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Written by Guru Amar Das Ji, this Shabad protects one’s honor and develops fearlessness. Meditate on this Shabad or recite it 11 times a day to experience this energy in your life.
Raag Sorath – Guru Amar Das Ji – Siri Guru Granth Sahib Ji – Ang 637
Sorath Mehalaa 3 Ghar 1 Thithukee
Ik Oankaar Sathigur Prasaadh ||
Bhagathaa dhee sadhaa thoo rakhadhaa har jeeo dhhur thoo rakhadhaa aaeiaa ||
Prehilaadh jan thudhh raakh leae har jeeo haranaakhas maar pachaaeiaa ||
Guramukhaa no paratheeth hai har jeeo manamukh bharam bhulaaeiaa || 1 ||
Har jee eaeh thaeree vaddiaaee ||
Bhagathaa kee paij rakh thoo suaamee bhagath thaeree saranaaee || Rehaao ||
Bhagathaa no jam johi na saakai kaal na naerrai jaaee ||
Kaeval raam naam man vasiaa naamae hee mukath paaee ||
Ridhh sidhh sabh bhagathaa charanee laagee gur kai sehaj subhaaee || 2 ||
Manamukhaa no paratheeth na aavee anthar lobh suaao ||
Guramukh hiradhai sabadh na bhaedhiou har naam na laagaa bhaao ||
Koorr kapatt paaj lehi jaasee manamukh feekaa alaao || 3 ||
Bhagathaa vich aap varathadhaa prabh jee bhagathee hoo thoo jaathaa ||
Maaeiaa moh sabh lok hai thaeree thoo eaeko purakh bidhhaathaa ||
Houmai maar manasaa manehi samaanee gur kai sabadh pashhaathaa || 4 ||
Achinth kanm karehi prabh thin kae jin har kaa naam piaaraa ||
Gur parasaadh sadhaa man vasiaa sabh kaaj savaaranehaaraa ||
Ounaa kee rees karae sa viguchai jin har prabh hai rakhavaaraa || 5 ||
Bin sathigur saevae kinai na paaeiaa manamukh bhouk mueae bilalaaee ||
Aavehi jaavehi thour na paavehi dhukh mehi dhukh samaaee ||
Guramukh hovai sa anmrith peevai sehajae saach samaaee ||6||
Bin sathigur saevae janam na shhoddai jae anaek karam karai adhhikaaee ||
Vaedh parrehi thai vaadh vakhaanehi bin har path gavaaee ||
Sachaa sathigur saachee jis baanee bhaj shhoottehi gur saranaaee || 7 ||
Jin har man vasiaa sae dhar saachae dhar saachai sachiaaraa ||
Ounaa dhee sobhaa jug jug hoee koe na maettanehaaraa ||
Naanak thin kai sadh balihaarai jin har raakhiaa our dhhaaraa | |8 || 1 ||
Sorat’h, Third Mehl, First House, Ti-Tukas:
One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
You always preserve the honor of Your devotees, O Dear Lord; You have protected them from the very beginning of time.
You protected Your servant Prahlaad, O Dear Lord, and annihilated Harnaakhash.
The Gurmukhs place their faith in the Dear Lord, but the self-willed manmukhs are deluded by doubt. || 1 ||
O Dear Lord, this is Your Glory.
You preserve the honor of Your devotees, O Lord Master; Your devotees seek Your Sanctuary. || Pause ||
The Messenger of Death cannot touch Your devotees; death cannot even approach them.
The Name of the Lord alone abides in their minds; through the Naam, the Name of the Lord, they find liberation.
Wealth and all the spiritual powers of the Siddhis fall at the feet of the Lord’s devotees; they obtain peace and poise from the Guru. || 2 ||
The self-willed manmukhs have no faith; they are filled with greed and self-interest.
They are not Gurmukh – they do not understand the Word of the Shabad in their hearts; they do not love the Naam, the Name of the Lord.
Their masks of falsehood and hypocrisy shall fall off; the self-willed manmukhs speak with insipid words. || 3 ||
You are pervading through Your devotees, O Dear God; through Your devotees, You are known.
All the people are enticed by Maya; they are Yours, Lord – You alone are the Architect of Destiny.
Overcoming my egotism and quieting the desires within my mind, I have come to realize the Word of the Guru’s Shabad. || 4 ||
God automatically does the work of those who love the Name of the Lord.
By Guru’s Grace, he ever dwells in their minds, and He resolves all their affairs.
Whoever challenges them is destroyed; they have the Lord God as their Savior. || 5 ||
Without serving the True Guru, no one finds the Lord; the self-willed manmukhs die crying out in pain.
They come and go, and find no place of rest; in pain and suffering, they perish.
But one who becomes Gurmukh drinks in the Ambrosial Nectar, and is easily absorbed in the True Name. || 6 ||
Without serving the True Guru, one cannot escape reincarnation, even by performing numerous rituals.
Those who read the Vedas, and argue and debate without the Lord, lose their honor.
True is the True Guru, and True is the Word of His Bani; in the Guru’s Sanctuary, one is saved. || 7 ||
Those whose minds are filled with the Lord are judged as true in the Court of the Lord; they are hailed as true in the True Court.
Their praises echo throughout the ages, and no one can erase them.
Nanak is forever a sacrifice to those who enshrine the Lord within their hearts. || 8 || 1 ||
Listen to a Recitation of this Shabad by Bhai Pinder Pal Singh Ji
Click Here for a Shabad Sheet of Bhagtaa Dee Sadaa Too Rakh-Daa Har Jeeo
This post was drawn from the Psyche of the Golden Shield Volume 2: Shabads from the Siri Guru Granth Sahib compiled by Bhai Sahiba Bibiji Inderjit Kaur Khalsa, PhD.
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