Most Gurbani translations are shallow, even incorrect, fake and false

Dassan dass ji :

The explanations of GURBANI given are very shallow and incomplete and inaccurate in the posts that are pulled from net.

Many a time these are not correct and wrong.

So the best thing to do is to focus on the Shabad and try to understand what it says. Then you will understand the deep meaning of the Shabad.

When you understand the meaning then relate the meaning of the Shabad to your own bandgi.

And write down the meaning in your own words based on your own experience of the Shabad.

This way you will earn the Shabad and its essence will be carved in your hirda.

From your writing others will be benefitted.

Love sat in the guru

Love satnaam, then satnaam takes baba ji's form to bless you.     But if love baba ji, then satnaam stays back, and you don't have visions of baba ji either.  Love SATNAAM in baba ji.

Truth is always with us. Mind repeat it. Do Truth.

Ik onkar sat Naam

Baba ji said to us when we were down last year "sat sada ha naal.  Jup mun. Kar sat."  

Meaning

"Truth is always with us.  Mind repeat it.  Do Truth."

So do satnaam when you are free.   When you are working, do it truthfully.   When you are with family, do it it lovingly.   Don't let mind sit idle and get into complaints and laziness.   Baba ji said work off your depression, go for walks, stay busy in service,do satnaam. However many days of darkness are written you have to walk through them.  So remember sat is with you always and bear your karma, without making more bad karma by complaining and bad deeds and bad thoughts. That will only saw more dark says of depression.

Sat sat sat sat sat sada ha naal. Jup mun. Kar sat. Sat sada ha naal. Sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat

Ardas for a wandering mind

By- Dhan Dhan dassan dass ji

Do this ardaas everytime you sit for simran.
Repeat this ardaas again and again.
Specially for those whose mind wanders too much when they sit for simran.
This will bring your mind back to stability and focus on simran.

ARDAAS:
Apney naam vich rakh,
Aapni bandgi vich rakh,
Apni seva vich rakh,
Apni mahima vich rakh,
Aapney hukam vich rakh,
Aapni charan sharan vich rakh,
Apney rangan vich rakh,
Aapney bhaney vich rakh,
Aapney simran vich rakh,
Aapni kirpa vich rakh,
Aapney gurparsaad vich rakh,
Nimarta vich rakh,
Hirdey di garibi vich rakh,
Daya vich rakh,
Nirbhaorta vich rakh,
Nirvairta vich rakh,
Satguru di seva vich rakh,
Satguru dey charna vich rakh,
Satguru di mahima vich rakh,
Satguru di kirpa di seva sambhalta vich rakh,
Satguru dey bhaney vich rakh,
Satguru dey hukam vich rakh,
Sari shristi dey charna di dhool vich rakh,
Simran vich rakh,
Samadhi vich rakh,
Rom rom simran vich rakh,
Swaas swaas simran vich rakh,
Shukraney vich rakh.

Keep me absorbed in :
Your Naam,
Your loving,  devotion,
Your Seva,
Your Praises,
Your Command,
Your Lotus Feet shelter,
Your Love,
Your Will,
Your Remembrance,
Your Grace,
Your Eternal blessings.

Keep me absorbed in :

Humility,
Poverty of heart (empty of desire) ,
Compassion,
Fearlessness,
Hate for no one,
The Service of the satguru,
The Foot shelter of the satguru,
The Praises of the satguru,
The Grace of the satguru,
Not losing seva of the satguru,
The sweet Will of the satguru,
The command of the satguru,

Keep me :

As dust of the feet of each creation,
In Your Remembrance,
In Your Merger,
With Naam in each cell,
With Naam in each breath,
Always thankful (never complaining or blaming).

Meaning of ram, name of God.

Sat Naam

Ram was a satguru of a past age.   Kabir ji said in gurbani that when I say Ram I don't mean the one who was born, I mean the one who is eternal.    So the name Ram  is used in gurbani like we use the word God in english to refer to the higher being.  Because in the times of the ten gurus most people called God as Ram.   

Ram means raamia which means the one who is embedded in all.     Ram is the most commonly used name in gurbani for God.  You can imagine the verses of gurbani were heard by mainly hindu people so they knew Ram meant God.

