Raag Nat Naaraayan

¹Raag Nat Naaraayan, Fourth Mehl:

²One 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:

³O my mind, chant the Name of the Lord, day and night.

⁴Millions and millions of sins and mistakes, committed through countless lifetimes, shall all be put aside and sent away. ||1||Pause||

⁵Those who chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, and worship Him in adoration, and serve Him with love, are genuine.

⁶All their sins are erased, just as water washes off the dirt. ||1||

⁷That being, who sings the Lord's Praises each and every instant, chants with his mouth the Name of the Lord.

⁸In a moment, in an instant, the Lord rids him of the five incurable diseases of the body-village. ||2||

⁹Very fortunate are those who meditate on the Lord's Name; they alone are the Lord's devotees.

¹⁰I beg for the Sangat, the Congregation; O God, please bless me with them. I am a fool, and an idiot - please save me! ||3||

¹¹Shower me with Your Mercy and Grace, O Life of the World; save me, I seek Your Sanctuary.

¹²Servant Nanak has entered Your Sanctuary; O Lord, please preserve my honor! ||4||1||

¹³Nat, Fourth Mehl:

¹⁴Meditating on the Lord, His humble servants are blended with the Lord's Name.

¹⁵Chanting the Lord's Name, following the Guru's Teachings, the Lord showers His Mercy upon them. ||1||Pause||

¹⁶Our Lord and Master, Har, Har, is inaccessible and unfathomable. Meditating on Him, His humble servant merges with Him, like water with water.

¹⁷Meeting with the Lord's Saints, I have obtained the sublime essence of the Lord. I am a sacrifice, a sacrifice to His humble servants. ||1||

¹⁸The Lord's humble servant sings the Praises of the Name of the Supreme, Primal Soul, and all poverty and pain are destroyed.

¹⁹Within the body are the five evil and uncontrollable passions. The Lord destroys them in an instant. ||2||

²⁰The Lord's Saint loves the Lord in his mind, like the lotus flower gazing at the moon.

²¹The clouds hang low, the clouds tremble with thunder, and the mind dances joyfully like the peacock. ||3||

²²My Lord and Master has placed this yearning within me; I live by seeing and meeting my Lord.

²³Servant Nanak is addicted to the intoxication of the Lord; meeting with the Lord, he finds sublime bliss. ||4||2||

²⁴Nat, Fourth Mehl:

²⁵O my mind, chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, your only Friend.

¹By Guru's Grace, I meditate on the Name of the Lord; I wash the Feet of the True Guru. ||1||Pause||

²The Exalted Lord of the World, the Master of the Universe, keeps a sinner like me in His Sanctuary

³You are the Greatest Being, Lord, Destroyer of the pains of the meek; You have placed Your Name in my mouth, Lord. ||1||

⁴I am lowly, but I sing the Lofty Praises of the Lord, meeting with the Guru, the True Guru, my Friend.

⁵Like the bitter nimm tree, growing near the sandalwood tree, I am permeated with the fragrance of sandalwood. ||2||

⁶My faults and sins of corruption are countless; over and over again, I commit them.

⁷I am unworthy, I am a heavy stone sinking down; but the Lord has carried me across, in association with His humble servants. ||3||

⁸Those whom You save, Lord - all their sins are destroyed.

⁹O Merciful God, Lord and Master of servant Nanak, You have carried across even evil villains like Harnaakhash. ||4||3||

¹⁰Nat, Fourth Mehl:

¹¹O my mind, chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, with love.

¹²When the Lord of the Universe, Har, Har, granted His Grace, then I fell at the feet of the humble, and I meditate on the Lord. ||1||Pause||

¹³Mistaken and confused for so many past lives, I have now come and entered the Sanctuary of God.

¹⁴O my Lord and Master, You are the Cherisher of those who come to Your Sanctuary. I am such a great sinner - please save me! ||1||

¹⁵Associating with You, Lord, who would not be saved? Only God sanctifies the sinners.

