Raag Aasaa

¹One Universal Creator God. Truth Is The Name. Creative Being Personified. No Fear. No Hatred. Image Of The Undying. Beyond Birth. Self-Existent. By Guru's Grace:

²Raag Aasaa, First Mehl, First House, So Dar ~ That Gate:

³What is that Gate, and what is that Home, in which You sit and take care of all?

⁴Countless musical instruments of so many various kinds vibrate there for You; so many are the musicians there for You.

⁵There are so many Ragas there for You, along with their accompanying harmonies; so many minstrels sing to You.

⁶The winds sing to You, as do water and fire; the Righteous Judge of Dharma sings at Your Door.

⁷Chitar and Gupat, the recording angels of the conscious and the subconscious, sing to You; they know, and they write, and on the basis of what they write, the Lord of Dharma passes judgement.

⁸Shiva and Brahma and the Goddess Parvaati, so beautiful and ever adorned by You, sing to You.

⁹The Indras, seated upon their celestial thrones, with the deities at Your Gate, sing to You.

¹⁰The Siddhas in Samaadhi sing to You, and the Holy Saints, in their contemplative meditation, sing to You.

¹¹The celibates, the truthful and the patient beings sing to You, and the mighty warriors sing to You.

¹²The scholarly Pandits sing to You, along with the holy Rishis and the readers of the Vedas throughout the ages.

¹³The Mohinis, the heavenly beauties who entice the heart in paradise, in this world and in the nether regions, sing to You.

¹⁴The fourteen priceless jewels created by You, and the sixty-eight holy places of pilgrimage, sing to You.

¹⁵The mighty warriors and the divine heroes sing to You, and the four sources of creation sing to You.

¹⁶The continents, the worlds and the solar systems, created and installed by Your Hand, sing to You.

¹⁷They alone sing to You, who are pleasing to Your Will, and who are imbued with the nectar of Your devotional worship.

¹⁸So many others sing to You, they do not come into my mind; how can Nanak think of them?

¹⁹That Lord and Master - He is True, forever True; He is True, and True is His Name.

²⁰He who created the creation is True, and He shall always be True; He shall not depart, even when the creation departs.

²¹He created the world of Maya with its various colors and species.

²²Having created the creation, He Himself watches over it, as it pleases His Greatness.

²³Whatever pleases Him, that is what He does. No one can issue any commands to Him.

¹He is the King, the King of Kings, the Emperor of Kings! Nanak lives in surrender to His Will. ||1||1||

²Aasaa, Fourth Mehl:

³That Lord is Immaculate; the Lord God is Immaculate. The Lord is Unapproachable, Unfathomable and Incomparable.

⁴All meditate, all meditate on You, O Dear Lord, O True Creator.

⁵All beings are Yours; You are the Giver of all beings.

⁶So meditate on the Lord, O Saints; He is the One who takes away all pain.

⁷The Lord Himself is the Master, and He Himself is His own servant. O Nanak, how insignificant are mortal beings! ||1||

⁸You are totally pervading within each and every heart; O Lord, You are the One Primal Being, All-permeating.

⁹Some are givers, and some are beggars; all of this is Your wondrous play!

¹⁰You Yourself are the Giver, and You Yourself are the Enjoyer. I know of no other than You.

¹¹You are the Supreme Lord God, Infinite and Eternal; what Glorious Praises of Yours should I speak and chant?

¹²Unto those who serve, unto those who serve You, slave Nanak is a sacrifice. ||2||

¹³Those who meditate on the Lord, those who meditate on You, O Dear Lord, those humble beings dwell in peace in this world.

¹⁴They are liberated, they are liberated, who meditate on the Lord; the noose of Death is cut away from them.

¹⁵Those who meditate on the Fearless One, on the Fearless Lord, all their fears are dispelled.

¹⁶Those who have served, those who have served my Dear Lord, are absorbed into the Being of the Lord, Har, Har.

¹⁷Blessed are they, blessed are they, who have meditated on the Dear Lord; slave Nanak is a sacrifice to them. ||3||

¹⁸Devotion to You, devotion to You, is a treasure, overflowing, infinite and endless.

¹⁹Your devotees, Your devotees praise You, O Dear Lord, in many and various ways.

²⁰For You, so many, for You, so very many, O Dear Lord, perform worship and adoration; they practice penance and endlessly chant in meditation.

²¹For You, many - for You, so very many read the various Simritees and Shaastras; they perform religious rituals and the six ceremonies.

²²Those devotees, those devotees are good, O servant Nanak, who are pleasing to my Lord God. ||4||

²³You are the Primal Being, the Unrivalled Creator Lord; there is no other as Great as You.

²⁴You are the One, age after age; forever and ever, You are One and the same. You are the Eternal, Unchanging Creator.

²⁵Whatever pleases You comes to pass. Whatever You Yourself do, happens.

²⁶You Yourself created the entire Universe, and having done so, You Yourself shall destroy it all.

²⁷Servant Nanak sings the Glorious Praises of the Creator, the Knower of all. ||5||2||

²⁸One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

²⁹Raag Aasaa, First Mehl, Chaupadhay, Second House:

³⁰Hearing, everyone calls You Great,

³¹but only one who has seen You, knows just how Great You are.

¹No one can measure Your Worth, or describe You.

²Those who describe You, remain absorbed in You. ||1||

³O my Great Lord and Master of Unfathomable Depth, You are the Ocean of Excellence.

⁴No one knows the greatness of Your expanse. ||1||Pause||

⁵All the contemplators met together and practiced contemplation;

⁶all the appraisers met together and tried to appraise You.

⁷The theologians, the meditators and the teachers of teachers

⁸could not express even an iota of Your Greatness. ||2||

⁹All Truth, all austerities, all goodness,

¹⁰and the greatness of the Siddhas, the beings of perfect spiritual powers

¹¹without You, none has attained such spiritual powers.

¹²They are obtained by Your Grace; their flow cannot be blocked. ||3||

¹³What can the helpless speaker do?

¹⁴Your bounties are overflowing with Your Praises.

¹⁵And the one, unto whom You give - why should he think of any other?

¹⁶O Nanak, the True Lord is the Embellisher. ||4||1||

¹⁷Aasaa, First Mehl:

¹⁸Chanting the Name, I live; forgetting it, I die.

¹⁹It is so difficult to chant the True Name.

²⁰If someone feels hunger for the True Name,

²¹then that hunger shall consume his pains. ||1||

²²So how could I ever forget Him, O my Mother?

²³True is the Master, and True is His Name. ||1||Pause||

²⁴People have grown weary of trying to appraise the greatness of the True Name,

²⁵Even if they were all to meet together and recount them,

²⁶You would not be made any greater or lesser. ||2||

²⁷He does not die - there is no reason to mourn.

²⁸He continues to give, but His Provisions are never exhausted.

²⁹This Glorious Virtue is His alone - no one else is like Him;

³⁰there has never been anyone like Him, and there never shall be. ||3||

³¹As Great as You Yourself are, so Great are Your Gifts.

³²It is You who created day and night as well.

³³Those who forget their Lord and Master are vile and despicable.

³⁴O Nanak, without the Name, people are wretched outcasts. ||4||2||

³⁵Aasaa, First Mehl:

³⁶If a beggar cries out at the door, the Master hears it in His Mansion.

³⁷Whether He receives him or pushes him away, it is the Gift of the Lord's Greatness. ||1||

³⁸Recognize the Lord's Light within all, and do not consider social class or status; there are no classes or castes in the world hereafter. ||1||Pause||

³⁹He Himself acts, and He Himself inspires us to act.

⁴⁰He Himself considers our complaints.

⁴¹Since You, O Creator Lord, are the Doer,

⁴²why should I submit to the world? ||2||

⁴³You Yourself created and You Yourself give.

⁴⁴You Yourself eliminate evil-mindedness;

⁴⁵by Guru's Grace, You come to abide in our minds,

⁴⁶and then, pain and darkness are dispelled from within. ||3||

⁴⁷He Himself infuses love for the Truth.

⁴⁸Unto others, the Truth is not bestowed.

⁴⁹If He bestows it upon someone, says Nanak, then, in the world hereafter, that person is not called to account. ||4||3||

⁵⁰Aasaa, First Mehl:

⁵¹The urges of the heart are like cymbals and ankle-bells;

⁵²the drum of the world resounds with the beat.

⁵³Naarad dances to the tune of the Dark Age of Kali Yuga;

⁵⁴where can the celibates and the men of truth place their feet? ||1||

⁵⁵Nanak is a sacrifice to the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

⁵⁶The world is blind; our Lord and Master is All-seeing. ||1||Pause||

⁵⁷The disciple feeds on the Guru;

⁵⁸out of love for bread, he comes to dwell in his home.

¹If one were to live and eat for hundreds of years,

²that day alone would be auspicious, when he recognizes his Lord and Master. ||2||

³Beholding the sight of the petitioner, compassion is not aroused.

⁴No one lives without give and take.

⁵The king administers justice only if his palm is greased.

⁶No one is moved by the Name of God. ||3||

⁷O Nanak, they are human beings in form and name only;

⁸by their deeds they are dogs - this is the Command of the Lord's Court.

⁹By Guru's Grace, if one sees himself as a guest in this world,

¹⁰then he gains honor in the Court of the Lord. ||4||4||

¹¹Aasaa, First Mehl:

¹²As much as the Shabad is in the mind, so much is Your melody; as much as the form of the universe is, so much is Your body, Lord.

¹³You Yourself are the tongue, and You Yourself are the nose. Do not speak of any other, O my mother. ||1||

¹⁴My Lord and Master is One;

¹⁵He is the One and Only; O Siblings of Destiny, He is the One alone. ||1||Pause||

¹⁶He Himself kills, and He Himself emancipates; He Himself gives and takes.

¹⁷He Himself beholds, and He Himself rejoices; He Himself bestows His Glance of Grace. ||2||

¹⁸Whatever He is to do, that is what He is doing. No one else can do anything.

¹⁹As He projects Himself, so do we describe Him; this is all Your Glorious Greatness, Lord. ||3||

²⁰The Dark Age of Kali Yuga is the bottle of wine; Maya is the sweet wine, and the intoxicated mind continues to drink it in.

²¹He Himself assumes all sorts of forms; thus poor Nanak speaks. ||4||5||

²²Aasaa, First Mehl:

²³Make your intellect your instrument, and love your tambourine;

²⁴thus bliss and lasting pleasure shall be produced in your mind.

²⁵This is devotional worship, and this is the practice of penance.

²⁶So dance in this love, and keep the beat with your feet. ||1||

²⁷Know that the perfect beat is the Praise of the Lord;

²⁸other dances produce only temporary pleasure in the mind. ||1||Pause||

²⁹Play the two cymbals of truth and contentment.

³⁰Let your ankle bells be the lasting Vision of the Lord.

³¹Let your harmony and music be the elimination of duality.

³²So dance in this love, and keep the beat with your feet. ||2||

³³Let the fear of God within your heart and mind be your spinning dance,

³⁴and keep up, whether sitting or standing.

³⁵To roll around in the dust is to know that the body is only ashes.

³⁶So dance in this love, and keep the beat with your feet. ||3||

³⁷Keep the company of the disciples, the students who love the teachings.

³⁸As Gurmukh, listen to the True Name.

³⁹O Nanak, chant it, over and over again.

⁴⁰So dance in this love, and keep the beat with your feet. ||4||6||

⁴¹Aasaa, First Mehl:

⁴²He created the air, and He supports the whole world; he bound water and fire together.

⁴³The blind, ten-headed Raavan had his heads cut off, but what greatness was obtained by killing him? ||1||

⁴⁴What Glories of Yours can be chanted?

⁴⁵You are totally pervading everywhere; You love and cherish all. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁶You created all beings, and You hold the world in Your Hands; what greatness is it to put a ring in the nose of the black cobra, as Krishna did?

⁴⁷Whose Husband are You? Who is Your wife? You are subtly diffused and pervading in all. ||2||

⁴⁸Brahma, the bestower of blessings, entered the stem of the lotus, with his relatives, to find the extent of the universe.

⁴⁹Proceeding on, he could not find its limits; what glory was obtained by killing Kansa, the king? ||3||

⁵⁰The jewels were produced and brought forth by churning the ocean of milk. The other gods proclaimed We are the ones who did this!

¹Says Nanak, by hiding, how can the Lord be hidden? He has given each their share, one by one. ||4||7||

²Aasaa, First Mehl:

³The vine of good actions and character has spread out, and it bears the fruit of the Lord's Name.

⁴The Name has no form or outline; it vibrates with the unstruck Sound Current; through the Word of the Shabad, the Immaculate Lord is revealed. ||1||

⁵One can speak on this only when he knows it.

⁶He alone drinks in the Ambrosial Nectar. ||1||Pause||

⁷Those who drink it in are enraptured; their bonds and shackles are cut away.

⁸When one's light blends into the Divine Light, then the desire for Maya is ended. ||2||

⁹Among all lights, I behold Your Form; all the worlds are Your Maya.

¹⁰Among the tumults and forms, He sits in serene detachment; He bestows His Glance of Grace upon those who are engrossed in the illusion. ||3||

¹¹The Yogi who plays on the instrument of the Shabad gains the Blessed Vision of the Infinitely Beautiful Lord.

¹²He, the Lord, is immersed in the Unstruck Shabad of the Word, says Nanak, the humble and meek. ||4||8||

¹³Aasaa, First Mehl:

¹⁴My virtue is that I carry the load of my words upon my head.

¹⁵The real words are the Words of the Creator Lord.

¹⁶How useless are eating, drinking and laughing,

¹⁷if the Lord is not cherished in the heart! ||1||

¹⁸Why should someone care for anything else,

¹⁹if throughout his life, he gathers in that which is truly worth gathering? ||1||Pause||

²⁰The intellect of the mind is like a drunken elephant.

²¹Whatever one utters is totally false, the most false of the false.

²²So what face should we put on to offer our prayer,

²³when both virtue and vice are close at hand as witnesses? ||2||

²⁴As You make us, so we become.

²⁵Without You, there is no other at all.

²⁶As is the understanding which You bestow, so do we receive.

²⁷As it pleases Your Will, so do You lead us. ||3||

²⁸The divine crystalline harmonies, their consorts, and their celestial families

²⁹from them, the essence of Ambrosial Nectar is produced.

³⁰O Nanak, this is the wealth and property of the Creator Lord.

³¹If only this essential reality were understood! ||4||9||

³²Aasaa, First Mehl:

³³When by His Grace He came to my home, then my companions met together to celebrate my marriage.

³⁴Beholding this play, my mind became blissful; my Husband Lord has come to marry me. ||1||

³⁵So sing - yes, sing the songs of wisdom and reflection, O brides.

³⁶My spouse, the Life of the world, has come into my home. ||1||Pause||

³⁷When I was married within the Gurdwara, the Guru's Gate, I met my Husband Lord, and I came to know Him.

³⁸The Word of His Shabad is pervading the three worlds; when my ego was quieted, my mind became happy. ||2||

³⁹He Himself arranges His own affairs; His affairs cannot be arranged by anyone else.

⁴⁰By the affair of this marriage, truth, contentment, mercy and faith are produced; but how rare is that Gurmukh who understands it! ||3||

⁴¹Says Nanak, that Lord alone is the Husband of all.

⁴²She, upon whom He casts His Glance of Grace, becomes the happy soul-bride. ||4||10||

⁴³Aasaa, First Mehl:

⁴⁴Home and forest are the same, for one who dwells in the balance of intuitive peace and poise.

⁴⁵His evil-mindedness departs, and the Praises of God take its place.

⁴⁶To chant the True Name with one's mouth is the true ladder.

¹Serving the True Guru, one finds one's own place within the self. ||1||

²To conquer the mind is the knowledge of the six Shaastras.

³The Divine Light of the Lord God is perfectly pervading. ||1||Pause||

⁴Excessive thirst for Maya makes people wear all sorts of religious robes.

⁵The pain of corruption destroys the body's peace.

⁶Sexual desire and anger steal the wealth of the self within.

⁷But by abandoning duality, one is emancipated through the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||2||

⁸In the Lord's Praise and adoration is intuitive peace, poise and bliss.

⁹The Love of the Lord God is one's family and friends.

¹⁰He Himself is the Doer, and He Himself is the Forgiver.

¹¹My body and mind belong to the Lord; my life is at His Command. ||3||

¹²Falsehood and corruption cause terrible suffering.

¹³All the religious robes and social classes look just like dust.

¹⁴Whoever is born, continues to come and go.

¹⁵O Nanak, only the Naam and the Lord's Command are eternal and everlasting. ||4||11||

¹⁶Aasaa, First Mehl:

¹⁷In the pool is the one incomparably beautiful lotus.

¹⁸It blossoms continually; its form is pure and fragrant.

¹⁹The swans pick up the bright jewels.

²⁰They take on the essence of the All-powerful Lord of the Universe. ||1||

²¹Whoever is seen, is subject to birth and death.

²²In the pool without water, the lotus is not seen. ||1||Pause||

²³How rare are those who know and understand this secret.

²⁴The Vedas continually speak of the three branches.

²⁵One who merges into the knowledge of the Lord as absolute and related,

²⁶serves the True Guru and obtains the supreme status. ||2||

²⁷One who is imbued with the Love of the Lord and dwells continually upon Him is liberated.

²⁸He is the king of kings, and blossoms forth continually.

²⁹That one whom You preserve, by bestowing Your Mercy, O Lord,

³⁰even the sinking stone - You float that one across. ||3||

³¹Your Light is pervading the three worlds; I know that You are permeating the three worlds.

³²When my mind turned away from Maya, I came to dwell in my own home.

³³Nanak falls at the feet of that person who immerses himself in the Lord's Love,

³⁴Aasaa, First Mehl:

³⁵Receiving the True Teachings from the Guru, arguments depart.

³⁶But through excessive cleverness, one is only plastered with dirt.

³⁷The filth of attachment is removed by the True Name of the Lord.

³⁸By Guru's Grace, one remains lovingly attached to the Lord. ||1||

³⁹He is the Presence Ever-present; offer your prayers to Him.

⁴⁰Pain and pleasure are in the Hands of God, the True Creator. ||1||Pause||

⁴¹One who practices falsehood comes and goes.

⁴²By speaking and talking, His limits cannot be found.

⁴³Whatever one sees, is not understood.

⁴⁴Without the Name, satisfaction does not enter into the mind. ||2||

⁴⁵Whoever is born is afflicted by disease,

⁴⁶tortured by the pain of egotism and Maya.

⁴⁷They alone are saved, who are protected by God.

⁴⁸Serving the True Guru, they drink in the Amrit, the Ambrosial Nectar. ||3||

⁴⁹The unstable mind is restrained by tasting this Nectar.

⁵⁰Serving the True Guru, one comes to cherish the Ambrosial Nectar of the Shabad.

⁵¹Through the True Word of the Shabad, the state of liberation is obtained.

⁵²O Nanak, self-conceit is eradicated from within. ||4||13||

⁵³Aasaa, First Mehl:

⁵⁴Whatever He has done, has proved to be true.

⁵⁵The True Guru bestows the Ambrosial Naam, the Name of the Lord.

⁵⁶With the Naam in the heart, the mind is not separated from the Lord.

⁵⁷Night and day, one dwells with the Beloved. ||1||

⁵⁸O Lord, please keep me in the Protection of Your Sanctuary.

¹By Guru's Grace, I have obtained the sublime essence of the Lord; I have received the wealth of the Naam and the nine treasures. ||1||Pause||

²Those whose karma and Dharma - whose actions and faith - are in the True Name of the True Lord

³I am forever a sacrifice to them.

⁴Those who are imbued with the Lord are accepted and respected.

⁵In their company, the supreme wealth is obtained. ||2||

⁶Blessed is that bride, who has obtained the Lord as her Husband.

⁷She is imbued with the Lord, and she reflects upon the Word of His Shabad.

⁸She saves herself, and saves her family and friends as well.

⁹She serves the True Guru, and contemplates the essence of reality. ||3||

¹⁰The True Name is my social status and honor.

¹¹The love of the Truth is my karma and Dharma - my faith and my actions, and my self-control.

¹²O Nanak, one who is forgiven by the Lord is not called to account.

¹³The One Lord erases duality. ||4||14||

¹⁴Aasaa, First Mehl:

¹⁵Some come, and after they come, they go.

¹⁶Some are imbued with the Lord; they remain absorbed in Him.

¹⁷Some find no place of rest at all, on the earth or in the sky.

¹⁸Those who do not meditate on the Name of the Lord are the most unfortunate. ||1||

¹⁹From the Perfect Guru, the way to salvation is obtained.

²⁰This world is a terrifying ocean of poison; through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, the Lord helps us cross over. ||1||Pause||

²¹Those, whom God unites with Himself,

²²cannot be crushed by death.

²³The beloved Gurmukhs remain immaculately pure,

²⁴like the lotus in the water, which remains untouched. ||2||

²⁵Tell me: who should we call good or bad?

²⁶Behold the Lord God; the truth is revealed to the Gurmukh.

²⁷I speak the Unspoken Speech of the Lord, contemplating the Guru's Teachings.

²⁸I join the Sangat, the Guru's Congregation, and I find God's limits. ||3||

²⁹The Shaastras, the Vedas, the Simritees and all their many secrets;

³⁰bathing at the sixty-eight holy places of pilgrimage - all this is found by enshrining the sublime essence of the Lord in the heart.

³¹The Gurmukhs are immaculately pure; no filth sticks to them.

³²O Nanak, the Naam, the Name of the Lord, abides in the heart, by the greatest pre-ordained destiny. ||4||15||

³³Aasaa, First Mehl:

³⁴Bowing down, again and again, I fall at the Feet of my Guru; through Him, I have seen the Lord, the Divine Self, within.

³⁵Through contemplation and meditation, the Lord dwells within the heart; see this, and understand. ||1||

³⁶So speak the Lord's Name, which shall emancipate you.

³⁷By Guru's Grace, the jewel of the Lord is found; ignorance is dispelled, and the Divine Light shines forth. ||1||Pause||

³⁸By merely saying it with the tongue, one's bonds are not broken, and egotism and doubt do not depart from within.

³⁹But when one meets the True Guru, egotism departs, and then, one realizes his destiny. ||2||

⁴⁰The Name of the Lord, Har, Har, is sweet and dear to His devotees; it is the ocean of peace - enshrine it within the heart.

⁴¹The Lover of His devotees, the Life of the World, the Lord bestows the Guru's Teachings upon the intellect, and one is emancipated. ||3||

⁴²One who dies fighting against his own stubborn mind finds God, and the desires of the mind are quieted.

⁴³O Nanak, if the Life of the World bestows His Mercy, one is intuitively attuned to the Love of the Lord. ||4||16||

⁴⁴Aasaa, First Mehl:

⁴⁵Unto whom do they speak? Unto whom do they preach? Who understands? Let them understand themselves.

⁴⁶Who do they teach? Through study, they come to realize the Lord's Glorious Virtues. Through the Shabad, the Word of the True Guru, they come to dwell in contentment. ||1||

¹Through the Guru's Teachings, realize that He is pervading in all bodies;

²O my soul, vibrate on the Profound, Unfathomable Lord. ||1||Pause||

³Loving devotion to the Lord brings endless waves of joy and delight.

⁴One who dwells with the Glorious Praises of the Lord, night and day, is sanctified.

⁵The birth into the world of the faithless cynic is totally useless.

⁶The humble devotee of the Lord remains unattached. ||2||

⁷The body which sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord is sanctified.

⁸The soul remains conscious of the Lord, absorbed in His Love.

⁹The Lord is the Infinite Primal Being, beyond the beyond, the priceless jewel.

¹⁰My mind is totally content, imbued with my Beloved. ||3||

¹¹Those who speak and babble on and on, are truly dead.

¹²God is not far away - O God, You are right here.

¹³I have seen that the whole world is engrossed in Maya.

¹⁴O Nanak, through the Guru's Teachings, I meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||4||17||

¹⁵Aasaa, First Mehl, Thi-Thukay:

¹⁶One is a beggar, living on charity;

¹⁷another is a king, absorbed in himself.

¹⁸One receives honor, and another dishonor.

¹⁹The Lord destroys and creates; He is enshrined in His meditation.

²⁰There is no other as great as You.

²¹So whom should I present to You? Who is good enough? ||1||

²²The Naam, the Name of the Lord, is my only Support.

²³You are the Great Giver, the Doer, the Creator. ||1||Pause||

²⁴I have not walked on Your Path; I have followed the crooked path.

²⁵In the Court of the Lord, I find no place to sit.

²⁶I am mentally blind, in the bondage of Maya.

²⁷The wall of my body is breaking down, wearing away, growing weaker.

²⁸You have such high hopes of eating and living

²⁹- your breaths and morsels of food are already counted! ||2||

³⁰Night and day they are blind - please, bless them with Your Light.

³¹They are drowning in the terrifying world-ocean, crying out in pain.

³²I am a sacrifice to those who chant,

³³Nanak utters this one prayer;

³⁴soul and body, all belong to You, Lord. ||3||

³⁵When You bless me, I chant Your Name.

³⁶Thus I find my seat in the Court of the Lord.

³⁷When it pleases You, evil-mindedness departs,

³⁸and the jewel of spiritual wisdom comes to dwell in the mind.

³⁹When the Lord bestows His Glance of Grace, then one comes to meet the True Guru.

⁴⁰Prays Nanak, carry us across the terrifying world-ocean. ||4||18||

⁴¹Aasaa, First Mehl, Panch-Padhay:

⁴²A cow without milk; a bird without wings; a garden without water - totally useless!

⁴³What is an emperor, without respect? The chamber of the soul is so dark, without the Name of the Lord. ||1||

⁴⁴How could I ever forget You? It would be so painful!

⁴⁵I would suffer such pain - no, I shall not forget You! ||1||Pause||

⁴⁶The eyes grow blind, the tongue does not taste, and the ears do not hear any sound.

⁴⁷He walks on his feet only when supported by someone else; without serving the Lord, such are the fruits of life. ||2||

⁴⁸The Word is the tree; the garden of the heart is the farm; tend it, and irrigate it with the Lord's Love.

⁴⁹All these trees bear the fruit of the Name of the One Lord; but without the karma of good actions, how can anyone obtain it? ||3||

⁵⁰As many living beings are there are, they are all Yours. Without selfless service, no one obtains any reward.

⁵¹Pain and pleasure come by Your Will; without the Name, the soul does not even exist. ||4||

⁵²To die in the Teachings is to live. Otherwise, what is life? That is not the way.

¹Says Nanak, He grants life to the living beings; O Lord, please keep me according to Your Will. ||5||19||

²Aasaa, First Mehl:

³Let the body be the Brahmin, and let the mind be the loin-cloth;

⁴let spiritual wisdom be the sacred thread, and meditation the ceremonial ring.

⁵I seek the Name of the Lord and His Praise as my cleansing bath.

⁶By Guru's Grace, I am absorbed into God. ||1||

⁷O Pandit, O religious scholar, contemplate God in such a way

⁸that His Name may sanctify you, that His Name may be your study, and His Name your wisdom and way of life. ||1||Pause||

⁹The outer sacred thread is worthwhile only as long as the Divine Light is within.

¹⁰So make the remembrance of the Naam, the Name of the Lord, your loin-cloth and the ceremonial mark on your forehead.

¹¹Here and hereafter, the Name alone shall stand by you.

¹²Do not seek any other actions, except the Name. ||2||

¹³Worship the Lord in loving adoration, and burn your desire for Maya.

¹⁴Behold only the One Lord, and do not seek out any other.

¹⁵Become aware of reality, in the Sky of the Tenth Gate;

¹⁶read aloud the Lord's Word, and contemplate it. ||3||

¹⁷With the diet of His Love, doubt and fear depart.

¹⁸With the Lord as your night watchman, no thief will dare to break in.

¹⁹Let the knowledge of the One God be the ceremonial mark on your forehead.

²⁰Let the realization that God is within you be your discrimination. ||4||

²¹Through ritual actions, God cannot be won over;

²²by reciting sacred scriptures, His value cannot be estimated.

²³The eighteen Puraanas and the four Vedas do not know His mystery.

²⁴O Nanak, the True Guru has shown me the Lord God. ||5||20||

²⁵Aasaa, First Mehl:

²⁶He alone is the selfless servant, slave and humble devotee,

²⁷who as Gurmukh, becomes the slave of his Lord and Master.

²⁸He, who created the Universe, shall ultimately destroy it.

²⁹Without Him, there is no other at all. ||1||

³⁰Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, the Gurmukh reflects upon the True Name;

³¹The true supplication, the true prayer

³²- within the Mansion of His Sublime Presence, the True Lord Master hears and applauds these.

³³He summons the truthful to His Heavenly Throne

³⁴and bestows glorious greatness upon them; that which He wills, comes to pass. ||2||

³⁵The Power is Yours; You are my only Support.

³⁶The Word of the Guru's Shabad is my true password.

³⁷One who obeys the Hukam of the Lord's Command, goes to Him openly.

³⁸With the password of truth, his way is not blocked. ||3||

³⁹The Pandit reads and expounds on the Vedas,

⁴⁰but he does not know the secret of the thing within himself.

⁴¹Without the Guru, understanding and realization are not obtained;

⁴²but still God is True, pervading everywhere. ||4||

⁴³What should I say, or speak or describe?

⁴⁴Only You Yourself know, O Lord of total wonder.

⁴⁵Nanak takes the Support of the Door of the One God.

⁴⁶There, at the True Door, the Gurmukhs sustain themselves. ||5||21||

⁴⁷Aasaa, First Mehl:

⁴⁸The clay pitcher of the body is miserable; it suffers in pain through birth and death.

⁴⁹How can this terrifying world-ocean be crossed over? Without the Lord - Guru, it cannot be crossed. ||1||

⁵⁰Without You, there is no other at all, O my Beloved; without you, there is no other at all.

⁵¹You are in all colors and forms; he alone is forgiven, upon whom You bestow Your Glance of Grace. ||1||Pause||

⁵²Maya, my mother-in-law, is evil; she does not let me live in my own home. The vicious one does not let me meet with my Husband Lord.

⁵³I serve at the feet of my companions and friends; the Lord has showered me with His Mercy, through Guru's Grace. ||2||

¹Reflecting upon my self, and conquering my mind, I have seen that there is no other friend like You.

²As You keep me, so do I live. You are the Giver of peace and pleasure. Whatever You do, comes to pass. ||3||

³Hope and desire have both been dispelled; I have renounced my longing for the three qualities.

⁴The Gurmukh obtains the state of ecstasy, taking to the Shelter of the Saints' Congregation. ||4||

⁵All wisdom and meditation, all chanting and penance, come to one whose heart is filled with the Invisible, Inscrutable Lord.

⁶O Nanak, one whose mind is imbued with the Lord's Name, finds the Guru's Teachings, and intuitively serves. ||5||22||

⁷Aasaa, First Mehl, Panch-Padhay:

⁸Your attachment to your family, your attachment to all your affairs

⁹- renounce all your attachments, for they are all corrupt. ||1||

¹⁰Renounce your attachments and doubts, O brother,

¹¹and dwell upon the True Name within your heart and body. ||1||Pause||

¹²When one receives the nine treasures of the True Name,

¹³his children do not weep, and his mother does not grieve. ||2||

¹⁴In this attachment, the world is drowning.

¹⁵Few are the Gurmukhs who swim across. ||3||

¹⁶In this attachment, people are reincarnated over and over again.

¹⁷Attached to emotional attachment, they go to the city of Death. ||4||

¹⁸You have received the Guru's Teachings - now practice meditation and penance.

¹⁹If attachment is not broken, no one is approved. ||5||

²⁰But if He bestows His Glance of Grace, then this attachment departs.

²¹O Nanak, then one remains merged in the Lord. ||6||23||

²²Aasaa, First Mehl:

²³He Himself does everything, the True, Invisible, Infinite Lord.

²⁴I am a sinner, You are the Forgiver. ||1||

²⁵By Your Will, everything come to pass.

²⁶One who acts in stubborn-mindedness is ruined in the end. ||1||Pause||

²⁷The intellect of the self-willed manmukh is engrossed in falsehood.

²⁸Without the meditative remembrance of the Lord, it suffers in sin. ||2||

²⁹Renounce evil-mindedness, and you shall reap the rewards.

³⁰Whoever is born, comes through the Unknowable and Mysterious Lord. ||3||

³¹Such is my Friend and Companion;

³²meeting with the Guru, the Lord, devotion was implanted within me. ||4||

³³In all other transactions, one suffers loss.

³⁴The Name of the Lord is pleasing to Nanak's mind. ||5||24||

³⁵Aasaa, First Mehl, Chau-Padhay:

³⁶Contemplate and reflect upon knowledge, and you will become a benefactor to others.

³⁷When you conquer the five passions, then you shall come to dwell at the sacred shrine of pilgrimage. ||1||

³⁸You shall hear the vibrations of the tinkling bells, when your mind is held steady.

³⁹So what can the Messenger of Death do to me hereafter? ||1||Pause||

⁴⁰When you abandon hope and desire, then you become a true Sannyaasi.

⁴¹When the Yogi practices abstinence, then he enjoys his body. ||2||

⁴²Through compassion, the naked hermit reflects upon his inner self.

⁴³He slays his own self, instead of slaying others. ||3||

⁴⁴You, O Lord, are the One, but You have so many Forms.

⁴⁵Nanak does not know Your wondrous plays. ||4||25||

⁴⁶Aasaa, First Mehl:

⁴⁷I am not stained by only one sin, that could be washed clean by virtue.

