Gurbani 7: Sunoh Lokah

"SUNOH LOKAH"
(People of the world hearken and heed )

" SASU TE PIRR KINI VAAKH,
DEVAR JITHANI MOOYEE DUKH SANTAP,
GHAR KE JITHEREH KI CHUKI KAN,
PIRR RAKHYA KINI, SUGHAR SUJAN


SUNOH LOKAH, MEH PREM RASS PAYA,
DURJAN MAREH, VAIRI SINGAREH,
SATGUR MOKOH HARNAAM DIVAYA.


PRITHMAY TYAGI HAOMEH PREET,
DUTYA TYAGI LOGAH REET,
TREH GUNN TYAG, DURJAN MEET SAMANEH,
TURIA GUNN MIL SADH PEHCHANEH,
SEHAJ GUFAH MEH AASAN BADHYA,
JYOT SARUP ANAHAD VAJYA,
MAHAN ANAND GUR SHABAD VICHAR,
PIRR SEON RAATI, DHANN SUHAGAN NAAR,


JAN NANAK BOLE, BRAHM BICHAR,
JO SUNEH KAMAVEH, SO UTREH PAAR,
JANAM NA MAREH NA AVEH NA JAYE,
HAR SETI OHO REHA SAMAYEH. "


Focus Line : Chhal and Thall - Illusion and Reality

1. God created humans.

2. He put them in PARPANCH- a confusive world order,

3. With mayaic Panch, to set them in the test-game of ego, lust, wrath, avarice and attachement; under the shimmer and lure of Mammon, materials and market.

4. There was maze, quixotry, quizzlement - on doubts, jealousies, superstitions, paradoxes love, hatred, fears, fouls, hopes and fairs in the human order.

5. Taking pity at the inextricably excessive involvement and grim predicament of the deserved ones, God lifted the awe of Dharam Raj, as the arbiter and judge of their destiny.

6. He himself came to their rescue, guidance and succour, to show them the up-climb course to human elevation.

7. That's the concised general strain of the message in the psalm "Sunoh Lokah".

8. In its textual brace, however, it expands and exudes itself like this….

a) O' my human friends of the world, hearken and heed the strong divine communicative induction that I experienced and meticulously followed!

b) Firstly, the dust of ego - vanity and selfishness was shed off.

c) Secondly, the worldly or the blind course followed by the shepherds was given up.

d) Thirdly, when the trap hurdles of TRIGUNA - RAJOH, TAMOH, SATOH, were crossed over, the barricades of prejudice, slant or hostile differences between friends and foes stood dismantled. The entire audience and the players of the Olympiad were in an absorbing, cheering, and right attitudinal spirit of the game; All in joyous Idul-Embrace.

e) Thereafter, with His more grace pouring in, I was admitted to a higher-grade state of mind, of calm, poise and discernment, where I could locate and identify the SADH-JAN - the human gems of godliness.

f) Thence came, the burst of live, Divine Light, with force and sound, communicating the key-notes in muse-tuned, celestial, auto-orchestral, low-crescendo, that overwhelmed my heart, mind and soul in an immersional, eternal felicity.

g) Nanak, therefore, exhorts that anyone who studies, listens to and lives by the tenets and traits of the Lord can overcome all difficulties of life and achieve a salvational, destined winning post.

h) There are no doubts or fears of birth or death or of coming and going as the attainment-peak has been conquered.

Contributed by:~ Surindar Singh

Part of the Dream Weave Walk 1999-2007