SRI RAG
Praises of the Guru :—
When the Name is obtained the mind is satisfied ; without the Name accursed is life.
Let some holy friend who meeteth me point out to me God the Lord of excellence.
I would be quartered for him who showed me the Name.
O my Beloved, I live by meditating on the Name.
Without the Name I could not live ; O my true Guru, implant it in me.
The Name is a priceless jewel ; the perfect true Guru possesseth it.
By applying myself to the service of the true Guru, he bringeth forth and display eth the jewel of the Name.
Blest are the very fortunate who come to the Guru and meet him.
They who have not met the true Guru are unfortunate and subject to death.
They shall again wander in birth, and be placed in terrible filth.
Approach not those in whose hearts is the pariah wrath.
The true Guru is a tank of nectar ; very fortunate are they who come to bathe therein.
Their impurities of every birth depart, and the pure Name is implanted in them.
The slave Nanak, by fixing his attention on the true Guru, hath obtained the highest dignity.
The excellence of the Name is obtained through the Guru :—
Let me sing God's praises, let me proclaim God's praises, let me utter God's praises, O mother.
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The holy man who repeateth His praises is my friend ; with him I will sing God's praises.
When I pierced the diamond of my heart with the diamond of divine knowledge, the deep colour of the Name appeared.
O my God, let me sing Thy praises that my soul may be gratified.
My heart thirsteth for God's name ; may the Guru be pleased to grant it me !
Dye your hearts with the love of God, O ye very fortunate, and the Guru will be pleased to confer on you favours. -/I am a sacrifice to that true Guru who lovingly fixeth the Name in my heart.
Without the true Guru, God's name is not found even though one perform hundreds of thousands and millions of ceremonies.
Without good fortune God is not found, even though He dwell in our homes and be for ever near,
Because a screen widely separateth Him from those in whose hearts there is the pain of ignorance and superstition.
Without meeting the true Guru man becometh not gold ; the perverse sink like iron while the boat is hard by.
God's name is the boat the true Guru provideth ; how shall we go on board ?
He who walketh according to the will of the true Guru shall sit in the boat.
Hail, hail to the greatly fortunate persons, O Nanak, whom the true Guru blendeth with God !
Man even though silly may be blended with God by piety. This hymn was composed by Guru Ram Das when after his marriage he was invited to make some request :—
SRI RAG CHHANT
The girl is silly, how shall she behold God in this world ?
When God is merciful the holy learn the affairs of the next world :
The holy learn the affairs of the next world and ever meditate on God.
Woman shall then roam happy among her companions, and triumphantly swing her arm in God's court.
What balance of Dharmraj's account shall remain after repeating God's name ?
The girl even though silly shall behold God in this world through the Guru's instruction.
The marriage is ended, my father ; I have found God under the Guru's instruction.
The Guru hath dispelled the darkness of ignorance, and lit the lamp of divine knowledge :
The Guru hath lit the lamp of divine knowledge, darkness is dispelled, and I have discovered the precious jewel of God's name.
The malady of pride hath departed, sorrow hath fled, and I have cured my pride under the Guru's instruc tion.
I have obtained as my spouse the Deathless One, the Imperishable, who shall never die or be born.
The marriage is ended, O my father ; I have obtained God under the Guru's instruction.
God is very true, my father ; when God's saints meet, the marriage procession is beautiful.
She who repeateth God's name shall be happy in this world and be really beautiful in the next :
In the next she shall be very beautiful who in this world hath remembered the Name.
Profitable are the whole lives of those who under the Guru's instruction have conquered their minds by throwing the dice of God's name.
By meeting God's saints my work hath prospered ; for my spouse I have obtained the Joyful Being.
God is very true, my father ; when God's saints meet, the marriage procession is beautiful.
My father, give me God as a gift and dowry.
Give me God as my raiment ; give me God as my glory that my work may succeed.