⁴⁸My Husband Lord is awake, while I sleep through the entire night of my life. ||1||

⁴⁹In this way, how can I become dear to my Husband Lord?

⁵⁰My Husband Lord remains awake, while I sleep through the entire night of my life. ||1||Pause||

¹With hope and desire, I approach His Bed,

²but I do not know whether He will be pleased with me or not. ||2||

³How do I know what will happen to me, O my mother?

⁴Without the Blessed Vision of the Lord's Darshan, I cannot survive. ||1||Pause||

⁵I have not tasted His Love, and my thirst is not quenched.

⁶My beautiful youth has run away, and now I, the soul-bride, repent and regret. ||3||

⁷Even now, I am held by hope and desire.

⁸I am depressed; I have no hope at all. ||1||Pause||

⁹She overcomes her egotism, and adorns herself;

¹⁰the Husband Lord now ravishes and enjoys the soul-bride on His Bed. ||4||

¹¹Then, O Nanak, the bride becomes pleasing to the Mind of her Husband Lord;

¹²she sheds her self-conceit, and is absorbed in her Lord and Master. ||1||Pause||26||

¹³Aasaa, First Mehl:

¹⁴In this world of my father's house, I, the soul-bride, have been very childish;

¹⁵I did not realize the value of my Husband Lord. ||1||

¹⁶My Husband is the One; there is no other like Him.

¹⁷If He bestows His Glance of Grace, then I shall meet Him. ||1||Pause||

¹⁸In the next world of my in-law's house, I, the the soul-bride, shall realize Truth;

¹⁹I shall come to know the celestial peace of my Husband Lord. ||2||

²⁰By Guru's Grace, such wisdom comes to me,

²¹so that the soul-bride becomes pleasing to the Mind of the Husband Lord. ||3||

²²Says Nanak, she who adorns herself with the Love and the Fear of God,

²³enjoys her Husband Lord forever on His Bed. ||4||27||

²⁴Aasaa, First Mehl:

²⁵No one is anyone else's son, and no one is anyone else's mother.

²⁶Through false attachments, people wander around in doubt. ||1||

²⁷O My Lord and Master, I am created by You.

²⁸If You give it to me, I will chant Your Name. ||1||Pause||

²⁹That person who is filled with all sorts of sins may pray at the Lord's Door,

³⁰but he is forgiven only when the Lord so wills. ||2||

³¹By Guru's Grace, evil-mindedness is destroyed.

³²Wherever I look, there I find the One Lord. ||3||

³³Says Nanak, if one comes to such an understanding,

³⁴then he is absorbed into the Truest of the True. ||4||28||

³⁵Aasaa, First Mehl, Dho-Padhay:

³⁶In that pool of the world, the people have their homes; there, the Lord has created water and fire.

³⁷In the mud of earthly attachment, their feet have become mired, and I have seen them drowning there. ||1||

³⁸O foolish people, why don't you remember the One Lord?

³⁹Forgetting the Lord, your virtues shall wither away. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁰I am not a celibate, nor am I truthful, nor a scholar; I was born foolish and ignorant.

⁴¹Prays Nanak, I seek the Sanctuary of those who do not forget You, Lord. ||2||29||

⁴²Aasaa, First Mehl:

⁴³There are six systems of philosophy, six teachers, and six doctrines;

⁴⁴but the Teacher of teachers is the One Lord, who appears in so many forms. ||1||

⁴⁵That system, where the Praises of the Creator are sung

⁴⁶- follow that system; in it rests greatness. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁷As the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weekdays months

⁴⁸O Nanak, so do all forms originate from the One Creator. ||2||30||

¹One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

²Aasaa, Third House, First Mehl:

³You may have thousands of armies, thousands of marching bands and lances, and thousands of men to rise and salute you.

⁴Your rule may extend over thousands of miles, and thousands of men may rise to honor you.

⁵But, if your honor is of no account to the Lord, then all of your ostentatious show is useless. ||1||

⁶Without the Name of the Lord, the world is in turmoil.

⁷Even though the fool may be taught again and again, he remains the blindest of the blind. ||1||Pause||

⁸You may earn thousands, collect thousands, and spend thousands of dollars; thousands may come, and thousands may go.

⁹But, if your honor is of no account to the Lord, then where will you go to find a safe haven? ||2||

¹⁰Thousands of Shaastras may be explained to the mortal, and thousands of Pandits may read the Puraanas to him;

¹¹but, if his honor is of no account to the Lord, then all of this is unacceptable. ||3||

¹²Honor comes from the True Name, the Name of the Merciful Creator.

¹³If it abides in the heart, day and night, O Nanak, then the mortal shall swim across, by His Grace. ||4||1||31||

¹⁴Aasaa, First Mehl:

¹⁵The One Name is my lamp; I have put the oil of suffering into it.

¹⁶Its flame has dried up this oil, and I have escaped my meeting with the Messenger of Death. ||1||

¹⁷O people, do not make fun of me.

¹⁸Thousands of wooden logs, piled up together, need only a tiny flame to burn. ||1||Pause||

¹⁹The Lord is my festive dish, of rice balls on leafy plates; the True Name of the Creator Lord is my funeral ceremony.

²⁰Here and hereafter, in the past and in the future, this is my support. ||2||

²¹The Lord's Praise is my River Ganges and my city of Benares; my soul takes its sacred cleansing bath there.

²²That becomes my true cleansing bath, if night and day, I enshrine love for You. ||3||

²³The rice balls are offered to the gods and the dead ancestors, but it is the Brahmins who eat them!

²⁴O Nanak, the rice balls of the Lord are a gift which is never exhausted. ||4||2||32||

²⁵Aasaa, Fourth House, First Mehl:

²⁶One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

²⁷The Gods, yearning for the Blessed Vision of the Lord's Darshan, suffered through pain and hunger at the sacred shrines.

²⁸The yogis and the celibates live their disciplined lifestyle, while others wear saffron robes and become hermits. ||1||

²⁹For Your sake, O Lord Master, they are imbued with love.

³⁰Your Names are so many, and Your Forms are endless. No one can tell how may Glorious Virtues You have. ||1||Pause||

³¹Leaving behind hearth and home, palaces, elephants, horses and native lands, mortals have journeyed to foreign lands.

³²The spiritual leaders, prophets, seers and men of faith renounced the world, and became acceptable. ||2||

³³Renouncing tasty delicacies, comfort, happiness and pleasures, some have abandoned their clothes and now wear skins.

³⁴Those who suffer in pain, imbued with Your Name, have become beggars at Your Door. ||3||

³⁵Some wear skins, and carry begging bowls, bearing wooden staffs, and sitting on deer skins. Others raise their hair in tufts and wear sacred threads and loin-cloths.

³⁶You are the Lord Master, I am just Your puppet. Prays Nanak, what is my social status to be? ||4||1||33||

¹Aasaa, Fifth House, First Mehl:

²One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

³The five evil passions dwell hidden within the mind.

⁴They do not remain still, but move around like wanderers. ||1||

⁵My soul does not stay held by the Merciful Lord.

⁶It is greedy, deceitful, sinful and hypocritical, and totally attached to Maya. ||1||Pause||

⁷I will decorate my neck with garlands of flowers.

⁸When I meet my Beloved, then I will put on my decorations. ||2||

⁹I have five companions and one Spouse.

¹⁰It is ordained from the very beginning, that the soul must ultimately depart. ||3||

¹¹The five companions will lament together.

¹²When the soul is trapped, prays Nanak, it is called to account. ||4||1||34||

¹³One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

¹⁴Aasaa, Sixth House, First Mehl:

¹⁵If the pearl of the mind is strung like a jewel on the thread of the breath,

¹⁶and the soul-bride adorns her body with compassion, then the Beloved Lord will enjoy His lovely bride. ||1||

¹⁷O my Love, I am fascinated by Your many glories;

¹⁸Your Glorious Virtues are not found in any other. ||1||Pause||

¹⁹If the bride wears the garland of the Lord's Name, Har, Har, around her neck, and if she uses the toothbrush of the Lord;

²⁰and if she fashions and wears the bracelet of the Creator Lord around her wrist, then she shall hold her consciousness steady. ||2||

²¹She should make the Lord, the Slayer of demons, her ring, and take the Transcendent Lord as her silken clothes.

²²The soul-bride should weave patience into the braids of her hair, and apply the lotion of the Lord, the Great Lover. ||3||

²³If she lights the lamp in the mansion of her mind, and makes her body the bed of the Lord,

²⁴then, when the King of spiritual wisdom comes to her bed, He shall take her, and enjoy her. ||4||1||35||

²⁵Aasaa, First Mehl:

²⁶The created being acts as he is made to act; what can be said to him, O Siblings of Destiny?

²⁷Whatever the Lord is to do, He is doing; what cleverness could be used to affect Him? ||1||

²⁸The Order of Your Will is so sweet, O Lord; this is pleasing to You.

²⁹O Nanak, he alone is honored with greatness, who is absorbed in the True Name. ||1||Pause||

³⁰The deeds are done according to pre-ordained destiny; no one can turn back this Order.

³¹As it is written, so it comes to pass; no one can erase it. ||2||

³²He who talks on and on in the Lord's Court is known as a joker.

³³He is not successful in the game of chess, and his chessmen do not reach their goal. ||3||

³⁴By himself, no one is literate, learned or wise; no one is ignorant or evil.

³⁵When, as a slave, one praises the Lord, only then is he known as a human being. ||4||2||36||

³⁶Aasaa, First Mehl:

³⁷Let the Word of the Guru's Shabad be the ear-rings in your mind, and wear the patched coat of tolerance.

³⁸Whatever the Lord does, look upon that as good; thus you shall obtain the treasure of Sehj Yoga. ||1||

¹O father, the soul which is united in union as a Yogi, remains united in the supreme essence throughout the ages.

²One who has obtained the Ambrosial Naam, the Name of the Immaculate Lord - his body enjoys the pleasure of spiritual wisdom. ||1||Pause||

³In the Lord's City, he sits in his Yogic posture, and he forsakes his desires and conflicts.

⁴The sound of the horn ever rings out its beautiful melody, and day and night, he is filled with the sound current of the Naad. ||2||

⁵My cup is reflective meditation, and spiritual wisdom is my walking stick; to dwell in the Lord's Presence is the ashes I apply to my body.

⁶The Praise of the Lord is my occupation; and to live as Gurmukh is my pure religion. ||3||

⁷My arm-rest is to see the Lord's Light in all, although their forms and colors are so numerous.

⁸Says Nanak, listen, O Bharthari Yogi: love only the Supreme Lord God. ||4||3||37||

⁹Aasaa, First Mehl:

¹⁰Make spiritual wisdom your molasses, and meditation your scented flowers; let good deeds be the herbs.

¹¹Let devotional faith be the distilling fire, and your love the ceramic cup. Thus the sweet nectar of life is distilled. ||1||

¹²O Baba, the mind is intoxicated with the Naam, drinking in its Nectar. It remains absorbed in the Lord's Love.

¹³Night and day, remaining attached to the Love of the Lord, the celestial music of the Shabad resounds. ||1||Pause||

¹⁴The Perfect Lord naturally gives the cup of Truth, to the one upon whom He casts His Glance of Grace.

¹⁵One who trades in this Nectar - how could he ever love the wine of the world? ||2||

¹⁶The Teachings of the Guru, the Ambrosial Bani - drinking them in, one becomes acceptable and renowned.

¹⁷Unto the one who loves the Lord's Court, and the Blessed Vision of His Darshan, of what use is liberation or paradise? ||3||

¹⁸Imbued with the Lord's Praises, one is forever a Bairaagee, a renunciate, and one's life is not lost in the gamble.

¹⁹Says Nanak, listen, O Bharthari Yogi: drink in the intoxicating nectar of the Lord. ||4||4||38||

²⁰Aasaa, First Mehl:

²¹Having attacked Khuraasaan, Baabar terrified Hindustan.

²²The Creator Himself does not take the blame, but has sent the Mugal as the messenger of death.

²³There was so much slaughter that the people screamed. Didn't You feel compassion, Lord? ||1||

²⁴O Creator Lord, You are the Master of all.

²⁵If some powerful man strikes out against another man, then no one feels any grief in their mind. ||1||Pause||

²⁶But if a powerful tiger attacks a flock of sheep and kills them, then its master must answer for it.

²⁷This priceless country has been laid waste and defiled by dogs, and no one pays any attention to the dead.

²⁸You Yourself unite, and You Yourself separate; I gaze upon Your Glorious Greatness. ||2||

²⁹One may give himself a great name, and revel in the pleasures of the mind,

³⁰but in the Eyes of the Lord and Master, he is just a worm, for all the corn that he eats.

³¹Only one who dies to his ego while yet alive, obtains the blessings, O Nanak, by chanting the Lord's Name. ||3||5||39||

³²Raag Aasaa, Second House, Third Mehl:

³³One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

³⁴The Blessed Vision of the Lord's Darshan is obtained by great good fortune.

³⁵Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, true detachment is obtained.

³⁶The six systems of philosophy are pervasive,

¹but the Guru's system is profound and unequalled. ||1||

²The Guru's system is the way to liberation.

³The True Lord Himself comes to dwell in the mind. ||1||Pause||

⁴Through the Guru's system, the world is saved,

⁵if it is embraced with love and affection.

⁶How rare is that person who truly loves the Guru's Way.

⁷Through the Guru's system, everlasting peace is obtained. ||2||

⁸Through the Guru's system, the Door of Salvation is obtained.

⁹Serving the True Guru, one's family is saved.

¹⁰There is no salvation for those who have no Guru.

¹¹Beguiled by worthless sins, they are struck down. ||3||

¹²Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, the body finds peace and tranquility.

¹³The Gurmukh is not afflicted by pain.

¹⁴The Messenger of Death does not come near him.

¹⁵O Nanak, the Gurmukh is absorbed in the True Lord. ||4||1||40||

¹⁶Aasaa, Third Mehl:

¹⁷One who dies in the Word of the Shabad, eradicates his self-conceit from within.

¹⁸He serves the True Guru, with no iota of self-interest.

¹⁹The Fearless Lord, the Great Giver, ever abides in his mind.

²⁰The True Bani of the Word is obtained only by good destiny. ||1||

²¹So gather merits, and let your demerits depart from within you.

²²You shall be absorbed into the Shabad, the Word of the Perfect Guru. ||1||Pause||

²³One who purchases merits, knows the value of these merits.

²⁴He chants the Ambrosial Nectar of the Word, and the Name of the Lord.

²⁵Through the True Bani of the Word, he becomes pure.

²⁶Through merit, the Name is obtained. ||2||

²⁷The invaluable merits cannot be acquired.

²⁸The pure mind is absorbed into the True Word of the Shabad.

²⁹How very fortunate are those who meditate on the Naam,

³⁰and ever enshrine in their minds the Lord, the Giver of merit. ||3||

³¹I am a sacrifice to those who gather merits.

³²At the Gate of Truth, I sing the Glorious Praises of the True One.

³³He Himself spontaneously bestows His gifts.

³⁴O Nanak, the value of the Lord cannot be described. ||4||2||41||

³⁵Aasaa, Third Mehl:

³⁶Great is the greatness of the True Guru;

³⁷He merges in His Merger, those who have been separated for so long.

³⁸He Himself merges the merged in His Merger.

³⁹He Himself knows His own worth. ||1||

⁴⁰How can anyone appraise the Lord's worth?

⁴¹Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, one may merge with the Infinite, Unapproachable and Incomprehensible Lord. ||1||Pause||

⁴²Few are the Gurmukhs who know His worth.

⁴³How rare are those who receive the Lord's Grace.

⁴⁴Through the Sublime Bani of His Word, one becomes sublime.

⁴⁵The Gurmukh chants the Word of the Shabad. ||2||

⁴⁶Without the Name, the body suffers in pain;

⁴⁷but when one meets the True Guru, then that pain is removed.

⁴⁸Without meeting the Guru, the mortal earns only pain.

⁴⁹The self-willed manmukh receives only more punishment. ||3||

⁵⁰The essence of the Lord's Name is so very sweet;

⁵¹he alone drinks it, whom the Lord causes to drink it.

⁵²By Guru's Grace, the essence of the Lord is obtained.

⁵³O Nanak, imbued with the Naam, the Name of the Lord, salvation is attained. ||4||3||42||

⁵⁴Aasaa, Third Mehl:

⁵⁵My God is True, deep and profound.

⁵⁶Serving Him, the body acquires peace and tranquility.

⁵⁷Through the Word of the Shabad, His humble servants easily swim across.

⁵⁸I fall at their feet forever and ever. ||1||

¹Those being whose minds are imbued and drenched with the Lord's Love

²- their pains of birth and death are taken away. They are automatically ushered into the Court of the Lord. ||1||Pause||

³One who has tasted the Shabad, obtains the true flavor.

⁴The Name of the Lord abides within his mind.

⁵The Lord God is Eternal and All-pervading.

⁶He Himself is near, and He Himself is far away. ||2||

⁷Everyone talks and speaks through speech;

⁸the Lord Himself forgives, and unites us with Himself.

⁹By merely speaking and talking, He is not obtained.

¹⁰By Guru's Grace, He comes to abide in the mind. ||3||

¹¹The Gurmukh eradicates his self-conceit from within.

¹²He is imbued with the Lord's Love, having discarded worldly attachment.

¹³He contemplates the utterly Immaculate Word of the Guru's Shabad.

¹⁴O Nanak, the Naam, the Name of the Lord, is our Salvation. ||4||4||43||

¹⁵Aasaa, Third Mehl:

¹⁶Attached to the love of duality, one only incurs pain.

¹⁷Without the Word of the Shabad, one's life is wasted away in vain.

¹⁸Serving the True Guru, understanding is obtained,

¹⁹and then, one is not attached to the love of duality. ||1||

²⁰Those who hold fast to their roots, become acceptable.

²¹Night and day, they meditate within their hearts on the Lord's Name; through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, they know the One Lord. ||1||Pause||

²²One who is attached to the branch, does not receive the fruits.

²³For blind actions, blind punishment is received.

²⁴The blind, self-willed manmukh finds no place of rest.

²⁵He is a maggot in manure, and in manure he shall rot away. ||2||

²⁶Serving the Guru, everlasting peace is obtained.

²⁷Joining the True Congregation, the Sat Sangat, the Glorious Praises of the Lord are sung.

²⁸One who contemplates the Naam, the Name of the Lord,

²⁹saves himself, and his family as well. ||3||

³⁰Through the Word of the Guru's Bani, the Naam resounds;

³¹O Nanak, through the Word of the Shabad, one finds the Mansion of the Lord's Presence within the home of the heart.

³²Under Guru's Instruction, bathe in the Pool of Truth, in the Water of the Lord;

³³thus the filth of evil-mindedness and sin shall all be washed away. ||4||5||44||

³⁴Aasaa, Third Mehl:

³⁵The self-willed manmukhs are dying; they are wasting away in death.

³⁶In the love of duality, they murder their own souls.

³⁷Crying out, Mine, mine!, they are ruined.

³⁸They do not remember their souls; they are asleep in superstition. ||1||

³⁹He alone dies a real death, who dies in the Word of the Shabad.

⁴⁰The Guru has inspired me to realize, that praise and slander are one and the same; in this world, the profit is obtained by chanting the Name of the Lord. ||1||Pause||

⁴¹Those who lack the Naam, the Name of the Lord, are dissolved within the womb.

⁴²Useless is the birth of those who are lured by duality.

⁴³Without the Naam, all are burning in pain.

⁴⁴The Perfect True Guru has given me this understanding. ||2||

⁴⁵The fickle mind is struck down so many times.

⁴⁶Having lost this opportunity, no place of rest shall be found.

⁴⁷Cast into the womb of reincarnation, the mortal lives in manure;

⁴⁸in such a home, the self-willed manmukh takes up residence. ||3||

⁴⁹I am forever a sacrifice to my True Guru;

⁵⁰the light of the Gurmukh blends with the Divine Light of the Lord.

⁵¹Through the Immaculate Bani of the Word, the mortal dwells within the home of his own inner self.

⁵²O Nanak, he conquers his ego, and remains forever detached. ||4||6||45||

⁵³Aasaa, Third Mehl:

⁵⁴The Lord's slave sets aside his own social status.

¹He dedicates his mind and body to the True Guru, and seeks His Sanctuary.

²His greatest greatness is that the Naam, the Name of the Lord, is in his heart.

³The Beloved Lord God is his constant companion. ||1||

⁴He alone is the Lord's slave, who remains dead while yet alive.

⁵He looks upon pleasure and pain alike; by Guru's Grace, he is saved through the Word of the Shabad. ||1||Pause||

⁶He does his deeds according to the Lord's Primal Command.

⁷Without the Shabad, no one is approved.

⁸Singing the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises, the Naam abides within the mind.

⁹He Himself gives His gifts, without hesitation. ||2||

¹⁰The self-willed manmukh wanders around the world in doubt.

¹¹Without any capital, he makes false transactions.

¹²Without any capital, he does not obtain any merchandise.

¹³The mistaken manmukh wastes away his life. ||3||

¹⁴One who serves the True Guru is the Lord's slave.

¹⁵His social status is exalted, and his reputation is exalted.

¹⁶Climbing the Guru's Ladder, he becomes the most exalted of all.

¹⁷O Nanak, through the Naam, the Name of the Lord, greatness is obtained. ||4||7||46||

¹⁸Aasaa, Third Mehl:

¹⁹The self-willed manmukh practices falsehood, only falsehood.

²⁰He never attains the Mansion of the Lord Presence.

²¹Attached to duality, he wanders, deluded by doubt.

²²Entangled in worldly attachments, he comes and goes. ||1||

²³Behold, the decorations of the discarded bride!

²⁴Her consciousness is attached to children, spouse, wealth, and Maya, falsehood, emotional attachment, hypocrisy and corruption. ||1||Pause||

²⁵She who is pleasing to God is forever a happy soul-bride.

²⁶She makes the Word of the Guru's Shabad her decoration.

²⁷Her bed is so comfortable; she enjoys her Lord, night and day.

²⁸Meeting her Beloved, the obtains eternal peace. ||2||

²⁹She is a true, virtuous soul-bride, who enshrines love for the True Lord.

³⁰She keeps her Husband Lord always clasped to her heart.

³¹She sees Him near at hand, ever-present.

³²My God is all-pervading everywhere. ||3||

³³Social status and beauty will not go with you hereafter.

³⁴As are the deeds done here, so does one become.

³⁵Through the Word of the Shabad, one becomes the highest of the high.

³⁶O Nanak, he is absorbed in the True Lord. ||4||8||47||

³⁷Aasaa, Third Mehl:

³⁸The Lord's humble servant is imbued with devotional love, effortlessly and spontaneously.

³⁹Through awe and fear of the Guru, he is truly absorbed in the True One.

⁴⁰Without the Perfect Guru, devotional love is not obtained.

⁴¹The self-willed manmukhs lose their honor, and cry out in pain. ||1||

⁴²O my mind, chant the Lord's Name, and meditate on Him forever.

⁴³You shall always be in ecstasy, day and night, and you shall obtain the fruits of your desires. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁴Through the Perfect Guru, the Perfect Lord is obtained,

⁴⁵and the Shabad, the True Name, is enshrined in the mind.

⁴⁶One who bathes in the Pool of Ambrosial Nectar becomes immaculately pure within.

⁴⁷He becomes forever sanctified, and is absorbed in the True Lord. ||2||

⁴⁸He sees the Lord God ever-present.

⁴⁹By Guru's Grace, he sees the Lord permeating and pervading everywhere.

⁵⁰Wherever I go, there I see Him.

⁵¹Without the Guru, there is no other Giver. ||3||

⁵²The Guru is the ocean, the perfect treasure,

⁵³the most precious jewel and priceless ruby.

⁵⁴By Guru's Grace, the Great Giver blesses us;

⁵⁵O Nanak, the Forgiving Lord forgives us. ||4||9||48||

⁵⁶Aasaa, Third Mehl:

⁵⁷The Guru is the Ocean; the True Guru is the Embodiment of Truth.

⁵⁸Through perfect good destiny, one serves the Guru.

¹He alone understands, whom the Lord Himself inspires to understand.

²By Guru's Grace, one serves Him. ||1||

³With the jewel of spiritual wisdom, total understanding is obtained.

⁴By Guru's Grace, ignorance is dispelled; one then remains wakeful, night and day, and beholds the True Lord. ||1||Pause||

⁵Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, attachment and pride are burnt away.

⁶From the Perfect Guru, true understanding is obtained.

⁷Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, one realizes the Lord's Presence within.

⁸Then, one's coming and going cease, and one becomes stable, absorbed in the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||2||

⁹The world is tied to birth and death.

¹⁰The unconscious, self-willed manmukh is enveloped in the darkness of Maya and emotional attachment.

¹¹He slanders others, and practices utter falsehood.

¹²He is a maggot in manure, and into manure he is absorbed. ||3||

¹³Joining the True Congregation, the Sat Sangat, total understanding is obtained.

¹⁴Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, devotional love for the Lord is implanted.

¹⁵One who surrenders to the Lord's Will is peaceful forever.

¹⁶O Nanak, he is absorbed into the True Lord. ||4||10||49||

¹⁷Aasaa, Third Mehl, Panch-Padhay:

¹⁸One who dies in the Word of the Shabad, finds eternal bliss.

¹⁹He is united with the True Guru, the Guru, the Lord God.

²⁰He does not die any more, and he does not come or go.

²¹Through the Perfect Guru, he merges with the True Lord. ||1||

²²One who has the Naam, the Name of the Lord, written in his pre-ordained destiny,

²³night and day, meditates forever on the Naam; he obtains the wondrous blessing of devotional love from the Perfect Guru. ||1||Pause||

²⁴Those, whom the Lord God has blended with Himself

²⁵their sublime state cannot be described.

²⁶The Perfect True Guru has given the Glorious Greatness,

²⁷of the most exalted order, and I am absorbed into the Lord's Name. ||2||

²⁸Whatever the Lord does, He does all by Himself.

²⁹In an instant, He establishes, and disestablishes.

³⁰By merely speaking, talking, shouting and preaching about the Lord,

³¹The Guru meets with those, who take virtue as their treasure;

³²they listen to the True Word of the Guru's Bani, the Shabad.

³³Pain departs, from that place where the Shabad abides.

³⁴By the jewel of spiritual wisdom, one is easily absorbed into the True Lord. ||4||

³⁵No other wealth is as great as the Naam.

³⁶It is bestowed only by the True Lord.

³⁷Through the Perfect Word of the Shabad, it abides in the mind.

³⁸O Nanak, imbued with the Naam, peace is obtained. ||5||11||50||

³⁹Aasaa, Third Mehl:

⁴⁰One may dance and play numerous instruments;

⁴¹but this mind is blind and deaf, so for whose benefit is this speaking and preaching?

⁴²Deep within is the fire of greed, and the dust-storm of doubt.

⁴³The lamp of knowledge is not burning, and understanding is not obtained. ||1||

⁴⁴The Gurmukh has the light of devotional worship within his heart.

⁴⁵Understanding his own self, he meets God. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁶The Gurmukh's dance is to embrace love for the Lord;

⁴⁷to the beat of the drum, he sheds his ego from within.

⁴⁸My God is True; He Himself is the Knower of all.

⁴⁹Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, recognize the Creator Lord within yourself. ||2||

⁵⁰The Gurmukh is filled with devotional love for the Beloved Lord.

⁵¹He intuitively reflects upon the Word of the Guru's Shabad.

⁵²For the Gurmukh, loving devotional worship is the way to the True Lord.

⁵³But the dances and the worship of the hypocrites bring only pain. ||3||

¹True Devotion is to remain dead while yet alive.

²By Guru's Grace, one crosses over the terrible world-ocean.

³Through the Guru's Teachings, one's devotion is accepted,

⁴and then, the Dear Lord Himself comes to dwell in the mind. ||4||

⁵When the Lord bestows His Mercy, He leads us to meet the True Guru.

⁶Then, one's devotion becomes steady, and the consciousness is centered upon the Lord.

⁷Those who are imbued with Devotion have truthful reputations.

⁸O Nanak, imbued with the Naam, the Name of the Lord, peace is obtained. ||5||12||51||

⁹Aasaa, Eighth House, Kaafee, Third Mehl:

¹⁰One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

¹¹By the Pleasure of the Lord's Will, one meets the True Guru, and true understanding is obtained.

¹²By Guru's Grace, the Lord abides in the mind, and one comes to understand the Lord. ||1||

¹³My Husband Lord, the Great Giver, is One. There is no other at all.

¹⁴By Guru's merciful favor, He abides in the mind, and then, a lasting peace ensues. ||1||Pause||

¹⁵In this age, the Lord's Name is fearless; it is obtained by meditative reflection upon the Guru.

¹⁶Without the Name, the blind, foolish, self-willed manmukh is under Death's power. ||2||

¹⁷By the Pleasure of the Lord's Will, the humble being performs His service, and understands the True Lord.

¹⁸By the Pleasure of the Lord's Will, He is to be praised; surrendering to His Will, peace ensues. ||3||

¹⁹By the Pleasure of the Lord's Will, the prize of this human birth is obtained, and the intellect is exalted.

²⁰O Nanak, praise the Naam, the Name of the Lord; as Gurmukh, you shall be emancipated. ||4||39||13||52||

²¹Aasaa, Fourth Mehl, Second House:

²²One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

²³You are the True Creator, my Lord Master.

²⁴That which is pleasing to Your Will, comes to pass. Whatever You give, that is what I receive. ||1||Pause||

²⁵All are Yours; all meditate on You.

²⁶He alone, whom You bless with Your Mercy, obtains the jewel of the Naam.

²⁷The Gurmukhs obtain it, and the self-willed manmukhs lose it.

²⁸You Yourself separate the mortals, and You Yourself unite them. ||1||

²⁹You are the River - all are within You.

³⁰Other than You, there is no one at all.

³¹All beings and creatures are your play-things.

³²The united ones are separated, and the separated ones are re-united. ||2||

³³That humble being, whom You inspire to understand, understands;

³⁴he continually speaks and chants the Glorious Praises of the Lord.

³⁵One who serves the Lord, obtains peace.

³⁶He is easily absorbed in the Lord's Name. ||3||

³⁷You Yourself are the Creator; by Your doing, all things come to be.

³⁸Without You, there is no other at all.

³⁹You watch over the creation, and understand it.

⁴⁰O servant Nanak, the Lord is revealed to the Gurmukh. ||4||1||53||

¹One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

²Raag Aasaa, Second House, Fourth Mehl:

³Some form alliances with friends, children and siblings.

⁴Some form alliances with in-laws and relatives.

⁵Some form alliances with chiefs and leaders for their own selfish motives.

⁶My alliance is with the Lord, who is pervading everywhere. ||1||

⁷I have formed my alliance with the Lord; the Lord is my only support.

⁸Other than the Lord, I have no other faction or alliance; I sing of the countless and endless Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||1||Pause||

⁹Those with whom you form alliances, shall perish.

¹⁰Making false alliances, the mortals repent and regret in the end.

¹¹Those who practice falsehood shall not last.

¹²I have formed my alliance with the Lord; there is no one more powerful than Him. ||2||

¹³All these alliances are mere extensions of the love of Maya.

¹⁴Only fools argue over Maya.

¹⁵They are born, and they die, and they lose the game of life in the gamble.

¹⁶My alliance is with the Lord, who embellishes all, in this world and the next. ||3||

¹⁷In this Dark Age of Kali Yuga, the five thieves instigate alliances and conflicts.

¹⁸Sexual desire, anger, greed, emotional attachment and self-conceit have increased.

¹⁹One who is blessed by the Lord's Grace, joins the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation.

²⁰My alliance is with the Lord, who has destroyed all these alliances. ||4||

²¹In the false love of duality, people sit and form alliances.

²²They complain about other peoples' faults, while their own self-conceit only increases.

²³As they plant, so shall they harvest.

²⁴Servant Nanak has joined the Lord's alliance of Dharma, which shall conquer the whole world. ||5||2||54||

²⁵Aasaa, Fourth Mehl:

²⁶Constantly listening to the Ambrosial Gurbani in the heart, it becomes pleasing to the mind.

²⁷Through Gurbani, the Incomprehensible Lord is comprehended. ||1||

²⁸As Gurmukh, listen to the Naam, the Name of the Lord, O my sisters.

²⁹The One Lord is pervading and permeating deep within the heart; with your mouth, recite the Ambrosial Hymns of the Guru. ||1||Pause||

³⁰My mind and body are filled with divine love, and great sadness.

³¹By great good fortune, I have obtained the True Guru, the Primal Being. ||2||

³²In the love of duality, the mortals wander through poisonous Maya.

³³The unfortunate ones do not meet the True Guru. ||3||

³⁴The Lord Himself inspires us to drink in the Lord's Ambrosial Elixir.

³⁵Through the Perfect Guru, O Nanak, the Lord is obtained. ||4||3||55||

³⁶Aasaa, Fourth Mehl:

³⁷The Love of the Naam, the Name of the Lord, is the Support of my mind and body.

³⁸I chant the Naam; the Naam is the essence of peace. ||1||

³⁹So chant the Naam, O my friends and companions.

⁴⁰Without the Naam, there is nothing else for me. By great good fortune, as Gurmukh, I have received the Lord's Name. ||1||Pause||

⁴¹Without the Naam, I cannot live.

⁴²By great good fortune, the Gurmukhs obtain the Naam. ||2||

⁴³Those who lack the Naam have their faces rubbed in the dirt of Maya.

⁴⁴Without the Naam, cursed, cursed are their lives. ||3||

¹The Great Lord is obtained by great good destiny.

