# 17 Jisko Nahi hai Bodh to Gurugyan kya kare

जिसको नहीं है बोध तो गुरुज्ञान क्या करे

राग: रेख़्ता ताल दादरा

जिसको नही है बोध तो गुरु ज्ञान क्या करे
निज रूप को जाना नहीं पुराण क्या करे ।टेक।

घट घट में ब्रह्मजोत का प्रकाश हो रहा
मिटा न द्वैतभाव तो फिर ध्यान क्या करे ।१।
रचना प्रभू की देख कर ज्ञानी बड़े बड़े
पावे न कोई पार तो नादान क्या करे ।२।
करके दया दयाल ने मानुष जन्म दिया
बंदा न करे भजन तो भगवान क्या करे।३।
सब जीव जंतुओं में जिसे है नहीं दया
ब्रह्मानंद बरत नेम पुन्य दान क्या करे।४।

Bhajan lyrics: jisko nahi hai bodh to
Raag:.               Rekhta taal dadra

Jisko nahi hai bodh to guru  gyan kya kare
Nij roop ko jaana nahi puran kya kare |repeat|

Ghat ghat me bramhjot ka prakash ho raha
Mita na dwait bhav to fir dhyan kya kare|1|
Rachna prabhu ki dekh kar gyani bade bade
Pave n koi paar to nadan kya kare|2|
Karke daya dayal ne manush janam diya
Banda na kare bhajan to bhagwan kya kare|3|
Sab jeev jantuon me jise hai nahi daya
Bramhanand barat nem punya daan kya kare|4|

Word Meaning:
  Bodh= Knowledge of self ;
guru gyan = teachings of master ; nij = self
Puran = Sacred text ;. Ghat = living body
Bramhjot= eternal light ;
dwaitbhav =a  sense that God and Devotee are not one
Dhyan = meditation ; rachna= Creation
Gyani = intellectual ; pave = gets ; paar = last fact
Daya= Mercy ; Dayal= Compassionate Lord ;
Manush janam = Human birth/ life ; banda= devotee
Barat (vrat) = fast ; nem(niyam)= religious practice  

Semantics:
         If someone don't understands himself then what else can A Master's knowledge  do?
          If someone do not recognize his own form then what else can Sacred text do?
      Every heart illuminated with the light of One Divine
Even if there is duality in mind then what else can meditation do?
   By seeing the Lord's creation , even the great intellectuals could not cross the knowledge (of Divine)
Then what else can an immature do?
   Merciful Lord gave us a human birth/ life if we devotees doesn't recite God's Name and virtues then what else can God do?
    The man who does not have compassion for all living beings then what else can  virtuous deeds (fasting, charity , religious practice) do?
  

Connotation:
         Swami bramhanand ji says in this hymn that if a man does not have knowledge of himself. Then reading religious text is useless. Because Sacred text teachs us about self and if we don't know self then reading text is useless.
       The life in the hearts of all living beings is belongs to one God, even after knowing the oneness of Soul if duality remains the meditation is also worthless. Because the goal of meditation is union with God and if we are not experiencing the unity of the Soul of all living beings then how can meditation be possible?
    Even the great intellectuals couldn't know the elementary knowledge of God's creation then we are immature people are helpless about it. So we should chant Lord's Divine name and virtues.
   Our human life is the result of great Mercy of God so it's our duty to worship God.
   We do fasting so that we may gain patience, we do charity so that we may lose greed. If we become controlled by greed and we lost our patience then our fasting and charity are worthless.
   In last swamiji says that we should live restrained life by knowing the self, and we should know the religion by fact, not only  by practicing it.