Raag Raamkalee

¹Raamkalee, First Mehl, First House, Chau-Padhay:

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:

³Some read the Sanskrit scriptures, and some read the Puraanas.

⁴Some meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord, and chant it on their malas, focusing on it in meditation.

⁵I know nothing, now or ever; I recognize only Your One Name, Lord. ||1||

⁶I do not know, Lord, what my condition shall be.

⁷I am foolish and ignorant; I seek Your Sanctuary, God. Please, save my honor and my self-respect. ||1||Pause||

⁸Sometimes, the soul soars high in the heavens, and sometimes it falls to the depths of the nether regions.

⁹The greedy soul does not remain stable; it searches in the four directions. ||2||

¹⁰With death pre-ordained, the soul comes into the world, gathering the riches of life.

¹¹I see that some have already gone, O my Lord and Master; the burning fire is coming closer! ||3||

¹²No one has any friend, and no one has any brother; no one has any father or mother.

¹³Prays Nanak, if You bless me with Your Name, it shall be my help and support in the end. ||4||1||

¹⁴Raamkalee, First Mehl:

¹⁵Your Light is prevailing everywhere.

¹⁶Wherever I look, there I see the Lord. ||1||

¹⁷Please rid me of the desire to live, O my Lord and Master.

¹⁸My mind is entangled in the deep dark pit of Maya. How can I cross over, O Lord and Master? ||1||Pause||

¹⁹He dwells deep within, inside the heart; how can He not be outside as well?

²⁰Our Lord and Master always takes care of us, and keeps us in His thoughts. ||2||

²¹He Himself is near at hand, and He is far away.

²²He Himself is all-pervading, permeating everywhere.

²³Meeting the True Guru, the darkness is dispelled.

¹Wherever I look, there I see Him pervading. ||3||

²There is doubt within me, and Maya is outside; it hits me in the eyes like an arrow.

³Prays Nanak, the slave of the Lord's slaves: such a mortal suffers terribly. ||4||2||

⁴Raamkalee, First Mehl:

⁵Where is that door, where You live, O Lord? What is that door called? Among all doors, who can find that door?

⁶For the sake of that door, I wander around sadly, detached from the world; if only someone would come and tell me about that door. ||1||

⁷How can I cross over the world-ocean?

⁸While I am living, I cannot be dead. ||1||Pause||

⁹Pain is the door, and anger is the guard; hope and anxiety are the two shutters.

¹⁰Maya is the water in the moat; in the middle of this moat, he has built his home. The Primal Lord sits in the Seat of Truth. ||2||

¹¹You have so many Names, Lord, I do not know their limit. There is no other equal to You.

¹²Do not speak out loud - remain in your mind. The Lord Himself knows, and He Himself acts. ||3||

¹³As long as there is hope, there is anxiety; so how can anyone speak of the One Lord?

¹⁴In the midst of hope, remain untouched by hope; then, O Nanak, you shall meet the One Lord. ||4||

¹⁵In this way, you shall cross over the world-ocean.

¹⁶This is the way to remain dead while yet alive. ||1||Second Pause||3||

¹⁷Raamkalee, First Mehl:

¹⁸Awareness of the Shabad and the Teachings is my horn; the people hear the sound of its vibrations.

¹⁹Honor is my begging-bowl, and the Naam, the Name of the Lord, is the charity I receive. ||1||

²⁰O Baba, Gorakh is the Lord of the Universe; He is always awake and aware.

²¹He alone is Gorakh, who sustains the earth; He created it in an instant. ||1||Pause||

²²Binding together water and air, He infused the breath of life into the body, and made the lamps of the sun and the moon.

²³To die and to live, He gave us the earth, but we have forgotten these blessings. ||2||

²⁴There are so many Siddhas, seekers, Yogis, wandering pilgrims, spiritual teachers and good people.

²⁵If I meet them, I chant the Lord's Praises, and then, my mind serves Him. ||3||

²⁶Paper and salt, protected by ghee, remain untouched by water, as the lotus remains unaffected in water.

²⁷Those who meet with such devotees, O servant Nanak - what can death do to them? ||4||4||

²⁸Raamkalee, First Mehl:

²⁹Listen, Machhindra, to what Nanak says.

³⁰One who subdues the five passions does not waver.

³¹One who practices Yoga in such a way,

³²saves himself, and saves all his generations. ||1||

³³He alone is a hermit, who attains such understanding.

³⁴Day and night, he remains absorbed in deepest Samaadhi. ||1||Pause||

³⁵He begs for loving devotion to the Lord, and lives in the Fear of God.

³⁶He is satisfied, with the priceless gift of contentment.

³⁷Becoming the embodiment of meditation, he attains the true Yogic posture.

³⁸He focuses his consciousness in the deep trance of the True Name. ||2||

³⁹Nanak chants the Ambrosial Bani.

⁴⁰Listen, O Machhindra: this is the insignia of the true hermit.

⁴¹One who, in the midst of hope, remains untouched by hope,

⁴²shall truly find the Creator Lord. ||3||

⁴³Prays Nanak, I share the mysterious secrets of God.

⁴⁴The Guru and His disciple are joined together!

⁴⁵One who eats this food, this medicine of the Teachings,

¹has the wisdom of the six Shaastras. ||4||5||

²Raamkalee, First Mehl:

³My boat is wobbly and unsteady; it is filled with sins. The wind is rising - what if it tips over?

⁴As sunmukh, I have turned to the Guru; O my Perfect Master; please be sure to bless me with Your glorious greatness. ||1||

⁵O Guru, my Saving Grace, please carry me across the world-ocean.

⁶Bless me with devotion to the perfect, imperishable Lord God; I am a sacrifice to You. ||1||Pause||

⁷He alone is a Siddha, a seeker, a Yogi, a wandering pilgrim, who meditates on the One Perfect Lord.

