CREATION- What is the time, season, day and month of creation? No one knows. Not the Pundits, even if it is in the text of a Puran. Nor the Qazi that interprets the Quran. Nor the Yogi knows the date, season and month. Only the Creator knows (Jap M. 1)
- Creation and dissolution happen through the Word. Through the Word is the Evolution of Creation again. (Majh M. 3)
- Nanak: the One who Creates all, sustains too. The One whose wonder this all is, also cares for it. (Shlokas of Asa, M. 1)
- Numerous Ages (each age itself is millions of years) were passed in cosmic darkness. The Supreme Being beyond limit was in trance. In a foggy darkness the sole Lord was settled, unattached. There was no manifestation of action. Thirty-six ages were passed like this. In these Ages all happened as the Supreme Being willed. None his rival, the sole limitless supreme existed then. In the four Ages the Supreme Being was hidden, but realize that God was pervasive in each being's heart. In each Age the Sole Supreme Being was pervasive. Realization of this comes by the Master's teaching. By union of the paternal drop and the maternal blood the human frame was created. By interaction of air, water and fire life was sustained. In the joyous mansion of the body God Himself plays - the rest is an expanse of Maya (Worldly-attachment. In the circle of the womb, head hanging downwards, the self was in meditation. It knew the Divine Searcher-of-Hearts (God) was it's guardian. Inside the womb the Name Eternal was contemplated with each breath. The self arrived in the world to achieve the four objectives (prosperity, pleasure, righteousness and liberation). In the house of the Lord's Maya it found abode. In forgetfulness of the Sole Supreme Being it loses the bout. This sightless one has grown forgetful of the Name. Should an infant die its gambols are recalled and men cry calling it a playful child. The Supreme Being ,whose it was, has taken it back. The mourner is misguided. Should any die in full bloom of youth, what may avail? Men wail calling him their own. Those wailing for Maya-relationships are lost. The life of such people in the world is cursed. Dark hair are followed by gray. The capital of life is lost without devotion to the Name. Blind man is ruined by foul thinking and wails and cries as if he was robbed. One would not wail if one contemplated the self. This awareness comes by contact with the Master. Without the Master's guidance the doors of ignorance are not opened. Liberation come by obtaining the guidance of the holy word . With old age the body gets tattered, yet man doesn't contemplate the Lord, the True-Friend. In forgetfulness of the Lord, he departs with a blackened face. In falsehood he faces disgrace at the Divine Portal. Forgetful of the Name, the false in heart depart this life (to continue to be) born and to die, ashes falling on their head (symbol of shame). In the husband's home (the next world) they find no abode; in the parent's home (this world) all is agony. Man may indulge in the luxuries of eating, fine clothes and other delights. Yet without having heart-filled devotion his life must end meaninglessly. Such a one doesn't distinguish right from wrong. What is the way to escape Death's chastisement? Let the God-directed know the right way to engage in action and the way of renunciation and by the Master's guidance know the Divine Reality that pervades the self. Let them not follow the path of insulting anyone. By truth one become pure. Without truth none attains success at the Divine Portal. One robed in the holy Word gains honor. The Lord in His grace grants forgiveness and annuls egoism and pride. Let such a one by the Master's grace realize the Divine Ordinance and know the way of devotion appropriate to each Age. Nanak says, by contemplation of the Name attain liberation; The holy Eternal Being is the giver of liberation. (page 1026 - Guru Nanak Dev ji).
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