Holy Avtar Vani - Shabad No. 147
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Jap kar bhaven jaap kara tap kar bhaven dhyan laga; Ved simrti shashtar parh lai parh deede gaal peaa. Karam kirya jog sabh hovan poora dharam vi hove tera; Kul duniyan nun chhad ke bhawein janglan de vich laayen dera. Kai traan de karam kama ke daan pun kar laal rattan; Swaas swaas vich simar simar ke karda ja din raat jatan. Ik ik apna ang kata ke roz havan toon karda ja; Rakkhi ja nit varat te roze bharne hor vi bharda ja. Bharh jhokya jo kujh keeta ik rab di je saar nahin; Kahe avtar naam bin bande kam aauni koi kaar nahi. |
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You may keep on enchanting or get recited the Holy Scriptures, undergo penance orsit in silent meditation; You may keep on reading the Holy Scriptures like Vedas, Smritis and Shastras andthus spoil your eyes; You may perform all rites and rituals, undertake profound meditation (yoga) and betrue to your own religion; You may even renounce the world and start dwelling in forests. You may perform the various types of religious acts, you may donate diamonds andpearls; You may go on repeating the name of God by every breath and keep on makinglaborious efforts day and night. You may get a part of your body chopped off and put it into the sacred fire as sacrificeevery day; You may keep fasts day and night, you may keep on performing several other acts. Whatever you do shall remain an exercise in futility, if you have not known the One Almighty God; Avtar says, O' man, none of these acts shall be of any avail without the divine name. |
Meaning
Here Baba Avtar Singh Ji talks about the energy and time that man puts in to find God, yet he cannot do so.
Man may perform rites and rituals, he may keep reading Holy Scriptures such as Vedas, and he may leave the world and live in forests and meditate. He can also donate diamonds and precious stones or just keep chanting the word of God, he may cut his body parts to sacrifice it or keep fasts regularly. But all the above acts will go waste because man is unaware of God.
Hence, He conveys that it is very essential to know God because only the Divine Name will be of utmost use to man.