⁸Touching the feet of the Lord Master, they are emancipated; they come to receive the Word of the Teachings. ||2||

⁹I know nothing of charity, meditation, self-discipline or religious rituals; I only chant Your Name, God.

¹⁰Nanak has met the Guru, the Transcendent Lord God; through the True Word of His Shabad, he is set free. ||3||6||

¹¹Raamkalee, First Mehl:

¹²Focus your consciousness in deep absorption on the Lord.

¹³Make your body a raft, to cross over.

¹⁴Deep within is the fire of desire; keep it in check.

¹⁵Day and night, that lamp shall burn unceasingly. ||1||

¹⁶Float such a lamp upon the water;

¹⁷this lamp will bring total understanding. ||1||Pause||

¹⁸This understanding is good clay;

¹⁹a lamp made of such clay is acceptable to the Lord.

²⁰So shape this lamp on the wheel of good actions.

²¹In this world and in the next, this lamp shall be with you. ||2||

²²When He Himself grants His Grace,

²³then, as Gurmukh, one may understand Him.

²⁴Within the heart, this lamp is permanently lit.

²⁵It is not extinguished by water or wind.

²⁶Such a lamp will carry you across the water. ||3||

²⁷Wind does not shake it, or put it out.

²⁸Its light reveals the Divine Throne.

²⁹The Kh'shaatriyas, Brahmins, Soodras and Vaishyas

³⁰cannot find its value, even by thousands of calculations.

³¹If any of them lights such a lamp,

³²O Nanak, he is emancipated. ||4||7||

³³Raamkalee, First Mehl:

³⁴To place one's faith in Your Name, Lord, is true worship.

³⁵With an offering of Truth, one obtains a place to sit.

³⁶If a prayer is offered with truth and contentment,

³⁷the Lord will hear it, and call him in to sit by Him. ||1||

³⁸O Nanak, no one returns empty-handed;

³⁹such is the Court of the True Lord. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁰The treasure I seek is the gift of Your Grace.

⁴¹Please bless this humble beggar - this is what I seek.

⁴²Please, pour Your Love into the cup of my heart.

⁴³This is Your pre-determined value. ||2||

⁴⁴The One who created everything, does everything.

⁴⁵He Himself appraises His own value.

⁴⁶The Sovereign Lord King becomes manifest to the Gurmukh.

⁴⁷He does not come, and He does not go. ||3||

⁴⁸People curse at the beggar; by begging, he does not receive honor.

⁴⁹O Lord, You inspire me to speak Your Words, and tell the Story of Your Court. ||4||8||

⁵⁰Raamkalee, First Mehl:

⁵¹The drop is in the ocean, and the ocean is in the drop. Who understands, and knows this?

⁵²He Himself creates the wondrous play of the world. He Himself contemplates it, and understands its true essence. ||1||

¹How rare are those who contemplate this spiritual wisdom.

²Through this, the supreme state of liberation is attained. ||1||Pause||

³The night is in the day, and the day is in the night. The same is true of hot and cold.

⁴No one else knows His state and extent; without the Guru, this is not understood. ||2||

⁵The female is in the male, and the male is in the female. Understand this, O God-realized being!

⁶The meditation is in the music, and knowledge is in meditation. Become Gurmukh, and speak the Unspoken Speech. ||3||

⁷The Light is in the mind, and the mind is in the Light. The Guru brings the five senses together, like brothers.

⁸Nanak is forever a sacrifice to those who enshrine love for the One Word of the Shabad. ||4||9||

⁹Raamkalee, First Mehl:

¹⁰When the Lord God showered His Mercy,

¹¹egotism was eradicated from within me.

¹²That humble servant who contemplates the

¹³That humble servant of the Lord is pleasing to his Lord God;

¹⁴day and night, he performs devotional worship, day and night. Disregarding his own honor, he sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||1||Pause||

¹⁵The unstruck melody of the sound current resonates and resounds;

¹⁶my mind is appeased by the subtle essence of the Lord.

¹⁷Through the Perfect Guru, I am absorbed in Truth.

¹⁸Through the Guru, I have found the Lord, the Primal Being. ||2||

¹⁹Gurbani is the sound current of the Naad, the Vedas, everything.

²⁰My mind is attuned to the Lord of the Universe.

²¹He is my sacred shrine of pilgrimage, fasting and austere self-discipline.

²²The Lord saves, and carries across, those who meet with the Guru. ||3||

²³One whose self-conceit is gone, sees his fears run away.

²⁴That servant grasps the Guru's feet.

²⁵The Guru, the True Guru, has expelled my doubts.

²⁶Says Nanak, I have merged into the Word of the Shabad. ||4||10||

²⁷Raamkalee, First Mehl:

²⁸He runs around, begging for clothes and food.

²⁹He burns with hunger and corruption, and will suffer in the world hereafter.

³⁰He does not follow the Guru's Teachings; through his evil-mindedness, he loses his honor.

³¹Only through the Guru's Teachings will such a person become devoted. ||1||

³²The way of the Yogi is to dwell in the celestial home of bliss.

³³He looks impartially, equally upon all. He receives the charity of the Lord's Love, and the Word of the Shabad, and so he is satisfied. ||1||Pause||

³⁴The five bulls, the senses, pull the wagon of the body around.

³⁵By the Lord's power, one's honor is preserved.

³⁶But when the axle breaks, the wagon falls and crashes.

³⁷It falls apart, like a pile of logs. ||2||

³⁸Contemplate the Word of the Guru's Shabad, Yogi.

³⁹Look upon pain and pleasure as one and the same, sorrow and separation.

⁴⁰Let your food be contemplative meditation upon the Naam, the Name of the Lord, and the Word of the Guru's Shabad.

