(1). Thy body is made by Brahma. Know it for certain, it will become dust.
Pause.
Remember the root (of all), 0 thoughtless, ignorant man! Why art thou proud of this much? 1 (2). (Thou art) daily a guest of three Seers ( = six pounds, i.e. of food). The other things are a deposit with thee.
(3). Ordure, bones and blood are wrapped up in a skin. On this thou art conceited?
(4). If thou comprehendest the One thing, then thou becomest pure. "Without comprehending it thou art always impure.
(5). Nanak says: (I am) a sacrifice to the Guru, From whom Hari, the wise Supreme Spirit, is obtained.
XV. LXXXII.
V Caupade.
(1). One Ghan ( = 24 minutes) is to me daily (like) many days.
My mind does not remain (steady), how shall I meet with my beloved?
Pause.
One moment is to me (like) a day, it never passes.
I have much longing after (his) sight; is there such a saint, who may join to me my beloved?
(2). The four watches (are to me) like the four ages (of the world). When it has become night, I do not know its end.
(3). The five enemies, having met, have separated (me) from my beloved. Wandering and wandeiing about I weep wringing my hands.
(4). To humble Nanak the sight of Hari was shown. Having known himself he obtained the highest bliss.
XVI. LXXXIII.
(1). In the service of Hari is the highest treasure.
The service of Hari (is the uttering of) the nectar-name (with) the mouth.
Pause.
Hari is my companion and my friend.
In pain and pleasure I remember him, he is present.
What can the helpless Yama frighten me?
(2). Hari is my refuge, Hari is my salvation. Hari is my friend, the council in my heart.
(3). Hari is my capital, Hari is my trust.
(Having become) a disciple I acquire wealth, Hari is my banker.
(4). From the mercy of the Guru this wisdom comes. Humble Nanak is absorbed in the bosom of Hari.
1 fiizJ A of this much, i.e. of this thy body, that will become dust.
RAG ASA; MAH. V., SABD XVII.— XX. (LXXXIV.— LXXXVII.)
XVII. LXXXIY.
(1). If the Lord becomes merciful (to me), then I apply this mind (to him). Serving the true Guru I obtain all fruits.
Pause.
Why will (my) heart weep? my true Guru is perfect.
He gives (me) what I desire, he is the depository of all happiness, he is brimful of the pond of nectar.
(2). His lotus-feet are kept within (my) heart.
(His) sight is manifested, the beloved Earn is met with.
(3). The five companions ( = the five senses) having met sing a song of congratulation. The sound of the voice not produced (by men) is made to sound.
(4). The Guru of Nanak is pleased, Hari the king is met with. Easily the night is passed in happiness.
XVIII. LXXXV.
(1). Hari bestowing (his) mercy has become manifest. By falling in with the true Guru wealth is obtained.
Pause.
Such a wealth of Hari should be collected, 0 brother!
(Which) fire does not consume, (which) does not sink in water, (which) does not leave (thee) nor go anywhere.
(2). It does not diminish, it is not exhausted.
In eating and spending (it) the mind remains satiated.
(3). He is a true wholesale merchant, in whose house the wealth of Hari is collected. By this wealth the whole world is benefited.
(4). He obtains the wealth of Hari, to whom it is due by a former decree (of God). Humble Nanak is seizing at the end the name.
XIX. LXXXVI.
(1). As a husbandman sows (his) field: (So) is (his) harvest indifferent (or) good, 0 man!
Pause.
What is born, know, that that dies (again). The devotee of Govind»(alone) becomes stable.
(2). After the day is passed, night will fall in. When the night is gone, it becomes again morning.
(3). (Whom) the Maya deludes, they remain unlucky. By the favour of the Guru some rare one wakes.
(4). Nanak says: I sing (his) excellences day and night. (My) face (becomes thereby) bright, pure (my) mind.
XX. LXXXVII.
(1). All the nine treasures are deposited with thee. Thou art fulfilling the wishes, thou protectest at the end.
Pause.
If thou art my beloved, what hunger have I?
When thou dwellest in (my) heart, no pain affects (me).
(2). What thou doest, that is right. 0 true Lord, true is thy order.
(3). "When it pleases thee, then I sing the excellences of Hari. In thy house there is always, always justice.
(4). 0 true Lord, inapprehensihle and -inscrutable!
