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Main Section => Inter Faith Interactions => Guru Ki Vani - गुरू की वाणी => Topic started by: tana on July 08, 2008, 06:02:01 AM
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Om Sai Ram~~~
Anand Karaj~~~
Anand Karaj means "ceremony of bliss." The anand karaj is the Sikh wedding ceremony.
Nank satgur jina milya jina pure paya sanjog~~
Oh Nanak,He alone meets the true Guru who has such union pre-ordinated.
Har Pahldi Lav Parvirti karam dridaya Bal Ram Jio~~
In the first round of the marriage ceremony, the lord sets out his instructions for performing the daily duties of married life.
Har doojdi Lav satgur purukh milaya Bal Ram Jio~~
In the second round of the marriage ceremony, the lord leads you to meet the guru, the primal beind.
Har teejdi Lav man chao Bhiya baiagiya Bal Ram Jio~~
In the third round of the marriage ceremony, the mind is filled with divine love.
Har chothdi Lav man sahaj bheya Har paiya Bal Ram jio~~
In the fourth round of the marriage ceremony, my mind has become peaceful,I have found the lord.
So without God's will nothing is possible in this world~~~
Jai Sai Ram~~~
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Om Sai Ram~~~
Translated into English the Lavan quartet or the Sikh epithalamium would read~~~
First Lavan~~~
By the first nuptial circuiting The Lord sheweth ye His
Ordinance for the daily duties of wedded life
The Scriptures are the Word of the Lord,
Learn righteousness, through them,
And the Lord will free ye from sin.
Hold fast to righteousness,
Contemplate the Name of the Lord,
Fixing it in your memory as the scriptures have prescribed.
Devote yourselves to the Perfect and True Guru.
And all your sins shall depart.
Fortunate are those whose minds
Are imbued with the sweetness of His Name,
To them happiness comes without effort;
The slave Nanak proclaimeth
That in the first circling
The marriage rite hath begun.nuptial
Second Lavan~~~
By the second circumambulation
Ye are to understand that the Lord
Hath caused ye to meet the True Guru,
The fear in your hearts has departed;
The filth of selfness in your minds is washed away,
By having the fear of God and by singing His praises
I stand before Him with reverence, The Lord God is the soul of the universe!
There is naught that He doth not pervade.
Within us and without, there is One God only;
In the company of saints
Then are heard the songs of rejoicing.
The slave Nanak proclaimeth
That in the second circling
Divine Music is heard.
Third Lavan~~~
In the third roundabout
There is a longing for the Lord
And detachment from the world.
In the company of the saints,
By our great good fortune,
We encounter the Lord.
The Lord is found in His purit
Through His exaltation,
Through the singing of His hymns.
By great good fortune we have risen.
In the company of the saints
Wherein is told the story
Of the Ineffable Lord.
The Holy Name echoes in the heart:
Echoes and absorbs us.
We repeat the Name of the Lord,
Being blessed by a fortunate destiny
Written from of old on our foreheads.
The slave Nanak proclaimeth
That in the third circling
The love of God has been awakened in the heart.
Fourth Lavan~~~
In the fourth walk-around
The mind reaches to knowledge of the Divine
And God is innerly grasped:
Through the Grace of the Guru
We have attained with ease to the Lord;
The sweetness of the Beloved
Pervades us, body and soul.
Dear and pleasing is the Lord to us:
Night and day our minds are fixed on Him.
By exalting the Lord
We have attained the Lord:
The fruit our hearts desired;
The Beloved has finished His work.
The soul, the spouse, delighteth in the Beloved’s Name.
Felicitations fill our minds;
The Name rings in our hearts:
The Lord God is united with His Holy Bride.
The heart of the Bride flowers with His Name.
The slave Nanak proclaimeth
That in the fourth circling
We have found the Eternal Lord. (SGGS 773 -74)
Jai Sai Ram~~~