Raag Jaijaavantee

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 Jaijaavantee, Ninth Mehl:

³Meditate in remembrance on the Lord - meditate on the Lord; this alone shall be of use to you.

⁴Abandon your association with Maya, and take shelter in the Sanctuary of God.

⁵Remember that the pleasures of the world are false; this whole show is just an illusion. ||1||Pause||

⁶You must understand that this wealth is just a dream. Why are you so proud?

⁷The empires of the earth are like walls of sand. ||1||

⁸Servant Nanak speaks the Truth: your body shall perish and pass away.

⁹Moment by moment, yesterday passed. Today is passing as well. ||2||1||

¹⁰Jaijaavantee, Ninth Mehl:

¹¹Meditate on the Lord - vibrate on the Lord; your life is slipping away.

¹²Why am I telling you this again and again? You fool - why don't you understand?

¹³Your body is like a hail-stone; it melts away in no time at all. ||1||Pause||

¹⁴So give up all your doubts, and utter the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

¹⁵At the very last moment, this alone shall go along with you. ||1||

¹⁶Forget the poisonous sins of corruption, and enshrine the Praises of God in your heart.

¹⁷Servant Nanak proclaims that this opportunity is slipping away. ||2||2||

¹⁸Jaijaavantee, Ninth Mehl:

¹⁹O mortal, what will your condition be?

²⁰In this world, you have not listened to the Lord's Name.

²¹You are totally engrossed in corruption and sin; you have not turned your mind away from them at all. ||1||Pause||

²²You obtained this human life, but you have not remembered the Lord in meditation, even for an instant.

²³For the sake of pleasure, you have become subservient to your woman, and now your feet are bound. ||1||

²⁴Servant Nanak proclaims that the vast expanse of this world is just a dream.

²⁵Why not meditate on the Lord? Even Maya is His slave. ||2||3||

²⁶Jaijaavantee, Ninth Mehl:

²⁷Slipping away - your life is uselessly slipping away.

²⁸Night and day, you listen to the Puraanas, but you do not understand them, you ignorant fool!

²⁹Death has arrived; now where will you run? ||1||Pause||

¹You believed that this body was permanent, but it shall turn to dust.

²Why don't you chant the Name of the Lord, you shameless fool? ||1||

³Let devotional worship of the Lord enter into your heart, and abandon the intellectualism of your mind.

⁴O Servant Nanak, this is the way to live in the world. ||2||4||