Nanak applies himself to (thy) service, being applied (by thee).
XXL LXXXYIIL (1). He is near the creatures and always with (them). (His) power is active in (every) form and colour.
Pause.
(If) he acts, he does not grieve nor does (his) mind weep.
He is imperishable, undying, incomprehensible, our Lord is always safe.
(2). To whom does thy slave owe obsequiousness? Whose order has he to mind, 0 Lord?
(3). The slave, that has been made free by the Lord, On whom is that slave dependent?
(4). (He is) independent and without concern. 0 slave Nanak, say: vah Guru!
XXII. LXXXIX.
(1). Giving up the juice of Hari he is inebriated with a mean juice. The thing is in (his) house and he is going out (for it).
Pause.
The story of the true nectar cannot be heard. Baising disputes he clings to a false idle chat.
(2). (He takes) the wages of the Lord (and renders) service to another. With such qualities man is covered over.
(3). He hides himself from him, who is always with him. What is of no use, that he asks again and again.
(4). Nanak says: the Lord is merciful to the poor. As it pleases him, so he cherishes them.
XXIII. xc.
(1). The name of Hari is life and wealth. Here and there it is of use.
Pause.
Without the name of Hari every other thing is but little. My mind is satiated by the sight of Hari.
(2). A storehouse of devotion, a ruby is the word of the Guru. Singing, hearing and doing it (I am) happy.
(3). (My) mind clings to the lotus-foot.1 By the true Guru being pleased (with me) it was made a present (to me).
1 VfXft here = ^ (= *T$) mind, heart, for the sake of the rhyme.
RAG ASA; MAH. V., SABD XXIV.— XXVII. (XCL— XCIV.)
(4). The Guru initiated ISanak.
The imperishable Lord is (now) known (by me as being present) in every creature.
(1). Brimful is the stream of (his) joy and sport. His own work is adjusted by himself.
Pause.
The means of the perfect Lord are perfect, The stream of whose splendour remains brimful.
(2). The report of whose name, the treasure, is spotless, He himself is the creator, there is none other.
(3). All the creatures are in his hand.
The Lord is continually sporting with every one.
(4). The Guru is perfect, a perfect work is made (by him). Nanak (says): to (his) devotee greatness is given.
XXV. XCIL (1). By the word of the Guru I fashion this (my) mind.
I collect the wealth of Hari, (which is) the sight of the Guru.
Pause.
0 highest wisdom, come into my heart!
(That) I may meditate on and sing the excellences of Govind, (his) name is exceedingly dear to me.
(2). By the true name (I am) perfectly satiated.
The dust of the saints (is equal to) bathing at the sixty-eight (Tirthas).
(3). In all I know the One creator.
Having joined the society of the pious (I obtain) understanding and discrimination.
(4). (I am) the slave of all, having given up conceit. (This) present the Guru has given to Nanak.
XXVI. XCIII.
(1). Understanding has become bright, wisdom perfect. Polly is thereby extinguished and removed.
Pause.
Such an instruction of the Guru was obtained, (That) he, who was drowning in the terrible blind well, came out, 0 my brother.
(2). Great and bottomless is the ocean of fire.
The Guru is the boat, that ferries across (this) ocean.
(3). Hard to cross, dark and difficult is this Maya. By the perfect Guru a clear way is shown.
(4). (I am not possessed) of any muttering, austerity and contrivance. 0 Guru, ISTanak has fled to thy asylum!
XXVII. XCIV.
Tipade} (1). Who is drinking the juice of Hari is always attached (to him). (By drinking) other juicea one sinks down in a moment.
1 Tipade, consisting of three verses severally.
BAG ASA; MAH. V., SABD XXVIII.— XXX. (XCV.— XCVII.)
Who is intoxicated with the juice of Hari has always joy in his heart. With other juices care is mixed up.
Pause.
Who drinks the juice of Hari is sufficiently drunk and intoxicated. All other juices are mean.
(2). The estimate of the juice of Hari cannot he told. The juice of Hari is to be found in the shop of the pious. It is not obtained for any Lakhs or Crores (of money). To whom it is allotted, to him they give it.
(3). Nanak having tasted it became astonished. Nanak got (this) relish from the Guru.
Here and there it does not leave (one) in any way. Nanak is much longing after the juice of Hari.