By devotion to God the marriage is easy ; the Giver gave me the gift of the true Guru's name.
Thy glory, O God, shall fill the earth's continents and the
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universe ; this dowry of the Name cannot be confounded with others.
Any other dowry the perverse may display is false pride and worthless gilding.
My father, give me God as a gift and dowry.
My father, woman on meeting her beloved God extendeth the vine.1
God, who is in every age, ever setteth a-going the Guru's race ;
In every age increaseth the true Guru's race who under his instruction meditate on the Name.
God shall never be destroyed ; what He giveth ever increaseth.
Nanak, the saints and God are one ; by repeating God's name woman is adorned.
My father, woman on meeting her beloved God extendeth the vine.1
SRI RAG KI WAR
True men eat the bread of labour ; the false and the deceitful live by begging : —
Thou didst create all things, O Lord ; Thou gives t sustenance to Thy creatures.
Some live by deceit and fraud, and drop from their mouths falsehood and deception.
Thou hast subjected creatures thereto ; Thou doest what pleaseth Thyself.
To others Thou hast explained the truth and given un failing stores thereof.
The food of those who remember God is profitable, they who remember Him not, stretch out their hands to beg.
There is none to beg from except God, the uni versal Benefactor : —
Every one belongeth to Thee ; Thou art every one's ; Thou art the capital stock of all.2
All beg of Thee and ever supplicate Thee.
He to whom Thou givcst hath obtained everything ; Thou art distant from some and to others Thou art near.
Except Thee there is none to beg from ; let some one investigate this in his mind.
All praise Thee ; Thy door is open to the holy.
The Guru in a vision presented himself at God's door :—
I a minstrel of the Lord God went to His door.
God from within heard my cries, and called the minstrel into His presence.
Having called the minstrel, He asked him for what object he had come.
' Thou ever bestowest gifts, merciful Lord, grant me to meditate on Thy name.'
Nanak, God the Giver caused me to repeat His name and clothed me with a robe of honour.
MAJH
The advantage of the society of the saints :—
I meditate on God's excellences and name,
And in company with the saints I cause His name to dwell in my heart.
The Lord God is inaccessible and inapprehensible ; but His delights are obtained on meeting the true Guru.
Blessings on those men of God who knowr Him.
I shall go and ask them to tell me of God.
On meeting the men of God, I will shampoo their feet, rub and wash them, and drink the divine essence.
The true Guru the giver made fast in me God's name.
Very fortunate am I who have obtained a sight of the Guru.
In uttering the true ambrosial Name which is received from the perfect Guru, I drink nectareous essence.
O God, cause me to meet the society of the saints, the true beings.
On meeting them I shall meditate on God's name.
Nanak, may I under the Guru's instruction hear of God, speak of Him, and regale myself with His name !
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The Guru shows the one God who pervades all things but is distinct from them :—
Come, my sisters, meet me, my dear ones :
I am a sacrifice to her who shall show me my Beloved.
On meeting the society of the saints I have found God the Friend, and am a sacrifice to the true Guru.
Whithersoever I look, there is the Lord.
Thou pervadest every heart, Thou Searcher of hearts.
The perfect Guru hath shown me God who is with me ; I am ever a sacrifice to the true Guru.
There is but one breath, one matter, and one light in all things.
One light pervadeth all things but is distinct in each ; there is no light equal thereto.
By the favour of the Guru the one God hath been seen ; in everything I am a sacrifice to the true Guru.
Nanak speaketh words of nectar
Which are dear and pleasing to the hearts of his disciples.
The perfect true Guru giveth instruction ; he is benefi cent to others.
MAJH KI WAR Some of the attributes of the Guru :—
He in whose heart there is truth hath the true Name, and uttereth the truth with his mouth ;
He walketh in God's way himself, and causeth others to do so.
If there be a river on our way, it will wash away filth ; by bathing in a pond 1 more filth attacheth to one.
The true Guru who meditateth on God night and day is the perfect river.
