Raag Prabhaatee

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 Parbhaatee Bibhaas, First Mehl, Chau-Padhay, First House:

³Your Name carries us across; Your Name brings respect and worship.

⁴Your Name embellishes us; it is the object of the awakened mind.

⁵Your Name brings honor to everyone's name.

⁶Without Your Name, no one is ever respected. ||1||

⁷All other clever tricks are just for show.

⁸Whoever the Lord blesses with forgiveness - his affairs are perfectly resolved. ||1||Pause||

⁹Your Name is my strength; Your Name is my support.

¹⁰Your Name is my army; Your Name is my king.

¹¹Your Name brings honor, glory and approval.

¹²By Your Grace, one is blessed with the banner and the insignia of Your Mercy. ||2||

¹³Your Name brings intuitive peace and poise; Your Name brings praise.

¹⁴Your Name is the Ambrosial Nectar which cleans out the poison.

¹⁵Through Your Name, all peace and comfort comes to abide in the mind.

¹⁶Without the Name, they are bound and gagged, and dragged off to the City of Death. ||3||

¹⁷Man is involved with his wife, hearth and home, land and country,

¹⁸the pleasures of the mind and fine clothes;

¹⁹but when the call comes, he cannot delay.

²⁰O Nanak, in the end, the false turn out to be false. ||4||1||

²¹Prabhaatee, First Mehl:

²²Your Name is the Jewel, and Your Grace is the Light. In awareness, there is Your Light.

²³Darkness fills the dark, and then everything is lost. ||1||

²⁴This whole world is corrupt.

²⁵Your Name is the only cure; nothing else works, O Infinite Creator Lord. ||1||Pause||

²⁶One side of the scale holds tens of thousands, millions of nether regions and realms.

²⁷O my Beloved, Your Worth could only be estimated if something else could be placed on the other side of the scale. ||2||

¹Out of pain, pleasure is produced, and out of pleasure comes pain.

²That mouth which praises You - what hunger could that mouth ever suffer? ||3||

³O Nanak, you alone are foolish; all the rest of the world is good.

⁴That body in which the Naam does not well up - that body becomes miserable. ||4||2||

⁵Prabhaatee, First Mehl:

⁶For His sake, Brahma uttered the Vedas, and Shiva renounced Maya.

⁷For His sake, the Siddhas became hermits and renunciates; even the gods have not realized His Mystery. ||1||

⁸O Baba, keep the True Lord in your mind, and utter the Name of the True Lord with your mouth; the True Lord will carry you across.

⁹Enemies and pain shall not even approach you; only a rare few realize the Wisdom of the Lord. ||1||Pause||

¹⁰Fire, water and air make up the world; these three are the slaves of the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

¹¹One who does not chant the Naam is a thief, dwelling in the fortress of the five thieves. ||2||

¹²If someone does a good deed for someone else, he totally puffs himself up in his conscious mind.

¹³The Lord bestows so many virtues and so much goodness; He does not ever regret it. ||3||

¹⁴Those who praise You gather the wealth in their laps; this is Nanak's wealth.

¹⁵Whoever shows respect to them is not summoned by the Messenger of Death. ||4||3||

¹⁶Prabhaatee, First Mehl:

¹⁷One who has no beauty, no social status, no mouth, no flesh

¹⁸- meeting with the True Guru, he finds the Immaculate Lord, and dwells in Your Name. ||1||

¹⁹O detached Yogi, contemplate the essence of reality,

²⁰and you shall never again come to be born into the world. ||1||Pause||

²¹One who does not have good karma or Dharmic faith, sacred rosary or mala

²²- through the Light of God, wisdom is bestowed; the True Guru is our Protector. ||2||

²³One who does not observe any fasts, make religious vows or chant

²⁴- he does not have to worry about good luck or bad, if he obeys the Command of the True Guru. ||3||

²⁵One who is not hopeful, nor hopeless, who has trained his intuitive consciousness

²⁶- his being blends with the Supreme Being. O Nanak, his awareness is awakened. ||4||4||

²⁷Prabhaatee, First Mehl:

²⁸What he says is approved in the Court of the Lord.

²⁹He looks upon poison and nectar as one and the same. ||1||

³⁰What can I say? You are permeating and pervading all.

³¹Whatever happens, is all by Your Will. ||1||Pause||

³²The Divine Light shines radiantly, and egotistical pride is dispelled.

³³The True Guru bestows the Ambrosial Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||2||

³⁴In this Dark Age of Kali Yuga, one's birth is approved,

³⁵if one is honored in the True Court. ||3||

³⁶Speaking and listening, one goes to the Celestial Home of the Indescribable Lord.

³⁷Mere words of mouth, O Nanak, are burnt away. ||4||5||

³⁸Prabhaatee, First Mehl:

³⁹One who bathes in the Ambrosial Water of spiritual wisdom takes with him the virtues of the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage.

⁴⁰The Guru's Teachings are the gems and jewels; the Sikh who serves Him searches and finds them. ||1||

⁴¹There is no sacred shrine equal to the Guru.

⁴²The Guru encompasses the ocean of contentment. ||1||Pause||

¹The Guru is the River, from which the Pure Water is obtained forever; it washes away the filth and pollution of evil-mindedness.

²Finding the True Guru, the perfect cleansing bath is obtained, which transforms even beasts and ghosts into gods. ||2||

³He is said to be the Guru, with the scent of sandalwood, who is imbued with the True Name to the bottom of His Heart.

⁴By His Fragrance, the world of vegetation is perfumed. Lovingly focus yourself on His Feet. ||3||

⁵The life of the soul wells up for the Gurmukh; the Gurmukh goes to the House of God.

⁶The Gurmukh, O Nanak, merges in the True One; the Gurmukh attains the exalted state of the self. ||4||6||

⁷Prabhaatee, First Mehl:

⁸By Guru's Grace, contemplate spiritual knowledge; read it and study it, and you shall be honored.

⁹Within the self, the self is revealed, when one is blessed with the Ambrosial Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||1||

¹⁰O Creator Lord, You alone are my Benefactor.

¹¹I beg for only one blessing from You: please bless me with Your Name. ||1||Pause||

¹²The five wandering thieves are captured and held, and the egotistical pride of the mind is subdued.

¹³Visions of corruption, vice and evil-mindedness run away. Such is the spiritual wisdom of God. ||2||

¹⁴Please bless me with the rice of truth and self-restraint, the wheat of compassion, and the leaf-plate of meditation.

¹⁵Bless me with the milk of good karma, and the clarified butter, the ghee, of compassion. Such are the gifts I beg of You, Lord. ||3||

¹⁶Let forgiveness and patience be my milk-cows, and let the calf of my mind intuitively drink in this milk.

¹⁷I beg for the clothes of modesty and the Lord's Praise; Nanak chants the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||4||7||

¹⁸Prabhaatee, First Mehl:

¹⁹No one can hold anyone back from coming; how could anyone hold anyone back from going?

²⁰He alone thoroughly understands this, from whom all beings come; all are merged and immersed in Him. ||1||

²¹Waaho! - You are Great, and Wondrous is Your Will.

²²Whatever You do, surely comes to pass. Nothing else can happen. ||1||Pause||

²³The buckets on the chain of the Persian wheel rotate; one empties out to fill another.

²⁴This is just like the Play of our Lord and Master; such is His Glorious Greatness. ||2||

²⁵Following the path of intuitive awareness, one turns away from the world, and one's vision is enlightened.

²⁶Contemplate this in your mind, and see, O spiritual teacher. Who is the householder, and who is the renunciate? ||3||

²⁷Hope comes from the Lord; surrendering to Him, we remain in the state of nirvaanaa.

²⁸We come from Him; surrendering to Him, O Nanak, one is approved as a householder, and a renunciate. ||4||8||

²⁹Prabhaatee, First Mehl:

³⁰I am a sacrifice to that one who binds in bondage his evil and corrupted gaze.

³¹One who does not know the difference between vice and virtue wanders around uselessly. ||1||

³²Speak the True Name of the Creator Lord.

³³Then, you shall never again have to come into this world. ||1||Pause||

³⁴The Creator transforms the high into the low, and makes the lowly into kings.

³⁵Those who know the All-knowing Lord are approved and certified as perfect in this world. ||2||

³⁶If anyone is mistaken and fooled, you should go to instruct him.

¹The Creator Himself plays all the games; only a few understand this. ||3||

²Meditate on the Name, and the Word of the Shabad, in the early hours before dawn; leave your worldly entanglements behind.

³Prays Nanak, the slave of God's slaves: the world loses, and he wins. ||4||9||

⁴Prabhaatee, First Mehl:

⁵The mind is Maya, the mind is a chaser; the mind is a bird flying across the sky.

⁶The thieves are overpowered by the Shabad, and then the body-village prospers and celebrates.

⁷Lord, when You save someone, he is saved; his capital is safe and sound. ||1||

⁸Such is my Treasure, the Jewel of the Naam;

⁹please bless me with the Guru's Teachings, so that I may fall at Your Feet. ||1||Pause||

¹⁰The mind is a Yogi, the mind is a pleasure-seeker; the mind is foolish and ignorant.

¹¹The mind is the giver, the mind is the beggar; the mind is the Great Guru, the Creator.

¹²The five thieves are conquered, and peace is attained; such is the contemplative wisdom of God. ||2||

¹³The One Lord is said to be in each and every heart, but no one can see Him.

¹⁴The false are cast upside-down into the womb of reincarnation; without the Name, they lose their honor.

¹⁵Those whom You unite, remain united, if it is Your Will. ||3||

¹⁶God does not ask about social class or birth; you must find your true home.

¹⁷That is your social class and that is your status - the karma of what you have done.

¹⁸The pains of death and rebirth are eradicated; O Nanak, salvation is in the Lord's Name. ||4||10||

¹⁹Prabhaatee, First Mehl:

²⁰He is awake, and even happy, but he is being plundered - he is blind!

²¹The noose is around his neck, and yet, his head is busy with worldly affairs.

²²In hope, he comes and in desire, he leaves.

²³The strings of his life are all tangled up; he is utterly helpless. ||1||

²⁴The Lord of Awareness, the Lord of Life is awake and aware.

²⁵He is the Ocean of peace, the Treasure of Ambrosial Nectar. ||1||Pause||

²⁶He does not understand what he is told; he is blind - he does not see, and so he does his evil deeds.

