Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji · Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji · Ang 8 · Jap
Japji, closing salok: air the teacher, water the father
The closing salok of Japji. It places human life within the natural world, says that conduct is weighed, and ends with those who remembered the Name being freed, along with many others.
- 1ਪਵਣੁ ਗੁਰੂ ਪਾਣੀ ਪਿਤਾ ਮਾਤਾ ਧਰਤਿ ਮਹਤੁ ॥pavan guroo paanee pitaa maataa dharat mahat
Air is our teacher, water our father, and the vast earth our mother.
- 2ਦਿਵਸੁ ਰਾਤਿ ਦੁਇ ਦਾਈ ਦਾਇਆ ਖੇਲੈ ਸਗਲ ਜਗਤੁ ॥dhivas raat dhui dhaiee dhaiaa khelai sagal jagat
Day and night mind us like a pair of nurses while the whole world plays.
- 3ਚੰਗਿਆਈਆ ਬੁਰਿਆਈਆ ਵਾਚੈ ਧਰਮੁ ਹਦੂਰਿ ॥changiaaieeaa buriaaieeaa vaachai dharam hadhoor
Every good and bad act is read out before the judge of right and wrong.
- 4ਕਰਮੀ ਆਪੋ ਆਪਣੀ ਕੇ ਨੇੜੈ ਕੇ ਦੂਰਿ ॥karamee aapo aapanee ke neRai ke dhoor
Our own actions decide who comes close and who ends up far away.
- 5ਜਿਨੀ ਨਾਮੁ ਧਿਆਇਆ ਗਏ ਮਸਕਤਿ ਘਾਲਿ ॥jinee naam dhiaaiaa ge masakat ghaal
Those who held the Name in mind have finished their labour and gone.
- 6ਨਾਨਕ ਤੇ ਮੁਖ ਉਜਲੇ ਕੇਤੀ ਛੁਟੀ ਨਾਲਿ ॥੧॥naanak te mukh ujale ketee chhuTee naal
Nanak says their faces shine, and many others go free alongside them.
Our line is a reading of the intent. For the Gurmukhi source text and reference translations seeSikhiToTheMax and SikhRI's Guru Granth Sahib Project.[DB][EoS]