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Aapnnu Aap Peechhanno Re Momano - Translation B

APNU AP PICHHANO

Pir Imamdin

Know your own (self or way) O momins; adore ye the name of the Lord. ...1

Avoid the five instincts (viz. desire, anger, pride, lust and attachment to the illusive world) and controlling the embodied (mun) concentrate your mind in the only God. (or bring the only God into your heart). ...2

Through good deeds (sukrit) who have achieved God have earned for themselves a good hereafter. (Karni lit. deeds) ...3

Performing good deeds as per the Farmans of Imam (shah) the momins who died are as if the light merges into light. ...4

Thus who have merged (in the light of God) have become immortal. O saint! They have found in them the (divine) light of God. ...5

Listen now, for the love of world you have forgotten your aim in what lowly works you have engrossed yourself. ...6

The mind which absorbeth itself in greed, temptations, and delusions of mind which prevents one from discerning truth which makes one believe in the reality of worldly objects and to be addicted to the gratification of sensual pleasures hath gone astray from the path of religion. ...7

O momins! Those who are addicted to what their minds aspire (this is alluded to world aspirations), are held up by the army of illusion (illusion of attachment or love). ...8

O momins! He that tendereth not the malewajbat (dasond) is doing unfair affairs throughout his life. ...9

Act righteously, know the True (God), O momins! And give up attachments to the world. ...10

He that knoweth not the Perfect Murshid (Imam-e-zaman) is everpresent within you. ...11

Recognize O momins! The Imam-e-zaman in your own interior and your hearts shall be as pure as the moon. ...12

O saints! Believe with your mind and heart that the Murshid (Imam-e-zaman) is everpresent within you. ...13

Pir Imamdin said, "Listen O muniwar (the best of ascetics) to the words that the divine light resides at the bhamar gufa. ...14

Source: 
Heritage Society Collection


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