Raag Gond

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 Gond, Chau-Padhay, Fourth Mehl, First House:

³If, in his conscious mind, he places his hopes in the Lord, then he shall obtain the fruits of all the many desires of his mind.

⁴The Lord knows everything which happens to the soul. Not even an iota of one's effort goes to waste.

⁵Place your hopes in the Lord, O my mind; the Lord and Master is pervading and permeating all. ||1||

⁶O my mind, place your hopes in the Lord of the World, the Master of the Universe.

⁷That hope which is placed in any other than the Lord - that hope is fruitless, and totally useless. ||1||Pause||

⁸That which you can see, Maya, and all attachment to family - don't place your hopes in them, or your life will be wasted and lost.

⁹Nothing is in their hands; what can these poor creatures do? By their actions, nothing can be done.

¹⁰O my mind, place your hopes in the Lord, your Beloved, who shall carry you across, and save your whole family as well. ||2||

¹¹If you place your hopes in any other, in any friend other than the Lord, then you shall come to know that it is of no use at all.

¹²This hope placed in other friends comes from the love of duality. In an instant, it is gone; it is totally false.

¹³O my mind, place your hopes in the Lord, your True Beloved, who shall approve and reward you for all your efforts. ||3||

¹⁴Hope and desire are all Yours, O my Lord and Master. As You inspire hope, so are the hopes held.

¹Nothing is in the hands of anyone, O my Lord and Master; such is the understanding the True Guru has given me to understand.

²You alone know the hope of servant Nanak, O Lord; gazing upon the Blessed Vision of the Lord's Darshan, he is satisfied. ||4||1||

³Gond, Fourth Mehl:

⁴Serve such a Lord, and ever meditate on Him, who in an instant erases all sins and mistakes.

⁵If someone forsakes the Lord and places his hopes in another, then all his service to the Lord is rendered fruitless.

⁶O my mind, serve the Lord, the Giver of peace; serving Him, all your hunger shall depart. ||1||

⁷O my mind, place your faith in the Lord.

⁸Wherever I go, my Lord and Master is there with me. The Lord saves the honor of His humble servants and slaves. ||1||Pause||

⁹If you tell your sorrows to another, then he, in return, will tell you of his greater sorrows.

¹⁰So tell your sorrows to the Lord, your Lord and Master, who shall instantly dispel your pain.

¹¹Forsaking such a Lord God, if you tell your sorrows to another, then you shall die of shame. ||2||

¹²The relatives, friends and siblings of the world that you see, O my mind, all meet with you for their own purposes.

¹³And that day, when their self-interests are not served, on that day, they shall not come near you.

¹⁴O my mind, serve your Lord, day and night; He shall help you in good times and bad. ||3||

¹⁵Why place your faith in anyone, O my mind, who cannot come to your rescue at the last instant?

¹⁶Chant the Lord's Mantra, take the Guru's Teachings, and meditate on Him. In the end, the Lord saves those who love Him in their consciousness.

¹⁷Servant Nanak speaks: night and day, chant the Lord's Name, O Saints; this is the only true hope for emancipation. ||4||2||

¹⁸Gond, Fourth Mehl:

¹⁹Remembering the Lord in meditation, you shall find bliss and peace forever deep within, and your mind will become tranquil and cool.

²⁰It is like the harsh sun of Maya, with its burning heat; seeing the moon, the Guru, its heat totally vanishes. ||1||

²¹O my mind, night and day, meditate, and chant the Lord's Name.

²²Here and hereafter, He shall protect you, everywhere; serve such a God forever. ||1||Pause||

²³Meditate on the Lord, who contains all treasures, O my mind; as Gurmukh, search for the jewel, the Lord.

²⁴Those who meditate on the Lord, find the Lord, my Lord and Master; I wash the feet of those slaves of the Lord. ||2||

²⁵One who realizes the Word of the Shabad, obtains the sublime essence of the Lord; such a Saint is lofty and sublime, the greatest of the great.

²⁶The Lord Himself magnifies the glory of that humble servant. No one can lessen or decrease that glory, not even a bit. ||3||

¹He shall give you peace, O my mind; meditate forever, every day on Him, with your palms pressed together.

²Please bless servant Nanak with this one gift, O Lord, that Your feet may dwell within my heart forever. ||4||3||

³Gond, Fourth Mehl:

⁴All the kings, emperors, nobles, lords and chiefs are false and transitory, engrossed in duality - know this well.

⁵The eternal Lord is permanent and unchanging; meditate on Him, O my mind, and you shall be approved. ||1||

⁶O my mind, vibrate, and meditate on the Lord's Name, which shall be your defender forever.

⁷One who obtains the Mansion of the Lord's Presence, through the Word of the Guru's Teachings - no one else's power is as great as his. ||1||Pause||

⁸All the wealthy, high class property owners which you see, O my mind, shall vanish, like the fading color of the safflower.

⁹Serve the True, Immaculate Lord forever, O my mind, and you shall be honored in the Court of the Lord. ||2||

¹⁰There are four castes: Brahmin, Kh'shaatriya, Soodra and Vaishya, and there are four stages of life. One who meditates on the Lord, is the most distinguished and renowned.

¹¹The poor castor oil plant, growing near the sandalwood tree, becomes fragrant; in the same way, the sinner, associating with the Saints, becomes acceptable and approved. ||3||

¹²He, within whose heart the Lord abides, is the highest of all, and the purest of all.

¹³Servant Nanak washes the feet of that humble servant of the Lord; he may be from a low class family, but he is now the Lord's servant. ||4||4||

¹⁴Gond, Fourth Mehl:

¹⁵The Lord, the Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts, is all-pervading. As the Lord causes them to act, so do they act.

¹⁶So serve forever such a Lord, O my mind, who will protect you from everything. ||1||

¹⁷O my mind, meditate on the Lord, and read about the Lord every day.

¹⁸Other than the Lord, no one can kill you or save you; so why do you worry, O my mind? ||1||Pause||

¹⁹The Creator created the entire universe, and infused His Light into it.

²⁰The One Lord speaks, and the One Lord causes all to speak.The Perfect Guru has revealed the One Lord. ||2||

²¹The Lord is with you, inside and out; tell me, O mind, how can You hide anything from Him?

²²Serve the Lord open-heartedly, and then, O my mind, you shall find total peace. ||3||

²³Everything is under His control; He is the greatest of all. O my mind, meditate forever on Him.

²⁴O Servant Nanak, that Lord is always with you. Meditate forever on your Lord, and He shall emancipate you. ||4||5||

²⁵Gond, Fourth Mehl:

²⁶My mind yearns so deeply for the Blessed Vision of the Lord's Darshan, like the thirsty man without water. ||1||

²⁷My mind is pierced through by the arrow of the Lord's Love.

