Shabd is the Water of Life Again, Shabd is the Water of
Life, that give us immortality and blesses us with life everlasting. I tell you most solemnly,
whoever keeps my Word will never see death.
*61 If any man thirst, let him
come unto me and drink. He that believeth in me…out
of his belly shall flow rivers of Living Water. *62 Once Jesus when passing
through Samaria came to Jacob's Well and sat there awhile when a Samaritan
woman came to draw water and Jesus asked for a drink. But Samaritan as she was, she hesitated to deal with a Jew, and
thereupon Jesus said to her, "If thou knewest the figt of God, and who it
is that sayeth to thee, give me to drink, thou wouldst have asked of Him, and
He would have giventhee Living Water…" Whosoever drinketh of the water
that I shall give him Shall never thirst but the
water that I shall give him Shall be in him a well of
water springing up into everlasting life.
*63 CHRIST In the Book of Jeremiah we
have: For my people…have forsaken
me, the fountain of Living Water. *64 In the Sikh scriptures we
have: The Word of the Master is an
elixir that does away with all desires, The mind gets dyed in Truth
and is forever absorbed in Him. *65 GURU
AMAR DAS Without Shabd the whole
world is in stark ignorance and life goes in vain. It is only a devotee of the Master who gets access to the Water
of Life. The world is in ignorance of
Shabd and life is valueless indeed, O Nanak! Shabd alone is the
true elixir, and a devotee of the Master gets It. *66 GURU RAM DAS The
well of the Water of Life lies within us, but attached as we are to the mind,
we do not know of It nor partake of it.
Like a deer with musk hidden in its navel, we search for It outside all
our life and die in the attempt. Within
the body the Water of Life is surging in fullness, but the mind-ridden do not
taste It; With musk in its navel, the
deer kills himself in endless search for it without. *67 GURU
RAM DAS The stream of life is
gushing within, and by means of Shabd one can approach It and partake of It. The fount of the Water or
Life is bubbling to the brim, One who is really athirst
can get to It by following the Sound.
*68 GURU
AMAR DAS |