Selflessness: Difference between revisions

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ਕੇਤੀਆ ਸ੝ਰਤੀ ਸੇਵਕ ਕੇਤੇ ਨਾਨਕ ਅੰਤ੝ ਨ ਅੰਤ੝ ॥੩੫॥
So many intuitive people, so many selfless servants. O Nanak, His limit has no limit! ||35||
Guru Nanak Dev

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ਸ੝ਖ੝ ਹੋਵੈ ਸੇਵ ਕਮਾਣੀਆ ॥
you shall find peace, doing seva (selfless service).
Guru Nanak Dev

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ਸੇਵਾ ਸ੝ਰਤਿ ਸਬਦਿ ਚਿਤ੝ ਲਾਝ ॥
Center your awareness on seva-selfless service-and focus your consciousness on the Word of the Shabad.
Guru Amar Das

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ਅਨਦਿਨ੝ ਸਦਾ ਵਿਸਟਾ ਮਹਿ ਵਾਸਾ ਬਿਨ੝ ਸੇਵਾ ਜਨਮ੝ ਗਵਾਵਣਿਆ ॥੬॥
Night and day, they continually sit in manure. Without selfless service, their lives are wasted away. ||6||
Guru Amar Das

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ਸੇਵਾ ਤੇ ਸਦਾ ਸ੝ਖ੝ ਪਾਇਆ ਗ੝ਰਮ੝ਖਿ ਸਹਜਿ ਸਮਾਵਣਿਆ ॥੭॥
Through selfless service, eternal peace is obtained. The Gurmukh is absorbed in intuitive peace. ||7||
Guru Amar Das

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ਕਰਿ ਸੇਵਾ ਭਜ੝ ਹਰਿ ਹਰਿ ਗ੝ਰਮਤਿ ॥
Do seva - selfless service; follow the Guru's Teachings, and vibrate the Lord's Name, Har, Har.
Guru Arjan Dev

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ਕਰਿ ਸੇਵਾ ਤੂੰ ਸਾਧ ਕੀ ਹੋ ਕਾਟੀਝ ਜਮ ਜਾਲ੝ ॥੧॥
Do seva, selfless service, for the Holy Saints, and the noose of Death shall be cut away. ||1||
Guru Arjan Dev

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ਗ੝ਰਮ੝ਖਿ ਸੇਵਾ ਪ੝ਰਾਨ ਅਧਾਰਾ ॥
Selfless service is the support of the breath of life of the Gurmukh.
Guru Amar Das

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ਆਪ੝ ਛੋਡਿ ਸੇਵਾ ਕਰਨਿ ਜੀਵਤ ਮ੝ਝ ਰਹੰਨਿ ॥੨॥
Subduing their selfishness and conceit, and performing selfless service, they remain dead while yet alive. ||2||
Guru Amar Das

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ਸੇਵਾ ਸ੝ਰਤਿ ਭਗਤਿ ਇਹ ਸਾਚੀ ਵਿਚਹ੝ ਆਪ੝ ਗਵਾਈਝ ॥
This selfless service, meditation and devotion is true, if you eliminate selfishness and conceit from within.
Guru Amar Das

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ਗ੝ਰ ਕੈ ਗ੝ਰਿਹਿ ਸੇਵਕ੝ ਜੋ ਰਹੈ ॥
That selfless servant, who lives in the Guru's household,
Guru Arjan Dev

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ਸੇਵਾ ਕਰਤ ਹੋਇ ਨਿਹਕਾਮੀ ॥
One who performs selfless service, without thought of reward,
Guru Arjan Dev

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ਨਾਨਕ ਸੋ ਸੇਵਕ੝ ਗ੝ਰ ਕੀ ਮਤਿ ਲੇਇ ॥੨॥
O Nanak, that selfless servant lives the Guru's Teachings. ||2||
Guru Arjan Dev

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ਸੋ ਸੇਵਕ੝ ਪਰਮੇਸ੝ਰ ਕੀ ਗਤਿ ਜਾਨੈ ॥
that selfless servant comes to know the state of the Transcendent Lord.
Guru Arjan Dev

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ਗ੝ਹਜ ਰਤਨ ਵਿਚਿ ਲ੝ਕਿ ਰਹੇ ਕੋਈ ਗ੝ਰਮ੝ਖਿ ਸੇਵਕ੝ ਕਢੈ ਖੋਤਿ ॥
Hidden within it are the jewels of mystery; how rare is that Gurmukh, that selfless servant, who digs them out.
Guru Ram Das