²⁸The Lord God knows my anguish, and the pain deep within my mind. ||1||Pause||

²⁹Whoever tells me the Stories of my Beloved Lord is my Sibling of Destiny, and my friend. ||2||

¹Come, and join together, O my companions; let's sing the Glorious Praises of my God, and follow the comforting advice of the True Guru.. ||3||

²Please fulfill the hopes of servant Nanak, O Lord; his body finds peace and tranquility in the Blessed Vision of the Lord's Darshan. ||4||6|| First set of six. ||

³First set of six. ||

⁴Raag Gond, Fifth Mehl, Chau-Padhay, First House:

⁵One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

⁶He is the Creator of all, He is the Enjoyer of all. ||1||Pause||

⁷The Creator listens, and the Creator sees.

⁸The Creator is unseen, and the Creator is seen.

⁹The Creator forms, and the Creator destroys.

¹⁰The Creator touches, and the Creator is detached. ||1||

¹¹The Creator is the One who speaks, and the Creator is the One who understands.

¹²The Creator comes, and the Creator also goes.

¹³The Creator is absolute and without qualities; the Creator is related, with the most excellent qualities.

¹⁴By Guru's Grace, Nanak looks upon all the same. ||2||1||

¹⁵Gond, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁶You are caught, like the fish and the monkey; you are entangled in the transitory world.

¹⁷Your foot-steps and your breaths are numbered; only by singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord will you be saved. ||1||

¹⁸O mind, reform yourself, and forsake your aimless wandering.

¹⁹You have found no place of rest for yourself; so why do you try to teach others? ||1||Pause||

²⁰Like the elephant, driven by sexual desire, you are attached to your family.

²¹People are like birds that come together, and fly apart again; you shall become stable and steady, only when you meditate on the Lord, Har, Har, in the Company of the Holy. ||2||

²²Like the fish, which perishes because of its desire to taste, the fool is ruined by his greed.

²³You have fallen under the power of the five thieves; escape is only possible in the Sanctuary of the Lord. ||3||

²⁴Be Merciful to me, O Destroyer of the pains of the meek; all beings and creatures belong to You.

²⁵May I obtain the gift of always seeing the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan; meeting with You, Nanak is the slave of Your slaves. ||4||2||

²⁶Raag Gond, Fifth Mehl, Chau-Padhay, Second House:

²⁷One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

²⁸He fashioned the soul and the breath of life,

²⁹and infused His Light into the dust;

³⁰He exalted you and gave you everything to use, and food to eat and enjoy

³¹- how can you forsake that God, you fool! Where else will you go? ||1||

³²Commit yourself to the service of the Transcendent Lord.

³³Through the Guru, one understands the Immaculate, Divine Lord. ||1||Pause||

³⁴He created plays and dramas of all sorts;

³⁵He creates and destroys in an instant;

³⁶His state and condition cannot be described.

³⁷Meditate forever on that God, O my mind. ||2||

³⁸The unchanging Lord does not come or go.

³⁹His Glorious Virtues are infinite; how many of them can I count?

¹His treasure is overflowing with the rubies of the Name.

²He gives Support to all hearts. ||3||

³The Name is the True Primal Being;

⁴millions of sins are washed away in an instant, singing His Praises.

⁵The Lord God is your best friend, your playmate from earliest childhood.

⁶He is the Support of the breath of life; O Nanak, He is love, He is consciousness. ||4||1||3||

⁷Gond, Fifth Mehl:

⁸I trade in the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

⁹The Naam is the Support of the mind.

¹⁰My consciousness takes to the Shelter of the Naam.

¹¹Chanting the Naam, millions of sins are erased. ||1||

¹²The Lord has blessed me with the wealth of the Naam, the Name of the One Lord.

¹³The wish of my mind is to meditate on the Naam, in association with the Guru. ||1||Pause||

¹⁴The Naam is the wealth of my soul.

¹⁵Wherever I go, the Naam is with me.

¹⁶The Naam is sweet to my mind.

¹⁷In the water, on the land, and everywhere, I see the Naam. ||2||

¹⁸Through the Naam, one's face becomes radiant in the Court of the Lord.

¹⁹Through the Naam, all one's generations are saved.

²⁰Through the Naam, my affairs are resolved.

²¹My mind is accustomed to the Naam. ||3||

²²Through the Naam, I have become fearless.

²³Through the Naam, my comings and goings have ceased.

²⁴The Perfect Guru has united me with the Lord, the treasure of virtue.

²⁵Says Nanak, I dwell in celestial peace. ||4||2||4||

²⁶Gond, Fifth Mehl:

²⁷He grants honor to the dishonored,

²⁸and gives gifts to all the hungry;

²⁹he protects those in the terrible womb.

³⁰So humbly bow forever to that Lord and Master. ||1||

³¹Meditate on such a God in your mind.

³²He shall be your help and support everywhere, in good times and bad. ||1||Pause||

³³The beggar and the king are all the same to Him.

³⁴He sustains and fulfills both the ant and the elephant.

³⁵He does not consult or seek anyone's advice.

³⁶Whatever He does, He does Himself. ||2||

³⁷No one knows His limit.

³⁸He Himself is the Immaculate Lord.

³⁹He Himself is formed, and He Himself is formless.

⁴⁰In the heart, in each and every heart, He is the Support of all hearts. ||3||

⁴¹Through the Love of the Naam, the Name of the Lord, the devotees become His Beloveds.

⁴²Singing the Praises of the Creator, the Saints are forever in bliss.

⁴³Through the Love of the Naam, the Lord's humble servants remain satisfied.

⁴⁴Nanak falls at the feet of those humble servants of the Lord. ||4||3||5||

⁴⁵Gond, Fifth Mehl:

⁴⁶Associating with them, this mind becomes immaculate and pure.

⁴⁷Associating with them, one meditates in remembrance on the Lord, Har, Har.

⁴⁸Associating with them, all the sins are erased.

⁴⁹Associating with them, the heart is illumined. ||1||

⁵⁰Those Saints of the Lord are my friends.

⁵¹It is their custom to sing only the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||1||Pause||

⁵²By their mantra, the Lord, Har, Har, dwells in the mind.

⁵³By their teachings, doubt and fear are dispelled.

⁵⁴By their kirtan, they become immaculate and sublime.

⁵⁵The world longs for the dust of their feet. ||2||

⁵⁶Millions of sinners are saved by associating with them.

⁵⁷They have the Support of the Name of the One Formless Lord.

⁵⁸He knows the secrets of all beings;

⁵⁹He is the treasure of mercy, the divine immaculate Lord. ||3||

⁶⁰When the Supreme Lord God becomes merciful,

⁶¹then one meets the Merciful Holy Guru.

