Jio tapatt hai baro baar – Raag Dhanaasree – Ang 661-662

SGGS Angg 661-662

Raag Dhanaasree (Dhanasree) M.1.

The janamsakhis say that during His udasis, Guru Nanak Dev Ji travelled to Dipalpur, in present day Pakistan. Bhai Mardana Ji was with Guru Ji.

When they reached the town it was dusk and the shops were closing. Bhai Mardana Ji asked some shopkeepers if they could spend the night outside the shops after they closed. None agreed to let them have shelter for the night outside their shops. Guru Ji moved on. As they reached the edge of the town about half a mile away a light could be seen in a hut. As Guru Ji and Bhai Mardana Ji reached there, they asked the occupant to open the door. “Go away. I am a leper. No one visits me. The townspeople have thrown me here to avoid infection from me.”

Guru Ji told Bhai Mardana Ji to open the door and to bring the leper out. Bhai Mardana Ji did so but had to cover his mouth with his shirt as it was stinking inside.

The leper fell at Guru Ji’s feet and said “You should have left me alone. I am miserable. If someone throws some food outside my door I eat, otherwise I accept my terrible state.”

Guru Ji told him.” You were born into a wealthy family. You were healthy and married. When your parents passed on you could not come to terms with their death (You did not accept His Bhana), and to subdue your grief you over indulged in food, drink and sensual pleasures. You forgot God and lived only for yourself and drowned yourself in revelries. Soon you became ill, got leprosy and were thrown out by your family and the townsfolk. Your present condition arose when you forgot God.
“Jeh tan Bani vissar jaaye; jio pakka rogi villalaiye.”

Guru Ji spoke this Shabad at Dipalpur and the sakhi says the leper was cured by Guru Ji’s blessings.

Guru Ji first describes the inner being of someone indulging in too much revelries. His inner being burns over and over again (for indulgence in worldly pleasures). Burning and burning it is ruined and falls into evil ways. The body which forgets the Guru’s Bani (Naam), cries out in pain like a chronic patient.

“Jio tapat hai baro bar; tap tap khapay bahut bekaar; jeh tan Bani vissar jaaye; jio pakka rogi villalaiye.”

In the rahao Guru Ji says to speak and babble too much is useless; Even without our speaking, He knows all.

“Bahuta bollan chakhan hoye; vin bolay jaaney sabh soye” (rahao).

In the 2nd pada, Guru Ji says He gave us all our organs of sense and perception. He provides the very air to keep us alive.

“Jin kann kitay akhi naak; jin jihva ditti bolay taat; jin man rakhiya aggni paaye; vajjay pavan akhay sabh jaaye.”

With all those organs, if our focus is only on pleasure and enjoyment, you acquire black karmic stains and find no place in the Court of the Lord.

“Jeta moh preet suaad; sabha kalakh dagaa daag; dagh dosh moh chaliya laaye; Dargeh bessan nahi jaaye.”

But there is always hope if by good fortune you start reciting His Name. Attaching yourself to Naam you can be saved; there is no other way; even if you are drowning you can be saved; Nanak says such is the True Giver to all.

“Karam mile akhan Tera Naoo; jit lagh tarnaa hor nahi thaoo; Je ko dubbe firr hove saar; Nanak Sacha Sarab Dataar.”

The sakhi is given merely for purposes of illustration as to how we can relate the Shabad to our lives. The Shabad however is Infinite and applies forever in every situation.

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‎Shabad Viakhya by Bhai Manjeet Singh Ji

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