Sri Gurú Granth Sahib Ji

The true name is the creator, the Spirit without fear, without enmity, having a timeless form, not produced from the womb.1 By the favour of the Guru ! JAPU.3 At the beginning is the True one, at the beginning of the Yug is the True one.3 The True one is, 0 Nanak! and the True one also will be. 1. By meditation (and) meditation it (i.e. the knowledge of the True one) is not effected, though I meditate a hundred thousand times. By silence (and) silence it is not effected, though I keep on a continual absorption of mind. The hunger of the hungry does not cease, though I bind together the load of (all) the worlds.4 There may be acquired a thousand, a hundred thousand dexterities, not one goes with (at the time of death). How does one become 5 a man of truth (knowing the True one), how is the embankment of falsehood broken ? He who walks6 in his (i.e. God's) order and pleasure, 0 Kanak! (and) with (whom) it is (thus) written. 1 *HijAl> free from the womb (the same as JJf^T^), fh§= ^PT^> birth, production. Other forms are : 2 The Japu is composed by Baba Nanak himself. The Sikh tradition runs thus : AIAqJ ifl' ^ afrrfZ f*Tlri Tft^ & Tpfe VcTET? 5 TTVrft tfdtf I \Tg\ ft- Guru Nanak had a conversation with the Siddhs (JogTs) on the mountain Sumeru ; there the discourse of the Japu-ji was made. The Japu-ji is composed in so-called lf©fft (ladder), verses of unequal length, within which the rhyme may vary. 3 Man! Singh comments on this : nftfe 7> 3"@ ^TT^ W5 *Wl tT@ -HJ|d JUfT 3"@ >J7TH : when there was as yet no beginning of the world, Brahm was true (existing) ; when the world was made, then also Brahm was true. 4 "Ulftoftj etc. There are said to be fourteen cities, seven celestial and seven sub-terrestrial ones = the whole universe. fcJAcSI = fcJ&cM > v.a. to bind together (into a bundle). 0 is a passive form, properly : it is become, not as the Sikhs now explain it : we become. 6 ^3WcM is a verbal adjective, walking.…