He is saved himself with his family, and by giving God's name he saveth the whole world.
The slave Nanak is a sacrifice to him who repeateth God's name and causeth others to do so.
U 2
GAURI
Ram Das is happy beyond expression in the society of Guru Amar Das :—
The beggar is happy when a householder giveth him alms ;
The hungry man is happy when he taketh food ;
The disciple is happy and contented when he meeteth his Guru.
Grant me, O Lord, a sight of Thee in whom is my hope.
Mercifully fulfil my desires.
The chakwi is happy when she seeth the sun :
She then meeteth her beloved and all her sorrow de- parteth.
The disciple is happy when he beholdeth his Guru ;
The calf is happy when it sucketh milk ;
Its heart is glad when it seeth its dam ;
The disciple is happy when he beholdeth his Guru.
All other affections are worldly and false,
And shall perish like false and temporary gilding.
The slave Nanak is happy and contented with the true Guru.
Happy is the family in which a religious son has been born :—
As the mother nourisheth her foetus in the hope of its being a son—
' When he is big he will earn and allow me money which will give me enjoyment—
So the man of God loveth God, and God will render him assistance.
0 my God, I am foolish, preserve me, O my Lord. Thy servant's praise is Thy glory.
They to whose hearts God's praises are pleasing, rejoice in their palaces and homes.
When they sing God's praises, they taste all sweets.
The man of God is the saviour of his family ; he shall deliver twenty-one generations,1 yea, the whole world.
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Whatever hath been done hath been done by God and is His glory.
O God, all creatures are Thine ; Thou pervadest them all, and causest them to worship Thee.
1 am Thy slave purchased in a shop ; what skill hath this creature ?
Wert Thou, O God, to seat me on a throne, I should still be Thy slave ; cause me even as a lowly grass-cutter to utter Thy name.
Nanak is God's slave, and magnifieth Him.
The earnings of the holy :—
The husbandman laboureth and hopcth in his heart,
While yoking his plough and making his efforts, that his sons and daughters shall eat the fruits of his labour ;
So the man of God uttereth God's name that God may at last deliver him.
O my God, accomplish my salvation, foolish though I am!
Apply me, O God, to the work of serving the true Guru.
As the merchant who taketh horses for traffic,
Earneth money and entertaineth hopes that his wealth shall increase ;
So the man of God uttereth the name of God, and is happy in uttering it.
The shopkeeper collecteth wares and sitting in his shop dealeth in them :
His wealth is false, its display is false, he is wrapped up in falsehood.
The man of God collecteth divine wealth and taketh God with him as his viaticum.
Love of wealth and family is a snare when man turneth away from God.
He who is the slave of God's slaves shall be saved under the Guru's instruction.
Nanak, they who ponder on the Name under the Guru's instruction shall be enlightened.
The fervour of the Guru's devotion :—
The desire for God is ever in my mind and heart ; O God, how shall I behold Thee ?
He who loveth God knoweth the pleasure thereof ; God is very dear to my mind and heart.
I am a sacrifice to my Guru who hath caused me to meet my Creator from whom I had been separated.
O God, I a sinner have taken refuge at Thy gate.
My understanding hath no merit ; mercifully cause me to meet Thee some time.
It is Thou who possessest merits ; it is Thou who art compassionate ; it is Thou who pardonest when Thou pleasest.
1 am a sinner, but Thou hast saved me by association with the Guru, who, by teaching me God's name, hath delivered me.
O my true Guru, how can I recount thy merits ? When thou speakest, I become astonished.
Can any one else preserve a sinner like me as the true Guru hath preserved and saved me ?
Thou, O Guru, art my father, thou art my mother, thou art my relation and companion.
1 was wandering astray ; no one cared for me when the great God placed me a worm near the true Guru.
Hail ! hail to the slave Nanak's Guru, by meeting whom all my sorrow and trouble are at an end.
