If You Serve the Guru

Listen, O innocent devotees,
 repeat your simran without a break
 and all your bad deeds will be burnt.
If you can serve the guru
 this age of darkness won’t harm you
 and you’ll come to know liberation.
The guru –
 treasure-house of knowledge,
 mountain of courage –
 he will ferry your boat to freedom
 if you practise his simran.
He is the force of life at the core of creation.
 Where he is, there is liberation.
If you practise his simran
 all the gods and goddesses will be yours.
Glory to my guru – my father and mother –
 who helps me quit this coming and going,
 this living and dying in countless forms.
Concentrating in the innermost heart,
 Bodhla has come to see his own Being.
_{Mankoji Bodhla, in Many Voices, One Song}