Each verse of  gurbani was uttered for the sangat infront of the guru at that time.  So there are many different languages in gurbani, although they are all written in the gurmukhi font.   

There are hundreds of different names for God.   Each name describes one of God's qualities.    Gobind means world protector.  Gopal means world cherisher.  Waheguru means wonderful God,  and so on.  These are called praise names, or kirtam Naams.    Because when the devotees where intoxicated in the love of the Lord, they praised his qualities.    So the devotee who saw God absorbed in everything was saying God you are raamia in everything, you are ram ram ram ram ram ram.    

One day kabir ji was doing "ram ram ram..." intoxicated in love and it turned to "kabir kabir kabir... " then he asked the Lord "ram ji I was saying your name and now I am saying my name, why?"   and the Lord replied "ram and kabir are one now.  Ram kabir Ek ha."     

So praise names done with love can also take us into samadhi and intoxication and to God's door.    

The same happened with Sat baba ji. They didn't know what Naam was but heard Gods sweet voice telling them to do Naam "Naam simran kar."   They thought, "I have to go to the gurdwara to do that." They started by just clicking their tongue whilst doing seva.  Over time they started doing "waheguru waheguru"  with love for the Lord and went into samadhi.  Over more time God blessed them and said, "you can start your own group now and give them these five names(panj shabad) of mine to do simran upon."

Baba ji said one of those names was baba jis worldly name too, "narinder".     Just as ram kabir became one. So did waheguru and narinder.    But baba ji was wise,  and had deep thirst to know God fully and no desire to start an organisation and get his own name repeated.    In Hinduism all gods and goddesses have a guru mantra.  And in that mantra they give their followers is their own name.   Eg "om namo shiva"  is done by shiva followers.  

Guru Gobind Singh ji said which ever bhagat God sent into the world had meditated on God (satnaam)  but getting merger with God them got their own name worshipped. Instead of telling followers to worship the name of the one God same as they did (sarnaam).   But the ten guru jis said, "may know one no my name and the name of the one God is Truth, ik onkar sat Naam." Sat is the Naam,  sat Naam.  

Coming back to baba ji they said to God in love, "I have seen my past four lives and I had religious  organisations (dera), this time I only want to know you."  then baba jis bhagti went even deeper and they said "the pebble (baba jis soul) pierced the diamond (God)"   and god said to baba ji, "my original name the one I chose for myself is sat, Truth, five that to the sangat."    

"kirtam Naam jihba teree Katha,
Sat Naam tera pura purbla. "
With the praise names I describe you with my tongue.
But sat Naam, the name sat/Truth, is your original name.

Guru arjun dev ji.

So baba ji has started with praise names,  gone through the whole inner journey, and is authorised by God to give the highest, original name,  Sat.      Even beyond Sat naam,  is pure silence. Baba ji said that satnaam is just to beat your mind, after that mind is replaced by light  and silence.     

So we are all very blessed by Baba jis great earnings to start our journey with Sat naam and not have to go through listening to verses and reciting prayers and praise names and names of lesser God's. It's all dhan baba jis great earnings shared with us. Satnaam satnaam satnaam satnaam.

God doesn't give pain to anyone

Satnaam

Gur preeto:

If you really want to bless someone on this path, give them these types of blessings. God bless all with physical pain and emotipnal suffering.   God bless all with heartache and loss.   God bless all with serious ailments.   God bless all with financial losses and loss of reputation.  God bless all to experience failure,  hunger,  depressions and hopelessness.       Then God bless everyone to fall to their knees to break ego's spine and fall to his feet.   Comforts are a sickness, suffering is the remedy. Whilst there where comforts God wasn't there. Dukh daru sukh rog bhaaya ja sukh tam na hoi.

Pritam anand ji :

Satnaam ji never gives pains to no one only we sowed in past now time to reap better we reap happily.  We got human birth and we are in the playing field of karma to balance our karma. 

But, GURPREETO JI SAYING RIGHT UNTIL NO ONE FALL TO KNEES NO ONE ASK BANDAGI.

We are on sat path better we ask sarbhat da bhalla. Everybody carrying own basket of dukh and sukh under the law of karma. To make our self detached from all we  can say KUL MERI MAR JAWAY DEH MERI GAL JAWAY VISRAY NA SACHA NAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM. Satnaam ji give me all sicknesses and pains of this universe.  UJAR JAYAE GHAR MERA SDA SDA VASAY GHAR TERA.