The Guru ever cherishes his disciples :—
As a woman having given birth to a son nourisheth him and keepeth her eye on him—
In and out of doors she feedeth him and continually fondleth him—
So the true Guru watcheth over his disciple who beareth love and affection to God.
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0 my God, we are silly children of Thine.
Hail ! hail to the Guru, the true Guru, the teacher who hath rendered us wise by divine instruction !
As the white-robed bird l circling and flying in the heavens
Keepeth her thoughts on her young left behind, and ever remembereth them in her heart,
So the true Guru claspeth to his heart that disciple who loveth God.
God preserveth the tongue made of flesh and blood within the scissors of the thirty or thirty-two teeth.
Let any one consider if the tongue or the teeth have any power of themselves ; know that everything is in the power of God.
When men calumniate the saints, God preserveth His servants' honour.
My brethren, let no one suppose that any one hath any power ; every one acteth as God causeth him to act.
Old age, death, fever, headache, snakebite are all in the power of God. None of these may occur without God's will.
Nanak, ever so meditate on God's name in thy heart, that at the last moment it may deliver thee.
The advantage of meeting the true Guru :—
He is called the true Guru whose presence maketh the heart glad ;
Then mental doubt vanisheth, and the supreme dignity is obtained.
How shall I meet my beloved true Guru ?
1 every moment make obeisance that I may meet him. God mercifully caused me to meet my perfect true
Guru.
On applying the ashes of the true Guru his slave's desires are fulfilled.
Meet such a guru as shall implant God's service in the heart and teach it to thee.
Thus shall there never be any deficiency ; God's profit shall ever be obtained.
He in whose heart there is divine pleasure hath no love for mammon.
Nanak, if such a guru be found, man shall be saved, sing ing God's praises.
The debt men owe to the Guru :—
This mind of many whims resteth not for a moment ; it roameth and wandereth in every direction.
They who are very fortunate, have found the perfect Guru who giveth God's spell by which their minds become fixed.
O God, we are slaves of the true Guru :
The brand hath been branded on our foreheads ; we owe a great debt to the Guru :
He conferred on us many kindnesses and favours, and rescued us from the dangerous ocean of fear.
They who have not the love of God in their hearts plot deceitful schemes.
As paper is spoiled by water, so the perverse are ruined by pride.
We know nothing of the past or future ; as God placeth us so shall we stand.
O Guru, be merciful to us sinners ; saith the slave Nanak, we are thy dogs.
The Guru's happiness on meeting God :—
O my Gobind,1 Thou art in my heart, Thou art in my heart : because Thou art in my heart, I am dyed with Thy love.
O my Gobind, the sportive Hari is with me, yet cannot be seen ; but the perfect Guru hath shown me the Unseen.
O my Gobind, all poverty and misery depart from him to whom the name of God hath been made manifest.
The highly fortunate have obtained God, the highest dignity, O Gobind, and are absorbed in His name.
0 my Gobind, my beloved, hath any one seen the Lord God with his eyes ?
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My mind and body are very sad, O my Gobind, without God I a woman waste away.
On meeting the saints, O my Gobind, I have found my God, Friend, and Companion.
God, the life of the world, hath come to me, O my Gobind ; I pass the night in happiness.
Ye saints, cause me to meet my God, the Friend ; my soul and body hunger for Him.
I cannot live without seeing my Beloved ; separation from Him weigheth upon my heart.
God is my Friend and Beloved ; the Guru introduced me to Him and my heart revived.
The desires of my soul and body have been fulfilled, O my Gobind ; on meeting God my heart expanded.
I am a sacrifice, O my Gobind, my Beloved ; I am a hundred times a sacrifice unto Thee.
In my soul and body is the love of the Beloved, O my Gobind, O God preserve my capital.1
0 my Gobind, let me meet the true Guru, the mediator who will show me the way, and cause me to meet God !
Through Thy mercy, O my Gobind, I have obtained God's name ; the slave Nanak hath entered Thine asylum.