²O Nanak, the Gurmukh is blessed with the Naam. ||4||4||56||

³Aasaa, Fourth Mehl:

⁴I sing His Glorious Praises, and through the Word of His Bani, I speak His Glorious Praises.

⁵As Gurmukh, I chant and recite the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||1||

⁶Chanting and meditating on the Naam, my mind becomes blissful.

⁷The True Guru has implanted the True Name of the True Lord within me; I sing His Glorious Praises, and taste the supreme ecstasy. ||1||Pause||

⁸The humble servants of the Lord sing the Lord's Glorious Praises.

⁹By great good fortune, the detached, absolute Lord is obtained. ||2||

¹⁰Those without virtue are stained by Maya's filth.

¹¹Lacking virtue, the egotistical die, and suffer reincarnation. ||3||

¹²The ocean of the body yields pearls of virtue.

¹³O Nanak, the Gurmukh churns this ocean, and discovers this essence. ||4||5||57||

¹⁴Aasaa, Fourth Mehl:

¹⁵I listen to the Naam, the Name of the Lord; the Naam is pleasing to my mind.

¹⁶By great good fortune, the Gurmukh obtains the Lord. ||1||

¹⁷Chant the Naam, as Gurmukh, and be exalted.

¹⁸Without the Naam, I have no other support; the Naam is woven into all my breaths and morsels of food. ||1||Pause||

¹⁹The Naam illuminates my mind; listening to it, my mind is pleased.

²⁰One who speaks the Naam - he alone is my friend and companion. ||2||

²¹Without the Naam, the fools depart naked.

²²They burn away to death, chasing the poison of Maya, like the moth chasing the flame. ||3||

²³He Himself establishes, and, having established, disestablishes.

²⁴O Nanak, the Lord Himself bestows the Naam. ||4||6||58||

²⁵Aasaa, Fourth Mehl:

²⁶The vine of the Lord's Name, Har, Har, has taken root in the Gurmukh.

²⁷It bears the fruit of the Lord; its taste is so tasty! ||1||

²⁸Chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, in endless waves of joy.

²⁹Chant and repeat the Naam; through the Guru's Teachings praise the Lord, and slay the horrible serpent of the Messenger of Death. ||1||Pause||

³⁰The Lord has implanted His devotional worship in the Guru.

³¹When the Guru is pleased, He bestows it upon His Sikh, O my siblings of Destiny. ||2||

³²One who acts in ego, knows nothing about the Way.

³³He acts like an elephant, who takes a bath, and then throws dust on his head. ||3||

³⁴If one's destiny is great and exalted,

³⁵O Nanak, one chants the Naam, the Name of the Immaculate, True Lord. ||4||7||59||

³⁶Aasaa, Fourth Mehl:

³⁷My mind suffers hunger for the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.

³⁸Hearing the Naam, my mind is satisfied, O my Siblings of Destiny. ||1||

³⁹Chant the Naam, O my friends, O GurSikhs.

⁴⁰Chant the Naam, and through the Naam, obtain peace; through the Guru's Teachings, enshrine the Naam in your heart and mind. ||1||Pause||

⁴¹Hearing the Naam, the Name of the Lord, the mind is in bliss.

⁴²Reaping the profit of the Naam, through the Guru's Teachings, my soul has blossomed forth. ||2||

⁴³Without the Naam, the mortal is a leper, blinded by emotional attachment.

⁴⁴All his actions are fruitless; they lead only to painful entanglements. ||3||

⁴⁵The very fortunate ones chant the Praises of the Lord, Har, Har, Har.

⁴⁶O Nanak, through the Guru's Teachings, one embraces love for the Naam. ||4||8||60||

¹One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

²Fourth Mehl, Raag Aasaa, 3 Of Sixth House :

³You may pluck the strings with your hand, O Yogi, but your playing of the harp is in vain.

⁴Under Guru's Instruction, chant the Glorious Praises of the Lord, O Yogi, and this mind of yours shall be imbued with the Lord's Love. ||1||

⁵O Yogi, give your intellect the Teachings of the Lord.

⁶The Lord, the One Lord, is pervading throughout all the ages; I humbly bow down to Him. ||1||Pause||

⁷You sing in so many Ragas and harmonies, and you talk so much, but this mind of yours is only playing a game.

⁸You work the well and irrigate the fields, but the oxen have already left to graze in the jungle. ||2||

⁹In the field of the body, plant the Lord's Name, and the Lord will sprout there, like a lush green field.

¹⁰O mortal, hook up your unstable mind like an ox, and irrigate your fields with the Lord's Name, through the Guru's Teachings. ||3||

¹¹The Yogis, the wandering Jangams, and all the world is Yours, O Lord. According to the wisdom which You give them, so do they follow their ways.

¹²O Lord God of servant Nanak, O Inner-knower, Searcher of hearts, please link my mind to You. ||4||9||61||

¹³Aasaa, Fourth Mehl:

¹⁴How long must one search for angle bells and cymbals, and how long must one play the guitar?

¹⁵In the brief instant between coming and going, I meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||1||

¹⁶Such is the devotional love which has been produced in my mind.

¹⁷Without the Lord, I cannot live even for an instant, like the fish which dies without water. ||1||Pause||

¹⁸How long must one tune the five strings, and assemble the seven singers, and how long will they raise their voices in song?

¹⁹In the time it takes to select and assemble these musicians, a moment elapses, and my mind sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||2||

²⁰How long must one dance and stretch out one's feet, and how long must one reach out with one's hands?

²¹Stretching out one's hands and feet, there is a moment's delay; and then, my mind meditates on the Lord. ||3||

²²How long must one satisfy the people, in order to obtain honor?

²³O servant Nanak, meditate forever in your heart on the Lord, and then everyone will congratulate you. ||4||10||62||

²⁴Aasaa, Fourth Mehl:

²⁵Join the Sat Sangat, the Lord's True Congregation; joining the Company of the Holy, sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord.

²⁶With the sparkling jewel of spiritual wisdom, the heart is illumined, and ignorance is dispelled. ||1||

²⁷O humble servant of the Lord, let your dancing be meditation on the Lord, Har, Har.

²⁸If only I cold meet such Saints, O my Siblings of Destiny; I would wash the feet of such servants. ||1||Pause||

²⁹Meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord, O my mind; night and day, center your consciousness on the Lord.

³⁰You shall have the fruits of your desires, and you shall never feel hunger again. ||2||

³¹The Infinite Lord Himself is the Creator; the Lord Himself speaks, and causes us to speak.

³²The Saints are good, who are pleasing to Your Will; their honor is approved by You. ||3||

³³Nanak is not satisfied by chanting the Lord's Glorious Praises; the more he chants them, the more he is at peace.

³⁴The Lord Himself has bestowed the treasure of devotional love; His customers purchase virtues, and carry them home. ||4||11||63||

¹One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

²Raag Aasaa, Eighth House, Kaafee, Fourth Mehl:

³Death is ordained from the very beginning, and yet ego makes us cry.

⁴Meditating on the Naam, as Gurmukh, one becomes stable and steady. ||1||

⁵Blessed is the Perfect Guru, through whom the way of Death is known.

⁶The sublime people earn the profit of the Naam, the Name of the Lord; they are absorbed in the Word of the Shabad. ||1||Pause||

⁷The days of one's life are pre-ordained; they will come to their end, O mother.

⁸One must depart, today or tomorrow, according to the Lord's Primal Order. ||2||

⁹Useless are the lives of those, who have forgotten the Naam.

¹⁰They play the game of chance in this world, and lose their mind. ||3||

¹¹Those who have found the Guru are at peace, in life and in death.

¹²O Nanak, the true ones are truly absorbed into the True Lord. ||4||12||64||

¹³Aasaa, Fourth Mehl:

¹⁴Having obtained the treasure of this human birth, I meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

¹⁵By Guru's Grace, I understand, and I am absorbed into the True Lord. ||1||

¹⁶Those who have such pre-ordained destiny practice the Naam.

¹⁷The True Lord summons the truthful to the Mansion of His Presence. ||1||Pause||

¹⁸Deep within is the treasure of the Naam; it is obtained by the Gurmukh.

¹⁹Night and day, meditate on the Naam, and sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||2||

²⁰Deep within are infinite substances, but the self-willed manmukh does not find them.

²¹In egotism and pride, the mortal's proud self consumes him. ||3||

²²O Nanak, his identity consumes his identical identity.

²³Through the Guru's Teachings, the mind is illumined, and meets the True Lord. ||4||13||65||

²⁴Raag Aasaavaree, 2 Of Sixteenth House, Fourth Mehl, Sudhang:

²⁵One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

²⁶Night and day, I sing the Kirtan, the Praises of the Name of the Lord.

²⁷The True Guru has revealed to me the Name of the Lord; without the Lord, I cannot live, for a moment, even an instant. ||1||Pause||

²⁸My ears hear the Lord's Kirtan, and I contemplate Him; without the Lord, I cannot live, even for an instant.

²⁹As the swan cannot live without the lake, how can the Lord's slave live without serving Him? ||1||

³⁰Some enshrine love for duality in their hearts, and some pledge love for worldly attachments and ego.

³¹The Lord's servant embraces love for the Lord and the state of Nirvaanaa; Nanak contemplates the Lord, the Lord God. ||2||14||66||

³²Aasaavaree, Fourth Mehl:

³³O mother, my mother, tell me about my Beloved Lord.

³⁴Without the Lord, I cannot live for a moment, even an instant; I love Him, like the camel loves the vine. ||1||Pause||

³⁵My mind has become sad and distant, longing for the Blessed Vision of the Lord's Darshan, my Friend.

³⁶As the bumblebee cannot live without the lotus, I cannot live without the Lord. ||1||

¹Keep me under Your Protection, O Beloved Master of the Universe; fulfill my faith, O Lord of the World.

²Servant Nanak's mind is filled with bliss, when he beholds the Blessed Vision of the Lord's Darshan, even for an instant. ||2||39||13||15||67||

³Raag Aasaa, Second House, Fifth Mehl:

⁴One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

⁵One who loves her, is ultimately devoured.

⁶One who seats her in comfort, is totally terrified by her.

⁷Siblings, friends and family, beholding her, argue.

⁸But she has come under my control, by Guru's Grace. ||1||

⁹Beholding her, all are bewitched:

¹⁰the strivers, the Siddhas, the demi-gods, angels and mortals. All, except the Saadhus, are deceived by her deception. ||1||Pause||

¹¹Some wander around as renunciates, but they are engrossed in sexual desire.

¹²Some grow rich as householders, but she does not belong to them.

¹³Some call themselves men of charity, and she torments them terribly.

¹⁴The Lord has saved me, by attaching me to the Feet of the True Guru. ||2||

¹⁵She leads astray the penitents who practice penance.

¹⁶The scholarly Pandits are all seduced by greed.

¹⁷The world of the three qualities is enticed, and the heavens are enticed.

¹⁸The True Guru has saved me, by giving me His Hand. ||3||

¹⁹She is the slave of those who are spiritually wise.

²⁰With her palms pressed together, she serves them and offers her prayer:

²¹"Whatever you wish, that is what I shall do."

²²O servant Nanak, she does not draw near to the Gurmukh. ||4||1||

²³Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²⁴I have been separated from my Beloved by Maya (my mother-in-law).

²⁵Hope and desire (my younger brother-in-law and sister-in-law) are dying of grief.

²⁶I am no longer swayed by the fear of Death (my elder brother-in-law).

²⁷I am protected by my All-knowing, Wise Husband Lord. ||1||

²⁸Listen, O people: I have tasted the elixir of love.

²⁹The evil ones are dead, and my enemies are destroyed. The True Guru has given me the Name of the Lord. ||1||Pause||

³⁰First, I renounced my egotistical love of myself.

³¹Second, I renounced the ways of the world.

³²Renouncing the three qualities, I look alike upon friend and enemy.

³³And then, the fourth state of bliss was revealed to me by the Holy One. ||2||

³⁴In the cave of celestial bliss, I have obtained a seat.

³⁵The Lord of Light plays the unstruck melody of bliss.

³⁶I am in ecstasy, contemplating the Word of the Guru's Shabad.

³⁷Imbued with my Beloved Husband Lord, I am the blessed, happy soul-bride. ||3||

³⁸Servant Nanak chants the wisdom of God;

³⁹one who listens and practices it, is carried across and saved.

⁴⁰He is not born, and he does not die; he does not come or go.

⁴¹He remains blended with the Lord. ||4||2||

⁴²Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁴³The bride shows such special devotion, and has such an agreeable disposition.

⁴⁴Her beauty is incomparable, and her character is perfect.

⁴⁵The house in which she dwells is such a praiseworthy house.

⁴⁶But rare are those who, as Gurmukh, attain that state||1||

⁴⁷As the soul-bride of pure actions, I have met with the Guru.

¹In worship, marriage and in the next world, such a soul-bride looks beautiful. ||1||Pause||

²As long as she lived with her father,

³her Husband wandered around in sadness.

⁴I served and surrendered to the Lord, the True Being;

⁵the Guru brought my bride to my home, and I obtained total happiness. ||2||

⁶She is blessed with all sublime attributes,

⁷Her Husband, her Lord and Master, fulfills her heart's desires.

⁸Hope and desire (my younger brother-in-law and sister-in-law) are now totally content. ||3||

⁹She is the most noble of all the family.

¹⁰She counsels and advises her hope and desire.

¹¹How blessed is that household, in which she has appeared.

¹²O servant Nanak, she passes her time in perfect peace and comfort. ||4||3||

¹³Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁴Whatever I resolve, she does not allow it to come to pass.

¹⁵She stands blocking the way of goodness and self-discipline.

¹⁶She wears many disguises, and assumes many forms,

¹⁷and she does not allow me to dwell in my own home. She forces me to wander around in different directions. ||1||

¹⁸She has become the mistress of my home, and she does not allow me to live in it.

¹⁹If I try, she fights with me. ||1||Pause||

²⁰In the beginning, she was sent as a helper,

²¹but she has overwhelmed the nine continents, all places and interspaces.

²²She has not spared even the river banks, the sacred shrines of pilgrimage, the Yogis and Sannyaasees,

²³or those who tirelessly read the Simritees and study the Vedas. ||2||

²⁴Wherever I sit, she sits there with me.

²⁵She has imposed her power upon the whole world.

²⁶Seeking meager protection, I am not protected from her.

²⁷Tell me, O my friend: unto whom should I turn for protection? ||3||

²⁸I heard of His Teachings, and so I have come to the True Guru.

²⁹The Guru has implanted the Mantra of the Lord's Name, Har, Har, within me.

³⁰And now, I dwell in the home of my own inner self; I sing the Glorious Praises of the Infinite Lord.

³¹I have met God, O Nanak, and I have become care-free. ||4||

³²My home is now my own, and she is now my mistress.

³³She is now my servant, and the Guru has made me intimate with the Lord. ||1||Second Pause||4||4||

³⁴Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³⁵First, they advised me to send a letter.

³⁶Second, they advised me to send two men.

³⁷Third, they advised me to make the effort and do something.

³⁸But I have renounced everything, and I meditate only on You, God. ||1||

³⁹Now, I am totally blissful, carefree and at ease.

⁴⁰The enemies and evil-doers have perished, and I have obtained peace. ||1||Pause||

⁴¹The True Guru has imparted the Teachings to me.

⁴²My soul, body and everything belong to the Lord.

⁴³Whatever I do, is by Your Almighty Power.

⁴⁴You are my only Support, You are my only Court. ||2||

⁴⁵If I were to renounce You, God, unto whom could I turn?

⁴⁶There is no other, comparable to You.

⁴⁷Who else is Your servant to serve?

⁴⁸The faithless cynics are deluded; they wander around in the wilderness. ||3||

⁴⁹Your Glorious Greatness cannot be described.

⁵⁰Wherever I am, you save me, hugging me close in Your embrace.

⁵¹Nanak, Your slave, has entered Your Sanctuary.

⁵²God has preserved his honor, and congratulations are pouring in. ||4||5||

¹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²Having wandered through foreign lands, I have come here to do business.

³I heard of the incomparable and profitable merchandise.

⁴I have gathered in my pockets my capital of virtue, and I have brought it here with me.

⁵Beholding the jewel, this mind is fascinated. ||1||

⁶I have come to the door of the Trader.

⁷Please display the merchandise, so that the business may be transacted. ||1||Pause||

⁸The Trader has sent me to the Banker.

⁹The jewel is priceless, and the capital is priceless.

¹⁰O my gentle brother, mediator and friend

¹¹- I have obtained the merchandise, and my consciousness is now steady and stable. ||2||

¹²I have no fear of thieves, of wind or water.

¹³I have easily made my purchase, and I easily take it away.

¹⁴I have earned Truth, and I shall have no pain.

¹⁵I have brought this merchandise home, safe and sound. ||3||

¹⁶I have earned the profit, and I am happy.

¹⁷Blessed is the Banker, the Perfect Bestower.

¹⁸How rare is the Gurmukh who obtains this merchandise;

¹⁹Nanak has brought this profitable merchandise home. ||4||6||

²⁰Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²¹He does not consider my merits or demerits.

²²He does not look at my beauty, color or decorations.

²³I do not know the ways of wisdom and good conduct.

²⁴But taking me by the arm, my Husband Lord has led me to His Bed. ||1||

²⁵Hear, O my companions, my Husband, my Lord Master, possesses me.

²⁶Placing His Hand upon my forehead, He protects me as His Own. What do these ignorant people know? ||1||Pause||

²⁷My married life now appears so beauteous;

²⁸my Husband Lord has met me, and He sees all my pains.

²⁹Within the courtyard of my heart, the glory of the moon shines.

³⁰Night and day, I have fun with my Beloved. ||2||

³¹My clothes are dyed the deep crimson color of the poppy.

³²All the ornaments and garlands around my neck adorn me.

³³Gazing upon my Beloved with my eyes, I have obtained all treasures;

³⁴I have shaken off the power of the evil demons. ||3||

³⁵I have obtained eternal bliss, and I constantly celebrate.

³⁶With the nine treasures of the Naam, the Name of the Lord, I am satisfied in my own home.

³⁷Says Nanak, when the happy soul-bride is adorned by her Beloved,

³⁸she is forever happy with her Husband Lord. ||4||7||

³⁹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁴⁰They give you donations and worship you.

⁴¹You take from them, and then deny that they have given anything to you.

⁴²That door, through which you must ultimately go, O Brahmin

⁴³- at that door, you will come to regret and repent. ||1||

⁴⁴Such Brahmins shall drown, O Siblings of Destiny;

⁴⁵they think of doing evil to the innocent. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁶Within them is greed, and they wander around like mad dogs.

⁴⁷They slander others and carry loads of sin upon their heads.

⁴⁸Intoxicated by Maya, they do not think of the Lord.

⁴⁹Deluded by doubt, they wander off on many paths. ||2||

⁵⁰Outwardly, they wear various religious robes,

⁵¹but within, they are enveloped by poison.

⁵²They instruct others, but do not understand themselves.

⁵³Such Brahmins will never be emancipated. ||3||

⁵⁴O foolish Brahmin, reflect upon God.

⁵⁵He watches and hears, and is always with you.

⁵⁶Says Nanak, if this is your destiny,

⁵⁷renounce your pride, and grasp the Guru's Feet. ||4||8||

⁵⁸Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

¹Pain and disease have left my body, and my mind has become pure; I sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord, Har, Har.

²I am in bliss, meeting with the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, and now, my mind does not go wandering. ||1||

³My burning desires are quenched, through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, O mother.

⁴The fever of doubt has been totally eliminated; meeting the Guru, I am cooled and soothed, with intuitive ease. ||1||Pause||

⁵My wandering has ended, since I have realized the One and Only Lord; now, I have come to dwell in the eternal place.

⁶Your Saints are the Saving Grace of the world; beholding the Blessed Vision of their Darshan, I remain satisfied. ||2||

⁷I have left behind the sins of countless incarnations, now that I have grasped the feet of the eternal Holy Guru.

⁸My mind sings the celestial melody of bliss, and death shall no longer consume it. ||3||

⁹and death shall no longer consume it. ||3||

¹⁰My Lord, the Cause of all causes, is All-powerful, the Giver of peace; He is my Lord, my Lord King.

¹¹Nanak lives by chanting Your Name, O Lord; You are my helper, with me, through and through. ||4||9||

¹²Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

¹³The slanderer cries out and bewails.

¹⁴He has forgotten the Supreme Lord, the Transcendent Lord; the slanderer reaps the rewards of his own actions. ||1||Pause||

¹⁵If someone is his companion, then he shall be taken along with him.

¹⁶Like the dragon, the slanderer carries his huge, useless loads, and burns in his own fire. ||1||

¹⁷Nanak proclaims and announces what happens at the Door of the Transcendent Lord.

¹⁸The humble devotees of the Lord are forever in bliss; singing the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises, they blossom forth. ||2||10||

¹⁹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²⁰Even though I totally decorated myself,

²¹still, my mind was not satisfied.

²²I applied various scented oils to my body,

²³and yet, I did not obtain even a tiny bit of pleasure from this.

²⁴Within my mind, I hold such a desire,

²⁵that I may live only to behold my Beloved, O my mother. ||1||

²⁶O mother, what should I do? This mind cannot rest.

²⁷It is bewitched by the tender love of my Beloved. ||1||Pause||

²⁸Garments, ornaments, and such exquisite pleasures

²⁹I look upon these as of no account.

³⁰Likewise, honor, fame, dignity and greatness,

³¹obedience by the whole world,

³²and a household as beautiful as a jewel.

³³If I am pleasing to God's Will, then I shall be blessed, and forever in bliss. ||2||

³⁴With foods and delicacies of so many different kinds,

³⁵and such abundant pleasures and entertainments,

³⁶power and property and absolute command

³⁷with these, the mind is not satisfied, and its thirst is not quenched.

³⁸Without meeting Him, this day does not pass.

³⁹Meeting God, I find peace. ||3||

⁴⁰By searching and seeking, I have heard this news,

⁴¹that without the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, no one swims across.

⁴²One who has this good destiny written upon his forehead, finds the True Guru.

⁴³His hopes are fulfilled, and his mind is satisfied.

⁴⁴When one meets God, then his thirst is quenched.

⁴⁵Nanak has found the Lord, within his mind and body. ||4||11||

⁴⁶Aasaa, Fifth Mehl, Panch-Padhay:

¹First, your social status is high.

²Second, you are honored in society.

³Third, your home is beautiful.

⁴But you are so ugly, with self-conceit in your mind. ||1||

⁵O beautiful, attractive, wise and clever woman:

⁶you have been trapped by your pride and attachment. ||1||Pause||

⁷Your kitchen is so clean.

⁸You take your bath, and worship, and apply the crimson mark upon your forehead;

⁹with your mouth you speak wisdom, but you are destroyed by pride.

¹⁰The dog of greed has ruined you in every way. ||2||

¹¹You wear your robes and enjoy pleasures;

¹²you practice good conduct to impress people;

¹³you apply scented oils of sandalwood and musk,

¹⁴but your constant companion is the demon of anger. ||3||

¹⁵Other people may be your water-carriers;

¹⁶in this world, you may be a ruler.

¹⁷Gold, silver and wealth may be yours,

¹⁸but the goodness of your conduct has been destroyed by sexual promiscuity. ||4||

¹⁹That soul, upon whom the Lord has bestowed His Glance of Grace,

²⁰is delivered from bondage.

²¹Joining the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, the Lord's sublime essence is obtained.

²²Says Nanak, how fruitful is that body. ||5||

²³All graces and all comforts shall come to you, as the happy soul-bride;

²⁴you shall be supremely beautiful and wise. ||1||Second Pause||12||

²⁵Aasaa, Fifth Mehl, Ek-Thukay 2 :

²⁶One who is seen to be alive, shall surely die.

²⁷But he who is dead shall remain ever-lasting. ||1||

²⁸Those who die while yet alive, shall through this death, live on.

²⁹They place the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, as medicine in their mouths, and through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, they drink in the Ambrosial Nectar. ||1||Pause||

³⁰The clay pot of the body shall be broken.

³¹One who has eliminated the three qualities dwells in the home of his inner self. ||2||

³²One who climbs high, shall fall into the nether regions of the underworld.

³³One who lies upon the ground, shall not be touched by death. ||3||

³⁴Those who continue to wander around, achieve nothing.

³⁵Those who practice the Guru's Teachings, become steady and stable. ||4||

³⁶This body and soul all belong to the Lord.

³⁷O Nanak, meeting the Guru, I am enraptured. ||5||13||

³⁸Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³⁹The puppet of the body has been fashioned with great skill.

⁴⁰Know for sure that it shall turn to dust. ||1||

⁴¹Remember your origins, O thoughtless fool.

⁴²Why are you so proud of yourself? ||1||Pause||

⁴³You are a guest, given three meals a day;

⁴⁴other things are entrusted to you. ||2||

⁴⁵you are just excrement, bones and blood, wrapped up in skin

⁴⁶- this is what you are taking such pride in! ||3||

⁴⁷If you could understand even one thing, then you would be pure.

⁴⁸Without understanding, you shall be forever impure. ||4||

⁴⁹Says Nanak, I am a sacrifice to the Guru;

⁵⁰through Him, I obtain the Lord, the All-knowing Primal Being. ||5||14||

⁵¹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl, Ek-Thukay, Chau-Padhay:

⁵²One moment, one day, is for me many days.

⁵³My mind cannot survive - how can I meet my Beloved? ||1||

⁵⁴I cannot endure one day, even one instant without Him.

¹My mind's desire for the Blessed Vision of His Darshan is so great. Is there any Saint who can lead me to meet my Beloved? ||1||Pause||

²The four watches of the day are like the four ages.

³And when night comes, I think that it shall never end. ||2||

⁴The five demons have joined together, to separate me from my Husband Lord.

⁵Wandering and rambling, I cry out and wring my hands. ||3||

⁶The Lord has revealed the Blessed Vision of His Darshan to servant Nanak;

⁷realizing his own self, he has obtained supreme peace. ||4||15||

⁸Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁹In the Lord's service, are the greatest treasures.

¹⁰Serving the Lord, the Ambrosial Naam comes into one's mouth. ||1||

¹¹The Lord is my Companion; He is with me, as my Help and Support.

¹²In pain and pleasure, whenever I remember Him, He is present. How can the poor Messenger of Death frighten me now? ||1||Pause||

¹³The Lord is my Support; the Lord is my Power.

¹⁴The Lord is my Friend; He is my mind's advisor. ||2||

¹⁵The Lord is my capital; the Lord is my credit.

¹⁶As Gurmukh, I earn the wealth, with the Lord as my Banker. ||3||

¹⁷By Guru's Grace, this wisdom has come.

¹⁸Servant Nanak has merged into the Being of the Lord. ||4||16||

¹⁹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²⁰When God shows His Mercy, then this mind is focused on Him.

²¹Serving the True Guru, all rewards are obtained. ||1||

²²O my mind, why are you so sad? My True Guru is Perfect.

²³He is the Giver of blessings, the treasure of all comforts; His Ambrosial Pool of Nectar is always overflowing. ||1||Pause||

²⁴One who enshrines His Lotus Feet within the heart,

²⁵meets the Beloved Lord; the Divine Light is revealed to him. ||2||

²⁶The five companions have met together to sing the songs of joy.

²⁷The unstruck melody, the sound current of the Naad, vibrates and resounds. ||3||

²⁸O Nanak, when the Guru is totally pleased, one meets the Lord, the King.

²⁹Then, the night of one's life passes in peace and natural ease. ||4||17||

³⁰Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³¹Showing His Mercy, the Lord has revealed Himself to me.

³²Meeting the True Guru, I have received the perfect wealth. ||1||

³³Gather such a wealth of the Lord, O Siblings of Destiny.

³⁴It cannot be burned by fire, and water cannot drown it; it does not forsake society, or go anywhere else. ||1||Pause||

³⁵It does not run short, and it does not run out.

³⁶Eating and consuming it, the mind remains satisfied. ||2||

³⁷He is the true banker, who gathers the wealth of the Lord within his own home.

³⁸With this wealth, the whole world profits. ||3||

³⁹He alone receives the Lord's wealth, who is pre-ordained to receive it.

⁴⁰O servant Nanak, at that very last moment, the Naam shall be your only decoration. ||4||18||

⁴¹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁴²Just like the farmer, He plants His crop,

⁴³and, whether it is ripe or unripe, He cuts it down. ||1||

⁴⁴Just so, you must know this well, that whoever is born, shall die.

⁴⁵Only the devotee of the Lord of the Universe becomes stable and permanent. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁶The day shall certainly be followed by the night.

⁴⁷And when the night passes, the morning shall again dawn. ||2||

⁴⁸In the love of Maya, the unfortunate ones remain in sleep.

⁴⁹By Guru's Grace, a rare few remain awake and aware. ||3||

¹Says Nanak, sing continually the Glorious Praises of the Lord.

²Your face shall be radiant, and your consciousness shall be immaculately pure. ||4||19||

³Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁴The nine treasures are Yours - all treasures are Yours.

⁵The Fulfiller of desires saves mortals in the end. ||1||

⁶You are my Beloved, so what hunger can I have?

⁷When You dwell within my mind, pain does not touch me. ||1||Pause||

⁸Whatever You do, is acceptable to me.

⁹O True Lord and Master, True is Your Order. ||2||

¹⁰When it is pleasing to Your Will, I sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord.

¹¹Within Your Home, there is justice, forever and ever. ||3||

¹²O True Lord and Master, You are unknowable and mysterious.

¹³Nanak is committed to Your service. ||4||20||

¹⁴Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁵He is near at hand; He is the eternal Companion of the soul.

¹⁶His Creative Power is all-pervading, in form and color. ||1||

¹⁷My mind does not worry; it does not grieve, or cry out.

¹⁸Imperishable, Unshakable, Unapproachable and forever safe and sound is my Husband Lord. ||1||Pause||

¹⁹Unto whom does Your servant pay homage?

²⁰His King preserves his honor. ||2||

²¹That slave, whom God has released from the restrictions of social status

²²- who can now hold him in bondage? ||3||

²³The Lord is absolutely independent, and totally care-free;

²⁴O servant Nanak, chant His Glorious Praises. ||4||21||

²⁵Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²⁶Forsaking the Lord's sublime essence, the mortal is intoxicated with false essences.

²⁷The substance is within the home of the self, but the mortal goes out to find it. ||1||

²⁸He cannot hear the true ambrosial discourse.

²⁹Attached to false scriptures, he is engaged in argument. ||1||Pause||

³⁰He takes his wages from his Lord and Master, but he serves another.

³¹With such sins, the mortal is engrossed. ||2||

³²He tries to hide from the One who is always with him.

³³He begs from Him, again and again. ||3||

³⁴Says Nanak, God is merciful to the meek.

³⁵As it pleases Him, He cherishes us. ||4||22||

³⁶Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³⁷The Naam, the Name of the Lord, is my soul, my life, my wealth.

³⁸Here and hereafter, it is with me, to help me. ||1||

³⁹Without the Lord's Name, everything else is useless.

⁴⁰My mind is satisfied and satiated by the Blessed Vision of the Lord's Darshan. ||1||Pause||

⁴¹Gurbani is the jewel, the treasure of devotion.

⁴²Singing, hearing and acting upon it, one is enraptured. ||2||

⁴³My mind is attached to the Lord's Lotus Feet.

⁴⁴The True Guru, in His Pleasure, has given this gift. ||3||

⁴⁵Unto Nanak, the Guru has revealed these instructions:

⁴⁶recognize the Imperishable Lord God in each and every heart. ||4||23||

⁴⁷Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁴⁸The All-pervading Lord has established joys and celebrations.

⁴⁹He Himself embellishes His own works. ||1||

⁵⁰Perfect is the Creation of the Perfect Lord Master.

⁵¹His magnificent greatness is totally all-pervading. ||1||Pause||

⁵²His Name is the treasure; His reputation is immaculate.

⁵³He Himself is the Creator; there is no other. ||2||

⁵⁴All beings and creatures are in His Hands.

⁵⁵God is pervading in all, and is always with them. ||3||

¹The Perfect Guru has fashioned His perfect fashion.

²O Nanak, the Lord's devotees are blessed with glorious greatness. ||4||24||

³Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁴I have shaped this mind in the mold of the Guru's Word.

⁵Beholding the Blessed Vision of the Guru's Darshan, I have gathered the wealth of the Lord. ||1||

⁶O sublime understanding, come, enter into my mind,

⁷that I may meditate and sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord of the Universe, and love so dearly the Lord's Name. ||1||Pause||

⁸I am satisfied and satiated by the True Name.

⁹My cleansing bath at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage is the dust of the Saints. ||2||

¹⁰I recognize that the One Creator is contained in all.

¹¹Joining the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, my understanding is refined. ||3||

¹²I have become the servant of all; I have renounced my ego and pride.

¹³The Guru has given this gift to Nanak. ||4||25||

¹⁴Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁵My intellect has been enlightened, and my understanding is perfect.

¹⁶Thus my evil-mindedness, which kept me far from Him, has been removed. ||1||

¹⁷Such are the Teachings which I have received from the Guru;

¹⁸while I was drowning in the pitch black well, I was saved, O my Siblings of Destiny. ||1||Pause||

¹⁹The Guru is the boat to cross over the totally unfathomable ocean of fire;

²⁰This ocean of Maya is dark and treacherous.

²¹The Perfect Guru has revealed the way to cross over it. ||3||

²²I do not have the ability to chant or practice intense meditation.

²³Guru Nanak seeks Your Sanctuary. ||4||26||

²⁴Aasaa, Fifth Mehl, Thi-Padhay:

²⁵One who drinks in the Lord's sublime essence is forever imbued with it,

²⁶while other essences wear off in an instant.