All of us  carrying basket of dukh and sukh. Only we have to do DUKH SUKH EKO JAAN.

SUKHI VASAY MORO SAT PARIVAARA SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM JI BLESS ALL WITH POORAN BANDAGI AND SAT SEWA JI. GIVE ALL STRENGTH TO FIGHT WITH OWN VICES AND KEEP EVERYONE UNDER YOUR SAT CHARNS.

Deh meri gal jaay
kul meri marjay
tera naam na VISRAY.
Even if my body rots, my family d especially, may I not forget your naam.

When any pain come in our lives never complain never give up we sowed in past and now time to reap. We can not run away from the pains we have to face the pains.  JO DUKH KO DUKH NA JANAY SO  KAHIAT HAI SOORA 

Who accept pains happily and say TERA BHAANA MEETHA LAGAY NAAM PADRATH SANGAT MANGAY SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM JI.

Sat babaji says who complain about own pains writing new  karma. JEH TU AKKAL LATEEF HAI MARAY LEKH NA LIKH. BETTER WE STOP COMPLAINING AND DO SAT SIMRAN AND SAT SEVA.

DUKH VICH SUKH MANAEE SDA SUKH PAAYEE .

Dukhs make us stronger and teach us how to face dukh next time.

Never give up,
never be tired,
never be fed up,
never regret,
never complain,
never ever give room
to any negative thought
in our minds
only Satnaam satnaam satnaam satnaam satnaam satnaam satnaam satnaam satnaam satnaam satnaam satnaam satnaam satnaam satnaam satnaam satnaam.

IK GHARI NA MILTAY KALJUG HOTTAA
Even a moment without you is an age darkness for me.

Satnaam ji never give pains to no one only we sowed in past now time to reap better we reap happily.  We got human birth and we are in the playing field of karma to balance our karma. 

When we don't do sat simran and no earning sat bachans we are inviting more pains because we are going against the hukam. A VAN JAVAN EKO HUKAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM. First we have to follow the hukam then hukam will accepted by satnaam then we will get place in sat house.  HUKAM MANIYAA HOVAY PARVAAN TA KHASAMAY KA MEHIL PAYAE SEE

Every day we eat to keep this body alive some time spicy some time sweet sometime medicine like qunion. Qunion is bitter but we take to get better. Dukh and sukh we have to make one and we do sat simran. PRABH KA SIMRAN SABH TAY UNCHA SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM SATNAAM JI

Soul food is Truth better we feed our soul with sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat sat

We can not run away from our own pains and problems we have to face them happily and Sacha Naam na Visray visar jayae sansaar. When we see dukh and sukh as one means mind swing stopped means no more dubidaa.

Dandout bandana ji to one and all ji satnaam ji bless all ji satnaam ji bless all with pooran bandagi and sat sewa ji satnaam ji tuhi tuhi bakshanhaar jio sda sda satnaam ji.

Gur Preeto :

Thankyou preetam ji,  you are right satnaam ji doesn't give pain to anyone. So how can we ask him to bless everyone with pain.  It was wrong prayer. Thankyou foe enlightening us.  So much deep compassion you have for all.

SAT is the NAAM

Ik onkar sat Naam Sat gurparsaad param jyot puran prakash Dhan Dhan sat parbrahm pita parmesar bless all.

Satnaam is actually two separate words.   
"kirtam Naam jihba teree Katha, sat Naam tera pura purbla.  

PRAISE  Naams (names) are describing you with my tongue,
but SAT Naam, the name SAT,
is your original name."   

Guru Arjun Dev Ji

Baba ji said SAT/TRUTH is the name of the light, (prabh jot prabh naam), is pure God,   but Naam is just part of the shadow, just describes that SAT is the Naam.  

No one can do simran.  No one can get up early and sit for long hours. No one can  go go into samadhi and merge into  the light unless God himself makes us do his simran.   And if we find someone who has been blessed like that, then fall at their feet so we too may be blessed.

"Se simreh jin aap simrahi.
Nanak ta kau lago paai."

.. Dhan Guru Arjun Dev ji.