॥ ਜਪੁ ॥ ਆਦਿ ਸਚੁ ਜੁਗਾਦਿ ਸਚੁ ॥ ਹੈ ਭੀ ਸਚੁ ਨਾਨਕ ਹੋਸੀ ਭੀ ਸਚੁ ॥੧॥ ਸੋਚੈ ਸੋਚਿ ਨ ਹੋਵਈ ਜੇ ਸੋਚੀ ਲਖ ਵਾਰ ॥ ਚੁਪੈ ਚੁਪ ਨ ਹੋਵਈ ਜੇ ਲਾਇ ਰਹਾ ਲਿਵ ਤਾਰ ॥ ਭੁਖਿਆ ਭੁਖ ਨ ਉਤਰੀ ਜੇ ਬੰਨਾ ਪੁਰੀਆ ਭਾਰ ॥ ਸਹਸ ਸਿਆਣਪਾ ਲਖ ਹੋਹਿ ਤ ਇਕ ਨ ਚਲੈ ਨਾਲਿ ॥ ਕਿਵ ਸਚਿਆਰਾ ਹੋਈਐ ਕਿਵ ਕੂੜੈ ਤੁਟੈ ਪਾਲਿ ॥ ਹੁਕਮਿ ਰਜਾਈ ਚਲਣਾ ਨਾਨਕ ਲਿਖਿਆ ਨਾਲਿ ॥੧॥
Translation in English :
Then O Sikh, the searcher after Truth; meditate on His name, who was real and self-existent before all creation, who was real through all ages (Yugas); who is real and true now, and shall be true and self-existent for all times to come.
In this Pauri Sat-Guru Nanak enumerates the various paths that were practiced by persons for attaining at-one-ment and peace of mind; and shows their inefficacy – By mere thinking and intellectual reasoning true wisdom (the realization of the Divine within) cannot be attained, though one goes on thinking millions of times.
By merely keeping one‟s mouth shut and remaining tongue tied; one cannot restrain the mind from wandering in all directions, although one may maintain superficial silence for a very long time, like the heron or the cat watching for its prey.
By mere fasting, one can not overcome the desire of indulging in the ephemeral pleasures of the taste and tongue; though moved by this fasting the world may bring to him all the rich dainties of the whole created universe.
Thousands of intellectual flights cannot take one to the Realm of Truth (True wisdom of the realization of the Divine within).
Q. Then how shall one be at-one with truth and how shall the veil of ignorance (selfishness, worship of flesh and blood) be removed?
Ans. O searcher after Truth intune thyself with the Eternal Law which controls the whole universe, ever since its creation, and which is embedded in the very depths of the human soul.
Note: - However much depraved a person may be, the still voice within warns him at every wrong step; but his confirmed habits of wrong actions carry him away.
In the human stage of evolution every one gets the power of judging the right from the wrong. This power is engrained in every human soul. This innate power coupled with righteous actions and the company of God conscious persons who show the path of Divine Realization through meditation on the Divine name, intunes one with the infinite. One becomes at-one with the Divine Law.
He submits to the Divine will under all circumstances and gets freedom from egoism. The sense of mine and thine, which forms the dark curtain of ignorance and is a bar to self-realization, is eradicated and a spiritual link established with all mankind and the created universe.
Jap Ji Sahib is the essence of the teachings of Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scriptures of the Sikhs. It deals with the main ideals which should guide a Gursikh, “A searcher after Truth”; under the directions of the Satguru.
How can we realize the truth?
This Pauri at first deals with the methods and practices generally in vogue but which do not lead to realization and peace. In the end Satguru Nanak gives his own method. Be at-one-with the Divine Law, innate in the human mind.
