Suffering

The Yogis Question

Kit kit bidh yog upjai purkha

How does the world come into being?
How does suffering come to an end?

Nanak Answers

Haumai vich jag upjai purkha

The world comes into being, O man,
Through a sense of individuation.
Suffering comes by forsaking the Name.

The gurumukh practices
On the quintessence of divine knowledge.

The Word burns up his ego.
Purity of the Word
Makes his body and mind pure,
So he merges in the true One.

Through the Name
He remains detached
And he enshrines the Lord
Within him.

Without the Name, O Nanak,
Yoga can never be attained.
Deleiberate in thy mind on this and see.