¹⁶Naam Dayv, the calico printer, was driven out by the evil villains, as he sang Your Glorious Praises; O God, You protected the honor of Your humble servant. ||2||

¹⁷Those who sing Your Glorious Praises, O my Lord and Master - I am a sacrifice, a sacrifice, a sacrifice to them.

¹⁸Those houses and homes are sanctified, upon which the dust of the feet of the humble settles. ||3||

¹⁹I cannot describe Your Glorious Virtues, God; You are the greatest of the great, O Great Primal Lord God.

²⁰Please shower Your Mercy upon servant Nanak, God; I serve at the feet of Yor humble servants. ||4||4||

²¹Nat, Fourth Mehl:

²²O my mind, believe in and chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.

²³God, the Master of the Universe, has showered His Mercy upon me, and through the Guru's Teachings, my intellect has been molded by the Naam. ||1||Pause||

²⁴The Lord's humble servant sings the Praises of the Lord, Har, Har, listening to the Guru's Teachings.

²⁵The Lord's Name cuts down all sins, like the farmer cutting down his crops. ||1||

²⁶You alone know Your Praises, God; I cannot even describe Your Glorious Virtues, Lord.

²⁷You are what You are, God; You alone know Your Glorious Virtues, God. ||2||

²⁸The mortals are bound by the many bonds of Maya's noose. Meditating on the Lord, the knot is untied,

²⁹like the elephant, which was caught in the water by the crococile; it remembered the Lord, and chanted the Lord's Name, and was released. ||3||

³⁰O my Lord and Master, Supreme Lord God, Transcendent Lord, throughout the ages, mortals search for You.

³¹Your extent cannot be estimated or known, O Great God of servant Nanak. ||4||5||

³²Nat, Fourth Mehl:

³³O my mind, in this Dark Age of Kali Yuga, the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises is worthy and commendable.

³⁴When the Merciful Lord God shows kindness and compassion, then one falls at the feet of the True Guru, and meditates on the Lord. ||1||Pause||

¹O my Lord and Master, You are great, inaccessible and unfathomable; all meditate on You, O Beautiful Lord.

²Those whom You view with Your Great Eye of Grace, meditate on You, Lord, and become Gurmukh. ||1||

³The expanse of this creation is Your work, O God, my Lord and Master, Life of the entire universe, united with all.

⁴Countless waves rise up from the water, and then they merge into the water again. ||2||

⁵You alone, God, know whatever You do. O Lord, I do not know.

⁶I am Your child; please enshrine Your Praises within my heart, God, so that I may remember You in meditation. ||3||

⁷You are the treasure of water, O Lord, the Maansarovar Lake. Whoever serves You receives all fruitful rewards.

⁸Servant Nanak longs for the Lord, Har, Har, Har, Har; bless him, Lord, with Your Mercy. ||4||6||

⁹Nat Naaraayan, Fourth Mehl, Partaal:

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

¹¹O my mind, serve the Lord, and receive the fruits of your rewards.

¹²Receive the dust of the Guru's feet.

¹³All poverty will be eliminated, and your pains will disappear.

¹⁴The Lord shall bless you with His Glance of Grace, and you shall be enraptured. ||1||Pause||

¹⁵The Lord Himself embellishes His household. The Lord's Mansion of Love is studded with countless jewels, the jewels of the Beloved Lord.

¹⁶The Lord Himself has granted His Grace, and He has come into my home.The Guru is my advocate before the Lord. Gazing upon the Lord, I have become blissful, blissful, blissful. ||1||

¹⁷From the Guru, I received news of the Lord's arrival. My mind and body became ecstatic and blissful, hearing of the arrival of the Lord, my Beloved Love, my Lord.

¹⁸Servant Nanak has met with the Lord, Har, Har; he is intoxicated, enraptured, enraptured. ||2||1||7||

¹⁹Nat, Fourth Mehl:

²⁰O mind, join the Society of the Saints, and become noble and exalted.

²¹Listen to the Unspoken Speech of the peace-giving Lord.

²²All sins will be washed away.

