Ek Onkar Satnam: The Heartbeat of Nanak

By Taoshobuddha

Ek Onkar Satnam is the essence of Japji Sahib the message of Nanak that emerged as Sikh Religion. Indeed Ek Onkar Satnam is the Heartbeat of Nanak. The entire religion is condensed in these three words EK, OnKAR, and SATNAM. Afterwards whatever Nanak overflowed is for your understanding. Otherwise the message is complete. Beyond dualities, conditionings, and your beliefs lays the realm of Buddhas. Nanak is a Buddha - one who has not only attained to this Oneness with that which is, instead has harnessed this energy field for the transformation of human consciousness. Japji Sahib is the expression of Truth as envisaged by Nanak and occupies a foremost place in Sikh religion. Ek Omkar Satnam is the heartbeat of Nanak and Japji Sahib is the fragrance of the inner flowering.
The effort is to harness and present truth that rendered Nanak, Buddha, Kabir, Osho, Krishnamurti, Jesus and Mahabir Enlightened in its sublime and nascent form through this work. Truth is sublime. Truth is beyond religions and even your gods and goddesses. Truth is solitary. Truth is auspicious. Truth is beyond duality. So is bliss or Anand.
Truth has nothing to do with Sikh, Hindu, Muslim, Christian or Jew. Truth is beyond these narrow boundaries. Your conditioning, your values, and your understanding have no correlation with Truth. A Hindu mind listens to that which resonates and strengthens his mind. So is the case with a Sikh, Christian, Mohammedan and other sects as well. You are listening simply to strengthen your mind.
Nanak is unique. And he is unique in many ways. Nanak happened before TulsiDas. Social values were declining. Politically that was the beginning of a new era. The message of the masters was losing its inner fabric. Nanaks role was to resurrect all these. Nanak came like a fresh breeze.
Look at the earlier scriptures. Valmiki used one meter throughout the entire narration of Ramayana. So too the same one meter Anustup with each composition of four quadrants and two lines each is the meter used throughout the text - the Bhagvad Gita. All this describes one set pattern. Bhagwad Gita is the path of Yoga although different paths of Yoga are explained. And Ramayana is the story of Rama on the platter of Bhakti.
Nanak has used different meter in each Pauri. The Japji Sahib does not follow any strict meter of poetry and even the rhyming seems, at places, uneven and incoherent. Besides, sometimes the basic line of thought appears to be intruded upon by verses in between, particularly if one relies solely upon translations and word meanings.
This explains that through each Pauri Nanak goes into in-depth message of different systems of transformation used by the masters and paths. Anyone with linear consciousness or one track mind and understanding cannot understand Nanak. Only a master whose consciousness has reached its pinnacle! Or has merged with the ultimate can explain various systems of transformation of human consciousness as interwoven through various Pauris of Japji Sahib. Allow this nectar to ooze into being.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Aug 22, 2012
• ISBN: 9781477214251

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Ek Onkar Satnam

The Heartbeat of Nanak

Taoshobuddha

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CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

Section 1

Ek Onkar Satnam—The Mool Mantra

[1] The Mool Mantra

[2] ‘EK ONKAR’

[3] ‘SAT NAAM’

[4] ‘KARTA PURUKH’

Section 2

Hukumu Hukum Chalai Rahu

[5] ‘Aadi Sachu Jugadi Sachu… ’

[6] ‘Hukumu Hukum Chalai Rahu’

[7] ‘SACHA SAHAB SACHU NAI’

[8] ‘JE EK GURU KI SIKH SUNI’

Section 3

Nanak Bhagta Sada Vigasu

[9] ‘Nanak Bhagta Sada Vigasu’

[10] ‘Aisa Naam Niranjan Hoi’

[11] ‘Pancha ke Ek Guru Dhyanu!’

[12] ‘Ju Tudh Bhave Sai Bhali Kaar’

Section 4

Unche Upari Uncha Naau

[13] Ape Beej Ape hi Khahu!

[14] ‘Aape Jane Aapu!’

