#1 Tav Prasad Svaiye English Katha - Intro and 1st Svaiya

We are very blessed today,
we're talking about Guru's service.

The greatest service a Sikh can do
is to become a Sikh of the Guru.

When we see the Guru's service,

Maharaj is talking about becoming
a servant of the Guru.

When we give ourselves to a Guru,
then you become a servant.

It is very awkward to become
a servant of the Guru.

Why is seva of the Guru is
very awkward?

Give yourself and then
become his servant.

We get a Mantar when
we become a servant of him,

by taking the Guru's Amrit
that he is given us.

Today we are going to talk a lot
about that as well

because what we started now is
the Katha is now of the Svaiye.

And this is one of the 5 Amrit Bani.

The third one that every Gursikh
must read every morning.

This is prescribed when people
take Amrit from 5 Pyaare,

they read these Baanis.

We have done Japji sahib,
Jaap sahib, and now Svaiye.

There is only 10 Svaiye and
it is the smallest of all 5 Baani.

It is the path from the
'Akaal Ustat.'

Akaal Ustat by Guru Gobind Singh ji
Maharaj.

Maharaj wrote Akaal Ustat.

At the same time as when they
wrote Sri Jaap Sahib.

You can see Jaap Sahib comes first,

and then comes one part of
Akaal Ustat of the Svaiye.

the some people started saying stuff
like 'Oh it's not Amrit Bani.

If it makes Amrit,
then it is Amrit Baani.

It can't make
something that is not Amrit Bani.'

Akaal Ustat is Amrit Bani.

Nowadays, we say Sikhi is
three things.

Many people say Sikhi is Naam Jap,
Vand Chak and Kirat Kamai.

But Saadh Sangat ji,
this is Giani Giaan Singh,

and Bhai Vir Singh made that
one up.

They summarize Sikhi with those 3 things.

In the older days they used to say,

Pooja Akaal ki, Parcha Shabad ka,
Didar Khalse ka.