¹Day and night, Nanak meditates on the Naam.

²Through the Lord's Name, he is blessed with peace, poise and bliss. ||4||4||6||

³Gond, Fifth Mehl:

⁴Meditate on the image of the Guru within your mind;

⁵let your mind accept the Word of the Guru's Shabad, and His Mantra.

⁶Enshrine the Guru's feet within your heart.

⁷Bow in humility forever before the Guru, the Supreme Lord God. ||1||

⁸Let no one wander in doubt in the world.

⁹Without the Guru, no one can cross over. ||1||Pause||

¹⁰The Guru shows the Path to those who have wandered off.

¹¹He leads them to renounce others, and attaches them to devotional worship of the Lord.

¹²He obliterates the fear of birth and death.

¹³The glorious greatness of the Perfect Guru is endless. ||2||

¹⁴By Guru's Grace, the inverted heart-lotus blossoms forth,

¹⁵and the Light shines forth in the darkness.

¹⁶Through the Guru, know the One who created you.

¹⁷By the Guru's Mercy, the foolish mind comes to believe. ||3||

¹⁸The Guru is the Creator; the Guru has the power to do everything.

¹⁹The Guru is the Transcendent Lord; He is, and always shall be.

²⁰Says Nanak, God has inspired me to know this.

²¹Without the Guru, liberation is not obtained, O Siblings of Destiny. ||4||5||7||

²²Gond, Fifth Mehl:

²³Chant Guru, Guru, Guru, O my mind.

²⁴I have no other than the Guru.

²⁵I lean upon the Support of the Guru, day and night.

²⁶No one can decrease His bounty. ||1||

²⁷Know that the Guru and the Transcendent Lord are One.

²⁸Whatever pleases Him is acceptable and approved. ||1||Pause||

²⁹One whose mind is attached to the Guru's feet

³⁰his pains, sufferings and doubts run away.

³¹Serving the Guru, honor is obtained.

³²I am forever a sacrifice to the Guru. ||2||

³³Gazing upon the Blessed Vision of the Guru's Darshan, I am exalted.

³⁴The work of the Guru's servant is perfect.

³⁵Pain does not afflict the Guru's servant.

³⁶The Guru's servant is famous in the ten directions. ||3||

³⁷The Guru's glory cannot be described.

³⁸The Guru remains absorbed in the Supreme Lord God.

³⁹Says Nanak, one who is blessed with perfect destiny

⁴⁰- his mind is attached to the Guru's feet. ||4||6||8||

⁴¹Gond, Fifth Mehl:

⁴²I worship and adore my Guru; the Guru is the Lord of the Universe.

⁴³My Guru is the Supreme Lord God; the Guru is the Lord God.

⁴⁴My Guru is divine, invisible and mysterious.

⁴⁵I serve at the Guru's feet, which are worshipped by all. ||1||

⁴⁶Without the Guru, I have no other place at all.

⁴⁷Night and day, I chant the Name of Guru, Guru. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁸The Guru is my spiritual wisdom, the Guru is the meditation within my heart.

⁴⁹The Guru is the Lord of the World, the Primal Being, the Lord God.

⁵⁰With my palms pressed together, I remain in the Guru's Sanctuary.

⁵¹Without the Guru, I have no other at all. ||2||

⁵²The Guru is the boat to cross over the terrifying world-ocean.

⁵³Serving the Guru, one is released from the Messenger of Death.

⁵⁴In the darkness, the Guru's Mantra shines forth.

⁵⁵With the Guru, all are saved. ||3||

⁵⁶The Perfect Guru is found, by great good fortune.

⁵⁷Serving the Guru, pain does not afflict anyone.

⁵⁸No one can erase the Word of the Guru's Shabad.

⁵⁹Nanak is the Guru; Nanak is the Lord Himself. ||4||7||9||

¹Gond, Fifth Mehl:

²Deal and trade only with the Lord, Raam, Raam.

³The Lord, Raam, Raam, Raam, is the Support of the breath of life.

⁴Sing the Kirtan of the Praises of the Lord, Raam, Raam, Raam.

⁵The Lord is ever-present, all-pervading. ||1||

⁶Joining the humble Saints, chant the Lord's Name.

⁷This is the most immaculate and perfect occupation of all. ||1||Pause||

⁸Gather the treasure, the wealth of the Lord, Raam, Raam.

⁹Let your sustenance be the Lord, Raam, Raam, Raam.

¹⁰Never forget the Lord, Raam, Raam.

¹¹In His Mercy, the Guru has revealed this to me. ||2||

¹²The Lord, Raam, Raam, Raam, is always our help and support.

¹³Embrace love for the Lord, Raam, Raam, Raam.

¹⁴Through the Lord, Raam, Raam, Raam, I have become immaculate.

¹⁵The sins of countless incarnations have been taken away. ||3||

¹⁶Uttering the Lord's Name, birth and death are finished.

¹⁷Repeating the Lord's Name, one crosses over the terrifying world-ocean.

¹⁸The Luminous Lord is the highest of all.

¹⁹Night and day, servant Nanak meditates on Him. ||4||8||10||

²⁰Gond, Fifth Mehl:

²¹My Lord and Master has held back the five demons.

²²He conquered them, and scared them away from the Lord's slave.

²³They cannot find the mansion of the Lord's devotee.

²⁴Joining together, the Lord's humble servants sing the songs of joy. ||1||

²⁵The five demons are the rulers of the whole world,

²⁶but they are just water-carriers for the Lord's devotee. ||1||Pause||

²⁷They collect taxes from the world,

²⁸but they bow in subservience to God's devotees.

²⁹They plunder and dishonor the faithless cynics,

³⁰but they massage and wash the feet of the Holy. ||2||

³¹The One Mother gave birth to the five sons,

³²and began the play of the created world.

³³With the three qualities joined together, they celebrate.

³⁴Renouncing these three qualities, the Lord's humble servants rise above them. ||3||

³⁵In His Mercy, He saves His humble servants.

³⁶They belong to Him, and so He saves them by driving out the five.

³⁷Says Nanak, devotion to God is noble and sublime.

³⁸Without devotion, all just waste away uselessly. ||4||9||11||

³⁹Gond, Fifth Mehl:

⁴⁰Suffering and troubles are eradicated by the Lord's Name.

⁴¹Pain is dispelled, and peace takes its place.

⁴²Meditating, chanting the Ambrosial Naam, the Name of the Lord, I am satisfied.

⁴³By the Grace of the Saints, I have received all fruitful rewards. ||1||

⁴⁴Meditating on the Lord, His humble servant is carried across,

⁴⁵and the sins of countless incarnations are taken away. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁶I have enshrined the Guru's feet within my heart,

⁴⁷and crossed over the ocean of fire.

