JapJi Sahib- A Translation - Prof Teja Singh - Raj Karega Khalsa ...

Their words and actions become forceful and radiant with spiritual power. No ordinaryperson can reach that stage (enter that region of spiritual power).There dwell those persons who have complete control over their bodies, riseabove all desires of flesh, and have completely conquered their minds, by rising above allattachment. Their hearts are filled with Divine realization. They see God everywhereand in every created thing. Their mind is immersed in the glory of God; it remainsimmersed in His praise and becomes intuned with the Infinite. This stage of life isindescribable. The glorious beauty of heart and soul of persons who have reached thisstage of life is beyond human comprehension. They rise above death (the idea of deathfinds no place in their heart) and all temptations. Their minds are ever filled with therealization of the Eternal Divine. They ever feel His presence within their heart. TheBhagtas or Devotees of innumerable worlds dwell there (reach that stage of life). Theyare ever immersed in unfathomable bliss, as they have realized the Divine within. Theysee the Divine reality, which is above all form, alignment or colour, pervadingeverywhere. He, the Eternal Reality creates the Universe. His benign presence everrevels in its glory. The various parts of the Earth, and the infinite other worlds with theirsolar systems, all find their place in the Omnipresent sphere of the One-in-All and theAll-in-One. (His Sach-Khand – the sphere of Eternal Truth, is all embracing. The wholeCreation is in Him, and He is in His Creation). This is the final goal, the fourth stage.In short, matter does not exist; the whole creation is the manifestation of theDivine thought. No one can describe them, as they are infinite. There are worlds beyondworlds and creations beyond creations. The whole system is governed by an EternalLaw. The Lord (Eternal Divine) dwells in His creation and revels in its glory. SayethNanak no tongue can describe it. (The description is as hard as steel).In this Pauri, Satguru Nanak gives the essential qualities which are required formeditation on the Divine Name and the realization of the Divine within, in the form of asimile. A goldsmith’s shop is here taken as a model. Let self-control (control over all thesense organs; tongue, nose, ear, skin, etc.) be the furnace, forbearance (remaining calmand charitable under all trials) the goldsmith, reason (the power of judging right andwrong), the smithy, self-knowledge (I am not the body but the Atma) the hammer, thefear of God the bellows, penance (discarding all pleasures of flesh with a burning desireto reach the truth) the fire, heart full of Divine love, the crucible, and Elixir of the Divinename the purified gold (Gold free from all dross).