that's what siki used to be those those

three things were how they would

describe

sik sik is first thing Puja Puja means

worship Puja

a a call call meaning

time so the one who is AAL is the one

outside of time that means because

outside of time he's always at the same

time he's not like us that every second

we move from time to time he's outside

of it so the r has been true at the

beginning true when the time started and

then true now and true forever always

just true if you look at R it's always

such there's never a

situation replace him we we're not such

like that we'll come and go we are

call we we die from Kal but he is

a and also call means not just time but

death so he's AAL he's cannot be killed

Puja AAL to worship that which is

outside of time to worship that which is

Immortal cannot be killed

Puja and

then we're sitting here

inur M says

the is where God is now if you look at

Islam they will say that they bow down

to the cabba but that's not where God is

but some of them did get confused when

went there and they said ke oh that's

this that's where the house of God is

and then Mar said no God is everywhere

but a sick is perfectly able to say that

God is everywhere and also God is in

gur because

is like God to us why is Guru Shabad

like God to us when Guru Shabad comes to

our house if guruji came to a house we

treat it like God came to our house that

that house might never have been cleaned

as much as on that day when gurab you

comes to that house huh then what else

everything that you don't want to have

in that house on that they disappears

yeah and those families that aren't

already live living the siky that house

gets a vacuum clean and a purification

of all the stuff you don't want to have

there because God's coming

it gur gr G for us is a Kal if you were

to carry god with you anywhere where

would you put him on top of your

head the G travels on top of the head of

the

gur so Puja AI then

sh we said is God but in the sh form in

the written

form

means to look inside something to

actually read it read it again and again

and find God in there so the end

of you want to find God says look in the

shab so a sick doesn't have to go

anywhere but the Shabad

itself and then

says means to have the

vision who we going to go and find we

want to meet our Guru where we're going

to go and meet him we're going to find

him by worshiping God find him inside

the Shabbat but also we're going to find

him in the

kala the kala is guru's form we want to

ask our Guru a question then we can go

and ask the kala a question the problem

is now we talked about last week is the

kala is hard to

find the world wants the the of the kala

the seeks want to see the kala but the

kala is hard to find because a kalsa has

gone back to being 9 to5 Jo

blogs yeah the KSA is no longer seen

when things go wrong in the world there

ain't no kalsa Army I was talking to my

little one I said to him you know what

the problems in the world wouldn't it be

nice wouldn't it be nice if this Cara

Army went and solve those problems and

he goes yeah I said shouldn't they do

that he said yeah I said you know what

there isn't one there is no kala Army to

go and solve the problems of the

world he's a bit sad and I want him to

feel that

look because I want him to think then he

should do it you when he gets older he

should feel that do and do something

about it and last week a lot of us were

quite upset about the things that are

going on in our

P but this is called keep pun that D to

feel the D of the pun to feel the pain

of the problems in the pun is a first

step to a solving the

problems if you've got no D for the

problems how can you even take a step

toward solving them up then the person

does something if it's a problem outside

you know you hear about oh this has

happened that's happened it's a

statistic in the newspaper when we feel

that pain ourselves then we will do

something about it so says this is

sik and then

finally so if the if the p is not

inspired well we've got Shabad but maybe

we're not looking into it yeah we've got

a maybe we not worshiping a and finally

maybe we can't see the kala and that

might be part the

problem now these things they're

actually the same as when Guru Goin sing

G was asked mahaj what are you by n ask

Guru Go

sing what are you and Guru Go sing

Maharaj said I have three forms they say

s nun and gur

shab and they said

to these are my three forms the ones we

just talked about cuz the nun form is

AAL a and is a form of Guru as well

because by gashi describes G Maharaj

asaba duabi mardana that he is a form of

a so Guru is our Puja cuz he is a he's

not subject to life and death look he

lived in 10

lives is he subject to life and

death who in this in this world can say

that they've lived 10 10 lives

consecutively can say that Sor they all

call themselves

n

then Shabad is Guru Guru is a

Shabad so to find Guru you look in Guru

find Guru simple is't it find his words

so maybe if we didn't search that means

maybe we're not doing of shab as

well all we want to do is join people to

B here that's what we bring people say

learn about Bon cuz that's

Guru then the

final M said that he's got three forms s

n shab form is kala the physical form is

a

Kala and even J confirms these three

things some people say said

it

says want to find what Guru

is

says the sound that that sound which is

the primal sound is inside every single

person is

actually

a he is in the sound he is inside all of

us he's not just inside me you and not