⁴¹Your wall shall be permanent, by meditating on the Formless Lord. ||3||

⁴²Wear the loin-cloth of poise, and be free of entanglements.

⁴³The Guru's Word shall release you from sexual desire and anger.

⁴⁴In your mind, let your ear-rings be the Sanctuary of the Guru, the Lord.

⁴⁵O Nanak, worshipping the Lord in deep devotion, the humble are carried across. ||4||11||

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

²Raamkalee, Third Mehl, First House:

³In the Golden Age of Sat Yuga, everyone spoke the Truth.

⁴In each and every home, devotional worship was performed by the people, according to the Guru's Teachings.

⁵In that Golden Age, Dharma had four feet.

⁶How rare are those people who, as Gurmukh, contemplate this and understand. ||1||

⁷In all four ages, the Naam, the Name of the Lord, is glory and greatness.

⁸One who holds tight to the Naam is liberated; without the Guru, no one obtains the Naam. ||1||Pause||

⁹In the Silver Age of Traytaa Yuga, one leg was removed.

¹⁰Hypocrisy became prevalent, and people thought that the Lord was far away.

¹¹The Gurmukhs still understood and realized;

¹²the Naam abided deep within them, and they were at peace. ||2||

¹³In the Brass Age of Dwaapur Yuga, duality and double-mindedness arose.

¹⁴Deluded by doubt, they knew duality.

¹⁵In this Brass Age, Dharma was left with only two feet.

¹⁶Those who became Gurmukh implanted the Naam deep within. ||3||

¹⁷In the Iron Age of Kali Yuga, Dharma was left with only one power.

¹⁸It walks on just one foot; love and emotional attachment to Maya have increased.

¹⁹Love and emotional attachment to Maya bring total darkness.

²⁰If someone meets the True Guru, he is saved, through the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||4||

²¹Throughout the ages, there is only the One True Lord.

²²Among all, is the True Lord; there is no other at all.

²³Praising the True Lord, true peace is attained.

²⁴How rare are those, who as Gurmukh, chant the Naam. ||5||

²⁵Throughout all the ages, the Naam is the ultimate, the most sublime.

²⁶How rare are those, who as Gurmukh, understand this.

²⁷One who meditates on the Lord's Name is a humble devotee.

²⁸O Nanak, in each and every age, the Naam is glory and greatness. ||6||1||

²⁹Raamkalee, Fourth Mehl, First House:

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

³¹If someone is very fortunate, and is blessed with great high destiny, then he meditates on the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.

³²Chanting the Naam, the Name of the Lord, he finds peace, and merges in the Naam. ||1||

³³O mortal, as Gurmukh, worship the Lord in devotion forever.

³⁴Your heart shall be illumined; through the Guru's Teachings, lovingly attune yourself to the Lord. You shall merge in the Name of the Lord, Har, Har. ||1||Pause||

³⁵The Great Giver is filled with diamonds, emeralds, rubies and pearls;

³⁶one who has good fortune and great destiny inscribed upon his forehead, digs them out, by following the Guru's Teachings. ||2||

³⁷The Lord's Name is the jewel, the emerald, the ruby; digging it out, the Guru has placed it in your palm.

³⁸The unfortunate, self-willed manmukh does not obtain it; this priceless jewel remains hidden behind a curtain of straw. ||3||

³⁹If such pre-ordained destiny is written upon one's forehead, then the True Guru enjoins him to serve Him.

⁴⁰O Nanak, then he obtains the jewel, the gem; blessed, blessed is that one who follows the Guru's Teachings, and finds the Lord. ||4||1||

⁴¹Raamkalee, Fourth Mehl:

⁴²Meeting with the humble servants of the Lord, I am in ecstasy; they preach the sublime sermon of the Lord.

⁴³The filth of evil-mindedness is totally washed away; joining the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation, one is blessed with understanding. ||1||

¹O humble servant of the Lord, follow the Guru's Teachings, and chant the Name of the Lord.

²Whoever hears and speaks it is liberated; chanting the Lord's Name, one is embellished with beauty. ||1||Pause||

³If someone has supremely high destiny written on his forehead, the Lord leads him to meet the humble servants of the Lord.

⁴Be merciful, and grant me the Blessed Vision of the Saints' Darshan, which shall rid me of all poverty and pain. ||2||

⁵The Lord's people are good and sublime; the unfortunate ones do not like them at all.

⁶The more the Lord's exalted servants speak of Him, the more the slanderers attack and sting them. ||3||

⁷Cursed, cursed are the slanderers who do not like the humble, the friends and companions of the Lord.

⁸Those who do not like the honor and glory of the Guru are faithless, black-faced thieves, who have turned their backs on the Lord. ||4||

⁹Have mercy, have mercy, please save me, Dear Lord. I am meek and humble - I seek Your protection.

¹⁰I am Your child, and You are my father, God. Please forgive servant Nanak and merge him with Yourself. ||5||2||

¹¹Raamkalee, Fourth Mehl:

¹²The friends of the Lord, the humble, Holy Saints are sublime; the Lord spreads out His protecting hands above them.

¹³The Gurmukhs are the Holy Saints, pleasing to God; in His mercy, He blends them with Himself. ||1||

¹⁴O Lord, my mind longs to meet with the humble servants of the Lord.

¹⁵The sweet, subtle essence of the Lord is immortalizing ambrosia. Meeting the Saints, I drink it in. ||1||Pause||

¹⁶The Lord's people are the most lofty and exalted. Meeting with them, the most exalted status is obtained.

¹⁷I am the slave of the slave of the Lord's slaves; my Lord and Master is pleased with me. ||2||

¹⁸The humble servant serves; one who enshrines love for the Lord in his heart, mind and body is very fortunate.