The Guru's longing for God :—
1 suffer from separation from God's name and from God. May I meet my Lord, my Friend, and obtain happiness ! On beholding the Lord God I survive, O my mother, His name is my companion and brother.
Ye dear saints, sing the praises of my Lord God.
Ye greatly fortunate ones, repeat the Name under the Guru's instruction.
God and God's name are my life and soul.
By repeating the Name man hath not again to cross the terrible water.
How shall I behold the Lord God, my soul and body's desire ?
Present me to God, ye dear saints, my heart loveth Him.
By the Guru's word the beloved King is obtained. 1 That is, make my human life profitable.
Ye greatly fortunate ones, utter His name.
In my soul and body I have a great longing for God.
Ye saints, cause me to meet Gobind who is my Lord God.
By the true Guru's instruction the Name is ever manifest to me ;
So the desires of the slave Nanak's heart have been fulfilled.
Man ought to keep watch over his refractory mind :—
GAURI KARHALE
O refractory l soul 2 who comest from afar, how shalt thou meet God ?
When I found the Guru by perfect good fortune, the Beloved came and embraced me.
O refractory soul, meditate upon the True Guru ;
O refractory and wretched soul, meditate on God's name,
And when thy account is called for, God Himself will release thee.
O refractory soul, once very pure, the filth of pride hath now attached to thee.
The Beloved Spouse was present in thy house ; when thou didst separate from Him, thou wert punished.
O refractory soul, my dear, search for God within thee.
He is not found by contrivance ; the Guru showeth Him in thy heart.
O refractory soul, my dear, day and night fix thine attention on God.
When thou findest God through the Guru thou shalt go home and obtain the painted palace.
0 refractory soul, my friend, abandon hypocrisy and greed :
The hypocritical and the greedy shall be smitten ; Death will punish them with his mace.
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O refractory soul, who art dear to me as my life, rid thyself of the filth of hypocrisy and superstition.
The perfect Guru is a tank of divine nectar ; when the company of saints is obtained filth departeth.
O refractory soul, my dear, listen only to the instruction of one guide the Guru- Worldly love may be widely diffused, yet at last nothing shall go with one —
O refractory soul, my friend, take God's name for thy travelling expenses, and thou shalt obtain honour.
Thou shalt have a dress of honour in God's court, and God Himself will embrace thee—
O refractory soul, he who obeyeth the Guru shall under the Guru's instruction accomplish his work.
Make obeisance before the Guru, O slave Nanak, and he will blend thee with God.
O refractory soul, gifted with the power of reflection, meditate and carefully look.
They who dwell in forests are tired of wandering in them ; while they may under the Guru's instruction behold the Beloved in their own hearts.
O refractory soul, remember God ;
O refractory and wretched soul, the perverse are caught in a great net,
While the pious are delivered by remembering God's name.
O refractory soul, my beloved, search for the True Guru in the society of the saints.
Attached to the society of the saints meditate on God and He will go with thee.
O refractory soul, greatly fortunate are they on whom the one God looketh with favour.
If God deliver thee, thou shalt be delivered ; worship the true Guru's feet.
O refractory soul, my beloved, think of the Light within thy body.
When the merciful God conferreth a gift on thee, the Guru will show thee the Name which is the nine treasures.
O refractory soul, thou fickle-minded, lay aside thy perverse cleverness.
Remember God's name, and at the last moment He will grant thee deliverance.
O refractory soul, very fortunate shalt thou be if thou treasure the gem of divine knowledge.
The divine knowledge of the Guru is a sword held in the hand to destroy the god of death.
Within thee is the treasure, O refractory soul, yet thou wanderest abroad in doubt searching for it.
When thou meetest the perfect Guru, thou shalt find God the Friend who is with thee.
O refractory soul, ever remember the love of God and thou shalt be imbued with it.
By serving the Guru and remembering his instruction the dye of God shall never fade.