²³Meet with the Lord, according to your pre-ordained destiny. ||1||Pause||

²⁴In this Dark Age of Kali Yuga, the Kirtan of the Lord's Praise is lofty and exalted. Following the Guru's Teachings, the intellect dwells on the sermon of the Lord.

²⁵I am a sacrifice to that person who listens and believes. ||1||

²⁶One who tastes the sublime essence of the Unspoken Speech of the Lord - all his hunger is satisfied.

²⁷Servant Nanak listens to the sermon of the Lord, and is satisfied; chanting the Lord's Name, Har, Har, Har, he has become like the Lord. ||2||2||8||

²⁸Nat, Fourth Mehl:

²⁹If only someone would come and tell me the Lord's sermon.

³⁰I would be a sacrifice, a sacrifice, a sacrifice to him.

³¹That humble servant of the Lord is the best of the best.

¹Meeting with the Lord, you be enraptured. ||1||Pause||

²The Guru, the Saint, has shown me the Lord's Path. The Guru has shown me the way to walk on the Lord's Path.

³Cast out deception from within yourself, O my Gursikhs, and without deception, serve the Lord. You shall be enraptured, enraptured, enraptured. ||1||

⁴Those Sikhs of the Guru, who realize that my Lord God is with them, are pleasing to my Lord God.

⁵The Lord God has blessed servant Nanak with understanding; seeing his Lord hear at hand, his is enraptured, enraptured, enraptured, enraptured. ||2||3||9||

⁶Raag Nat Naaraayan, Fifth Mehl:

⁷One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

⁸O Lord, how can I know what pleases You?

⁹Within my mind is such a great thirst for the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan. ||1||Pause||

¹⁰He alone is a spiritual teacher, and he alone is Your humble servant, to whom You have given Your approval.

¹¹He alone meditates on You forever and ever, O Primal Lord, O Architect of Destiny, unto whom You grant Your Grace. ||1||

¹²What sort of Yoga, what spiritual wisdom and meditation, and what virtues please You?

¹³He alone is a humble servant, and he alone is God's own devotee, with whom You are in love. ||2||

¹⁴That alone is intelligence, that alone is wisdom and cleverness, which inspires one to never forget God, even for an instant.

¹⁵Joining the Society of the Saints, I have found this peace, singing forever the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||3||

¹⁶I have seen the Wondrous Lord, the embodiment of supreme bliss, and now, I see nothing else at all.

¹⁷Says Nanak, the Guru has rubbed sway the rust; now how could I ever enter the womb of reincarnation again? ||4||1||

¹⁸Raag Nat Naaraayan, Fifth Mehl, Dho-Padhay:

¹⁹One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

²⁰I don't blame anyone else.

²¹Whatever You do is sweet to my mind. ||1||Pause||

²²Understanding and obeying Your Order, I have found peace; hearing, listening to Your Name, I live.

²³Here and hereafter, O Lord, You, only You. The Guru has implanted this Mantra within me. ||1||

²⁴Since I came to realize this, I have been blessed with total peace and pleasure.

²⁵In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, this has been revealed to Nanak, and now, there is no other for him at all. ||2||1||2||

²⁶Nat, Fifth Mehl:

²⁷Whoever has You for support,

²⁸has the fear of death removed; peace is found, and the disease of egotism is taken away. ||1||Pause||

²⁹The fire within is quenched, and one is satisfied through the Ambrosial Word of the Guru's Bani, as the baby is satisfied by milk.

³⁰The Saints are my mother, father and friends. The Saints are my help and support, and my brothers. ||1||

¹The doors of doubt are thrown open, and I have met the Lord of the World; God's diamond has pierced the diamond of my mind.

²Nanak blossoms forth in ecstasy, singing the Lord's Praises; my Lord and Master is the ocean of virtue. ||2||2||3||

³Nat, Fifth Mehl:

⁴He Himself saves His humble servant.

⁵Twenty-four hours a day, He dwells with His humble servant; He never forgets him from His Mind. ||1||Pause||

⁶The Lord does not look at his color or form; He does not consider the ancestry of His slave.