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ਜੇਤੇ ਜੀਅ ਤੇਤੇ ਸਭਿ ਤੇਰੇ ਵਿਣ੝ ਸੇਵਾ ਫਲ੝ ਕਿਸੈ ਨਾਹੀ ॥
As many living beings are there are, they are all Yours. Without selfless service, no one obtains any reward.
Guru Nanak Dev

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ਸੇਵਕ੝ ਦਾਸ੝ ਭਗਤ੝ ਜਨ੝ ਸੋਈ ॥
He alone is the selfless servant, slave and humble devotee,
Guru Nanak Dev

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ਮਤਿ ਥੋੜੀ ਸੇਵ ਗਵਾਈਝ ॥੧੦॥
But through small-mindedness, we forfeit the merits of selfless service. ||10||
Guru Nanak Dev

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ਹਉਮੈ ਵਿਚਿ ਸੇਵਾ ਨ ਹੋਵਈ ਤਾ ਮਨ੝ ਬਿਰਥਾ ਜਾਇ ॥੧॥
In egotism, selfless service cannot be performed, and so the soul goes unfulfilled. ||1||
Guru Amar Das

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ਤਿਨ ਕੇ ਘਰ ਮੰਦਰ ਮਹਲ ਸਰਾਈ ਸਭਿ ਪਵਿਤ੝ ਹਹਿ ਜਿਨੀ ਗ੝ਰਮ੝ਖਿ ਸੇਵਕ ਸਿਖ ਅਭਿਆਗਤ ਜਾਇ ਵਰਸਾਤੇ ॥
All the homes, temples, palaces and way-stations are sacred, where the Gurmukhs, the selfless servants, the Sikhs and the renouncers of the world, go and take their rest.
Guru Ram Das

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ਸੇ ਭਗਤ ਸੇ ਸੇਵਕਾ ਜਿਨਾ ਹਰਿ ਨਾਮ੝ ਪਿਆਰਾ ॥
They alone are devotees, and they alone are selfless servants, who love the Lord's Name.
Guru Ram Das

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ਤਿਨ ਕੀ ਸੇਵਾ ਤੇ ਹਰਿ ਪਾਈਝ ਸਿਰਿ ਨਿੰਦਕ ਕੈ ਪਵੈ ਛਾਰਾ ॥੩॥
By their selfless service, they find the Lord, while ashes fall on the heads of the slanderers. ||3||
Guru Ram Das

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ਸੇਵਕ ਸੰਤ ਰਾਜਾ ਰਾਮ ਮ੝ਰਾਰੀ ॥੪॥੧੯॥੨੫॥
to the selfless servants and Saints of the Sovereign Lord, the Destroyer of ego. ||4||19||25||
Guru Arjan Dev

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ਸੋਈ ਸੇਵਕ੝ ਜੇ ਸਤਿਗ੝ਰ ਸੇਵੇ ਚਾਲੈ ਸਤਿਗ੝ਰ ਭਾਝ ॥
He alone is a selfless servant, who serves the True Guru, and walks in harmony with the True Guru's Will.
Guru Amar Das

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ਸੇਵਕ ਗ੝ਰਮ੝ਖਿ ਖੋਜਿਆ ਸੇ ਹੰਸ੝ਲੇ ਨਾਮ੝ ਲਹੰਨਿ ॥੨॥
The Gurmukhs, the selfless servants, seek out the Guru; the swan-souls feed there on the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||2||
Guru Amar Das

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ਸੇਵਾ ਸਾ ਪ੝ਰਭ ਭਾਵਸੀ ਜੋ ਪ੝ਰਭ੝ ਪਾਝ ਥਾਇ ॥
That is selfless service, which pleases God, and which is approved by God.
Guru Amar Das

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ਸੇਵਕ੝ ਸੇਵਾ ਤਾਂ ਕਰੇ ਸਚ ਸਬਦਿ ਪਤੀਣਾ ॥
The sevadar performs selfless service when he is pleased, and confirmed in the True Word of the Shabad.
Guru Nanak Dev

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ਗ੝ਰਮ੝ਖਿ ਸੇਵਾ ਥਾਇ ਪਵੈ ਉਨਮਨਿ ਤਤ੝ ਕਮਾਹ੝ ॥
The selfless service of the Gurmukhs is approved; in celestial peace, they live the essence of reality.
Guru Nanak Dev

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ਆਪ ਹੀ ਮੰਦਰ੝ ਆਪਹਿ ਸੇਵਾ ॥
He Himself is the temple, and He Himself is selfless service.
Guru Arjan Dev

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ਇਕਿ ਸੇਵਕ ਇਕਿ ਭਰਮਿ ਭ੝ਲਾਝ ॥
Some are selfless servants, while others wander, deluded by doubt.
Guru Amar Das