²⁷The Transcendent Lord Himself showers His Love and Affection; by His Grace, He bestows glorious greatness. ||2||

²⁸With the coming of each and every day, his life is wearing away, bit by bit; but still, his heart is attached to Maya.

²⁹Without the Guru, he is drowned, and finds no place of rest, as long as he is caught in duality. ||3||

³⁰Day and night, God watches over and takes care of His living beings; they receive pleasure and pain according to their past actions.

³¹Nanak, the unfortunate one, begs for the charity of Truth; please bless him with this glory. ||4||11||

³²Prabhaatee, First Mehl:

³³If I remain silent, the world calls me a fool.

³⁴If I talk too much, I miss out on Your Love.

³⁵My mistakes and faults will be judged in Your Court.

³⁶Without the Naam, the Name of the Lord, how can I maintain good conduct? ||1||

³⁷Such is the falsehood which is plundering the world.

³⁸The slanderer slanders me, but even so, I love him. ||1||Pause||

³⁹He alone knows the way, who has been slandered.

⁴⁰Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, he is stamped with the Lord's Insignia in His Court.

⁴¹He realizes the Naam, the Cause of causes, deep within himself.

⁴²He alone knows the way, who is blessed by the Lord's Glance of Grace. ||2||

⁴³I am filthy and polluted; the True Lord is Immaculate and Sublime.

⁴⁴Calling oneself sublime, one does not become exalted.

⁴⁵The self-willed manmukh openly eats the great poison.

⁴⁶But one who becomes Gurmukh is absorbed in the Name. ||3||

⁴⁷I am blind, deaf, foolish and ignorant,

¹the lowest of the low, the worst of the worst.

²I am poor, but I have the Wealth of Your Name, O my Beloved.

³This is the most excellent wealth; all else is poison and ashes. ||4||

⁴I pay no attention to slander and praise; I contemplate the Word of the Shabad.

⁵I celebrate the One who blesses me with His Bounty.

⁶Whomever You forgive, O Lord, is blessed with status and honor.

⁷Says Nanak, I speak as He causes me to speak. ||5||12||

⁸Prabhaatee, First Mehl:

⁹Eating too much, one's filth only increases; wearing fancy clothes, one's home is disgraced.

¹⁰Talking too much, one only starts arguments. Without the Name, everything is poison - know this well. ||1||

¹¹O Baba, such is the treacherous trap which has caught my mind;

¹²riding out the waves of the storm, it will be enlightened by intuitive wisdom. ||1||Pause||

¹³They eat poison, speak poison and do poisonous deeds.

¹⁴Bound and gagged at Death's door, they are punished; they can be saved only through the True Name. ||2||

¹⁵As they come, they go. Their actions are recorded, and go along with them.

¹⁶The self-willed manmukh loses his capital, and is punished in the Court of the Lord. ||3||

¹⁷The world is false and polluted; only the True One is Pure. Contemplate Him through the Word of the Guru's Shabad.

¹⁸Those who have God's spiritual wisdom within, are known to be very rare. ||4||

¹⁹They endure the unendurable, and the Nectar of the Lord, the Embodiment of Bliss, trickles into them continuously.

²⁰O Nanak, the fish is in love with the water; if it pleases You, Lord, please enshrine such love within me. ||5||13||

²¹Prabhaatee, First Mehl:

²²Songs, sounds, pleasures and clever tricks;

²³joy, love and the power to command;

²⁴fine clothes and food - these have no place in one's consciousness.

²⁵True intuitive peace and poise rest in the Naam. ||1||

²⁶What do I know about what God does?

²⁷Without the Naam, the Name of the Lord, nothing makes my body feel good. ||1||Pause||

²⁸Yoga, thrills, delicious flavors and ecstasy;

²⁹wisdom, truth and love all come from devotion to the Lord of the Universe.

³⁰My own occupation is to work to praise the Lord.

³¹Deep within, I dwell on the Lord of the sun and the moon. ||2||

³²I have lovingly enshrined the love of my Beloved within my heart.

³³My Husband Lord, the Lord of the World, is the Master of the meek and the poor.

³⁴Night and day, the Naam is my giving in charity and fasting.

³⁵The waves have subsided, contemplating the essence of reality. ||3||

³⁶What power do I have to speak the Unspoken?

³⁷I worship You with devotion; You inspire me to do so.

³⁸You dwell deep within; my egotism is dispelled.

³⁹So whom should I serve? There is no other than You. ||4||

⁴⁰The Word of the Guru's Shabad is utterly sweet and sublime.

⁴¹Such is the Ambrosial Nectar I see deep within.

⁴²Those who taste this, attain the state of perfection.

⁴³O Nanak, they are satisfied, and their bodies are at peace. ||5||14||

⁴⁴Prabhaatee, First Mehl:

⁴⁵Deep within, I see the Shabad, the Word of God; my mind is pleased and appeased. Nothing else can touch and imbue me.

⁴⁶Day and night, God watches over and cares for His beings and creatures; He is the Ruler of all. ||1||

⁴⁷My God is dyed in the most beautiful and glorious color.

⁴⁸Merciful to the meek and the poor, my Beloved is the Enticer of the mind; He is so very sweet, imbued with the deep crimson color of His Love. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁹The Well is high up in the Tenth Gate; the Ambrosial Nectar flows, and I drink it in.

⁵⁰The creation is His; He alone knows its ways and means. The Gurmukh contemplates spiritual wisdom. ||2||

¹The rays of light spread out, and the heart-lotus joyfully blossoms forth; the sun enters into the house of the moon.

²I have conquered death; the desires of the mind are destroyed. By Guru's Grace, I have found God. ||3||

³I am dyed in the deep crimson color of His Love. I am not colored by any other color.

⁴O Nanak, my tongue is saturated with the taste of God, who is permeating and pervading everywhere. ||4||15||

⁵Prabhaatee, First Mehl:

⁶The Yogis are divided into twelve schools, the Sannyaasees into ten.

⁷The Yogis and those wearing religious robes, and the Jains with their all hair plucked out - without the Word of the Shabad, the noose is around their necks. ||1||

⁸Those who are imbued with the Shabad are the perfectly detached renunciates.

⁹They beg to receive charity in the hands of their hearts, embracing love and affection for the One. ||1||Pause||

¹⁰The Brahmins study and argue about the scriptures; they perform ceremonial rituals, and lead others in these rituals.

¹¹Without true understanding, those self-willed manmukhs understand nothing. Separated from God, they suffer in pain. ||2||

¹²Those who receive the Shabad are sanctified and pure; they are approved in the True Court.

¹³Night and day, they remain lovingly attuned to the Naam; throughout the ages, they are merged in the True One. ||3||

¹⁴Good deeds, righteousness and Dharmic faith, purification, austere self-discipline, chanting, intense meditation and pilgrimages to sacred shrines - all these abide in the Shabad.

¹⁵O Nanak, united in union with the True Guru, suffering, sin and death run away. ||4||16||

¹⁶Prabhaatee, First Mehl:

¹⁷The dust of the feet of the Saints, the Company of the Holy, and the Praises of the Lord carry us across to the other side.

¹⁸What can the wretched, terrified Messenger of Death do to the Gurmukhs? The Lord abides in their hearts. ||1||

¹⁹Without the Naam, the Name of the Lord, life might just as well be burnt down.

²⁰The Gurmukh chants and meditates on the Lord, chanting the chant on the mala; the Flavor of the Lord comes into the mind. ||1||Pause||

²¹Those who follow the Guru's Teachings find true peace - how can I even describe the glory of such a person?

²²The Gurmukh seeks and finds the gems and jewels, diamonds, rubies and treasures. ||2||

²³So center yourself on the treasures of spiritual wisdom and meditation; remain lovingly attuned to the One True Lord, and the Word of His Shabad.

²⁴Remain absorbed in the Primal State of the Fearless, Immaculate, Independent, Self-sufficient Lord. ||3||

²⁵The seven seas are overflowing with the Immaculate Water; the inverted boat floats across.

²⁶The mind which wandered in external distractions is restrained and held in check; the Gurmukh is intuitively absorbed in God. ||4||

²⁷He is a householder, he is a renunciate and God's slave, who, as Gurmukh, realizes his own self.

²⁸Says Nanak, his mind is pleased and appeased by the True Word of the Shabad; there is no other at all. ||5||17||

²⁹Raag Prabhaatee, Third Mehl, Chau-Padhay:

³⁰One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

³¹Those who become Gurmukh and understand are very rare; God is permeating and pervading through the Word of His Shabad.

³²Those who are imbued with the Naam, the Name of the Lord, find everlasting peace; they remain lovingly attuned to the True One. ||1||

¹Chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, O Siblings of Destiny.

²By Guru's Grace, the mind becomes steady and stable; night and day, it remains satisfied with the Sublime Essence of the Lord. ||1||Pause||

³Night and day, perform devotional worship service to the Lord, day and night; this is the profit to be obtained in this Dark Age of Kali Yuga, O Siblings of Destiny.

⁴The humble beings are forever immaculate; no filth ever sticks to them. They focus their consciousness on the True Name. ||2||

⁵The True Guru has revealed the ornamentation of peace; the Glorious Greatness of the Naam is Great!

⁶The Inexhaustible Treasures are overflowing; they are never exhausted. So serve the Lord forever, O Siblings of Destiny. ||3||

⁷The Creator comes to abide in the minds of those whom He Himself has blessed.

⁸O Nanak, meditate forever on the Naam, which the True Guru has revealed. ||4||1||

⁹Prabhaatee, Third Mehl:

¹⁰I am unworthy; please forgive me and bless me, O my Lord and Master, and unite me with Yourself.

¹¹You are Endless; no one can find Your limits. Through the Word of Your Shabad, You bestow understanding. ||1||

¹²O Dear Lord, I am a sacrifice to You.

¹³I dedicate my mind and body and place them in offering before You; I shall remain in Your Sanctuary forever. ||1||Pause||

¹⁴Please keep me forever under Your Will, O my Lord and Master; please bless me with the Glorious Greatness of Your Name.

¹⁵Through the Perfect Guru, God's Will is revealed; night and day, remain absorbed in peace and poise. ||2||

¹⁶Those devotees who accept Your Will are pleasing to You, Lord; You Yourself forgive them, and unite them with Yourself.