⁷Granting His Grace, the Lord blesses him with His Name, and embellishes him with intuitive ease. ||1||

⁸The ocean of fire is treacherous and difficult, but he is carried across.

⁹Seeing, seeing Him, Nanak blossoms forth, over and over again, a sacrifice to Him. ||2||3||4||

¹⁰Nat, Fifth Mehl:

¹¹One who chants the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, within his mind

¹²- millions of sins are erased in an instant, and pain is relieved. ||1||Pause||

¹³Seeking and searching, I have become detached; I have found the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy.

¹⁴Renouncing everything, I am lovingly focused on the One Lord. I grab hold of the feet of the Lord, Har, Har. ||1||

¹⁵Whoever chants His Name is liberated; whoever listens to it is saved, as is anyone who seeks His Sanctuary.

¹⁶Meditating, meditating in remembrance on God the Lord and Master, says Nanak, I am in ecstasy! ||2||4||5||

¹⁷Nat, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁸I am in love with Your Lotus Feet.

¹⁹O Lord, ocean of peace, please bless me with the supreme status. ||1||Pause||

²⁰He has inspired His humble servant to grasp the hem of His robe; his mind is pierced through with the intoxication of divine love.

²¹Singing His Praises, love wells up within the devotee, and the trap of Maya is broken. ||1||

²²The Lord, the ocean of mercy, is all-pervading, permeating everywhere; I do not see any other at all.

²³He has united slave Nanak with Himself; His Love never diminishes. ||2||5||6||

²⁴Nat, Fifth Mehl:

²⁵O my mind, chant, and meditate on the Lord.

²⁶I shall never forget Him from my mind; twenty-four hours a day, I sing His Glorious Praises. ||1||Pause||

²⁷I take my daily cleansing bath in the dust of the feet of the Holy, and I am rid of all my sins.

²⁸The Lord, the ocean of mercy, is all-pervading, permeating everywhere; He is seen to be contained in each and every heart. ||1||

²⁹Hundreds of thousands and millions of meditations, austerities and worships are not equal to remembering the Lord in meditation.

³⁰With his palms pressed together, Nanak begs for this blessing, that he may become the slave of the slaves of Your slaves. ||2||6||7||

³¹Nat, Fifth Mehl:

³²The treasure of the Naam, the Name of the Lord, is everything for me.

³³Granting His Grace, He has led me to join the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy; the True Guru has granted this gift. ||1||Pause||

³⁴Sing the Kirtan, the Praises of the Lord, the Giver of peace, the Destroyer of pain; He shall bless you with perfect spiritual wisdom.

³⁵Sexual desire, anger and greed shall be shattered and destroyed, and your foolish ego will be dispelled. ||1||

³⁶What Glorious Virtues of Yours should I chant? O God, You are the Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts.

³⁷I seek the Sanctuary of Your Lotus Feet, O Lord, ocean of peace; Nanak is forever a sacrifice to You. ||2||7||8||

¹Nat, Fifth Mehl:

²I am a sacrifice, a sacrifice to the Guru, the Lord of the World. ||1||Pause||

³I am unworthy; You are the Perfect Giver. You are the Merciful Master of the meek. ||1||

⁴While standing up and sitting down, while sleeping and awake, You are my soul, my breath of life, my wealth and property. ||2||

⁵Within my mind there is such a great thirst for the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan. Nanak is enraptured with Your Glance of Grace. ||3||8||9||

⁶Nat Partaal, Fifth Mehl:

⁷One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

⁸Is there any friend or companion of mine,

⁹who will constantly share the Lord's Name with me?

¹⁰Will he rid me of my pains and evil tendencies?

¹¹I would surrender my mind, body, consciousness and everything. ||1||Pause||

¹²How rare is that one whom the Lord makes His own,

¹³and whose mind is sewn into the Lord's Lotus Feet.

¹⁴Granting His Grace, the Lord blesses him with His Praise. ||1||

¹⁵Vibrating, meditating on the Lord, he is victorious in this precious human life,

¹⁶and millions of sinners are sanctified.