²⁷Intoxicated with the Lord's sublime essence, the mind is forever in ecstasy.

²⁸Other essences bring only anxiety. ||1||

²⁹One who drinks in the Lord's sublime essence, is intoxicated and enraptured;

³⁰all other essences have no effect. ||1||Pause||

³¹The value of the Lord's sublime essence cannot be described.

³²The Lord's sublime essence permeates the homes of the Holy.

³³One may spend thousands and millions, but it cannot be purchased.

³⁴He alone obtains it, who is so pre-ordained. ||2||

³⁵Tasting it, Nanak is wonder-struck.

³⁶Through the Guru, Nanak has obtained this taste.

³⁷Here and hereafter, it does not leave him.

³⁸Nanak is imbued and enraptured with the Lord's subtle essence. ||3||27||

³⁹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁴⁰If she renounces and eliminates her sexual desire, anger, greed and attachment, and her evil-mindedness and self-conceit as well;

⁴¹and if, becoming humble, she serves Him, then she becomes dear to her Beloved's Heart. ||1||

⁴²Listen, O beautiful soul-bride: By the Word of the Holy Saint, you shall be saved.

⁴³Your pain, hunger and doubt shall vanish, and you shall obtain peace, O happy soul-bride. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁴Washing the Guru's feet, and serving Him, the soul is sanctified, and the thirst for sin is quenched.

⁴⁵If you become the slave of the slave of the Lord's slaves, then you shall obtain honor in the Court of the Lord. ||2||

⁴⁶This is right conduct, and this is the correct lifestyle, to obey the Command of the Lord's Will; this is your devotional worship.

⁴⁷One who practices this Mantra, O Nanak, swims across the terrifying world-ocean. ||3||28||

¹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl, Dho-Padhay:

²You have been blessed with this human body.

³This is your chance to meet the Lord of the Universe.

⁴Other efforts are of no use to you.

⁵Joining the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, vibrate and meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||1||

⁶Make the effort, and cross over the terrifying world ocean.

⁷This human life is passing away in vain, in the love of Maya. ||1||Pause||

⁸I have not practiced meditation, penance, self-restraint or righteous living;

⁹I have not served the Holy Saints, and I do not know the Lord, my King.

¹⁰Says Nanak, my actions are vile and despicable;

¹¹O Lord, I seek Your Sanctuary - please, preserve my honor. ||2||29||

¹²Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

¹³Without You, there is no other for me; You alone are in my mind.

¹⁴You are my Friend and Companion, God; why should my soul be afraid? ||1||

¹⁵You are my support, You are my hope.

¹⁶While sitting down or standing up, while sleeping or waking, with every breath and morsel of food, I never forget You. ||1||Pause||

¹⁷Protect me, please protect me, O God; I have come to Your Sanctuary; the ocean of fire is so horrible.

¹⁸The True Guru is the Giver of peace to Nanak; I am Your child, O Lord of the World. ||2||30||

¹⁹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²⁰The Lord God has saved me, His slave.

²¹My mind has surrendered to my Beloved; my fever has taken poison and died. ||1||Pause||

²²Cold and heat do not touch me at all, when I sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord.

²³My consciousness is not affected by the witch, Maya; I take to the Sanctuary of the Lord's Lotus Feet. ||1||

²⁴By the Grace of the Saints, the Lord has shown His Mercy to me; He Himself is my Help and Support.

²⁵Nanak ever sings the Praises of the Lord, the treasure of excellence; his doubts and pains are eliminated. ||2||31||

²⁶Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²⁷I have taken the medicine of the Name of the Lord.

²⁸I have found peace, and the seat of pain has been removed. ||1||

²⁹The fever has been broken, by the Teachings of the Perfect Guru.

³⁰I am in ecstasy, and all of my sorrows have been dispelled. ||1||Pause||

³¹All beings and creatures obtain peace,

³²O Nanak, meditating on the Supreme Lord God. ||2||32||

³³Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³⁴That time, which the mortal does not wish for, eventually comes.

³⁵Without the Lord's Command, how can understanding be understood? ||1||

³⁶The body is consumed by water, fire and earth.

³⁷But the soul is neither young nor old, O Siblings of Destiny. ||1||Pause||

³⁸Servant Nanak has entered the Sanctuary of the Holy.

³⁹By Guru's Grace, he has shaken off the fear of death. ||2||33||

⁴⁰Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁴¹Forever and ever, the soul is illumined;

⁴²in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, it dwells at the Feet of the Lord. ||1||

⁴³Chant the Lord's Name each and every day, O my mind.

⁴⁴You shall find lasting peace, contentment and tranquility, and all your sins shall depart. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁵Says Nanak, one who is blessed with perfect good karma,

⁴⁶meets the True Guru, and obtains the Perfect Supreme Lord God. ||2||34||

⁴⁷Thirty-four Shabads in Second House. ||

⁴⁸Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁴⁹She who has the Lord God as her Friend

¹her pain is dispelled, and she shall not become sad again. ||1||Pause||

²Showing His Mercy, He joins her with His Feet,

³and she attains celestial peace, joy and comfort. ||1||

⁴In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, she sings the Glorious Praises of the Immeasurable Lord.

⁵Remembering the Lord in meditation, O Nanak, she becomes invaluable. ||2||35||

⁶Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁷Sexual desire, anger, intoxication with Maya and jealousy - I have lost all of these in the game of chance.

⁸Purity, contentment, compassion, faith and truthfulness - I have ushered these into the home of my self. ||1||

⁹All the loads of birth and death have been removed.

¹⁰Joining the Saints' Society, my mind has become pure; the Perfect Guru has saved me in an instant. ||1||Pause||

¹¹My mind has become the dust of all, and everyone seems a sweet friend to me.

¹²My Lord and Master is contained in all. He gives His Gifts to all beings, and cherishes them. ||2||

¹³He Himself is the One and only; from the One, the One and only, came the expanse of the entire creation.

¹⁴Chanting and meditating, all the humble beings have become Holy; meditating on the Naam, the Name of the Lord, so many have been saved. ||3||

¹⁵The Lord of the Universe is deep, profound and infinite; He has no end or limitation.

¹⁶By Your Grace, Nanak sings Your Glorious Praises; meditating, meditating, he humbly bows to God. ||4||36||

¹⁷Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁸You are Infinite, Eternal and Incomprehensible; all this is Your Creation.

¹⁹What clever games can we play, when everything is contained in You? ||1||

²⁰O my True Guru, protect me, Your child, through the power of Your play.

²¹Grant me the good sense to ever sing Your Glorious Praises, O my Inaccessible and Infinite Lord and Master. ||1||Pause||

²²The mortal is preserved in the womb of his mother, by the Support of the Naam, the Name of the Lord;

²³he makes merry, and with each and every breath he remembers the Lord, and the fire does not touch him. ||2||

²⁴Others' wealth, others' wives, and the slander of others - renounce your craving for these.

²⁵Serve the Lord's Lotus Feet within your heart, and hold to the Support of the Perfect Guru. ||3||

²⁶Houses, mansions and palaces which you see - none of these shall go with you.

²⁷As long as you live in this Dark Age of Kali Yuga, O servant Nanak, remember the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||4||37||

²⁸Aasaa, Third House, Fifth Mehl:

²⁹One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

³⁰Power, property, youth, household, fame and the beauty of youth;

³¹great wealth, elephants, horses and jewels, purchased with tens of thousands of dollars;

³²hereafter, these shall be of no avail in the Court of the Lord; the proud must depart, leaving them behind. ||1||

³³Why center your consciousness on any other than the Lord?

³⁴Sitting down, standing up, sleeping and waking, forever and ever, meditate on the Lord. ||1||Pause||

³⁵He may have the most wondrous and beautiful arenas, and be victorious on the field of battle.

¹He may proclaim, "I can kill anyone, I can capture anyone, and I can release anyone."

²But when the Order comes from the Supreme Lord God, he departs and leaves in a day. ||2||

³He may perform all sorts of religious rituals and good actions, but he does not know the Creator Lord, the Doer of all.

⁴He teaches, but does not practice what he preaches; he does not realize the essential reality of the Word of the Shabad.

⁵Naked he came, and naked he shall depart; he is like an elephant, throwing dust on himself. ||3||

⁶O Saints, and friends, listen to me: all this world is false.

⁷Continually claiming, "Mine, mine", the mortals are drowned; the fools waste away and die.

⁸Meeting the Guru, O Nanak, I meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord; through the True Name, I am emancipated. ||4||1||38||

⁹Raag Aasaa, Fifth House, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁰One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

¹¹The whole world is asleep in doubt; it is blinded by worldly entanglements. How rare is that humble servant of the Lord who is awake and aware. ||1||

¹²How rare is that humble servant of the Lord who is awake and aware. ||1||

¹³The mortal is intoxicated with the great enticement of Maya, which is dearer to him than life. How rare is the one who renounces it. ||2||

¹⁴How rare is the one who renounces it. ||2||

¹⁵The Lord's Lotus Feet are incomparably beautiful; so is the Mantra of the Saint. How rare is that holy person who is attached to them. ||3||

¹⁶How rare is that holy person who is attached to them. ||3||

¹⁷O Nanak, in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, the love of divine knowledge is awakened; The Lord's Mercy is bestowed upon those who are blessed with such good destiny. ||4||1||39||

¹⁸the Lord's Mercy is bestowed upon those who are blessed with such good destiny. ||4||1||39||

¹⁹One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

²⁰Raag Aasaa, Sixth House, Fifth Mehl:

²¹Whatever pleases You is acceptable to me; that alone brings peace and ease to my mind.

²²You are the Doer, the Cause of causes, All-powerful and Infinite; there is none other than You. ||1||

²³Your humble servants sing Your Glorious Praises with enthusiasm and love.

²⁴That alone is good advice, wisdom and cleverness for Your humble servant, which You do or cause to be done. ||1||Pause||

²⁵Your Name is Ambrosial Nectar, O Beloved Lord; in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, I have obtained its sublime essence.

²⁶Those humble beings are satisfied and fulfilled, singing the Praises of the Lord, the treasure of peace. ||2||

²⁷One who has Your Support, O Lord Master, is not afflicted by anxiety.

²⁸One who is blessed by Your Kind Mercy, is the best, the most fortunate king. ||3||

²⁹Doubt, attachment, and deceit have all disappeared, since I obtained the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan.

³⁰Dealing in the Naam, O Nanak, we become truthful, and in the Love of the Lord's Name, we are absorbed. ||4||1 | 40||

³¹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³²He washes off the filth of other peoples' incarnations, but he obtains the rewards of his own actions.

³³He has no peace in this world, and he has no place in the Court of the Lord. In the City of Death, he is tortured. ||1||

³⁴The slanderer loses his life in vain.

³⁵He cannot succeed in anything, and in the world hereafter, he finds no place at all. ||1||Pause||

³⁶Such is the fate of the wretched slanderer - what can the poor creature do?

³⁷He is ruined there, where no one can protect him; with whom should he lodge his complaint? ||2||

¹The slanderer shall never attain emancipation; this is the Will of the Lord and Master.

²The more the Saints are slandered, the more they dwell in peace. ||3||

³The Saints have Your Support, O Lord and Master; You are the Saints' Help and Support.

⁴Says Nanak, the Saints are saved by the Lord; the slanderers are drowned in the deep. ||4||2||41||

⁵Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁶He washes outwardly, but within, his mind is filthy; thus he loses his place in both worlds.

⁷Here, he is engrossed in sexual desire, anger and emotional attachment; hereafter, he shall sigh and weep. ||1||

⁸The way to vibrate and meditate on the Lord of the Universe is different.

⁹Destroying the snake-hole, the snake is not killed; the deaf person does not hear the Lord's Name. ||1||Pause||

¹⁰He renounces the affairs of Maya, but he does not appreciate the value of devotional worship.

¹¹He finds fault with the Vedas and the Shaastras, and does not know the essence of Yoga. ||2||

¹²He stands exposed, like a counterfeit coin, when inspected by the Lord, the Assayer.

¹³The Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts, knows everything; how can we hide anything from Him? ||3||

¹⁴Through falsehood, fraud and deceit, the mortal collapses in an instant - he has no foundation at all.

¹⁵Truly, truly, truly, Nanak speaks; look within your own heart, and realize this. ||4||3||42||

¹⁶Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁷Making the effort, the mind becomes pure; in this dance, the self is silenced.

¹⁸The five passions are kept under control, and the One Lord dwells in the mind. ||1||

¹⁹Your humble servant dances and sings Your Glorious Praises.

²⁰He plays upon the guitar, tambourine and cymbals, and the unstruck sound current of the Shabad resounds. ||1||Pause||

²¹First, he instructs his own mind, and then, he leads others.

²²He chants the Lord's Name and meditates on it in his heart; with his mouth, he announces it to all. ||2||

²³He joins the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, and washes their feet; he applies the dust of the Saints to his body

²⁴He surrenders his mind and body, and places them before the Guru; thus, he obtains the true wealth. ||3||

²⁵Whoever listens to, and beholds the Guru with faith, shall see his pains of birth and death taken away.

²⁶Such a dance eliminates hell; O Nanak, the Gurmukh remains wakeful. ||4||4||43||

²⁷Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²⁸The lowly outcaste becomes a Brahmin, and the untouchable sweeper becomes pure and sublime.

²⁹The burning desire of the nether regions and the etheric realms is finally quenched and extinguished. ||1||

³⁰The house-cat has been taught otherwise, and is terrified upon seeing the mouse.

³¹The Guru has put the tiger under the control of the sheep, and now, the dog eats grass. ||1||Pause||

³²Without pillars, the roof is supported, and the homeless have found a home.

³³Without the jeweller, the jewel has been set, and the wonderful stone shines forth. ||2||

³⁴The claimant does not succeed by placing his claim, but by keeping silent, he obtains justice.

³⁵The dead sit on costly carpets, and what is seen with the eyes shall vanish. ||3||

¹One who claims to know, is ignorant; he does not know the Knower of all.

²Says Nanak, the Guru has given me the Ambrosial Nectar to drink in; savoring it and relishing it, I blossom forth in bliss. ||4||5||44||

³Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁴He has cut away my bonds, and overlooked my shortcomings, and so He has confirmed His nature.

⁵Becoming merciful to me, like a mother or a father, he has come to cherish me as His own child. ||1||

⁶The GurSikhs are preserved by the Guru, by the Lord of the Universe.

⁷He rescues them from the terrible world ocean, casting His Glance of Grace upon them. ||1||Pause||

⁸Meditating in remembrance on Him, we escape from the Messenger of Death; here and hereafter, we obtain peace.

⁹With every breath and morsel of food, meditate, and chant with your tongue, continually, each and every day; sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||2||

¹⁰Through loving devotional worship, the supreme status is obtained, and in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, sorrows are dispelled.

¹¹I am not worn down, I do not die, and nothing strikes fear in me, since I have the wealth of the Lord's Immaculate Name in my purse. ||3||

¹²At the very last moment, God becomes the mortal's Help and Support; here and hereafter, He is the Savior Lord.

¹³He is my breath of life, my friend, support and wealth; O Nanak, I am forever a sacrifice to Him. ||4||6||45||

¹⁴Aasaa, Fifth Mehla:

¹⁵Since You are my Lord and Master, what is there for me to fear? Other than You, who else should I praise?

¹⁶You are the One and only, and so do all things exist; without You, there is nothing at all for me. ||1||

¹⁷O Father, I have seen that the world is poison.

¹⁸Save me, O Lord of the Universe! Your Name is my only Support. ||1||Pause||

¹⁹You know completely the condition of my mind; who else could I go to tell of it?

²⁰Without the Naam, the Name of the Lord, the whole world has gone crazy; obtaining the Naam, it finds peace. ||2||

²¹What shall I say? Unto whom shall I speak? What I have to say, I say to God.

²²Everything which exists was created by You. You are my hope, forever and ever. ||3||

²³If you bestow greatness, then it is Your greatness; here and hereafter, I meditate on You.

²⁴The Lord God of Nanak is forever the Giver of peace; Your Name is my only strength. ||4||7||46||

²⁵Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²⁶Your Name is Ambrosial Nectar, O Lord Master; Your humble servant drinks in this supreme elixir.

²⁷The fearful load of sins from countless incarnations has vanished; doubt and duality are also dispelled. ||1||

²⁸I live by beholding the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan.

²⁹Listening to Your Words, O True Guru, my mind and body are cooled and soothed. ||1||Pause||

³⁰By Your Grace, I have joined the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy; You Yourself have caused this to happen.

³¹Holding fast to Your Feet, O God, the poison is easily neutralized. ||2||

³²Your Name, O God, is the treasure of peace; I have received this everlasting Mantra.

³³Showing His Mercy, the True Guru has given it to me, and my fever and pain and hatred are annulled. ||3||

³⁴Blessed is the attainment of this human body, by which God blends Himself with me.

³⁵Blessed, in this Dark Age of Kali Yuga, is the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, where the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises are sung.O Nanak, the Naam is my only Support. ||4||8||47||

¹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²Everything is pre-ordained; what else can be known through study?

³The errant child has been forgiven by the Supreme Lord God. ||1||

⁴My True Guru is always merciful; He has saved me, the meek one.

⁵He has cured me of my disease, and I have obtained the greatest peace; He has placed the Ambrosial Name of the Lord in my mouth. ||1||Pause||

⁶He has washed away my countless sins; He has cut away my bonds, and I am liberated.

⁷He has taken me by the arm, and pulled me out of the terrible, deep dark pit. ||2||

⁸I have become fearless, and all my fears have been erased. The Savior Lord has saved me.

⁹Such is Your generosity, O my God, that You have resolved all my affairs. ||3||

¹⁰My mind has met with my Lord and Master, the treasure of excellence.

¹¹Taking to His Sanctuary, Nanak has become blissful. ||4||9||48||

¹²Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

¹³If I forget You, then everyone becomes my enemy. When You come to mind, then they serve me.

¹⁴I do not know any other at all, O True, Invisible, Inscrutable Lord. ||1||

¹⁵When You come to mind, You are always merciful to me; what can the poor people do to me?

¹⁶Tell me, who should I call good or bad, since all beings are Yours? ||1||Pause||

¹⁷You are my Shelter, You are my Support; giving me Your hand, You protect me.

¹⁸That humble being, upon whom You bestow Your Grace, is not touched by slander or suffering. ||2||

¹⁹That is peace, and that is greatness, which is pleasing to the mind of the Dear Lord God.

²⁰You are all-knowing, You are forever compassionate; obtaining Your Name, I revel in it and make merry. ||3||

²¹I offer my prayer to You; my body and soul are all Yours.

²²Says Nanak, this is all Your greatness; no one even knows my name. ||4||10||49||

²³Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²⁴Show Your Mercy, O God, O Searcher of hearts, that in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, I might obtain You, Lord.

²⁵When You open Your Door, and reveal the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan, the mortal is not relegated to reincarnation again. ||1||

²⁶Meeting with my Beloved Lord aand Master, all my pains are taken away.

²⁷I am saved and carried across, in the company of those who remember the Supreme Lord God in their hearts. ||1||Pause||

²⁸This world is a great wilderness, an ocean of fire, in which mortals abide, in pleasure and pain.

²⁹Meeting with the True Guru, the mortal becomes immaculately pure; with his tongue, he chants the Ambrosial Name of the Lord. ||2||

³⁰He preserves his body and wealth, and takes everything as his own; such are the subtle bonds which bind him.

³¹By Guru's Grace, the mortal becomes liberated, meditating on the Name of the Lord, Har, Har. ||3||

³²God, the Savior, has saved those, who are pleasing to the Will of God.

³³The soul and body are all Yours, O Great Giver; O Nanak, I am forever a sacrifice. ||4||11||50||

³⁴Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³⁵You have avoided the slumber of attachment and impurity - by whose favor has this happened?

³⁶The great enticer does not affect you. Where has your laziness gone? ||1||Pause||

¹How have you escaped from the treachery of sexual desire, anger and egotism?

²The holy beings, angels and demons of the three qualities, and all the worlds have been plundered. ||1||

³The forest fire has burnt down so much of the grass; how rare are the plants which have remained green.

⁴He is so All-powerful, that I cannot even describe Him; no one can chant His Praises. ||2||

⁵In the store-room of the lamp-black, I did not turn black; my color remained immaculate and pure.

⁶The Guru has implanted the Maha Mantra, the Great Mantra, within my heart, and I have heard the wondrous Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||3||

⁷Showing His Mercy, God has looked upon me with favor, and He has attached me to His feet.

⁸Through loving devotional worship, O Nanak, I have obtained peace; in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, I am absorbed into the Lord. ||4||12||51||

⁹One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

¹⁰Raag Aasaa, Seventh House, Fifth Mehl:

¹¹That red dress looks so beautiful on your body.

¹²Your Husband Lord is pleased, and His heart is enticed. ||1||

¹³Whose handiwork is this red beauty of yours?

¹⁴Whose love has rendered the poppy so red? ||1||Pause||

¹⁵You are so beautiful; you are the happy soul-bride.

¹⁶Your Beloved is in your home; good fortune is in your home. ||2||

¹⁷You are pure and chaste, you are most distinguished.

¹⁸You are pleasing to Your Beloved, and you have sublime understanding. ||3||

¹⁹I am pleasing to my Beloved, and so I am imbued with the deep red color.

²⁰Says Nanak, I have been totally blessed with the Lord's Glance of Grace. ||4||

²¹Listen, O companions: this is my only work;

²²God Himself is the One who embellishes and adorns. ||1||Second Pause||1||52||

²³Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²⁴I suffered in pain, when I thought He was far away;

²⁵but now, He is Ever-present, and I receive His instructions. ||1||

²⁶My pride is gone, O friends and companions;

²⁷my doubt is dispelled, and the Guru has united me with my Beloved. ||1||Pause||

²⁸My Beloved has drawn me near to Him, and seated me on His Bed;

²⁹I have escaped the clutches of others. ||2||

³⁰In the mansion of my heart, shines the Light of the Shabad.

³¹My Husband Lord is blissful and playful. ||3||

³²According to the destiny written upon my forehead, my Husband Lord has come home to me.

³³Servant Nanak has obtained the eternal marriage. ||4||2||53||

³⁴Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³⁵My mind is attached to the True Name.

³⁶My dealings with other people are only superficial. ||1||

³⁷Outwardly, I am on good terms with all;

³⁸but I remain detached, like the lotus upon the water. ||1||Pause||

³⁹By word of mouth, I talk with everyone;

⁴⁰but I keep God clasped to my heart. ||2||

⁴¹I may appear utterly terrible,

⁴²but my mind is the dust of all men's feet.

⁴³Servant Nanak has found the Perfect Guru.

¹Inwardly and outwardly, He has shown me the One Lord. ||4||3||54||

²Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³The mortal revels in joy, in the vigor of youth;

⁴but without the Name, he mingles with dust. ||1||

⁵He may wear ear-rings and fine clothes,

⁶and have a comfortable bed, and his mind may be so proud. ||1||Pause||

⁷He may have elephants to ride, and golden umbrellas over his head;

⁸but without devotional worship to the Lord, he is buried beneath the dirt. ||2||

⁹He may enjoy many women, of exquisite beauty;

¹⁰but without the sublime essence of the Lord, all tastes are tasteless. ||3||

¹¹Deluded by Maya, the mortal is led into sin and corruption.

¹²Nanak seeks the Sanctuary of God, the All-powerful, Compassionate Lord. ||4||4||55||

¹³Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁴There is a garden, in which so many plants have grown.

¹⁵They bear the Ambrosial Nectar of the Naam as their fruit. ||1||

¹⁶Consider this, O wise one,

¹⁷by which you may attain the state of Nirvaanaa.

¹⁸All around this garden are pools of poison, but within it is the Ambrosial Nectar, O Siblings of Destiny. ||1||Pause||

¹⁹There is only one gardener who tends it.

²⁰He takes care of every leaf and branch. ||2||

²¹He brings all sorts of plants and plants them there.

²²They all bear fruit - none is without fruit. ||3||

²³One who receives the Ambrosial Fruit of the Naam from the Guru

²⁴- O Nanak, such a servant crosses over the ocean of Maya. ||4||5||56||

²⁵Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²⁶The pleasures of royalty are derived from Your Name.

²⁷I attain Yoga, singing the Kirtan of Your Praises. ||1||

²⁸All comforts are obtained in Your Shelter.

²⁹The True Guru has removed the veil of doubt. ||1||Pause||

³⁰Understanding the Command of the Lord's Will, I revel in pleasure and joy.

³¹Serving the True Guru, I obtain the supreme state of Nirvaanaa. ||2||

³²One who recognizes You is recognized as a householder, and as a renunciate.

³³Imbued with the Naam, the Name of the Lord, he dwells in Nirvaanaa. ||3||

³⁴One who has obtained the treasure of the Naam

³⁵- prays Nanak, his treasure-house is filled to overflowing. ||4||6||57||

³⁶Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³⁷Journeying to sacred shrines of pilgrimage, I see the mortals acting in ego.

³⁸If I ask the Pandits, I find them tainted by Maya. ||1||

³⁹Show me that place, O friend,

⁴⁰where the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises are forever sung. ||1||Pause||

⁴¹The Shaastras and the Vedas speak of sin and virtue;

⁴²they say that mortals are reincarnated into heaven and hell, over and over again. ||2||

⁴³In the householder's life, there is anxiety, and in the life of the renunciate, there is egotism.

⁴⁴Performing religious rituals, the soul is entangled. ||3||

⁴⁵By God's Grace, the mind is brought under control;

⁴⁶O Nanak, the Gurmukh crosses over the ocean of Maya. ||4||

⁴⁷In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, sing the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises.

⁴⁸This place is found through the Guru. ||1||Second Pause||7||58||

⁴⁹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁵⁰Within my home there is peace, and outwardly there is peace as well.

⁵¹Remembering the Lord in meditation, all pains are erased. ||1||

⁵²There is total peace, when You come into my mind.

¹He alone is pleasing to Your Will, who chants the Naam. ||1||Pause||

²My body and mind are cooled and soothed, chanting the Name of the Lord.

³Meditating on the Lord, Har, Har, the house of pain is demolished. ||2||

⁴He alone, who understands the Command of the Lord's Will, is approved.

⁵The True Shabad of the Word of God is his trademark and insignia. ||3||

⁶The Perfect Guru has implanted the Lord's Name within me.

⁷Prays Nanak, my mind has found peace. ||4||8||59||

⁸Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁹Wherever You send me, there I go.

¹⁰Whatever You give me, brings me peace. ||1||

¹¹I am forever the chaylaa, the humble disciple, of the Lord of the Universe, the Sustainer of the World.

¹²By Your Grace, I am satisfied and satiated. ||1||Pause||

¹³Whatever You give me, I wear and eat.

¹⁴By Your Grace, O God, my life passes peacefully. ||2||

¹⁵Deep within my mind and body, I meditate on You.

¹⁶I recognize none as equal to You. ||3||

¹⁷Says Nanak, this is my continual meditation:

¹⁸that I may be emancipated, clinging to the Feet of the Saints. ||4||9||60||

¹⁹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²⁰While standing up, and sitting down, and even while asleep, meditate on the Lord.

²¹Walking on the Way, sing the Praises of the Lord. ||1||

²²With your ears, listen to the Ambrosial Sermon.

²³Listening to it, your mind shall be filled with bliss, and the troubles and diseases of your mind shall all depart. ||1||Pause||

²⁴While you work at your job, on the road and at the beach, meditate and chant.

²⁵By Guru's Grace, drink in the Ambrosial Essence of the Lord. ||2||

²⁶The humble being who sings the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises, day and night,

²⁷does not have to go with the Messenger of Death. ||3||

²⁸One who does not forget the Lord, twenty-four hours a day, is emancipated;

²⁹O Nanak, I fall at his feet. ||4||10||61||

³⁰Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³¹Remembering Him in meditation, one abides in peace;

³²one becomes happy, and suffering is ended. ||1||

³³Celebrate, make merry, and sing God's Glories.

³⁴Forever and ever, surrender to the True Guru. ||1||Pause||

³⁵Act in accordance with the Shabad, the True Word of the True Guru.

³⁶Remain steady and stable within the home of your own self, and find God. ||2||

³⁷Do not harbor evil intentions against others in your mind,

³⁸and you shall not be troubled, O Siblings of Destiny, O friends. ||3||

³⁹The Name of the Lord, Har, Har, is the Tantric exercise, and the Mantra, given by the Guru.

⁴⁰Nanak knows this peace alone, night and day. ||4||11||62||

⁴¹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁴²That wretched being, whom no one knows

⁴³- chanting the Naam, the Name of the Lord, he is honored in the four directions. ||1||

⁴⁴I beg for the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan; please, give it to me, O Beloved!

⁴⁵Serving You, who, who has not been saved? ||1||Pause||

⁴⁶That person, whom no one wants to be near

⁴⁷- the whole world comes to wash the dirt of his feet. ||2||

⁴⁸That mortal, who is of no use to anyone at all

⁴⁹- by the Grace of the Saints, he meditates on the Naam. ||3||

⁵⁰In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, the sleeping mind awakens.

⁵¹Then, O Nanak, God seems sweet. ||4||12||63||

⁵²Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁵³With my eyes, I behold the One and Only Lord.

⁵⁴Forever and ever, I contemplate the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||1||

¹I sing the Praises of the Lord, Raam, Raam, Raam.

²By the graceful favor of the Saints, I meditate on the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy. ||1||Pause||

³Everything is strung on His string.

⁴He is contained in each and every heart. ||2||

⁵He creates and destroys in an instant.

⁶He Himself remains unattached, and without attributes. ||3||

⁷He is the Creator, the Cause of causes, the Searcher of hearts.

⁸Nanak's Lord and Master celebrates in bliss. ||4||13||64||

⁹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁰My wandering through millions of births has ended.

¹¹I have won, and not lost, this human body, so difficult to obtain. ||1||

¹²My sins have been erased, and my sufferings and pains are gone.

¹³I have been sanctified by the dust of the feet of the Saints. ||1||Pause||

¹⁴The Saints of God have the ability to save us;

¹⁵they meet with those of us who have such pre-ordained destiny. ||2||

¹⁶My mind is filled with bliss, since the Guru gave me the Mantra of the Lord's Name.

¹⁷My thirst has been quenched, and my mind has become steady and stable. ||3||

¹⁸The wealth of the Naam, the Name of the Lord, is for me the nine treasures, and the spiritual powers of the Siddhas.

¹⁹O Nanak, I have obtained understanding from the Guru. ||4||14||65||

²⁰Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²¹My thirst, and the darkness of ignorance have been removed.

²²Serving the Holy Saints, countless sins are obliterated. ||1||

²³I have obtained celestial peace and immense joy.

²⁴Serving the Guru, my mind has become immaculately pure, and I have heard the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, Har, Har. ||1||Pause||

²⁵The stubborn foolishness of my mind is gone;

²⁶God's Will has become sweet to me. ||2||

²⁷I have grasped the Feet of the Perfect Guru,

²⁸and the sins of countless incarnations have been washed away. ||3||

²⁹The jewel of this life has become fruitful.

³⁰Says Nanak, God has shown mercy to me. ||4||15||66||

³¹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³²I contemplate, forever and ever, the True Guru;

³³with my hair, I dust the feet of the Guru. ||1||

³⁴Be wakeful, O my awakening mind!

³⁵Without the Lord, nothing else shall be of use to you; false is emotional attachment, and useless are worldly entanglements. ||1||Pause||

³⁶Embrace love for the Word of the Guru's Bani.

³⁷When the Guru shows His Mercy, pain is destroyed. ||2||

³⁸Without the Guru, there is no other place of rest.

³⁹The Guru is the Giver, the Guru gives the Name. ||3||

⁴⁰The Guru is the Supreme Lord God; He Himself is the Transcendent Lord.

⁴¹Twenty-four hours a day, O Nanak, meditate on the Guru. ||4||16||67||

⁴²Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁴³He Himself is the tree, and the branches extending out.

⁴⁴He Himself preserves His own crop. ||1||

⁴⁵Wherever I look, I see that One Lord alone.

⁴⁶Deep within each and every heart, He Himself is contained. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁷He Himself is the sun, and the rays emanating from it.

⁴⁸He is concealed, and He is revealed. ||2||

⁴⁹He is said to be of the highest attributes, and without attributes.

⁵⁰Both converge onto His single point. ||3||

⁵¹Says Nanak, the Guru has dispelled my doubt and fear.

⁵²With my eyes, I perceive the Lord, the embodiment of bliss, to be everywhere. ||4||17||68||

⁵³Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁵⁴I know nothing of arguments or cleverness.

¹Day and night, I chant Your Name. ||1||

²I am worthless; I have no virtue at all.

³God is the Creator, the Cause of all causes. ||1||Pause||

⁴I am foolish, stupid, ignorant and thoughtless;

⁵Your Name is my mind's only hope. ||2||

⁶I have not practiced chanting, deep meditation, self-discipline or good actions;

⁷but within my mind, I have worshipped God's Name. ||3||

⁸I know nothing, and my intellect is inadequate.

⁹Prays Nanak, O God, You are my only Support. ||4||18||69||

¹⁰Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

¹¹These two words, Har, Har, make up my maalaa.

¹²Continually chanting and reciting this rosary, God has become merciful to me, His humble servant. ||1||

¹³I offer my prayer to the True Guru.

¹⁴Shower Your Mercy upon me, and keep me safe in Your Sanctuary; please, give me the maalaa, the rosary of Har, Har. ||1||Pause||

¹⁵One who enshrines this rosary of the Lord's Name within his heart,

¹⁶is freed of the pains of birth and death. ||2||

¹⁷The humble being who contemplates the Lord within his heart, and chants the Lord's Name, Har, Har, with his mouth,

¹⁸never wavers, here or hereafter. ||3||

¹⁹Says Nanak, one who is imbued with the Name,

²⁰goes to the next world with the maalaa of the Lord's Name. ||4||19||70||

²¹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²²All things belong to Him - let yourself belong to Him as well.