XXVIII. XCV.
(1). (If) thou extinguish lust, wrath, greediness, spiritual blindness, the stream of thy folly ceases. (If) having become humble thou perform service, thou wilt become dear to the mind of (thy) beloved.
Pause.
Hear, 0 beautiful woman, the word of the pious, (which is) saving (thee).
Thy pain, hunger and doubt are effaced (thereby), thou wilt obtain happiness in the Sukhmani channel (of the vital breath).
(2). Having washed (his) feet render service to the Guru, being purified in (thy) spirit do away with the thirst after poison!
(If) thou become the lowest slave of (his) slaves, then thou wilt obtain lustre at the gate of Hari.
(3). Even this is the right course of conduct, even this the (proper) occupation; if thou obey (this) order, thy devotion will be effected.
Who performs this advice, (says) Nanak, he will cross the water of existence.
XXIX. XCVI. Dupade.
(1). A human body has been obtained (by thee). This is (now) thy time to be united with Govind. Other works are of no use whatever to thee.
Join the society of the pious, adore the name only!
Pause.
Cling to the apparatus for crossing the water of existence! In the love of the Maya thy life is passing to no purpose.
(2). Muttering, austerity, continence and virtue are not practised (by me). No service (is rendered to) the pious, (nor) is Hari the king known. Nanak says: we are of mean works.
Preserve the honour of him, who has fallen on thy asylum!
XXX. XCVII.
(1). Without thee I have none other, thou art in my mind.
Thou art my friend and companion, my Lord, why should (my) soul be afraid?
BAG ASA; MAH. V., SABD XXXI.-XXXIV. (XCVIII.— CI.)
Pause.
Thou art my refuge, thou art my hope.
In sitting, rising, sleeping, waging, at every breath and morsel mayst thou not be forgotten!
(2). Keep, keep (me) in thy asylum, 0 Lord, the ocean of fire is frightful!
0 true Guru, 0 thou, who art giving comfort to Nanak, we are thy little ones! 1 XXXI. XCVIII.
Pause.
The people of Hari are rescued by the Lord.
My mind is reconciled with my beloved, my heat has died having eaten poison.
(1). "No heat and cold in any way affect me, singing the excellences of the name of Earn. The drawing of the sorcerer 2 does not in any way hit (me), the lotus-foot is (my) asylum.
(2). By the favour of the saints he ( = Hari) has become merciful, he himself has become (my) helper. Nanak sings continually the depository of (all) excellences (and) effaces (thereby) his doubt (and) pain.
XXXII. XCIX.
(1). (When) the medicine of the name of Hari is eaten: Happiness is obtained, the occasion for pain is done away.
Pause.
The heat is gone by the word of the perfect Guru. Joy has set in, all cares are effaced.
(2). All creatures obtain happiness, (By whom) the Supreme Brahm is meditated upon, (says) Nanak.
XXXIII. C.
(1). That time has come, which he is not desiring.
"Without the order (of the Lord) how shall he understand the teaching?
Pause.
(By whom) cold and hot flesh is eaten; He is not young, he is old, 0 brother!
(2). Nanak, the slave, is in the asylum of the pious.
By the favour of the Guru he crosses the world of existence.
XXXIV. CI.
(1). There is continually light in (my) spirit.
In the society of the pious (my) dwelling is the feet of Hari.
1 mMJILTT??) literally: the children cowherds, the playfellows of Krishna; thence: children, little ones.
2 There is a great variety of readings in the MSS. regarding the first three words of this line, as the sense of them was apparently no longer understood; the Sikh Granthis at least could give no clue to their meaning. The Lahore lithographed copy reads: SToft ^ f^fS — W\ftt> which gives no sense.- The MS. No. 2483 reads: "g\of\ 3? f^T? and No. 2484 reads: zfjzft oft f%3- sTTcft signifies: sorcerer (the masc. of the common jjJlQtA or 5JTc7c?0; f^J3" we take = f^ ^, painting, drawing (of figures, for the sake of witch- craft), so that the right reading is that of MS. No. 2483, viz.: sTTTt ^ f^TST — 66|Jt i according to which we have translated.
RAG ASA; MAH. V., SABD XXXV. -XXXVII. (CII. — CIV.)
Pause.
Mutter continually the name of Earn, 0 my mind!
Thou wilt always obtain coolness, tranquillity and happiness, all thy sins will go off, 0 mind!