¹⁷Accepting Your Will, I have found everlasting peace; the Guru has extinguished the fire of desire. ||3||

¹⁸Whatever You do comes to pass, O Creator; nothing else can be done.

¹⁹O Nanak, nothing is as great as the Blessing of the Name; it is obtained through the Perfect Guru. ||4||2||

²⁰Prabhaatee, Third Mehl:

²¹The Gurmukhs praise the Lord; praising the Lord, they know Him.

²²Doubt and duality are gone from within; they realize the Word of the Guru's Shabad. ||1||

²³O Dear Lord, You are my One and Only.

²⁴I meditate on You and praise You; salvation and wisdom come from You. ||1||Pause||

²⁵The Gurmukhs praise You; they receive the most excellent and sweet Ambrosial Nectar.

²⁶This Nectar is forever sweet; it never loses its taste. Contemplate the Word of the Guru's Shabad. ||2||

²⁷He makes it seem so sweet to me; I am a sacrifice to Him.

²⁸Through the Shabad, I praise the Giver of peace forever. I have eradicated self-conceit from within. ||3||

²⁹My True Guru is forever the Giver. I receive whatever fruits and rewards I desire.

³⁰O Nanak, through the Naam, glorious greatness is obtained; through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, the True One is found. ||4||3||

³¹Prabhaatee, Third Mehl:

³²Those who enter Your Sanctuary, Dear Lord, are saved by Your Protective Power.

³³I cannot even conceive of any other as Great as You. There never was, and there never shall be. ||1||

³⁴O Dear Lord, I shall remain in Your Sanctuary forever.

³⁵As it pleases You, You save me, O my Lord and Master; this is Your Glorious Greatness. ||1||Pause||

³⁶O Dear Lord, You cherish and sustain those who seek Your Sanctuary.

¹O Dear Lord, the Messenger of Death cannot even touch those whom You, in Your Mercy, protect. ||2||

²True Is Your Sanctuary, O Dear Lord; it never diminishes or goes away.

³Those who abandon the Lord, and become attached to the love of duality, shall continue to die and be reborn. ||3||

⁴Those who seek Your Sanctuary, Dear Lord, shall never suffer in pain or hunger for anything.

⁵O Nanak, praise the Naam, the Name of the Lord forever, and merge in the True Word of the Shabad. ||4||4||

⁶Prabhaatee, Third Mehl:

⁷As Gurmukh, meditate on the Dear Lord forever, as long as there is the breath of life.

⁸Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, the mind becomes immaculate, and egotistical pride is expelled from the mind.

⁹Fruitful and prosperous is the life of that mortal being, who is absorbed in the Name of the Lord. ||1||

¹⁰O my mind, listen to the Teachings of the Guru.

¹¹The Name of the Lord is the Giver of peace forever. With intuitive ease, drink in the Sublime Essence of the Lord. ||1||Pause||

¹²Those who understand their own origin dwell within the home of their inner being, in intuitive peace and poise.

¹³Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, the heart-lotus blossoms forth, and egotism and evil-mindedness are eradicated.

¹⁴The One True Lord is pervading amongst all; those who realize this are very rare. ||2||

¹⁵Through the Guru's Teachings, the mind becomes immaculate, speaking the Ambrosial Essence.

¹⁶The Name of the Lord dwells in the mind forever; within the mind, the mind is pleased and appeased.

¹⁷I am forever a sacrifice to my Guru, through whom I have realized the Lord, the Supreme Soul. ||3||

¹⁸Those human beings who do not serve the True Guru - their lives are uselessly wasted.

¹⁹When God bestows His Glance of Grace, then we meet the True Guru, merging in intuitive peace and poise.

²⁰O Nanak, by great good fortune, the Naam is bestowed; by perfect destiny, meditate. ||4||5||

²¹Prabhaatee, Third Mehl:

²²God Himself fashioned the many forms and colors; He created the Universe and staged the play.

²³Creating the creation, He watches over it. He acts, and causes all to act; He gives sustenance to all beings. ||1||

²⁴In this Dark Age of Kali Yuga, the Lord is All-pervading.

²⁵The One God is pervading and permeating each and every heart; the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, is revealed to the Gurmukh. ||1||Pause||

²⁶The Naam, the Name of the Lord, is hidden, but it is pervasive in the Dark Age. The Lord is totally pervading and permeating each and every heart.

²⁷The Jewel of the Naam is revealed within the hearts of those who hurry to the Sanctuary of the Guru. ||2||

²⁸Whoever overpowers the five sense organs, is blessed with forgiveness, patience and contentment, through the Guru's Teachings.

²⁹Blessed, blessed, perfect and great is that humble servant of the Lord, who is inspired by the Fear of God and detached love, to sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||3||

³⁰If someone turns his face away from the Guru, and does not enshrine the Guru's Words in his consciousness

³¹- he may perform all sorts of rituals and accumulate wealth, but in the end, he will fall into hell. ||4||

³²The One Shabad, the Word of the One God, is prevailing everywhere. All the creation came from the One Lord.

³³O Nanak, the Gurmukh is united in union. When the Gurmukh goes, he blends into the Lord, Har, Har. ||5||6||

³⁴Prabhaatee, Third Mehl:

³⁵O my mind, praise your Guru.

¹Perfect destiny is inscribed upon your forehead and face; sing the Praises of the Lord forever. ||1||Pause||

²The Lord bestows the Ambrosial Food of the Naam.

³Out of millions, only a rare few receive it

⁴- only those who are blessed by God's Glance of Grace. ||1||

⁵Whoever enshrines the Guru's Feet within his mind,

⁶is rid of pain and darkness from within.

⁷The True Lord unites him with Himself. ||2||

⁸So embrace love for the Word of the Guru's Bani.

⁹Here and hereafter, this is your only Support.

¹⁰The Creator Lord Himself bestows it. ||3||

¹¹One whom the Lord inspires to accept His Will,

¹²is a wise and knowing devotee.

¹³Nanak is forever a sacrifice to him. ||4||7||17||7||24||

¹⁴Prabhaatee, Fourth Mehl, Bibhaas:

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

¹⁶Through the Guru's Teachings, I sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord with joyous love and delight; I am enraptured, lovingly attuned to the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

¹⁷Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, I drink in the Ambrosial Essence; I am a sacrifice to the Naam. ||1||

¹⁸The Lord, the Life of the World, is my Breath of Life.

¹⁹The Lofty and Exalted Lord became pleasing to my heart and my inner being, when the Guru breathed the Mantra of the Lord into my ears. ||1||Pause||

²⁰Come, O Saints: let us join together, O Siblings of Destiny; let us meet and chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.

²¹How am I to find my God? Please bless me with the Gift of the Lord's Teachings. ||2||

²²The Lord, Har, Har, abides in the Society of the Saints; joining this Sangat, the Lord's Glories are known.

²³By great good fortune, the Society of the Saints is found. Through the Guru, the True Guru, I receive the Touch of the Lord God. ||3||

²⁴I sing the Glorious Praises of God, my Inaccessible Lord and Master; singing His Praises, I am enraptured.

²⁵The Guru has showered His Mercy on servant Nanak; in an instant, He blessed him with the Gift of the Lord's Name. ||4||1||

²⁶Prabhaatee, Fourth Mehl:

²⁷With the rising of the sun, the Gurmukh speaks of the Lord. All through the night, he dwells upon the Sermon of the Lord.

²⁸My God has infused this longing within me; I seek my Lord God. ||1||

²⁹My mind is the dust of the feet of the Holy.

³⁰The Guru has implanted the Sweet Name of the Lord, Har, Har, within me. I dust the Guru's Feet with my hair. ||1||Pause||

³¹Dark are the days and nights of the faithless cynics; they are caught in the trap of attachment to Maya.

³²The Lord God does not dwell in their hearts, even for an instant; every hair of their heads is totally tied up in debts. ||2||

³³Joining the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation, wisdom and understanding are obtained, and one is released from the traps of egotism and possessiveness.

³⁴The Lord's Name, and the Lord, seem sweet to me. Through the Word of His Shabad, the Guru has made me happy. ||3||

³⁵I am just a child; the Guru is the Unfathomable Lord of the World. In His Mercy, He cherishes and sustains me.

³⁶I am drowning in the ocean of poison; O God, Guru, Lord of the World, please save Your child, Nanak. ||4||2||

³⁷Prabhaatee, Fourth Mehl:

³⁸The Lord God showered me with His Mercy for an instant; I sing His Glorious Praises with joyous love and delight.

¹Both the singer and the listener are liberated, when, as Gurmukh, they drink in the Lord's Name, even for an instant. ||1||

²The Sublime Essence of the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, is enshrined within my mind.

³As Gurmukh, I have obtained the cooling, soothing Water of the Naam. I eagerly drink in the sublime essence of the Name of the Lord, Har, Har. ||1||Pause||

⁴Those whose hearts are imbued with the Love of the Lord have the mark of radiant purity upon their foreheads.

⁵The Glory of the Lord's humble servant is manifest throughout the world, like the moon among the stars. ||2||

⁶Those whose hearts are not filled with the Lord's Name - all their affairs are worthless and insipid.

⁷They may adorn and decorate their bodies, but without the Naam, they look like their noses have been cut off. ||3||

⁸The Sovereign Lord permeates each and every heart; the One Lord is all-pervading everywhere.

⁹The Lord has showered His Mercy upon servant Nanak; through the Word of the Guru's Teachings, I have meditated on the Lord in an instant. ||4||3||

¹⁰Prabhaatee, Fourth Mehl:

¹¹God, the Inaccessible and Merciful, has showered me with His Mercy; I chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, with my mouth.

¹²I meditate on the Name of the Lord, the Purifier of sinners; I am rid of all my sins and mistakes. ||1||

¹³O mind, chant the Name of the All-pervading Lord.

¹⁴I sing the Praises of the Lord, Merciful to the meek, Destroyer of pain. Following the Guru's Teachings, I gather in the Wealth of the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||1||Pause||

¹⁵The Lord abides in the body-village; through the Wisdom of the Guru's Teachings, the Lord, Har, Har, is revealed.

¹⁶In the lake of the body, the Lord's Name has been revealed. Within my own home and mansion, I have obtained the Lord God. ||2||

¹⁷Those beings who wander in the wilderness of doubt - those faithless cynics are foolish, and are plundered.