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ਬਿਨ੝ ਸੇਵਾ ਫਲ੝ ਕਬਹ੝ ਨ ਪਾਵਸਿ ਸੇਵਾ ਕਰਣੀ ਸਾਰੀ ॥੨॥
without selfless service, no one ever receives the fruits of their rewards. Serving the Lord is the most excellent action. ||2||
Guru Nanak Dev

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ਆਤਮ੝ ਚੀਨਿ ਪਰਮ ਪਦ੝ ਪਾਇਆ ਸੇਵਾ ਸ੝ਰਤਿ ਸਮਾਈ ਹੇ ॥੧੫॥
Understanding my own soul, I have obtained the Supreme Status; my awareness is immersed in selfless service. ||15||
Guru Ram Das

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ਜਿਸ੝ ਮਸਤਕਿ ਭਾਗ੝ ਸ੝ ਲਾਗਾ ਸੇਵ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥
Whoever has good destiny inscribed on his forehead, applies himself to seva - selfless service. ||1||Pause||
Guru Arjan Dev

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ਨਾਈ ਉਧਰਿਓ ਸੈਨ੝ ਸੇਵ ॥
Sain the barber was saved through his selfless service.
Guru Arjan Dev

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ਨਾਨਕ ਸੇਵਕ੝ ਸੋਈ ਆਖੀਝ ਜੋ ਸਿਰ੝ ਧਰੇ ਉਤਾਰਿ ॥
O Nanak, he alone is called a selfless servant, who cuts off his head, and offers it to the Lord.
Guru Amar Das

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ਸੋ ਜਪ੝ ਤਪ੝ ਸੇਵਾ ਚਾਕਰੀ ਜੋ ਖਸਮੈ ਭਾਵੈ ॥
That is chanting and meditation, work and selfless service, which is pleasing to our Lord and Master.
Guru Amar Das

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ਨਾਨਕ ਸੇਵਕ੝ ਸੋਈ ਆਖੀਝ ਜਿ ਸਚਿ ਰਹੈ ਲਿਵ ਲਾਇ ॥੧॥
O Nanak, he alone is called a selfless servant, who remains lovingly attuned to the True Lord. ||1||
Guru Amar Das

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ਸੇਵਾ ਸ੝ਰਤਿ ਰਹਸਿ ਗ੝ਣ ਗਾਵਾ ਗ੝ਰਮ੝ਖਿ ਗਿਆਨ੝ ਬੀਚਾਰਾ ॥
Focusing my awareness on selfless service, I joyfully sing His Praises. As Gurmukh, I contemplate spiritual wisdom.
Guru Nanak Dev

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ਜਾਤਿ ਕ੝ਲੀਨ੝ ਸੇਵਕ੝ ਜੇ ਹੋਇ ॥
If someone of high social standing becomes a selfless servant,
Guru Nanak Dev

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ਵਿਚਿ ਸਨਾਤੀ ਸੇਵਕ੝ ਹੋਇ ॥
And if someone from a low social class becomes a selfless servant,
Guru Nanak Dev

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ਕੋਟਿ ਮਧੇ ਕੋਊ ਬਿਰਲਾ ਸੇਵਕ੝ ਪੂਰਨ ਭਗਤ੝ ਚਿਰਾਨੋ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥
Among millions, it is very rare to find a selfless servant who remains a perfect devotee for very long. ||1||Pause||
Guru Arjan Dev

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ਸੇਵਾ ਸ੝ਰਤਿ ਸਬਦਿ ਵੀਚਾਰਿ ॥
Selfless service and intuitive awareness come by reflecting upon the Word of the Shabad.
Guru Nanak Dev

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ਕਬੀਰ ਸੇਵਾ ਕਉ ਦ੝ਇ ਭਲੇ ਝਕ੝ ਸੰਤ੝ ਇਕ੝ ਰਾਮ੝ ॥
Kabeer, it is good to perform selfless service for two - the Saints and the Lord.
Devotee Kabir

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ਸੇਵਕ ਸਿਖ ਸਦਾ ਅਤਿ ਲ੝ਭਿਤ ਅਲਿ ਸਮੂਹ ਜਿਉ ਕ੝ਸਮ ਸ੝ਬਾਸੇ ॥
The selfless servants and Sikhs are always totally captivated by it, like bumble bees lured by the fragrance of the flower.
Bard Bala-y

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ਜਿਨਿ ਸਬਦ੝ ਕਮਾਇ ਪਰਮ ਪਦ੝ ਪਾਇਓ ਸੇਵਾ ਕਰਤ ਨ ਛੋਡਿਓ ਪਾਸ੝ ॥
Performing selfless service, He did not leave the side of Guru Amar Daas.
Bard Kirat