Most people, who have never given a thought to the purpose of life and are not aware of the true path of life, are under the mistaken notion that the sole aim in life is to attain worldly happiness and avoid misery or suffering. Guru Nanak Dev takes cognizance of this fact and remarks that everyone wants happiness - sukh kau maangai sabh ko, and no one wants suffering or misery - dukh na maangai koe. A person who does not take into consideration the higher aim of life and is concerned with matters temporal only does not realise that in his pursuit of sukh - happiness - he acquires not sukh but dukh - misery. Such a person is one who follows his own mind and he is described by Guru Ji as a manmukh. The manmukh is not aware that in his endeavours for worldly sukh all that he gets is a lot of dukh - dukh agla. This is what Guru Ji says:
P.57 Sukh kau maangai sabh ko dukh na maangai koe. Sukhai kau dukh agla manmukh boojh na hoe.
Guru Ji in another part of Gurbani says that by asking for sukh - sukh maangat, we are faced with increasing dukh - dukh aagal hoe. This is because worldly sukh, that one hankers after, leads to indulgence in vekaars. Guru Ji says this is tantamount to weaving a garland of vekaars. All vekaari persons wear such garlands - haar. Without the Lord's naam freedom from vekaars and dukh cannot be acquired - mukat na hoe, because of the love for things and pleasures which are jhoothay, and as such do not last.
P.222 Sukh maangat dukh aagal hoe. Sagal vekaari haar proe. Ayk bena jhoothay mukat na hoe.
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