Eh Sareera Mereya

A soothing devotional shabad by Guru Amar Das Ji (1552), the soul beseeches the body to realize it's source. The core message of the 10 Sikh gurus is 'apna Mool pashano' (realize your Self).


Eh sareera mereya, is jag meh ai ke, kya tudh karam kamaiya.
Oh body of mine, having come in this world, what good have you earned.

Ke karam kamaiya, tudh sareera, jaa too jag meh aiya.
What good have you earned, you body, since you came in the world.

Jin har tera rachan rachiya, so har man na vasaiya.
The One who formed your form, you have not absorbed your mind in.

Gur parsaadee har man vasiya, poorab likhiya paiya.
By grace the One abides within the mind, and what is written (preordained) is fulfilled.

Kahai Nanak ayhu sareer parvaan howaa, jin Satguru soo chit laiya.
Says Nanak this body is honored, when in consciousness mind is absorbed.