¹⁷Slave Nanak is a sacrifice, a sacrifice to Him. ||2||1||10||19||

¹⁸Nat Ashtpadheeyaa, Fourth Mehl:

¹⁹One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

²⁰O Lord, Your Name is the support of my mind and body.

²¹I cannot survive for a moment, even for an instant, without serving You. Following the Guru's Teachings, I dwell upon the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||1||Pause||

²²Within my mind, I meditate on the Lord, Har, Har, Har, Har, Har. The Name of the Lord, Har, Har, is so dear to me.

²³When God, my Lord and Master, became merciful to me the meek one, I was exalted by the Word of the Guru's Shabad. ||1||

²⁴Almighty Lord, Slayer of demons, Life of the World, my Lord and Master, inaccessible and infinite:

²⁵I offer this one prayer to the Guru, to bless me, that I may wash the feet of the Holy. ||2||

²⁶The thousands of eyes are the eyes of God; the One God, the Primal Being, remains unattached.

²⁷The One God, our Lord and Master, has thousands of forms; God alone, through the Guru's Teachings, saves us. ||3||

²⁸Following the Guru's Teachings, I have been blessed with the Naam, the Name of the Lord. I have enshrined within my heart the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.

²⁹The sermon of the Lord, Har, Har, is so very sweet; like the mute, I taste its sweetness, but I cannot describe it at all. ||4||

³⁰The tongue savors the bland, insipid taste of the love of duality, greed and corruption.

³¹The Gurmukh tastes the flavor of the Lord's Name, and all other tastes and flavors are forgotten. ||5||

³²Following the Guru's Teachings, I have obtained the wealth of the Lord's Name; hearing it, and chanting it, sins are eradicated.

³³The Messenger of Death and the Righteous Judge of Dharma do not even approach the beloved servant of my Lord and Master. ||6||

³⁴With as many breaths as I have, I chant the Naam, under Guru's Instructions.

³⁵Each and every breath which escapes me without the Naam - that breath is useless and corrupt. ||7||

³⁶Please grant Your Grace; I am meek; I seek Your Sanctuary, God. Unite me with Your beloved, humble servants.

¹Nanak, the slave of Your slaves, says, I am the water-carrier of Your slaves. ||8||1||

²Nat, Fourth Mehl:

³O Lord, I am an unworthy stone.

⁴The Merciful Lord, in His Mercy, has led me to meet the Guru; through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, this stone is carried across. ||1||Pause||

⁵The True Guru has implanted within me the exceedingly sweet Naam, the Name of the Lord; it is like the most fragrant sandalwood.

⁶Through the Name, my awareness extends in the ten directions; the fragrance of the fragrant Lord permeates the air. ||1||

⁷Your unlimited sermon is the most sweet sermon; I contemplate the most Sublime Word of the Guru.

⁸Singing, singing, I sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord; singing His Glorious Praises, the Guru saves me. ||2||

⁹The Guru is wise and clear; the Guru looks upon all alike. Meeting with Him, doubt and skepticism are removed.

¹⁰Meeting with the True Guru, I have obtained the supreme status. I am a sacrifice to the True Guru. ||3||

¹¹Practicing hypocrisy and deception, people wander around in confusion. Greed and hypocrisy are evils in this world.

¹²In this world and the next, they are miserable; the Messenger of Death hovers over their heads, and strikes them down. ||4||

¹³At the break of day, they take care of their affairs, and the poisonous entanglements of Maya.

¹⁴When night falls, they enter the land of dreams, and even in dreams, they take care of their corruptions and pains. ||5||

¹⁵Taking a barren field, they plant falsehood; they shall harvest only falsehood.

¹⁶The materialistic people shall all remain hungry; the brutal Messenger of Death stands waiting at their door. ||6||

¹⁷The self-willed manmukh has accumulated a tremendous load of debt in sin; only by contemplating the Word of the Shabad, can this debt be paid off.

¹⁸As much debt and as many creditors as there are, the Lord makes them into servants, who fall at his feet. ||7||

¹⁹All the beings which the Lord of the Universe created - He puts the rings through their noses, and leads them all along.