¹⁸They are like the deer: the scent of musk comes from its own navel, but it wanders and roams around, searching for it in the bushes. ||3||

¹⁹You are Great and Unfathomable; Your Wisdom, God, is Profound and Incomprehensible. Please bless me with that wisdom, by which I might attain You, O Lord God.

²⁰The Guru has placed His Hand upon servant Nanak; he chants the Name of the Lord. ||4||4||

²¹Prabhaatee, Fourth Mehl:

²²My mind is in love with the Name of the Lord, Har, Har; I meditate on the Great Lord God.

²³The Word of the True Guru has become pleasing to my heart. The Lord God has showered me with His Grace. ||1||

²⁴O my mind, vibrate and meditate on the Lord's Name every instant.

²⁵The Perfect Guru has blessed me with the gift of the Name of the Lord, Har, Har. The Lord's Name abides in my mind and body. ||1||Pause||

²⁶The Lord abides in the body-village, in my home and mansion. As Gurmukh, I meditate on His Glory.

²⁷Here and hereafter, the Lord's humble servants are embellished and exalted; their faces are radiant; as Gurmukh, they are carried across. ||2||

²⁸I am lovingly attuned to the Fearless Lord, Har, Har, Har; through the Guru, I have enshrined the Lord within my heart in an instant.

²⁹Millions upon millions of the faults and mistakes of the Lord's humble servant are all taken away in an instant. ||3||

³⁰Your humble servants are known only through You, God; knowing You, they becomes supreme.

³¹The Lord, Har, Har, has enshrined Himself within His humble servant. O Nanak, the Lord God and His servant are one and the same. ||4||5||

¹Prabhaatee, Fourth Mehl:

²The Guru, the True Guru, has implanted the Naam, the Name of the Lord within me. I was dead, but chanting the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, I have been brought back to life.

³Blessed, blessed is the Guru, the Guru, the Perfect True Guru; He reached out to me with His Arm, and pulled me up and out of the ocean of poison. ||1||

⁴O mind, meditate and worship the Lord's Name.

⁵God is never found, even by making all sorts of new efforts. The Lord God is obtained only through the Perfect Guru. ||1||Pause||

⁶The Sublime Essence of the Lord's Name is the source of nectar and bliss; drinking in this Sublime Essence, following the Guru's Teachings, I have become happy.

⁷Even iron slag is transformed into gold, joining the Lord's Congregation. Through the Guru, the Lord's Light is enshrined within the heart. ||2||

⁸Those who are continually lured by greed, egotism and corruption, who are lured away by emotional attachment to their children and spouse

⁹- they never serve at the feet of the Saints; those self-willed manmukhs are filled with ashes. ||3||

¹⁰O God, You alone know Your Glorious Virtues; I have grown weary - I seek Your Sanctuary.

¹¹As You know best, You preserve and protect me, O my Lord and Master; servant Nanak is Your slave. ||4||6|| First Set of Six||

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¹³Prabhaatee, Bibhaas, Partaal, Fourth Mehl:

¹⁴One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

¹⁵O mind, meditate on the Treasure of the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.

¹⁶You shall be honored in the Court of the Lord.

¹⁷Those who chant and meditate shall be carried across to the other shore. ||1||Pause||

¹⁸Listen, O mind: meditate on the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.

¹⁹Listen, O mind: the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises is equal to bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage.

²⁰Listen, O mind: as Gurmukh, you shall be blessed with honor. ||1||

²¹O mind, chant and meditate on the Supreme Transcendent Lord God.

²²Millions of sins shall be destroyed in an instant.

²³O Nanak, you shall meet with the Lord God. ||2||1||7||

²⁴Prabhaatee, Fifth Mehl, Bibhaas:

²⁵One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

²⁶The Lord created the mind, and fashioned the entire body.

²⁷From the five elements, He formed it, and infused His Light within it.

²⁸He made the earth its bed, and water for it to use.

²⁹Do not forget Him for an instant; serve the Lord of the World. ||1||

³⁰O mind, serve the True Guru, and obtain the supreme status.

³¹If you remain unattached and unaffected by sorrow and joy, then you shall find the Lord of Life. ||1||Pause||

³²He makes all the various pleasures, clothes and foods for you to enjoy.

³³He made your mother, father and all relatives.

³⁴He provides sustenance to all, in the water and on the land, O friend.

³⁵So serve the Lord, forever and ever. ||2||

³⁶He shall be your Helper and Support there, where no one else can help you.

³⁷He washes away millions of sins in an instant.

³⁸He bestows His Gifts, and never regrets them.

³⁹He forgives, once and for all, and never asks for one's account again. ||3||

¹By pre-ordained destiny, I have searched and found God.

²In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, the Lord of the World abides.

³Meeting with the Guru, I have come to Your Door.

⁴O Lord, please bless servant Nanak with the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan. ||4||1||

⁵Prabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:

⁶Serving God, His humble servant is glorified.

⁷Unfulfilled sexual desire, unresolved anger and unsatisfied greed are eradicated.

⁸Your Name is the treasure of Your humble servant.

⁹Singing His Praises, I am in love with the Blessed Vision of God's Darshan. ||1||

¹⁰You are known, O God, by Your devotees.

¹¹Breaking their bonds, You emancipate them. ||1||Pause||

¹²Those humble beings who are imbued with God's Love

¹³find peace in God's Congregation.

¹⁴They alone understand this, to whom this subtle essence comes.

¹⁵Beholding it, and gazing upon it, in their minds they are wonderstruck. ||2||

¹⁶They are at peace, the most exalted of all,

¹⁷within whose hearts God dwells.

¹⁸They are stable and unchanging; they do not come and go in reincarnation.

¹⁹Night and day, they sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord God. ||3||

²⁰All bow down in humble respect to those

²¹whose minds are filled with the Formless Lord.

²²Show mercy unto me, O my Divine Lord and Master.

²³May Nanak be saved, by serving these humble beings. ||4||2||

²⁴Prabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:

²⁵Singing His Glorious Praises, the mind is in ecstasy.

²⁶Twenty-four hours a day, I meditate in remembrance on God.

²⁷Remembering Him in meditation, the sins go away.

²⁸I fall at the Feet of that Guru. ||1||

²⁹O beloved Saints, please bless me with wisdom;

³⁰let me meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord, and be emancipated. ||1||Pause||

³¹The Guru has shown me the straight path;

³²I have abandoned everything else. I am enraptured with the Name of the Lord.

³³I am forever a sacrifice to that Guru;

³⁴I meditate in remembrance on the Lord, through the Guru. ||2||

³⁵The Guru carries those mortal beings across, and saves them from drowning.

³⁶By His Grace, they are not enticed by Maya;

³⁷in this world and the next, they are embellished and exalted by the Guru.

³⁸I am forever a sacrifice to that Guru. ||3||

³⁹From the most ignorant, I have been made spiritually wise,

⁴⁰through the Unspoken Speech of the Perfect Guru.

⁴¹The Divine Guru, O Nanak, is the Supreme Lord God.

⁴²By great good fortune, I serve the Lord. ||4||3||

⁴³Prabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:

⁴⁴Eradicating all my pains, He has blessed me with peace, and inspired me to chant His Name.

⁴⁵In His Mercy, He has enjoined me to His service, and has purged me of all my sins. ||1||

⁴⁶I am only a child; I seek the Sanctuary of God the Merciful.

⁴⁷Erasing my demerits and faults, God has made me His Own. My Guru, the Lord of the World, protects me. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁸My sicknesses and sins were erased in an instant, when the Lord of the World became merciful.

⁴⁹With each and very breath, I worship and adore the Supreme Lord God; I am a sacrifice to the True Guru. ||2||

⁵⁰My Lord and Master is Inaccessible, Unfathomable and Infinite. His limits cannot be found.

⁵¹We earn the profit, and become wealthy, meditating on our God. ||3||

¹Twenty-four hours a day, I meditate on the Supreme Lord God; I sing His Glorious Praises forever and ever.

²Says Nanak, my desires have been fulfilled; I have found my Guru, the Supreme Lord God. ||4||4||

³Prabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:

⁴Meditating in rememberance on the Naam, all my sins have been erased.

⁵The Guru has blessed me with the Capital of the True Name.

⁶God's servants are embellished and exalted in His Court;

⁷serving Him, they look beauteous forever. ||1||

⁸Chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, O my Siblings of Destiny.

⁹All sickness and sin shall be erased; your mind shall be rid of the darkness of ignorance. ||1||Pause||

¹⁰The Guru has saved me from death and rebirth, O friend;

¹¹I am in love with the Name of the Lord.

¹²The suffering of millions of incarnations is gone;

¹³whatever pleases Him is good. ||2||

¹⁴I am forever a sacrifice to the Guru;

¹⁵by His Grace, I meditate on the Lord's Name.

¹⁶By great good fortune, such a Guru is found;

¹⁷meeting Him, one is lovingly attuned to the Lord. ||3||

¹⁸Please be merciful, O Supreme Lord God, O Lord and Master,

¹⁹Inner-knower, Searcher of Hearts.

²⁰Twenty-four hours a day, I am lovingly attuned to You.

²¹Servant Nanak has come to the Sanctuary of God. ||4||5||

²²Prabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:

²³In His Mercy, God has made me His Own.

²⁴He has blessed me with the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

²⁵Twenty-four hours a day, I sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord of the Universe.

²⁶Fear is dispelled, and all anxiety has been alleviated. ||1||

²⁷I have been saved, touching the Feet of the True Guru.

²⁸Whatever the Guru says is good and sweet to me. I have renounced the intellectual wisdom of my mind. ||1||Pause||

²⁹That Lord God abides within my mind and body.

³⁰There are no conflicts, pains or obstacles.

³¹Forever and ever, God is with my soul.

³²Filth and pollution are washed away by the Love of the Name. ||2||

³³I am in love with the Lotus Feet of the Lord;

³⁴I am no longer consumed by sexual desire, anger and egotism.

³⁵Now, I know the way to meet God.

³⁶Through loving devotional worship, my mind is pleased and appeased with the Lord. ||3||

³⁷Listen, O friends, Saints, my exalted companions.

³⁸The Jewel of the Naam, the Name of the Lord, is unfathomable and immeasurable.

³⁹Forever and ever, sing the Glories of God, the Treasure of Virtue.

