Sri Akal Ustat

Gyani Sant Singh Ji Maskeen

Translation by daas prabhjot singh [prabh.singh@gmail.com, pjs @sikhsangat.com forums]
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Let sincere faith be yourbowing in prayer, and let the conquest of your mind be
your objective in life.

Wherever I look, there I see Gods !resence. ""#"" $%hagat &abir 'i, (ng )*,
+GG+ 'i,
If one bows $in front of +atguru,, but has no faith in doing so then understand that one is not
present in the moment, but Waheguru surely is. In reality, the showers of (mrit are always
pouring around us- it is just that we dont have the vessel to collect it in. If Waheguru 'i have
not been realised yet, it does not mean .e is or was not not available- rather we are not
present to receive .im. /hus, whenever one does not feel the 0ass while reciting %ani, it
should be inferred that ones consciousness is not present and that one could not be with
Waheguru in that moment. It is certainly not the case that bani or simran is sometimes full of
rass and sometimes not. +ome people ask, 1+ometimes we do feel the rass while doing path,
but there are other times when we derive no anand derived from reciting %ani1. 2oes that
mean that it is %ani that is devoid of rass3 4o, the rass is always there- it is just one is not
present there to receive it. +o, do not ever ask this question, as the showers of Grace are
always pouring, one just has to be present to get drenched.

&abeer, plant the seeds of such a plant, which shall bear fruit throughout the
twelve months,
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with cooling shade and abundant fruit, upon which birds joyously play. ""556""
$&abir 'i, (ng #789, +GG+ 'i,
Waheguru is available for everyone throughout twelve months, it is just that ones
conciousness absconds and that is the aim of +aadhna : to make ones conciousness present
at all times when doing path or simran.
(ctually, ones consciousness wavers because the mann goes into one of the divisions of
time. /ime in itself has no classification ; it justI+. .owever, for us human beings three
different time states e<ist : past, present and the future. When mann goes into the past or
future,it goes farther away from Waheguru. %ut it is when mann is in the present that it gets
closer to the (kal !urakh. /hat is why, %hai Gurdas 'i says=
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.e always moves in the present i.e. never ignores the contemporary situations
and side by side accepts whatever is likely to happen. $>aar #), !auri 5#,
If we have to control mann, then first of all we have to accept uncontionally whatever that is
happening in our lives, irrespective of whether it appeals our mann or not. When our mann
agrees to one set of events, but complains about others, it gets divided. If something was
e<pected but did not happen, mann goes looking for it in the future. (nd if we had something
in the past that is not with us anymore in the present, mann goes looking for that missing
element in the past. /his way our mann remains in the state of memories of past and?or
worries of the future events.
(s mann changes its states within, it gets reflected on the outside by appropriate facial
e<pressions. /he e<pression on the face is different when someone is missing his wife or
husband while it is something else when thinking of an enemy for instance. /hus, the roops
keep changing constantly.
Guru Gobind +ingh 'i @aharaj says in his %ani +ri 'aap +ahib=
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/hou, the Ane Bntity, appearest as @any creating innumerable forms.
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(fter playing the world;drama, when /hou wilt stop the play, /hou wilt be the
same Ane again.)#. $!age #*, +ri 2asam Granth +ahib 'i,
+o, why are there so many different forms of Waheguru3 Guru Gobind +ingh 'i says, dont be
in any confusion for it is all .is drama, .is khel. In 0aam Leela, if there is a shortage of
actors then one actor can play the roles of both 0am and 0avana or even .anumaan. If the
different masks of this actor are taken off, what remains then is that one person. /hat is how
(kal !urakh changes .is countless roops.
/he whole aim of 2haram +aadhna is to be able to see that Ane in everything and everyone.
(nd for that, we have to stop the manns divisions and tune its consciousness with the Ane.
(nyone who is able to train mann to remain in the present will see the same +un in every ray
of light- the same Acean in all different waves. /his vision, where one sees the Cormless in
.is every form, is predominant in +ri Guru Gobind +ingh 'i @aharaj. /hus, it is no wonder
that he scolded %hai &ahnayyiaa 'i for giving only water to the injured enemy soldiers- he
also instructed him to apply medicine to their wounds too for he saw the Ane even in
enemies.
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+omewhere .e, taking the form of a flower, is rightly puffed up. +omewhere
becoming a black bee, seems inebriated $for the flower,.
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+omewhere becoming the wind, moves with such speed, which is indescribable,
how can I elucidate it3 #5. $!age 69, +ri 2asam Granth +ahib 'i,
.e says, .ey Waheguru, I see Dour force in the flowing winds, and I also see Dou in the
stillness of mountains. /his divine vision of +ri Guru Gobind +ahib 'i @aharaj is further seen
in the following swavyes from +ri (kal Estat +ahib=
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A LordF +omewhere becoming Gonscious, /hou adrnest consciousness-
somewhere becoming Garefree, thou sleepest unconsciously. $!age 79, +ri
2asam Granth +ahib 'i,
Guruji says, I see Dou in the alert intellectuals and I also see Dou in the careless, the
ignorants too. We humans will be annoyed upon seeing a total ignorant fool but everyone
becomes Ane the day mann becomes one with the Ane. Guru Granth +ahib 'i @aharaj says=