⁴⁸All the painful diseases of birth and death have been eradicated.

⁴⁹I am attached to God in celestial Samaadhi. ||2||

⁵⁰In all places and interspaces, the One, our Lord and Master is contained.

⁵¹He is the Inner-knower of all hearts.

⁵²One whom the Lord blesses with understanding,

⁵³chants the Name of God, twenty-four hours a day. ||3||

⁵⁴Deep within, God Himself abides;

⁵⁵within his heart, the Divine Light shines forth.

⁵⁶With loving devotion, sing the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises.

⁵⁷Meditate on the Supreme Lord God, O Nanak, and you shall be saved. ||4||10||12||

⁵⁸Gond, Fifth Mehl:

¹Bow in humility to the lotus feet of the Guru.

²Eliminate sexual desire and anger from this body.

³Be the dust of all,

⁴and see the Lord in each and every heart, in all. ||1||

⁵In this way, dwell upon the Lord of the World, the Lord of the Universe.

⁶My body and wealth belong to God; my soul belongs to God. ||1||Pause||

⁷Twenty-four hours a day, sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord.

⁸This is the purpose of human life.

⁹Renounce your egotistical pride, and know that God is with you.

¹⁰By the Grace of the Holy, let your mind be imbued with the Lord's Love. ||2||

¹¹Know the One who created you,

¹²and in the world hereafter you shall be honored in the Court of the Lord.

¹³Your mind and body will be immaculate and blissful;

¹⁴chant the Name of the Lord of the Universe with your tongue. ||3||

¹⁵Grant Your Kind Mercy, O my Lord, Merciful to the meek.

¹⁶My mind begs for the dust of the feet of the Holy.

¹⁷Be merciful, and bless me with this gift,

¹⁸that Nanak may live, chanting God's Name. ||4||11||13||

¹⁹Gond, Fifth Mehl:

²⁰My incense and lamps are my service to the Lord.

²¹Time and time again, I humbly bow to the Creator.

²²I have renounced everything, and grasped the Sanctuary of God.

²³By great good fortune, the Guru has become pleased and satisfied with me. ||1||

²⁴Twenty-four hours a day, I sing of the Lord of the Universe.

²⁵My body and wealth belong to God; my soul belongs to God. ||1||Pause||

²⁶Chanting the Glorious Praises of the Lord, I am in bliss.

²⁷The Supreme Lord God is the Perfect Forgiver.

²⁸Granting His Mercy, He has linked His humble servants to His service.

²⁹He has rid me of the pains of birth and death, and merged me with Himself. ||2||

³⁰This is the essence of karma, righteous conduct and spiritual wisdom,

³¹to chant the Lord's Name in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy.

³²God's Feet are the boat to cross over the world-ocean.

³³God, the Inner-knower, is the Cause of causes. ||3||

³⁴Showering His Mercy, He Himself has saved me.

³⁵The five hideous demons have run away.

³⁶Do not lose your life in the gamble.

³⁷The Creator Lord has taken Nanak's side. ||4||12||14||

³⁸Gond, Fifth Mehl:

³⁹In His Mercy, He has blessed me with peace and bliss.

⁴⁰The Divine Guru has saved His child.

⁴¹God is kind and compassionate; He is the Lord of the Universe.

⁴²He forgives all beings and creatures. ||1||

⁴³I seek Your Sanctuary, O God, O Merciful to the meek.

⁴⁴Meditating on the Supreme Lord God, I am forever in ecstasy. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁵There is no other like the Merciful Lord God.

⁴⁶He is contained deep within each and every heart.

⁴⁷He embellishes His slave, here and hereafter.

⁴⁸It is Your nature, God, to purify sinners. ||2||

⁴⁹Meditation on the Lord of the Universe is the medicine to cure millions of illnesses.

⁵⁰My Tantra and Mantra is to meditate, to vibrate upon the Lord God.

⁵¹Illnesses and pains are dispelled, meditating on God.

⁵²The fruits of the mind's desires are fulfilled. ||3||

⁵³He is the Cause of causes, the All-powerful Merciful Lord.

⁵⁴Contemplating Him is the greatest of all treasures.

⁵⁵God Himself has forgiven Nanak;

⁵⁶forever and ever, he chants the Name of the One Lord. ||4||13||15||

⁵⁷Gond, Fifth Mehl:

⁵⁸Chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, O my friend.

¹Your consciousness shall become immaculate and pure.

²All the misfortunes of your mind and body shall be taken away,

³and all your pain and darkness will be dispelled. ||1||

⁴Singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord, cross over the world-ocean.

⁵By great good fortune, one attains the Infinite Lord, the Primal Being. ||1||Pause||

⁶The Messenger of Death cannot even touch that humble being,

⁷The Gurmukh realizes his Lord and Master;

⁸He sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord, by the Grace of the Saints;

⁹his sexual desire, anger and madness are eradicated.

¹⁰He knows the Lord God to be ever-present.

¹¹This is the Perfect Teaching of the Perfect Guru. ||3||

¹²He earns the treasure of the Lord's wealth.

¹³Meeting with the True Guru, all his affairs are resolved.

¹⁴He is awake and aware in the Love of the Lord's Name;

¹⁵O Nanak, his mind is attached to the Lord's Feet. ||4||14||16||

¹⁶Gond, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁷The Lord's Feet are the boat to cross over the terrifying world-ocean.

¹⁸Meditating in remembrance on the Naam, the Name of the Lord, he does not die again.

¹⁹Chanting the Glorious Praises of the Lord, he does not have to walk on the Path of Death.

²⁰Contemplating the Supreme Lord, the five demons are conquered. ||1||

²¹I have entered Your Sanctuary, O Perfect Lord and Master.

²²Please give Your hand to Your creatures. ||1||Pause||

²³The Simritees, Shaastras, Vedas and Puraanas

²⁴expound upon the Supreme Lord God.

²⁵The Yogis, celibates, Vaishnavs and followers of Ram Das

²⁶cannot find the limits of the Eternal Lord God. ||2||

²⁷Shiva and the gods lament and moan,

²⁸but they do not understand even a tiny bit of the unseen and unknown Lord.

²⁹One whom the Lord Himself blesses with loving devotional worship,

³⁰is very rare in this world. ||3||

³¹I am worthless, with absolutely no virtue at all;

³²all treasures are in Your Glance of Grace.

³³Nanak, the meek, desires only to serve You.

³⁴Please be merciful, and grant him this blessing, O Divine Guru. ||4||15||17||

³⁵Gond, Fifth Mehl:

³⁶One who is cursed by the Saints, is thrown down on the ground.

³⁷The slanderer of the Saints is thrown down from the skies.