⁴⁰Says Nanak, by great good fortune, He is found. ||4||6||

⁴¹Prabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:

⁴²They are wealthy, and they are the true merchants,

⁴³who have the credit of the Naam in the Court of the Lord. ||1||

⁴⁴So chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, in your mind, my friends.

⁴⁵The Perfect Guru is found by great good fortune, and then one's lifestyle becomes perfect and immaculate. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁶They earn the profit, and the congratulations pour in;

⁴⁷by the Grace of the Saints, they sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||2||

⁴⁸Their lives are fruitful and prosperous, and their birth is approved;

⁴⁹by Guru's Grace, they enjoy the Love of the Lord. ||3||

⁵⁰Sexuality, anger and egotism are wiped away;

⁵¹O Nanak, as Gurmukh, they are carried across to the other shore. ||4||7||

⁵²Prabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:

⁵³The Guru is Perfect, and Perfect is His Power.

¹The Word of the Guru's Shabad is unchanging, forever and ever.

²Those, whose minds are filled with the Word of the Guru's Bani,

³Imbued with the Lord's Love, they sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord.

⁴They are liberated, bathing in the dust of the feet of the Holy. ||1||Pause||

⁵By Guru's Grace, they are carried across to the other shore;

⁶they are rid of fear, doubt and corruption.

⁷The Guru's Feet abide deep within their minds and bodies.

⁸The Holy are fearless; they take to the Sanctuary of the Lord. ||2||

⁹They are blessed with abundant bliss, happiness, pleasure and peace.

¹⁰Enemies and pains do not even approach them.

¹¹The Perfect Guru makes them His Own, and protects them.

¹²Chanting the Lord's Name, they are rid of all their sins. ||3||

¹³The Saints, spiritual companions and Sikhs are exalted and uplifted.

¹⁴The Perfect Guru leads them to meet God.

¹⁵The painful noose of death and rebirth is snapped.

¹⁶Says Nanak, the Guru covers their faults. ||4||8||

¹⁷Prabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁸The Perfect True Guru has bestowed the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

¹⁹I am blessed with bliss and happiness, emancipation and eternal peace. All my affairs have been resolved. ||1||Pause||

²⁰The Lotus Feet of the Guru abide within my mind.

²¹I am rid of pain, suffering, doubt and fraud. ||1||

²²Rise early, and sing the Glorious Word of God's Bani.

²³Twenty-four hours a day, meditate in remembrance on the Lord, O mortal. ||2||

²⁴Inwardly and outwardly, God is everywhere.

²⁵Wherever I go, He is always with me, my Helper and Support. ||3||

²⁶With my palms pressed together, I offer this prayer.

²⁷O Nanak, I meditate forever on the Lord, the Treasure of Virtue. ||4||9||

²⁸Prabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:

²⁹The Supreme Lord God is All-wise and All-knowing.

³⁰The Perfect Guru is found by great good fortune. I am a sacrifice to the Blessed Vision of His Darshan. ||1||Pause||

³¹My sins are cut away, through the Word of the Shabad, and I have found contentment.

³²I have become worthy of worshipping the Naam in adoration.

³³In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, I have been enlightened.

³⁴The Lord's Lotus Feet abide within my mind. ||1||

³⁵The One who made us, protects and preserves us.

³⁶God is Perfect, the Master of the masterless.

³⁷Those, upon whom He showers His Mercy

³⁸- they have perfect karma and conduct. ||2||

³⁹They sing the Glories of God, continually, continuously, forever fresh and new.

⁴⁰They do not wander in the 8.4 million incarnations.

⁴¹Here and hereafter, they worship the Lord's Feet.

⁴²Their faces are radiant, and they are honored in the Court of the Lord. ||3||

⁴³That person, upon whose forehead the Guru places His Hand

⁴⁴out of millions, how rare is that slave.

⁴⁵He sees God pervading and permeating the water, the land and the sky.

⁴⁶Nanak is saved by the dust of the feet of such a humble being. ||4||10||

⁴⁷Prabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:

⁴⁸I am a sacrifice to my Perfect Guru.

⁴⁹By His Grace, I chant and meditate on the Lord, Har, Har. ||1||Pause||

⁵⁰Listening to the Ambrosial Word of His Bani, I am exalted and enraptured.

⁵¹My corrupt and poisonous entanglements are gone. ||1||

⁵²I am in love with the True Word of His Shabad.

⁵³The Lord God has come into my consciousness. ||2||

⁵⁴Chanting the Naam, I am enlightened.

¹The Word of the Guru's Shabad has come to dwell within my heart. ||3||

²The Guru is All-powerful and Merciful forever.

³Chanting and meditating on the Lord, Nanak is exalted and enraptured. ||4||11||

⁴Prabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:

⁵Chanting Guru, Guru, I have found eternal peace.

⁶God, Merciful to the meek, has become kind and compassionate; He has inspired me to chant His Name. ||1||Pause||

⁷Joining the Society of the Saints, I am illumined and enlightened.

⁸Chanting the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, my hopes have been fulfilled. ||1||

⁹I am blessed with total salvation, and my mind is filled with peace.

¹⁰I sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord; O Nanak, the Guru has been gracious to me. ||2||12||

¹¹Prabhaatee, Fifth Mehl, Second House, Bibhaas:

¹²One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

¹³There is no other place of rest,

¹⁴none at all, without the Lord's Name.

¹⁵There is total success and salvation,

¹⁶and all affairs are perfectly resolved. ||1||

¹⁷Constantly chant the Name of the Lord.

¹⁸Sexuality, anger and egotism are wiped away; let yourself fall in love with the One Lord. ||1||Pause||

¹⁹Attached to the Naam, the Name of the Lord, pain runs away. In His Sanctuary, He cherishes and sustains us.

²⁰Whoever has such pre-ordained destiny meets with the True Guru; the Messenger of Death cannot grab him. ||2||

²¹Night and day, meditate on the Lord, Har, Har; abandon the doubts of your mind.

²²One who has perfect karma joins the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, and meets the Lord. ||3||

²³The sins of countless lifetimes are erased, and one is protected by the Lord Himself.

²⁴He is our Mother, Father, Friend and Sibling; O servant Nanak, meditate on the Lord, Har, Har. ||4||1||13||

²⁵Prabhaatee, Fifth Mehl, Bibhaas, Partaal:

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

²⁷Chant the Name of the Lord, Raam, Raam, Raam.

²⁸Conflict, suffering, greed and emotional attachment shall be dispelled, and the fever of egotism shall be relieved. ||1||Pause||

²⁹Renounce your selfishness, and grasp the feet of the Saints; your mind shall be sanctified, and your sins shall be taken away. ||1||

³⁰Nanak, the child, does not know anything at all. O God, please protect me; You are my Mother and Father. ||2||1||14||

³¹Prabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:

³²I have taken the Shelter and Support of the Lord's Lotus Feet.

³³You are Lofty and Exalted, Grand and Infinite, O my Lord and Master; You alone are above all. ||1||Pause||

³⁴He is the Support of the breath of life, the Destroyer of pain, the Giver of discriminating understanding. ||1||

³⁵So bow down in respect to the Savior Lord; worship and adore the One God.

³⁶Bathing in the dust of the feet of the Saints, Nanak is blessed with countless comforts. ||2||2||15||

¹Prabhaatee, Ashtpadheeyaa, First Mehl, Bibhaas:

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

³The insanity of duality has driven the mind insane.

⁴In false greed, life is wasting away.

⁵Duality clings to the mind; it cannot be restrained.

⁶The True Guru saves us, implanting the Naam, the Name of the Lord within. ||1||

⁷Without subduing the mind, Maya cannot be subdued.

⁸The One who created this, He alone understands. Contemplating the Word of the Shabad, one is carried across the terrifying world-ocean. ||1||Pause||

⁹Gathering the wealth of Maya, kings become proud and arrogant.

¹⁰But this Maya that they love so much shall not go along with them in the end.

¹¹There are so many colors and flavors of attachment to Maya.

¹²Except for the Name, no one has any friend or companion. ||2||

¹³According to one's own mind, one sees the minds of others.

¹⁴According to one's desires, one's condition is determined.

¹⁵According to one's actions, one is focused and tuned in.

¹⁶Seeking the advice of the True Guru, one finds the home of peace and poise. ||3||

¹⁷In music and song, the mind is caught by the love of duality.

¹⁸Filled with deception deep within, one suffers in terrible pain.

¹⁹Meeting with the True Guru, one is blessed with clear understanding,

²⁰and remains lovingly attuned to the True Name. ||4||

²¹Through the True Word of the Shabad, one practices Truth.

²²He sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord, through the True Word of His Bani.

²³He dwells in the home of his own heart deep within, and obtains the immortal status.

²⁴Then, he is blessed with honor in the Court of the True Lord. ||5||

²⁵Without serving the Guru, there is no devotional worship,

²⁶even though one may make all sorts of efforts.

²⁷If one eradicates egotism and selfishness through the Shabad,

²⁸the Immaculate Naam comes to abide in the mind. ||6||

²⁹In this world, the practice of the Shabad is the most excellent occupation.

³⁰Without the Shabad, everything else is the darkness of emotional attachment.

³¹Through the Shabad, the Naam is enshrined within the heart.

³²Through the Shabad, one obtains clear understanding and the door of salvation. ||7||

³³There is no other Creator except the All-seeing Lord God.

³⁴The True Lord Himself is Infinite and Incomparably Beautiful.

³⁵Through the Lord's Name, one obtains the most sublime and exalted state.

³⁶O Nanak, how rare are those humble beings, who seek and find the Lord. ||8||1||

³⁷Prabhaatee, First Mehl:

³⁸Emotional attachment to Maya is spread out all over the world.

³⁹Seeing a beautiful woman, the man is overcome with sexual desire.

⁴⁰His love for his children and gold steadily increases.

⁴¹He sees everything as his own, but he does not own the One Lord. ||1||

⁴²I meditate as I chant on such a mala,

⁴³that I rise above pleasure and pain; I attain the most wondrous devotional worship of the Lord. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁴O Treasure of Virtue, Your limits cannot be found.

⁴⁵Through the True Word of the Shabad, I am absorbed into You.

⁴⁶You Yourself created the comings and goings of reincarnation.

⁴⁷They alone are devotees, who focus their consciousness on You. ||2||

⁴⁸Spiritual wisdom and meditation on the Lord, the Lord of Nirvaanaa

⁴⁹- without meeting the True Guru, no one knows this.