[15] ‘Unche Ooper Unchan Naun’

[16] ‘AAKHI AAKHI RAHE LIVLAI’

Section 5

Nanak Uttam Neechu Na Koi

[17] ‘Soi Soi Sada Sachu Sahibu’

[18] ‘Aadeshu Tisai Aadeshu’

[19] ‘Jug Jug Aiko Vesu’

[20] ‘Nanak Uttam Neech Na Koyee’

Section 6

Sach Khandi Vasai Nirankaroo

[21] ‘Karmi Karmi Hoye Vicharu’

[22] ‘Nanak Antu na Antu’

[23] ‘Sach Khand Vasai Nirankaru’

[24] ‘Nanak Nadri Nadri Nihal’

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Taoshobuddha

The word Taoshobuddha comes from three words, ‘Tao,’ ‘Sho,’ and ‘Buddha’. The word Tao was coined by the Chinese master, Lau Tzu. It means that which is and cannot be put into words. It is unknown and unknowable. It can only be experienced and not expressed in words. Its magnanimity cannot be condensed into finiteness. The word Sho implies, that which is vast like the sky and deep like an ocean and carries within its womb a treasure. It also means one on whom the existence showers its blessings. And lastly the word Buddha implies the Enlightened One; one who has arrived home.

Thus, Taoshobuddha implies one who is existential, on whom the existence showers its blessings and one who has arrived home. The Enlightened One!

Gurudwara Harminder Sahab, Amritsar, India

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Preface

S angat bolo… Sri VahE… guru… . VahE Guru Ji ka Khalsa vahE Guru Ji ke Fatah!

Hail to the master! O Congregations remember the master forever. Seek eternal! There is nothing more sublime and invigorating than the congregation of the master or his commune. That alone has the capability to transform you and your life.

I speak to you not of a Nanak who was born on April 15th, 1469 in Talvandi to the parentage of Mehta Kalloo and Tripta; and who died in 1539 in a small village Kartarpur of Punjab, in India. This Nanak I know not. He is historical.

I speak to you of the Nanak who was never born and never died. A Nanak who is existential! A Nanak whose energy field can never be destroyed! The energy field that is existential. Energy field that surrounds you each finite moment! Only you have lost connection with this existential energy field.

The actual work on Japji Sahib began one autumn evening in 1977 when I was still in India. There came an incredible meeting with a person. This meeting was not arranged by any human efforts. It was ordained. I remembered a passage from Sri Aurobindo’s SAVITRI then:

On the dumb bosom of this oblivious globe,

Although as unknown beings we seem to meet.

Our lives are not aliens nor as strangers join,

Moved to each other by causeless force!

The soul can recognize its answering soul.

Across dividing Time and, on life’s roads

Absorbed wrapped traveller, turning it recovers

Familiar splendors in an unknown face

And touched by the warning fingers of swift love

It thrills again to an immortal joy!

Wearing a mortal body for delight

There is a power within that knows beyond

Our knowings; we are greater than our thoughts

And sometimes earth unveils that vision here

To live, to love are signs of infinite things

Love is a glory from eternity’s spheres.

(SRI AUROBINDO SAVITRI BOOK V THE BOOK OF LOVE: CANTO 2)

The first word was the formal greeting. Then I asked the person, ‘Which places did you visit in India so far?’ This was my second sentence. The response was ‘Mother’s ashram in Pondicherry.’ Let me tell you about this. In Pondicherry, India there is the ashram of Sri Aurobindo a mystic and the Mother! This is a spiritual retreat. Now came the third sentence. I responded, ‘Peace and serenity dwells there. However this is the experience of my life that if one can keep his inner instrument attuned one can feel the feeblest of vibration anywhere in the world beyond time and space.’ This sentence narrates the methodology of a master. This cannot be destroyed. To feel this energy field beyond time and space an inner preparation is needed. This energy field is there to transform you.

Just as atom cannot be destroyed so too consciousness can never be destroyed!!!

Scientists have harnessed atomic energy only for destructive purposes so far! But Nanak has harnessed the energy field of consciousness for the transformation of human being! Feel it! Be it!!! Nanak’s effort is the birth of a new man out of you! The integrated, harmonized, and blissful!!! One who lives life beyond duality!!!

Since then my entire effort is to harness this energy field and make it available beyond time and space through my life, living, and efforts. The previous works ‘Meditation the Way to Self Realization’, ‘The Secrets of Bhakti,’ ‘Essence of Sufism’ and two volumes of ‘Leaves from a Sufi Heart’ and many more all reflect this. The effect that these works have created worldwide with the readers simply reflects the methodology of a master. The effort still continues with the forthcoming works as well. Out of this energy field also evolved the works of Swami Anand Neelamber.

The effort is to harness and present truth is its sublime and nascent form. Truth is sublime. Truth is beyond religions and even your gods and goddesses. Truth is solitary. Truth is auspicious. Truth is beyond duality. So is bliss or Anand. This alone is auspicious or Mangalam. Scriptures say:

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Truth has nothing to do with a Sikh, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Christian or a Jew. Truth is beyond these narrow boundaries. Your conditioning, your values, and your understanding have no correlation with Truth. Indeed your understanding does not resonate with truth and all that is existential.