²³No stain clings to such a humble being. ||1||

²⁴The Lord's servant is liberated forever.

²⁵Whatever He does, is pleasing to His servant; the way of life of His slave is immaculately pure. ||1||Pause||

²⁶One who renounces everything, and enters the Lord's Sanctuary

²⁷- how can Maya cling to him? ||2||

²⁸With the treasure of the Naam, the Name of the Lord, in his mind,

²⁹he suffers no anxiety, even in dreams. ||3||

³⁰Says Nanak, I have found the Perfect Guru.

³¹My doubts and attachments have been totally obliterated. ||4||20||71||

³²Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³³When my God is totally pleased with me,

³⁴then, tell me, how can suffering or doubt draw near me? ||1||

³⁵Continually listening to Your Glory, I live.

³⁶I am worthless - save me, O Lord! ||1||Pause||

³⁷My suffering has been ended, and my anxiety is forgotten.

³⁸I have obtained my reward, chanting the Mantra of the True Guru. ||2||

³⁹He is True, and True is His glory.

⁴⁰Remembering, remembering Him in meditation, keep Him clasped to your heart. ||3||

⁴¹Says Nanak, what action is there left to do,

⁴²by one whose mind is filled with the Lord's Name? ||4||21||72||

⁴³Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁴⁴Sexual desire, anger, and egotism lead to ruin.

⁴⁵Meditating on the Lord, the Lord's humble servants are redeemed. ||1||

⁴⁶The mortals are asleep, intoxicated with the wine of Maya.

⁴⁷The devotees remain awake, imbued with the Lord's meditation. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁸In emotional attachment and doubt, the mortals wander through countless incarnations.

⁴⁹The devotees remain ever-stable, meditating on the Lord's Lotus Feet. ||2||

⁵⁰Bound to household and possessions, the mortals are lost in the deep, dark pit.

⁵¹The Saints are liberated, knowing the Lord to be near at hand. ||3||

⁵²Says Nanak, one who has taken to God's Sanctuary,

⁵³obtains peace in this world, and salvation in the world hereafter. ||4||22||73||

¹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²You are my waves, and I am Your fish.

³You are my Lord and Master; I wait at Your Door. ||1||

⁴You are my Creator, and I am Your servant.

⁵I have taken to Your Sanctuary, O God, most profound and excellent. ||1||Pause||

⁶You are my life, You are my Support.

⁷Beholding You, my heart-lotus blossoms forth. ||2||

⁸You are my salvation and honor; You make me acceptable.

⁹You are All-powerful, You are my strength. ||3||

¹⁰Night and day, I chant the Naam, the Name of the Lord, the treasure of excellence.

¹¹This is Nanak's prayer to God. ||4||23||74||

¹²Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

¹³The mourner practices falsehood;

¹⁴he laughs with glee, while mourning for others. ||1||

¹⁵Someone has died, while there is singing in someone else's house.

¹⁶One mourns and bewails, while another laughs with glee. ||1||Pause||

¹⁷From childhood to old age,

¹⁸the mortal does not attain his goals, and he comes to regret in the end. ||2||

¹⁹The world is under the influence of the three qualities.

²⁰The mortal is reincarnated, again and again, into heaven and hell. ||3||

²¹Says Nanak, one who is attached to the Naam, the Name of the Lord,

²²becomes acceptable, and his life becomes fruitful. ||4||24||75||

²³Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²⁴She remains asleep, and does not know the news of God.

²⁵The day dawns, and then, she regrets. ||1||

²⁶Loving the Beloved, the mind is filled with celestial bliss.

²⁷You yearn to meet with God, so why do you delay? ||1||Pause||

²⁸He came and poured His Ambrosial Nectar into your hands,

²⁹but it slipped through your fingers, and fell onto the ground. ||2||

³⁰You are burdened with desire, emotional attachment and egotism;

³¹it is not the fault of God the Creator. ||3||

³²In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, the darkness of doubt is dispelled.

³³O Nanak, the Creator Lord blends us with Himself. ||4||25||76||

³⁴Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³⁵I long for the Lotus Feet of my Beloved Lord.

³⁶The wretched Messenger of Death has run away from me. ||1||

³⁷You enter into my mind, by Your Kind Mercy.

³⁸Meditating on the Naam, the Name of the Lord, all diseases are destroyed. ||1||Pause||

³⁹Death gives so much pain to others,

⁴⁰but it cannot even come near Your slave. ||2||

⁴¹My mind thirsts for Your Vision;

⁴²in peaceful ease and bliss, I dwell in detachment. ||3||

⁴³Hear this prayer of Nanak:

⁴⁴please, infuse Your Name into his heart. ||4||26||77||

⁴⁵Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁴⁶My mind is satisfied, and my entanglements have been dissolved.

⁴⁷God has become merciful to me. ||1||

⁴⁸By the Grace of the Saints, everything has turned out well.

⁴⁹His House is overflowing with all things; I have met Him, the Fearless Master. ||1||Pause||

⁵⁰By the Kind Mercy of the Holy Saints, the Naam has been implanted within me.

⁵¹The most dreadful desires have been eliminated. ||2||

⁵²My Master has given me a gift;

⁵³the fire has been extinguished, and my mind is now at peace. ||3||

⁵⁴My search has ended, and my mind is absorbed in celestial bliss.

¹Nanak has obtained the treasure of the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||4||27||78||

²Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³Those who are attuned to their Lord and Master

⁴are satisfied and fulfilled with the perfect food. ||1||

⁵The Lord's devotees never run short of anything.

⁶They have plenty to eat, spend, enjoy and give. ||1||Pause||

⁷One who has the Unfathomable Lord of the Universe as his Master

⁸- how can any mere mortal stand up to him? ||2||

⁹One who is served by the eighteen supernatural powers of the Siddhas

¹⁰- grasp his feet, even for an instant. ||3||

¹¹That one, upon whom You have showered Your Mercy, O my Lord Master

¹²- says Nanak, he does not lack anything. ||4||28||79||

¹³Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁴When I meditate on my True Guru,

¹⁵my mind becomes supremely peaceful. ||1||

¹⁶The record of my account is erased, and my doubts are dispelled.

¹⁷Imbued with the Naam, the Name of the Lord, His humble servant is blessed with good fortune. ||1||Pause||

¹⁸When I remember my Lord and Master,

¹⁹my fears are dispelled, O my friend. ||2||

²⁰When I took to Your Protection, O God,

²¹my desires were fulfilled. ||3||

²²Gazing upon the wonder of Your play, my mind has become encouraged.

²³Servant Nanak relies on You alone. ||4||29||80||

²⁴Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²⁵Night and day, the mouse of time gnaws away at the rope of life.

²⁶Falling into the well, the mortal eats the sweet treats of Maya. ||1||

²⁷Thinking and planning, the night of the life is passing away.

²⁸Thinking of the many pleasures of Maya, the mortal never remembers the Lord, the Sustainer of the earth. ||1||Pause||

²⁹Believing the shade of the tree to be permanent, he builds his house beneath it.

³⁰But the noose of death is around his neck, and Shakti, the power of Maya, has aimed her arrows at him. ||2||

³¹The sandy shore is being washed away by the waves,

³²but the fool still believes that place to be permanent. ||3||

³³In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, chant the Name of the Lord, the King.

³⁴Nanak lives by singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||4||30||81||

³⁵Aasaa, Fifth Mehl, Dho-Thukay 9:

³⁶With that, you are engaged in playful sport;

³⁷with that, I am joined to you.

³⁸With that, everyone longs for you;

³⁹without it, no one would even look at your face. ||1||

⁴⁰Where is that detached soul now contained?

⁴¹Without it, you are miserable. ||1||Pause||

⁴²With that, you are the woman of the house;

⁴³with that, you are respected.

⁴⁴With that, you are caressed;

⁴⁵without it, you are reduced to dust. ||2||

⁴⁶With that, you have honor and respect;

⁴⁷with that, you have relatives in the world.

⁴⁸With that, you are adorned in every way;

⁴⁹without it, you are reduced to dust. ||3||

⁵⁰That detached soul is neither born, nor dies.

⁵¹It acts according to the Command of the Lord's Will.

⁵²O Nanak, having fashioned the body, the Lord unites the soul with it, and separates them again;

⁵³He alone knows His All-powerful creative nature. ||4||31||82||

⁵⁴Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

¹He does not die, so I do not fear.

²He does not perish, so I do not grieve.

³He is not poor, so I do not hunger.

⁴He is not in pain, so I do not suffer. ||1||

⁵There is no other Destroyer than Him.

⁶He is my very life, the Giver of life. ||1||Pause||

⁷He is not bound, so I am not in bondage.

⁸He has no occupation, so I have no entanglements.

⁹He has no impurities, so I have no impurities.

¹⁰He is in ecstasy, so I am always happy. ||2||

¹¹He has no anxiety, so I have no cares.

¹²He has no stain, so I have no pollution.

¹³He has no hunger, so I have no thirst.

¹⁴Since He is immaculately pure, I correspond to Him. ||3||

¹⁵I am nothing; He is the One and only.

¹⁶Before and after, He alone exists.

¹⁷O Nanak, the Guru has taken away my doubts and mistakes;

¹⁸He and I, joining together, are of the same color. ||4||32||83||

¹⁹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²⁰Serve Him in many different ways;

²¹Dedicate your soul, your breath of life and your wealth to Him.

²²Carry water for Him, and wave the fan over Him - renounce your ego.

²³Make yourself a sacrifice to Him, time and time again. ||1||

²⁴She alone is the happy soul-bride, who is pleasing to God.

²⁵In her company, I may meet Him, O my mother. ||1||Pause||

²⁶I am the water-carrier of the slaves of His slaves.

²⁷I treasure in my soul the dust of their feet.

²⁸By that good destiny inscribed upon my forehead, I obtain their society.

²⁹Through His Love, the Lord Master meets me. ||2||

³⁰I dedicate all to Him - chanting and meditation, austerity and religious observances.

³¹I offer all to Him - good actions, righteous conduct and incense burning.

³²Renouncing pride and attachment, I become the dust of the feet of the Saints.

³³In their society, I behold God with my eyes. ||3||

³⁴Each and every moment, I contemplate and adore Him.

³⁵Day and night, I serve Him like this.

³⁶The Lord of the Universe, the Cherisher of the World, has become merciful;

³⁷in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, O Nanak, He forgives us. ||4||33||84||

³⁸Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³⁹In the Love of God, eternal peace is obtained.

⁴⁰In the Love of God, one is not touched by pain.

⁴¹In the Love of God, the filth of ego is washed away.

⁴²In the Love of God, one becomes forever immaculate. ||1||

⁴³Listen, O friend: show such love and affection to God,

⁴⁴the Support of the soul, the breath of life, of each and every heart. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁵In the Love of God, all treasures are obtained.

⁴⁶In the Love of God, the Immaculate Naam fills the heart.

⁴⁷In the Love of God, one is eternally embellished.

⁴⁸In the Love of God, all anxiety is ended. ||2||

⁴⁹In the Love of God, one crosses over this terrible world-ocean.

⁵⁰In the Love of God, one does not fear death.

⁵¹In the Love of God, all are saved.

⁵²The Love of God shall go along with you. ||3||

⁵³By himself, no one is united, and no one goes astray.

⁵⁴One who is blessed by God's Mercy, joins the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy.

⁵⁵Says Nanak, I am a sacrifice to You.

⁵⁶O God, You are the Support and the Strength of the Saints. ||4||34||85||

⁵⁷Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁵⁸Becoming a king, the mortal wields his royal authority;

⁵⁹oppressing the people, he gathers wealth.

¹Gathering it and collecting it, he fills his bags.

²But God takes it away from him, and gives it to another. ||1||

³The mortal is like an unbaked clay pot in water;

⁴indulging in pride and egotism, he crumbles down and dissolves. ||1||Pause||

⁵Being fearless, he becomes unrestrained.

⁶He does not think of the Creator, who is ever with him.

⁷He raises armies, and collects arms.

⁸But when the breath leaves him, he turns to ashes. ||2||

⁹He has lofty palaces, mansions and queens,

¹⁰elephants and pairs of horses, delighting the mind;

¹¹he is blessed with a great family of sons and daughters.

¹²But, engrossed in attachment, the blind fool wastes away to death. ||3||

¹³The One who created him destroys him.

¹⁴Enjoyments and pleasures are like just a dream.

¹⁵He alone is liberated, and possesses regal power and wealth,

¹⁶O Nanak, whom the Lord Master blesses with His Mercy. ||4||35||86||

¹⁷Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁸The mortal is in love with this,

¹⁹but the more he has, the more he longs for more.

²⁰It hangs around his neck, and does not leave him.

²¹But falling at the feet of the True Guru, he is saved. ||1||

²²I have renounced and discarded Maya, the Enticer of the world.

²³I have met the Absolute Lord, and congratulations are pouring in. ||1||Pause||

²⁴She is so beautiful, she captivates the mind.

²⁵On the road, and the beach, at home, in the forest and in the wilderness, she touches us.

²⁶She seems so sweet to the mind and body.

²⁷But by Guru's Grace, I have seen her to be deceptive. ||2||

²⁸Her courtiers are also great deceivers.

²⁹They do not spare even their fathers or mothers.

³⁰They have enslaved their companions.

³¹By Guru's Grace, I have subjugated them all. ||3||

³²Now, my mind is filled with bliss;

³³my fear is gone, and the noose is cut away.

³⁴Says Nanak, when I met the True Guru,

³⁵I came to dwell within my home in absolute peace. ||4||36||87||

³⁶Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³⁷Twenty-four hours a day, he knows the Lord to be near at hand;

³⁸he surrenders to the Sweet Will of God.

³⁹The One Name is the Support of the Saints;

⁴⁰they remain the dust of the feet of all. ||1||

⁴¹Listen, to the way of life of the Saints, O my Siblings of Destiny;

⁴²their praises cannot be described. ||1||Pause||

⁴³Their occupation is the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

⁴⁴The Kirtan, the Praise of the Lord, the embodiment of bliss, is their rest.

⁴⁵Friends and enemies are one and the same to them.

⁴⁶They know of no other than God. ||2||

⁴⁷They erase millions upon millions of sins.

⁴⁸They dispel suffering; they are givers of the life of the soul.

⁴⁹They are so brave; they are men of their word.

⁵⁰The Saints have enticed Maya herself. ||3||

⁵¹Their company is cherished even by the gods and the angels.

⁵²Blessed is their Darshan, and fruitful is their service.

⁵³With his palms pressed together, Nanak offers his prayer:

⁵⁴O Lord, Treasure of Excellence, please bless me with the service of the Saints. ||4||37||88||

⁵⁵Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁵⁶All peace and comforts are in the meditation of the One Name.

⁵⁷All righteous actions of Dharma are in the singing of the Lord's Glorious Praises.

⁵⁸The Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, is so very pure and sacred.

¹Meeting with them, love for God is embraced. ||1||

²By Guru's Grace, bliss is obtained.

³Meditating upon Him in remembrance, the mind is illumined; his state and condition cannot be described. ||1||Pause||

⁴Fasts, religious vows, cleansing baths, and worship to Him;

⁵listening to the Vedas, Puraanas, and Shaastras.

⁶Extremely pure is he, and immaculate is his place,

⁷who meditates upon the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, in the Saadh Sangat. ||2||

⁸That humble being becomes renowned all over the world.

⁹Even sinners are purified, by the dust of his feet.

¹⁰One who has met the Lord, the Lord our King,

¹¹his condition and state cannot be described. ||3||

¹²Twenty-four hours a day, with palms pressed together, I meditate;

¹³I yearn to obtain the Blessed Vision of the Darshan of those Holy Saints.

¹⁴Merge me, the poor one, with You, O Lord;

¹⁵Nanak has come to Your Sanctuary. ||4||38||89||

¹⁶Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁷Twenty-four hours a day, he takes his cleansing bath in water;

¹⁸he makes continual offerings to the Lord; he is a true man of wisdom.

¹⁹He never leaves anything uselessly.

²⁰Again and again, he falls at the Lord's Feet. ||1||

²¹Such is the Saalagraam, the stone idol, which I serve;

²²such is my worship, flower-offerings and divine adoration as well. ||1||Pause||

²³His bell resounds to the four corners of the world.

²⁴His seat is forever in heaven.

²⁵His chauri, his fly-brush, waves over all.

²⁶His incense is ever-fragrant. ||2||

²⁷He is treasured in each and every heart.

²⁸The Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, is His Eternal Court.

²⁹His Aartee, his lamp-lit worship service, is the Kirtan of His Praises, which brings lasting bliss.

³⁰His Greatness is so beautiful, and ever limitless. ||3||

³¹He alone obtains it, who is so pre-ordained;

³²he takes to the Sanctuary of the Saints' Feet.

³³I hold in my hands the Saalagraam of the Lord.

³⁴Says Nanak, the Guru has given me this Gift. ||4||39||90||

³⁵Aasaa, Fifth Mehl, Panch-Pada:

³⁶That highway, upon which the water-carrier is plundered

³⁷- that way is far removed from the Saints. ||1||

³⁸The True Guru has spoken the Truth.

³⁹Your Name, O Lord, is the Way to Salvation; the road of the Messenger of Death is far away. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁰That place, where the greedy toll-collector dwells

⁴¹- that path remains far removed from the Lord's humble servant. ||2||

⁴²There, where so very many caravans of men are caught,

⁴³the Holy Saints remain with the Supreme Lord. ||3||

⁴⁴Chitra and Gupat, the recording angels of the conscious and the unconscious, write the accounts of all mortal beings,

⁴⁵but they cannot even see the Lord's humble devotees. ||4||

⁴⁶Says Nanak, one whose True Guru is Perfect

⁴⁷- the unblown bugles of ecstasy vibrate for him. ||5||40||91||

⁴⁸Aasaa, Fifth Mehl, Du-Pada 1:

⁴⁹In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, the Naam is learned;

⁵⁰all desires and tasks are fulfilled.

⁵¹My thirst has been quenched, and I am satiated with the Lord's Praise.

⁵²I live by chanting and meditating upon the Lord, the Sustainer of the earth. ||1||

⁵³I have entered the Sanctuary of the Creator, the Cause of all causes.

⁵⁴By Guru's Grace, I have entered the home of celestial bliss. Darkness is dispelled, and the moon of wisdom has risen. ||1||Pause||

¹My treasure-house is overflowing with rubies and jewels;

²I meditate on the Formless Lord, and so they never run short.

³How rare is that humble being, who drinks in the Ambrosial Nectar of the Word of the Shabad.

⁴O Nanak, he attains the state of highest dignity. ||2||41||92||

⁵Aasaa, Seventh House, Fifth Mehl:

⁶Meditate continually on the Name of the Lord within your heart.

⁷Thus you shall save all your companions and associates. ||1||

⁸My Guru is always with me, near at hand.

⁹Meditating, meditating in remembrance on Him, I cherish Him forever. ||1||Pause||

¹⁰Your actions seem so sweet to me.

¹¹Nanak begs for the treasure of the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||2||42||93||

¹²Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

¹³The world is saved by the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy.

¹⁴The Name of the Lord is the Support of the mind. ||1||

¹⁵The Saints worship and adore the Lotus Feet of the Divine Guru;

¹⁶they love the Beloved Lord. ||1||Pause||

¹⁷She who has such good destiny written upon her forehead,

¹⁸says Nanak, is blessed with the eternal happy marriage with the Lord. ||2||43||94||

¹⁹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²⁰The Order of my Husband Lord seems so sweet to me.

²¹My Husband Lord has driven out the one who was my rival.

²²My Beloved Husband has decorated me, His happy soul-bride.

²³He has quieted the burning thirst of my mind. ||1||

²⁴It is good that I submitted to the Will of my Beloved Lord.

²⁵I have realized celestial peace and poise within this home of mine. ||Pause||

²⁶I am the hand-maiden, the attendant of my Beloved Lord.

²⁷He is eternal and imperishable, inaccessible and infinite.

²⁸Holding the fan, sitting at His Feet, I wave it over my Beloved.

²⁹The five demons who tortured me have run away. ||2||

³⁰I am not from a noble family, and I am not beautiful.

³¹What do I know? Why am I pleasing to my Beloved?

³²I am a poor orphan, destitute and dishonored.

³³My Husband took me in, and made me His queen. ||3||

³⁴When I saw my Beloved's face before me,

³⁵I became so happy and peaceful; my married life was blessed.

³⁶Says Nanak, my desires are fulfilled.

³⁷The True Guru has united me with God, the treasure of excellence. ||4||1||95||

³⁸Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³⁹A frown creases her forehead, and her look is evil.

⁴⁰Her speech is bitter, and her tongue is rude.

⁴¹She is always hungry, and she believes her Husband to be far away. ||1||

⁴²Such is Maya, the woman, which the One Lord has created.

⁴³She is devouring the whole world, but the Guru has saved me, O my Siblings of Destiny. ||Pause||

⁴⁴Administering her poisons, she has overcome the whole world.

⁴⁵She has bewitched Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.

⁴⁶Only those Gurmukhs who are attuned to the Naam are blessed. ||2||

⁴⁷Performing fasts, religious observances and atonements, the mortals have grown weary.

⁴⁸They wander over the entire planet, on pilgrimages to the banks of sacred rivers.

⁴⁹But they alone are saved, who seek the Sanctuary of the True Guru. ||3||

⁵⁰Attached to Maya, the whole world is in bondage.

⁵¹The foolish self-willed manmukhs are consumed by their egotism.

⁵²Taking me by the arm, Guru Nanak has saved me. ||4||2||96||

⁵³Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁵⁴Everything is painful, when one forgets the Lord Master.

⁵⁵Here and hereafter, such a mortal is useless. ||1||

⁵⁶The Saints are satisfied, meditating on the Lord, Har, Har.

¹Bestowing Your Mercy, God, You attach us to Your Name; all peace comes by Your Will. ||Pause||

²The Lord is Ever-present; one who deems Him to be far away,

³The mortals do not remember the One, who has given them everything.

⁴Engrossed in such terrible corruption, their days and nights waste away. ||3||

⁵Says Nanak, meditate in remembrance of the One Lord God.

⁶Salvation is obtained, in the Shelter of the Perfect Guru. ||4||3||97||

⁷Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁸Meditating on the Naam, the Name of the Lord, the mind and body are totally rejuvenated.

⁹All sins and sorrows are washed away. ||1||

¹⁰How blessed is that day, O my Siblings of Destiny,

¹¹when the Glorious Praises of the Lord are sung, and the supreme status is obtained. ||Pause||

¹²Worshipping the feet of the Holy Saints,

¹³troubles and hatred are eliminated from the mind. ||2||

¹⁴Meeting with the Perfect Guru, conflict is ended,

¹⁵and the five demons are totally subdued. ||3||

¹⁶One whose mind is filled with the Name of the Lord,

¹⁷O Nanak - I am a sacrifice to him. ||4||4||98||

¹⁸Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁹O singer, sing of the One,

²⁰who is the Support of the soul, the body and the breath of life.

²¹Serving Him, all peace is obtained.

²²You shall no longer go to any other. ||1||

²³My Blissful Lord Master is forever in bliss; meditate continually and forever, on the Lord, the treasure of excellence.

²⁴I am a sacrifice to the Beloved Saints; by their kind favor, God comes to dwell in the mind. ||Pause||

²⁵His gifts are never exhausted.

²⁶In His subtle way, He easily absorbs all.

²⁷His benevolence cannot be erased.

²⁸So enshrine that True Lord within your mind. ||2||

²⁹His house is filled with all sorts of articles;

³⁰God's servants never suffer pain.

³¹Holding to His Support, the state of fearless dignity is obtained.

³²With each and every breath, sing of the Lord, the treasure of excellence. ||3||

³³He is not far from us, wherever we go.

³⁴When He shows His Mercy, we obtain the Lord, Har, Har.

³⁵I offer this prayer to the Perfect Guru.

³⁶Nanak begs for the treasure of the Lord's Name. ||4||5||99||

³⁷Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³⁸First, the pains of the body vanish;

³⁹then, the mind becomes totally peaceful.

⁴⁰In His Mercy, the Guru bestows the Lord's Name.

⁴¹I am a sacrifice, a sacrifice to that True Guru. ||1||

⁴²I have obtained the Perfect Guru, O my Siblings of Destiny.

⁴³All illness, sorrows and sufferings are dispelled, in the Sanctuary of the True Guru. ||Pause||

⁴⁴The feet of the Guru abide within my heart;

⁴⁵I have received all the fruits of my heart's desires.

⁴⁶The fire is extinguished, and I am totally peaceful.

⁴⁷Showering His Mercy, the Guru has given this gift. ||2||

⁴⁸The Guru has given shelter to the shelterless.

⁴⁹The Guru has given honor to the dishonored.

⁵⁰Shattering his bonds, the Guru has saved His servant.

⁵¹I taste with my tongue the Ambrosial Bani of His Word. ||3||

⁵²By great good fortune, I worship the Guru's feet.

⁵³Forsaking everything, I have obtained God's Sanctuary.

¹That humble being, O Nanak, unto whom the Guru grants His Mercy,

²Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³The True Guru has truly given a child.

⁴The long-lived one has been born to this destiny.

⁵He came to acquire a home in the womb,

⁶and his mother's heart is so very glad. ||1||

⁷A son is born - a devotee of the Lord of the Universe.

⁸This pre-ordained destiny has been revealed to all. ||Pause||

⁹In the tenth month, by the Lord's Order, the baby has been born.

¹⁰Sorrow is dispelled, and great joy has ensued.

¹¹The companions blissfully sing the songs of the Guru's Bani.

¹²This is pleasing to the Lord Master. ||2||

¹³The vine has grown, and shall last for many generations.

¹⁴The Power of the Dharma has been firmly established by the Lord.

¹⁵That which my mind wishes for, the True Guru has granted.

¹⁶I have become carefree, and I fix my attention on the One Lord. ||3||

¹⁷As the child places so much faith in his father,

¹⁸I speak as it pleases the Guru to have me speak.

¹⁹This is not a hidden secret;

²⁰Guru Nanak, greatly pleased, has bestowed this gift. ||4||7||101||

²¹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²²Giving His Hand, the Perfect Guru has protected the child.

²³The glory of His servant has become manifest. ||1||

²⁴I contemplate the Guru, the Guru; I meditate on the Guru, the Guru.

²⁵I offer my heart-felt prayer to the Guru, and it is answered. ||Pause||

²⁶I have taken to the Sanctuary of the True Divine Guru.

²⁷The service of His servant has been fulfilled. ||2||

²⁸He has preserved my soul, body, youth and breath of life.

²⁹Says Nanak, I am a sacrifice to the Guru. ||3||8||102||

³⁰Aasaa, Eighth House, Kaafee, Fifth Mehl:

³¹One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

³²I am Your purchased slave, O True Lord Master.

³³My soul and body, and all of this, everything is Yours. ||1||

³⁴You are the honor of the dishonored. O Master, in You I place my trust.

³⁵Without the True One, any other support is false - know this well. ||1||Pause||

³⁶Your Command is infinite; no one can find its limit.

³⁷One who meets with the Perfect Guru, walks in the Way of the Lord's Will. ||2||

³⁸Cunning and cleverness are of no use.

³⁹That which the Lord Master gives, by the Pleasure of His Will - that is pleasing to me. ||3||

⁴⁰One may perform tens of thousands of actions, but attachment to things is not satisfied.

⁴¹Servant Nanak has made the Naam his Support. He has renounced other entanglements. ||4||1||103||

⁴²Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁴³I have pursued all pleasures, but none is as great as the Lord.

⁴⁴By the Pleasure of the Guru's Will, the True Lord Master is obtained. ||1||

⁴⁵I am a sacrifice to my Guru; I am forever and ever a sacrifice to Him.

⁴⁶Please, grant me this one blessing, that I may never, even for an instant, forget Your Name. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁷How very fortunate are those who have the wealth of the Lord deep within the heart.

¹They escape from the great noose of death; they are permeated with the Word of the Guru's Shabad. ||2||

²How can I chant the Glorious Praises of the Guru? The Guru is the ocean of Truth and clear understanding.

³He is the Perfect Transcendent Lord, from the very beginning, and throughout the ages. ||3||

⁴Meditating on the Naam, the Name of the Lord, forever and ever, my mind is filled with the Love of the Lord, Har, Har.

⁵The Guru is my soul, my breath of life, and wealth; O Nanak, He is with me forever. ||4||2||104||

⁶Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁷If the Invisible and Infinite Lord dwells within my mind, even for a moment,

⁸then all my pains, troubles, and diseases vanish. ||1||

⁹I am a sacrifice to my Lord Master.

¹⁰Meditating on Him, a great joy wells up within my mind and body. ||1||Pause||

¹¹I have heard only a little bit of news about the True Lord Master.

¹²I have obtained the peace of all peace, O my mother; I cannot estimate its worth. ||2||

¹³He is so beautiful to my eyes; beholding Him, I have been bewitched.

¹⁴I am worthless, O my mother; He Himself has attached me to the hem of His robe. ||3||

¹⁵He is beyond the world of the Vedas, the Koran and the Bible.

¹⁶The Supreme King of Nanak is immanent and manifest. ||4||3||105||

¹⁷Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁸Tens of thousands of devotees worship and adore You, chanting, "Beloved, Beloved."

¹⁹How shall You unite me, the worthless and corrupt soul, with Yourself. ||1||

²⁰You are my Support, O Merciful God, Lord of the Universe, Sustainer of the World.

²¹You are the Master of all; the entire creation is Yours. ||1||Pause||

²²You are the constant help and support of the Saints, who behold You Ever-present.

²³Those who lack the Naam, the Name of the Lord, shall die, engulfed in sorrow and pain. ||2||

²⁴Those servants, who lovingly perform the Lord's service, are freed from the cycle of reincarnation.

²⁵What shall be the fate of those who forget the Naam? ||3||

²⁶As are the cattle which have strayed, so is the entire world.

²⁷O God, please cut away Nanak's bonds, and unite him with Yourself. ||4||4||106||

²⁸Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²⁹Forget all other things, and dwell upon the Lord alone.

³⁰Lay aside your false pride, and dedicate your mind and body to Him. ||1||

³¹Twenty-four hours a day, praise the Creator Lord.

³²I live by Your bountiful gifts - please, shower me with Your Mercy! ||1||Pause||

³³So, do that work, by which your face shall be made radiant.

³⁴He alone becomes attached to the Truth, O Lord, unto whom You give it. ||2||

³⁵So build and adorn that house, which shall never be destroyed.

³⁶Enshrine the One Lord within your consciousness; He shall never die. ||3||

³⁷The Lord is dear to those, who are pleasing to the Will of God.

³⁸By Guru's Grace, Nanak describes the indescribable. ||4||5||107||

³⁹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁴⁰What are they like - those who do not forget the Naam, the Name of the Lord?

⁴¹Know that there is absolutely no difference; they are exactly like the Lord. ||1||

⁴²The mind and body are enraptured, meeting with You, O Lord.

⁴³Peace is obtained, by the favor of the Lord's humble servant; all pains are taken away. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁴As many as are the continents of the world, so many have been saved.

⁴⁵Those, in whose minds You Yourself dwell, O Lord, are the perfect devotees. ||2||

¹Those whom You approve, are approved.

²Such a celebrated and honored person is known everywhere. ||3||

³Day and night, with every breath to worship and adore the Lord

⁴- please, O True Supreme King, fulfill this, Nanak's desire. ||4||6||108||

⁵Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁶He, my Lord Master, is fully pervading all places.

⁷He is the One Lord Master, the roof over our heads; there is no other than Him. ||1||

⁸As it pleases Your Will, please save me, O Savior Lord.

⁹Without You, my eyes see no other at all. ||1||Pause||

¹⁰God Himself is the Cherisher; He takes care of each and every heart.

¹¹That person, within whose mind You Yourself dwell, never forgets You. ||2||

¹²He does that which is pleasing to Himself.

¹³He is known as the help and support of His devotees, throughout the ages. ||3||

¹⁴Chanting and meditating up the Lord's Name, the mortal never comes to regret anything.

¹⁵O Nanak, I thirst for the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan; please, fulfill my desire, O Lord. ||4||7||109||

¹⁶Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁷Why are you sleeping, and forgetting the Name, O careless and foolish mortal?

¹⁸So many have been washed away and carried off by this river of life. ||1||

¹⁹O mortal, get aboard the boat of the Lord's Lotus Feet, and cross over.

²⁰Twenty-four hours a day, sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord, in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy. ||1||Pause||

²¹You may enjoy various pleasures, but they are useless without the Name.

²²Without devotion to the Lord, you shall die in sorrow, again and again. ||2||

²³You may dress and eat and apply scented oils to your body,

²⁴but without the meditative remembrance of the Lord, your body shall surely turn to dust, and you shall have to depart. ||3||

²⁵How very treacherous is this world-ocean; how very few realize this!

²⁶Salvation rests in the Lord's Sanctuary; O Nanak, this is your pre-ordained destiny. ||4||8||110||

²⁷Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²⁸No one is anyone's companion; why take any pride in others?

²⁹With the Support of the One Name, this terrible world-ocean is crossed over. ||1||

³⁰You are the True Support of me, the poor mortal, O my Perfect True Guru.

³¹Gazing upon the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan, my mind is encouraged. ||1||Pause||

³²Royal powers, wealth, and worldly involvements are of no use at all.

³³The Kirtan of the Lord's Praise is my Support; this wealth is everlasting. ||2||

³⁴As many as are the pleasures of Maya, so many are the shadows they leave.