⁵⁰The Lord's Light fills the sacred pools of all beings.

⁵¹I am a sacrifice to the Embodiment of Bliss. ||3||

⁵²Through the Guru's Teachings, one achieves loving devotional worship.

⁵³The Shabad burns away egotism from within.

¹The wandering mind is restrained and held in its place.

²The True Name is enshrined in the mind. ||4||

³The exciting and intoxicating worldly plays come to an end,

⁴for those who accept the Guru's Teachings, and become lovingly attuned to the One Lord.

⁵Seeing this, the fire in the water is extinguished.

⁶They alone realize this, who are blessed by great good fortune. ||5||

⁷Serving the True Guru, doubt is dispelled.

⁸Those who are lovingly attuned to the True Lord remain awake and aware night and day.

⁹They know the One Lord, and no other.

¹⁰Serving the Giver of peace, they become immaculate. ||6||

¹¹Selfless service and intuitive awareness come by reflecting upon the Word of the Shabad.

¹²Chanting, intensive meditation and austere self-discipline come by subduing the ego.

¹³One becomes Jivan-mukta - liberated while yet alive, by listening to the Shabad.

¹⁴Living a truthful way of life, one finds true peace. ||7||

¹⁵The Giver of peace is the Eradicator of pain.

¹⁶I cannot conceive of serving any other.

¹⁷I place my body, mind and wealth in offering before Him.

¹⁸Says Nanak, I have tasted the supreme, sublime Essence of the Lord. ||8||2||

¹⁹Prabhaatee, First Mehl:

²⁰You may perform exercises of inner purification, and fire up the furnace of the Kundalini, inhaling and exhaling and holding the breath.

²¹Without the True Guru, you will not understand; deluded by doubt, you shall drown and die.

²²The spiritually blind are filled with filth and pollution; they may wash, but the filth within shall never depart.

²³Without the Naam, the Name of the Lord, all their actions are useless, like the magician who deceives through illuions. ||1||

²⁴The merits of the six religious rituals are obtained through the Immaculate Naam.

²⁵You, O Lord, are the Ocean of virtue; I am so unworthy. ||1||Pause||

²⁶Running around chasing the entanglements of Maya is an evil-minded act of corruption.

²⁷The fool makes a show of his self-conceit; he does not know how to behave.

²⁸The self-willed manmukh is enticed by his desires for Maya; his words are useless and empty.

²⁹The ritual cleansings of the sinner are fradulent; his rituals and decorations are useless and empty. ||2||

³⁰False is the wisdom of the mind; its actions inspire useless disputes.

³¹The false are filled with egotism; they do not obtain the sublime taste of their Lord and Master.

³²Without the Name, whatever else they do is tasteless and insipid.

³³Associating with their enemies, they are plundered and ruined. Their speech is poison, and their lives are useless. ||3||

³⁴Do not be deluded by doubt; do not invite your own death.

³⁵Serve the True Guru, and you shall be at peace forever.

³⁶Without the True Guru, no one is liberated.

³⁷They come and go in reincarnation; they die, only to be reborn and die again. ||4||

³⁸This body wanders, caught in the three dispositions.

³⁹It is afflicted by sorrow and suffering.

⁴⁰So serve the One who has no mother or father.

⁴¹Desire and selfishness shall depart from within. ||5||

⁴²Wherever I look, I see Him.

⁴³Without meeting the True Guru, no one is liberated.

⁴⁴Enshrine the True One in your heart; this is the most excellent action.

⁴⁵All other hypocritical actions and devotions bring only ruin. ||6||

⁴⁶When one is rid of duality, then he realizes the Word of the Shabad.

⁴⁷Inside and out, he knows the One Lord.

⁴⁸This is the most Excellent Wisdom of the Shabad.

⁴⁹Ashes fall on the heads of those who are in duality. ||7||

⁵⁰To praise the Lord through the Guru's Teachings is the most excellent action.

⁵¹In the Society of the Saints, contemplate the Glories of God and His spiritual wisdom.

⁵²Whoever subdues his mind, knows the state of being dead while yet alive.

⁵³O Nanak, by His Grace, the Gracious Lord is realized. ||8||3||

¹Prabhaatee, First Mehl, Dakhnee:

²Ahalyaa was the wife of Gautam the seer. Seeing her, Indra was enticed.

³When he received a thousand marks of disgrace on his body, then he felt regret in his mind. ||1||

⁴O Siblings of Destiny, no one knowingly makes mistakes.

⁵He alone is mistaken, whom the Lord Himself makes so. He alone understands, whom the Lord causes to understand. ||1||Pause||

⁶Harichand, the king and ruler of his land, did not appreciate the value of his pre-ordained destiny.

⁷If he had known that it was a mistake, he would not have made such a show of giving in charity, and he would not have been sold in the market. ||2||

⁸The Lord took the form of a dwarf, and asked for some land.

⁹If Bal the king has recognized Him, he would not have been deceived, and sent to the underworld. ||3||

¹⁰Vyaas taught and warned the king Janmayjaa not to do three things.

¹¹But he performed the sacred feast and killed eighteen Brahmins; the record of one's past deeds cannot be erased. ||4||

¹²I do not try to calculate the account; I accept the Hukam of God's Command. I speak with intuitive love and respect.

¹³No matter what happens, I will praise the Lord. It is all Your Glorious Greatness, O Lord. ||5||

¹⁴The Gurmukh remains detached; filth never attaches itself to him. He remains forever in God's Sanctuary.

¹⁵The foolish self-willed manmukh does not think of the future; he is overtaken by pain, and then he regrets. ||6||

¹⁶The Creator who created this creation acts, and causes all to act.

¹⁷O Lord, egotistical pride does not depart from the soul. Falling into egotistical pride, one is ruined. ||7||

¹⁸Everyone makes mistakes; only the Creator does not make mistakes.

¹⁹O Nanak, salvation comes through the True Name. By Guru's Grace, one is released. ||8||4||

²⁰Prabhaatee, First Mehl:

²¹To chant and listen to the Naam, the Name of the Lord, is my Support.

²²Worthless entanglements are ended and gone.

²³The self-willed manmukh, caught in duality, loses his honor.

²⁴Except for the Name, I have no other at all. ||1||

²⁵Listen, O blind, foolish, idiotic mind.

²⁶Aren't you ashamed of your comings and goings in reincarnation? Without the Guru, you shall drown, over and over again. ||1||Pause||

²⁷This mind is ruined by its attachment to Maya.

²⁸The Command of the Primal Lord is pre-ordained. Before whom should I cry?

²⁹Only a few, as Gurmukh, understand this.

³⁰Without the Naam, no one is liberated. ||2||

³¹People wander lost, staggering and stumbling through 8.4 million incarnations.

³²Without knowing the Guru, they cannot escape the noose of Death.

³³This mind, from one moment to the next, goes from the heavens to the underworld.

³⁴The Gurmukh contemplates the Naam, and is released. ||3||

³⁵When God sends His Summons, there is no time to delay.

³⁶When one dies in the Word of the Shabad, he lives in peace.

³⁷Without the Guru, no one understands.

³⁸The Lord Himself acts, and inspires all to act. ||4||

³⁹Inner conflict comes to an end, singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord.

⁴⁰Through the Perfect True Guru, one is intuitively absorbed into the Lord.

⁴¹This wobbling, unsteady mind is stabilized,

⁴²and one lives the lifestyle of true actions. ||5||

⁴³If someone is false within his own self, then how can he be pure?

⁴⁴How rare are those who wash with the Shabad.

⁴⁵How rare are those who, as Gurmukh, live the Truth.

⁴⁶Their comings and goings in reincarnation are over and done. ||6||

¹Those who eat and drink the Fear of God, find the most excellent peace.

²Associating with the humble servants of the Lord, they are carried across.

³They speak the Truth, and lovingly inspire others to speak it as well.

⁴The Word of the Guru's Shabad is the most excellent occupation. ||7||

⁵Those who take the Lord's Praises as their karma and Dharma, their honor and worship service

⁶their sexual desire and anger are burnt off in the fire.

⁷They taste the sublime essence of the Lord, and their minds are drenched with it.

⁸Prays Nanak, there is no other at all. ||8||5||

⁹Prabhaatee, First Mehl:

¹⁰Chant the Lord's Name, and worship Him deep within your being.

¹¹Contemplate the Word of the Guru's Shabad, and no other. ||1||

¹²The One is pervading all places.

¹³I do not see any other; unto whom should I offer worship? ||1||Pause||

¹⁴I place my mind and body in offering before You; I dedicate my soul to You.

¹⁵As it pleases You, You save me, Lord; this is my prayer. ||2||

¹⁶True is that tongue which is delighted by the sublime essence of the Lord.

¹⁷Following the Guru's Teachings, one is saved in the Sanctuary of God. ||3||

¹⁸My God created religious rituals.

¹⁹He placed the glory of the Naam above these rituals. ||4||

²⁰The four great blessings are under the control of the True Guru.

²¹When the first three are put aside, one is blessed with the fourth. ||5||

²²Those whom the True Guru blesses with liberation and meditation

²³realize the Lord's State, and become sublime. ||6||

²⁴Their minds and bodies are cooled and soothed; the Guru imparts this understanding.

²⁵Who can estimate the value of those whom God has exalted? ||7||

²⁶Says Nanak, the Guru has imparted this understanding;

²⁷without the Naam, the Name of the Lord, no one is emancipated. ||8||6||

²⁸Prabhaatee, First Mehl:

²⁹Some are forgiven by the Primal Lord God; the Perfect Guru makes the true making.

³⁰Those who are attuned to the Love of the Lord are imbued with Truth forever; their pains are dispelled, and they obtain honor. ||1||

³¹False are the clever tricks of the evil-minded.

³²They shall disappear in no time at all. ||1||Pause||

³³Pain and suffering afflict the self-willed manmukh. The pains of the self-willed manmukh shall never depart.

³⁴The Gurmukh recognizes the Giver of pleasure and pain. He merges in His Sanctuary. ||2||

³⁵The self-willed manmukhs do not know loving devotional worship; they are insane, rotting away in their egotism.

³⁶This mind flies in an instant from the heavens to the underworld, as long as it does not know the Word of the Shabad. ||3||

³⁷The world has become hungry and thirsty; without the True Guru, it is not satisfied.