No one is foolish, and no one is clever.
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Your ill determines everything !"ng #$, %&&% 'i(
&uruji then says)
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%ome*here becoming a beggar, Thou beggest alms and some*here becoming a %upreme +onor,
Thou besto*est the begged *ealth. !,age -., %ri +asam &ranth %ahib 'i(
&uruji says, / aheguru, %ome*here 0 see you begging alms from people)
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%ome are givers, and some are beggars. This is all Your ondrous ,lay. !&uru 1am +ass 'i, "ng 22,
%&&% 'i(
&uruji says, 0 also see you in the biggest of donors. e can feel digusted upon seeing a filthy beggar in the street3 *e
can also feel jealous of a *ealthy person but &uruji sees aheguru e4ually in both.
5e further says)
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%ome *here Thou givest ine6haustible gifts to emperors and some*here Thou deprivest the emperors
of their kingdoms. !,age -., %ri +asam &ranth %ahib 'i(
&uru Tegh 7ahadur %ahib 'i 8ahraj describes it like this)
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0n an instant, 5e changes the beggar into a king, and the king into a beggar.
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5e fills *hat is empty, and empties *hat is full 9 such are 5is *ays. ::2:: !"ng ;-<, %&&% 'i(
&uru &obind %ingh 'i then says)
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%ome*here Thou *orkest in accordance *ith =edic rites and some*here Thou art 4uite opposed to it3
some*here Thou art *ithout three modes of maya and some*here Thou hast all godly attributes.2.22.
!,age -., %ri +asam &ranth %ahib 'i(
0n the ne6t %*vaya, &uruji says)
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/ >ord? %ome*here Thou art Yaksha, &andharva, %heshanaga and =idyadhar and some*here Thou
becomest @innar, ,ishacha and ,reta. !,age -., %ri +asam &ranth %ahib 'i(
&uruji says, 5ey aheguru %ome*here you are a great musician of the +evtas, but at other places you are neither
male nor a female !@innar(, even that person is you. 5e further goes on to say that 0 see you manifest in even the bad
aatmas, the 7hoots and prets.
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8any millions are the evil nature9spirits, ghosts, pigs and tigers. !"ng A<., %&&% 'i(
@askeen 'i narrates a personal incident that happened to him when he was doing katha
somewhere abroad. .e had spoken on this above tukk for a few days when H;8 doctors came
and said to @askeen 'i to not repeat the tukk as 1they will spread a lot of superstitions1.
@askeen 'i replied 1If you want to place allegation, then dare place it on +ri Guru (rjan 2ev 'i
because it is him who has gifted us with this tukk, I am merely providing you with the
translations1. Gurbani tells us there are both good souls and bad souls. /he good souls, the
2evtas, stay at religious and all such sacred places while bad souls, the %hoots and !rets, are
found at brothels, pubs and gambling houses. @askeen 'i says he has met people with 2ev;
2rishti, people who have the avastha to see these 2evtas.
@askeen 'i narrates another incident that happened at one Gurdwara +ahib in +eattle. While
@askeen ji was doing katha, a singh got up and sat close to one Gyani %alwinder +ingh 'i of
Ganada who happened to be sitting close to @askeen 'i $but not on stage,. .e then asked,
1Who are these two people with long beards sitting on the stage3 /hey look so divine.1 Gyani
%alwinder +ingh 'i replied, 1Well, it is only @askeen 'i sitting on the stage.1 /he singh insisted
and said,1 4o, there are two more singhs +inghs sitting behind @askeen 'i, close to the wall.
/hey have got very long beards and got noor on their faces.1 Gyani %alwinder +ingh laughed
it off and told the +ingh to get this eyes checked for there is no one else sitting on the stage.
(fter the katha, @askeen 'i asked Gyani 'i the reason of commotion and Gyani 'i e<plained it
all to @askeen 'i. /he same +ingh mentioned the same thing again for the ne<t couple of
days and the news of this got spread to the trustees of the Gurdwara +ahib.
/he ne<t day, Gyani %alwinder +ingh 'i insisted that he will sit ne<t to @askeen 'i to prove to
that +ingh that no one else sits on the stage. %ut barely after #H minutes into the katha,
Gyani %alwinder +ingh screamed and fell down the stage and started crying. Epon being
asked what happened, Gyani 'i said he saw those two +inghs with long beards- they pushed
him off the stage as he had taken their regular spot. @askeen 'i enquired whether they did or
said anything else to Gyani %alwinder 'i and he said no, that is all they did. /hat led @askeen
'i to say that they are 2evta souls who havent yet received mukti as their physical bodies
had e<pired before they could be mukt.
+uch 2evta souls are found in .indus and @uslims as well. Gyani %alwinder +ingh 'i said,
1(lthough the +inghs hit me and threw me off the stages, yet I felt immense anand with their
physical contact with me1. @askeen 'i then smiled and said, 1(lthough you have been
learning Gurbani arths from me, yet it is you who possess that 2ev;2rishti, your saadhna has
paid off1.
@askeen 'i narrates yet another story= /here was an (mritdhari %ibi who was constantly
