Benefits of the Nectar
The Gurbani mentions numerous benefits that accrue from tasting the Nectar. As a result of enjoying the taste of the Nectar one gives up all other tastes and becomes truly detached.
His mind is content, he hungers not, nor thirsts; he sees the Immaculate One in all hearts, only a detached one enjoys the Nectar; one steeped in the Love of the Guru's Word.
His mind does not feel any hunger or thirst. Imbued with the Lord’s Ambrosial essence, he becomes a pure, detached renunciate; he is lovingly absorbed in the Guru’s Teachings.
Guru Nanak Dev –
Adi Granth, Maru M1, Dakhne, p. 1039
The Nectar fills everybody. He who tastes it knows its intense sweetness. By tasting it, one becomes immersed in it and is made fearless. He is not troubled by Kal, the Negative Power. He becomes free and brings about the release of his family.
The Nectar fills everyone within; he who tastes it knows it. He becomes free of fear; and is filled with the Divine Ambrosia. He receives it by the Lord's Grace, and thereafter is not afflicted by death.
[…] one’s inner being is overflowing with Ambrosial Nectar; tasting it, the flavor is known. Those who taste it become fearless; they are satisfied with the sublime essence of the Lord. Those who drink it in, by the Grace of the Lord, are never again afflicted by death.
Guru Amar Das –
Adi Granth, Var of Maru M3, p. 1092
The Lord created the fourteen regions wherein men carry on their trade. They who are God-wards reap the profit. Death does not touch them who drink the True Nectar. They gain release for themselves and their kin; the whole world is saved for their sake.
You created the fourteen world-shops, in which Your Business is transacted. The Lord bestows His Profits on those who become Gurumukh. The Messenger of Death does not touch those who drink the True Ambrosial Nectar. They themselves are saved, along with their family, and all those who follow them are saved as well. (Guru Angad Dev)
Guru Ram Das –
Adi Granth, Var of Sri Raag M4, p. 83
The Nectar gives the nine Treasures and also occult and spiritual powers. It leads to happiness and peace. Fear, doubt, perversions and sins are destroyed. Egotism disappears and the craving for the illusory pleasures of Maya is quenched. The mind becomes still and pure, and one gains salvation and tranquillity. One is accepted in the Court of the Lord after drinking the Nectar.
From this it is evident that the Nectar so much praised by the Gurus and the Nectar which one is urged to drink is the Name or Shabd (Inner Music) which pervades all hearts. A perfect Master with his loving and kindly glance can plant the Nectar-tree within us and enable us to drink the Nectar. Saints, by their Nectar-filled glance, can raise the dead. They bestow the boon of the Name upon barren minds. The glance of Saints has Nectar in it. One can become a Saint by a mere glance from one of them.
By a Master's Nectar-glance one becomes a Saint.
Beholding His Ambrosial Glance, one becomes saintly.
Guru Arjan Dev –
Adi Granth, Gauri M5, Sukhmani, p. 287
One can drink the Nectar only through the Grace of the Master. Those persons are indeed fortunate who become immortal by partaking of it. They become like a bee at the Lotus Feet of the Master and enjoy lasting bliss.
Drink the Lord's Nectar and gain life-eternal. Remember Him and be ever in bliss. Live in joy, with desires all fulfilled; let not care approach you. Be like the black-bee, hugging the lotus feet of the Lord. Oh Nanak, find bliss in His service, as the rain bird1 finds joy in the rain-drop.
So, drink forever the Ambrosial Nectar; may you live long, and may the meditative remembrance of the Lord give you infinite delight. May joy and pleasure be yours; may your hopes be fulfilled, and may you never be troubled by worries. Let this mind of yours be the bumble bee, and let the Lord’s feet be the lotus flower. Says servant Nanak, attach your mind to them, and blossom forth like the song-bird, upon finding the rain-drop.
Guru Arjan Dev –
Adi Granth, Gujari M5, p. 496
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Footnote:
1) A mythological bird, which will drink only drops of pure rain water.