Vol. I — Guru Ram Das, Rag Gauri Purbi

The city * is greatly filled with lust and wrath ; but these are destroyed on meeting the saints.

By predestination the Guru is found, and the soul is ab sorbed in the region of God's love.

Salute the saint with clasped hands — this is a greatly meritorious act.

Prostrate thyself before him — this is a greatly religious act.

The infidel knoweth not the taste of God's essence ; he beareth the thorn of pride in his heart.

The more he moveth, the more it pricketh him, and the more pain he feeleth : his head shall feel death's mace.

The saints of God are absorbed in God's name, and have destroyed the pain and fear of transmigration.

They have found God the imperishable Being, and great honour is theirs in the earth's continents and the universe.

The Name is Nanak's support and prop ; I have obtained happiness through being absorbed only in God's name.