(2). Nanak says: whose destiny is perfect: He meets with the true Guru, the Supreme Brahm.
(Thirty-four [verses] of the second Ghar.)
XXXV. CII. Pause.
"Whose Lord Hari is, whose friend the Lord is: (Her) pain is gone, she is not again afflicted.
(1). Bestowing mercy (on her) he joins (her) to (his) feet. In comfort, tranquillity and joy she is happy.
(2). Singing the excellences (of Hari) in the society of the pious she (becomes) incomparable. By remembering Hari she becomes inestimable, (says) Nanak.
xxxvi. cm.
(1). (By whom) these sporting ones, lust, wrath, the Maya, pride and envy, are all overcome in the play: He brings virtue, contentment, mercy, morality and truth into his house.
Pause.
Birth and death cease, all burthens (are removed).
Joining the society (of the pious) his mind (becomes) pure, by the perfect Guru he is in one moment brought across.
(2). (His) mind remains the dust of all, all appear (to him) as beloved friends.
In all my Lord is contained, he is giving gifts (to) all creatures, remembering (them).
(3). He himself alone, the One is alone in the whole expansion (of the universe).
By continually muttering (him) all become pious people, by meditating on the One name many are saved.
(4). Deep, profound and endless is the Lord, he has no end nor limit whatever.
By thy mercy Nanak sings (thy) excellences, meditating and meditating he adores the Lord.
XXXVII. CIV.
(1). Thou art endless, not passing away, inapprehensible, all this (universe) is thy form. What cleverness shall we creatures practise, when all is in thee?
Pause.
0 my true Guru, protect thy own child, assuming an incarnation! 1 Give (me) wisdom, (that) I may always sing (thy) excellences, 0 my unattainable, boundless Lord!
(2). As in the womb of the mother that creature is preserved, taking the name as (its) support: (So) he is happy, who at every breath remembers (the name), fire 54 does not touch (him).
(3). Remove the love to another's property, to another's wife, to slandering others! Serve the lotus-foot in thy heart by the support of the perfect Guru!
1 £&l66l sport, play, stands here for wl&I^Td* a descent of sport = an incarnation of Vishnu.
RAG ASA; MAH. V., SABD XXXVIII. XXXIX. (CV. CVI.)
(4). House, mansion, palace, whatever is seen, nothing (goes) with (thee). As long as thou livest in the time of the Kali-yug, remember the name, (says) humble Nanak.
♦ ASA; GHAK III.; MAH ALA V. Om! By the favour of the true Guru! I. XXXVIII. CV.
(1). Dominion, property, youth, house, splendour, beautiful youth; Much wealth, elephants and horses, rubies, the price (of which is) Lakhs (of Bupees): 1 (All these) are further on (=in the other world) at the gate (of Hari) of no use, the proud one departs leaving (them) behind.
Pause.
Why is the mind applied (to anything) but the One?
In rising and sitting, in sleeping and waking, continually Hari should be meditated upon!
(2). ("Whose) courts are very wonderful and beautiful, (who) has acquired high praises in battle; * Who boasts with his mouth: I will kill, bind (and) set free!
(When) the order of the Supreme Brahm has come, he departs giving up (all) in one day.
(3). He does many works and contrivances, (but) the creator he does not know.
He gives instruction (to others), but he himself does not do the truth, the word (of the Guru) he does not recognize.
He has come naked and will go naked, as an elephant shakes off the dust.
(4). Hear, 0 my pious friend: all this expansion is false!
Saying': " mine, mine " they are drowned, the ignorant people are consumed and die. Nanak, having met with the Guru, meditates on the name, by the true name he is saved.
BAG ASA; GHAB V.; MAHAL A V. Om! By the favour of the true Guru! I. XXXIX. CVI.
(1). That whole world is in error, (Being) blind by (worldly) occupations; some (rare) man of Hari wakes.
(2). (Their) life is absorbed (in) love to the very fascinating and beloved (Maya). Some rare one forsakes (her).
(3). The incomparable lotus-foot of Hari is the mantra of the saints. Some (rare) pious man clings (to it).
(4). Nanak wakes in the society of the pious out of love to divine knowledge. On him, whose lot is great, mercy (is bestowed).
1 ^tofT^j corrupted for the sake of the rhyme instead of ^tt1T?>( (Pers. Arab. <OU-J, earnest money = price, cost).
