Pakistani Classical Singers Shafqat Ali Khan And Sharafat Ali Khan

Waho Waho Gobind Singh, aapay gur chayla
Hail! Hail! Unto Guru Gobind Singh! He is the Guru, and He himself is the Disciple!

Har sachay takhat rachaa-iaa, sat sangat maylaa
Guru Nanak Nirbhau Nirankar, vich sidhaa(n) khaylaa
The Lord created the Throne of Truth, which rests in the Sat Sangat, the Holy congregation.  O Nanak, the Lord is Fearless and Formless; all play in the Power of God.

Gur simar manaa-ee kaalkaa, khanday kee vaylaa
Remembering the Guru, we conquer death.  Now is the time to take up the sword.

Peev-ho paahul khandadhaar, hu-I janam suhaylaa
Drinkin  the Amrit strengthened by the sword, and you life shall be renewed.

Gur sangat keenee khalsaa, manmukhee duhaylaa
The Khalsa, the Pure Ones, belong to the Guru’s Congregation.  the self willed manmukhs are miserable.

Waho Waho Gobind Singh, aapay gur chayla
Hail! Hail! Unto Guru Gobind Singh! He is the Guru, and He himself is the Disciple!
He is the Guru and the disciple!

Guru Gobind Singh(1666-1708), the tenth and the last human Guru in the Sikh religious traditions, has also taught that the essence of man in his unitive nature is “Manas Ki Jat Sabhe Eko Pahahambo”.  Before stating this Guru Gobind Singh refers to the various modes of human faiths and their respective identifying marks. All these, he says are due to the influence of place and time. The underlying essence of all men is one and the same.

I have referred to the teachings of the first and the tenth Guru to underscore the point that inspite of the great persecution of Gurus, during the history of the growth and development of the Sikh religious traditions, the persecution itself did not embitter the Gurus. They saw the same continuity even in the persecutor. The claim to the truth of the essential unity of the human kind was fundamental and higher than any suffering caused by the misguided and the misdirected. I have always remember this message of the Guru as an invitation to go beyond one’s experience of interfaith conflict, and the ensuring suffering and to rise to the higher spiritual experience of oneness which alone is real and comforting.

Divine Mystic Reflections on Gurmat
Talks and Dialogues by the Late Saint Scholar Naranjan Singh Ji (Shiromani Kathakar)
Compiled by the Late Dr Harcharan Singh, Malaysia.