A Hindu mind listens to that which resonates and strengthens his mind. So is the case with a Sikh, Christian, Mohammedan and other sects as well. You are listening simply to strengthen your mind.

Nanak is unique. And he is unique in many ways. Nanak happened before TulsiDas. Social values were declining. Politically that was the beginning of a new era. The message of the masters was losing its inner fabric. Nanak’s role was to resurrect all these. Nanak came like a fresh breeze.

Look at the earlier scriptures. Valmiki used one meter throughout the entire narration. The meter happened to him one day during his one early morning bath in river Tamsa. There he saw basic act that we go on overlooking in our day to day life. He saw a pair of birds making love. At one plane this seems an ordinary act of pleasure for man and progeny for the other creatures. What actually happens during this act has lost its meaning.

This is the communion or the confluence of two energies. One is young virgin or the feminine energy as symbolized through the female body. The young virgin symbolizes the undeveloped or underdeveloped consciousness. Or the sub-consciousness where the entire growth pattern of human consciousness is in code form. Hindus call this energy field as ‘Prakriti’. And the male energy that Hindus call as ‘Purush’ is symbolized as male or soul. Transformation cannot happen until this union between the souls and the undeveloped virgin takes place.

These two male and female principles exist in each individual. With the passage of time a discontinuity came in this understanding.

Leaving this here right now I move to the other aspect where I was speaking of the structure of various scriptures and there relevance with the message. Valmiki used one meter with eight quadrants which emerged during his early morning bath spontaneously.

So too Bhagvad Gita also uses one meter and each composition is of four quadrants and two lines each this is the meter used throughout the text. All this describes one set pattern. Bhagvad Gita is the path of Yoga although different paths of Yoga are explained. And Ramayana is the story of Rama on the platter of Bhakti.

Nanak has used a different meter in each Pauri. The Japji Sahib does not follow any strict meter of poetry and even the rhyming seems, at places, uneven and incoherent. Besides, sometimes the basic line of thought appears to be intruded upon by verses in between, particularly if one relies solely upon translations and word meanings.

This explains that through each Pauri Nanak goes into in-depth message of different systems of transformation used by the masters and paths. For instance in Pauri 27 Nanak explains the role of music, and existential sound as the system of transformation. And in the next Pauri 28 and 29 Nanak completely reviews the path of Tantra.

If I go on speaking like this on each Pauri I will never finish the preface. That is a fact one can spend the entire life explaining Japji Sahib still something remains unfinished.

Anyone with linear consciousness or one track mind and understanding cannot understand Nanak. Only a master whose consciousness has reached its pinnacle! Or has merged with the ultimate can explain various systems of transformation of human consciousness as interwoven through various Pauris of Japji Sahib.

This present work is such an effort of Taoshobuddha.

Beyond dualities, conditionings, and your beliefs lays the realm of Buddhas. Nanak is a Buddha—one who has not only attained to this Oneness with that which is, instead has harnessed this energy field for the transformation of human consciousness. Japji Sahib is the expression of Truth as envisaged by Nanak. Japji Sahib occupies a foremost place in Sikh religion. The entire Sikh religion revolves around Japji Sahib and Nanak. Both Nanak and Japji Sahib are inseparable. Both are the two sides of the same coin. Ek Onkar Satnam is the heartbeat of Nanak and Japji Sahib is the fragrance of the inner flowering.

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EK BAR JO TOONE PURARA THA MUJHE

TAZEEST MERE MAN ME BAJTI RAHI SHAHNAI

TAABAD MERE MAN ME BAJTI RAHI SAHNAI

AUR HAM DOOB KE TOOFANO ME TAH LAYE SAMUNDER KI!

Once you had called me so lovingly

Erelong its music echoes in my ears

Like the dissolving notes of a sweet melody!

And I dived deep within the ocean to bring forth the inner treasures from the realm of the Being!

Today I invite you to this mystical realm and the energy field of Nanak through Japji Sahib. Japji Sahib is my being, my life my living. The words of Nanak resonate in my mind. And this work on Japji Sahib is the echo of that resonance that continues to linger in my being like the dissolving notes of an enchanting melody.

Allow a few drops of this nectar to ooze into your being. Allow this fragrance to sanctify and waft an aura of bliss in your inner being. Life will attain a new meaning.