³⁵The Gurmukhs sing of the Naam, the treasure of peace. ||3||

³⁶You are the True Lord, the treasure of excellence; O God, You are deep and unfathomable.

³⁷The Lord Master is the hope and support of Nanak's mind. ||4||9||111||

³⁸Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³⁹Remembering Him, suffering is removed, and celestial peace is obtained.

⁴⁰Night and day, with your palms pressed together, meditate on the Lord, Har, Har. ||1||

⁴¹He alone is Nanak's God, unto whom all beings belong.

⁴²He is totally pervading everywhere, the Truest of the True. ||1||Pause||

⁴³Inwardly and outwardly, He is my companion and my helper; He is the One to be realized.

⁴⁴Adoring Him, my mind is cured of all its ailments. ||2||

⁴⁵The Savior Lord is infinite; He saves us from the fire of the womb.

¹The Name of the Lord, Har, Har, is soothing and cool; remembering it in meditation, the inner fire is quenched. ||3||

²Peace, poise, and immense bliss, O Nanak, are obtained, when one becomes the dust of the feet of the humble servants of the Lord.

³All of one's affairs are perfectly resolved, meeting with the Perfect Guru. ||4||10||112||

⁴Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁵The Lord of the Universe is the treasure of excellence; He is known only to the Gurmukh.

⁶When He shows His Mercy and Kindness, we revel in the Lord's Love. ||1||

⁷Come, O Saints - let us join together and speak the Sermon of the Lord.

⁸Night and day, meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord, and ignore the criticism of others. ||1||Pause||

⁹I live by chanting and meditating on the Naam, and so I obtain immense bliss.

¹⁰Attachment to the world is useless and vain; it is false, and perishes in the end. ||2||

¹¹How rare are those who embrace love for the Lord's Lotus Feet.

¹²Blessed and beautiful is that mouth, which meditates on the Lord. ||3||

¹³The pains of birth, death and reincarnation are erased by meditating on the Lord.

¹⁴That alone is Nanak's joy, which is pleasing to God. ||4||11||113||

¹⁵Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁶Come, O friends: let us meet together and enjoy all the tastes and flavors.

¹⁷Let us join together and chant the Ambrosial Name of the Lord, Har, Har, and so wipe away our sins. ||1||

¹⁸Reflect upon the essence of reality, O Saintly beings, and no troubles shall afflict you.

¹⁹All of the thieves shall be destroyed, as the Gurmukhs remain wakeful. ||1||Pause||

²⁰Take wisdom and humility as your supplies, and burn away the poison of pride.

²¹True is that shop, and perfect the transaction; deal only in the merchandise of the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||2||

²²They alone are accepted and approved, who dedicate their souls, bodies and wealth.

²³Those who are pleasing to their God, celebrate in happiness. ||3||

²⁴Those fools, who drink in the wine of evil-mindedness, become the husbands of prostitutes.

²⁵But those who are imbued with the sublime essence of the Lord, O Nanak, are intoxicated with the Truth. ||4||12||114||

²⁶Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²⁷I made the effort; I did it, and made a beginning.

²⁸I live by chanting and meditating on the Naam. The Guru has implanted this Mantra within me. ||1||

²⁹I fall at the Feet of the True Guru, who has dispelled my doubts.

³⁰Bestowing His Mercy, God has dressed me, and decorated me with the Truth. ||1||Pause||

³¹Taking me by the hand, He made me His own, through the True Order of His Command.

³²That gift which God gave to me, is perfect greatness. ||2||

³³Forever and ever, sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord, and chant the Name of the Destroyer of ego.

³⁴My vows have been honored, by the Grace of God and the True Guru, who has showered His Mercy. ||3||

³⁵The Perfect Guru has given the wealth of the Naam, and the profit of singing the Lord's Glorious Praises.

³⁶The Saints are the traders, O Nanak, and the Infinite Lord God is their Banker. ||4||13||115||

³⁷Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³⁸One who has You as His Master, O God, is blessed with great destiny.

³⁹He is happy, and forever at peace; his doubts and fears are all dispelled. ||1||

⁴⁰I am the slave of the Lord of the Universe; my Master is the greatest of all.

⁴¹He is the Creator, the Cause of causes; He is my True Guru. ||1||Pause||

⁴²There is no other whom I should fear.

¹Serving the Guru, the Mansion of the Lord's Presence is obtained, and the impassable world-ocean is crossed over. ||2||

²By Your Glance of Grace, peace is obtained, and the treasure fills the mind.

³That servant, unto whom You bestow Your Mercy, is approved and accepted. ||3||

⁴How rare is that person who drinks in the Ambrosial Essence of the Lord's Kirtan.

⁵Nanak has obtained the commodity of the One Name; he lives by chanting and meditating on it within his heart. ||4||14||116||

⁶Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁷I am God's maid-servant; He is the highest of all.

⁸All things, big and small, are said to belong to Him. ||1||

⁹I surrender my soul, my breath of life, and my wealth, to my Lord Master.

¹⁰Through His Name, I become radiant; I am known as His slave. ||1||Pause||

¹¹You are Carefree, the Embodiment of Bliss. Your Name is a gem, a jewel.

¹²One who has You as her Master, is satisfied, satiated and happy forever. ||2||

¹³O my companions and fellow maidens, please implant that balanced understanding within me.

¹⁴Serve the Holy Saints lovingly, and find the treasure of the Lord. ||3||

¹⁵All are servants of the Lord Master, and all call Him their own.

¹⁶She alone dwells in peace, O Nanak, whom the Lord adorns. ||4||15||117||

¹⁷Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁸Become the servant of the Saints, and learn this way of life.

¹⁹Of all virtues, the most sublime virtue is to see your Husband Lord near at hand. ||1||

²⁰So, dye this mind of yours with the color of the Lord's Love.

²¹Renounce cleverness and cunning, and know that the Sustainer of the world is with you. ||1||Pause||

²²Whatever your Husband Lord says, accept that, and make it your decoration.

²³Forget the love of duality, and chew upon this betel leaf. ||2||

²⁴Make the Word of the Guru's Shabad your lamp, and let your bed be Truth.

²⁵Twenty-four hours a day, stand with your palms pressed together, and the Lord, your King, shall meet you. ||3||

²⁶She alone is cultured and embellished, and she alone is of incomparable beauty.

²⁷She alone is the happy soul-bride, O Nanak, who is pleasing to the Creator Lord. ||4||16||118||

²⁸Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²⁹As long as there are doubts in the mind, the mortal staggers and falls.

³⁰The Guru removed my doubts, and I have obtained my place of rest. ||1||

³¹Those quarrelsome enemies have been overcome, through the Guru.

³²I have now escaped from them, and they have run away from me. ||1||Pause||

³³He is concerned with 'mine and yours', and so he is held in bondage.

³⁴When the Guru dispelled my ignorance, then the noose of death was cut away from my neck. ||2||

³⁵As long as he does not understand the Command of God's Will, he remains miserable.

³⁶Meeting with the Guru, he comes to recognize God's Will, and then, he becomes happy. ||3||

³⁷I have no enemies and no adversaries; no one is wicked to me.

³⁸That servant, who performs the Lord's service, O Nanak, is the slave of the Lord Master. ||4||17||119||

³⁹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁴⁰Peace, celestial poise and absolute bliss are obtained, singing the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises.

⁴¹Bestowing His Name, the True Guru removes the evil omens. ||1||

⁴²I am a sacrifice to my Guru; forever and ever, I am a sacrifice to Him.

¹I am a sacrifice to the Guru; meeting Him, I am absorbed into the True Lord. ||1||Pause||

²Good omens and bad omens affect those who do not keep the Lord in the mind.

³The Messenger of Death does not approach those who are pleasing to the Lord God. ||2||

⁴Donations to charity, meditation and penance - above all of them is the Naam.

⁵One who chants with his tongue the Name of the Lord, Har, Har - his works are brought to perfect completion. ||3||

⁶His fears are removed, and his doubts and attachments are gone; he sees none other than God.

⁷O Nanak, the Supreme Lord God preserves him, and no pain or sorrow afflicts him any longer. ||4||18||120||

⁸Aasaa, Ninth House, Fifth Mehl:

⁹One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

¹⁰Contemplating Him within my consciousness, I obtain total peace; but hereafter, will I be pleasing to Him or not?

¹¹There is only One Giver; all others are beggars. Who else can we turn to? ||1||

¹²When I beg from others, I am ashamed.

¹³The One Lord Master is the Supreme King of all; who else is equal to Him? ||1||Pause||

¹⁴Standing up and sitting down, I cannot live without Him. I search and search for the Blessed Vision of His Darshan.

¹⁵Even Brahma and the sages Sanak, Sanandan, Sanaatan and Sanat Kumar, find it difficult to obtain the Mansion of the Lord's Presence. ||2||

¹⁶He is unapproachable and unfathomable; His wisdom is deep and profound; His value cannot be appraised.

¹⁷I have taken to the Sanctuary of the True Lord, the Primal Being, and I meditate on the True Guru. ||3||

¹⁸God, the Lord Master, has become kind and compassionate; He has cut the noose of death away from my neck.

¹⁹Says Nanak, now that I have obtained the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, I shall not have to be reincarnated again. ||4||1||121||

²⁰Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²¹Inwardly, I sing His Praises, and outwardly, I sing His Praises; I sing His Praises while awake and asleep.

²²I am a trader in the Name of the Lord of the Universe; He has given it to me as my supplies, to carry with me. ||1||

²³I have forgotten and forsaken other things.

²⁴The Perfect Guru has given me the Gift of the Naam; this alone is my Support. ||1||Pause||

²⁵I sing His Praises while suffering, and I sing His Praises while I am at peace as well. I contemplate Him while I walk along the Path.

²⁶The Guru has implanted the Naam within my mind, and my thirst has been quenched. ||2||

²⁷I sing His Praises during the day, and I sing His Praises during the night; I sing them with each and every breath.

²⁸In the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation, this faith is established, that the Lord is with us, in life and in death. ||3||

²⁹Bless servant Nanak with this gift, O God, that he may obtain, and enshrine in his heart, the dust of the feet of the Saints.

³⁰Hear the Lord's Sermon with your ears, and behold the Blessed Vision of His Darshan with your eyes; place your forehead upon the Guru's Feet. ||4||2||122||

³¹One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru: Aasaa, Tenth House, Fifth Mehl:

³²One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru: Aasaa, Tenth House, Fifth Mehl:

³³That which you believe to be permanent, is a guest here for only a few days.

¹Children, wives, homes, and all possessions - attachment to all of these is false. ||1||

²O mind, why do you burst out laughing?

³See with your eyes, that these things are only mirages. So earn the profit of meditation on the One Lord. ||1||Pause||

⁴It is like the clothes which you wear on your body - they wear off in a few days.

⁵How long can you run upon a wall? Ultimately, you come to its end. ||2||

⁶It is like salt, preserved in its container; when it is put into water, it dissolves.

⁷When the Order of the Supreme Lord God comes, the soul arises, and departs in an instant. ||3||

⁸O mind, your steps are numbered, your moments spent sitting are numbered, and the breaths you are to take are numbered.

⁹Sing forever the Praises of the Lord, O Nanak, and you shall be saved, under the Shelter of the Feet of the True Guru. ||4||1||123||

¹⁰Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

¹¹That which was upside-down has been set upright; the deadly enemies and adversaries have become friends.

¹²In the darkness, the jewel shines forth, and the impure understanding has become pure. ||1||

¹³When the Lord of the Universe became merciful,

¹⁴I found peace, wealth and the fruit of the Lord's Name; I have met the True Guru. ||1||Pause||

¹⁵No one knew me, the miserable miser, but now, I have become famous all over the world.

¹⁶Before, no one would even sit with me, but now, all worship my feet. ||2||

¹⁷I used to wander in search of pennies, but now, all the desires of my mind are satisfied.

¹⁸I could not bear even one criticism, but now, in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, I am cooled and soothed. ||3||

¹⁹What Glorious Virtues of the Inaccessible, Unfathomable, Profound Lord can one mere tongue describe?

²⁰Please, make me the slave of the slave of Your slaves; servant Nanak seeks the Lord's Sanctuary. ||4||2||124||

²¹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²²O fool, you are so slow to earn your profits, and so quick to run up losses.

²³You do not purchase the inexpensive merchandise; O sinner, you are tied to your debts. ||1||

²⁴O True Guru, You are my only hope.

²⁵Your Name is the Purifier of sinners, O Supreme Lord God; You are my only Shelter. ||1||Pause||

²⁶Listening to the evil talk, you are caught up in it, but you are hesitant to chant the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

²⁷You are delighted by slanderous talk; your understanding is corrupt. ||2||

²⁸Others' wealth, others' wives and the slander of others - eating the uneatable, you have gone crazy.

²⁹You have not enshrined love for the True Faith of Dharma; hearing the Truth, you are enraged. ||3||

³⁰O God, Merciful to the meek, Compassionate Lord Master, Your Name is the Support of Your devotees.

³¹Nanak has come to Your Sanctuary; O God, make him Your Own, and preserve his honor. ||4||3||125||

³²Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³³They are attached to falsehood; clinging to the transitory, they are trapped in emotional attachment to Maya.

³⁴Wherever they go, they do not think of the Lord; they are blinded by intellectual egotism. ||1||

³⁵O mind, O renunciate, why don't you adore Him?

³⁶You dwell in that flimsy chamber, with all the sins of corruption. ||1||Pause||

³⁷Crying out, "Mine, mine", your days and nights pass away; moment by moment, your life is running out.

¹The sweet flavors tempt you, and you are occupied by your false and filthy business. ||2||

²Your senses are beguiled by sensual pleasures of sex, by anger, greed and emotional attachment.

³The All-powerful Architect of Destiny has ordained that you shall be reincarnated over and over again. ||3||

⁴When the Destroyer of the pains of the poor becomes merciful, then, as Gurmukh, you shall find absolute peace.

⁵Says Nanak, meditate on the Lord, day and night, and all your sickness shall be banished. ||4||

⁶Meditate in this way, O Siblings of Destiny, on the Lord, the Architect of Destiny.

⁷The Destroyer of the pains of the poor has become merciful; He has removed the pains of birth and death. ||1||Second Pause||4||4||126||

⁸Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁹For a moment of sexual pleasure, you shall suffer in pain for millions of days.

¹⁰For an instant, you may savor pleasure, but afterwards, you shall regret it, again and again. ||1||

¹¹O blind man, meditate on the Lord, the Lord, your King.

¹²Your day is drawing near. ||1||Pause||

¹³You are deceived, beholding with your eyes, the bitter melon and swallow-wort.

¹⁴But, like the companionship of a poisonous snake, so is the desire for another's spouse. ||2||

¹⁵For the sake of your enemy, you commit sins, while you neglect the reality of your faith.

¹⁶Your friendship is with those who abandon you, and you are angry with your friends. ||3||

¹⁷The entire world is entangled in this way; he alone is saved, who has the Perfect Guru.

¹⁸Says Nanak, I have crossed over the terrifying world-ocean; my body has become sanctified. ||4||5||127||

¹⁹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl Dho-Padhay:

²⁰O Lord, You behold whatever we do in secrecy; the fool may stubbornly deny it.

²¹By his own actions, he is tied down, and in the end, he regrets and repents. ||1||

²²My God knows, ahead of time, all things.

²³Deceived by doubt, you may hide your actions, but in the end, you shall have to confess the secrets of your mind. ||1||Pause||

²⁴Whatever they are attached to, they remain joined to that. What can any mere mortal do?

²⁵Please, forgive me, O Supreme Lord Master. Nanak is forever a sacrifice to You. ||2||6||128||

²⁶Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²⁷He Himself preserves His servants; He causes them to chant His Name.

²⁸Wherever the business and affairs of His servants are, there the Lord hurries to be. ||1||

²⁹The Lord appears near at hand to His servant.

³⁰Whatever the servant asks of his Lord and Master, immediately comes to pass. ||1||Pause||

³¹I am a sacrifice to that servant, who is pleasing to his God.

³²Hearing of his glory, the mind is rejuvenated; Nanak comes to touch his feet. ||2||7||129||

³³Aasaa, Eleventh House, Fifth Mehl:

³⁴One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

³⁵The actor displays himself in many disguises, but he remains just as he is.

³⁶The soul wanders through countless incarnations in doubt, but it does not come to dwell in peace. ||1||

¹O Saints, my friends and companions, without the Lord, Har, Har, you shall perish.

²Joining the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord, and win this precious treasure of human life. ||1||Pause||

³God has created Maya of the three qualities; tell me, how can it be crossed over?

⁴The whirlpool is awesome and unfathomable; only through the Word of the Guru's Shabad is one carried across. ||2||

⁵Searching and searching endlessly, seeking and deliberating, Nanak has realized the true essence of reality.

⁶Meditating on the invaluable treasure of the Naam, the Name of the Lord, the jewel of the mind is satisfied. ||3||1||130||

⁷Aasaa, Fifth Mehl, Dho-Padhay:

⁸By Guru's Grace, He dwells within my mind; whatever I ask for, I receive.

⁹This mind is satisfied with the Love of the Naam, the Name of the Lord; it does not go out, anywhere, anymore. ||1||

¹⁰My Lord and Master is the highest of all; night and day, I sing the Glories of His Praises.

¹¹In an instant, He establishes and disestablishes; through Him, I frighten you. ||1||Pause||

¹²When I behold my God, my Lord and Master, I do not pay any attention to any other.

¹³God Himself has adorned servant Nanak; his doubts and fears have been dispelled, and he writes the account of the Lord. ||2||2||131||

¹⁴Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁵The four castes and social classes, and the preachers with the six Shaastras on their finger-tips,

¹⁶the beautiful, the refined, the shapely and the wise - the five passions have enticed and beguiled them all. ||1||

¹⁷Who has seized and conquered the five powerful fighters? Is there anyone strong enough?

¹⁸He alone, who conquers and defeats the five demons, is perfect in this Dark Age of Kali Yuga. ||1||Pause||

¹⁹They are so awesome and great; they cannot be controlled, and they do not run away. Their army is mighty and unyielding.

²⁰Says Nanak, that humble being who is under the protection of the Saadh Sangat, crushes those terrible demons. ||2||3||132||

²¹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²²The Sublime Sermon of the Lord is the best thing for the soul. All other tastes are insipid. ||1||Pause||

²³The worthy beings, heavenly singers, silent sages and the knowers of the six Shaastras proclaim that nothing else is worthy of consideration. ||1||

²⁴It is the cure for evil passions, unique, unequalled and peace-giving; in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, O Nanak, drink it in. ||2||4||133||

²⁵Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²⁶My Beloved has brought forth a river of nectar. The Guru has not held it back from my mind, even for an instant. ||1||Pause||

²⁷Beholding it, and touching it, I am sweetened and delighted. It is imbued with the Creator's Love. ||1||

²⁸Chanting it even for a moment, I rise to the Guru; meditating on it, one is not trapped by the Messenger of Death. The Lord has placed it as a garland around Nanak's neck, and within his heart. ||2||5||134||

²⁹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³⁰The Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, is exalted and sublime. ||Pause||

³¹Every day, hour and moment, I continually sing and speak of Govind, Govind, the Lord of the Universe. ||1||

³²Walking, sitting and sleeping, I chant the Lord's Praises; I treasure His Feet in my mind and body. ||2||

³³I am so small, and You are so great, O Lord and Master; Nanak seeks Your Sanctuary. ||3||6||135||

¹Raag Aasaa, Fifth Mehl, Twelfth House:

²One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

³Renounce all your cleverness and remember the Supreme, Formless Lord God.

⁴Without the One True Name, everything appears as dust. ||1||

⁵Know that God is always with you.

⁶By Guru's Grace, one understands, and is imbued with the Love of the One Lord. ||1||Pause||

⁷Seek the Shelter of the One All-powerful Lord; there is no other place of rest.

⁸The vast and terrifying world-ocean is crossed over, singing continually the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||2||

⁹Birth and death are overcome, and one does not have to suffer in the City of Death.

¹⁰He alone obtains the treasure of the Naam, the Name of the Lord, unto whom God shows His Mercy. ||3||

¹¹The One Lord is my Anchor and Support; the One Lord alone is the power of my mind.

¹²O Nanak, joining the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, meditate on Him; without the Lord, there is no other at all. ||4||1||136||

¹³Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁴The soul, the mind, the body and the breath of life belong to God. He has given all tastes and pleasures.

¹⁵He is the Friend of the poor, the Giver of life, the Protector of those who seek His Sanctuary. ||1||

¹⁶O my mind, meditate on the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.

¹⁷Here and hereafter, He is our Helper and Companion; embrace love and affection for the One Lord. ||1||Pause||

¹⁸They meditate on the Vedas and the Shaastras, to swim across the world-ocean.

¹⁹The many religious rituals, good deeds of karma and Dharmic worship - above all of these is the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||2||

²⁰Sexual desire, anger, and egotism depart, meeting with the Divine True Guru.

²¹Implant the Naam within, perform devotional worship to the Lord and serve God - this is good. ||3||

²²I seek the Sanctuary of Your Feet, O Merciful Lord; You are the Honor of the dishonored.

²³You are the Support of my soul, my breath of life; O God, You are Nanak's strength. ||4||2||137||

²⁴Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²⁵He wavers and falters, and suffers such great pain, without the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy.

²⁶The profit of the sublime essence of the Lord of the Universe is obtained, by the Love of the One Supreme Lord God. ||1||

²⁷Chant continually the Name of the Lord.

²⁸With each and every breath, meditate on God, and renounce other love. ||1||Pause||

²⁹God is the Doer, the All-powerful Cause of causes; He Himself is the Giver of life.

³⁰So renounce all your cleverness, and meditate on God, twenty-four hours a day. ||2||

³¹He is our best friend and companion, our help and support; He is lofty, inaccessible and infinite.

³²Enshrine His Lotus Feet within your heart; He is the Support of the soul. ||3||

³³Show Your Mercy, O Supreme Lord God, that I may sing Your Glorious Praises.

³⁴Total peace, and the greatest greatness, O Nanak, are obtained by living to chant the Name of the Lord. ||4||3||138||

³⁵Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³⁶I make the effort, as You cause me to do, my Lord and Master, to behold You in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy.

³⁷I am imbued with the color of the Love of the Lord, Har, Har; God Himself has colored me in His Love. ||1||

³⁸I chant the Lord's Name within my mind.

³⁹Bestow Your Mercy, and dwell within my heart; please, become my Helper. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁰Listening continually to Your Name, O Beloved God, I yearn to behold You.

¹Please, be kind to me - I am just a worm. This is my object and purpose. ||2||

²My body and wealth are Yours; You are my God - nothing is in my power.

³As You keep me, so do I live; I eat what You give me. ||3||

⁴The sins of countless incarnations are washed away, by bathing in the dust of the Lord's humble servants.

⁵By loving devotional worship, doubt and fear depart; O Nanak, the Lord is Ever-present. ||4||4||139||

⁶Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁷The Blessed Vision of Your Darshan is unapproachable and incomprehensible; he alone obtains it, who has such good destiny recorded upon his forehead.

⁸The Merciful Lord God has bestowed His Mercy, and the True Guru has granted the Lord's Name. ||1||

⁹The Divine Guru is the Saving Grace in this Dark Age of Kali Yuga.

¹⁰Even those fools and idiots, stained with feces and urine, have all taken to Your service. ||1||Pause||

¹¹You Yourself are the Creator, who established the entire world. You are contained in all.

¹²The Righteous Judge of Dharma is wonder-struck, at the sight of everyone falling at the Lord's Feet. ||2||

¹³The Golden Age of Sat Yuga, the Silver Age of Trayta Yuga, and the Brass Age of Dwaapar Yuga are good; but the best is the Dark Age, the Iron Age, of Kali Yuga.

¹⁴As we act, so are the rewards we receive; no one can take the place of another. ||3||

¹⁵O Dear Lord, whatever Your devotees ask for, You do. This is Your Way, Your very nature.

¹⁶With my palms pressed together, O Nanak, I beg for this gift; Lord, please bless Your Saints with Your Vision. ||4||5||140||

¹⁷Raag Aasaa, Fifth Mehl, Thirteenth House:

¹⁸One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

¹⁹O True Guru, by Your Words,

²⁰even the worthless have been saved. ||1||Pause||

²¹Even the most argumentative, vicious and indecent people, have been purified in Your company. ||1||

²²Those who have wandered in reincarnation, and those who have been consigned to hell - even their families have been redeemed. ||2||

²³Those whom no one knew, and those whom no one respected - even they have become famous and respected at the Court of the Lord. ||3||

²⁴What praise, and what greatness should I attribute to You? Nanak is a sacrifice to You, each and every moment. ||4||1||141||

²⁵Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²⁶The crazy people are asleep. ||1||Pause||

²⁷They are intoxicated with attachment to their families and sensory pleasures; they are held in the grip of falsehood. ||1||

²⁸The false desires, and the dream-like delights and pleasures - these, the self-willed manmukhs call true. ||2||

²⁹The wealth of the Ambrosial Naam, the Name of the Lord, is with them, but they do not find even a tiny bit of its mystery. ||3||

³⁰By Your Grace, O Lord, You save those, who take to the Sanctuary of the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation. ||4||2||142||

³¹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl, Thi-Padhay:

³²I seek the Love of my Beloved. ||1||Pause||

³³Gold, jewels, giant pearls and rubies - I have no need for them. ||1||

³⁴Imperial power, fortunes, royal command and mansions - I have no desire for these. ||2||

¹- I have no desire for these. ||2||

²The Sanctuary of the Lord's Feet, and dedication to the Saints these bring me peace and pleasure. O Nanak, my burning fire has been put out, obtaining the Love of the Beloved. ||3||3||143||

³these bring me peace and pleasure.

⁴O Nanak, my burning fire has been put out,

⁵obtaining the Love of the Beloved. ||3||3||143||

⁶Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁷The Guru has revealed Him to my eyes. ||1||Pause||

⁸Here and there, in each and every heart, and each and every being, You, O Fascinating Lord, You exist. ||1||

⁹You are the Creator, the Cause of causes, the Support of the earth; You are the One and only, Beauteous Lord. ||2||

¹⁰Meeting the Saints, and beholding the Blessed Vision of their Darshan, Nanak is a sacrifice to them; he sleeps in absolute peace. ||3||4||144||

¹¹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

¹²The Name of the Lord, Har, Har, is priceless.

¹³It brings peace and poise. ||1||Pause||

¹⁴The Lord is my Companion and Helper; He shall not forsake me or leave me. He is unfathomable and unequalled. ||1||

¹⁵He is my Beloved, my brother, father and mother; He is the Support of His devotees. ||2||

¹⁶The Invisible Lord is seen through the Guru; O Nanak, this is the wondrous play of the Lord. ||3||5||145||

¹⁷Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁸Please help me sustain my devotion.

¹⁹O Lord Master, I have come to You. ||1||Pause||

²⁰With the wealth of the Naam, the Name of the Lord, life becomes fruitful. Lord, please place Your Feet within my heart. ||1||

²¹This is liberation, and this is the best way of life; please, keep me in the Society of the Saints. ||2||

²²Meditating on the Naam, I am absorbed in celestial peace; O Nanak, I sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||3||6||146||

²³Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²⁴The Feet of my Lord and Master are so Beautiful!

²⁵The Lord's Saints obtain them. ||1||Pause||

²⁶They eradicate their self-conceit and serve the Lord; drenched in His Love, they sing His Glorious Praises. ||1||

²⁷They place their hopes in Him, and they thirst for the Blessed Vision of His Darshan. Nothing else is pleasing to them. ||2||

²⁸This is Your Mercy, Lord; what can Your poor creatures do? Nanak is devoted, a sacrifice to You. ||3||7||147||

²⁹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³⁰Remember the One Lord in meditation within your mind. ||1||Pause||

³¹Meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord, and enshrine Him within your heart. Without Him there is no other. ||1||

³²Entering God's Sanctuary, all rewards are obtained, and all pains are taken away. ||2||

³³He is the Giver of all beings, the Architect of Destiny; O Nanak, He is contained in each and every heart. ||3||8||148||

³⁴Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³⁵One who forgets the Lord is dead. ||1||Pause||

³⁶One who meditates on the Naam, the Name of the Lord, obtains all rewards. That person becomes happy. ||1||

³⁷One who calls himself a king, and acts in ego and pride, is caught by his doubts, like a parrot in a trap. ||2||

³⁸Says Nanak, one who meets the True Guru, becomes permanent and immortal. ||3||9||149||

³⁹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl, Fourteenth House:

⁴⁰One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

⁴¹That love is forever fresh and new, Which is for the Beloved Lord. ||1||Pause||

⁴²which is for the Beloved Lord. ||1||Pause||

⁴³One who is pleasing to God shall not be reincarnated again. He remains absorbed in the loving devotional worship of the Lord, in the Love of the Lord. ||1||

⁴⁴He remains absorbed in the loving devotional worship of the Lord, in the Love of the Lord. ||1||

¹He is blended with God, by dedicating his mind to Him. Bless Nanak with Your Name, O Lord - please, shower Your Mercy upon him! ||2||1||150||

²Bless Nanak with Your Name, O Lord - please, shower Your Mercy upon him! ||2||1||150||

³Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁴Please, come to me, O Beloved Lord; without You, no one can comfort me. ||1||Pause||

⁵One may read the Simritees and the Shaastras, and perform all sorts of religious rituals; and yet, without the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan, God, there is no peace at all. ||1||

⁶People have grown weary of observing fasts, vows and rigorous self-discipline; Nanak abides with God, in the Sanctuary of the Saints. ||2||2||151||

⁷Aasaa, Fifth Mehl, Fifteenth House, Partaal:

⁸One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

⁹He sleeps, intoxicated by corruption and Maya; he does not come to realize or understand.

¹⁰Seizing him by the hair, the Messenger of Death pulls him up; then, he comes to his senses. ||1||

¹¹Those who are attached to the poison of greed and sin grab at the wealth of others; they only bring pain on themselves.

¹²They are intoxicated by their pride in those things which shall be destroyed in an instant; those demons do not understand. ||1||Pause||

¹³The Vedas, the Shaastras and the holy men proclaim it, but the deaf do not hear it.

¹⁴When the game of life is over, and he has lost, and he breathes his last, then the fool regrets and repents in his mind. ||2||

¹⁵He paid the fine, but it is in vain - in the Court of the Lord, his account is not credited.

¹⁶Those deeds which would have covered him - those deeds, he has not done. ||3||

¹⁷The Guru has shown me the world to be thus; I sing the Kirtan of the Praises of the One Lord.

¹⁸Renouncing his pride in strength and cleverness, Nanak has come to the Lord's Sanctuary. ||4||1||152||

¹⁹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

²⁰Dealing in the Name of the Lord of the Universe,

²¹and pleasing the Saints and holy men, obtain the Beloved Lord and sing His Glorious Praises; play the sound current of the Naad with the five instruments. ||1||Pause||

²²Obtaining His Mercy, I easily gained the Blessed Vision of His Darshan; now, I am imbued with the Love of the Lord of the Universe.

²³Serving the Saints, I feel love and affection for my Beloved Lord Master. ||1||

²⁴The Guru has implanted spiritual wisdom within my mind, and I rejoice that I shall not have to come back again. I have obtained celestial poise, and the treasure within my mind.

²⁵I have renounced all of the affairs of my mind's desires.

²⁶It has been so long, so long, so long, so very long, since my mind has felt such a great thirst.

²⁷Please, reveal to me the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan, and show Yourself to me.

²⁸Nanak the meek has entered Your Sanctuary; please, take me in Your embrace. ||2||2||153||

²⁹Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³⁰Who can destroy the fortress of sin,

³¹and release me from hope, thirst, deception, attachment and doubt? ||1||Pause||

³²How can I escape the afflictions of sexual desire, anger, greed and pride? ||1||

³³In the Society of the Saints, love the Naam, and sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord of the Universe.

³⁴Night and day, meditate on God.

³⁵I have captured and demolished the walls of doubt.

³⁶O Nanak, the Naam is my only treasure. ||2||3||154||

³⁷Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

³⁸Renounce sexual desire, anger and greed;

³⁹remember the Name of the Lord of the Universe in your mind.

⁴⁰Meditation on the Lord is the only fruitful action. ||1||Pause||

¹Renounce pride, attachment, corruption and falsehood, and chant the Name of the Lord, Raam, Raam, Raam.

²O mortal, attach yourself to the Feet of the Saints. ||1||

³God is the Sustainer of the world, Merciful to the meek, the Purifier of sinners, the Transcendent Lord God. Awaken, and meditate on His Feet.

⁴Perform His devotional worship, O Nanak, and your destiny shall be fulfilled. ||2||4||155||

⁵Aasaa, Fifth Mehl:

⁶Pleasure and pain, detachment and ecstasy - the Lord has revealed His Play. ||1||Pause||

⁷One moment, the mortal is in fear, and the next moment he is fearless; in a moment, he gets up and departs.

⁸One moment, he enjoys pleasures, and the next moment, he leaves and goes away. ||1||

⁹One moment, he practices Yoga and intense meditation, and all sorts of worship; the next moment, he wanders in doubt.

¹⁰One moment, O Nanak, the Lord bestows His Mercy and blesses him with His Love, in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy. ||2||5||156||

¹¹Raag Aasaa, Fifth Mehl, Seventeenth House, Aasaavaree:

¹²One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

¹³Meditate on the Lord, the Lord of the Universe.

¹⁴Cherish the Beloved Lord, Har, Har, in your mind.

¹⁵The Guru says to install it in your consciousness.

¹⁶Turn away from others, and turn to Him.