³⁸I hold the Saints close to my soul.

³⁹The Saints are saved instantaneously. ||1||

⁴⁰He alone is a Saint, who is pleasing to the Lord.

⁴¹The Saints, and God, have only one job to do. ||1||Pause||

⁴²God gives His hand to shelter the Saints.

⁴³He dwells with His Saints, day and night.

⁴⁴With each and every breath, He cherishes His Saints.

⁴⁵He takes the power away from the enemies of the Saints. ||2||

⁴⁶Let no one slander the Saints.

⁴⁷Whoever slanders them, will be destroyed.

⁴⁸One who is protected by the Creator Lord,

⁴⁹cannot be harmed, no matter how much the whole world may try. ||3||

⁵⁰I place my faith in my God.

⁵¹My soul and body all belong to Him.

⁵²This is the faith which inspires Nanak:

⁵³the self-willed manmukhs will fail, while the Gurmukhs will always win. ||4||16||18||

⁵⁴Gond, Fifth Mehl:

⁵⁵The Name of the Immaculate Lord is the Ambrosial Water.

⁵⁶Chanting it with the tongue, sins are washed away. ||1||Pause||

¹The Lord abides in everyone.

²The Lord illumines each and every heart.

³Chanting the Lord's Name, one does not fall into hell.

⁴Serving the Lord, all fruitful rewards are obtained. ||1||

⁵Within my mind is the Support of the Lord.

⁶The Lord is the boat to cross over the world-ocean.

⁷Chant the Lord's Name, and the Messenger of Death will run away.

⁸The Lord breaks the teeth of Maya, the witch. ||2||

⁹The Lord is forever and ever the Forgiver.

¹⁰The Lord blesses us with peace and bliss.

¹¹The Lord has revealed His glory.

¹²The Lord is the mother and father of His Saint. ||3||

¹³The Lord, the Lord, is in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy.

¹⁴Time and time again, I sing the Lord's Praises.

¹⁵Meeting with the Guru, I have attained the incomprehensible object.

¹⁶Slave Nanak has grasped the Support of the Lord. ||4||17||19||

¹⁷Gond, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁸One who is protected by the Protector Lord

¹⁹- the Formless Lord is on his side. ||1||Pause||

²⁰In the mother's womb, the fire does not touch him.

²¹Sexual desire, anger, greed and emotional attachment do not affect him.

²²In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, he meditates on the Formless Lord.

²³Dust is thrown into the faces of the slanderers. ||1||

²⁴The Lord's protective spell is the armor of His slave.

²⁵The wicked, evil demons cannot even touch him.

²⁶Whoever indulges in egotistical pride, shall waste away to ruin.

²⁷God is the Sanctuary of His humble slave. ||2||

²⁸Whoever enters the Sanctuary of the Sovereign Lord

²⁹- He saves that slave, hugging him close in His embrace.

³⁰Whoever takes great pride in himself,

³¹in an instant, shall be like dust mixing with dust. ||3||

³²The True Lord is, and shall always be.

³³Forever and ever, I am a sacrifice to Him.

³⁴Granting His Mercy, He saves His slaves.

³⁵God is the Support of Nanak's breath of life. ||4||18||20||

³⁶Gond, Fifth Mehl:

³⁷Wondrous and beautiful is the description of the beauty of the Supreme Soul,

³⁸He is not old; He is not young.

³⁹He is not in pain; He is not caught in Death's noose.

⁴⁰He does not die; He does not go away.

⁴¹In the beginning, and throughout the ages, He is permeating everywhere. ||1||

⁴²He is not hot; He is not cold.

⁴³He has no enemy; He has no friend.

⁴⁴He is not happy; He is not sad.

⁴⁵Everything belongs to Him; He can do anything. ||2||

⁴⁶He has no father; He has no mother.

⁴⁷He is beyond the beyond, and has always been so.

⁴⁸He is not affected by virtue or vice.

⁴⁹Deep within each and every heart, He is always awake and aware. ||3||

⁵⁰From the three qualities, the one mechanism of Maya was produced.

⁵¹The great Maya is only His shadow.

⁵²He is undeceivable, impenetrable, unfathomable and merciful.

⁵³He is merciful to the meek, forever compassionate.

⁵⁴His state and limits cannot ever be known.

⁵⁵Nanak is a sacrifice, a sacrifice to Him. ||4||19||21||

¹Gond, Fifth Mehl:

²I am a sacrifice to the Saints.

³Associating with the Saints, I sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord.

⁴By the Grace of the Saints, all the sins are taken away.

⁵By great good fortune, one finds the Sanctuary of the Saints. ||1||

⁶Meditating on the Lord, no obstacles will block your way.

⁷By Guru's Grace, meditate on God. ||1||Pause||

⁸When the Supreme Lord God becomes merciful,

⁹he makes me the dust of the feet of the Holy.

¹⁰Sexual desire and anger leave his body,

¹¹and the Lord, the jewel, comes to dwell in his mind. ||2||

¹²Fruitful and approved is the life of one

¹³who knows the Supreme Lord God to be close.

¹⁴One who is committed to loving devotional worship of God, and the Kirtan of His Praises,

¹⁵awakens from the sleep of countless incarnations. ||3||

¹⁶The Lord's Lotus Feet are the Support of His humble servant.

¹⁷To chant the Praises of the Lord of the Universe is the true trade.

¹⁸Please fulfill the hopes of Your humble slave.

¹⁹Nanak finds peace in the dust of the feet of the humble. ||4||20||22||6||28||

²⁰Raag Gond, Ashtpadheeyaa, Fifth Mehl, Second House:

²¹One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

²²Humbly bow to the Perfect Divine Guru.

²³Fruitful is His image, and fruitful is service to Him.

²⁴He is the Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts, the Architect of Destiny.

²⁵Twenty-four hours a day, he remains imbued with the love of the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||1||

²⁶The Guru is the Lord of the Universe, the Guru is the Lord of the World.

²⁷He is the Saving Grace of His slaves. ||1||Pause||

²⁸He satisfies the kings, emperors and nobles.

²⁹He destroys the egotistical villains.

³⁰He puts illness into the mouths of the slanderers.

³¹All the people celebrate His victory. ||2||

³²Supreme bliss fills the minds of the Saints.

³³The Saints meditate on the Divine Guru, the Lord God.

³⁴The faces of His companions become radiant and bright.

³⁵The slanderers lose all places of rest. ||3||

³⁶With each and every breath, the Lord's humble slaves praise Him.

³⁷The Supreme Lord God and the Guru are care-free.

³⁸All fears are eradicated, in His Sanctuary.

³⁹Smashing all the slanderers, the Lord knocks them to the ground. ||4||

⁴⁰Let no one slander the Lord's humble servants.