Words are failing to express the ecstasy of my being. The orchestra is mute yet still melody overflows. I can speak no more for now. Now only the overflow is there. Drink it to your heart’s content.

Like a mad, intoxicated one, Nanak goes on speaking in His praise. These are not the words of a learned one. These are the words of someone who has drunk the mystical wine of Saqui (God). Like a drunkard he goes on repeating the same thing again and again. These words are the outcome of ecstasy. If you can understand the situation of a drunkard you will understand the words of Nanak. The only difference between an ordinary drunkard and Nanak is that Nanak drank the pristine mystical wine to his heart’s content. And now he is drowned in the ocean of oneness with God. This is the beauty of Nanak. Nanak is the poet of the inner. Japji Sahib is the poetry of the soul’s journey as narrated by a drunkard.

Nanak says that which is cannot be destroyed. This is ‘akshar’. ‘Akshar’ cannot be translated as ‘word.’ And the closest reflection of ‘akshar’ is ‘Onkar’. Thus Nanak’s entire message revolves around ‘EK ONKAR SATNAM.’ If you have understood these three words you have understood Japji Sahib. Whether you call this as Japji or as Ek Onkar Satnam it is same. Then you have understood Nanak. Onkar is the only sound that cannot be destroyed. This is the only sound that continues to echo even without being written. This can never be destroyed till eternity lasts. Onkar is the music of the existence. Onkar is the echo or the whisper of the existence. Even when everything is destroyed ‘Onkar’ will continue to echo.

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The indestructible, the imperishable, the unknown, the unknowable ‘akshar’ that was in the beginning, that is now and that will always be is the very name of God. This is the way of worship. Say no more. Just be filled with this existential sound. That is all. Prayer has now begun. You need not say that you are a sinner. No confession can ever become a prayer. Be filled with this presence. You are prayerful!

Out of ego, man has created so many prayers. When you go to the emperor you have to implore again and again, sing the glories only then you can gain any favour. This is what your worship is. You are conditioned to implore to gain favors of your gods. Such implorations have become prayers in many a myriad ways in your temples and other places of worship. Nanak explains this through various Pauris of Japji Sahib.

Nanak says these cannot be a prayer. And God is not egoistic that you have to implore or beg. You are praising God as if you are trying to convince or invoke the sleeping God. Are you coaxing Him to shower favors on you? It seems these are your prayers.

No praise or imploration can ever become a prayer. Are you capable of praising Him? But ego thinks so. Then what can really be the prayer. Nanak says be filled with this existential sound. Beyond this existential sound there can be no prayer. Onkar is the end. Omkar is the prayer. Beyond Onkar there is nothing. Therefore drown in this existential sound. You are prayerful. Life will attain meaning.

Man created temples. And within this was created a devise of round structure of dome for the sound to echo. This devise is to create the echo of Onkar from within the fore-walls of the temple as ‘temple echoes’. This devise amplifies the echo manifold and it appears as if coming from far.

Now in the west a new devise ‘Bio feed’ has been created. This is an important devise. And in times to come these will be very useful. Accordingly through small instruments effort is made to render your mind silent.

East has created different bio-feed instruments. The dome in the temple and mosques is the bio-feed devise to create the echo of the existential sound. As your inner sound reaches close to the existential sound the intensity of the sound within will increase. As the sound begins to emanate more and more from the inner being and not the lips you will find that the quality of the echo returning from the dome has changed. The temple echoes are more peaceful and blissful as well.

Deeper you enter this existential echo within, temple echoes will become blissful. Then you can experience this sound echoing all around. Where you had experienced noise and disturbances once a new music—a new echo evolves from there now! And when you attain to fruition, you will find the entire cosmos permeating the existential sound. And bliss overflows each finite moment.

Temple is a small devise. Begin from there. You can begin to learn swimming only in shallow waters. And then you can swim in deep waters. So too start drowning in the temple echoes. And then one day you will certainly learn the art of drowning in the vastness of all that is existential. Then entire existence becomes the abode of the unknown and the unknowable. And then wherever you will create this sound you will find the rain of bliss. This dome of the temple symbolizes the vast infinite sky.

Nanak says the ‘akshar’ the indestructible word is the prayer. This is ultimate knowing. This is the ultimate glory. Out of this sound evolves all that is manifest and unmanifest. This is your destiny. This is not only delicate instead difficult to comprehend as well.

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As this existential sound opens within life unfolds new meaning. Onkar is the key to bring about this inner change. Moving away from this leads to a life of misery and misfortune. Moving away from this is hell and coming closer is bliss. To be one with Onkar is moksha or salvation.

