That Being is pure, God is the pure Being, God is alto gether inaccessible and illimitable.
All meditate on Thee ; all meditate on Thee ; O God, Thou art the true Creator.
All creatures are Thine ; Thou providest for them all.
0 saints, meditate on God who causeth all misery to be forgotten.
God Himself is the Lord, God Himself is the worshipper ; 2 Nanak, what a helpless creature is man !
Thou, O God, the one Supreme Being, art fully contained in every heart and pervadest everything.
Some men are givers, some beggars ; all are Thy wondrous sport.
Thou Thyself art the Giver ; Thou art the Enjoyer ; I know none beside Thee.
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Thou art the totally infinite Supreme Being ; what attri butes of Thine shall I recount ?
The slave Nanak is a sacrifice unto those who serve Thee, unto those who serve Thee.
They who meditate on Thee, who meditate on Thee, O God, abide in happiness in this age.
They who meditate on God are emancipated, are emanci pated, my friend ; for them Death's noose is broken.
All fear hath departed from those who have meditated on the fearless, the fearless God.
They who have worshipped, who have worshipped my God, are absorbed in Him.
Blest, blest are they who have meditated on God ; the slave Nanak will become a sacrifice unto them.
O Infinite One, Thine infinite storehouses are filled with Thy worship, Thy worship.
O Infinite One, many are Thy saints, many are Thy saints who praise Thee.
They offer various, various worship to Thee, O God ; they practise austerities and repeat Thy name, O endless One.
Various, various saints of Thine read many Simritis and Shastars, perform their daily duties and the six acts prescribed for Brahmans ; l
But only they are saints, good saints, saith Nanak, who please God, the Omnipotent.
Thou art the primal Being, the illimitable Creator ; there is none so great as Thou.
Thou art the same in every age ; Thou art ever and ever the same ; Thou art the eternal Creator.
What pleaseth Thee prevaileth ; what Thou doest cometh to pass.
Thou Thyself didst fashion the whole creation, yet, being created, it shall disappear.2
Nanak singeth the praises of the Creator who knoweth all things.