Book I / IV – (iii)

Hari Ras: How to get It

1. Through the Grace of God: God is the Water of Life and He is not apart from His Own Essence, and it is He who may grant the Gift of His own life stream, to whomsoever He may like.

   The Beloved is Himself the Amrit – the sweet elixir, and the life thereof, the Beloved Himself hears His own prayer, His Beloved, oh Nanak, gets to His sweet elixir. 
   

   Guru Ram Das, Sorath M4

   The wind bloweth where it listeth and so doth the Will and Pleasure of God. 

   It is His glance of Grace that bestows the Hari Ras, oh Nanak! through Hari Ras sing of the greatness of Hari.
   

   Guru Ram Das, Suhi M4

   Hari Ras comes to him to whomsoever He granteth, and the tongue delighteth in His praises, by devotion to Naam, one lives ever in peace and remains absorbed therein.
   

   Guru Amar Das, Gauri M3

2. Through one's good fortune:

   A rare devotee of the Master tastes of the Hari Ras, and lives in perpetual peace and ecstasy, this one gets if he be fortunate enough.

   Guru Amar Das, Dhanasri M3

   The Manna of Hari Ras is a great detaching factor,  fortunate is he who gets this heavenly food.
   

   Guru Ram Das, Asa M4

   I have got an access to Hari Ras and I am now devoted to Hari with the grace of the Master. It is my own good luck that I am now living a life like this.
   

   Guru Ram Das, Asa M4

3. Through the Master of Truth: It is with the grace of God that one comes across a Sat Guru and thereby is initiated with the Hari Ras, which in turn provides food to the soul, on which the soul thrives from day to day.

   This Hari Ras one gets through a mighty good fortune, and he finds it who meets a Satguru, oh Nanak! One forgets all the dull dross of the world, when Hari comes to abide in the mind.

   Guru Amar Das, Ramkali M3

   A meeting with a Sat Guru is extremely auspicious, as he implants Naam and one gets bread of Hari Ras.
   

   Guru Amar Das, Gauri M3

   Oh Saints, how may I find the Lord, by Whose glance of grace I may get enlivened? Without the Lord I cannot live; oh contact me with the Guru that I may drink the Water of life.

   Guru Amar Das, Gauri M3

   Through the compassion of the Satguru, I have got the bread of love, with the Hari Ras in me, I have lost all other appetites.

   Guru Amar Das, Majh M3

   Hari Ras is extremely sweet and all absorbing, the soul that tastes of It becomes dead to all outside and loses all other appetites.

   Guru Amar Das, Gauri M3

4. Through the grace of a Master-Soul:

   Through the grace of a Master-Soul one gets the Hari Ras, oh Nanak! it is by contacting the Naam that one is saved.

   Guru Amar Das, Asa M3

   Hari Ras is a pure gift of the Master, by remembrance of Hari, one can safely cross over. 

   Guru Ram Das, Maru M4

5. Through the holy congregation:

   I have got access to Hari Ras through the holy congregation, oh Nanak! such a soul is truly blessed. 

   Guru Arjan, Asa M5

   In the holy congregation there is Hari Ras, a Master-Soul drives away the fear of death.
   

   Guru Nanak, Sorath M1

   One gets to the holy congregation through high merit, and gains Hari Ras therein.
   

   Guru Ram Das, Dhanasri M4

6. Through acceptance of the pine Will: 

   By devotion to the Master, one accepts the pine Will, and quaffs the nectar of life freely. 

   Guru Nanak, Sarang War M1