the people out there that are not seeks

every single person has that nod the

light of God inside them the Primal

sound Mar says in

B in

says in every single heart is that n of

God when gurug describes that third form

of them the nun form they say the same

two letters cut cut inside every single

heart is that light of

God now God is Not Just light you see we

start thinking about God being light God

is also sound n can't describe him as

one thing somebody ask what do you mean

by light I said it's analogy it's not

actually light when we cut the body open

we can't actually see a little Shining

Light inside someone it's analogy so

another thing you could say is

everybody's got the sound inside them

and that sound is God just like the in

the Bible they said in the beginning was

a word and the Word was God God is sound

as well

n and then bani

says

and everybody God speaks the sound of

God is inside

everybody now also the V what is the V

guku

Guk V means the knowledge the wisdom the

shab we've got the same thing here

Guk vade means wisdom guru's wisdom is

written down for us in the Shabad and

finally

that person who listens to the sound the

Primal sound inside them who listens to

the to the actual Shabad of the wisdom

of Guru finally becomes absorbed in why

Guru become absorbed in Guru and they

become the physical form of Guru

gur

so all of this is about Guru you see

gurbani is Guru the Shabad is Guru and

Guru is a called R that's why we can

happily say we worship our Guru some

people get this a bit confused outside

they start saying oh you guys we don't

worship our Guru Guru never said worship

me but Guru arjan G mahaj is saying

clearly gur

Puja Guru is My Worship gur goind

gur Guru

pagant Guru is all these things don't

reduce Guru there's no need to reduce

Guru to what people say he is that he's

a person make him the biggest thing in

your life make him the most important

person in your life he is God he is a

rub says

next means you can't even see him he's

that deep we can't even get him he's

that deep that's why when he says guruk

gur then

says all these deities that people were

praying to before Mar says Guru is

bigger than all of

those and then G and every single day

bows to Guru nanak he's thear of kug

yesterday we were doing parar in Street

parar in Eid and this Hindu guys are

said are you seik he said no and he said

I said do you go g he goes yeah so he

was a Hindu go I like going to G so I

gave malif we're talking and I said who

is thear of kug

then and he

stopped I about do you believe in

Krishna yeah believe in rah

yeah Vishnu yeah but who

kug they haven't got an answer they're

still waiting for kug ofar but kug ofar

is already here is gurunanak Kal

gurak it's not the case that we've come

from

Hinduism said the Hindus haven't woken

up that thear of is already

here B is telling us they

say says

in that's comes up in

means with a dog with some kind of

mistake that Guru is pure God is pure

and

then again means without any single

mistake our Guru is a very form because

he makes no mistakes he is

perfect so Guru is that being We Can

chant his name and get MTI just chant

his name we could say gurak and if you

could just chant that we would get MTI

he's that

powerful so let's go back to so why I

said why I going to AAL this

Puja and is that gur Go's given a how to

do praise of

AAL when I worship AAL has given us a

whole Bary about

worship means to

praise and they wrote it when they were

16 years old actually very

young now in

this there's two although they said it

when they were 16 when they were about

20 years old twice Guru go singi said

this

B some people

call some people call

or because there as well sing now this B

was said twice on two occasions that we

should learn know about because mahaj

felt it appropriate at that time on a

historic occasion to utter this B as an

answer to somebody like you know

somebody might come up and ask you a

question you might give them a bon that

you know about when two times Guru go

said this B is an

answer the first

time very story it was when somebody

called Rattan R Raja ratan Ray came to

meet him now who was he came

to in they then moved

to he was a son of somebody called Raja

Ram Singh now Raja Ram Singh he wasn't a

sing like where sings they know it was a

common sering back then for the Kings

Raja Ram Singh he didn't have a son

and T Guru bahad G had come to that

place where rajar Ram Singh was from I

think he was from down south he was from

Assam all the way out

there and he came to Guru sharan hoping

to get blessed now our Guru

is he can fulfill all our

desires so when they came when he came

to Guru he didn't

ask he kept quiet

R to

ask but when they put in Maraj said to

Himi he kept quiet and somebody said he

he's become old now but he hasn't got a

kid so he wants a child obviously the

king would want a son at that time take

over the kingdom as well so Guru bahad G

at that time had a

stamp they took that stamp more and they

put it to that guy's

thigh and they put it in they said see

that Mark you're now going to have a son

and he'll be a sick a sick who take

birth in your place in your house and he

have that mark on his

ma that's the

nishani so in due course a child was

born a boy was born to that King and

they called him

ratan and that was r that came to meet

gurugi at the same time R was born very

similar time Guru gois singj was born to

Guru bhad G cuz Guru bhad was out doing

parar their son was born

in

patas Guru Go sing G we know the story