¹⁷Thus you shall obtain your Beloved, O my companion. ||1||Pause||

¹⁸In the pool of the world is the mud of attachment.

¹⁹Stuck in it, his feet cannot walk towards the Lord.

²⁰The fool is stuck;

²¹he cannot do anything else.

²²Only by entering the Lord's Sanctuary, O my companion, will you be released. ||1||

²³Thus your consciousness shall be stable and steady and firm.

²⁴Wilderness and household are the same.

²⁵Deep within dwells the One Husband Lord;

²⁶outwardly, there are many distractions.

²⁷Practice Raja Yoga, the Yoga of meditation and success.

²⁸Says Nanak, this is the way to dwell with the people, and yet remain apart from them. ||2||1||157||

²⁹Aasaavaree, Fifth Mehl:

³⁰Cherish one desire only:

³¹meditate continually on the Guru.

³²Install the wisdom of the Saints' Mantra.

³³Serve the Feet of the Guru,

³⁴and you shall meet Him, by Guru's Grace, O my mind. ||1||Pause||

³⁵All doubts are dispelled,

³⁶and the Lord is seen to be pervading all places.

³⁷The fear of death is dispelled,

³⁸and the primal place is obtained.

³⁹Then, all subservience is removed. ||1||

⁴⁰One who has such destiny recorded upon his forehead, obtains it;

⁴¹he crosses over the terrifying ocean of fire.

⁴²He obtains a place in the home of his own self,

⁴³and enjoys the most sublime essence of the Lord's essence.

⁴⁴His hunger is appeased;

⁴⁵Nanak, he is absorbed in celestial peace, O my mind. ||2||2||158||

⁴⁶Aasaavaree, Fifth Mehl:

⁴⁷Sing the Praises of the Lord, Har, Har, Har.

⁴⁸Meditate on the celestial music.

⁴⁹The tongues of the holy Saints repeat it.

⁵⁰I have heard that this is the way to emancipation.

⁵¹This is found by the greatest merit, O my mind. ||1||Pause||

⁵²The silent sages search for Him.

⁵³God is the Master of all.

⁵⁴It is so difficult to find Him in this world, in this Dark Age of Kali Yuga.

⁵⁵He is the Dispeller of distress.

⁵⁶God is the Fulfiller of desires, O my mind. ||1||

⁵⁷O my mind, serve Him.

¹He is unknowable and inscrutable.

²Enshrine love for Him.

³He does not perish, or go away, or die.

⁴He is known only through the Guru.

⁵Nanak, my mind is satisfied with the Lord, O my mind. ||2||3||159||

⁶Aasaavaree, Fifth Mehl:

⁷Grab hold of the Support of the One Lord.

⁸Chant the Word of the Guru's Shabad.

⁹Submit to the Order of the True Lord.

¹⁰Receive the treasure in your mind.

¹¹Thus you shall be absorbed in peace, O my mind. ||1||Pause||

¹²One who is dead while yet alive,

¹³crosses over the terrifying world-ocean.

¹⁴One who becomes the dust of all

¹⁵he alone is called fearless.

¹⁶His anxieties are removed

¹⁷by the Teachings of the Saints, O my mind. ||1||

¹⁸That humble being, who takes happiness in the Naam, the Name of the Lord

¹⁹pain never draws near him.

²⁰One who listens to the Praise of the Lord, Har, Har,

²¹is obeyed by all men.

²²How fortunate it is that he came into the world;

²³Nanak, he is pleasing to God, O my mind. ||2||4||160||

²⁴Aasaavaree, Fifth Mehl:

²⁵Meeting together, let us sing the Praises of the Lord,

²⁶and attain the supreme state.

²⁷Those who obtain that sublime essence,

²⁸obtain all of the spiritual powers of the Siddhas.

²⁹They remain awake and aware night and day;

³⁰Nanak, they are blessed by great good fortune, O my mind. ||1||Pause||

³¹Let us wash the feet of the Saints;

³²our evil-mindedness shall be cleansed.

³³Becoming the dust of the feet of the Lord's slaves,

³⁴one shall not be afflicted with pain.

³⁵Taking to the Sanctuary of His devotees,

³⁶he is no longer subject to birth and death.

³⁷They alone become eternal,

³⁸who chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, O my mind. ||1||

³⁹You are my Friend, my Best Friend.

⁴⁰Please, implant the Naam, the Name of the Lord, within me.

⁴¹Without Him, there is not any other.

⁴²Within my mind, I worship Him in adoration.

⁴³I do not forget Him, even for an instant.

⁴⁴How can I live without Him?

⁴⁵I am a sacrifice to the Guru.

⁴⁶Nanak, chant the Name, O my mind. ||2||5||161||

⁴⁷Aasaavaree, Fifth Mehl:

⁴⁸You are the Creator, the Cause of causes.

⁴⁹I cannot think of any other.

⁵⁰Whatever You do, comes to pass.

⁵¹I sleep in peace and poise.

⁵²My mind has become patient,

⁵³since I fell at God's Door, O my mind. ||1||Pause||

⁵⁴Joining the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy,

⁵⁵I gained perfect control over my senses.

⁵⁶Ever since I rid myself of my self-conceit,

⁵⁷my sufferings have ended.

⁵⁸He has showered His Mercy upon me.

⁵⁹The Creator Lord has preserved my honor, O my mind. ||1||

⁶⁰Know that this is the only peace;

⁶¹accept whatever the Lord does.

⁶²No one is bad.

⁶³Become the dust of the Feet of the Saints.

⁶⁴He Himself preserves those

⁶⁵who taste the Ambrosial Nectar of the Lord, O my mind. ||2||

⁶⁶One who has no one to call his own

⁶⁷God belongs to him.

⁶⁸God knows the state of our innermost being.

⁶⁹He knows everything.

⁷⁰Please, Lord, save the sinners.

⁷¹This is Nanak's prayer, O my mind. ||3||6||162||

⁷²Aasaavaree, Fifth Mehl, Ek-Thukay:

⁷³O my stranger soul,

⁷⁴listen to the call. ||1||Pause||

⁷⁵Whatever you are attached to,

¹you shall have to leave it all behind.

²These things seem like only a dream,

³to one who takes the Lord's Name. ||1||

⁴Forsaking the Lord, and clinging to another,

⁵they run toward death and reincarnation.

⁶But those humble beings, who attach themselves to the Lord, Har, Har,

⁷continue to live.

⁸One who is blessed with the Lord's Mercy,

⁹O Nanak, becomes His devotee. ||2||7||163||232||

¹⁰One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

¹¹Raag Aasaa, Ninth Mehl:

¹²Who should I tell the condition of the mind?

¹³Engrossed in greed, running around in the ten directions, you hold to your hopes of wealth. ||1||Pause||

¹⁴For the sake of pleasure, you suffer such great pain, and you have to serve each and every person.

¹⁵You wander from door to door like a dog, unconscious of the Lord's meditation. ||1||

¹⁶You lose this human life in vain, and You are not even ashamed when others laugh at you.

¹⁷O Nanak, why not sing the Lord's Praises, so that you may be rid of the body's evil disposition? ||2||1||233||

¹⁸Raag Aasaa, First Mehl, Ashtpadheeyaa, Second House:

¹⁹One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

²⁰He descends the treacherous precipice, to bathe in the cleansing pool;

²¹without speaking or saying anything, he sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord.

²²Like water vapor in the sky, he remains absorbed in the Lord.

²³He churns the true pleasures to obtain the supreme nectar. ||1||

²⁴Listen to such spiritual wisdom, O my mind.

²⁵The Lord is totally pervading and permeating all places. ||1||Pause||

²⁶One who makes Truthfulness his fast and religious vows, does not suffer the pain of death.

²⁷Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, he burns away his anger.

²⁸He dwells in the Tenth Gate, immersed in the Samaadhi of deep meditation.

²⁹Touching the philosopher's stone, he obtains the supreme status. ||2||

³⁰For the benefit of the mind, churn the true essence of reality;

³¹bathing in the over-flowing tank of nectar, filth is washed away.

³²We become like the One with whom we are imbued.

³³Whatever the Creator does, comes to pass. ||3||

³⁴The Guru is cool and soothing like ice; He puts out the fire of the mind.

³⁵Smear your body with the ashes of dedicated service,

³⁶and live in the home of peace - make this your religious order.

³⁷Let the Immaculate Bani of the Word be your playing of the flute. ||4||

³⁸Spiritual wisdom within is the supreme, sublime nectar.

³⁹Contemplation of the Guru is one's bathing at holy places of pilgrimage.

⁴⁰Worship and adoration within is the Lord's dwelling.

⁴¹He is the One who blends one's light with the Divine Light. ||5||

⁴²He delights in the delightful wisdom of loving the One Lord.

⁴³He is one of the self-elect - he merges with the Lord, who occupies the throne.

⁴⁴He performs his works in obedience to the Will of his Lord and Master.

⁴⁵The Unknowable Lord cannot be understood. ||6||

⁴⁶The lotus originates in the water, and yet it remains distinct from the water.

⁴⁷Just so, the Divine Light pervades and permeates the water of the world.

⁴⁸Who is near, and who is far away?

⁴⁹I sing the Glories of the Lord, the treasure of virtue; I behold Him ever-present. ||7||

⁵⁰Inwardly and outwardly, there is none other than Him.

¹Whatever pleases Him, comes to pass.

²Listen, O Bharthari Yogi - Nanak speaks after deliberation;

³the Immaculate Name is my only Support. ||8||1||

⁴Aasaa, First Mehl:

⁵All meditation, all austerities, and all clever tricks,

⁶lead one to wander in the wilderness, but he does not find the Path.

⁷Without understanding, he is not approved;

⁸without the Naam, the Name of the Lord, ashes are thrown upon one's head. ||1||

⁹True is the Master; the world comes and goes.

¹⁰The mortal is emancipated, as Gurmukh, as the Lord's slave. ||1||Pause||

¹¹The world is bound by its attachments to the many desires.

¹²Through the Guru's Teachings, some become free of desire.

¹³Within them is the Naam, and their heart lotus blossoms forth.

¹⁴They have no fear of death. ||2||

¹⁵The men of the world are conquered by woman; they love the ladies.

¹⁶Attached to children and wife, they forget the Naam.

¹⁷They waste this human life in vain, and lose the game in the gamble.

¹⁸Serving the True Guru is the best occupation. ||3||

¹⁹One who speaks egotistically in public,

²⁰never attains liberation within.

²¹One who burns away his attachment to Maya, by the Word of the Guru's Shabad,

²²meditates forever within his heart on the Immaculate Naam. ||4||

²³He restrains his wandering mind, and keeps it under control.

²⁴The company of such a Sikh is obtained only by Grace.

²⁵Without the Guru, he goes astray and continues coming and going.

²⁶Bestowing His Mercy, the Lord unites him in Union. ||5||

²⁷I cannot describe the Beauteous Lord.

²⁸I speak the unspoken; I cannot estimate His value.

²⁹All pain and pleasure come by Your Will.

³⁰All pain is eradicated by the True Name. ||6||

³¹He plays the instrument without hands, and dances without feet.

³²But if he understands the Word of the Shabad, then he shall behold the True Lord.

³³With the True Lord within the self, all happiness comes.

³⁴Showering His Mercy, the Preserving Lord preserves him. ||7||

³⁵He understands the three worlds; he eliminates his self-conceit.

³⁶He understands the Bani of the Word, and he is absorbed into the True Lord.

³⁷Contemplating the Shabad, he enshrines love for the One Lord.

³⁸O Nanak, blessed is the Lord, the Embellisher. ||8||2||

³⁹Aasaa, First Mehl:

⁴⁰There are innumerable writings; those who write them take pride in them.

⁴¹When one's mind accepts the Truth, he understands, and speaks of it.

⁴²Words, spoken and read again and again, are useless loads.

⁴³There are innumerable writings, but the Infinite Lord remains unwritten. ||1||

⁴⁴Know that such a True Lord is the One and only.

⁴⁵Understand that birth and death come according to the Lord's Will. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁶Because of attachment to Maya, the world is bound by the Messenger of Death.

⁴⁷These bonds are released when one remembers the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

⁴⁸The Guru is the Giver of peace; do not look for any other.

⁴⁹In this world, and the next, He shall stand by you. ||2||

⁵⁰One who dies in the Word of the Shabad, embraces love for the One Lord.

⁵¹One who eats the uneatable, has his doubts dispelled.

⁵²He is Jivan Mukta - liberated while yet alive; the Naam abides in his mind.

⁵³Becoming Gurmukh, he merges into the True Lord. ||3||

⁵⁴The One who created the earth and the Akaashic ethers of the sky,

⁵⁵established all; He establishes and disestablishes.

⁵⁶He Himself is permeating all.

⁵⁷He does not consult anyone; He Himself forgives. ||4||

⁵⁸You are the Ocean, over-flowing with jewels and rubies.

⁵⁹You are immaculate and pure, the true treasure of virtue.

¹Peace is enjoyed, meeting the Guru, the Spiritual Teacher.

²The Lord is the only Master; He is the only Minister. ||5||

³The world is held in bondage; he alone is emancipated, who conquers his ego.

⁴How rare in the world is that wise person, who practices this.

⁵How rare in this world is that scholar who reflects upon this.

⁶Without meeting the True Guru, all wander in ego. ||6||

⁷The world is unhappy; only a few are happy.

⁸The world is diseased, from its indulgences; it weeps over its lost virtue.

⁹The world wells up, and then subsides, losing its honor.

¹⁰He alone, who becomes Gurmukh, understands. ||7||

¹¹His price is so costly; His weight is unbearable.

¹²He is immovable and undeceivable; enshrine Him in your mind, through the Guru's Teachings.

¹³Meet Him through love, become pleasing to Him, and act in fear of Him.

¹⁴Nanak the lowly says this, after deep contemplation. ||8||3||

¹⁵Aasaa, First Mehl:

¹⁶When someone dies, the five passions meet and mourn his death.

¹⁷Overcoming self-conceit, he washes off his filth with the Word of the Shabad.

¹⁸One who knows and understands, enters the home of peace and poise.

¹⁹Without understanding, he loses all his honor. ||1||

²⁰Who dies, and who weeps for him?

²¹O Lord, Creator, Cause of causes, You are over the heads of all. ||1||Pause||

²²Who weeps over the pain of the dead?

²³Those who weep, do so over their own troubles.

²⁴God knows the condition of those who are so affected.

²⁵Whatever the Creator does, comes to pass. ||2||

²⁶One who remains dead while yet alive, is saved, and saves others as well.

²⁷Celebrate the Victory of the Lord; taking to His Sanctuary, the supreme status is obtained.

²⁸I am a sacrifice to the feet of the True Guru.

²⁹The Guru is the boat; through the Shabad of His Word, the terrifying world-ocean is crossed over. ||3||

³⁰He Himself is Fearless; His Divine Light is contained in all.

³¹Without the Name, the world is defiled and untouchable.

³²Through evil-mindedness, they are ruined; why should they cry out and weep?

³³They are born only to die, without hearing the music of devotional worship. ||4||

³⁴Only one's true friends mourn one's death.

³⁵Those under the sway of the three dispositions continue to mourn on and on.

³⁶Disregarding pain and pleasure, center your consciousness on the Lord.

³⁷Dedicate your body and mind to the Love of the Lord. ||5||

³⁸The One Lord dwells within the various and countless beings.

³⁹There are so many rituals and religious faiths, their number is innumerable.

⁴⁰Without the Fear of God, and devotional worship, one's life is in vain.

⁴¹Singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord, the supreme wealth is obtained. ||6||

⁴²He Himself dies, and He Himself kills.

⁴³He Himself establishes, and having established, disestablishes.

⁴⁴He created the Universe, and by His Divine Nature, instilled His Divine Light into it.

⁴⁵One who reflects upon the Word of the Shabad, meets the Lord, without doubt. ||7||

⁴⁶Pollution is the burning fire, which is consuming the world.

⁴⁷Pollution is in the water, upon the land, and everywhere.

⁴⁸O Nanak, people are born and die in pollution.

⁴⁹By Guru's Grace, they drink in the Lord's sublime elixir. ||8||4||

⁵⁰Aasaa, First Mehl:

⁵¹One who contemplates his own self, tests the worth of the jewel.

⁵²With a single glance, the Perfect Guru saves him.

⁵³When the Guru is pleased, one's mind comforts itself. ||1||

⁵⁴He is such a banker, who tests us.

⁵⁵By His True Glance of Grace, we are blessed with the Love of the One Lord, and are saved. ||1||Pause||

⁵⁶The capital of the Naam is immaculate and sublime.

⁵⁷That peddler is rendered pure, who is imbued with the Truth.

⁵⁸Praising the Lord, in the house of poise, he attains the Guru, the Creator. ||2||

⁵⁹One who burns away hope and desire through the Word of the Shabad,

⁶⁰chants the Lord's Name, and inspires others to chant it as well.

⁶¹Through the Guru, he finds the Path home, to the Mansion of the Lord's Presence. ||3||

¹His body becomes golden, by the Lord's Incomparable Light.

²He beholds the divine beauty in all the three worlds.

³That inexhaustible wealth of Truth is now in my lap. ||4||

⁴In the five elements, the three worlds, the nine regions and the four directions, the Lord is pervading.

⁵He supports the earth and the sky, exercising His almighty power.

⁶He turns the outgoing mind around. ||5||

⁷The fool does not realize what he sees with his eyes.

⁸He does not taste with his tongue, and does not understand what is said.

⁹Intoxicated with poison, he argues with the world. ||6||

¹⁰In the uplifting society, one is uplifted.

¹¹He chases after virtue and washes off his sins.

¹²Without serving the Guru, celestial poise is not obtained. ||7||

¹³The Naam, the Name of the Lord, is a diamond, a jewel, a ruby.

¹⁴The pearl of the mind is the inner wealth.

¹⁵O Nanak, the Lord tests us, and blesses us with His Glance of Grace. ||8||5||

¹⁶Aasaa, First Mehl:

¹⁷The Gurmukh obtains spiritual wisdom, meditation and satisfaction of the mind.

¹⁸The Gurmukh realizes the Mansion of the Lord's Presence.

¹⁹The Gurmukh is attuned to the Word of the Shabad, as his Insignia. ||1||

²⁰Such is the loving devotional worship of the Lord's contemplation.

²¹The Gurmukh realizes the True Name, the Destroyer of ego. ||1||Pause||

²²Day and night, he remains immaculately pure, and abides in the sublime place.

²³He gains the wisdom of the three worlds.

²⁴Through the True Guru, the Command of the Lord's Will is realized. ||2||

²⁵He enjoys true pleasure, and suffers no pain.

²⁶He enjoys the ambrosial wisdom, and the highest sublime essence.

²⁷He overcomes the five evil passions, and becomes the happiest of all men. ||3||

²⁸Your Divine Light is contained in all; everyone belongs to You.

²⁹You Yourself join and separate again.

³⁰Whatever the Creator does, comes to pass. ||4||

³¹He demolishes, and He builds; by His Order, he merges us into Himself.

³²Whatever is pleasing to His Will, happens.

³³Without the Guru, no one obtains the Perfect Lord. ||5||

³⁴In childhood and old age, he does not understand.

³⁵In the prime of youth, he is drowned in his pride.

³⁶Without the Name, what can the fool obtain? ||6||

³⁷He does not know the One who blesses him with nourishment and wealth.

³⁸Deluded by doubt, he later regrets and repents.

³⁹The noose of death is around the neck of that crazy madman. ||7||

⁴⁰I saw the world drowning, and I ran away in fear.

⁴¹How very fortunate are those who have been saved by the True Guru.

⁴²O Nanak, they are attached to the feet of the Guru. ||8||6||

⁴³Aasaa, First Mehl:

⁴⁴They sing religious songs, but their consciousness is wicked.

⁴⁵They sing the songs, and call themselves divine,

⁴⁶but without the Name, their minds are false and wicked. ||1||

⁴⁷Where are you going? O mind, remain in your own home.

⁴⁸The Gurmukhs are satisfied with the Lord's Name; searching, they easily find the Lord. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁹Sexual desire, anger and emotional attachment fill the mind and body;

⁵⁰greed and egotism lead only to pain.

⁵¹How can the mind be comforted without the Lord's Name? ||2||

⁵²One who cleanses himself within, knows the True Lord.

⁵³The Gurmukh knows the condition of his innermost being.

⁵⁴Without the True Word of the Shabad, the Mansion of the Lord's Presence is not realized. ||3||

⁵⁵One who merges his form into the Formless Lord,

⁵⁶abides in the True Lord, the Powerful, beyond power.

⁵⁷Such a person does not enter into the womb of reincarnation again. ||4||

⁵⁸Go there, where you may obtain the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

¹By Guru's Grace, perform good deeds.

²Imbued with the Naam, sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||5||

³Serving the Guru, I have come to understand myself.

⁴The Ambrosial Naam, the Giver of Peace, abides within my mind.

⁵Night and day, I am imbued with the Word of the Guru's Bani, and the Naam. ||6||

⁶When my God attaches someone to Him, only then is that person attached.

⁷Conquering ego, he remains awake to the Word of the Shabad.

⁸Here and hereafter, he enjoys lasting peace. ||7||

⁹The fickle mind does not know the way.

¹⁰The filthy self-willed manmukh does not understand the Shabad.

¹¹The Gurmukh chants the Immaculate Naam. ||8||

¹²I offer my prayer to the Lord,

¹³that I might dwell in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy.

¹⁴There, sins and sufferings are erased, and one is illumined with the Lord's Name. ||9||

¹⁵In reflective meditation, I have come to love good conduct.

¹⁶Through the Word of the True Guru, I recognize the One Lord.

¹⁷O Nanak, my mind is imbued with the Lord's Name. ||10||7||

¹⁸Aasaa, First Mehl:

¹⁹The mind of the faithless cynic is like a crazy elephant.

²⁰It wanders around the forest, distracted by attachment to Maya.

²¹It goes here and there, hounded by death.

²²The Gurmukh seeks, and finds his own home. ||1||

²³Without the Word of the Guru's Shabad, the mind finds no place of rest.

²⁴Remember in meditation the Lord's Name, the most pure and sublime; renounce your bitter egotism. ||1||Pause||

²⁵Tell me, how can this stupid mind be rescued?

²⁶Without understanding, it shall suffer the pains of death.

²⁷The Lord Himself forgives us, and unites us with the True Guru.

²⁸The True Lord conquers and overcomes the tortures of death. ||2||

²⁹This mind commits its deeds of karma, and this mind follows the Dharma.

³⁰This mind is born of the five elements.

³¹This foolish mind is perverted and greedy.

³²Chanting the Naam, the mind of the Gurmukh becomes beautiful. ||3||

³³The mind of the Gurmukh finds the Lord's home.

³⁴The Gurmukh comes to know the three worlds.

³⁵This mind is a Yogi, an enjoyer, a practicer of austerities.

³⁶The Gurmukh understands the Lord God Himself. ||4||

³⁷This mind is a detached renunciate, forsaking egotism.

³⁸Desire and duality afflict each and every heart.

³⁹The Gurmukh drinks in the Lord's sublime essence;

⁴⁰at His Door, in the Mansion of the Lord's Presence, He preserves his honor. ||5||

⁴¹This mind is the king, the hero of cosmic battles.

⁴²The mind of the Gurmukh becomes fearless through the Naam.

⁴³Overpowering and subduing the five passions,

⁴⁴holding ego in its grip, it confines them to one place. ||6||

⁴⁵The Gurmukh renounces other songs and tastes.

⁴⁶The mind of the Gurmukh is awakened to devotion.

⁴⁷Hearing the unstruck music of the sound current, this mind contemplates the Shabad, and accepts it.

⁴⁸Understanding itself, this soul becomes attuned to the Formless Lord. ||7||

⁴⁹This mind becomes immaculately pure, in the Court and the Home of the Lord.

⁵⁰The Gurmukh shows his love through loving devotional worship.

⁵¹Night and day, by Guru's Grace, sing the Lord's Praises.

⁵²God dwells in each and every heart, since the very beginning of time, and throughout the ages. ||8||

⁵³This mind is intoxicated with the sublime essence of the Lord;

⁵⁴The Gurmukh realizes the essence of totality.

⁵⁵For the sake of devotional worship, he dwells at the Guru's Feet.

⁵⁶Nanak is the humble servant of the slave of the Lord's slaves. ||9||8||

¹Aasaa, First Mehl:

²When the body perishes, whose wealth is it?

³Without the Guru, how can the Lord's Name be obtained?

⁴The wealth of the Lord's Name is my Companion and Helper.

⁵Night and day, center your loving attention on the Immaculate Lord. ||1||

⁶Without the Lord's Name, who is ours?

⁷I look upon pleasure and pain alike; I shall not forsake the Naam, the Name of the Lord. The Lord Himself forgives me, and blends me with Himself. ||1||Pause||

⁸The fool loves gold and women.

⁹Attached to duality, he has forgotten the Naam.

¹⁰O Lord, he alone chants the Naam, whom You have forgiven.

¹¹Death cannot touch one who sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||2||

¹²The Lord, the Guru, is the Giver; the Lord, the Sustainer of the World.

¹³If it is pleasing to Your Will, please preserve me, O Merciful Lord.

¹⁴As Gurmukh, my mind is pleased with the Lord.

¹⁵My diseases are cured, and my pains are taken away. ||3||

¹⁶There is no other medicine, Tantric charm or mantra.

¹⁷Meditative remembrance upon the Lord, Har, Har, destroys sins.

¹⁸You Yourself cause us to stray from the path, and forget the Naam.

¹⁹Showering Your Mercy, You Yourself save us. ||4||

²⁰The mind is diseased with doubt, superstition and duality.

²¹Without the Guru, it dwells in doubt, and contemplates duality.

²²The Guru reveals the Darshan, the Blessed Vision of the Primal Lord.

²³Without the Word of the Guru's Shabad, what use is human life? ||5||

²⁴Beholding the Marvellous Lord, I am wonder-struck and astonished.

²⁵In each and every heart, of the angels and holy men, He dwells in celestial Samaadhi.

²⁶I have enshrined the All-pervading Lord within my mind.

²⁷There is no one else equal to You. ||6||

²⁸For the sake of devotional worship, we chant Your Name.

²⁹The Lord's devotees dwell in the Society of the Saints.

³⁰Breaking his bonds, one comes to meditate on the Lord.

³¹The Gurmukhs are emancipated, by the Guru-given knowledge of the Lord. ||7||

³²The Messenger of Death cannot touch him with pain;

³³the Lord's humble servant remains awake to the Love of the Naam.

³⁴The Lord is the Lover of His devotees; He dwells with His devotees.

³⁵O Nanak, they are liberated, through the Love of the Lord. ||8||9||

³⁶Aasaa, First Mehl, Ik-Tukee:

³⁷One who serves the Guru, knows his Lord and Master.

³⁸His pains are erased, and he realizes the True Word of the Shabad. ||1||

³⁹Meditate on the Lord, O my friends and companions.

⁴⁰Serving the True Guru, you shall behold God with your eyes. ||1||Pause||

⁴¹People are entangled with mother, father and the world.

⁴²They are entangled with sons, daughters and spouses. ||2||

⁴³They are entangled with religious rituals, and religious faith, acting in ego.

⁴⁴They are entangled with sons, wives and others in their minds. ||3||

⁴⁵The farmers are entangled by farming.

⁴⁶People suffer punishment in ego, and the Lord King exacts the penalty from them. ||4||

⁴⁷They are entangled in trade without contemplation.

⁴⁸They are not satisfied by attachment to the expanse of Maya. ||5||

⁴⁹They are entangled with that wealth, amassed by bankers.

⁵⁰Without devotion to the Lord, they do not become acceptable. ||6||

⁵¹They are entangled with the Vedas, religious discussions and egotism.

⁵²They are entangled, and perish in attachment and corruption. ||7||

⁵³Nanak seeks the Sanctuary of the Lord's Name.

⁵⁴One who is saved by the True Guru, does not suffer entanglement. ||8||10||

¹Raag Aasaa, First Mehl, Ashtpadheeyaa, Third House:

²One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

³Those heads adorned with braided hair, with their parts painted with vermillion

⁴those heads were shaved with scissors, and their throats were choked with dust.

⁵They lived in palatial mansions, but now, they cannot even sit near the palaces. ||1||

⁶Hail to You, O Father Lord, Hail to You!

⁷O Primal Lord. Your limits are not known; You create, and create, and behold the scenes. ||1||Pause||

⁸When they were married, their husbands looked so handsome beside them.

⁹They came in palanquins, decorated with ivory;

¹⁰water was sprinkled over their heads, and glittering fans were waved above them. ||2||

¹¹They were given hundreds of thousands of coins when they sat, and hundreds of thousands of coins when they stood.

¹²They ate coconuts and dates, and rested comfortably upon their beds.

¹³But ropes were put around their necks, and their strings of pearls were broken. ||3||

¹⁴Their wealth and youthful beauty, which gave them so much pleasure, have now become their enemies.

¹⁵The order was given to the soldiers, who dishonored them, and carried them away.

¹⁶If it is pleasing to God's Will, He bestows greatness; if is pleases His Will, He bestows punishment. ||4||

¹⁷If someone focuses on the Lord beforehand, then why should he be punished?

¹⁸The kings had lost their higher consciousness, reveling in pleasure and sensuality.

¹⁹Since Baabar's rule has been proclaimed, even the princes have no food to eat. ||5||

²⁰The Muslims have lost their five times of daily prayer, and the Hindus have lost their worship as well.

²¹Without their sacred squares, how shall the Hindu women bathe and apply the frontal marks to their foreheads?

²²They never remembered their Lord as Raam, and now they cannot even chant Khudaa-i||6||

²³Some have returned to their homes, and meeting their relatives, they ask about their safety.

²⁴For some, it is pre-ordained that they shall sit and cry out in pain.

²⁵Whatever pleases Him, comes to pass. O Nanak, what is the fate of mankind? ||7||11||

²⁶Aasaa, First Mehl:

²⁷Where are the games, the stables, the horses? Where are the drums and the bugles?

²⁸Where are the sword-belts and chariots? Where are those scarlet uniforms?

²⁹Where are the rings and the beautiful faces? They are no longer to be seen here. ||1||

³⁰This world is Yours; You are the Lord of the Universe.

³¹In an instant, You establish and disestablish. You distribute wealth as it pleases You. ||1||Pause||

³²Where are the houses, the gates, the hotels and palaces? Where are those beautiful way-stations?

³³Where are those beautiful women, reclining on their beds, whose beauty would not allow one to sleep?

³⁴Where are those betel leaves, their sellers, and the haremees? They have vanished like shadows. ||2||

³⁵For the sake of this wealth, so many were ruined; because of this wealth, so many have been disgraced.

³⁶It was not gathered without sin, and it does not go along with the dead.

³⁷Those, whom the Creator Lord would destroy - first He strips them of virtue. ||3||

³⁸Millions of religious leaders failed to halt the invader, when they heard of the Emperor's invasion.

¹He burned the rest-houses and the ancient temples; he cut the princes limb from limb, and cast them into the dust.

²None of the Mugals went blind, and no one performed any miracle. ||4||

³The battle raged between the Mugals and the Pat'haans, and the swords clashed on the battlefield.

⁴They took aim and fired their guns, and they attacked with their elephants.

⁵Those men whose letters were torn in the Lord's Court, were destined to die, O Siblings of Destiny. ||5||

⁶The Hindu women, the Muslim women, the Bhattis and the Rajputs

⁷some had their robes torn away, from head to foot, while others came to dwell in the cremation ground.

⁸Their husbands did not return home - how did they pass their night? ||6||

⁹The Creator Himself acts, and causes others to act. Unto whom should we complain?

¹⁰Pleasure and pain come by Your Will; unto whom should we go and cry?

¹¹The Commander issues His Command, and is pleased. O Nanak, we receive what is written in our destiny. ||7||12||

¹²One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

¹³Aasaa, Kaafee, First Mehl, Eighth House, Ashtpadheeyaa:

¹⁴As the shepherd is in the field for only a short time, so is one in the world.

¹⁵Practicing falsehood, they build their homes. ||1||

¹⁶Wake up! Wake up! O sleepers, see that the travelling merchant is leaving. ||1||Pause||

¹⁷Go ahead and build your houses, if you think you will stay here forever and ever.

¹⁸The body shall fall, and the soul shall depart; if only they knew this. ||2||

¹⁹Why do you cry out and mourn for the dead? The Lord is, and shall always be.

²⁰You mourn for that person, but who will mourn for you? ||3||

²¹You are engrossed in worldly entanglements, O Siblings of Destiny, and you are practicing falsehood.

²²The dead person does not hear anything at all; your cries are heard only by other people. ||4||

²³Only the Lord, who causes the mortal to sleep, O Nanak, can awaken him again.

²⁴One who understands his true home, does not sleep. ||5||

²⁵If the departing mortal can take his wealth with him,

²⁶then go ahead and gather wealth yourself. See this, reflect upon it, and understand. ||6||

²⁷Make your deals, and obtain the true merchandise, or else you shall regret it later.

²⁸Abandon your vices, and practice virtue, and you shall obtain the essence of reality. ||7||

²⁹Plant the seed of Truth in the soil of Dharmic faith, and practice such farming.

³⁰Only then will you be known as a merchant, if you take your profits with you. ||8||

³¹If the Lord shows His Mercy, one meets the True Guru; contemplating Him, one comes to understand.

³²Then, one chants the Naam, hears the Naam, and deals only in the Naam. ||9||

³³As is the profit, so is the loss; this is the way of the world.

³⁴Whatever pleases His Will, O Nanak, is glory for me. ||10||13||

³⁵Aasaa, First Mehl:

³⁶I have searched in the four directions, but no one is mine.