Only then my beloved friend you will understand the message contained in the words spoken by me in 1977. I repeat again.

‘Peace and serenity dwells not only there instead the entire cosmos is permeated by bliss. Bliss is the very texture of this cosmos. However this is the experience of my life that if one can keep his inner instrument attuned only then one can feel the feeblest of vibration anywhere in the world beyond time and space.’ This sentence narrates the methodology of a master. You may take one life or many matters not. Maybe I maybe around or maybe not to witness this happening but certainly one day you will attain. This is my certitude. This is my trust.

Remember you cannot attain without inner purification. No ritual bath, worship, visit to holy places can really purify your inner being. No it can never happen until your ego vanishes. Water can clean the outer dirt. However if your consciousness is full of such sins misunderstandings and misdemeanours then it can only be washed with love for ‘Satnam’ the name of God. Love alone can sanctify your inner being. Love alone can transform you. There is no greater energy than love that can give you a real birth. Allow it to enchant your being. And then a new birth takes out of you.

Nanak says no one can glorify Him. And yet still he goes on without a break. Because in the process of singing, or overflowing one attains to Samadhi! He cannot be described. Yet still glorifying enchants the being. This is not only beautiful instead nectarine as well. It is so blissful that in the process the singer is no more. Instead he dissolves in an unknown ocean. I will continue to overflow erelong because there is no better song, no better melody than being enchanted with EK Onkar Satnam—the life force of Japji Sahib.

His description! His glories are not mere words to entertain you. This is a technique of meditation. His description is the way to drown in His subtleties. Overflowing Him is a way to turn towards Him. Wherever His message overflows pause for a moment to listen! Maybe a drop of nectar may shower in your being. Maybe breaking all barriers of deafness a word may enter you. May be your blind eyes may be filled with light.

This is the reason Nanak goes on singing. As one continues singing you may drown in it. Nanak did not say anything. Instead he sang. Also he used music so that the inner ‘sur’ or tune may establish. Maybe in the musical melody you attain to inner silence. And once you have tasted this you will never forget.

The moment to reach the one everything becomes possible. There are temples of the Hindu trinity. But there is no temple of God. Nanak gave a beautiful name to the temple. He called this ‘Gurudwara’. This is not the temple of God. Instead this is the ‘door of the master’. That is door alone. From the door alone you can come in or exit. Door refers to transcendence. Door cannot be your resting place. You simply pass through Gurudwara—the door of the master. Beyond this door of the master lies the abode or the realm of that which is ‘Satnam’ that whom Nanak calls as ‘Malik’.

Nanak says if the feeling has arisen to pay regards! Heart is ready to pay regards then do this to that oneness:

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Each word of Nanak is soaked with a deep understanding. These are not ordinary words. You can get the literal or philosophical meaning. You can give many interpretations. However the mystical meaning is difficult from your level of consciousness. Nanak is one with God. Nanak is enlightened. He is illiterate in the sense that he does not have university degrees. He is simple. To speak on Japji Sahib needs inner preparation. Only an enlightened one can relive Nanak. This present work in not really a commentary on Nanak’s Japji Sahib instead it is an effort to relive and present the message of Japji Sahib for the future humanity.

My eyes glitter with unshed tears. This you cannot see. But I am sure you can definitely feel such ripples arising in your being and from being to the surface. This is the moment when I have to express my feelings of gratitude towards the entire existence. In particular for you and all those who have been instrumental in making this overflow available to you? I can go on but my feelings for you will not exhaust. It is for you I dived deep within the ocean of divinity to bring the jewel of awareness.

Many friends are knocking the doors of my being. First is the Ultimate Being: the more I overflow the more I feel nothing has been said. Heart never feels contented that enough has been overflowed. Yet still I continue in many ways.

Many masters, saints and sages that have nourished the consciousness and insights need mention. Myriad salutations to you the flowers from the garden of the being!

Beloved Baldev Singh of Montreal, my heart calls out for all that you are to me. No amount thanks can express my feelings for your support and insights.

Dr Rasika Abkote a musician of peer from Pune India, and currently back in India after a two year assignment here on a Government of India ISSR assignment at Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Cultural Co-operation. Sangita Agrawal the Tabla player and exponent of Pakhawaj! Navin the flutist, Purwa Joshi another classical singer of peer need mention. Without their support and renditions the melody would be missing. Our Music director Dr Ajay Joshi, what a beautiful musical composition! Our publishers: ArthorHouse, Thirdy our Representative all have contributed in many ways to make this possible for you.

