Rest, sit at home, there is trouble in ever travelling.
A place of rest is recognized when men dwell there permanently.
What manner of resting-place is the world?
Tie up the practice of sincerity as thy travelling expenses,
and remain attached to the Name.
Jogis sit in devotional postures, mullas dwell at places
of rest;
Pandits read books; sidhs sit in the palaces of the gods;
Demigods, sidhs, heavenly musicians, munis, saints,
shaikhs, pirs, and commanders
Have gone, stage by stage, and others too are departing.
Emperors, kings, princes, nobles have marched away.
Man must depart in a ghari or two; O my heart, understand that thou too must go.
This is told in hymns, yet few are they who understand it.
Nanak humbly asserteth, God is contained in sea and land,
in the upper and lower regions;
He is unseen, inscrutable, omnipotent, the kind Creator.
The Merciful alone is permanent; the whole world beside
is transitory.
Call Him permanent on whose head no destiny is recorded.
The heavens and the earth shall pass away; He the one
God alone is permanent.
By day the sun travelleth, by night the moon; hundreds
of thousands of stars pass away.
The one God alone is our resting-place, Nanak saith verily.[1]
Upon this the Pir was convinced that the Guru was an exalted spiritual leader.
Chapter XIII
The Guru then turned his thoughts towards Ceylon, and succeeded in reaching that country, where he took his seat in Raja Shivnabh’s garden.
- ↑ Sri Rāg, Ashtapadi.