³⁷If it pleases You, O Lord Master, then You are mine, and I am Yours. ||1||

³⁸There is no other door for me; where shall I go to worship?

³⁹You are my only Lord; Your True Name is in my mouth. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁰Some serve the Siddhas, the beings of spiritual perfection, and some serve spiritual teachers; they beg for wealth and miraculous powers.

⁴¹May I never forget the Naam, the Name of the One Lord. This is the wisdom of the True Guru. ||2||

¹Why do the Yogis, the revellers, and the beggars wander in foreign lands?

²They do not understand the Word of the Guru's Shabad, and the essence of excellence within them. ||3||

³The Pandits, the religious scholars, the teachers and astrologers, and those who endlessly read the Puraanas,

⁴do not know what is within; God is hidden deep within them. ||4||

⁵Some penitents perform penance in the forests, and some dwell forever at sacred shrines.

⁶The unenlightened people do not understand themselves - why have they become renunciates? ||5||

⁷Some control their sexual energy, and are known as celibates.

⁸But without the Guru's Word, they are not saved, and they wander in reincarnation. ||6||

⁹Some are householders, servants, and seekers, attached to the Guru's Teachings.

¹⁰They hold fast to the Naam, to charity, to cleansing and purification; they remain awake in devotion to the Lord. ||7||

¹¹Through the Guru, the Gate of the Lord's Home is found, and that place is recognized.

¹²Nanak does not forget the Naam; his mind has surrendered to the True Lord. ||8||14||

¹³Aasaa, First Mehl:

¹⁴Stilling the desires of the mind, the mortal truly crosses over the terrifying world-ocean.

¹⁵In the very beginning, and throughout the ages, You have been the Merciful Lord and Master; I seek Your Sanctuary. ||1||

¹⁶You are the Giver, and I am a mere beggar. Lord, please grant me the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan.

¹⁷The Gurmukh meditates on the Naam; the temple of his mind resounds with joy. ||1||Pause||

¹⁸Renouncing false greed, one comes to realize the Truth.

¹⁹So let yourself be absorbed in the Word of the Guru's Shabad, and know this supreme realization. ||2||

²⁰This mind is a greedy king, engrossed in greed.

²¹The Gurmukh eliminates his greed, and comes to an understanding with the Lord. ||3||

²²Planting the seeds in the rocky soil, how can one reap a profit?

²³The self-willed manmukh is not pleased with Truth; the false are buried in falsehood. ||4||

²⁴So renounce greed - you are blind! Greed only brings pain.

²⁵When the True Lord dwells within the mind, the poisonous ego is conquered. ||5||

²⁶Renounce the evil way of duality, or you shall be plundered, O Siblings of Destiny.

²⁷Day and night, praise the Naam, in the Sanctuary of the True Guru's protection. ||6||

²⁸The self-willed manmukh is a rock, a stone. His life is cursed and useless.

²⁹No matter now long a stone is kept under water, it still remains dry at its core. ||7||

³⁰The Name of the Lord is the treasure; the Perfect Guru has given it to me.

³¹O Nanak, one who does not forget the Naam, churns and drinks in the Ambrosial Nectar. ||8||15||

³²Aasaa, First Mehl:

³³The travellers travel from one road to another.

³⁴The world is engrossed in its entanglements, and does not appreciate the Truth. ||1||

³⁵Why wander around, and why go searching, when the Guru's Shabad reveals Him to us?

³⁶Leaving behind egotism and attachment, I have arrived at my own home. ||1||Pause||

³⁷Through Truth, one meets the True One; He is not obtained through falsehood.

³⁸Centering your consciousness on the True Lord, you shall not have to come into the world again. ||2||

³⁹Why do you weep for the dead? You do not know how to weep.

⁴⁰Weep by praising the True Lord, and recognize His Command. ||3||

⁴¹Blessed is the birth of one who is destined to abide by the Lord's Command.

⁴²He obtains the true profit, realizing the Lord's Command. ||4||

¹If it pleases the Commander, one goes to His Court, robed in honor.

²By His Command, God's slaves are hit over the head. ||5||

³The profit is earned by enshrining Truth and justice in the mind.

⁴They obtain what is written in their destiny, and overcome pride. ||6||

⁵The self-willed manmukhs are hit over the head, and consumed by conflict.

⁶The cheaters are plundered by falsehood; they are chained and led away. ||7||

⁷Enshrine the Lord Master in your mind, and you shall not have to repent.

⁸He forgives our sins, when we practice the Teachings of the Guru's Word. ||8||

⁹Nanak begs for the True Name, which is obtained by the Gurmukh.

¹⁰Without You, I have no other at all; please, bless me with Your Glance of Grace. ||9||16||

¹¹Aasaa, First Mehl:

¹²Why should I go searching in the forests, when the woods of my home are so green?

¹³The True Word of the Shabad has instantaneously come and settled in my heart. ||1||

¹⁴Wherever I look, there He is; I know no other.

¹⁵Working for the Guru, one realizes the Mansion of the Lord's Presence. ||1||Pause||

¹⁶The True Lord blends us with Himself, when it is pleasing to His Mind.

¹⁷One who ever walks in accordance with His Will, merges into His Being. ||2||

¹⁸When the True Lord dwells in the mind, that mind flourishes.

¹⁹He Himself grants greatness; His Gifts are never exhausted. ||3||

²⁰Serving this and that person, how can one obtain the Lord's Court?

²¹If someone embarks on a boat of stone, he shall drown with its cargo. ||4||

²²So offer your mind, and surrender your head with it.

²³The Gurmukh realizes the true essence, and finds the home of his own self. ||5||

²⁴People discuss birth and death; the Creator created this.

²⁵Those who conquer their selfhood and remain dead, shall never have to die again. ||6||

²⁶Do those deeds which the Primal Lord has ordered for you.

²⁷If one surrenders his mind upon meeting the True Guru, who can estimate its value? ||7||

²⁸That Lord Master is the Assayer of the jewel of the mind; He places the value on it.

²⁹O Nanak, True is the Glory of that one, in whose mind the Lord Master dwells. ||8||17||

³⁰Aasaa, First Mehl:

³¹Those who have forgotten the Naam, the Name of the Lord, are deluded by doubt and duality.

³²Those who abandon the roots and cling to the branches, shall obtain only ashes. ||1||

³³Without the Name, how can one be emancipated? Who knows this?

³⁴One who becomes Gurmukh is emancipated; the self-willed manmukhs lose their honor. ||1||Pause||

³⁵Those who serve the One Lord become perfect in their understanding, O Siblings of Destiny.

³⁶The Lord's humble servant finds Sanctuary in Him, the Immaculate One, from the very beginning, and throughout the ages. ||2||

³⁷My Lord and Master is the One; there is no other, O Siblings of Destiny.

³⁸By the Grace of the True Lord, celestial peace is obtained. ||3||

³⁹Without the Guru, no one has obtained Him, although many may claim to have done so.

⁴⁰He Himself reveals the Way, and implants true devotion within. ||4||

⁴¹Even if the self-willed manmukh is instructed, he stills goes into the wilderness.

⁴²Without the Lord's Name, he shall not be emancipated; he shall die, and sink into hell. ||5||

⁴³He wanders through birth and death, and never chants the Lord's Name.

⁴⁴He never realizes his own value, without serving the Guru. ||6||

¹Whatever service the Lord causes us to do, that is just what we do.

²He Himself acts; who else should be mentioned? He beholds His own greatness. ||7||

³He alone serves the Guru, whom the Lord Himself inspires to do so.

⁴O Nanak, offering his head, one is emancipated, and honored in the Court of the Lord. ||8||18||

⁵Aasaa, First Mehl:

⁶Beautiful is the Supreme Lord and Master, and beautiful is the Word of the Guru's Bani.

⁷By great good fortune, one meets the True Guru, and the supreme status of Nirvaanaa is obtained. ||1||

⁸I am the lowest slave of Your slaves; I am Your most humble servant.

⁹As You keep me, I live. Your Name is in my mouth. ||1||Pause||

¹⁰I have such a great thirst for the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan; my mind accepts Your Will, and so You are pleased with me.

¹¹Greatness is in the Hands of my Lord and Master; by His Will, honor is obtained. ||2||

¹²Do not think that the True Lord is far away; He is deep within.

¹³Wherever I look, there I find Him pervading; how can I estimate His value? ||3||

¹⁴He Himself does, and He Himself undoes. He Himself beholds His glorious greatness.

¹⁵Becoming Gurmukh, one beholds Him, and so, His value is appraised. ||4||

¹⁶So earn your profits while you are alive, by serving the Guru.

¹⁷If it is so pre-ordained, then one finds the True Guru. ||5||

¹⁸The self-willed manmukhs continually lose, and wander around, deluded by doubt.

¹⁹The blind manmukhs do not remember the Lord; how can they obtain the Blessed Vision of His Darshan? ||6||

²⁰One's coming into the world is judged worthwhile only if one lovingly attunes oneself to the True Lord.

²¹Meeting the Guru, one becomes invaluable; his light merges into the Light. ||7||

²²Day and night, he remains detached, and serves the Primal Lord.

²³O Nanak, those who are imbued with the Lord's Lotus Feet, are content with the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||8||19||

²⁴Aasaa, First Mehl:

²⁵No matter how much one may describe the Lord, His limits still cannot be known.

²⁶I am without any support; You, O Lord, are my only Support; You are my almighty power. ||1||

²⁷This is Nanak's prayer, that he may be adorned with the True Name.

²⁸When self-conceit is eradicated, and understanding is obtained, one meets the Lord, through the Word of the Guru's Shabad. ||1||Pause||

²⁹Abandoning egotism and pride, one obtains contemplative understanding.

³⁰When the mind surrenders to the Lord Master, He bestows the support of the Truth. ||2||

³¹Day and night, remain content with the Naam, the Name of the Lord; that is the true service.

³²No misfortune troubles one who follows the Command of the Lord's Will. ||3||

³³One who follows the Command of the Lord's Will is taken into the Lord's Treasury.

³⁴The counterfeit find no place there; they are mixed with the false ones. ||4||

³⁵Forever and ever, the genuine coins are treasured; with them, the true merchandise is purchased.

³⁶The false ones are not seen in the Lord's Treasury; they are seized and cast into the fire again. ||5||

³⁷Those who understand their own souls, are themselves the Supreme Soul.

³⁸The One Lord is the tree of ambrosial nectar, which bears the ambrosial fruit. ||6||

³⁹Those who taste the ambrosial fruit remain satisfied with Truth.

⁴⁰They have no doubt or sense of separation - their tongues taste the divine taste. ||7||

⁴¹By His Command, and through your past actions, you came into the world; walk forever according to His Will.

⁴²Please, grant virtue to Nanak, the virtueless one; bless him with the glorious greatness of the Truth. ||8||20||

⁴³Aasaa, First Mehl:

⁴⁴One whose mind is attuned to the Lord's Name speaks the truth.

⁴⁵What would the people lose, if I became pleasing to You, O Lord? ||1||

¹As long as there is the breath of life, meditate on the True Lord.

²You shall receive the profit of singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord, and find peace. ||1||Pause||

³True is Your Service; bless me with it, O Merciful Lord.

⁴I live by praising You; You are my Anchor and Support. ||2||

⁵I am Your servant, the gate-keeper at Your Gate; You alone know my pain.

⁶How wonderful is Your devotional worship! It removes all pains. ||3||

⁷The Gurmukhs know that by chanting the Naam, they shall dwell in His Court, in His Presence.

⁸True and acceptable is that time, when one recognizes the Word of the Shabad. ||4||

⁹Those who practice Truth, contentment and love, obtain the supplies of the Lord's Name.

¹⁰So banish corruption from your mind, and the True One will grant you Truth. ||5||

¹¹The True Lord inspires true love in the truthful.

¹²He Himself administers justice, as it pleases His Will. ||6||

¹³True is the gift of the True, Compassionate Lord.

¹⁴Day and night, I serve the One whose Name is priceless. ||7||

¹⁵You are so sublime, and I am so lowly, but I am called Your slave.

¹⁶Please, shower Nanak with Your Glance of Grace, that he, the separated one, may merge with You again, O Lord. ||8||21||

¹⁷Aasaa, First Mehl:

¹⁸How can coming and going, the cycle of reincarnation be ended? And how can one meet the Lord?

¹⁹The pain of birth and death is so great, in constant skepticism and duality. ||1||

²⁰Without the Name, what is life? Cleverness is detestable and cursed.

²¹One who does not serve the Holy True Guru, is not pleased by devotion to the Lord. ||1||Pause||

²²Coming and going is ended only when one finds the True Guru.

²³He gives the wealth and capital of the Lord's Name, and false doubt is destroyed. ||2||

²⁴Joining the humble Saintly beings, let us sing the blessed, blessed Praises of the Lord.

²⁵The Primal Lord, the Infinite, is obtained by the Gurmukh. ||3||

²⁶The drama of the world is staged like the show of a buffoon.

²⁷For an instant, for a moment, the show is seen, but it disappears in no time at all. ||4||

²⁸The game of chance is played on the board of egotism, with the pieces of falsehood and ego.

²⁹The whole world loses; he alone wins, who reflects upon the Word of the Guru's Shabad. ||5||

³⁰As is the cane in the hand of the blind man, so is the Lord's Name for me.

³¹The Lord's Name is my Support, night and day and morning. ||6||

³²As You keep me, Lord, I live; the Lord's Name is my only Support.

³³It is my only comfort in the end; the gate of salvation is found by His humble servants. ||7||

³⁴The pain of birth and death is removed, by chanting and meditating on the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

³⁵O Nanak, one who does not forget the Naam, is saved by the Perfect Guru. ||8||22||

³⁶Aasaa, Third Mehl, Ashtpadheeyaa, Second House:

³⁷One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

³⁸The Shaastras, the Vedas and the Simritees are contained in the ocean of Your Name; the River Ganges is held in Your Feet.

³⁹The intellect can understand the world of the three modes, but You, O Primal Lord, are totally astounding. ||1||

⁴⁰Servant Nanak meditates on His Feet, and chants the Ambrosial Word of His Bani. ||1||Pause||

⁴¹Three hundred thirty million gods are Your servants. You bestow wealth, and the supernatural powers of the Siddhas; You are the Support of the breath of life.

¹His beauteous forms cannot be comprehended; what can anyone accomplish by discussing and debating? ||2||

²Throughout the ages, You are the three qualities, and the four sources of creation.

³If You show Your Mercy, then one obtains the supreme status, and speaks the Unspoken Speech. ||3||

⁴You are the Creator; all are created by You. What can any mortal being do?

⁵He alone, upon whom You shower Your Grace, is absorbed into the Truth. ||4||

⁶Everyone who comes and goes chants Your Name.

⁷When it is pleasing to Your Will, then the Gurmukh understands. Otherwise, the self-willed manmukhs wander in ignorance. ||5||

⁸You gave the four Vedas to Brahma, for him to read and read continually, and reflect upon.

⁹The wretched one does not understand His Command, and is reincarnated into heaven and hell. ||6||

¹⁰In each and every age, He creates the kings, who are sung of as His Incarnations.

¹¹Even they have not found His limits; what can I speak of and contemplate? ||7||

¹²You are True, and all that You do is True. If You bless me with the Truth, I will speak on it.

¹³One whom You inspire to understand the Truth, is easily absorbed into the Naam. ||8||1||23||

¹⁴Aasaa, Third Mehl:

¹⁵The True Guru has dispelled my doubts.

¹⁶He has enshrined the Immaculate Name of the Lord within my mind.

¹⁷Focusing on the Word of the Shabad, I have obtained lasting peace. ||1||

¹⁸Listen, O my mind, to the essence of spiritual wisdom.

¹⁹The Great Giver knows our condition completely; the Gurmukh obtains the treasure of the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||1||Pause||

²⁰The great glory of meeting the True Guru is

²¹that it has quenched the fire of possessiveness and desire;

²²imbued with peace and poise, I sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||2||

²³Without the Perfect Guru, no one knows the Lord.

²⁴Attached to Maya, they are engrossed in duality.

²⁵The Gurmukh receives the Naam, and the Bani of the Lord's Word. ||3||

²⁶Service to the Guru is the most excellent and sublime penance of penances.

²⁷The Dear Lord dwells in the mind, and all suffering departs.

²⁸Then, at the Gate of the True Lord, one appears truthful. ||4||

²⁹Serving the Guru, one comes to know the three worlds.

³⁰Understanding his own self, he obtains the Lord.

³¹Through the True Word of His Bani, we enter the Mansion of His Presence. ||5||

³²Serving the Guru, all of one's generations are saved.

³³Keep the Immaculate Naam enshrined within your heart.

³⁴In the Court of the True Lord, you shall be adorned with True Glory. ||6||

³⁵How very fortunate are they, who are committed to the Guru's service.

³⁶Night and day, they are engaged in devotional worship; the True Name is implanted within them.

³⁷Through the Naam, all of one's generations are saved. ||7||

³⁸Nanak chants the true thought.

³⁹Keep the Name of the Lord enshrined within your heart.

⁴⁰Imbued with devotion to the Lord, the gate of salvation is found. ||8||2||24||

⁴¹Aasaa, Third Mehl:

⁴²Everyone lives, hoping in hope.

⁴³Understanding His Command, one becomes free of desire.

⁴⁴So many are asleep in hope.

⁴⁵He alone wakes up, whom the Lord awakens. ||1||

⁴⁶The True Guru has led me to understand the Naam, the Name of the Lord; without the Naam, hunger does not go away.

¹Through the Naam, the fire of desire is extinguished; the Naam is obtained by His Will. ||1||Pause||

²In the Dark Age of Kali Yuga, realize the Word of the Shabad.

³By this devotional worship, egotism is eliminated.

⁴Serving the True Guru, one becomes approved.

⁵So know the One, who created hope and desire. ||2||

⁶What shall we offer to one who proclaims the Word of the Shabad?

⁷By His Grace, the Naam is enshrined within our minds.

⁸Offer your head, and shed your self-conceit.

⁹One who understands the Lord's Command finds lasting peace. ||3||

¹⁰He Himself does, and causes others to do.

¹¹He Himself enshrines His Name in the mind of the Gurmukh.

¹²He Himself misleads us, and He Himself puts us back on the Path.

¹³Through the True Word of the Shabad, we merge into the True Lord. ||4||

¹⁴True is the Shabad, and True is the Word of the Lord's Bani.

¹⁵In each and every age, the Gurmukhs speak it and chant it.

¹⁶The self-willed manmukhs are deluded by doubt and attachment.

¹⁷Without the Name, everyone wanders around insane. ||5||

¹⁸Throughout the three worlds, is the one Maya.

¹⁹The fool reads and reads, but holds tight to duality.

²⁰He performs all sorts of rituals, but still suffers terrible pain.

²¹Serving the True Guru, eternal peace is obtained. ||6||

²²Reflective meditation upon the Shabad is such sweet nectar.

²³Night and day, one enjoys it, subduing his ego.

²⁴When the Lord showers His Mercy, we enjoy celestial bliss.

²⁵Imbued with the Naam, love the True Lord forever. ||7||

²⁶Meditate on the Lord, and read and reflect upon the Guru's Shabad.

²⁷Subdue your ego and meditate on the Lord.

²⁸Meditate on the Lord, and be imbued with fear and love of the True One.

²⁹O Nanak, enshrine the Naam within your heart, through the Guru's Teachings. ||8||3||25||

³⁰One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

³¹Raag Aasaa, Third Mehl, Ashtpadheeyaa, Eighth House, Kaafee:

³²Peace emanates from the Guru; He puts out the fire of desire.

³³The Naam, the Name of the Lord, is obtained from the Guru; it is the greatest greatness. ||1||

³⁴Keep the One Name in your consciousness, O my Siblings of Destiny.

³⁵Seeing the world on fire, I have hurried to the Lord's Sanctuary. ||1||Pause||

³⁶Spiritual wisdom emanates from the Guru; reflect upon the supreme essence of reality.

³⁷Through the Guru, the Lord's Mansion and His Court are attained; His devotional worship is overflowing with treasures. ||2||

³⁸The Gurmukh meditates on the Naam; he achieves reflective meditation and understanding.

³⁹The Gurmukh is the Lord's devotee, immersed in His Praises; the Infinite Word of the Shabad dwells within him. ||3||

⁴⁰Happiness emanates from the Gurmukh; he never suffers pain.

⁴¹The Gurmukh conquers his ego, and his mind is immaculately pure. ||4||

⁴²Meeting the True Guru, self-conceit is removed, and understanding of the three worlds is obtained.

⁴³The Immaculate Divine Light is pervading and permeating everywhere; one's light merges into the Light. ||5||

⁴⁴The Perfect Guru instructs, and one's intellect becomes sublime.

⁴⁵A cooling and soothing peace comes within, and through the Naam, peace is obtained. ||6||

⁴⁶One meets the Perfect True Guru only when the Lord bestows His Glance of Grace.

⁴⁷All sins and vices are eradicated, and one shall never again suffer pain or distress. ||7||

¹Glory is in His Hands; He bestows His Name, and attaches us to it.

²O Nanak, the treasure of the Naam abides within the mind, and glory is obtained. ||8||4||26||

³Aasaa, Third Mehl:

⁴Listen, O mortal: enshrine His Name within your mind; He shall come to meet with you, O my Sibling of Destiny.

⁵Night and day, center your consciousness on true devotional worship of the True Lord. ||1||

⁶Meditate on the One Naam, and you shall find peace, O my Siblings of Destiny.

⁷Eradicate egotism and duality, and your glory shall be glorious. ||1||Pause||

⁸The angels, humans and silent sages long for this devotional worship, but without the True Guru, it cannot be attained.

⁹The Pandits, the religious scholars, and the astrologers read their books, but they do not understand. ||2||

¹⁰He Himself keeps all in His Hand; nothing else can be said.

¹¹Whatever He gives, is received. The Guru has imparted this understanding to me. ||3||

¹²All beings and creatures are His; He belongs to all.

¹³So who can we call bad, since there is no other? ||4||

¹⁴The Command of the One Lord is pervading throughout; duty to the One Lord is upon the heads of all.

¹⁵He Himself has led them astray, and placed greed and corruption within their hearts. ||5||

¹⁶He has sanctified those few Gurmukhs who understand Him, and reflect upon Him.

¹⁷He grants devotional worship to them, and within them is the treasure. ||6||

¹⁸The spiritual teachers know nothing but the Truth; they obtain true understanding.

¹⁹They are led astray by Him, but they do not go astray, because they know the True Lord. ||7||

²⁰Within the homes of their bodies, the five passions are pervading, but here, the five are well-behaved.

²¹O Nanak, without the True Guru, they are not overcome; through the Naam, the ego is conquered. ||8||5||27||

²²Aasaa, Third Mehl:

²³Everything is within the home of your own self; there is nothing beyond it.

²⁴By Guru's Grace, it is obtained, and the doors of the inner heart are opened wide. ||1||

²⁵From the True Guru, the Lord's Name is obtained, O Siblings of Destiny.

²⁶The treasure of the Naam is within; the Perfect True Guru has shown this to me. ||1||Pause||

²⁷One who is a buyer of the Lord's Name, finds it, and obtains the jewel of contemplation.

²⁸He opens the doors deep within, and through the Eyes of Divine Vision, beholds the treasure of liberation. ||2||

²⁹There are so many mansions within the body; the soul dwells within them.

³⁰He obtains the fruits of his mind's desires, and he shall not have to go through reincarnation again. ||3||

³¹The appraisers cherish the commodity of the Name; they obtain understanding from the Guru.

³²The wealth of the Naam is priceless; how few are the Gurmukhs who obtain it. ||4||

³³Searching outwardly, what can anyone find? The commodity is deep within the home of the self, O Siblings of Destiny.

³⁴The entire world is wandering around, deluded by doubt; the self-willed manmukhs lose their honor. ||5||

³⁵The false one leaves his own hearth and home, and goes out to another's home.

³⁶Like a thief, he is caught, and without the Naam, he is beaten and struck down. ||6||

³⁷Those who know their own home, are happy, O Siblings of Destiny.

³⁸They realize God within their own hearts, through the glorious greatness of the Guru. ||7||

³⁹He Himself gives gifts, and He Himself bestows understanding; unto whom can we complain?

⁴⁰O Nanak, meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord, and you shall obtain glory in the True Court. ||8||6||28||

¹Aasaa, Third Mehl:

²Those who recognize their own selves, enjoy the sweet flavor, O Siblings of Destiny.

³Those who drink in the sublime essence of the Lord are emancipated; they love the Truth. ||1||

⁴The Beloved Lord is the purest of the pure; He comes to dwell in the pure mind.

⁵Praising the Lord, through the Guru's Teachings, one remains unaffected by corruption. ||1||Pause||

⁶Without the Word of the Shabad, they do not understand themselves -they are totally blind, O Siblings of Destiny.

⁷Through the Guru's Teachings, the heart is illuminated, and in the end, only the Naam shall be your companion. ||2||

⁸They are occupied with the Naam, and only the Naam; they deal only in the Naam.

⁹Deep within their hearts is the Naam; upon their lips is the Naam; they contemplate the Word of God, and the Naam. ||3||

¹⁰They listen to the Naam, believe in the Naam, and through the Naam, they obtain glory.

¹¹They praise the Naam, forever and ever, and through the Naam, they obtain the Mansion of the Lord's Presence. ||4||

¹²Through the Naam, their hearts are illumined, and through the Naam, they obtain honor.

¹³Through the Naam, peace wells up; I seek the Sanctuary of the Naam. ||5||

¹⁴Without the Naam, no one is accepted; the self-willed manmukhs lose their honor.

¹⁵In the City of Death, they are tied down and beaten, and they lose their lives in vain. ||6||

¹⁶Those Gurmukhs who realize the Naam, all serve the Naam.

¹⁷So believe in the Naam, and only the Naam; through the Naam, glorious greatness is obtained. ||7||

¹⁸He alone receives it, unto whom it is given. Through the Guru's Teachings, the Naam is realized.

¹⁹O Nanak, everything is under the influence of the Naam; by perfect good destiny, a few obtain it. ||8||7||29||

²⁰Aasaa, Third Mehl:

²¹The deserted brides do not obtain the Mansion of their Husband's Presence, nor do they know His taste.

²²They speak harsh words, and do not bow to Him; they are in love with another. ||1||

²³How can this mind come under control?

²⁴By Guru's Grace, it is held in check; instructed in spiritual wisdom, it returns to its home. ||1||Pause||

²⁵He Himself adorns the happy soul-brides; they bear Him love and affection.

²⁶They live in harmony with the Sweet Will of the True Guru, naturally adorned with the Naam. ||2||

²⁷They enjoy their Beloved forever, and their bed is decorated with Truth.

²⁸They are fascinated with the Love of their Husband Lord; meeting their Beloved, they obtain peace. ||3||

²⁹Spiritual wisdom is the incomparable decoration of the happy soul-bride.

³⁰She is so beautiful - she is the queen of all; she enjoys the love and affection of her Husband Lord. ||4||

³¹The True Lord, the Unseen, the Infinite, has infused His Love among the happy soul-brides.

³²They serve their True Guru, with true love and affection. ||5||

³³The happy soul-bride has adorned herself with the necklace of virtue.

³⁴She applies the perfume of love to her body, and within her mind is the jewel of reflective meditation. ||6||

³⁵Those who are imbued with devotional worship are the most exalted. Their social standing and honor come from the Word of the Shabad.

³⁶Without the Naam, all are low class, like maggots in manure. ||7||

³⁷Everyone proclaims, "Me, me!"; but without the Shabad, the ego does not depart.

³⁸O Nanak, those who are imbued with the Naam lose their ego; they remain absorbed in the True Lord. ||8||8||30||

³⁹Aasaa, Third Mehl:

⁴⁰Those who are imbued with the True Lord are spotless and pure; their reputation is forever true.

⁴¹Here, they are known in each and every home, and hereafter, they are famous throughout the ages. ||1||

¹O beauteous and joyful mind, imbue yourself with your true color.

²If you imbue yourself with the Beauteous Word of the Guru's Bani, then this color shall never fade away. ||1||Pause||

³I am lowly, filthy, and totally egotistical; I am attached to the corruption of duality.

⁴But meeting with the Guru, the Philosopher's Stone, I am transformed into gold; I am blended with the Pure Light of the Infinite Lord. ||2||

⁵Without the Guru, no one is imbued with the color of the Lord's Love; meeting with the Guru, this color is applied.

⁶Those who are imbued with the Fear, and the Love of the Guru, are absorbed in the Praise of the True Lord. ||3||

⁷Without fear, the cloth is not dyed, and the mind is not rendered pure.

⁸Without fear, the performance of rituals is false, and one finds no place of rest. ||4||

⁹Only those whom the Lord imbues, are so imbued; they join the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation.

¹⁰From the Perfect Guru, the Sat Sangat emanates, and one easily merges into the Love of the True One. ||5||

¹¹Without the Sangat, the Company of the Holy, all remain like beasts and animals.

¹²They do not know the One who created them; without the Name, all are thieves. ||6||

¹³Some purchase merits and sell off their demerits; through the Guru, they obtain peace and poise.

¹⁴Serving the Guru, they obtain the Name, which comes to dwell deep within. ||7||

¹⁵The One Lord is the Giver of all; He assigns tasks to each and every person.

¹⁶O Nanak, the Lord embellishes us with the Name; attached to the Word of the Shabad, we are merged into Him. ||8||9||31||

¹⁷Aasaa, Third Mehl:

¹⁸Everyone longs for the Name, but he alone receives it, unto whom the Lord shows His Mercy.

¹⁹Without the Name, there is only pain; he alone obtains peace, whose mind is filled with the Name. ||1||

²⁰You are infinite and merciful; I seek Your Sanctuary.

²¹From the Perfect Guru, the glorious greatness of the Naam is obtained. ||1||Pause||

²²Inwardly and outwardly, there is only the One Lord. He has created the world, with its many varieties.

²³According to the Order of His Will, He makes us act. What else can we talk about, O Siblings of Destiny? ||2||

²⁴Knowledge and ignorance are all your making; You have control over these.

²⁵Some, You forgive, and unite with Yourself; while others, the wicked, you strike down and drive out of Your Court. ||3||

²⁶Some, from the very beginning, are pure and pious; You attach them to Your Name.

²⁷Serving the Guru, peace wells up; through the True Word of the Shabad, one comes to understand. ||4||

²⁸Some are crooked, filthy and vicious; the Lord Himself has led them astray from the Name.

²⁹They have no intuition, no understanding and no self-discipline; they wander around delirious. ||5||

³⁰He grants faith to those whom He has blessed with His Glance of Grace.

³¹This mind finds truth, contentment and self-discipline, hearing the Immaculate Word of the Shabad. ||6||

³²By reading books, one cannot reach Him; by speaking and talking, His limits cannot be found.

³³Through the Guru, His value is found; through the True Word of the Shabad, understanding is obtained. ||7||

³⁴So reform this mind and body, by contemplating the Word of the Guru's Shabad.

³⁵O Nanak, within this body is the treasure of the Naam, the Name of the Lord; it is found through the Love of the Infinite Guru. ||8||10||32||

³⁶Aasaa, Third Mehl:

³⁷The happy soul-brides are imbued with Truth; they are adorned with the Word of the Guru's Shabad.

¹They find their Husband Lord within their own home, contemplating the True Word of the Shabad. ||1||

²Through merits, their demerits are forgiven, and they embrace love for the Lord.

³The soul-bride then obtains the Lord as her Husband; meeting the Guru, this union comes about. ||1||Pause||

⁴Some do not know the Presence of their Husband Lord; they are deluded by duality and doubt.

⁵How can the forsaken brides meet Him? Their life night passes in pain. ||2||

⁶Those whose minds are filled with the True Lord, perform truthful actions.

⁷Night and day, they serve the Lord with poise, and are absorbed in the True Lord. ||3||

⁸The forsaken brides wander around, deluded by doubt; telling lies, they eat poison.

⁹They do not know their Husband Lord, and upon their deserted bed, they suffer in misery. ||4||

¹⁰The True Lord is the One and only; do not be deluded by doubt, O my mind.

¹¹Consult with the Guru, serve the True Lord, and enshrine the Immaculate Truth within your mind. ||5||

¹²The happy soul-bride always finds her Husband Lord; she banishes egotism and self-conceit.

¹³She remains attached to her Husband Lord, night and day, and she finds peace upon His Bed of Truth. ||6||

¹⁴Those who shouted, "Mine, mine!" have departed, without obtaining anything.

¹⁵The separated one does not obtain the Mansion of the Lord's Presence, and departs, repenting in the end. ||7||

¹⁶That Husband Lord of mine is the One and only; I am in love with the One alone.

¹⁷O Nanak, if the soul-bride longs for peace, she should enshrine the Lord's Name within her mind. ||8||11||33||

¹⁸Aasaa, Third Mehl:

¹⁹Those whom the Lord has caused to drink in the Ambrosial Nectar, naturally, intuitively, enjoy the sublime essence.

²⁰The True Lord is care-free; he does not have even an iota of greed. ||1||

²¹The True Ambrosial Nectar rains down, and trickles into the mouths of the Gurmukhs.

²²Their minds are forever rejuvenated, and they naturally, intuitively, sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||1||Pause||

²³The self-willed manmukhs are forever forsaken brides; they cry out and bewail at the Lord's Gate.

²⁴Those who do not enjoy the sublime taste of their Husband Lord, act according to their pre-ordained destiny. ||2||

²⁵The Gurmukh plants the seed of the True Name, and it sprouts. He deals in the True Name alone.