Only this much I can say to you for now as my final message and the rest you have to allow to happen on its own. Like a beacon light the message or the energy field of the master surrounds you. Just begin to drown in the vastness and serenity of love. The rest will happen on its own.

Swami Anand Neelamber and Swami Dhyan Yatri will continue from here onwards as there a long list of those who have to be acknowledged for their valuable contribution in this work.

However what do you mean to me only I know and I can acknowledge. Therefore:

EK OMKAR SATNAM!!!

SATNAM VAHI GURU!!!

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Introduction

T hese songs of the mystic Nanak are the ancient intoxicating elixir poured into new bottles. And this overflow by Taoshobuddha is still an even newer representation of that ancient mystical alchemy. Taoshobuddha is like a fresh autumn breeze. His insights into the songs of Japji Sahib bring newness and he revitalizes the message of Nanak—that had long been forgotten but preserved in Guru Granth Sahib.

Nanak did not only sing the truth; he lived it. He lived it because he discovered it firsthand. It was not borrowed. This is his central message as well. Truth must be seen to be transforming and enlightening. You cannot come to enlightenment by hearing, believing. You are enlightened by discovering truth and seeing it for yourself.

Taoshobuddha makes the quest for truth a palpable and enticing sojourn to self discovery.

Not all the songs are for everyone. You need only find the song that resonates with your inner being, which is your heart’s calling. Then you drown in the silent symphony of this song and dissolve into the inner mysteries.

Nanak sang on all the major disciplines of his time. And anyone can lead to Truth. Only the inner understanding is needed. Taoshobuddha through his compassionate insight uncovers the inner meaning.

I invite you to delve into these wondrous expositions and drown in the inner silence that is created through the mystical symphony of Japji…

I wish to acknowledge the invaluable contributions of the following persons and their enormous support in putting this work together: Baldev Singh Grewal of Montreal Canada; Davinder Singh Duggal (President of Gurudwara Trinidad Inc), Professor R. L. Hangloo (Chair of Indian Studies, Department of History at University Of the West Indies, Trinidad WI.).

Of these Baldev Singh Grewal went through the entire script and thus extended various suggestions that have gone a long way. Swami Dhyan Yatri; Ma Prem Sutra; Professor Channan Sayan; Dr Hajendra Singh Missan; Dr Ajay Joshi; Ms Purwa Joshi, Dr. Rasika Obkote; Anamika Chakraborty; Sri Karunamai; Joan Allekote; Shalisha Baksh; Mohan Samlal; organizers of various Gurudwaras worldwide; Gurbal Singh Sandhu; the former Indian High Commissioner of India in Trinidad & Tobago Mr. Jagjit Singh Sapra and the current High Commissioner of India Mr. Malay Mishra and other well wishers. All have contributed in numerous ways for the present work.

Satnam VahE Guru!

Anand Neelamber

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THUS BEGINS THE ETERNAL MESSAGE OF

JAPJI SAHIB!

‘Ek Onkar Satnam’

The Heartbeat of Nanak

Section 1

Ek Onkar Satnam—

The Mool Mantra

[1]   The Mool Mantra

[2]   ‘EK ONKAR’ the existential sound

[3]   ‘SAT NAAM’ the explanation of the sound

[4]   ‘KARTA PURUKH’ the Attributes of ‘EK ONKAR’

EK ONKAR SATNAM!

[1]  

The Mool Mantra

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PURPORT: One Universal Creator God! Thy Name Is Truth! Creative Being Personified! No Fear! No Hatred! Beyond death! And beyond Birth too! Self-Existent—cause of His own existence! How one can attain! Certainly by Guru’s Grace alone!!!

THE MOOL MANTRA—THE INVOCATION:

The Mool mantra has two parts the Invocation and the Explanation of the attributes. As is the customary etiquette before one begins the message there is invocation. Invocation comes first. ‘Ek Onkar Satnam’ is the Invocation. This is the essence. The entire Sikh religion is condensed in these three words. After this all that Nanak spoke is the explanation. Not everyone is at the same plain of consciousness as Nanak is. And if that has been the case then there was no need for Nanak. All explanations are needed for your understanding. This is the methodology or Tariqat or the Way of Nanak to bring transformation in you. This is the way for the transformation of human consciousness. ‘EK ONKAR SATNAM’ is the remembrance and salutation of that which is. And there can be no better way than remembering the attributes of that which is. There is a significant difference between the invocation you do and the invocation of Nanak. The words Nanak is using as attribute are his experience.