¹⁹One who talks too much without love, speaks falsely, and obtains only false rewards. ||3||

²⁰Take pity on me, O Lord of the World, O Great Giver; let me fall at the feet of the Saints.

²¹I would cut off my head, and cut it into pieces, O Nanak, and set it down for the Saints to walk upon. ||4||3||

²²Raamkalee, Fourth Mehl:

²³If I am blessed with supreme high destiny, I will meet the humble servants of the Lord, without delay.

²⁴The Lord's humble servants are pools of ambrosial nectar; by great good fortune, one bathes in them. ||1||

²⁵O Lord, let me work for the humble servants of the Lord.

²⁶I carry water, wave the fan and grind the corn for them; I massage and wash their feet. I apply the dust of their feet to my forehead. ||1||Pause||

²⁷The Lord's humble servants are great, very great, the greatest and most exalted; they lead us to meet the True Guru.

²⁸No one else is as great as the True Guru; meeting the True Guru, I meditate on the Lord, the Primal Being. ||2||

²⁹Those who seek the Sanctuary of the True Guru find the Lord. My Lord and Master saves their honor.

³⁰Some come for their own purposes, and sit before the Guru; they pretend to be in Samaadhi, like storks with their eyes closed. ||3||

³¹Associating with the wretched and the lowly, like the stork and the crow, is like feeding on a carcass of poison.

³²Nanak: O God, unite me with the Sangat, the Congregation. United with the Sangat, I will become a swan. ||4||4||

¹Raamkalee, Fourth Mehl:

²O True Guru, please be kind, and unite me with the Lord. My Sovereign Lord is the Beloved of my breath of life.

³I am a slave; I fall at the Guru's feet. He has shown me the Path, the Way to my Lord God. ||1||

⁴The Name of my Lord, Har, Har, is pleasing to my mind.

⁵I have no friend except the Lord; the Lord is my father, my mother, my companion. ||1||Pause||

⁶My breath of life will not survive for an instant, without my Beloved; unless I see Him, I will die, O my mother!

⁷Blessed, blessed is my great, high destiny, that I have come to the Guru's Sanctuary. Meeting with the Guru, I have obtained the Blessed Vision of the Lord's Darshan. ||2||

⁸I do not know or understand any other within my mind; I meditate and chant the Lord's Chant.

⁹Those who lack the Naam, wander in shame; their noses are chopped off, bit by bit. ||3||

¹⁰O Life of the World, rejuvenate me! O my Lord and Master, enshrine Your Name deep within my heart.

¹¹O Nanak, perfect is the Guru, the Guru. Meeting the True Guru, I meditate on the Naam. ||4||5||

¹²Raamkalee, Fourth Mehl:

¹³The True Guru, the Great Giver, is the Great, Primal Being; meeting Him, the Lord is enshrined within the heart.

¹⁴The Perfect Guru has granted me the life of the soul; I meditate in remembrance on the Ambrosial Name of the Lord. ||1||

¹⁵O Lord, the Guru has implanted the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, within my heart.

¹⁶As Gurmukh, I have heard His sermon, which pleases my mind; blessed, blessed is my great destiny. ||1||Pause||

¹⁷Millions, three hundred thirty millions of gods meditate on Him, but they cannot find His end or limitation.

¹⁸With sexual urges in their hearts, they beg for beautiful women; stretching out their hands, they beg for riches. ||2||

¹⁹One who chants the Praises of the Lord is the greatest of the great; the Gurmukh keeps the Lord clasped to his heart.

²⁰If one is blessed with high destiny, he meditates on the Lord, who carries him across the terrifying world-ocean. ||3||

²¹The Lord is close to His humble servant, and His humble servant is close to the Lord; He keeps His humble servant clasped to His Heart.

²²O Nanak, the Lord God is our father and mother. I am His child; the Lord cherishes me. ||4||6||18||

²³Raag Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl, First House:

²⁴One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

²⁵Have mercy on me, O Generous Giver, Lord of the meek; please do not consider my merits and demerits.

²⁶How can dust be washed? O my Lord and Master, such is the state of mankind. ||1||

²⁷O my mind, serve the True Guru, and be at peace.

²⁸Whatever you desire, you shall receive that reward, and you shall not be afflicted by pain any longer. ||1||Pause||

²⁹He creates and adorns the earthen vessels; He infuses His Light within them.

³⁰As is the destiny pre-ordained by the Creator, so are the deeds we do. ||2||

³¹He believes the mind and body are all his own; this is the cause of his coming and going.

³²He does not think of the One who gave him these; he is blind, entangled in emotional attachment. ||3||

¹One who knows that God created him, reaches the Incomparable Mansion of the Lord's Presence.

²Worshipping the Lord, I sing His Glorious Praises. Nanak is Your slave. ||4||1||

³Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

⁴Place yourself beneath all men's feet, and you will be uplifted; serve Him in this way.

⁵Know that all are above you, and you shall find peace in the Court of the Lord. ||1||

⁶O Saints, speak that speech which purifies the gods and sanctifies the divine beings.

⁷Renounce your fraudulent plans, and dwell in the celestial palace; do not call anyone else false.

⁸Meeting with the True Guru, you shall receive the nine treasures; in this way, you shall find the essence of reality. ||2||

⁹Eradicate doubt, and as Gurmukh, enshrine love for the Lord; understand your own soul, O Siblings of Destiny.

¹⁰Know that God is near at hand, and ever-present. How could you try to hurt anyone else? ||3||

¹¹Meeting with the True Guru, your path shall be clear, and you shall easily meet your Lord and Master.

¹²Blessed, blessed are those humble beings, who, in this Dark Age of Kali Yuga, find the Lord. Nanak is forever a sacrifice to them. ||4||2||

¹³Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁴Coming does not please me, and going does not bring me pain, and so my mind is not afflicted by disease.

