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Satnaa Sarovar - Translation B

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SATT NA SARROVER SARRASAR BHARIYYA

Pir Sadardeen

O believers! (Jamat Khana is like a) divine lake in which (the bowls of abbe safa) are superabundantly full (and thus, this) brimful sacred water is very consecrartory. So have belief in it as if adoring the Truth. O brothers! Fortify your love all around (this belief)....1

(When a swan comes to take a bath in the lake, all storks standing on one leg start flying away flutteringly, and similarly) when the king of the souls i.e. the Lord (spiritually manifests in our hearts) for ablution, the all stork-like evils flee away rapidly....2

The current of religion flows like drizzle (in Jamat Khana) and such heavenly water which rains (spiritually) is very nectar.??...3

O believers! You drink the essence and drain off the poison and have more (eagerness of) thirst to have the consecrated water....4

O believers! You desist from five vices (lust, anger, greed, temptation and pride) and observe four virtues (truthfulness, patience, forgiveness and worship) and thus (you) do avail such virtuous earnings....5

O believers! In whoever's body the (desire for) lust and anger flare up, (it means) he lost all the games he won....6

Pir Sadardeen says: O believers of Jamat! (If you will act accordingly to the above imparted advice) you shall (enjoy spiritual) bath with twelve crores (angelic) souls....7

Source: 
Heritage Society Collection


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