being told by this 2evta soul to take it to darshan of +ri 2arbar +ahib. /his soul is incidentally
a muslim soul. @askeen 'i says he was astonished when that illiterate %ibi started reciting
Iuran;e;+harif to him. +ome of his companions got scared but @askeen 'i assured them the
soul is not bad, on the contrary, it is a Carishta soul as the only souls that can go inside
2arbar +ahib are the good souls, the 2evtas. 4o %hoot !rett can dare to enter the premises
of +ri 2arbar +ahib.
@askeen 'i requested that %ibi to recite the namaJ of Kohr to him. +urprisingly, the rooh
replied, 1I have no interest in Kohr, I only like to recite the namaJ of Cajr $the namaJ of (mrit
>ela for muslims, and that is what I recite the whole day1. @askeen 'i says I heard a lot of
Iuran from that bibi but only when that farishta is in that %ibi, otherwise she cannot recite a
single line. @askeen 'i then asked, 1+o why have you come for darshan of +ri 2arbar +ahib
then31 /he rooh replied, 1Cor this is only dar, the only place where I feel at peace with
myself1. @askeen 'i asked the reason for its wandering despite it being such a namaJi and
connected to (llah, he replied, 1I am forced to, because I have yet to find appropriate to;be;
mother in muslims through whom my birth can take place1.
/his proves that the %ani that we read does not go to waste, it goes along with us when we
leave our physical body. 'ust as an animal as the body but not any mann, the rooh has mann
$and in it all its contents,, but no body.
+o, that muslim farishta says to @askeen 'i that the reason he has come to him is because
he has studied Iuran and that he feels like coming to him again and again to listen to path.
@askeen ji said to him that he can most certainly come everyday. Ane day it came to
@askeen 'i holding two bottles of perfumes in both hands and said, 1I realised I came to you
empty handed, so please accept these bottles of perfume as a gift from my side1. @askeen 'i
asked that faristha whether other roohs like him come to +ri 2arbar +ahib, and it replied 1Ah
yes, thousands like me everyday as there is anand, rass at +ri 2arbar +ahib.1
/herefore, there are millions of people in this world and so are millions of good and bad
souls. /he bad souls, the %hoots, cannot come to Gurdwaras and holy places as their
sanskars and way of living do not match with those at holy places. /heir rass is at gambling
houses, pubs, and brothels and that is where they feel at home.
%ut places like +ri 2arbar +ahib, +ri .aJoor +ahib, +ri +is Ganj +ahib are always packed with
good souls, the 2evtas. /hese souls will not go anywhere else till the time they take new
birth somewhere.
'ust like our eyes can see the visible, they also have the capability of seeing the invisible.
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ith both of my eyes, 0 look around3
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0 donBt see anything e6cept the >ord. !%ri @abir 'eo, "ng .;;, %&&% 'i(
Cven though aheguru 'i is formless, @abir 'i says he can see 5im. 0f *e ask @abir 'i the proof of *hat you are
*itnessing, then @abir 'i says, just look into my eyes and see for yourself)
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8y eyes gaDe lovingly upon 5im,
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and no*, 0 cannot speak of anything else. ::2:: !%ri @abir 'eo, "ng .;;, %&&% 'i(
5e says, 'ust look into my eyes and decide for yourself *hether these eyes look at the +evtas or 7hoots3 *hether they
see materials or the formless. "ll this provided you kno* that art of seeing. "nyone *ho can see aheguru *ill surely
have that same "mrit9like eyes.
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The angles, holy men, silent sages, and the --E,EEE,EEE deities have come in their heavenly chariots
to see this spectacle.
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%ays @abeer, 0 have been taken in marriage by the /ne %upreme 7eing, the >ord &od. ::-::A::AF::
,eople *ho have the +ev9+rishti *ill see the -- crore +evtas celebrating @abir 'iBs success at merging one *ith /ne.
Goming back to +ri Guru Gobind +ahib 'is divine %ani +ri (kal Estat, Guru 'i now says=
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+omewhere /hou becomest a .indu and repeatest Gayatri secretly= +omewhere
becoming a /urk /hou callest @uslims to worship. $!age 78, +ri 2asam Granth
+ahib 'i,
.e says, .ey Waheguru I see Dou as a .indu secretly reciting Gayatri @antra in a cave
somewhere. .ey Waheguru, there are other instances where you did not feel right doing
secret prayers and I see Dou as a muslim standing on top of the minaret and shouting call for
prayers.
Guruji further says=
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+omewhere being a poet thou recitest the !auranic wisdom and somewhere
/hou recitest the !auranic wisdom and somewhere /hou comprehendest the
essence of Iuran. $!age 78, +ri 2asam Granth +ahib 'i,
.e says, .ey Waheguru 'i, +omewhere I see Dou reciting the wisdom of !uranas while at
other place I see Dou as a .afiJ reciting the whole Iuran by heart.
It is rare to find anyone with a vision as that of Guru Gobind +ingh 'i @aharaj.
Guruji says=