¹⁵I am in bliss forever, for I have found the Perfect Guru; my separation from the Lord is totally ended. ||1||

¹⁶This is how I have joined my mind to the Lord.

¹⁷Attachment, sorrow, disease and public opinion do not affect me, and so, I enjoy the subtle essence of the Lord, Har, Har, Har. ||1||Pause||

¹⁸I am pure in the heavenly realm, pure on this earth, and pure in the nether regions of the underworld. I remain apart from the people of the world.

¹⁹Obedient to the Lord, I enjoy peace forever; wherever I look, I see the Lord of glorious virtues. ||2||

²⁰There is no Shiva or Shakti, no energy or matter, no water or wind, no world of form there,

²¹where the True Guru, the Yogi, dwells, where the Imperishable Lord God, the Unapproachable Master abides. ||3||

²²Body and mind belong to the Lord; all wealth belongs to the Lord; what glorious virtues of the Lord can I describe?

²³Says Nanak, the Guru has destroyed my sense of 'mine and yours'. Like water with water, I am blended with God. ||4||3||

²⁴Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

²⁵It is beyond the three qualities; it remains untouched. The seekers and Siddhas do not know it.

²⁶There is a chamber filled with jewels, overflowing with Ambrosial Nectar, in the Guru's Treasury. ||1||

²⁷This thing is wonderful and amazing! It cannot be described.

²⁸It is an unfathomable object, O Siblings of Destiny! ||1||Pause||

²⁹Its value cannot be estimated at all; what can anyone say about it?

³⁰By speaking and describing it, it cannot be understood; only one who sees it realizes it. ||2||

³¹Only the Creator Lord knows it; what can any poor creature do?

³²Only He Himself knows His own state and extent. The Lord Himself is the treasure overflowing. ||3||

³³Tasting such Ambrosial Nectar, the mind remains satisfied and satiated.

³⁴Says Nanak, my hopes are fulfilled; I have found the Guru's Sanctuary. ||4||4||

¹Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

²God has made me His own, and vanquished all my enemies.

³Those enemies who have plundered this world, have all been placed in bondage. ||1||

⁴The True Guru is my Transcendent Lord.

⁵I enjoy countless pleasures of power and tasty delights, chanting Your Name, and placing my faith in You. ||1||Pause||

⁶I do not think of any other at all. The Lord is my protector, above my head.

⁷I am carefree and independent, when I have the Support of Your Name, O my Lord and Master. ||2||

⁸I have become perfect, meeting with the Giver of peace, and now, I lack nothing at all.

⁹I have obtained the essence of excellence, the supreme status; I shall not forsake it to go anywhere else. ||3||

¹⁰I cannot describe how You are, O True Lord, unseen, infinite,

¹¹immeasurable, unfathomable and unmoving Lord. O Nanak, He is my Lord and Master. ||4||5||

¹²Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

¹³You are wise; You are eternal and unchanging. You are my social class and honor.

¹⁴You are unmoving - You never move at all. How can I be worried? ||1||

¹⁵You alone are the One and only Lord;

¹⁶You alone are the king.

¹⁷By Your Grace, I have found peace. ||1||Pause||

¹⁸You are the ocean, and I am Your swan; the pearls and rubies are in You.

¹⁹You give, and You do not hesitate for an instant; I receive, forever enraptured. ||2||

²⁰I am Your child, and You are my father; You place the milk in my mouth.

²¹I play with You, and You caress me in every way. You are forever the ocean of excellence. ||3||

²²You are perfect, perfectly all-pervading; I am fulfilled with You as well.

²³I am merged, merged, merged and remain merged; O Nanak, I cannot describe it! ||4||6||

²⁴Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

²⁵Make your hands the cymbals, your eyes the tambourines, and your forehead the guitar you play.

²⁶Let the sweet flute music resound in your ears, and with your tongue, vibrate this song.

²⁷Move your mind like the rhythmic hand-motions; do the dance, and shake your ankle bracelets. ||1||

²⁸This is the rhythmic dance of the Lord.

²⁹The Merciful Audience, the Lord, sees all your make-up and decorations. ||1||Pause||

³⁰The whole earth is the stage, with the canopy of the sky overhead.

³¹The wind is the director; people are born of water.

³²From the five elements, the puppet was created with its actions. ||2||

³³The sun and the moon are the two lamps which shine, with the four corners of the world placed between them.

³⁴The ten senses are the dancing girls, and the five passions are the chorus; they sit together within the one body.

³⁵They all put on their own shows, and speak in different languages. ||3||

³⁶In each and every home there is dancing, day and night; in each and every home, the bugles blow.

³⁷Some are made to dance, and some are whirled around; some come and some go, and some are reduced to dust.

³⁸Says Nanak, one who meets with the True Guru, does not have to dance the dance of reincarnation again. ||4||7||

¹Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

²He sings the song of the One Universal Creator; he sings the tune of the One Lord.

³He lives in the land of the One Lord, shows the way to the One Lord, and remains attuned to the One Lord.

⁴He centers his consciousness on the One Lord, and serves only the One Lord, who is known through the Guru. ||1||

⁵Blessed and good is such a kirtanee, who sings such Praises.

⁶He sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord,

⁷and renounces the entanglements and pursuits of Maya. ||1||Pause||

⁸He makes the five virtues, like contentment, his musical instruments, and plays the seven notes of the love of the Lord.

⁹The notes he plays are the renunciation of pride and power; his feet keep the beat on the straight path.

¹⁰He does not enter the cycle of reincarnation ever again; he keeps the One Word of the Shabad tied to the hem of his robe. ||2||

¹¹To play like Naarad, is to know that the Lord is ever-present.

¹²The tinkling of the ankle bells is the shedding of sorrows and worries.

