This is the first teaching of Guru Nanak and is the first mantra in the Guru Granth Sahib. When we tune into the Golden Chain of the lineage we call forth the highest energy of the cosmos by chanting the Mul Mantra. This is the chit, the the chi and the nucleus of the beginning thought. When we chant this mantra we polish and balance all our 10 spiritual bodies. This is the formless grace that surrounds us. This opens the gates of wisdom and is the infinite ultimate reality.
This is the English Translation:
One Spirit Beyond
Moves within the Creation—
Coordinating
Consolidating
Continually
Creating,
And this Spirit
Within me
Is my True Identity.
It Does All
And Causes All
To be Done.
It Protects me
Through all incidents
Of Time and Space.
It fears nothing
And knows nothing
Of vengeance
Or anger.
Deathless
It comes into Form.
In Itself, It has
Never been born.
Flowing through the cycles
Of Birth and Death,
It moves
By Its Own
Purity and Projection.
This understanding
Shall come to you
As a sweet blessing,
As a gift.
In every moment
Continue
In Its Continual
Remembrance.
From the start
This Truth was True.
All through Time and Space
Is True.
Even now,
This Truth is True.
Nanak says,
Ever shall be True.