A LordF +omewhere /hou art seated in the Gourt of gods and somewhere /hou
givest the egoistic intellect to demons. $!age 78, +ri 2asam Granth +ahib 'i,
/he word Daan in 2aanvaan is a farsi word meaning one that possess great intellect. Guruji
says, .ey Waheguru +omewhere I see a man with greatest of intellects yet is full of ego,
even that person is no one else but Dou.
Curther, Guruji says=

+omewhere /hou %estowest the position of of the king of gods to Indra and
somewhere /hou deprivest Indra of this position. $!age 78, +ri 2asam Granth
+ahib 'i,
.ey Waheguru, +omewhere Dou bestow all the gifts and position of Indrea to someone and
yet at other times, Dou deprive someone of all of these gifts.
Guruji says=
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+omewhere /hou discriminatest between good and bad intellect, somewhere
/hou art with /hy own spouse and somewhere with anothers wife. $!age 78, +ri
2asam Granth +ahib 'i,
Guruji says, .ey Waheguru 'i, I see that somewhere Dou are a great intellectual and do not
even think of anyone else apart from Dour wife, yet somewhere Dou are sitting thinking
constantly about other peoples wives. In these tukks we can see how far sighted Guruji are
in his vision.
Guruji further says=
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A LordF +omewhere /hou art an armed warrior, somewhere /hou art an armed
warrior, somewhere a learned thinker, somewhere a hunter and somewhere an
enjoyer of women.
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+omewhere /hou art the divine speech, somewhere +arada and %havani,
somewhere 2urga, the trampler of corpses, somewhere in black colour and
somewhere in white colour. $!age 78, +ri 2asam Granth +ahib 'i,
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A LordF +omewhere /hou art a sage wearing matted hair, somewhere /hu art a
rosary;wearing celibate, somewhere /hou art a rosary;wearing celibate,
somewhere /hou hast practiced Doga and somewhere /hou art practicing Doga.
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+omewhere /hou art a &anphata Dougi and somewhere /hou roamest like a 'aini
saint, somewhere /hou steppest on the earth very cautiously.
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+omewhere becoming a soldier, /hou practisest arms and somewhere becoming
a kshatriya, /hou slayest the enemy or be slayed /hyself.
Guruji goes on to say=
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A LordF +omewhere /hou art without any blemish, somewhere /hou smitest the
moon, somewhere /hou art completely engrossed in enjoyment on /hy couch
and somewhere /hou art the essence of !urity. $!age 78, +ri 2asam Granth
+ahib 'i,
If someone can see the Ane in everyone, good or bad, like the way Guru Gobind +ingh 'i can,
there is no scope left for any hatred for anyone.
Guru ji says=