¹³The dramatic gestures of acting are celestial bliss.

¹⁴Such a dancer is not reincarnated again. ||3||

¹⁵If anyone, out of millions of people, becomes pleasing to his Lord and Master, he sings the Lord's Praises in this way.

¹⁶I have taken the Support of the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy.

¹⁷Says Nanak, the Kirtan of the One Lord's Praises are sung there. ||4||8||

¹⁸Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁹Some call Him, 'Raam, Raam', and some call Him, 'Khudaa-i'.

²⁰Some serve Him as 'Gusain', others as 'Allaah'. ||1||

²¹He is the Cause of causes, the Generous Lord.

²²He showers His Grace and Mercy upon us. ||1||Pause||

²³Some bathe at sacred shrines of pilgrimage, and some make the pilgrimage to Mecca.|

²⁴Some perform devotional worship services, and some bow their heads in prayer. ||2||

²⁵Some read the Vedas, and some the Koran.

²⁶Some wear blue robes, and some wear white. ||3||

²⁷Some call themselves Muslim, and some call themselves Hindu.

²⁸Some yearn for paradise, and others long for heaven. ||4||

²⁹Says Nanak, one who realizes the Hukam of God's Will,

³⁰knows the secrets of his Lord and Master. ||5||9||

³¹Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

³²The wind merges into the wind.

³³The light blends into the light.

³⁴The dust becomes one with the dust.

³⁵What support is there for the one who is lamenting? ||1||

³⁶Who has died? O, who has died?

³⁷O God-realized beings, meet together and consider this. What a wondrous thing has happened! ||1||Pause||

³⁸No one knows what happens after death.

³⁹The one who is lamenting will also arise and depart.

⁴⁰Mortal beings are bound by the bonds of doubt and attachment.

⁴¹When life becomes a dream, the blind man babbles and grieves in vain. ||2||

⁴²The Creator Lord created this creation.

⁴³It comes and goes, subject to the Will of the Infinite Lord.

⁴⁴No one dies; no one is capable of dying.

⁴⁵The soul does not perish; it is imperishable. ||3||

⁴⁶That which is known, does not exist.

⁴⁷I am a sacrifice to the one who knows this.

⁴⁸Says Nanak, the Guru has dispelled my doubt.

⁴⁹No one dies; no one comes or goes. ||4||10||

⁵⁰Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

⁵¹Meditate on the Lord of the Universe, the Beloved Lord of the World.

⁵²Meditating in remembrance on the Lord's Name, you shall live, and the Great Death shall not consume you ever again. ||1||Pause||

⁵³Through millions of incarnations, you have come, wandering, wandering, wandering.

¹By the highest destiny, you found the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy. ||1||

²Without the Perfect Guru, no one is saved.

³This is what Baba Nanak says, after deep reflection. ||2||11||

⁴Raag Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl, Second House:

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

⁶The four Vedas proclaim it, but you don't believe them.

⁷The six Shaastras also say one thing.

⁸The eighteen Puraanas all speak of the One God.

⁹Even so, Yogi, you do not understand this mystery. ||1||

¹⁰The celestial harp plays the incomparable melody,

¹¹but in your intoxication, you do not hear it, O Yogi. ||1||Pause||

¹²In the first age, the Golden Age, the village of truth was inhabited.

¹³In the Silver Age of Traytaa Yuga, things began to decline.

¹⁴In the Brass Age of Dwaapur Yuga, half of it was gone.

¹⁵Now, only one leg of Truth remains, and the One Lord is revealed. ||2||

¹⁶The beads are strung upon the one thread.

¹⁷By means of many, various, diverse knots, they are tied, and kept separate on the string.

¹⁸The beads of the mala are lovingly chanted upon in many ways.

¹⁹When the thread is pulled out, the beads come together in one place. ||3||

²⁰Throughout the four ages, the One Lord made the body His temple.

²¹It is a treacherous place, with several windows.

²²Searching and searching, one comes to the Lord's door.

²³Then, O Nanak, the Yogi attains a home in the Mansion of the Lord's Presence. ||4||

²⁴Thus, the celestial harp plays the incomparable melody;

²⁵hearing it, the Yogi's mind finds it sweet. ||1||Second Pause||1||12||

²⁶Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

²⁷The body is a patch-work of threads.

²⁸The muscles are stitched together with the needles of the bones.

²⁹The Lord has erected a pillar of water.

³⁰O Yogi, why are you so proud? ||1||

³¹Meditate on your Lord Master, day and night.

³²The patched coat of the body shall last for only a few days. ||1||Pause||

³³Smearing ashes on your body, you sit in a deep meditative trance.

³⁴You wear the ear-rings of 'mine and yours'.

³⁵You beg for bread, but you are not satisfied.

³⁶Abandoning your Lord Master, you beg from others; you should feel ashamed. ||2||

³⁷Your consciousness is restless, Yogi, as you sit in your Yogic postures.

³⁸You blow your horn, but still feel sad.

³⁹You do not understand Gorakh, your guru.

⁴⁰Again and again, Yogi, you come and go. ||3||

⁴¹He, unto whom the Master shows Mercy

⁴²unto Him, the Guru, the Lord of the World, I offer my prayer.

⁴³One who has the Name as his patched coat, and the Name as his robe,

⁴⁴O servant Nanak, such a Yogi is steady and stable. ||4||

⁴⁵One who meditates on the Master in this way, night and day,

⁴⁶finds the Guru, the Lord of the World, in this life. ||1||Second Pause||2||13||

⁴⁷Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

⁴⁸He is the Creator, the Cause of causes;

⁴⁹I do not see any other at all.

⁵⁰My Lord and Master is wise and all-knowing.

⁵¹Meeting with the Gurmukh, I enjoy His Love. ||1||

⁵²Such is the sweet, subtle essence of the Lord.

