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Ang 1Vaar 1Bhai Gurdas

ਪ੍ਰਿਥਮੈ ਸਾਸਿ ਨ ਮਾਸ ਸਨਿ ਅੰਧ ਧੁੰਧ ਕਛੁ ਖਬਰਿ ਨ ਪਾਈ ।

prithamai saas na maas san andh dhundh kachh khabar na paaee |

First of all, when no breath and body was there nothing was visible in the pitch darkness.

ਰਕਤਿ ਬਿੰਦ ਕੀ ਦੇਹਿ ਰਚਿ ਪੰਚਿ ਤਤ ਕੀ ਜੜਿਤ ਜੜਾਈ ।

rakat bind kee dehi rach panch tat kee jarrit jarraaee |

The body was created through the blood(of mother) and semen (of father) and the five elements were joined judiciously.

ਪਉਣ ਪਾਣੀ ਬੈਸੰਤਰੋ ਚਉਥੀ ਧਰਤੀ ਸੰਗਿ ਮਿਲਾਈ ।

paun paanee baisantaro chauthee dharatee sang milaaee |

Air, water, fire and earth was put together.

ਪੰਚਮਿ ਵਿਚਿ ਆਕਾਸੁ ਕਰਿ ਕਰਤਾ ਛਟਮੁ ਅਦਿਸਟੁ ਸਮਾਈ ।

pancham vich aakaas kar karataa chhattam adisatt samaaee |

The fifth element sky (void) was kept in between and creator God, the sixth one, invisibly permeated among all.

ਪੰਚ ਤਤ ਪੰਚੀਸਿ ਗੁਨਿ ਸਤ੍ਰੁ ਮਿਤ੍ਰ ਮਿਲਿ ਦੇਹਿ ਬਣਾਈ ।

panch tat panchees gun satru mitr mil dehi banaaee |

To create the human body, five elements and twenty five qualities opposite to each other were joined and mixed.

ਖਾਣੀ ਬਾਣੀ ਚਲਿਤੁ ਕਰਿ ਆਵਾ ਗਉਣੁ ਚਰਿਤ ਦਿਖਾਈ ।

khaanee baanee chalit kar aavaa gaun charit dikhaaee |

Four life originating mines (egg foetus sweatborn , vegetation) and four speeches(para, pasyanti, madhyama, vaikhari) were assimiliated into each other andthe drama of transmigration was enacted.

ਚਉਰਾਸੀਹ ਲਖ ਜੋਨਿ ਉਪਾਈ ।੨।

chauraaseeh lakh jon upaaee |2|

Thus eighty four lacs of species were created.