³⁸Merging intuitively in the Celestial Lord, peace is obtained, and one goes to the Lord's Court wearing robes of honor. ||4||

³⁹The Lord in His Court is Himself the Knower and Seer; the Word of the Guru's Bani is Immaculate.

⁴⁰He Himself is the Awareness of Truth; He Himself understands the state of nirvaanaa. ||5||

⁴¹He made the waves of water, the fire and the air, and then joined the three together to form the world.

⁴²He blessed these elements with such power, that they remain subject to His Command. ||6||

⁴³How rare are those humble beings in this world, whom the Lord tests and places in His Treasury.

⁴⁴They rise above social status and color, and rid themselves of possessiveness and greed. ||7||

⁴⁵Attuned to the Naam, the Name of the Lord, they are like immaculate sacred shrines; they are rid of the pain and pollution of egotism.

⁴⁶Nanak washes the feet of those who, as Gurmukh, love the True Lord. ||8||7||

¹Prabhaatee, Third Mehl, Bibhaas:

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

³By Guru's Grace, see that the Temple of the Lord is within you.

⁴The Temple of the Lord is found through the Word of the Shabad; contemplate the Lord's Name. ||1||

⁵O my mind, be joyfully attuned to the Shabad.

⁶True is devotional worship, and True is the Temple of the Lord; True is His Manifest Glory. ||1||Pause||

⁷This body is the Temple of the Lord, in which the jewel of spiritual wisdom is revealed.

⁸The self-willed manmukhs do not know anything at all; they do not believe that the Lord's Temple is within. ||2||

⁹The Dear Lord created the Temple of the Lord; He adorns it by His Will.

¹⁰All act according to their pre-ordained destiny; no one can erase it. ||3||

¹¹Contemplating the Shabad, peace is obtained, loving the True Name.

¹²The Temple of the Lord is embellished with the Shabad; it is an Infinite Fortress of God. ||4||

¹³This world is the Temple of the Lord; without the Guru, there is only pitch darkness.

¹⁴The blind and foolish self-willed manmukhs worship in the love of duality. ||5||

¹⁵One's body and social status do not go along to that place, where all are called to account.

¹⁶Those who are attuned to Truth are saved; those in the love of duality are miserable. ||6||

¹⁷The treasure of the Naam is within the Temple of the Lord. The idiotic fools do not realize this.

¹⁸By Guru's Grace, I have realized this. I keep the Lord enshrined within my heart. ||7||

¹⁹Those who are attuned to the love of the Shabad know the Guru, through the Word of the Guru's Bani.

²⁰Sacred, pure and immaculate are those humble beings who are absorbed in the Name of the Lord. ||8||

²¹The Temple of the Lord is the Lord's Shop; He embellishes it with the Word of His Shabad.

²²In that shop is the merchandise of the One Name; the Gurmukhs adorn themselves with it. ||9||

²³The mind is like iron slag, within the Temple of the Lord; it is lured by the love of duality.

²⁴Meeting with the Guru, the Philosopher's Stone, the mind is transformed into gold. Its value cannot be described. ||10||

²⁵The Lord abides within the Temple of the Lord. He is pervading in all.

²⁶O Nanak, the Gurmukhs trade in the merchandise of Truth. ||11||1||

²⁷Prabhaatee, Third Mehl:

²⁸Those who remain awake and aware in the Love and Fear of God, rid themselves of the filth and pollution of egotism.

²⁹They remain awake and aware forever, and protect their homes, by beating and driving out the five thieves. ||1||

³⁰O my mind, as Gurmukh, meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

³¹O mind, do only those deeds which will lead you to the Path of the Lord. ||1||Pause||

³²The celestial melody wells up in the Gurmukh, and the pains of egotism are taken away.

³³The Name of the Lord abides in the mind, as one intuitively sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||2||

³⁴Those who follow the Guru's Teachings - their faces are radiant and beautiful. They keep the Lord enshrined in their hearts.

³⁵Here and hereafter, they find absolute peace; chanting the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, they are carried across to the other shore. ||3||

¹In egotism, one cannot remain awake and aware, and one's devotional worship of the Lord is not accepted.

²The self-willed manmukhs find no place in the Court of the Lord; they do their deeds in the love of duality. ||4||

³Cursed is the food, and cursed are the clothes, of those who are attached to the love of duality.

⁴They are like maggots in manure, sinking into manure. In death and rebirth, they are wasted away to ruin. ||5||

⁵I am a sacrifice to those who meet with the True Guru.

⁶I shall continue to associate with them; devoted to Truth, I am absorbed in Truth. ||6||

⁷By perfect destiny, the Guru is found. He cannot be found by any efforts.

⁸Through the True Guru, intuitive wisdom wells up; through the Word of the Shabad, egotism is burnt away. ||7||

⁹O my mind, hurry to the Sanctuary of the Lord; He is Potent to do everything.

¹⁰O Nanak, never forget the Naam, the Name of the Lord. Whatever He does, comes to pass. ||8||2||7||2||9||

¹¹Bibhaas, Prabhaatee, Fifth Mehl, Ashtpadheeyaa:

¹²One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

¹³Mother, father, siblings, children and spouse

¹⁴involved with them, people eat the food of bliss.

¹⁵The mind is entangled in sweet emotional attachment.

¹⁶Those who seek God's Glorious Virtues are the support of my breath of life. ||1||

¹⁷My One Lord is the Inner-Knower, the Searcher of hearts.

¹⁸He alone is my Support; He is my only Protection. My Great Lord and Master is over and above the heads of kings. ||1||Pause||

¹⁹I have broken my ties to that deceitful serpent.

²⁰The Guru has told me that it is false and fraudulent.

²¹Its face is sweet, but it tastes very bitter.

²²My mind remains satisfied with the Ambrosial Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||2||

²³I have broken my ties with greed and emotional attachment.

²⁴The Merciful Guru has rescued me from them.

²⁵These cheating thieves have plundered so many homes.

²⁶The Merciful Guru has protected and saved me. ||3||

²⁷I have no dealings whatsoever with sexual desire and anger.

²⁸I listen to the Guru's Teachings.

²⁹Wherever I look, I see the most horrible goblins.

³⁰My Guru, the Lord of the World, has saved me from them. ||4||

³¹I have made widows of the ten sensory organs.

³²The Guru has told me that these pleasures are the fires of corruption.

³³Those who associate with them go to hell.

³⁴The Guru has saved me; I am lovingly attuned to the Lord. ||5||

³⁵I have forsaken the advice of my ego.

³⁶The Guru has told me that this is foolish stubbornness.

³⁷This ego is homeless; it shall never find a home.

³⁸The Guru has saved me; I am lovingly attuned to the Lord. ||6||

³⁹I have become alienated from these people.

⁴⁰We cannot both live together in one home.

⁴¹Grasping the hem of the Guru's Robe, I have come to God.

⁴²Please be fair with me, All-knowing Lord God. ||7||

⁴³God smiled at me and spoke, passing judgement.

⁴⁴He made all the demons perform service for me.

⁴⁵You are my Lord and Master; all this home belongs to You.

⁴⁶Says Nanak, the Guru has passed judgement. ||8||1||

⁴⁷Prabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:

¹Within the mind dwell anger and massive ego.

²Worship services are performed with great pomp and ceremony.

³Ritual cleansing baths are taken, and sacred marks are applied to the body.

⁴But still, the filth and pollution within never depart. ||1||

⁵No one has ever found God in this way.

⁶The sacred mudras - ritualistic hand gestures - are made, but the mind remains enticed by Maya. ||1||Pause||

⁷They commit sins, under the influence of the five thieves.

⁸They bathe at sacred shrines, and claim that everything has been washed off.

⁹Then they commit them again, without fear of the consequences.

¹⁰The sinners are bound and gagged, and taken to the City of Death. ||2||

¹¹The ankle-bells shake and the cymbals vibrate,

¹²but those who have deception within wander lost like demons.

¹³By destroying its hole, the snake is not killed.

¹⁴God, who created you, knows everything. ||3||

¹⁵You worship fire and wear saffron colored robes.

¹⁶Stung by your misfortune, you abandon your home.

¹⁷Leaving your own country, you wander in foreign lands.

¹⁸But you bring the five rejects with you. ||4||

¹⁹You have split your ears, and now you steal crumbs.

²⁰You beg from door to door, but you fail to be satisfied.

²¹You have abandoned your own wife, but now you sneak glances at other women.

²²God is not found by wearing religious robes; you are utterly miserable! ||5||

²³He does not speak; he is on silence.

²⁴But he is filled with desire; he is made to wander in reincarnation.

²⁵Abstaining from food, his body suffers in pain.

²⁶He does not realize the Hukam of the Lord's Command; he is afflicted by possessiveness. ||6||

²⁷Without the True Guru, no one has attained the supreme status.

²⁸Go ahead and ask all the Vedas and the Simritees.

²⁹The self-willed manmukhs do useless deeds.

³⁰They are like a house of sand, which cannot stand. ||7||

³¹One unto whom the Lord of the Universe becomes Merciful,

³²sews the Word of the Guru's Shabad into his robes.

³³Out of millions, it is rare that such a Saint is seen.

³⁴O Nanak, with him, we are carried across. ||8||

³⁵If one has such good destiny, then the Blessed Vision of His Darshan is obtained.

³⁶He saves himself, and carries across all his family as well. ||1||SECOND PAUSE||2||

³⁷Prabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:

³⁸Meditating in remembrance on the Naam, all the sins are erased.

³⁹The accounts held by the Righteous Judge of Dharma are torn up.

⁴⁰Joining the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy,

⁴¹I have found the Sublime Essence of the Lord. The Supreme Lord God has melted into my heart. ||1||

⁴²Dwelling on the Lord, Har, Har, I have found peace.

⁴³Your slaves seek the Sanctuary of Your Feet. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁴The cycle of reincarnation is ended, and darkness is dispelled.

⁴⁵The Guru has revealed the door of liberation.

⁴⁶My mind and body are forever imbued with loving devotion to the Lord.

⁴⁷Now I know God, because He has made me know Him. ||2||

⁴⁸He is contained in each and every heart.

⁴⁹Without Him, there is no one at all.

⁵⁰Hatred, conflict, fear and doubt have been eliminated.

⁵¹God, the Soul of Pure Goodness, has manifested His Righteousness. ||3||

⁵²He has rescued me from the most dangerous waves.