\Ve are birds, O refractory soul, and God the immortal Being is a tree.
Nanak, very fortunate are the pious who remembering the Name find the Tree.
GAURI KI WAR I
A message of love :—
Hear, my Friend, this message of love ; mine eyes are fixed on Thee.
When the Guru is pleased he blendeth me with the Friend, and then the slave Nanak sleepeth in peace.
Men should not be jealous of the Guru, who is specially favoured of God :—
Know that he is great whom the Lord maketh great.
God pardoneth him who is pleasing to Him.
If any one try to rival Him he is an insensate fool.
He whom the true Guru causeth to meet Him, singeth His praises and dilateth on them.
Nanak, true is the True One ; he who knoweth Him is absorbed in the truth.
The Guru is the soil in which religion is planted :—
The true Guru is the field of religion ; as man planteth in it, so he gathereth fruit.
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The Guru's Sikhs plant ambrosia and obtain God as their ambrosial fruit.
Their faces are bright in this world and the next, and they shall obtain a true robe of honour in God's court.
Some whose hearts are base ever act basely ; as they plant, so the fruit they eat.
When the true Guru the banker looketh at them and assayeth them, their gilding is all laid bare.
As they meditate, so they obtain, and so God maketh them known.1
Nanak, the Lord God Himself pervadeth both the good and the bad ; 2 he ever beholdeth the acts of all.
Man's regeneration must depend on himself :-
Man hath one mind ; the one God pervadeth it ; as the mind turneth,3 such is its acceptance.
Man may say what he pleaseth ; it is what he hath at home he eateth.4
Without the true Guru there is no understanding, and pride depart eth not from the heart.
The spiritually proud are miserable and hungry ; they put out their hands and beg from door to door.
Falsehood and robbery remain not concealed ; gilding and adulteration are laid bare.
The true Guru meeteth, and God cometh to, him who was so fated in the beginning.
As iron touched by the philosopher's stone assumeth a bright colour, so doth man when he meeteth the company of the saints.
0 slave Nanak's Lord, Thou guidest men as Thou pleasest.
Reference to the fate of those who calumniated Guru Amar Das :—
Him who slandereth the perfect true Guru the Creator will punish.
The slanderer shall not have such an opportunity again ; as he soweth so shall he eat.
He shall be taken away to terrible hell with blackened face and a halter on his neck like a thief ;
But, if he return to the Guru's protection and meditate on God's name, he shall be saved.
He who obeyeth not the Guru's order is perverse and robbed by mental ignorance and poisonous mammon :
In his heart is falsehood and he deemeth every one false ; God hath fastened unworthy disputes on his neck.
He talketh a great deal, but what he saith pleaseth no body ;
He wandereth from house to house like an abandoned woman ; whosoever meeteth him beareth the mark thereof.
The holy man keepeth aloof from him ; he leaveth him to go and sit with the Guru.
He who denieth the Guru is base ; 0 elect, he hath lost all his capital and profit.
At first, O Nanak, men recited the Shastars and the Veds, but the words of the perfect Guru have superseded them.
The magnification of the perfect Guru is pleasing to his disciples ; the perverse shall never more have this oppor tunity.
The world, which is God's field, yields ambrosial produce to the Guru's disciples :—
The whole world is God's field ; God Himself causeth the tillage to be performed.
The holy man hath made God's grace germinate ; the perverse have lost their capital.
Every one cultivateth for his own advantage ; if it please God, He causeth the field to germinate.
The Guru's disciples sow ambrosia, and obtain God's name as the ambrosial fruit.
Death the mouse ever gnaweth the produce ; 1 but God the Creator killeth and expelleth it.
With God's love the tillage succeedeth, and the harvest- heap is produced by His favour.
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God hath removed all the trouble and anxiety of those who have meditated on Him.
The slave Nanak hath worshipped the Name ; he is saved himself, and saveth the whole world.
