The Source Book On Sikhism

Chapter Forty

Guru Gobind Singh

Selections and Free Translations

From The

Dasam Grantham of Gobind Singh

Prof. Puran Singh

From Vachitar Natak

I came down from the “Hemkunta mountain of Seven Horns of Snow”, where I lay in sleep of power and love in the Pure Being.

The Beloved has sent me down; and I come, my being still pierced with the mystic light of His holy feet!

There is a pang of ecstasy in me, the pang of an ever-awakened Vision of the Divine. I have seen Him, for me the life is self-realized!

Do not call me God, I am His man come on earth to see the Fire-works of His creation!

I think of Him who devours both Time and Space. He is looking at me, and I do as His looks beckon me to do.

I come singing His Nam, and I go sowing the seeds of the Eternal.