THE JEWEL OF HAPPINESS
The Sukhmani of Guru Arjan
a commentary by
AJAIB SINGH
Chapter 19
THE NOOSE OF DEATH IS CUT
Except meditation, nothing will accompany us;
all other things are ashes.
Nanak says: The Naam of the Lord is the only
worthy wealth.
In the opening couplet of this Ashtapadi, Guru Arjan Dev Ji is describing
the glory of Naam. He explains to us that not even the body in which we
are now sitting is going to go with us, nor is the material wealth which
we are collecting so lovingly.
Emperor Karu had collected a lot of wealth; he even dug graves to
collect the money. He collected forty billion rupees, but still, in the
end, he went empty-handed.
It is not necessary that the countries that are rich now, or the
countries which have progressed a lot, have always been like that. You
will find in history that the countries that have been very poor in the
past are now progressing and are rich. And those countries which were
very rich and progressive, in the olden days, are very poor now. There
was once a time when India was called the "Bird of Gold" - the golden
bird - because there was so much gold in this country. And in order to
plunder India, Mahmud Ghazni from Kabul invaded India seventeen times,
and he plundered many temples and many places where they had gold, and
he collected a lot of gold, silver and other valuables from India. But
at the time of his death, he thought of looking at all the things which
he had collected from India, so he told his people to spread out all
the things which he had plundered from India, that he wanted to go and
see them. When he saw all those things, and when he realized that all
those things were going to be left in this world, and that he would be
going empty-handed, he repented and he felt very sorry about his own
self. He said, "O, I plundered thousands of people; I made many women
widows, and I made children orphans - only for collecting all this
wealth. And now it is a pitiful thing that I cannot take even a single
thing of this with me; I will be going empty-handed." He told his people
that when he left the body they should leave his hands out of the coffin,
and they should tell people that he was going empty-handed; he was not
taking anything with him. And people should shout the slogan that he was
going empty-handed, and he was getting the fruit of all the bad deeds
which he had clone. He said, "Whatever will happen to me, I will suffer
that, but I want people to know that no matter how much they collect in
this world, nothing will go with them. Everything will be left here.
Only the bad deeds which you have done will go with you."
So here Guru Arjan Dev Ji Maharaj says that nothing will go with
you, except meditation. All other things are useless. Nanak says,
"Moment after moment you go on doing the meditation of Naam. Those that
have Naam with them, they are the emperor. Naam is the medicine for all
disease, and Naam perfects all works."
In the company of Saints think about this:
Do the Simran of the Lord and take refuge in Naam.
So here Guru Arjan Dev says, "What is the work which we should do first
of all? First, we should go in the company of the Masters, we should obey
what They are saying, and we should do all that They are telling us to do.
And we should do the meditation of Shabd Naam day and night; whether we
are sleeping or whether we are walking or talking, we should always go on
doing the Simran."
Dear ones, forget all other efforts,
Keep the Lotus feet of God in your heart.
If you want to have mercy on your soul - if you want your soul to be
united with the Lord, He says, "My dear ones, you don't need to do
anything else but just keep on doing one thing: just keep doing the
meditation of Shabd Naam, and always remain attached to the feet of
Satguru."
God is the perfect doer of everything
and gets work done
Acquire the wealth of Naam of the Lord
with firm determination.
Why do we have to do the devotion of Almighty Lord? Because He is Almighty;
He is Omnipotent; and He is Perfect. Whatever He wants He can do. Meditate
with love and faith in your heart; always go on doing the devotion to the
Master, because Naam is the only thing that will go with us - that will
accompany us from this world.
Gather this wealth and become fortunate ones.
This is the true teaching of the Saints.
If you want to collect any wealth from this world, the wealth of Naam
is the only wealth which you should collect. This is why the Masters
always say, "Collect the wealth of Naam, because this is the only wealth
which will come to your rescue, which will help you, which will go with
you. This is the true teaching of the Masters: that we should collect
the wealth of Naam while we are in this world." Masters do not come into
this world to make it a country of happiness. This is not their purpose
of coming here. If this were their purpose in coming here, then many
great Mahatmas, many great Masters who have come into this world, would
have made it that. But this is not possible, because this world can never
become the world of happiness, and this is not the purpose of the Masters'
coming.
Keep only one hope in your heart.
Nanak says: All disease will end.