The Guru encourages his Sikhs to hear his in struction :—
True Sikhs sit with the true Guru ; and the false toil and find no place even by search.
Are their faces bright to whom the words of the true Guru are not agreeable ? Nay, they wander contemned of God.
God causeth their acts to prosper who have the wealth of His name within them.
They cease to be subject to others ; God sitteth near to assist them.
When God is on our side, every one is on our side ; and every one who seeth us praiseth us.
Kings and emperors, all the work of God, come and salute God's servant.
Great is the greatness of the perfect Guru ; he who greatly serveth God obtaineth unequalled happiness.
God hath given the perfect Guru a permanent gift, and what He hath given ever increaseth.
No slanderer can endure his greatness ; God Himself destroyeth the slanderer.
The slave Nanak uttereth the praises of the Creator who ever preserveth His saints.
Guru Ram Das addressed the following to the pre tended Tapa, or penitent, who perpetually slandered Guru Amar Das : —
Thou didst not at first show respect to Guru Amar Das ; thy excuses now are of no avail.
How can the wretched perverse man who wandereth half way obtain happiness by mere words ?
He who loveth not the true Guru cometh with a lie and departeth with a lie.
A pretended guru leads man astray :—
When the master is naked and hungry, whence shall his servant eat to repletion ?
If the master have anything in his house, the servant can get it ; how can he get what there is not ?
If a Sikh serve a false guru and Death afterwards call on him for an account, such service shall be hurtful.
Nanak, perform service for the great God, a sight of whom is profitable, and no account shall afterwards be taken from thee.
The following was addressed to Guru Amar Das's enemies :—
Nanak, the saints consider and the four Veds tell
That what the saints utter with their mouths cometh to pass.
In the extension of the world this appeareth manifest : all people hear of it.
The fools obtain not happiness ; they are at enmity with the saints.
The saints desire virtues for them, but they burn with pride.
What can the wretches do, since their fate was evil from the beginning ?
They whom the supreme Being smiteth have none to succour them.
It is real justice that they who bear enmity to those who are without it should perish.
They whom the saints curse shall wander again and again :
When a tree is cut up by the roots, its branches wither.
A magnification of the Guru :—
The whole world come and fall at the feet of those to whom God giveth greatness.
We may fear if we do anything by ourselves ; but it is the Creator who putteth forth His might in all things.
Lo ! my brethren, this is the arena of the true Beloved who by His power hath made every one subject to Him.
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The Lord God preserveth His saints and blackeneth the faces of slanderers and enemies.
The greatness of the true Guru ever increaseth ; the saints themselves ever sing God's praises.
Night and day repeat the Name, ye disciples of the Guru, and through the true Guru implant the Creator in your hearts.
O Guru's Sikhs, know that the true Guru's hymn is most true ; the Creator Himself hath caused him to utter it.
The beloved God maketh bright the faces of the Guru's Sikhs, and the whole world wisheth victory to him.
Nanak is God's slave ; God preserveth the honour of His servants.
The fate of those who deny the Guru :—
They who leave the Guru, who is present with them, shall find no entrance into God's court.
Let any one go and meet those slanderers, and he will see their faces pale and spat upon.
They who are accursed of the Guru are accursed of the whole world, and shall ever be vagrants.
They who deny their Guru shall wander about groaning.
Their hunger shall never depart ; they shall ever shriek from its pangs.
No one heareth what they say ; they are ever dying of fear.
They cannot bear the true Guru's greatness ; they cannot find room in this world or the next.
Whoever goeth to meet those cursed by the true Guru shall lose the remnant of his honour.
They who were cursed by the Guru became leprous ; whoever meeteth them shall catch the leprosy.
O God, allow me not to see those who turn their hearts to mammon.
There is no escape from what the Creator Himself wrote in the beginning.
Slave Nanak, worship the Name ; nothing can equal it.
Great is its greatness, and it ever increaseth.