⁴¹Whoever does so, will be miserable.

⁴²Twenty-four hours a day, the Lord's humble servant meditates on Him alone.

⁴³The Messenger of Death does not even approach him. ||5||

⁴⁴The Lord's humble servant has no vengeance. The slanderer is egotistical.

⁴⁵The Lord's humble servant wishes well, while the slanderer dwells on evil.

⁴⁶The Sikh of the Guru meditates on the True Guru.

⁴⁷The Lord's humble servants are saved, while the slanderer is cast into hell. ||6||

⁴⁸Listen, O my beloved friends and companions:

⁴⁹these words shall be true in the Court of the Lord.

⁵⁰As you plant, so shall you harvest.

⁵¹The proud, egotistical person will surely be uprooted. ||7||

⁵²O True Guru, You are the Support of the unsupported.

⁵³Be merciful, and save Your humble servant.

⁵⁴Says Nanak, I am a sacrifice to the Guru;

⁵⁵remembering Him in meditation, my honor has been saved. ||8||1||29||

¹Raag Gond, The Word Of The Devotees. Kabeer Jee, First House:

²Kabeer Jee, First House:

³One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

⁴When you meet a Saint, talk to him and listen.

⁵Meeting with an unsaintly person, just remain silent. ||1||

⁶O father, if I speak, what words should I utter?

⁷Speak such words, by which you may remain absorbed in the Name of the Lord. ||1||Pause||

⁸Speaking with the Saints, one becomes generous.

⁹To speak with a fool is to babble uselessly. ||2||

¹⁰By speaking and only speaking, corruption only increases.

¹¹If I do not speak, what can the poor wretch do? ||3||

¹²Says Kabeer, the empty pitcher makes noise,

¹³but that which is full makes no sound. ||4||1||

¹⁴Gond:

¹⁵When a man dies, he is of no use to anyone.

¹⁶But when an animal dies, it is used in ten ways. ||1||

¹⁷What do I know, about the state of my karma?

¹⁸What do I know, O Baba? ||1||Pause||

¹⁹His bones burn, like a bundle of logs;

²⁰his hair burns like a bale of hay. ||2||

²¹Says Kabeer, the man wakes up,

²²only when the Messenger of Death hits him over the head with his club. ||3||2||

²³Gond:

²⁴The Celestial Lord is in the Akaashic ethers of the skies, the Celestial Lord is in the nether regions of the underworld; in the four directions, the Celestial Lord is pervading.

²⁵The Supreme Lord God is forever the source of bliss. When the vessel of the body perishes, the Celestial Lord does not perish. ||1||

²⁶I have become sad,

²⁷wondering where the soul comes from, and where it goes. ||1||Pause||

²⁸The body is formed from the union of the five tatvas; but where were the five tatvas created?

²⁹You say that the soul is tied to its karma, but who gave karma to the body? ||2||

³⁰The body is contained in the Lord, and the Lord is contained in the body. He is permeating within all.

³¹Says Kabeer, I shall not renounce the Lord's Name. I shall accept whatever happens. ||3||3||

³²Raag Gond, The Word Of Kabeer Jee, Second House:

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

³⁴They tied my arms, bundled me up, and threw me before an elephant.

³⁵The elephant driver struck him on the head, and infuriated him.

³⁶But the elephant ran away, trumpeting,

³⁷"I am a sacrifice to this image of the Lord." ||1||

³⁸O my Lord and Master, You are my strength.

³⁹The Qazi shouted at the driver to drive the elephant on. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁰He yelled out, "O driver, I shall cut you into pieces.

⁴¹Hit him, and drive him on!"

⁴²But the elephant did not move; instead, he began to meditate.

⁴³The Lord God abides within his mind. ||2||

⁴⁴What sin has this Saint committed,

⁴⁵that you have made him into a bundle and thrown him before the elephant?

⁴⁶Lifting up the bundle, the elephant bows down before it.

⁴⁷The Qazi could not understand it; he was blind. ||3||

⁴⁸Three times, he tried to do it.

¹Even then, his hardened mind was not satisfied.

²Says Kabeer, such is my Lord and Master.

³The soul of His humble servant dwells in the fourth state. ||4||1||4||

⁴Gond:

⁵It is not human, and it is not a god.

⁶It is not called celibate, or a worshipper of Shiva.

⁷It is not a Yogi, and it is not a hermit.

⁸It is not a mother, or anyone's son. ||1||

⁹Then what is it, which dwells in this temple of the body?

¹⁰No one can find its limits. ||1||Pause||

¹¹It is not a house-holder, and it is not a renouncer of the world.

¹²It is not a king, and it is not a beggar.

¹³It has no body, no drop of blood.

¹⁴It is not a Brahmin, and it is not a Kh'shaatriya. ||2||

¹⁵It is not called a man of austere self-discipline, or a Shaykh.

¹⁶It does not live, and it is not seen to die.

¹⁷If someone cries over its death,

¹⁸that person loses his honor. ||3||

¹⁹By Guru's Grace, I have found the Path.

²⁰Birth and death have both been erased.

²¹Says Kabeer, this is formed of the same essence as the Lord.

²²It is like the ink on the paper which cannot be erased. ||4||2||5||

²³Gond:

²⁴The threads are broken, and the starch has run out.

²⁵Bare reeds glisten at the front door.

²⁶The poor brushes are scattered in pieces.

²⁷Death has entered this shaven head. ||1||

²⁸This shaven-headed mendicant has wasted all his wealth.

²⁹All this coming and going has irritated him. ||1||Pause||

³⁰He has given up all talk of his weaving equipment.

³¹His mind is attuned to the Lord's Name.

³²His daughters and sons have nothing to eat,

³³while the shaven-headed mendicants night and day eat their fill. ||2||

³⁴One or two are in the house, and one or two more are on the way.

³⁵We sleep on the floor, while they sleep in the beds.

³⁶They rub their bare heads, and carry prayer-books in their waist-bands.

³⁷We get dry grains, while they get loaves of bread. ||3||

³⁸He will become one of these shaven-headed mendicants.

³⁹They are the support of the drowning.

⁴⁰Listen, O blind and unguided Loi:

⁴¹Kabeer has taken shelter with these shaven-headed mendicants. ||4||3||6||

⁴²Gond:

⁴³When her husband dies, the woman does not cry.

⁴⁴Someone else becomes her protector.

⁴⁵When this protector dies,

⁴⁶he falls into the world of hell hereafter, for the sexual pleasures he enjoyed in this world. ||1||

⁴⁷The world loves only the one bride, Maya.

⁴⁸She is the wife of all beings and creatures. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁹With her necklace around her neck, this bride looks beautiful.