This means that you should always have only one desire, only one wish
in your heart, and that is always to have the company of the Master.
Always have this desire and the wish that you may always go on doing
the devotion, so that you may not have to come back into this suffering
world again. Where you are attached, there you will go. Whatever desires
we have, we will get our next body according to that. If we have love and
affection for the Master, where will we go at the time of death? We will
definitely go to the Master, and since Masters are absorbed in God, so,
through the Masters, we will also be absorbed in God, if we have love for
the Master.
The wealth after which one runs in four directions
That wealth is obtained by serving the Lord.
Now He says that if we do the devotion of the Lord, if we do the devotion
of Satguru, then we can easily find that wealth which we are searching for
North, East, South and West. We can easily get this wealth sitting in one
place, if we are doing the devotion of the Master.
The happiness which one always desires,
That happiness is obtained by loving the Sadhu.
Poor man is wandering here and there, and is visiting many places of
pilgrimage to achieve peace of mind, peace of soul, and happiness; but he
is not able to find that. Here He says, "If you are desirous of getting
that real peace, real happiness and contentment, love the Masters."
Because if you love the Masters and go to Them, They will connect you
with Naam; because the real peace is within Naam, and when you go to
the Master, He will connect you to the Naam, and you will get real peace.
For obtaining glory one performs good deeds.
That glory is obtained by running to the shelter
of the Lord.
In order to get name and fame and glory in this world, we wander here
and there and do many things. He says that if we do the meditation of
Shabd Naam, then we can get that name and fame and glory just by sitting
in one place, and we can achieve that easily. History says that in order
to get name and fame and glory through their rulings, many great emperors
and kings tortured the great Mahatmas and Saints. Now what is the
situation? Not many people remember them. In their time they were
remembered by the people - people were talking about them; but nowadays
not many people remember them. But people remember those Mahatmas, those
Saints who were tortured by those great emperors. You see how Jesus Christ,
Lord Rama, Guru Nanak, Kabir, and other great Saints who were tortured by
the emperors of their times are remembered by the people. People get up
early in the morning and lovingly remember them. But nobody is remembering
those Emperors who tortured them. Because Mahatmas come into this world
carrying a lot of love, and lovingly, with that love, they win the hearts
of the people. They come into this world only to love the people, and that
is why even after a long time has passed, still the people remember them
with love and affection.
The disease of birth and death does not go
by many remedies,
That disease gets cured by taking the medicine
of Lord's Naam.
There is medicine for all the diseases, but there is no medicine available
to finish the pain of births and deaths. But the Master has that medicine
- that is the Naam; and if you go to thhhe Mahatma and take the Naam, then
the disease of the pain of birth and death is removed, just by going to
the Master and taking the Naam from Him. This disease of birth and death
cannot be removed by reading, by writing by performing any austerities,
by repeating anything. We cannot remove this disease of the pain of birth
and death by doing any practices. No matter if we are doing the best
practice in the world, still we cannot remove this. Those who have
forgotten the Naam, and are repeating other things, how can they remove
the pain of birth and death? Nanak says, "They will be caught red-handed,
and they will be given a lot of trouble at the time of death."
The wealth of Naam is the best treasure of all;
Nanak says, meditate on it, it is accepted
in the court of Lord.
Naam is the best treasure of all treasures, and the only thing which
remains. So here He says, "If anything is counted, or accepted, in the
court of the Lord, that is Naam. So we should always remain attached to
the Naam - we should always remain attached to the Master, because this
is the only thing which will bring us the real honor and glory in the
court of the Lord."
Awaken the mind with God's Naam;
That which wanders in ten directions
will be stilled.
We all know that our biggest enemy is our mind, which is sitting within
us. Like a competent lawyer, he is always presenting arguments and excuses
to us. We know that we are sitting here in Rajasthan, but our mind is
running everywhere, and he is making many plans - he is doing many other
things while we are sitting here. So here He says, "The mind, who is
running here and there like a wild deer, if you want to still it, if you
want to bring it under your control, give it the medicine of the Naam,
because that is the only thing that will stop it. I remember very well
that my father used to read Jap Ji Sahib every day. And many times he
would just throw the book away, saying that his mind does not remain
there while he is reading, and he cannot do that. At that time, I did
not have any knowledge about the mind, so I couldn't tell him anything
- I didn't have any remedy. But now I rrrealize that by reading books or
by doing any other type of practice, we cannot bring our mind under our
control.