2 V5T5?T s*m' a panegyrical kind of poetry, in which the bravery of heroes, etc., is extolled; thence praises, panegyrics generally.
RAG ASA; MAH. V., SABD XL. — XLII. (CVII.— CIX.)
Om! By the favour of the true Guru! EAGUASA; GHAR VI.; HAHALA V. I. XL. CVII.
(1). Who pleases thee, he is accepted, even that is the happiness and tranquillity (of) the mind. The powerful cause of causes is boundless, there is no other, 0 friend!
Pause.
The people delight in singing thy excellences.
The advice, counsel and cleverness of (thy) people is what thou dost and causest (them) to do.
(2). Nectar is thy name, 0 beloved, in the society of the pious (its) juice is obtained.
Those people become satiated (and) full (of it), (by whom) Hari, the depository of happiness, is sung.
(3). "Who is in thy protection, 0 Lord, he has no care.
On whom thy kindness is bestowed, they are good wholesale merchants, 0 Lord!
(4). All error, spiritual blindness and mischievousness are gone off since the sight (of Hari) was obtained. Nanak has made the true name his occupation, in love to the name of Hari he is sunk.
II. XLI. CVIII.
(1). "Who washes another's filth,1 he (through) several births, obtains his own doing (= deserts). Here (he finds) no comfort (and there) at the threshold (no) entrance, having gone to the city of Tama he is tormented.
Pause.
By the slanderer his whole life is lost.
(Here) he cannot reach anything, further on (in the other world) he gets no place.
(2). (When) the lot of the helpless slanderer has fallen, what will that poor man do? He is ruined there, where no one protects (him), to whom shall he raise his voice?
(3). ~No salvation (accrues to) the slanderer in any way, thus it pleases the Lord. Who calumniates the pious, by him no tranquillity ''* (and) happiness are enjoyed.
(4). The pious are relying on thee, 0 Lord, thou art the assistant of the pious. Kanak says: the pious are preserved by Hari, the slanderers are swept away (by him).
III. XLII. CIX.
(1). (Who) washes his outside (white), heart and mind (being) filthy, he loses both his places. Here he is sunk in lust, wrath and spiritual blindness, in the other world he will sob and weep.
Pause.
The way of worshipping Govind is different!
The hillock is beaten, (but) the snake does not die, the snake 3 does not hear the name.
(2). The practice of the Maya is given up, (and yet) he does not know the essence of devotion.
He gives himself to speculation on the Veda and the Shastras, (and yet) he does not become ac- quainted with truth.4 7 The sense is: to wash the filthy clothes of another, i.e. to criticize his actions.
2 is here = irffS *■/- 3 (Hindi ^f^T> Sansk. ^TS^T), a kind of snake (a lizard without feet). The sense of these two lines is: the way of adoring Govind is different from the practice of the people, who only touch the outside (the hillock, in which the snake is hidden) without killing the snake itself (selfishness).
* 33 tPT = 33 cT@, tJJT being here used as a postposition.
RAG ASA; MAH. V., SABD XLIIL— XLV. (CX.-CXII.)
(3). As a false rupee is discovered, when it comes into the sight of the money-changer: (So) the inward governor knows everything j what is hidden from him?
(4). The groundless (= false) m|n is destroyed in a moment by (his) falsehood, hypocrisy and deceit. True, true, true he is called by Nanak, (who) in his own heart perceives and remembers (Hari).
IV. XLIIL CX.
(1). (Who) is making efforts, (his) mind becomes pure, he dances having removed his own self. (Who) is collected in (his) mind, he keeps the five persons1 in subjection.
Pause.
Thy people dance and sing thy excellences.
The rebeck, tambourine, cymbal and string of toe-bells emit a sound, (though) unbeaten.
(2). (Who) first instructs his own mind and afterwards gladdens others.
(Who) mutters the name of Earn in his heart and with his mouth lets all (men) hear (it).
(3). (Who) with his hand washes the feet of the pious, (who) applies the dust of the saints to his body. (Who) offers up his heart and body and puts (them) before the Guru, he obtains the true thing.
(4). Whoever hears and beholds with faith, the pain of his birth and death goes off. Such a dance removes hell; Nanak (says): the disciple wakes.