+omewhere /hou performest godly rituals, somewhere /hou art the (bode of
religious discipline, somewhere /hou art the vicious actions and somewhere
/hou art the vicious actions and somewhere /hou appearest in variety of
virtuous acts. $!age 78, +ri 2asam Granth +ahib 'i,
.e says, .ey Waheguru 'i, +omewhere I see Dou performing all the right rituals fit for
2evtas, while +omewhere else I see Dou perfoming all the vile actions.
Guruji vision now goes into the 2uapar Dug=
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A LordF +omewhere /hou art singer of song somewhere /hou art player of flute,
somewhere /hou art a dancer and somewhere in the form of a man.

+omewhere /hou art the vedic hymns and somewhere the story of the elucidator
of the mystery of love- somewhere /hou art /hyself the king, the queen and also
various types of woman.
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+omewhere /hou art the player of flute, somewhere the graJier of cows and
somewhere /hou art the beautiful youth, enticer of lakhs $of lovely maids.,

+omewhere /hou art the splendour of !urity, the life of the saints, the 2onor of
great charities and the immaculate Cormless Lord. ).#).
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A LordF /hou art the Invisible Gataract, the @ost %eautiful Bntity, the &ing of
&ings and the 2onor of great charities.
Guruji says, .ey Waheguru, Dou are Nirjur : you are not composed of any of the elements
that we human beings are made of. We human beings are made up of five elements and we
will cease to e<ist if we are deprived of even one of these elements. %ut Guruji says, hey
Waheguru 'i, you are not a collection of various elements, you are complete in Dourself.
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/hou art the +aviour of life, the Giver of milk and offspring, the 0emover of
ailments and sufferings and somewhere /hou art the Lord of .ighest .onour.
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/hou art the essence of all learning, the embodiment of monism, the %eing of
(ll;!owers and the Glory of +anctification.
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/hou art the snare of youth, the 2eath of 2eath, the anguish of enemies and the
life of the friends. 6.#6.
Guruji says, +omewhere I see Dou as that e<ordinary beauty that entices and traps everyone
in its web. (nd then at other times I see Dou as kaal, the mere name of which shakes up the
strongest of people.
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A LordF +omewhere /hou art in defic conduct, somewhere /hou appearest as
contention in learning somewhere /hou art the tune of sound and somewhere a
perfect saint $attuned with celestial strain,.
Guruji says, +omewhere Dou use the knowledge gained to contemplate on the Ane, while
somewhere else Dou use that gained knowledge for starting unneccessary debates and
creating trouble.
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+omewhere /hou art >edic ritual, somewhere the love for learning, somewhere
ethical and unethical, and somewhere appearest as the glow of fire.
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+omewhere /hou art perfectly Glorious, somewhere engrossed in solitary
recitation, somewhere 0emover of +uffering in great (gony and somewhere
/hou appearest as a fallen yogi.
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+omewhere /hou bestowest the %oon and somewhere withdraw it with deceit.
/hou at all times and at all the places /hou comest into view as the same.
#L.5L.
Guruji says, .ey Waheguru 'i, no matter the place, the time, and the form, Dou appear as the
same, the Ane to me. I see you in all the different rays of the +un, I see Dou equally in all the
waves of the Acean, I see Dou, the formless in every form that Dou have manifested yourself
in.
We are left astonished at the depth of this %ani $(kal Estat, and at the multifaceted
personality of +ri Guru Gobind +ingh +ahib 'i @aharaj. @ay Guru Gobind +ingh 'i +ahib also
bless us with such a vision with which we can also see Waheguru 'i in .is every form the way
Guruji sees .im.
%hull Ghukk @aaf 'eo,
Waheguru 'i &a &halsa
Waheguru 'i &i Cateh