These are the words of the one who has known. When a master uses certain words there is certainly a difference. In fact it is the master who gives his fragrance to these words. Each word that Nanak has used echoes his fragrance and his being. Nanak experienced his beloved and out of that experience these words overflow.

Before I go into the actual text it is important to know something of the birth of Japji. Only then we will be able to enter the being of Nanak through the message of Japji.

Prelude to the Birth of Japji Sahib

One dark rainy night in the month of Bhadaun (The Indian Name for the rainy month)! Thunder! In between lightening! Periodic pangs of rain. The entire village was asleep. Only the lamp is lit in Nanak’s room. Thunder! Lightening! In between the sound of rain drops falling on the roof breaks the stillness of the night. An indrawn Stillness continues! Total silence! Only the melody of Nanak echoes. Until late that night Nanak continues singing. Night entered the third quarter. Nanak’s mother feared. She gave a gentle knock at the door. Mother Tripta said, ‘Son, go to sleep now. The night is about to disappear. It is almost day break, son go to sleep now.’

Nanak got silent. Same time amidst the dark stillness of the night a bird papeeha echoed the sound PIHU PIHU… . Nanak drew the attention of his mother towards this sound, and said, ‘mother are you listening to the sound of this bird. This bird is not asleep as yet. Its song continues like the Clarian call. Day and night the bird continues its lament of separation with its beloved. I am in competition with this bird. It is calling to its beloved. Then how can I be silent. I will continue to sing as long as this bird continues to call. Its beloved is close by. But my beloved is far. Even if I continue for lives only then I can reach. In love one does not count days.’ And thus Nanak continued singing. Nanak reached to the Ultimate through singing.

Nanak’s path is full of songs. Nanak’s search is unique. Remember Nanak did no Yoga! No Tap! No Dhyan! Nanak simply sang. And thus attained to oneness with the Ultimate! Nanak sang with so much totality that his song became ‘Dhyan’ (meditation). Song became Yoga! Also song became tap or austerities. An ecstatic Kabir sings:

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SURAT KALARI MATVARI

MADHWA PEE GAYEE BIN TAULE!

Nanak is the one who drank

The mystical wine to

Immeasurable quantum!

Nanak continued to sing the rest of the life. Such songs are not the songs of an ordinary singer. These are the songs of one who has known Truth. These songs echo the ultimate experience of Truth or Oneness. These songs reflect the very Being of Parmatma or God or ‘Rab’ as Nanak calls Him. Having drunk Nanak is now overflowing that which cannot be put into words. Only an enchanting heart can feel Nanak and His ENERGY FIELD. The energy of Nanak cannot be destroyed by any means. Only an Enchanting heart can become a medium of communion.

The birth of Japji Sahib

The dark night of rainy season I spoke of earlier, and then Nanak was about 16‐17 years old. When Japji was born Nanak was 36years, 6 months and 15 days old. The night that I spoke of earlier Nanak was an aspirant. That night he was in search of his beloved. Search has just begun. The call for the beloved is continuing—PIHU, PIHU . . . The bird was still calling. Union had not yet happened. The flower has not yet blossomed. But the bud has its beauty, fragrance and aura as well.

Whenever an individual does any act with so much totality that alone becomes the path! Anything done halfway! Be it meditation, cannot lead to ultimate flowering!! If you sing with your whole being! Dance totally! Certainly you will reach. It matters not what you do? What really matters how you do? The question is of your totality.

Just as atom cannot be destroyed so too consciousness can never be destroyed!!!

Scientists have harnessed atomic energy only for destructive purposes so far! But Nanak has harnessed the energy field of consciousness for the transformation of human being! Feel it! Be it!!! Nanak’s effort is the birth of a new man out of you! The integrated, harmonized, and blissful!!! One who lives life beyond duality!!!

JAPJI SAHIB is the announcement of Nanak’s union with God. The bird is now united with its beloved. The lament of PIHU, PIHU is over now. After this solemn union with his beloved JAPJI is Nanak message. Nanak’s compassion overflows through JAPJI. Japji is the Being of Nanak. Japji is the Fragrance of Nanak. Therefore, in the message of Nanak JAPJI occupies a very significant place. Most sublime of Nanak’s message is Japji. Japji is the most authentic, sublime, and the recent message from the UNKNOWN AND UNKNOWABLE.

JAPJI is the first words that overflowed through Nanak after the Union with his beloved.