²⁰O Nanak, as God drives us on, so do we follow; it is all the Will of the Beloved Lord. ||8||2||

²¹Nat, Fourth Mehl:

²²The Lord has bathed me in the pool of Ambrosial Nectar.

²³The spiritual wisdom of the True Guru is the most excellent cleansing bath; bathing in it, all the filthy sins are washed away. ||1||Pause||

²⁴The virtues of the Sangat, the Holy Congregation, are so very great. Even the prostitute was saved, by teaching the parrot to speak the Lord's Name.

²⁵Krishna was pleased, and so he touched the hunch-back Kubija, and she was transported to the heavens. ||1||

²⁶Ajaamal loved his son Naaraayan, and called out his name.

²⁷His loving devotion pleased my Lord and Master, who struck down and drove off the Messengers of Death. ||2||

²⁸The mortal speaks and by speaking, makes the people listen; but he does not reflect upon what he himself says.

²⁹But when he joins the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation, he is confirmed in his faith, and he is saved by the Name of the Lord. ||3||

³⁰As long as his soul and body are healthy and strong, he does not remember the Lord at all.

³¹But when his home and mansion catch fire, then, he wants to dig the well to draw water. ||4||

³²O mind, do not join with the faithless cynic, who has forgotten the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.

³³The word of the faithless cynic stings like a scorpion; leave the faithless cynic far, far behind. ||5||

¹Fall in love, fall deeply in love with the Lord; clinging to the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, you will be exalted and embellished.

²Those who accept the Word of the Guru as True, totally True, are very dear to my Lord and Master. ||6||

³Because of actions committed in past lives, one comes to love the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, Har.

⁴By Guru's Grace, you shall obtain the ambrosial essence; sing of this essence, and reflect upon this essence. ||7||

⁵O Lord, Har, Har, all forms and colors are Yours; O my Beloved, my deep crimson ruby.

⁶Only that color which You impart, Lord, exists; O Nanak, what can the poor wretched being do? ||8||3||

⁷Nat, Fourth Mehl:

⁸In the Sanctuary of the Guru, the Lord God saves and protects us,

⁹as He protected the elephant, when the crocodile seized it and pulled it into the water; He lifted him up and pulled him out. ||1||Pause||

¹⁰God's servants are sublime and exalted; they enshrine faith for Him in their minds.

¹¹Faith and devotion are pleasing to my God's Mind; He saves the honor of His humble servants. ||1||

¹²The servant of the Lord, Har, Har, is committed to His service; He sees God pervading the entire expanse of the universe.

¹³He sees the One and only Primal Lord God, who blesses all with His Glance of Grace. ||2||

¹⁴God, our Lord and Master, is permeating and pervading all places; He takes care of the whole world as His slave.

¹⁵The Merciful Lord Himself mercifully gives His gifts, even to worms in stones. ||3||

¹⁶Within the deer is the heavy fragrance of musk, but he is confused and deluded, and he shakes his horns looking for it.

¹⁷Wandering, rambling and roaming through the forests and woods, I exhausted myself, and then in my own home, the Perfect Guru saved me. ||4||

¹⁸The Word, the Bani is Guru, and Guru is the Bani. Within the Bani, the Ambrosial Nectar is contained.

¹⁹If His humble servant believes, and acts according to the Words of the Guru's Bani, then the Guru, in person, emancipates him. ||5||

²⁰All is God, and God is the whole expanse; man eats what he has planted.

²¹When Dhrishtabudhi tormented the humble devotee Chandrahaans, he only set his own house on fire. ||6||

²²God's humble servant longs for Him within his heart; God watches over each breath of His humble servant.

²³Mercifully, mercifully, He implants devotion within his humble servant; for his sake, God saves the whole world. ||7||

²⁴God, our Lord and Master, is Himself by Himself; God Himself embellishes the universe.

