Ang 644: Dhan Guru Granth Sahib Ji Maharaj
ਸਲੋਕੁ ਮਃ ੩ ॥
ਸਤਿਗੁਰ ਕੀ ਸੇਵਾ ਸਫਲੁ ਹੈ ਜੇ ਕੋ ਕਰੇ ਚਿਤੁ ਲਾਇ॥
ਮਨਿ ਚਿੰਦਿਆ ਫਲੁ ਵਣਾ ਹਉਮੈ ਵਿਚਹੁ ਜਾਇ॥
ਬੰਧਨ ਤੋੜੈ ਮੁਕਤਿ ਹੋਇ ਸਚੇ ਰਹੈ ਸਮਾਇ॥
ਇਸੁ ਜਗ ਮਹਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਅਲਭੁ ਹੈ ਗੁਰਮੁਖਿ ਵਸੈ ਮਨਿ ਆਇ॥
ਨਾਨਕ ਜੋ ਗੁਰੁ ਸੇਵਹਿ ਆਪਣਾ ਹਉ ਤਿਨ ਬਲਿਹਾਰੈ ਜਾਉ॥੧॥
सलोकु मः ३ ॥
सतिगुर की सेवा सफलु है जे को करे चितु लाइ ॥
मनि चिंदिआ फलु पावणा हउमै विचहु जाइ ॥
बंधन तोड़ै मुकति होइ सचे रहै समाइ ॥
इसु जग महि नामु अलभु है गुरमुखि वसै मनि आइ ॥
नानक जो गुरु सेवहि आपणा हउ तिन बलिहारै जाउ ॥१॥
Summary
Dhan Guru Amardas Ji blesses us with His own experience of serving Dhan Guru Angad Dev Ji. He has inspired generations in fact Bhai Jetha Ji followed His path of serving ‘True Guru’ and by His blessing achieved Guru Nanak Dev Ji’s throne. But what it means by ‘Serving True Guru’? Carrying the water for years, serving in Langar are few actions classifying as services to ‘The Guru’. Well, yes it is but the greatest act of service is ‘Keeping the Naam, The Best Gift from Guru’ in mind and then engage in service of ‘True Guru’. No other service is as great as that.
And Dhan Guru Amardas Ji did not forget ‘The Naam’ for even a single moment while serving Dhan Guru Angad Dev Ji. Guruji showed to everyone while serving that there is nothing other ‘The Naam’ which can keep someone so focus, that’s why everything else is considered transient in Gurbaani and ‘The Naam’ is glorified.
Such focus will keep every individual humble. What the humbleness will do? It will dispel the ego and all the desires will be fulfilled. But again, what desire Dhan Guru Amardas Ji had? Well, the only desire He had to keep serving His Guru with all focus on Dhan Guru Angad Dev Ji’s feet and ‘The Naam’ He has been bestowing on everyone. Such service is fruitful that’s why Dhan Guru Angad Dev Ji stayed in heart and mind of Dhan Guru Amardas Ji and vice versa.
Once mind is infused by ‘True Guru, His Feet and His Greatest Gift Naam’, what is left inside an individual? Well only virtues and WHO is bestower of virtues, The True Lord Himself. Where HE comes to reside what happens to evil, the evil leaves the individual and all the bonds are shattered, simply because all the bonds are branches of ‘Me – The Ego’. If ‘I’ do not exist how an individual can be bogged by anything. Such individual just remains absorbed in the True Lord. He realizes following:
ਹਮ ਛੂਟੇ ਅਬ ਉਨ੍ਹ੍ਹਾ ਤੇ ਓਇ ਹਮ ਤੇ ਛੂਟੇ ॥੧॥[1]
हम छूटे अब उन्हा ते ओइ हम ते छूटे ॥१॥
(I have now escaped from them, and they have run away from me.)
Guruji further says that it is so difficult to obtain the Naam in this world. Only few obtain it.
ਜਨ ਨਾਨਕ ਕੋਟਨ ਮੈ ਕੋਊ ਭਜਨੁ ਰਾਮ ਕੋ ਪਾਵੈ ॥੨॥੩॥[2]
जन नानक कोटन मै कोऊ भजनु राम को पावै ॥२॥३॥
(O! servant Nanak, among millions, there is scarcely anyone who attains the Lord's meditation.)
Who gets ‘The Gift of Naam’? Only ‘The Gurmukh, The One who listens to his Guru’ finds ‘The Naam’. It comes to dwell in the mind of the Gurmukh simply because he is ‘Blessed by The True Guru’. How to become Gurmukh? Well, ‘Who’ all is better than Dhan Guru Angad Dev Ji, Dhan Guru Amardas Ji, Dhan Guru Ramdas Ji and Dhan Guru Arjan Dev Ji?
At the end Guruji gives everything to an individual who serves his ‘True Guru’. What can be better than Dhan Guru Amardas Ji to give such blessings? Just imagine He is sacrifice to one absorbed in the service of ‘True Guru’. And when Dhan Guru Amardas Ji opens the gate of ‘Blisses’ what else needs is left to be asked for.
In summary Guruji is inspiring everyone to serve ‘The True Guru’ as only ‘True Guru with His gift of Naam’ can eradicate all the sins and fulfills all the desire of an individual by making him a ‘Gurmukh’.
[1] Aasaa Mehla 5 – Ang 400 Dhan Guru Granth Sahib Ji
[2] Gauree Mehla 9 – Ang 219 Dhan Guru Granth Sahib Ji
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