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Amrit:
What It is Froma
careful study of the scriptures, we learn that the Water of Life or the Nectar
is nothing but the Word or Logos of Christ; Naam or Shabd of the saints; Kalma
of the Muslims; and Nad of the Vedic Rishis. Amrit
is the True Naam (or Word), But
it cannot be described in words. He
who tastes of It by attuning with the Word is accepted at His Court. *6 GURU
RAM DAS O
dear self, Amrit is the Hari Naam, And
one gets access to it through a Master-soul.
*7 GURU
RAM DAS The Word of God is the
elixir of life and is a panacea for all the ills of the world; Bhikhan says, it is with the
Grace of the Guru that one finds a Way to Salvation. *8 BHIKHAN Master's Word is pure
ambrosia, A draught of It quenches all
thrist. *9 GURU
AMAR DAS The treasure of the Word is
the Water of Life (Amrit), Drink ye, my brothers, to
your heart's fill. *10 The Way to the Necatian
treasure of Word (Truth) one finds through a saint, Blessed are the saints who
are ever devotedly in tune with It. *11 GURU
ARJAN Amrit becomes manifest by
devotion to the Master, O Nanak! Shabd is the Nectar
of Life, And a rare devotee of the
Master partakes of It. *12 GURU
RAM DAS The Limitless Song (Anahd
Bani) has an ambrosial effect, It lulls both the body and
the mind to a quiet repose. *13 GURU
ARJAN O Thou who makes manifest
the elixir of Bani within, I make an offering of myself to thee, For thou hast implanted in
me the Amrit Bani (Word) and I remain absorbed in the holy Naam. *14 O God! Wonderful are Thy
ways and means, The mind in the gyres can
hardly understand them. Thou hast attuned it with
the delectable (Amrit) Bani, And the immortal ambrosial
Word (Shabd) is now fully manifest. *15 GURU
AMAR DAS Those who are proud of Thy
Naam are completely saturated withit, O Nanak! there is but one
Amrit (Nectar) and none besides it. *16 GURU
ANGAD The Naam of Hari is the
elixir and a draught of it makes one contented. O Nanak! he who drinks of It
escapes all delusion. *17 GURU
AMAR DAS Whoever deals inm the wealth
of Naam Lives on the everlasting
manna of life. *18 GURU
ARJAN The Word os the Master is
extremely sweet, Such an elixir one finds
within, Whosoever tastes of It, gets
perfected, O Nanak! such a one remains
in perpetual bliss. *19 GURU
AMAR DAS The riches of Word (Truth)
one gets through the grace of a Master, Blessed are the saints who
are ever in tune with it. *21 GURU
ARJAN Amrit is often used for Hari
(God), Hari Kirtan (the Divine Song) and Maha Ras (exhilarating vintage). He alone gets out of desires who engages in
the Word. Hari is the fruit of the Tree
of Life (Amrit-phal) and is a gift from God. False are all the designs
and colors that we see, A drop of the Water of Life
is a blessing that comes from a Sadhu.
*22 GURU
ARJAN Hari Naam alone is Amrit;
commune ye with it through the grace of a Master, Hari Naam alone is Amrit; a
contact with it ends pain and sorrow.
*23 GURU
RAM DAS A rare soul drinks the cup
of divine vintage (Hari ras), O Nanak! he gets the reward
of the Divine Word and thereafter lives by It.
*24 GURU
ARJAN I
sacrifice my all on Him, who implanted the life-giving Naam in me, The
ambrosia of Naam is supremely sweet, One
drinks of it by the direction and Will of the Master. *25 GURU
AMAR DAS The scriptures tell us that
what we call Amrit or the Water of Life is just the same thing as Naam or the
Word. A touch with this divine vintage
gives God-intoxication: Those who wholly depend on
Thy Naam, are completely dyed in Thy color, O Nanak! there is only one
exhilarating vintage and no other. *26 GURU
ANGAD In this age of Kali Yuga,
there is no other Wine but of Amrit. God's Naam is Amrit in the present
Kali age, This wealth one may get by
devotion to a Sadhu. *27 GURU
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