ਨਿੰਦੁ ਬਿੰਦੁ ਨਹੀ ਜੀਉ ਨ ਜਿੰਦੋ ॥
nind bind nahee jee-o na jindo.
There was no slander, no seed, no soul and no life.
ਨਾ ਤਦਿ ਗੋਰਖੁ ਨਾ ਮਾਛਿੰਦੋ ॥
naa tad gorakh naa maachhindo.
There was no Gorakh and no Maachhindra.
ਨਾ ਤਦਿ ਗਿਆਨੁ ਧਿਆਨੁ ਕੁਲ ਓਪਤਿ ਨਾ ਕੋ ਗਣਤ ਗਣਾਇਦਾ ॥੯॥
naa tad gi-aan Dhi-aan kul opat naa ko ganat ganaa-idaa. ||9||
There was no spiritual wisdom or meditation, no ancestry or creation, no reckoning of accounts. ||9||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
There were no unkind words, no beginnings of life at all.
Even the famous teachers people still remember had not yet come.
There was no knowledge and no meditation, no family lines, no counting up of anyone's deeds.
Even the greatest teachers came after the One.
Gorakh and Machhindra, the revered founding teachers of the Nath yogis, are named respectfully and listed as not-yet-existing. Even the greatest human teachers came after the One.
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