⁵³How rare are those who, as Gurmukh, taste it. ||1||Pause||

⁵⁴The Light of the Ambrosial Name of the Lord is immaculate and pure.

¹Drinking it in, one becomes immortal and free of desire.

²The body and mind are cooled and soothed, and the fire is extinguished.

³Such a being is the embodiment of bliss, famous throughout the world. ||2||

⁴What can I offer You, Lord? Everything belongs to You.

⁵I am forever a sacrifice to You, hundreds of thousands of times.

⁶You blessed me, and fashioned my body, mind and soul.

⁷By Guru's Grace, this lowly being was exalted. ||3||

⁸Opening the door, You summoned me to the Mansion of Your Presence.

⁹As You are, so You have revealed Yourself to me.

¹⁰Says Nanak, the screen is totally torn away;

¹¹I am Yours, and You are enshrined within my mind. ||4||3||14||

¹²Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

¹³He has linked His servant to His service.

¹⁴The Divine Guru has poured the Ambrosial Naam, the Name of the Lord, into his mouth.

¹⁵He has subdued all his anxiety.

¹⁶I am forever a sacrifice to that Guru. ||1||

¹⁷The True Guru has perfectly resolved my affairs.

¹⁸The True Guru vibrates the unstruck melody of the sound current. ||1||Pause||

¹⁹His Glory is profound and unfathomable.

²⁰One whom He blesses with patience becomes blissful.

²¹One whose bonds are shattered by the Sovereign Lord

²²is not cast into the womb of reincarnation again. ||2||

²³One who is illuminated by the Lord's radiance within,

²⁴is not touched by pain and sorrow.

²⁵He holds in his robe the gems and jewels.

²⁶That humble being is saved, along with all his generations. ||3||

²⁷He has no doubt, double-mindedness or duality at all.

²⁸He worships and adores the One Immaculate Lord alone.

²⁹Wherever I look, I see the Merciful Lord.

³⁰Says Nanak, I have found God, the source of nectar. ||4||4||15||

³¹Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

³²My self-conceit has been eliminated from my body.

³³The Will of God is dear to me.

³⁴Whatever He does, seems sweet to my mind.

³⁵And then, these eyes behold the wondrous Lord. ||1||

³⁶Now, I have become wise and my demons are gone.

³⁷My thirst is quenched, and my attachment is dispelled. The Perfect Guru has instructed me. ||1||Pause||

³⁸In His Mercy, the Guru has kept me under His protection.

³⁹The Guru has attached me to the Lord's Feet.

⁴⁰When the mind is totally held in check,

⁴¹one sees the Guru and the Supreme Lord God as one and the same. ||2||

⁴²Whoever You have created, I am his slave.

⁴³My God dwells in all.

⁴⁴I have no enemies, no adversaries.

⁴⁵I walk arm in arm, like brothers, with all. ||3||

⁴⁶One whom the Guru, the Lord, blesses with peace,

⁴⁷does not suffer in pain any longer.

⁴⁸He Himself cherishes all.

⁴⁹Nanak is imbued with the love of the Lord of the World. ||4||5||16||

⁵⁰Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

⁵¹You read the scriptures, and the commentaries,

⁵²but the Perfect Lord does not dwell in your heart.

⁵³You preach to others to have faith,

⁵⁴but you do not practice what you preach. ||1||

⁵⁵O Pandit, O religious scholar, contemplate the Vedas.

⁵⁶Eradicate anger from your mind, O Pandit. ||1||Pause||

⁵⁷You place your stone god before yourself,

¹but your mind wanders in the ten directions.

²You apply a ceremonial tilak mark to its forehead, and fall at its feet.

³You try to appease the people, and act blindly. ||2||

⁴You perform the six religious rituals, and sit wearing your loin-cloth.

⁵In the homes of the wealthy, you read the prayer book.

⁶You chant on your mala, and beg for money.

⁷No one has ever been saved in this way, friend. ||3||

⁸He alone is a Pandit, who lives the Word of the Guru's Shabad.

⁹Maya, of the three qualities, leaves him.

¹⁰The four Vedas are completely contained within the Lord's Name.

¹¹Nanak seeks His Sanctuary. ||4||6||17||

¹²Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

¹³Millions of troubles do not come near him;

¹⁴the many manifestations of Maya are his hand-maidens;

¹⁵countless sins are his water-carriers;

¹⁶he is blessed with the Grace of the Creator Lord. ||1||

¹⁷One who has the Lord God as his help and support

¹⁸- all his efforts are fulfilled. ||1||Pause||

¹⁹He is protected by the Creator Lord; what harm can anyone do to him?

²⁰Even an ant can conquer the whole world.

²¹His glory is endless; how can I describe it?

²²I am a sacrifice, a devoted sacrifice, to His feet. ||2||

²³He alone performs worship, austerities and meditation;

²⁴he alone is a giver to various charities;

²⁵he alone is approved in this Dark Age of Kali Yuga,

²⁶whom the Lord Master blesses with honor. ||3||

²⁷Joining the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, I am enlightened.

²⁸I have found celestial peace, and my hopes are fulfilled.

²⁹The Perfect True Guru has blessed me with faith.

³⁰Nanak is the slave of His slaves. ||4||7||18||

³¹Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

³²Don't blame others, O people;

³³as you plant, so shall you harvest.

³⁴By your actions, you have bound yourself.

³⁵You come and go, entangled in Maya. ||1||

³⁶Such is the understanding of the Saintly people.

³⁷You shall be enlightened, through the Word of the Perfect Guru. ||1||Pause||

³⁸Body, wealth, spouse and ostentatious displays are false.

³⁹Horses and elephants will pass away.

⁴⁰Power, pleasures and beauty are all false.