In Jap Ji Sahib also the Glory of Naam is described to a great extent,
and in it it is written that those who are meditating on Naam. don't have
to work hard doing other practices. Their faces will be brightened, and
they will reach the court of the Lord easily; thus says Nanak.
No obstacles come to him
In whose heart God resides.
If we, the worldly people, are doing some repetitions, or some austerities
or some other type of practices, then we always think, "What day is good
for doing this practice?" - whether the day is auspicious or not; whether
it is a bad omen or not. But here Guru Sahib says that those who are doing
the meditation of Shabd Naam are not bothered by all these things. They
don't know what is auspicious, or what is inauspicious, because for them
everything is auspicious, and those who are doing the meditation of the
Shabd Naam rise above all these illusions. Those who have forgotten God,
they are bothered by these omens - bad omens and good omens. Paltu Sahib
says that all these ideas of auspicious and inauspicious are useless. They
spoil the works. So here Guru Arjan Dev Ji Maharaj says that those who are
doing the meditation of Shabd Naam, they are not bothered by anything
because, as the child is dear to the mother, the disciple is dear to the
Master, and the Master takes care of him.
In a place called Noshera there was one great meditator whose name
was Jallan Jat. No doubt he was going very high in meditation, and he was
perfect. But his wife told him - because he had one daughter - to go to
the pundit, to one astrologer, and ask him when was an auspicious day when
they should get their daughter married. No doubt Jallan Jat was a great
meditator and he was perfect, but still, you know that in the married life
one has to obey the suggestion of the other partner also, so for that
Jallan Jat went to the astrologer. On the way there he saw that some
people were mourning in the doctor's home. He asked why the people were
crying - why they were mourning; and they replied, "The doctor has lost
his son - his son has left the body." So he asked them, "Why didn't the
doctor give him some medicine?" They replied, "He tried his best, but
whatever was in the will of God, that happened; no medicine works when it
is not in the will of God."
After that, when Jallan Jat came to the astrologer he saw that people
were mourning and crying in his house also. And he asked, "What happened?"
So they replied that the son-in-law of the astrologer had left the body,
and now the daughter of the astrologer was a widow. So he said, "Why didn't
the pundit - the astrologer - see whether it was auspicious for his
daughter to marry with that boy or not?" So they replied, "No matter how
much one sees whether it is auspicious or not, no matter how much they
count the stars and things like that, still, whatever is going to happen
in the will of God will happen." So hearing that, Jallan Jat said, "When
the doctors can lose their sons, and the pundits can lose their sons-in-
law, then how is it going to matter if I see whether it is auspicious or
inauspicious? Why not go back home, and do whatever is in the will of God?
When it is said that everything will happen in the will of God, then why
bother about these things?" So he returned home, and he told his wife,
"There is no need to see whether it is auspicious or not." And gladly,
after some time, they got their daughter married.
The Iron Age is hot; the Naam of God is cool.
Remember and remember it and always obtain happiness.
The practices in the Iron Age produce a lot of heat. There are so many
fires in this world. There is the fire of lust, anger, greed, attachment
and egoism, in which the soul is burning. And Naam is the only thing
which can cool down the heat in which the souls are being burned up.
Guru Nanak has described this Iron Age as the chariot of fire. Masters
come into this world, and giving the medicine of the Naam, They cool
down the heat of the souls.
Fear vanishes and hopes get fulfilled
Within the devotee the Light gets manifested.
By doing the meditation of Naam, the fear of the Angel of Death goes
away, and those who do the meditation of Naam, in their soul the Light
gets manifested and the darkness of ignorance goes away.
The soul goes to the indestructible home
and resides there.
Nanak says, the noose of death is cut.
The soul goes to that place - that Home - from which she was separated
once, and she goes and becomes one with God, and becomes immortal. That
place, that Home, Sach Khand, is not perishable; it is never destroyed;
and as God is also immortal, when the soul becomes one with God - when
the soul reaches Sach Khand - she also becomes immortal, she never dies.
Those who take refuge in the Masters, their bonds are cut down. The
refuge of the Master - the company of the Master - is the only thing which
can make us remove the bonds of the Angel of Death, the fear of the Angel
of Death.
The men who think of the Divine Essence are True.
Those who do not utter Divine Naam are false
and are engaged in birth and death.
