Sidh Gosht

Excerpts from the Sidh Ghost, a dialogue in which the yogis ask some basic questions on Guru Nanak’s spiritual philosophy.

Hati bati nid na avai

Even while living
In towns and near highways
Remain alert; do not covet
Your neighbor’s goods.

Without the Name
The mind is stilled not,
Nor are our appeties assuaged.
As the guru has shown shops and cities

Within the home of this body,
We trade in Truth,
Reposed in the trance of sahaj.

We eat but little,
We sleep but little,
This, saith Nanak,
Is the quitessence of yoga I’ve found.

Let the Lord’s vision by thy coat,
Thy earring and thy wallet, O yogi.
The One alone pervades
The twelve yogas;

There are size systems of philosophy,
But the Path is one.
Is it through this knowledge
That thy mid is tamed
And it suffers no more blows.

Nanak speaks,
But only through the guru
Will you understand;
In this lies the true way of yoga.

Let the Word within thee be thine earrings,
Rid thyself of ego attachment,
As also of lust ad anger;

The Word of the guru
Will give thee this realization.
Behold thou the Lord
Pervading everywhere;

Make this thy wallet, thy coat.
The Lord is True and True is His Name;
He testifies to the Truth of the guru’s Word.