⁵³Separated from Him for countless lifetimes, I am united with Him once again.

⁵⁴Chanting, intense meditation and strict self-discipline are the contemplation of the Naam.

⁵⁵My Lord and Master has blessed me with His Glance of Grace. ||4||

⁵⁶Bliss, peace and salvation are found in that place,

¹where the servants of the Lord of the World abide.

²God, the Lord of the World, is pleased and satisfied with me.

³My disharmony with Him of so many lifetimes is ended. ||5||

⁴Burnt offerings, sacred feasts, intense meditations with the body upside-down, worship services

⁵and taking millions of cleansing baths at sacred shrines of pilgrimage

⁶- the merits of all these are obtained by enshrining the Lord's Lotus Feet within the heart, even for an instant.

⁷Meditating on the Lord of the Universe, all one's affairs are resolved. ||6||

⁸God's Place is the highest of the high.

⁹The Lord's humble servants intuitively focus their meditation on Him.

¹⁰I long for the dust of the slaves of the Lord's slaves.

¹¹My Beloved Lord is overflowing with all powers. ||7||

¹²My Beloved Lord, my Mother and Father, is always near.

¹³O my Friend and Companion, You are my Trusted Support.

¹⁴God takes His slaves by the hand, and makes them His Own.

¹⁵Nanak lives by meditating on the Lord, the Treasure of Virtue. ||8||3||2||7||12||

¹⁶Bibhaas, Prabhaatee, The Word Of Devotee Kabeer Jee:

¹⁷One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

¹⁸My anxious fears of death and rebirth have been taken away.

¹⁹The Celestial Lord has shown His Love for me. ||1||

²⁰The Divine Light has dawned, and darkness has been dispelled.

²¹Contemplating the Lord, I have obtained the Jewel of His Name. ||1||Pause||

²²Pain runs far away from that place where there is bliss.

²³The jewel of the mind is focused and attuned to the essence of reality. ||2||

²⁴Whatever happens is by the Pleasure of Your Will.

²⁵Whoever understands this, is intuitively merged in the Lord. ||3||

²⁶Says Kabeer, my sins have been obliterated.

²⁷My mind has merged into the Lord, the Life of the World. ||4||1||

²⁸Prabhaatee:

²⁹If the Lord Allah lives only in the mosque, then to whom does the rest of the world belong?

³⁰According to the Hindus, the Lord's Name abides in the idol, but there is no truth in either of these claims. ||1||

³¹O Allah, O Raam, I live by Your Name.

³²Please show mercy to me, O Master. ||1||Pause||

³³The God of the Hindus lives in the southern lands, and the God of the Muslims lives in the west.

³⁴So search in your heart - look deep into your heart of hearts; this is the home and the place where God lives. ||2||

³⁵The Brahmins observe twenty-four fasts during the year, and the Muslims fast during the month of Ramadaan.

³⁶The Muslims set aside eleven months, and claim that the treasure is only in the one month. ||3||

³⁷What is the use of bathing at Orissa? Why do the Muslims bow their heads in the mosque?

³⁸If someone has deception in his heart, what good is it for him to utter prayers? And what good is it for him to go on pilgrimage to Mecca? ||4||

³⁹You fashioned all these men and women, Lord. All these are Your Forms.

⁴⁰Kabeer is the child of God, Allah, Raam. All the Gurus and prophets are mine. ||5||

⁴¹Says Kabeer, listen, O men and women: seek the Sanctuary of the One.

⁴²Chant the Naam, the Name of the Lord, O mortals, and you shall surely be carried across. ||6||2||

⁴³Prabhaatee:

⁴⁴First, Allah created the Light; then, by His Creative Power, He made all mortal beings.

⁴⁵From the One Light, the entire universe welled up. So who is good, and who is bad? ||1||

¹O people, O Siblings of Destiny, do not wander deluded by doubt.

²The Creation is in the Creator, and the Creator is in the Creation, totally pervading and permeating all places. ||1||Pause||

³The clay is the same, but the Fashioner has fashioned it in various ways.

⁴There is nothing wrong with the pot of clay - there is nothing wrong with the Potter. ||2||

⁵The One True Lord abides in all; by His making, everything is made.

⁶Whoever realizes the Hukam of His Command, knows the One Lord. He alone is said to be the Lord's slave. ||3||

⁷The Lord Allah is Unseen; He cannot be seen. The Guru has blessed me with this sweet molasses.

⁸Says Kabeer, my anxiety and fear have been taken away; I see the Immaculate Lord pervading everywhere. ||4||3||

⁹Prabhaatee:

¹⁰Do not say that the Vedas, the Bible and the Koran are false. Those who do not contemplate them are false.

¹¹You say that the One Lord is in all, so why do you kill chickens? ||1||

¹²O Mullah, tell me: is this God's Justice?

¹³The doubts of your mind have not been dispelled. ||1||Pause||

¹⁴You seize a living creature, and then bring it home and kill its body; you have killed only the clay.

¹⁵The light of the soul passes into another form. So tell me, what have you killed? ||2||

¹⁶And what good are your purifications? Why do you bother to wash your face? And why do you bother to bow your head in the mosque?

¹⁷Your heart is full of hypocrisy; what good are your prayers or your pilgrimage to Mecca? ||3||

¹⁸You are impure; you do not understand the Pure Lord. You do not know His Mystery.

¹⁹Says Kabeer, you have missed out on paradise; your mind is set on hell. ||4||4||

²⁰Prabhaatee:

²¹Hear my prayer, Lord; You are the Divine Light of the Divine, the Primal, All-pervading Master.

²²The Siddhas in Samaadhi have not found Your limits. They hold tight to the Protection of Your Sanctuary. ||1||

²³Worship and adoration of the Pure, Primal Lord comes by worshipping the True Guru, O Siblings of Destiny.

²⁴Standing at His Door, Brahma studies the Vedas, but he cannot see the Unseen Lord. ||1||Pause||

²⁵With the oil of knowledge about the essence of reality, and the wick of the Naam, the Name of the Lord, this lamp illluminates my body.

²⁶I have applied the Light of the Lord of the Universe, and lit this lamp. God the Knower knows. ||2||

²⁷The Unstruck Melody of the Panch Shabad, the Five Primal Sounds, vibrates and resounds. I dwell with the Lord of the World.

²⁸Kabeer, Your slave, performs this Aartee, this lamp-lit worship service for You, O Formless Lord of Nirvaanaa. ||3||5||

²⁹Prabhaatee, The Word Of Devotee Naam Dayv Jee:

³⁰One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

³¹The mind alone knows the state of the mind; I tell it to the Knowing Lord.

³²I chant the Name of the Lord, the Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts - why should I be afraid? ||1||

³³My mind is pierced through by the love of the Lord of the World.

³⁴My God is All-pervading everywhere. ||1||Pause||

³⁵The mind is the shop, the mind is the town, and the mind is the shopkeeper.

³⁶The mind abides in various forms, wandering all across the world. ||2||

³⁷This mind is imbued with the Word of the Guru's Shabad, and duality is easily overcome.

¹He Himself is the Commander; all are under His Command. The Fearless Lord looks on all alike. ||3||

²That humble being who knows, and meditates on the Supreme Primal Being - his word becomes eternal.

³Says Naam Dayv, I have found the Invisible, Wondrous Lord, the Life of the World, within my heart. ||4||1||

⁴Prabhaatee:

⁵He existed in the beginning, in the primeval age, and all throughout the ages; His limits cannot be known.

⁶The Lord is pervading and permeating amongst all; this is how His Form can be described. ||1||

⁷The Lord of the Universe appears when the Word of His Shabad is chanted.

⁸My Lord is the Embodiment of Bliss. ||1||Pause||

⁹The beautiful fragrance of sandalwood emanates from the sandalwood tree, and attaches to the other trees of the forest.

¹⁰God, the Primal Source of everything, is like the sandalwood tree; He transforms us woody trees into fragrant sandalwood. ||2||

¹¹You, O Lord, are the Philosopher's Stone, and I am iron; associating with You, I am transformed into gold.

¹²You are Merciful; You are the gem and the jewel. Naam Dayv is absorbed in the Truth. ||3||2||

¹³Prabhaatee:

¹⁴The Primal Being has no ancestry; He has staged this play.

¹⁵God is hidden deep within each and every heart. ||1||

¹⁶No one knows the Light of the soul.

¹⁷Whatever I do, is known to You, Lord. ||1||Pause||

¹⁸Just as the pitcher is made from clay,

¹⁹everything is made from the Beloved Divine Creator Himself. ||2||

²⁰The mortal's actions hold the soul in the bondage of karma.

²¹Whatever he does, he does on his own. ||3||

²²Prays Naam Dayv, whatever this soul wants, it obtains.

²³Whoever abides in the Lord, becomes immortal. ||4||3||

²⁴Prabhaatee, The Word Of Devotee Baynee Jee:

²⁵One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

²⁶You rub your body with sandalwood oil, and place basil leaves on your forehead.

²⁷But you hold a knife in the hand of your heart.

²⁸You look like a thug; pretending to meditate, you pose like a crane.

²⁹You try to look like a Vaishnaav, but the breath of life escapes through your mouth. ||1||

³⁰You pray for hours to God the Beautiful.

³¹But your gaze is evil, and your nights are wasted in conflict. ||1||Pause||

³²You perform daily cleansing rituals,

³³wear two loin-cloths, perform religious rituals and put only milk in your mouth.

³⁴But in your heart, you have drawn out the sword.

³⁵You routinely steal the property of others. ||2||

³⁶You worship the stone idol, and paint ceremonial marks of Ganesha.

³⁷You remain awake throughout the night, pretending to worship God.

³⁸You dance, but your consciousness is filled with evil.

³⁹You are lewd and depraved - this is such an unrighteous dance! ||3||

⁴⁰You sit on a deer-skin, and chant on your mala.

⁴¹You put the sacred mark, the tilak, on your forehead.

⁴²You wear the rosary beads of Shiva around your neck, but your heart is filled with falsehood.

⁴³You are lewd and depraved - you do not chant God's Name. ||4||

⁴⁴Whoever does not realize the essence of the soul

⁴⁵all his religious actions are hollow and false.

⁴⁶Says Baynee, as Gurmukh, meditate.

⁴⁷Without the True Guru, you shall not find the Way. ||5||1||