O servants of God and the true Guru, the true Being, offer this supplication unto Him.
We insects and worms seek thy protection, O true Guru ; mercifully enlighten us with the Name ;
My friend and divine Guru, enlighten me with God's name.
THE RAHIRAS 253
Under the Guru's instruction, the Name is the helper of my soul ; singing God's praises is my occupation.
Exceedingly fortunate are the men of God who have faith in Him and thirst for Him :
On obtaining the name of God, they are satisfied ; when men meet the company of the saints, God's attributes are known.
They who obtain not the relish of God's name are unfor tunate, and shall go to the god of death.
Curses on the lives, curses on the hopes of living, of those who enter not the true Guru's protection and society ! l
The saints who have obtained the society of the true Guru are those on whose foreheads it was so written from the beginning.
Blest is that true society, Nanak, by meeting which the relish of God is obtained, and the Name manifested.
GURU ARJAN, RAG GujARi2
O my soul, why proposest thou exertion3 when God Himself is engaged in effort for thee ?
He even putteth their food before the insects which He created in rocks and stones.
O man, by striving and earning enjoy happiness ; Nanak, by meditating on God, meet Him and thine anxieties shall vanish.
So also Guru Nanak —
They who eat the fruit of their labour and bestow some portion,
O Nanak, recognize the right way.
O my God, they who meet the society of the saints are saved.
Through the favour of the Guru they obtain the highest rank ; though they be as dry wood, they are made green.
No one can rely on mother, father, friends, children, or wives.
God provideth every one with his daily food ; why, O man, art thou afraid ?
The kulang flieth away hundreds of miles, leaving her young behind her.
Who feedeth them ? Who giveth them morsels to peck at ? Have you not considered this ?
God holdeth in the palm of His hand all treasures and the eighteen supernatural powers.
Nanak is ever a sacrifice unto Thee ; O God, Thou hast no end or bounds.
SO PURUKH1