One Lord Supreme, Realized through Satguru's Grace. Read are the holy scriptures and contemplated are Vedas, Yogic practices of 'Neuli', cleaning of arteries and straightening of Serpentine coils of Kundalni' are performed. Yet the five foes of lust, anger, greed, attachment and self-pride give me no respite and I remain entangled in sway of my own self-conceit. 1. O' Dear! This is not how to Realise Beloved Lord, I am tired of performing many acts of piety. At last, I beseech at the Door-Divine, to bestow on me intellect of spiritual discernment. Pause. Observing silence, using hands for plates, I have roamed with bare body in wilderness. I have been on long pilgrimage to holy places and banks of holy rivers, yet sense of duality keeps lurking. 2. In pursuit of mind's desire. I resided at holy shrines and offered penance of being Sawn by placing saw over the head. Yet filth of mind is not washed away with such countless deeds. 3. Giving in charity gold, one's own wife, steeds and elephants, bestowing all kinds of donations, offering food clothing and even lot of lands, yet Lord's Abode is not realized. 4. Performing worship, offering essence, lying flat in obeisance and abiding by six scriptural duties with devotion, yet only self-conceit is fuelled, sinking deeper in worldliness. This is not how to Realize Divine Being. 5. Delving in yoga and practicing all eighty four difficult postures, I have become tired of long practice. This has led only to long life and repeated rebirths. But Lord has remained illusive. 6. Kingly life and its environment, issuing undeniable orders, enjoying lovely bed, fragrant with spray of essence is only door to dark hell. 7. Most propitious is singing Divine-Praise in Sadh Sangat, says Nanak, this is bestowed on those, who are Divinely predestined. 8. Your devotee, O' Lord, is lovingly engrossed in singing Your-Praise. Graced by Lord, Dispeller of all maladies, devotee's mind is always engaged in Divine-Praise. Second Pause. 1.3. Soratth M.5 Ashtpadian p.641-42 Giani Nahar Singh
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