Those who think about the real Truth, and those who get the knowledge
of God, are the only true people - the only solid people - in the world.
And those who do not think about God - those who do not realize God, but
instead think about the world and the things of the world, are not perfect;
and they always remain imperfect.
By serving God, coming and going will end.
Abandon yourself and go in the refuge of Gurudev.
By doing the devotion of the Lord, our coming and going in this world is
ended; so here He says, "Giving up our own self, we should start doing the
devotion of the Master. This is the only way by which we can cross the
ocean of life."
In this way the fruit of the gem of this birth
will be obtained;
Remember God, Who is the support of soul.
This life is a precious gem. You know that if we ask anyone to give us an
eye, or an arm or a leg, no matter how much we offer him, he will not
accept that; he will not be ready to give us even one part of his body.
But you see how graciously God has given all these parts of our body to us,
without taking anything from us. He has given us this precious gem free
of charge. But the pity of it is that we are losing this precious gem in
exchange for useless things, useless pebbles. Those useless things are
lust, anger and the other passions in which we are wasting this precious
gem. So here Guru Arjan Dev Ji Maharaj says, "Day and night, the meditation
of Naam is the only way by which we can realize the value of our precious
gem - by which we can make our precious life successful. If we are not
doing that, it means that we are not utilizing this precious gem for the
purpose for which it was given us, that we are misusing it. Kabir Sahib
says, "You have spent your nights sleeping, and you have spent your days
playing; this life was like a precious gem which you wasted for nothing."
By many methods one does not get liberated
Nor by studying Simritis, Shastras and Vedas.
In the Hindu religion there are twenty-seven Simritis, six Shastras, and
four Vedas, and many other religious scriptures. But He says that even
if you read them wholeheartedly and lovingly, still you cannot liberate
your own selves. You cannot liberate anybody, and you cannot get any
liberation, even if you read them lovingly and wholeheartedly.
Sincerely do the devotion of Lord;
Nanak says, you will get the fruit
which your heart desires.
Now Guru Arjan Dev Ji Maharaj says that you should not do the devotion,
you should not do the meditation, understanding it as a burden; because
if we do the meditation understanding it as a burden, then we will find
no good in it. But if we do the devotion of the Lord lovingly and
affectionately, and if we do the meditation having only the desire of
realizing God within, then definitely we will achieve Him.
Wealth will not go with you.
Then, O foolish mind, why are you wrapped up in it?
Now Guru Sahib is saying to His mind, "Why are you absorbed, why are you
involved in the worldly things, when you know that not even a single penny
will go with you from this world?" But what is the condition of our mind?
Master Sawan Singh used to tell a story about one man who was carrying
two bags of wheat on one side of the horse, and two bags of sand on the
other. So one person asked him why he was carrying the sand on one side.
He said, "Because I want to keep the balance equal. That is why I have
loaded these two bags of sand on one side." That person replied, "You
could have done that by carrying one bag of wheat on each side of the
horse, and in that way also you would have kept the balance." He said,
"Well, I could have done that, but first you tell me: are you a rich
person?" And he said, "No, I am not a rich person. I am a very poor
person." So the person who owned that horse said, "I don't want to obey
you, I don't want to believe in what you are saying or do what you are
saying, because I am afraid that if I do what you are saying I will also
become poor like you." So when Masters tell us, "Not even your body will
go with you, so why are you wasting time in collecting the wealth of this
world?" - when they tell us not to be attached to the worldly things - we
first see whether or not the Masters have all those things which we have
and then we are afraid that if we obey the Masters we also will become
poor like them - we will also become detached from the world like them.
So what to talk about obeying what they tell us to do, we are not even
ready to listen to what they have for us.
Once I told a servant to take my horse to the farm, and he knew that
I would not like it if he put any load - any burden - on my horse. So what
did he do? While coming back from the farm he had to carry some grass. He
put that on his head and he sat on the horse; because he wanted the horse
to be comfortable. When I saw him, I asked why he was doing that, and he
said, "I didn't want to put any burden on the horse."
Sons, friends, family and wife
Tell me, who out of them will accompany you
after death?
Now Guru Arjan Dev Ji Maharaj says, "Up until now, has anyone gotten any
happiness, any contentment from sons, wife, grandchildren - from the
family members?" We know that when we are first married, at that time our
joy knows no limit and we are very happy with our partner; but later on
if we have some problems with our companion, then the same house, the same
life, becomes like a hell, and we find no peace anywhere.
