Poetry
The Psalm of Bliss
by INNI KAUR
Twilight sets
My mind drifts . . . . .
The bani of
Anand Sahib
Fills my soul.
The Psalm of Bliss
A reflection of inner peace
Blessed by
The Truth.
The Guru says:
Hear me, my mother
I have found
The True Teacher
Within.
My mind resonates
With this Truth
All is serene
All is divine.
My question:
How does one
Experience this Anand?
The answer:
Think Truth
Speak Truth
Live Truth
Enshrine Truth.
Duality disappears
Truth becomes the anchor.
Remember-
Always keep
The Truth in mind.
When the mind is
Immersed in Truth
Grace is bestowed-
One experiences
Anand.
Dedicate your life
To Truth
The only Giver.
All else
Is a passing show.
Mastering
The Five Forces
Within-
Blissful peace arrives.
The Unstruck Melody
Rings
Within.
Devotion must be pure
There can be no barter
For only Truth
Bestows Grace.
Live in Hukam
Live in Truth.
The Word resonates
In one
Who lives in Truth.
Through cleverness of mind
Truth cannot be obtained.
Illusionary wealth and beauty
Are powerless
To one
Imbued with Truth.
O My beloved mind
Remain in Truth
For when the Call comes
Let there be no regrets.
Truth is infinite
The mind is limited
There is no "I"
There is only Truth.
Seekers seek
The Divine Nectar
The nectar of Truth
Which is bestowed
By living the Truth.
Seekers walk -
A distinct path
A path of Equipoise
Sharper than a sword
Finer than a hair.
Truth makes one walk
This path.
Through the Guru's Door
Truth is experienced.
The Word whispers
A householder
Evolves
Into
A Gurmukh.
Truth
Radiates
From
A Gurmukh
For all to see.
Meaningless rituals
Clever arguments
Contrived actions
Pollute the soul.
Inwardly polluted
Outwardly pure
One looses this precious life
In a gamble.
Be Pure
Be Noble
Inwardly
Outwardly
For Truth
To reside.
Be sincere
Meditate
Surrender
Evolve.
Countless births
Countless deaths
Without Truth
There is no mukti.
Bani is the Truth
Forever the Truth
Evolve spiritually
Experience the Truth.
The Word is the jewel
Studded with diamonds.
Imbued with this jewel
The mind becomes priceless.
From Oneness
Comes pluralities.
Those who realize this Truth
Are the Gurmukh.
Ancient texts-
Discuss evil and virtuous deeds.
These are effects-
Not the cause.
Find-
The core essence.
Be awake-
Wedded to Truth.
Through my mother
Truth gave me this life
Truth is my source
Truth my natural being.
Why dissociate
From Truth
The giver and-
The sustainer of life.
Connected to Truth
I blossom
I bloom
Disconnected
I wither away.
The fire in the womb
Creates the physique.
The same fire
Shapes the mind.
Born pure
One gets attached
To desires-
And forgets-
The Truth.
Amidst Maya
Meditate
To be Graced
By Truth.
Priceless
Is the Truth
It cannot
Be traded.
Priceless
The beings
In whose heart
Resides the Truth.
Truth the treasure
Mind the seeker
Simran the path
To this wealth.
O My tongue
Worldly tastes
Will leave you
Unquenched.
Pure satisfaction
Is
Being Graced
By the Truth.
Truth
Is
My Creator.
I am
A
Child of Truth.
My mother and father
Are physical manifestations
Of the Truth.
By the
Grace of Truth
Some understand
This reality.
Those beings
Living this world
Are not
Of this world.
Truth has arrived
My mind is joyful
My heart sings
My body an altar.
Suffering
Sadness
Vanish.
The Unstruck Melody
I hear within.
O My body
Having come into this world
What have you earned?
Engrossed in worldly affairs
You abandoned
The One
That created you.
Blessed are those
That enshrine
The Truth
In their consciousness.
The life
That radiates
The Truth
Is blessed.
Oh! My eyes
It is Truth
That placed
The Light in you.
Rise
Envision
The Light
In all.
Be unattached
To form.
Search for
The essence.
Truth Graces
Blindness disappears
Divine vision
One receives.
O My ears
You were created
To hear
The Truth.
Listen
Absorb
Experience
Divinity.
Truth
Created
Cradled
Gave
The breath of life.
Revealing
The nine doors
Keeping
The tenth hidden.
Spiritual wisdom
Enables one
To perceive
The tenth door.
Numerous forms
Numerous names
All manifestations
Of the Truth.
Truth
Manifests life
Truth
Sustains life
Truth
Concludes life.
This
Truthful Melody
Resides within
The purified mind.
Experiencing
The Melody within
All desires
Are fulfilled.
Truth (The One)
Is realized.
Separation
Sorrow
Depart.
Imbued
In Truth
One
Becomes pure.
Says Nanak:
I bow at the feet
Of the one
Who hears
The Divine Melody
Within.
My head falls
Tears flow
Shukar
Shukar
Shukar
Conversation about this article
1: rkaur (canada), February 21, 2007, 11:38 AM.
softly wise, utterly beautiful
2: pkaur (anandpur), March 21, 2007, 7:28 PM.
Sharing words from your heart. Helping us hear, understand and utter the Divine Shabad. Truth. Thank you, sister.
3: Jasjeet (New York, U.S.A.), July 08, 2007, 10:26 AM.
Simply beautiful! Well worded and easy to decipher, unlike attempts often made by others whereby the purpose and the ethos gets lost in the process of translation. Awaiting more from this writer.
4: Priya Advani (Marietta, Georgia, USA), August 10, 2014, 10:00 AM.
Inni - You are truly blessed, and you bring the blessings to all who read and feel the depth of the bani. Your English translations are beautiful. Shukkar ... Shukkar ... Shukkar!