Bajh Guru dubba sansaar – Raag Majh – Ang 137-138

 Raag Majh – SGGS Ji – Ang 137-138

In As You Like It, Shakespeare tells us about the 7 stages of man.

The baby, the schoolboy, the lover, the soldier, the judge, the old man, the very old man, again like a child.

The Greeks, the Egyptians, and most other cultures have some concept of stages of man.

Guru Nanak Dev Ji’s views are of the man who has no Naam in his life. Guru Ji describes the 10 stages from a milk suckling infant till infirm old age, culminating in the 10th stage, death, where he is reduced to ashes.
“Daswe dadda hova swaah.”

His friends cry and lament his fate.
“Gaye sageet pukari dhaah.”

After some time all that is remembered is that he came, he went, and even his name cannot be recollected.
“Aaya geiya moiya naao.”

Some appease such ancestors by rituals, and feed the crows.
“Piche pattal sadieyo kaao.”

Guru Ji sums up the life of such a manmukh. He had love, but it was a blinded love for maya, not for Naam.
“Nanak manmukh andh pyar.”

If the world takes the Sharan of a Guru (Shabad, Bani, Naam), it can be saved, otherwise, the world is doomed to drown.
“Bajh Guru dubba sansaar.”

Shabad Veechar by Bhai Manjeet Singh Ji.

Shabad Keertan available on YouTube.