⁵⁰She is poison to the Saint, but the world is delighted with her.

⁵¹Adorning herself, she sits like a prostitute.

⁵²Cursed by the Saints, she wanders around like a wretch. ||2||

⁵³She runs around, chasing after the Saints.

⁵⁴She is afraid of being beaten by those blessed with the Guru's Grace.

⁵⁵She is the body, the breath of life, of the faithless cynics.

⁵⁶She appears to me like a blood-thirsty witch. ||3||

⁵⁷I know her secrets well

⁵⁸in His Mercy, the Divine Guru met me.

⁵⁹Says Kabeer, now I have thrown her out.

⁶⁰She clings to the skirt of the world. ||4||4||7||

¹Gond:

²When someone's household has no glory,

³the guests who come there depart still hungry.

⁴Deep within, there is no contentment.

⁵Without his bride, the wealth of Maya, he suffers in pain. ||1||

⁶So praise this bride, which can shake the consciousness

⁷This bride is the daughter of a wretched miser.

⁸Abandoning the Lord's servant, she sleeps with the world.

⁹Standing at the door of the holy man,

¹⁰she says, "I have come to your sanctuary; now save me!" ||2||

¹¹This bride is so beautiful.

¹²The bells on her ankles make soft music.

¹³As long as there is the breath of life in the man, she remains attached to him.

¹⁴But when it is no more, she quickly gets up and departs, bare-footed. ||3||

¹⁵This bride has conquered the three worlds.

¹⁶The eighteen Puraanas and the sacred shrines of pilgrimage love her as well.

¹⁷She pierced the hearts of Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu.

¹⁸She destroyed the great emperors and kings of the world. ||4||

¹⁹This bride has no restraint or limits.

²⁰She is in collusion with the five thieving passions.

²¹When the clay pot of these five passions bursts,

²²then, says Kabeer, by Guru's Mercy, one is released. ||5||5||8||

²³Gond:

²⁴As the house will not stand when the supporting beams are removed from within it,

²⁵just so, without the Naam, the Name of the Lord, how can anyone be carried across?

²⁶Without the pitcher, the water is not contained;

²⁷just so, without the Holy Saint, the mortal departs in misery. ||1||

²⁸One who does not remember the Lord - let him burn;

²⁹his body and mind have remained absorbed in this field of the world. ||1||Pause||

³⁰Without a farmer, the land is not planted;

³¹without a thread, how can the beads be strung?

³²Without a loop, how can the knot be tied?

³³Just so, without the Holy Saint, the mortal departs in misery. ||2||

³⁴Without a mother or father there is no child;

³⁵just so, without water, how can the clothes be washed?

³⁶Without a horse, how can there be a rider?

³⁷Without the Holy Saint, one cannot reach the Court of the Lord. ||3||

³⁸Just as without music, there is no dancing,

³⁹the bride rejected by her husband is dishonored.

⁴⁰Says Kabeer, do this one thing:

⁴¹become Gurmukh, and you shall never die again. ||4||6||9||

⁴²Gond:

⁴³He alone is a pimp, who pounds down his mind.

⁴⁴Pounding down his mind, he escapes from the Messenger of Death.

⁴⁵Pounding and beating his mind, he puts it to the test;

⁴⁶such a pimp attains total liberation. ||1||

⁴⁷Who is called a pimp in this world?

⁴⁸In all speech, one must carefully consider. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁹He alone is a dancer, who dances with his mind.

⁵⁰The Lord is not satisfied with falsehood; He is pleased only with Truth.

⁵¹So play the beat of the drum in the mind.

⁵²The Lord is the Protector of the dancer with such a mind. ||2||

⁵³She alone is a street-dancer, who cleanses her body-street,

⁵⁴and educates the five passions.

⁵⁵She who embraces devotional worship for the Lord

⁵⁶- I accept such a street-dancer as my Guru. ||3||

⁵⁷He alone is a thief, who is above envy,

⁵⁸and who uses his sense organs to chant the Lord's Name.

⁵⁹Says Kabeer, these are the qualities of the one

⁶⁰I know as my Blessed Divine Guru, who is the most beautiful and wise. ||4||7||10||

¹Gond:

²Blessed is the Lord of the World. Blessed is the Divine Guru.

³Blessed is that grain, by which the heart-lotus of the hungry blossoms forth.

⁴Blessed are those Saints, who know this.

⁵Meeting with them, one meets the Lord, the Sustainer of the World. ||1||

⁶This grain comes from the Primal Lord God.

⁷One chants the Naam, the Name of the Lord, only when he tastes this grain. ||1||Pause||

⁸Meditate on the Naam, and meditate on this grain.

⁹Mixed with water, its taste becomes sublime.

¹⁰One who abstains from this grain,

¹¹loses his honor in the three worlds. ||2||

¹²One who discards this grain, is practicing hypocrisy.

¹³She is neither a happy soul-bride, nor a widow.

¹⁴Those who claim in this world that they live on milk alone,

¹⁵secretly eat whole loads of food. ||3||

¹⁶Without this grain, time does not pass in peace.

¹⁷Forsaking this grain, one does not meet the Lord of the World.

¹⁸Says Kabeer, this I know:

¹⁹blessed is that grain, which brings faith in the Lord and Master to the mind. ||4||8||11||

²⁰Raag Gond, The Word Of Naam Dayv Jee, First House:

²¹One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

²²The ritual sacrifice of horses,

²³giving one's weight in gold to charities,

²⁴and ceremonial cleansing baths -||1||

²⁵These are not equal to singing the Praises of the Lord's Name.

²⁶Meditate on your Lord, you lazy man! ||1||Pause||

²⁷Offering sweet rice at Gaya,

²⁸living on the river banks at Benares,

²⁹reciting the four Vedas by heart;||2||

³⁰Completing all religious rituals,

³¹restraining sexual passion by the spiritual wisdom given by the Guru,

³²and performing the six rituals;||3||

³³Expounding on Shiva and Shakti

³⁴O man, renounce and abandon all these things.

³⁵Meditate, meditate in remembrance on the Lord of the Universe.

³⁶Meditate, O Naam Dayv, and cross over the terrifying world-ocean. ||4||1||

³⁷Gond:

³⁸The deer is lured by the sound of the hunter's bell;

³⁹it loses its life, but it cannot stop thinking about it. ||1||

⁴⁰In the same way, I look upon my Lord.

⁴¹I will not abandon my Lord, and turn my thoughts to another. ||1||Pause||

⁴²As the fisherman looks upon the fish,

⁴³and the goldsmith looks upon the gold he fashions;||2||

⁴⁴As the man driven by sex looks upon another man's wife,

⁴⁵and the gambler looks upon the throwing of the dice -||3||

⁴⁶In the same way, wherever Naam Dayv looks, he sees the Lord.

