of the Naam, the Name of the Lord. There is no action higher than this.

903 : 1336
If someone goes out to beg for what is already in his own home, then he should be chastised. ||8||1||

903 : 1337
Raamkalee, First Mehl:

903 : 1338
You preach to the world, and set up your house.

903 : 1339
Abandoning your Yogic postures, how will you find the True Lord?

903 : 1340
You are attached to possessiveness and the love of sexual pleasure.

903 : 1341
You are not a renunciate, nor a man of the world. ||1||

903 : 1342
Yogi, remain seated, and the pain of duality will run away from you.

903 : 1343
You beg from door to door, and you don't feel ashamed. ||1||Pause||

903 : 1344
You sing the songs, but you do not understand your own self.

903 : 1345
How will the burning pain within be relieved?

903 : 1346
Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, let your mind be absorbed in the Lord's Love,

903 : 1347
and you will intuitively experience the charity of contemplation. ||2||

903 : 1348
You apply ashes to your body, while acting in hypocrisy.

903 : 1349
Attached to Maya, you will be beaten by Death's heavy club.

903 : 1350
Your begging bowl is broken; it will not hold the charity of the Lord's Love.

903 : 1351
Bound in bondage, you come and go. ||3||


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903 : 1352
You do not control your seed and semen, and yet you claim to practice abstinence.

903 : 1353
You beg from Maya, lured by the three qualities.

903 : 1354
You have no compassion; the Lord's Light does not shine in you.

903 : 1355
You are drowned, drowned in worldly entanglements. ||4||

903 : 1356
You wear religious robes, and your patched coat assumes many disguises.

903 : 1357
You play all sorts of false tricks, like a juggler.

903 : 1358
The fire of anxiety burns brightly within you.

903 : 1359
Without the karma of good actions, how can you cross over? ||5||

903 : 1360
You make ear-rings of glass to wear in your ears.

903 : 1361
But liberation does not come from learning without understanding.

903 : 1362
You are lured by the tastes of the tongue and sex organs.

903 : 1363
You have become a beast; this sign cannot be erased. ||6||

903 : 1364
The people of the world are entangled in the three modes; the Yogis are entangled in the three modes.

903 : 1365
Contemplating the Word of the Shabad, sorrows are dispelled.

903 : 1366
Through the Shabad, one becomes radiant, pure and truthful.

903 : 1367
One who contemplates the true lifestyle is a Yogi. ||7||

903 : 1368
The nine treasures are with You, Lord; You are potent, the Cause of causes.

903 : 1369
You establish and disestablish; whatever You do, happens.

903 : 1370
One who practices celibacy, chastity, self-control, truth and pure consciousness

903 : 1371
- O Nanak, that Yogi is the friend of the three worlds. ||8||2||

903 : 1372
Raamkalee, First Mehl:

903 : 1373
Above the six chakras of the body dwells the detached mind.

903 : 1374
Awareness of the vibration of the Word of the Shabad has been awakened deep within.

903 : 1375
The unstruck melody of the sound current resonates and resounds within; my mind is attuned to it.

903 : 1376
Through the Guru's Teachings, my faith is confirmed in the True Name. ||1||

903 : 1377
O mortal, through devotion to the Lord, peace is obtained.

903 : 1378
The Lord, Har, Har, seems sweet to the Gurmukh, who merges in the Name of the Lord, Har, Har. ||1||Pause||

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