V. XLIV. CXI.
V (1). A low Candal woman becomes a Brahmani, from a Shudra woman (one) becomes the best, 0 dear! The insatiable thirst of hell and heaven is quenched and devoured, 0 dear!
Pause.
The cat of the house is taught something else, seeing the mouse it is frightened, 0 dear! The lion is given into the power of the goat by the Guru, (the goat) is set by him on the dog.
(2). Without posts the roof is supported, by the houseless a house is obtained.
Without a setter the setting (of jewels) is made, a wonderful (precious) stone is set, 0 dear!
(3). The complainer is not reaching his object by means of complaint, by silence a decision is obtained, 0 dear!
She who is sitting in wealth on a carpet takes a corpse and runs to show it to the eyes.
(4). That ignorant one says: I know; he, who is knowing, (says): I do not investigate (it) minutely, 0 dear!
Nanak says: (to whom) the Guru has given nectar to drink, he delighting (in it) is made happy.
VI. XLV. CXII.
(1). Cutting (my) bonds (my) vices are forgotten (by him), his own greatness is remembered (by him). He became kind (to me) like a mother and father, like a child (I was) cherished (by him).
Pause.
The disciples of the Guru are preserved by Gopal, the Guru.
They are drawn out (by him) from the great water of existence bestowing his glance (of favour on them).
(2). By remembering whom one escapes from Yama and gets happiness here and there: (Him) mutter at (every) breath and morsel with (thy) tongue, continually (his) excellences should be sung!
1 The five persons are oFW> ^Tf, e*c» 68 RAG ASA; MAH. V., SABD XL VI.— XLVIII. (CXIIL— CXV.)
(3). By devotion with love the highest step is obtained, in the society of the saints pain is extinguished. (Such a one) is neither consumed nor does he go, no fear whatever enters (him), the spotless property of Hari he takes possession of.
(4). At the time of the end the Lord becomes (my) assistant, here and there he is (my) protector. He is the friend of (my) life, (my) beloved, my wealth; ISanak is always a sacrifice (to him).
VII. XLVL CXIIL (1). When thou art (my) Lord, what fear (should I entertain)'? without thee whom should I praise? (When I have) thee alone, then I have everything, without thee I have none other.
Pause.
0 father, I have seen, that the world is poison. Keep me, 0 my Lord, thy name is my support!
(2). Thou knowest all the pain of the mind, to whom else should it be told?
Without the name the whole world is mad; (if) the name is obtained, happiness is acquired.
(3). What shall be said, to whom shall it be told? what is to be said, that is with (thee), 0 Lord! Everything is thy work, my hope is continually (put) in thee.
(4). If thou givest greatness, it is thy greatness, here and there I meditate on thee. 0 Lord of Nanak, who art always giving happiness, thy one name is my salvation.
VIII. XLVII. CXIV.
(1), Nectar is thy name, 0 Lord, this great juice is drunk by (thy) people. The burdens of fear of repeated birth have ceased, sin is extinct, error is gone.1 Pause.
Seeing (thy) sight I live.
Having heard thy words, 0 true Guru, my mind and body have become tranquil.
(2). By thy mercy the society of the pious was obtained (by me), this work was done by thyself. Thy feet, 0 Lord, were firmly seized (by me) and the poison was (thus) easily destroyed.
(3). Thy name, 0 Lord, is the depository of happiness, this imperishable mantra I obtained. By the Guru it was given to me out of mercy, my heat, pain and enmity departed.
(4). Blessed is he, who has obtained a human body, whom the Lord has taken to union with himself. Blessed is that Kali-yuga, (where) in the society of the pious the praise (of Hari) is sung! Nanak says): the name (is) the support (of my) heart.
IX. XLVIII. CXV.
(1). He (the Supreme) has been before everything,2 what other knowledge does one have? His own erring and misled child the Supreme Brahm, the Lord, pardons.
Pause.
My true Guru is always merciful, he protects me, the poor one.
(My) sickness is cut off (by him), great happiness is obtained (hy me), the nectar-name of Hari is put into (my) mouth (by him).
(2). (My) many sins are taken away, (my) bonds are cut, (I) have become emancipated. From the very horrible blind well (I) am drawn out by the Guru seizing (my) arm.
