Vol. I — Guru Arjan, Rag Gauri Purbi

1 pray you hear me, my friends, it is time to serve the saints.

Earn here the profit of God's name, and in the next world ye shall abide in happiness.

Human life groweth shorter every day and night ;

O man, meet the Guru and arrange thine affairs.

This world is involved in wickedness and superstition ; they who know God are saved.

He whom God awakeneth and causeth to drink the essence of His word, knoweth the story of the Ineffable.1

Purchase that 2 for which thou hast come into the world, and God by the Guru's favour will dwell in thy heart.

Thou shalt find a home with comfort and peace in God's own palace, and not return again to this world.

The slave Nanak craveth the happiness of being made the dust, of the saints' feet.

He whom the saint who knoweth God awakeneth, shall be saved, And shall quaff the essence of God's name : it is he who knoweth the story of the Ineffable.