What worship is this, O Thou Destroyer of birth ? l Un beaten strains of ecstasy are the trumpets of Thy worship.
Thou hast a thousand eyes and yet not one 2 eye ; Thou hast a thousand forms and yet not one form ; 3
Thou hast a thousand pure feet and yet not one foot ; Thou hast a thousand organs of smell and yet not one organ — I am fascinated by this play of Thine.*
The light which is in everything is Thine, O Lord of light.
From its brilliancy everything is brilliant ;
By the Guru's teaching the light becometh manifest.
What pleaseth Thee is the real arati.5
O God, my mind is fascinated with Thy lotus feet as the bumble-bee with the flower : night and day I thirst for them.
Give the water of Thy grace to the sarang 6 Nanak, so that he may dwell in Thy name.7
L That is, of transmigration.
beard clearest at night. It is said that they make love's unhealed wounds bleed anew. 7 Dhanasari.
G 2
While at Jagannath, Guru Nanak met a Brahman who kept his eyes and nose closed so as to receive no pleasure from these organs. He averred that in that state he with his mental eyes saw the secrets of the world. Nanak hid his lota and the Brahman could not find it, so Nanak by the following hymn in the Dhanasari measure twitted him on his want of omniscience : —
This is not the age, there is no longer acquaintance with Jog ; this is not the way of truth.
The holy places in the world have fallen ; the world is thus ruined.
In this Kal age God's name is the best thing.
Thou closest thine eyes and boldest thy nose to deceive the world.
Thou boldest thy nose with thy thumb and first two fingers, and sayest that thou seest the three worlds.
But thou seest not what is behind thee, this is a wonderful thing.1