Benefits of the Guru-Naam
The Gurbani mentions various benefits of Guru-Naam. These are as follows:
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All desires are fulfilled and happiness is obtained.
He ever repeats the Guru-Naam, and all his desires are fulfilled.
Gauri M5, 202-11
The Lord is the giver of all happiness; the Guru-Naam leads to it.
Kabir, Bilawal, 856-6
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Sins, perversions and egotism are destroyed.
All your sins and sorrows are destroyed; all your dirt is cleansed by the Guru through the Naam.
Bihagara M4, 539-7
If one forgets not the Guru-given Name, one attains true honour the easiest way. Within us is the Treasure of the Word, by finding it we shed our ego.
Gauri M1, 228-18
Selfhood and intense love of Maya are deep afflictions, for them the cure is the All-powerful Lord's Name, with which the Guru has blessed me.
Gujri M5, 502-7
He is detached: attached yet separate. He does what He likes; all that He wills comes to pass, when one dwells on the Lord's Name by Guru's Grace one's separation from the Lord vanishes.
Gujri Var M3, 514-3
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It gives equipoise to life.
When one obtains the Gurumukh-Naam, one sleeps in poise and also wakes in poise, and one is merged in the Gurumukh-Naam, oh Nanak, one contemplates on the true Naam.
Maru M4, 1069-18
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