Kingdom, worldly joys and immense wealth;
Tell me, who got liberation by having all these?
Now He talks about the kings and emperors. He says that even after becoming
the king or emperor of the whole world, one cannot remove this pain of
birth and death -one cannot get liberation. If you see anyone who has
gotten liberation just by ruling over the world, you can tell me, but this
is not the case. You will find no one who has gotten liberation just by
ruling over the world. Up until now, all those who have gotten liberation
have done so only by doing the meditation of Shabd Naam, and in the future
also, it will be the same.
Horses, elephants, chariots and other things
Are false shows and displays of false man.
Now He says that for our comfort, for our glory, for our name and fame, we
collect horses, elephants, cars, chariots - many things. But all these
things are false, because they will not accompany us - they will not go
with us. We will have to leave all these things in this world.
The foolish man does not recognize the Giver;
Nanak says, forgetting God's Naam one will have
to repent.
Man does not remember God, who has given him the fruit of his good
karmas of the past. In the fruit He has given him - the cars, and the
good comfortable things of this world - man does not remember Him. And
he is intoxicated, he is finding happiness in all these things. But at
the time of death, when the Angel of Death comes, and catches him by
his neck, only then he realizes, "Why was I not grateful to the
Almighty God Who gave me those things? Why didn't I do the meditation
of the Shabd Naam?" Because at the time of death, if we have not done
the meditation of the Shabd Naam, if we don't have the Master, then we
have to face the Angel of Death, which is very painful. "He Who gave you
all those things, you madman, you didn't realize Him, you didn't remember
Him." Nanak says, "You didn't understand Him as your own. You understood
every other person as your own, and that is why in the end you are
repenting."
O ignorant man, take the Path of the Master
Without devotion many clever ones have been drowned.
Now Guru Sahib says that what you should do is to walk on the path of
the Masters. You should forget the path of your mind. You should not
listen to your mind, because listening to the mind, many clever people -
many wise people - were drowned in this ocean of life. So give up the
intellect, give up listening to the mind, and obey the Master; only then
can you cross the ocean of life. Whether one is learned or illiterate,
if he remembers Almighty Lord, he gets liberation.
O dear mind, do the devotion of the Lord
So that you may become pure within.
Making your mind your friend, do the devotion of the Lord; by doing the
devotion of the Lord, your mind will become your friend; your mind and
soul will become pure.
Keep the lotus feet of God in your mind,
In this way the sins of many births will vanish.
Always remain connected and attached to the feet of the Satguru; by
doing that the sins and bad deeds of our past - no matter how many
they are - will all get finished, if we remain attached to the feet of
the Master.
Meditate on Naam and make others do so;
Get the liberation by hearing It, saying It and
obeying It.
Guru Sahib says that you should do the meditation of Shabd Naam, and
moreover, make other people also meditate on the Shabd Naam. You should
sing the glory of the Shabd Naam, and you listen to the glory of the
Shabd Naam. You attend the Satsang, and make other people attend the
Satsang. Nanak says, "I long for the dust of the feet of such a Person
Who Himself does the meditation of Shabd Naam, and makes other people
also meditate on Naam."
The Naam of God is the essence and the true property;
Nanak says: Sing His glories spontaneously.
If there is any true thing, that is Naam. And if we remember the Lord,
by Naam, even for a fraction of a moment, then also our attendance is
marked in Sach Khand. You should never think that if you have sat for
five minutes, or a couple of seconds, your attendance is not marked.
No matter how much time you devote in meditation, that is all counted
in the Court of the Lord; and you will definitely get the payment for
it. If anybody goes to work for any other person, at the end of the
day he always gets paid. In the same way, if anyone is working for
the Master, don't think that the Master is unjust and will not pay you
for all the things you have done for Him. He will definitely pay you
for all the work you have done for Him. Bulleh Shah has said that our
Lord is our friend, but we have become misers in respect to doing seva.
We do not serve Him as much as we should.
By singing His praises your dirt will be removed,
And the poison of ego which spreads over you
will be removed.
Now He says that by doing the meditation of Naam, the sweet disease of
egoism - the incurable disease of egoism which we all have - will get
removed.
You will become worryless and will live happily
Remember the Naam of the Lord with every
single breath.