yeah when P Bika traveled to see Guru

Goin Singh G but same time R was born in

Assam as well now when he got older his

father passed away just like Guru was

Shah in DHI so became the king but you

know how sometimes we forget the

promises you made to our Guru in the

same way ran R's parents stopped telling

him his mother stopped telling him about

that nishani on his mat and what it

meant that he was a sick who' come back

into this life as a blessing of gur bhad

when he got older about 20 years old you

know he started looking at this this

mark on his forehead kept trying to rub

it off it wasn't coming off so he

finally asked his mom he said did I get

into some kind of fight or battle or

something when I was young

who I ever got this mark on my

forehead that's when the mother said to

him K put it's a long story about behind

your birth long story behind that Nishan

it was blessed to you by Guru bahad G

that you are actually a sick and you

were born into this life by His

blessings so ratan R then said I want to

go meet the guru that blessed me to be

born but ratan R found out that gur

become Shahid already so he went to meet

Hees me the 10th Guru so he went away he

went to anur traveled long way to meet

the king of

kings the king he was his King actually

ratan R was a king but Rajan Raja

maharajan Maharaja is our Guru so ratan

traveled then to Anar to meet Guru go

singj Maharaj and when he met

him he came with some gifts now these

gifts are important because the second

time this barning gets read out

is over these gifts you see so he

brought with him a hot PADI it was

called there was a white elephant very

valued by the Kings obviously he' found

out he'd been born this way so he wanted

to impress guruji and this hati could do

CH it's pretty impressive HTI yeah then

also the he brought some chandani

Sandalwood which was made like made a

made a throne over gurus and also he

brought a Shuster which is called a

punch Shuster it's like a Shuster that's

got five weapons within

it so he bought these gifts came to meet

Guru gobis sing G and he asked him for

advice K mahaj you are the guru your

father blessed me to be born give me

some buttin basically when you find out

you should be learning from this person

you go and ask for advice right what

should I

do Guru go sji when they met him they

recognize obviously who they were who he

was straight

away and then Guru said something very

interesting he said look your nishani

has brought you to me that that sign

that nishani of the guru whever guru

doesa is always a nishani we

say Priceless is his and Priceless is

the nishani of that Kira the sign of

that

Kira when you see a good s you you can

see the signs of the of Guru if they got

their on you can

recognize they were blessed by taking

Amit that's the K of guru's nishani and

ra

Ram was then reminded he whever gurus

puts his more that coin has to come back

to him more means a stamp and in fact

that same word more is ex L what Guru Go

sing uses when they talk about

the when mahaj wrote a letter to the the

here now who know about that Hama

because said send

aama and they

said gur saying this is my stamp upon

you as a sick that wherever you go you

cannot hide who you are because a stamp

of Guru shines out

and in fact if we look at our kids now

sometimes people say let the kids keep

their G when they get

older that doesn't make any sense you

see if you're born into a seek family

should keep their Cas from a very young

age so that's a nishani that they belong

to Guru just like ran had it on his mat

then the children should have it on

their head and when they get older

they're going to ask the question mom

why do I have this turban why do I have

this butka they're going to ask their

dad if they don't look different from

other people outside they won't ask that

question so it is a hookum from the guru

and it is in the in

the as well that no sick should cut the

hair of their

child because if other times children

were prepared to be chopped into pieces

and not have their haircut then how can

a sick today bring their own children to

the Barb

if you can't keep your

Cas as a parent B keep the hair of your

child in the old days the Hindus would

give one child to the

pun now you imagine that they doing that

they would keep the case of their own

children for the guru to get the guru's

bakes upon the whole family they would

give one child to the guru because it's

true if one sick if one child in a

family becomes a good sick the whole

family will get blessed it's not the

case that

oh no if one person takes am in the

family the whole family will get

blessed they wanted the blessings of

Guru gois singj they made one sick into

a g SI if we want the blessings of our

Guru then let's not harm the hair on our

own children's head so when they get

older then when Maraj they turn around

and say to gurus sa at least they will

ask before they cut their hair they had

it their whole life at least they will

ask what is siki why should I keep it it

would be easier for that child so to to

remember the story of ratan R the Maraj

said

look this is the nishani of Guru t bahad

g has brought you to become a sick now

and at that time when he asked for

advice then Guru Go sing read out

the it's interesting because in this you

will hear a lot of advice about Raji

you will hear the advice Maraj gives to

Kings that's an important thing to us

all to

remember it talks about losing the love

for the world and becoming attached to

the love of wuru

barag barag has got two parts to it one