²⁵O servant Nanak, He Himself is all-pervading; in His Mercy, He Himself emancipates all. ||8||4||

²⁶Nat, Fourth Mehl:

²⁷Grant Your Grace, Lord, and save me,

²⁸as You saved Dropadi from shame when she was seized and brought before the court by the evil villians. ||1||Pause||

²⁹Bless me with Your Grace - I am just a humble beggar of Yours; I beg for a single blessing, O my Beloved.

³⁰I long constantly for the True Guru. Lead me to meet the Guru, O Lord, that I may be exalted and embellished. ||1||

³¹The actions of the faithless cynic are like the churning of water; he churns, constantly churning only water.

³²Joining the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation, the supreme status is obtained; the butter is produced, and eaten with delight. ||2||

³³He may constantly and continually wash his body; he may constantly rub, clean and polish his body.

¹But if the Word of my True Guru is not pleasing to his mind, then all his preparations and beautiful decorations are useless. ||3||

²Walk playfully and carefree, O my friends and companions; cherish the Glorious Virtues of my Lord and Master.

³To serve, as Gurmukh, is pleasing to my God. Through the True Guru, the unknown is known. ||4||

⁴Women and men, all the men and women, all came from the One Primal Lord God.

⁵My mind loves the dust of the feet of the humble; the Lord emancipates those who meet with the Lord's humble servants. ||5||

⁶From village to village, throughout all the cities I wandered; and then, inspired by the Lord's humble servants, I found Him deep within the nucleus of my heart.

⁷Faith and longing have welled up within me, and I have been blended with the Lord; the Guru, the Guru, has saved me. ||6||

⁸The thread of my breath has been made totally sublime and pure; I contemplate the Shabad, the Word of the True Guru.

⁹I came back to the home of my own inner self; drinking in the ambrosial essence, I see the world, without my eyes. ||7||

¹⁰I cannot describe Your Glorious Virtues, Lord; You are the temple, and I am just a tiny worm.

¹¹Bless Nanak with Your Mercy, and unite him with the Guru; meditating on my Lord, my mind is comforted and consoled. ||8||5||

¹²Nat, Fourth Mehl:

¹³O my mind, vibrate, meditate on the inaccessible and infinite Lord and Master.

¹⁴I am such a great sinner; I am so unworthy. And yet the Guru, in His Mercy, has saved me. ||1||Pause||

¹⁵I have found the Holy Person, the Holy and humble servant of the Lord; I offer a prayer to Him, my Beloved Guru.

¹⁶Please, bless me with the wealth, the capital of the Lord's Name, and take away all my hunger and thirst. ||1||

¹⁷The moth, the deer, the bumble bee, the elephant and the fish are ruined, each by the one passion that controls them.

¹⁸The five powerful demons are in the body; the Guru, the True Guru turns out these sins. ||2||

¹⁹I searched and searched through the Shaastras and the Vedas; Naarad the silent sage proclaimed these words as well.

²⁰Chanting the Lord's Name, salvation is attained; the Guru saves those in the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation. ||3||

²¹In love with the Beloved Lord God, one looks at Him as the lotus looks at the sun.

²²The peacock dances on the mountain, when the clouds hang low and heavy. ||4||

²³The faithless cyinc may be totally drenched with ambrosial nectar, but even so, all his branches and flowers are filled with venom.

²⁴The more one bows down in humility before the faithless cyinc, the more he provokes, and stabs, and spits out his poison. ||5||

²⁵Remain with the Holy man, the Saint of the Saints, who chants the Lord's Praises for the benefit of all.

²⁶Meeting the Saint of Saints, the mind blossoms forth, like the lotus, exalted by obtaining the water. ||6||

²⁷The waves of greed are like mad dogs with rabies. Their madness ruins everything.

²⁸When the news reached the Court of my Lord and Master, the Guru took up the sword of spiritual wisdom, and killed them. ||7||

²⁹Save me, save me, save me, O my God; shower me with Your Mercy, and save me!

³⁰O Nanak, I have no other support; the Guru, the True Guru, has saved me. ||8||6|| First Set of Six Hymns||

³¹First Set of Six Hymns||