⁴⁷Naam Dayv meditates continuously on the Feet of the Lord. ||4||2||

⁴⁸Gond:

⁴⁹Carry me across, O Lord, carry me across.

⁵⁰I am ignorant, and I do not know how to swim. O my Beloved Father, please give me Your arm. ||1||Pause||

⁵¹I have been transformed from a mortal being into an angel, in an instant; the True Guru has taught me this.

⁵²Born of human flesh, I have conquered the heavens; such is the medicine I was given. ||1||

⁵³Please place me where You placed Dhroo and Naarad, O my Master.

⁵⁴With the Support of Your Name, so many have been saved; this is Naam Dayv's understanding. ||2||3||

¹Gond:

²I am restless and unhappy.

³Without her calf, the cow is lonely. ||1||

⁴Without water, the fish writhes in pain.

⁵So is poor Naam Dayv without the Lord's Name. ||1||Pause||

⁶Like the cow's calf, which, when let loose,

⁷sucks at her udders and drinks her milk -||2||

⁸So has Naam Dayv found the Lord.

⁹Meeting the Guru, I have seen the Unseen Lord. ||3||

¹⁰As the man driven by sex wants another man's wife,

¹¹so does Naam Dayv love the Lord. ||4||

¹²As the earth burns in the dazzling sunlight,

¹³so does poor Naam Dayv burn without the Lord's Name. ||5||4||

¹⁴Raag Gond, The Word Of Naam Dayv Jee, Second House:

¹⁵One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

¹⁶Chanting the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, all doubts are dispelled.

¹⁷Chanting the Name of the Lord is the highest religion.

¹⁸Chanting the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, erases social classes and ancestral pedigrees.

¹⁹The Lord is the walking stick of the blind. ||1||

²⁰I bow to the Lord, I humbly bow to the Lord.

²¹Chanting the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, you will not be tormented by the Messenger of Death. ||1||Pause||

²²The Lord took the life of Harnaakhash,

²³and gave Ajaamal a place in heaven.

²⁴Teaching a parrot to speak the Lord's Name, Ganika the prostitute was saved.

²⁵That Lord is the light of my eyes. ||2||

²⁶Chanting the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, Pootna was saved,

²⁷even though she was a deceitful child-killer.

²⁸Contemplating the Lord, Dropadi was saved.

²⁹Gautam's wife, turned to stone, was saved. ||3||

³⁰The Lord, who killed Kaysee and Kans,

³¹gave the gift of life to Kali.

³²Prays Naam Dayv, such is my Lord;

³³meditating on Him, fear and suffering are dispelled. ||4||1||5||

³⁴Gond:

³⁵One who chases after the god Bhairau, evil spirits and the goddess of smallpox,

³⁶is riding on a donkey, kicking up the dust. ||1||

³⁷I take only the Name of the One Lord.

³⁸I have given away all other gods in exchange for Him. ||1||Pause||

³⁹That man who chants "Shiva, Shiva", and meditates on him,

⁴⁰is riding on a bull, shaking a tambourine. ||2||

⁴¹One who worships the Great Goddess Maya

⁴²will be reincarnated as a woman, and not a man. ||3||

⁴³You are called the Primal Goddess.

⁴⁴At the time of liberation, where will you hide then? ||4||

⁴⁵Follow the Guru's Teachings, and hold tight to the Lord's Name, O friend.

⁴⁶Thus prays Naam Dayv, and so says the Gita as well. ||5||2||6||

⁴⁷Bilaaval Gond:

⁴⁸Today, Naam Dayv saw the Lord, and so I will instruct the ignorant. ||Pause||

⁴⁹O Pandit, O religious scholar, your Gayatri was grazing in the fields.

⁵⁰Taking a stick, the farmer broke its leg, and now it walks with a limp. ||1||

⁵¹O Pandit, I saw your great god Shiva, riding along on a white bull.

⁵²In the merchant's house, a banquet was prepared for him - he killed the merchant's son. ||2||

¹O Pandit, I saw your Raam Chand coming too

²; he lost his wife, fighting a war against Raawan. ||3||

³The Hindu is sightless; the Muslim has only one eye.

⁴The spiritual teacher is wiser than both of them.

⁵The Hindu worships at the temple, the Muslim at the mosque.

⁶Naam Dayv serves that Lord, who is not limited to either the temple or the mosque. ||4||3||7||

⁷Raag Gond, The Word Of Ravi Daas Jee, Second House:

⁸One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

⁹Meditate on the Lord Mukanday, the Liberator, O people of the world.

¹⁰Without Mukanday, the body shall be reduced to ashes.

¹¹Mukanday is the Giver of liberation.

¹²Mukanday is my father and mother. ||1||

¹³Meditate on Mukanday in life, and meditate on Mukanday in death.

¹⁴His servant is blissful forever. ||1||Pause||

¹⁵The Lord, Mukanday, is my breath of life.

¹⁶Meditating on Mukanday, one's forehead will bear the Lord's insignia of approval.

¹⁷The renunciate serves Mukanday.

¹⁸Mukanday is the wealth of the poor and forlorn. ||2||

¹⁹When the One Liberator does me a favor,

²⁰then what can the world do to me?

²¹Erasing my social status, I have entered His Court.

²²You, Mukanday, are potent throughout the four ages. ||3||

²³Spiritual wisdom has welled up, and I have been enlightened.

²⁴In His Mercy, the Lord has made this worm His slave.

²⁵Says Ravi Daas, now my thirst is quenched;

²⁶I meditate on Mukanday the Liberator, and I serve Him. ||4||1||

²⁷Gond:

²⁸Someone may bathe at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage,

²⁹and worship the twelve Shiva-lingam stones,

³⁰and dig wells and pools,

³¹but if he indulges in slander, then all of this is useless. ||1||

³²How can the slanderer of the Holy Saints be saved?

³³Know for certain, that he shall go to hell. ||1||Pause||

³⁴Someone may bathe at Kuruk-shaytra during a solar eclipse,

³⁵and give his decorated wife in offering,

³⁶and listen to all the Simritees,

³⁷but if he indulges in slander, these are of no account. ||2||

³⁸Someone may give countless feasts,

³⁹and donate land, and build splendid buildings;

⁴⁰he may neglect his own affairs to work for others,

⁴¹but if he indulges in slander, he shall wander in countless incarnations. ||3||

⁴²Why do you indulge in slander, O people of the world?

⁴³The emptiness of the slanderer is soon exposed.

⁴⁴I have thought, and determined the fate of the slanderer.

⁴⁵Says Ravi Daas, he is a sinner; he shall go to hell. ||4||2||11||7||2||49|| Total||