is to understand that this world is

false and Only God is real so we lose

the love for the world but we get love

for Guru we get love for God it's not

losing love it's is gaining a much

stronger Love and Other loves pale in

comparison so it's about love it's about

destroying our ahankar our attachment to

the

world and also it tells us what we

shouldn't aim for just like Raja ranra

was then told what he shouldn't aim

for the second time this this Shabad was

read out by gingi was also to another

Raja Raja beem Chand Raja beem Chand

because of these gifts of Guru gois

singi he heard that look at this Guru

he's got an elephant in his chor

side not every elephant could do it you

see but this one that was destined for

Guru Go sing was destined to do that of

Guru Go sing now beem Chand came to meet

gurug Goin sing G and Mar said what do

you want beem Chand cuz Mar said I'll

bless

youur gives to everybody that comes to

his

door

blesses cuz they

are so what happens is beim Chan says M

give me the

elephant what he wanted was that people

would do his vava with the elephant you

see Mar says I can't give you the

elephant it's not for you it's a gift to

me I can't give it to

you so over that thing there was a there

was then later that was one of the

reasons why beim Chand got into a battle

with gur go later on and the Battle of

pangani you go to India you can see

where the battle was fought that battle

was over these things that those people

wanted to get rid of guruji and Mar said

then we're going to take we're going to

have a battle we're not going to back

down now that was the first battle of

Guru Goji beim

Chan and you can see that place little

story about that place that's where gur

was hit by an

arrow that was

there there's a tree there that was

where gurug was standing i' be to that

tree where mahaj was standing is at the

top of a plane they had a good vantage

point from there they could see

everything when they were hit by the

arrow on that tree a little bit of blood

came out G GOI cuz they hit the kamasa

and the kamaras were very strong so they

stopped the arrow cuz it was a far away

far away it was all that he

fired mahaj because the love of that

tree the love of the tree for gurug go

singi cuz they stayed there that tree

every single leaf in that tree has a

hole inside

it and I've seen this tree and I can

tell you every single

pa has a hole inside

it the the Earth Earth loved our Guru

the trees loved our Guru even now that

tree 300 more years later remembers Guru

Go sing G and every single one of his P

has a little hole inside

it so we think of our gurus doing

Miracles the whole world is a miracle

the whole world is a miracle worshiping

our Guru so Mar says they start

off the one the one who made the whole

world with just a sound the one who is

above he is the sustainer the Creator

the sustainer and the Destroyer above

all these three things the one who's

inside us and is

everywhere

vuru let Victory belong to vuru not to

just us but to

vuru D the 10th King the 10th Li of G

mahaj

saying this

is

says is a it's a style like we have do

yeah we have ch we have loads of

different shs in

B is a style and because the style has a

child to singing and every single has

the same child you can sing it in the

same way so read the first one out in

its entirety and then do quick cut of it

says

so you can see there's a little child to

it as

well we should learn that child it will

make it easier to learn read that we

haven't read

before so

says Sak means those monks out there it

means Sak the word isak actually but

it's written here Sak means the monks so

you got monks in every kind of religion

out there Buddhism jism even Hinduism

you got monks they live away from the

world means they keep they keep very

pure if you look at monks they're quite

obsessed with that kind of thing

especially the ones in India obsessed

with keeping

clean Samu Samu means all all the every

single type of Monk in the world that

looks after Purity Mar seen all of

them and then this word Sam is like a d

deep is called means it's a word that's

in between two parts of B it applies

this way and that way

so

and Sid it applies both ways sidan means

a sidas the SIDS all the SIDS in their

houses Sid on in their houses M

says they've means to see means to

wander around they've wandered around

they've seen all the houses of these um

J the joogies and the jti those people

who have won over their bodies they won

over their senses they would never get m

married they were called jti in those

days jatis so they've seen all the

houses houses means the dairy the dairy

of these people Mar means I've seen the

whole world seen all the monks seen all

the jois seen all the JIS they travel

around they seen these people

says Sur Sur means the

Warriors

suran this word

suran means the first word means Sur Sur

meaning the

de Aran means the people that hate them

their enemies like

says means the enemies of so who are the

enemies

of the Demons yeah said that they made

the they made the and and and the demons

and between them they made enmity so God

did that so the enemies of the Sur are

the so the he can mean also the de and

their enemies which are the demons

Sur sudik sud again people who are

trying to become pure sudik sud

means here not sud but sud the word sud

means

that's why

means so the sud these people they drink

they live off the so they don't eat sud

they are their support is sud their

support isit so they don't eat drink

normal food they live

