Holy Avtar Vani - Shabad No. 174
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Latke puttha laaye Samadhi teerath ja ishnaan kare; Apna aap luta daye bhaven sona chandi daan kare. Pooja paath kare din ratin parh parh umar ganwanda ey; Varat nem kare such sanjam haumain mail vadhanda ey. Ridhi sidhi kar laye kaaboo ho jaye paun ahari vi; Gallan de vich ho jaye chaatar laave soch udari vi. Ghar bahar nun chhad ke bhavein janglan de vich vaas kare; Karman dharma de vich reh ke apne tan da naas kare. Ang sang vasde raam ramyiya di honi pehchan nahi; Kahe avtar bina gur bhete jeevan da kalyan nahi. |
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One may hang upside down, sit in trance, may go to places of pilgrimage and have a holy dip; One may squander whatever he has or give gold and silver as donation. One may perform all kinds of worship, recite holy scriptures, day and night and waste entire life in reading (religions books); One may keep fasts, observe abstinence and austerity and thus add on to his ego. One may accomplish all miraculous powers and he may live on air (without food); One may become an eloquent speaker as also a great thinker. One may leave his hearth and home and start living in forests; One may remain engrossed in rites and rituals and thus decay his body. Despite all these acts, one cannot know the all - pervading God; Avtar says, one cannot be redeemed without meeting the True Master. |
Meaning
Here Baba Avtar Singh ji says, one may adopt any rituals to know God, but without meting the True Master, one cannot be reformed.
One may hang upside down, sit in trance, may go to places of pilgrimage and have a holy dip in sacred waters. One may squander whatever he has or give gold and silver as donation. One may perform all kinds of worship, recite holy scriptures, day and night and waste entire life in reading (religions books). One may keep fasts, observe abstinence and austerity and thus add on to his ego. One may accomplish all miraculous powers and he may live on air (without food). One may become an eloquent speaker as also a great thinker. One may leave his hearth and home and start living in forests. One may remain engrossed in rites and rituals and thus decay his body. Despite all these acts, one cannot know the all - pervading God;
One cannot be redeemed without meeting the True Master.