2 The words ought to be put in the following order: JHT^ft foTsT RAG ASA; MAH. V., SABD XLIX.-LI. (CXVI.-CXVIII.)
(3). (1) have become fearless, all fear is effaced, (I) am protected by the protector. Such is thy gift, 0 my Lord, all (my) affairs are adjusted (by thee).
(4). The depository of (all) qualities, the Lord, I have acquired in (my) heart. Nanak has fallen on (his) asylunfand is happy.
X. XLIX. CXYI.
(1). (When) thou art forgotten, then every one (becomes) an enemy (to me). (When) thou comest into (my) thought, then (every one does) service (to me). No one else is known (besides thee), 0 true, inapprehensible and inscrutable one I Pause.
(When) thou comest into (my) thought, then (thou art) always merciful (to me), what (can) by the helpless people (be done)?
Say, who should be called bad (or) good? all are thy creatures!
(2). I rely on thee, thou art (my) support, thou keepest (me) giving (me) thy hand. On whom thy mercy is, that man no calamity whatever devours.
(3). That is happiness, that is greatness, which is pleasing, 0 Lord, to (thy) mind. Thou art wise, thou art always kind, (if) the name be obtained, I enjoy pleasure.
(4). Before thee is my prayer: soul and body is all thine. Nanak says: all is thy greatness, nobody knows my name.
XI. L. CXVII.
(1). (If) the Lord, the inward governor, bestows mercy, Hari is obtained in the society of the pious. (If) he, having opened the shutters, shows (his) sight, one is not subject again to regeneration.
Pause.
Meet with the beloved Lord and thou wilt remove all thy pain, 0 dear!
Cross in the society of him, by whom the Supreme Brahm is adored in (his) heart!
(2). (Who) wanders about in a great desert and in an ocean of fire, (who is) living in joy and grief: (His) mind becomes pure having met with the true Gruru, by muttering the immortal Hari with (his) tongue.
(3). (By whom) his body and all his wealth is set up (as the object of his thoughts), he is bound (by) a soft fetter.
By the favour of the Guru (his) births are cut off, (by whom) the name of Hari is adored.
(4). They are kept by the Lord, the preserver, who are pleasing to their own Lord. Soul and body is all thine, 0 donor! JSanak is always a sacrifice (to thee).
XII, LI. CXYIIL Pause.
(Thou hast) escaped from spiritual blindness (and) dull sleep, what favour was bestowed (on thee), Odear?
The very fascinating (Maya) does not affect thee, how is thy sloth gone, 0 dear?
(1). Lust, wrath and egotism are hard, who has escaped (from them) by means of continence, 0 dear? The excellent men, Devas and Asuras, are subject to the three qualities, the whole world is robbed (by them), 0 dear!
(2). The fire of a burning forest consumes much grass, some green shrub is saved, 0 dear! Such a powerful one I cannot describe, nothing like him can be told, 0 dear.
RAG ASA; MAH. V., SABD LIL— LIV. (CXIX.— CXXI.)
(3). In the chamber of lamp-black (I have not become) black, a spotless colour was applied, 0 dear! The great mantra of the Guru dwelled in (my) heart, the wonderful name was heard (by me), 0 dear!
(4). Bestowing mercy (on me) the Lord is looking (on me) with a glance of favour, he applied me to his own foot.
Ey devotion (with) love I obtained happiness, 0 Nanak, I entered the society of the pious.
Om! by the favour of the true Guru! BAGTJ ASA; GUAR VII.; MAHALA V.
I. LIL CXIX.
(1). Eed short breeches shine on thy body.
Thou art pleasing (to thy) sweetheart, his mind is captivated (by thee).
Pause.
Ey whom is thy redness made?
Ey what colour hast thou become red?
(2). Thou art beautiful, thou (enjoyest) a good fortune. In thy house is the sweetheart, in thy house is good luck.
(3). Thou art virtuous, thou art the most excellent. Thou art pleasing to the beloved, thou art very intelligent.
(4). (Thou) art pleasing to the beloved, therefore (thou art) of red colour. Nanak says: by (his) favourable look (thou art) exalted.
Pause.
Hear, 0 my (female) friend, this is the way of (my) passing the time. The Lord himself is adorning (me).
II. LIII. CXX.
(1). When (my) troubles are intense, they are receding, Now that I have been advised, (that he is) in (my) presence.
Pause.
Submissiveness has ceased, 0 friend and companion!
My error is gone, by the Guru (I am) united with (my) beloved.1