offit they've seen the they've seen the

Warriors of the world they've seen those

Souls that don't even eat anything they

live up in the mountains maybe they've

seen those people that are Sons you got

loads of suns nowadays yeah all over the

place popping out more Sunset Punjab

than people probably then an an means of

all the different types all the

different types

an an means in infinite MTI means the

wisdom the thought the kind of belief

system out there all of them Mar says

they've seen all these people

then they've seen the whole world but

they haven't seen one

person the all the countries in the

world Guru go says they've seen now we

might think they never travel that much

M isami they seen everything there's

nothing that's invisible to Guru

then they said they say see all these

places then

but

prti pranti means the husband of our

breath

Prana the husband the husband Lord of

our breath who gives us breath

PR M says I seen the whole world no one

belongs to God the word K is important K

they belong to God everybody thinks God

belongs to them in it no one says I

belong to God you see everybody thinks

they got Cubs over God and we got God

you ain't got God you got to join us to

get

God m is saying no one says we belong to

God what is the kala say

thenua I we belong to wuru and then they

say what do we work

foru

look how just put it right in the very

beginning we belong to we work

foruu belongs to us anduru works for us

no we work for them that's actually what

becoming Amari means you now work for

God

congratulations SRI

Pagan s means shom shom Pagan means

Pan the only one true one is Vu

God if we have and k p means love kppa

means the well Grace if we have the love

and the

grace who who means is there if we have

then what

happens then we become absorbed here

means to be absorbed in

God b b means if we didn't have it then

if we didn't have the love and the grace

of guu what would be what would be our

worth we're not even worth one little

bit of pess you know they have coins RTI

was a small smallest form of coin it can

be also like a dust almost like

worthless M saying if we don't have the

love and the grace of

auru then you may may as well be like

dustan then we become absorbed with God

we can't get to God unless we have these

two things P love and

K Kira means Grace that God is happy

with us we love God but God must also be

happy with us then then we

become we become absorbed in the love

for

God but without these

things we're going to do a sh now and

next week we'll go on a bit further into

this meaning of what does it

mean what is the way to get this love

what is the way to have the

ofu Mar

says as

a we listen to the sound inside us of

God by

saying listen deep this n will come

alive and then M says my friends n

will call us our friends in this B many

times yeah he says listen everybody

without love you can't find God so how

do we find God by saying the name n is

love

such the love we have to speak in the

language of

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so as says in

this that should be our state the only

way to get to that

state is to keep on doing it I wanted to

tell you a story quick Story one minute

story s Manis Singh was a UK mahur

somebody from this country very

spiritually high

State and some lady came to him once she

said I want to become a g I want to feel

God I can't feel

God I can't feel my spiritual State

isn't going high he

said she said I've done that a

lot and S Singh said that means she

didn't even do at

all is

not and we should get it by now it's

about keep on doing it keep on doing

it if somebody s said if somebody says

that I've done enough of it that means

they didn't even do it in the first

place because J the person who gets that

level they don't

say they say

m

the fish doesn't isn't content in the

water the fish is even more hungry for

the

water if somebody had done M properly

they would always say I haven't done

enough I need more I need more I need

more I need more they will never

say that's why he said you haven't even

done it at all BBG that's the truth

about us if we get tired of Simon that

means we haven't even done Simon yet or

at least Simon hasn't even done us

yet Simon does us over we feel the

effects of it that's the value of n we

have to experience

God within the water kab G says I feel

even more fire for n for that water

while we're in N we want even more

n the mapor never said there are enough

n they said I wish I had more time we

had more time at the end of that finish

off says I a brand new

disciple Tak now that mean yesterday

she's

Nora she's a brand new cha but we all

brand new if you get to this state of

kab G we will feel that we just started

on this path we've done nothing yet we

done nothing

yet that's how State should be not we

just started but those people that think

the basics isn't for them is saying I

just started on this

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says I could die any minute now now just

meet me our for should be the same If I

Die Tomorrow having not taken am that be

the worst thing ever who knows we going

to survive till next

week you know what car crash is like

don't get scared what I'm saying is we

should be loving sik that

much so we're going to finish off there

luckily we're going to do simmer now cuz

uh you can't get here they're going to

do lot of sim so my B is stay for a

little bit if we're going to

say's let's sayu with them yeah so let's

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