mai prabhu sacu pachāṇiā hor bhūlī avgaṇiāre.
mai sadā rāve piru āpaṇā sacṛai sabadi vīcāre.
sacai sabadi vīcāre raṅgi rātī nāre mili satigur prītamu pāiā.
antari raṅgi rātī sahaje mātī gaïā dusmanu dūkhu sabāiā.
apne gur kaṁü tanu manu dījai tāṁ manu bhījai trisnā dūkh nivāre.
mai piru sacu pachāṇiā hor bhūlī avgaṇiāre.3.
-Guru Granth Sahib 584
The first stanza of this Alahani states that the seeker who considers death a reality enshrines the Wisdom (Guru) in their heart, contemplates the Nam of IkOankar (the Divine), and feels the presence of IkOankar in every moment. The second stanza describes the way to union with IkOankar. The third stanza states that the seeker, who, through the Wisdom, is imbued with the love of IkOankar, attains union with IkOankar. In the fourth stanza, it is conveyed that IkOankar, by Own-Self, does and causes everything. IkOankar by Own-Self bestows the seeker with the union.
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In the third stanza, Guru Amardas says, I have recognized the eternal Prabhu, the Sovereign. The other unvirtuous seeker is deluded, wandering in doubt. Prabhu is a special name that invokes the royal and benevolent nature of IkOankar (One Creative and Pervasive Force, 1Force, the One), whose nature is to fulfill a particular role of goodness and compassion. Prabhu is the One who is capable of helping us when no one else can. The unvirtuous seekers have been unable to recognize the Beloved because we have not connected with the Wisdom. We remain entangled in our own flaws. The Guru, speaking as the virtuous seeker, says, my Spouse enjoys the bliss of union with me in every moment. How? Because that virtuous seeker reflects on the virtues of the Beloved and cultivates deep love for the Beloved through the eternal Sabad (hymn-like stanza that exemplifies the word-sound of the Infinite Wisdom).
In that contemplation, that seeker, that feminine-being, is imbued with the color of love, intoxicated in sahaj. The word ‘sahaj’ refers to a state of Divine love and awareness that is beyond the influence of worldly attachment. When a seeker continuously and consistently implements the teachings of the Wisdom in life, when they exist in a relationship with the One, and devotedly engage in Remembrance, Praise, and Identification, the state of sahaj is reached. It becomes permanently etched in the consciousness. This is a perpetual state of Divine love and awareness. To be intoxicated in this feeling is to experience being utterly drenched in love from the within. When the mind and body are drenched, when the Sabad is contemplated, we meet the Beloved through the eternal Wisdom of the Beloved. Our intoxication in this feeling is also natural, effortless, and unending. Our cravings, sufferings, and vices leave us. Everything that causes us to feel pain and separation leaves us.
The Guru says if we give our mind and body to the Wisdom, then this drenching of the mind can happen. We might be able to surrender the body physically, but the mind is the hardest to convince, the hardest to soften out of its stubbornness! The discipline of the mind requires much effort, but when it happens, when we surrender it to the Wisdom, it is filled and imbued with deep love and all of the flavors or hues of that deep love. Will we offer that surrender? Will we reflect on the virtues of the Beloved? Will we recognize the eternal Sovereign?
In that contemplation, that seeker, that feminine-being, is imbued with the color of love, intoxicated in sahaj. The word ‘sahaj’ refers to a state of Divine love and awareness that is beyond the influence of worldly attachment. When a seeker continuously and consistently implements the teachings of the Wisdom in life, when they exist in a relationship with the One, and devotedly engage in Remembrance, Praise, and Identification, the state of sahaj is reached. It becomes permanently etched in the consciousness. This is a perpetual state of Divine love and awareness. To be intoxicated in this feeling is to experience being utterly drenched in love from the within. When the mind and body are drenched, when the Sabad is contemplated, we meet the Beloved through the eternal Wisdom of the Beloved. Our intoxication in this feeling is also natural, effortless, and unending. Our cravings, sufferings, and vices leave us. Everything that causes us to feel pain and separation leaves us.
The Guru says if we give our mind and body to the Wisdom, then this drenching of the mind can happen. We might be able to surrender the body physically, but the mind is the hardest to convince, the hardest to soften out of its stubbornness! The discipline of the mind requires much effort, but when it happens, when we surrender it to the Wisdom, it is filled and imbued with deep love and all of the flavors or hues of that deep love. Will we offer that surrender? Will we reflect on the virtues of the Beloved? Will we recognize the eternal Sovereign?
