Akal Ustat

About Akal Ustat(i): The tenth Nanak has explained the attributes of the Almighty with his aesthetic sense par excellence. He has said that God is not only the source of every ‘thing’, ‘idea’ and ‘anything else’ that we can think of or even beyond our thinking but also is immanent in those. He is all inclusive. No thing or thought or idea, whatsoever subtle or gross is outside God. All inclusiveness and beyond are also other names of God. All ‘things’, ‘ideas’ and ‘anything else’, whether we consider good or bad, emanate from God and merge in Him ultimately. For example, He gives goodness to gods and haughtiness to demons. In this way He enjoys His play.

Akal Ustati

Ik Oankar Satt...Gur Prasad

(True copy of the Writing of the Tenth Master)

We are under the protection of the Timeless Being.

We are under the Protection of the All-Steel.

We are under the protection of the All-Time.

We are always under the protection of the All-Steel. 1.

(Signatures of the Writer; With Thy Grace; Chaupai)

Salutation to One God first of all, Who has created all the water, earth and sky; Who is the Primal Being, ineffable and indestructible; Whose light is in all the fourteen regions. 1.

He pervades the elephant (high) and the insect (low) equally; Who considers the king and the poor alike; He is the non-dual, indescribable and all knowing Being; Who knows all hearts. 2. He form is beyond description, He is indestructible and without garb; He has no particular colour or outline; His features are unique; He is the Primal, non-dual and evil-less Being. 3. He has no particular outline; has no enemy or friend, no father or mother. He is far as well as near, present in all regions. 4. His form is limitless; He is unstruck Melody; Under His protection lives the goddess Bhavani; gods like Brahma and Vishnu can't comprehend Him, hence call Him 'Beyond limit'. 5. He has created millions of Indra gods and their juniors. He has created and destroyed Brahmas and Shivas. He has created this game of fourteen regions and at the end consumes all in Himself. 6. He has created numerous demons, gods, snake gods, heavenly singers, Kubers and creatures of the four Khanis. He is praised in all the three times and He knows all hearts. 7. He has no father or mother or caste; He is formless and envious to none; He is present in all the lights and at every place. 8. He is the Timeless, without death; unknowable, formless Sage; has no caste or creed or colour or outline. He is without any body, indestructible and beyond doubt. 9. He destroys and creates everyone. He destroys all miseries, diseases and evils. Those who concentrate on Him for a while, free themselves from the fear of death. 10.

With Thy Grace. Kabit.

Sometimes You are wakeful and sometimes You promulgate it. Sometimes You enjoy sound slumber. Sometimes You beg like beggars; sometimes You give solicited alms beneficently. Sometimes You provide much to kings but sometimes You usurp their lands. Sometimes You work as per laws of scriptures (vedas) while other times You go against them. Sometimes You are formless but sometimes have form. 11.

Sometimes You are (dreadful) Jachha, Gandharva, Snake and gods hanging in between; sometimes dancers of Kuber and evil spirits. Sometimes You meditate secretly on Gayatri, becoming a Hindu but other times You, becoming a Mohammedan, give a call from mosque like them. Sometime You study Puranas like the learned Kok brahmin while sometimes You study the philosophy of Quran. Sometimes You are formal as Vedas sometimes You are against; Sometimes You are formless but sometimes You have form. 12.

Somewhere You are getting respect amongst gods but somewhere You are teaching haughtiness to demons. Somewhere You are bestowing crown to Indra but the other time You are depriving him of the same. Sometimes You are philosopher while other times You are stupid; sometimes You are celibately monogamous while other times You cohabit with others women. Sometimes You are formal as Vedas sometimes You are against; Sometimes You are formless but sometimes You have form. 13.