Events leading to Japji

In the darkness of the night! On the bank of the river! Nanak remained sitting till late in the night along with his disciple and attendant Mardana. All of a sudden Nanak took off his clothes. Without a single word Nanak entered the river. Mardana followed. And kept on asking, what are you doing? Night is cold and dark. Far he went in the river and disappeared from the sight of Mardana. Nanak took a dive. Mardana thought in a few moments Nanak will come out. Nanak did not come out of the river. For five to ten minutes Mardana waited. Then he started searching for Nanak. He started calling. Then he started sprinting along the shore. Where are you? Respond! Mardana felt as if each wave is responding. Have patience! Wait a little longer! But there was no trace of Nanak. Mardana ran to the village. Midnight he woke up every one. Crowd gathered. Everyone loved Nanak dearly. People saw a rare possibility in Nanak. A possibility of blossoming!

In the presence of Nanak everyone felt a different aura. A new fragrance! Flower has not yet blossomed! Yet still the bud has its beauty! And fragrance too! Entire village started crying. People gathered. They searched the entire river. But found no trace of Nanak. Three days passed. It was accepted either Nanak drowned or some animal has eaten Nanak. It was accepted that Nanak died. There seemed to be no possibility of Nanak coming back. Sudden demise of Nanak was accepted. Three days after Nanak appeared from the river suddenly.

As Nanak appeared from the river JAPJI is his first message. Nanak made this announcement. Such is the story. I say a story! A story means it is true and not true at the same time. It indicates truth. And it is not true because it indicates in symbols. And deeper the message is one has to search for deeper and more subtle symbols.

When Nanak disappeared in the river for three days, the story says Nanak appeared in front of his beloved—God. Nanak experienced Totality. He came face to face with God. Found his beloved in front of his eyes. One whom Nanak called day and night through his songs found in front of his eyes. For whom all his songs were addressed! One who was his heart beat! One who was the cause of his existence! Found right in front of his eyes! Nanak is fulfilled. God said, ‘Now you go back. All that I have bestowed upon you, Share the same with people.’ Returning from this communion, JAPJI is the offering of Nanak.

Japji—the first offering

Japji Sahib is the first offering of Nanak after emerging from the river. When I said Nanak disappeared in the river for three days he appeared in front of his beloved. Found the beloved in front of his eyes! One for whom he sang! One for whom he spent sleepless nights! One that existed within him like a deep thirst! Now found him in front of his eyes! Eyes are overflowing with joy. Insatiable quest is fulfilled now! His beloved asked him now to return and share all that He has filled him with.

JAPJI is the first offering of Nanak to humanity. After this communion with his beloved JAPJI IS THE FIRST WORDS THAT EVOLVED OUT OF NANAK! JAPJI IS THE ECSTASY OF NANAK! NOTHING IS MORE SUBLIME IN THE MESSAGE OF NANAK THAN JAPJI! JAPJI IS THE BEING OF NANAK! HIS FRAGRANCE!

This is a story. And I say this is a story. Try to understand its symbols. Until you disappear there can be no communion. What is this paradox! Until you disappear! And if I disappear then who will meet! Who will be in front of God! This you need to understand. You are not what you ought to be. You are not one. You are divided. There is utter confusion and conflict within. You cannot see that a seed is a flower. All this happens because of the false centre-Ego. So when I say until you disappear it refers to the disappearance of ego. Ego has to dissolve. Only then your real face will appear. And remember this is the first criterion. How does this ego disappears it matters not. It is insignificant whether you disappear in the river, or mountains or forests through meditation or devotion. None of these really matter. What really matters is that you disappear. Where and how you disappear matters not. Your very presence is the obstruction. You are the china wall. This is the reason that story says Nanak disappeared in the river. So too you have to disappear. Your ego has to vanish. This takes minimum three days.

This is the reason when someone dies we celebrate ‘Teesara’ or the third day ceremony. For the process of death to complete minimum it takes three days. That much time is needed. So too ego never dies instantaneously. Slowly and slowly it dissolves. And it takes three days. This is the reason there is gap of three days. Nanak disappeared in the river for three days. Nanak remained in the river for three days. Ego dissolved completely. Man exists as ego alone. Ego feels happy, sad, etc. All that you do is the outcome of ego. This happens until ego dissolves completely. Thereafter a new journey begins. Family, friends, and relatives can only see ego. If you are not operating as ego you do not have any existence. Sometimes you would have observed this happening to you as well. We do not have the eyes to see the soul. So it was considered that Nanak drowned or died.

Whenever one begins the inward journey he becomes futile for the outer world. Now he is no more. He does not behave as you are. There is a discontinuity. Past is no more. New is now born. This is the reason that the story has the gap of three days. The symbol of three days!