Now He says that when we merge with the Shabd Naam, when by doing Simran
we reach the Tisra Til, and become one with the Light there, and when
we meet the Master within - after that our duty comes to an end. After
that, the job of the Master starts. That is why all the time, moment
after moment, we should go on doing Simran so that we can reach that
place as soon as possible.
O, mind, leave all cleverness.
In the company of the Sadh you will get
the true wealth.
Even the graduates have to behave like five-year-old children when they
come to the Masters. We know that in childhood, when we go to the
teachers in the school, because we don't know anything, we behave like
ignorant ones. And when we surrender to the teacher, then gradually
the teacher teaches us, and in the end we get the degrees of Bachelors
and Masters, and we become graduates and Doctors. In the same way, we
are very ignorant ones in the path of spirituality. We know nothing
about it, and Masters know everything about it; so when we completely
surrender ourselves to the Master, then He takes us gradually, one by
one, through the planes and finally takes us before the Almighty Lord,
and tells Him, "This is Your soul who had forgotten You, but now he has
come to apologize to You, and You should forgive him." Up until now,
all the Saints who have done the meditation of Shabd Naam and have
gone within, have said, "We have not come here by our own efforts. If
it were not for the Grace of the Master we would never have done this."
All the Masters who have gone within have sung the glory of the Masters.
Collect the capital of the Lord's Naam
and carry on the true business.
You will get happiness here, and honor
in the court of the Lord.
Now Guru Sahib says to collect the capital - collect the wealth of the
Naam here; and if you have the wealth of the Naam with you when you
leave this world, in whatever plane you go, you will be honored and you
will be welcomed.
See One God present in all.
But only those can see Him on whose forehead
such good destiny is written, says Nanak.
God is within everyone, but we can know this for sure only after we
see God working within our own selves. When we see that God is within
us, only then can we know for sure that He is within everyone. But
who can do this? Only those who are very fortunate ones and in whose
fate it is written from the very beginning from God - it has been
decided by God that he is going to meet the Master and he is going to
see God in his own self and then in everyone. And those who are the
fortunate ones, and in whose fate all these things are written, only
they are able to do these things. Nobody can see God in his own self
and then God in everyone by his own efforts and merits. It is all in
the Will and in the Hands of God.
Repeat the Naam of one God, Praise one God,
Remember the One God, and have the desire
for one God in your mind.
He says, "Do the devotion of one God, praise that one God only, and
always sing the glory of that same God."
Sing the limitless glories of One God,
Repeat the Naam of One God with your mind
and body.
He says, "Sing the praise of the Lord, and with your mind and body do
His devotion. God has limitless qualities, and His Glory is very high.
We cannot sing His Glory with this tongue."
God Himself is the only, only and only One.
The perfect God pervades all.
God is present everywhere, and He is working within everyone. And since
He is present everywhere, we should do the devotion of only that God.
From the One God many creations have been created.
By worshiping One God all sins go away.
Now He says that all this creation - all these creatures we see - whether
it is man or animal, insects, vegetables, trees or plants - all these are
created by God Himself, and all this is His play. And all those who
withdraw their attention from all these things, and from this world even,
and who become one with God - those who keep their attention always with
God - they become one with God and always remain absorbed in that
Almighty God from whom they were separated.
One God is present in all bodies and minds.
Nanak says: By the grace of Master I realized this.
Now He says, "When did we come to know that God is present everywhere
and all this creation is the play of God?" He says, "I came to know
about all this only when I went to my Master." Guru Arjan Dev Ji is
singing the praise of His Master, Guru Ramdas. He says, "When I came
to the Master, only then He told me - not only told me, but He also
made me experience - that God is present everywhere, and all that we
see with our eyes is the creation of God." In this Ashtapadi or
section of the Sukhmani Sahib, Guru Arjan Dev Ji Maharaj lovingly
sings the glory of Naam to us, and He explains to us that from this
world Naam is the only thing which will go with us; there is no other
thing from this world which we can claim - which we can take with us.
Only Naam will go with us. And He tells us that we should do the
meditation of Naam. Lovingly He explains to us that Naam cannot be
received from reading any book or scripture; that Naam is with the
Saints or Masters.
So first of all, go in the company of the Master and request the
Naam. And after taking the Naam, meditate on it; only by doing that
can you make your life successful. So we should also do the meditation
of Shabd Naam according to the instructions of Guru Sahib, and make
our life successful.
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