⁴¹Without the Naam, the Name of the Lord, everything is reduced to dust. ||2||

⁴²The egotistical people are deluded by useless doubt.

⁴³Of all this expanse, nothing shall go along with you.

⁴⁴Through pleasure and pain, the body is growing old.

⁴⁵Doing these things, the faithless cynics are passing their lives. ||3||

⁴⁶The Name of the Lord is Ambrosial Nectar in this Dark Age of Kali Yuga.

⁴⁷This treasure is obtained from the Holy.

⁴⁸O Nanak, whoever pleases the Guru,

⁴⁹the Lord of the Universe, beholds the Lord in each and every heart. ||4||8||19||

⁵⁰Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

⁵¹The Panch Shabad, the five primal sounds, echo the perfect sound current of the Naad.

⁵²The wondrous, amazing unstruck melody vibrates.

⁵³The Saintly people play there with the Lord.

⁵⁴They remain totally detached, absorbed in the Supreme Lord God. ||1||

⁵⁵It is the realm of celestial peace and bliss.

⁵⁶The Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, sits and sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord. There is no disease or sorrow there, no birth or death. ||1||Pause||

⁵⁷There, they meditate only on the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

⁵⁸How rare are those who find this place of rest.

⁵⁹The love of God is their food, and the Kirtan of the Lord's Praise is their support.

¹They obtain a permanent seat in the infinite. ||2||

²No one falls there, or wavers, or goes anywhere.

³By Guru's Grace, some find this mansion.

⁴They are not touched by doubt, fear, attachment or the traps of Maya.

⁵They enter the deepest state of Samaadhi, through the kind mercy of God. ||3||

⁶He has no end or limitation.

⁷He Himself is unmanifest, and He Himself is manifest.

⁸One who enjoys the taste of the Lord, Har, Har, deep within himself,

⁹O Nanak, his wondrous state cannot be described. ||4||9||20||

¹⁰Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

¹¹Meeting with the Sangat, the Congregation, the Supreme Lord God has come into my consciousness.

¹²In the Sangat, my mind has found contentment.

¹³I touch my forehead to the feet of the Saints.

¹⁴Countless times, I humbly bow to the Saints. ||1||

¹⁵This mind is a sacrifice to the Saints;

¹⁶holding tight to their support, I have found peace, and in their mercy, they have protected me. ||1||Pause||

¹⁷I wash the feet of the Saints, and drink in that water.

¹⁸Gazing upon the Blessed Vision of the Saints' Darshan, I live.

¹⁹My mind rests its hopes in the Saints.

²⁰The Saints are my immaculate wealth. ||2||

²¹The Saints have covered my faults.

²²By the Grace of the Saints, I am no longer tormented.

²³The Merciful Lord has blessed me with the Saints' Congregation.

²⁴The Compassionate Saints have become my help and support. ||3||

²⁵My consciousness, intellect and wisdom have been enlightened.

²⁶The Lord is profound, unfathomable, infinite, the treasure of virtue.

²⁷He cherishes all beings and creatures.

²⁸Nanak is enraptured, seeing the Saints. ||4||10||21||

²⁹Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

³⁰Your home, power and wealth will be of no use to you.

³¹Your corrupt worldly entanglements will be of no use to you.

³²Know that all your dear friends are fake.

³³Only the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, will go along with you. ||1||

³⁴Sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord's Name, O friend; remembering the Lord in meditation, your honor shall be saved.

³⁵Remembering the Lord in meditation, the Messenger of Death will not touch you. ||1||Pause||

³⁶Without the Lord, all pursuits are useless.

³⁷Gold, silver and wealth are just dust.

³⁸Chanting the Word of the Guru's Shabad, your mind shall be at peace.

³⁹Here and hereafter, your face shall be radiant and bright. ||2||

⁴⁰Even the greatest of the great worked and worked until they were exhausted.

⁴¹None of them ever accomplished the tasks of Maya.

⁴²Any humble being who chants the Name of the Lord, Har, Har,

⁴³will have all his hopes fulfilled. ||3||

⁴⁴The Naam, the Name of the Lord, is the anchor and support of the Lord's devotees.

⁴⁵The Saints are victorious in this priceless human life.

⁴⁶Whatever the Lord's Saint does, is approved and accepted.

⁴⁷Slave Nanak is a sacrifice to him. ||4||11||22||

⁴⁸Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

⁴⁹You gather wealth by exploiting people.

⁵⁰It is of no use to you; it was meant for others.

⁵¹You practice egotism, and act like a blind man.

⁵²In the world hereafter, you shall be tied to the leash of the Messenger of Death. ||1||

⁵³Give up your envy of others, you fool!

⁵⁴You only live here for a night, you fool!

⁵⁵You are intoxicated with Maya, but you must soon arise and depart.

⁵⁶You are totally involved in the dream. ||1||Pause||

⁵⁷In his childhood, the child is blind.

⁵⁸In the fullness of youth, he is involved in foul-smelling sins.

¹In the third stage of life, he gathers the wealth of Maya.

²And when he grows old, he must leave all this; he departs regretting and repenting. ||2||

³After a very long time, one obtains this precious human body, so difficult to obtain.

⁴Without the Naam, the Name of the Lord, it is reduced to dust.

⁵Worse than a beast, a demon or an idiot,

⁶is that one who does not understand who created him. ||3||

⁷Listen, O Creator Lord, Lord of the Universe, Lord of the World,

⁸Merciful to the meek, forever compassionate

⁹If You emancipate the human, then his bonds are broken.

¹⁰O Nanak, the people of world are blind; please, Lord, forgive them, and unite them with Yourself. ||4||12||23||

¹¹Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

¹²Joining the elements together, the robe of the body is fashioned.

¹³The ignorant fool is engrossed in it.

¹⁴He cherishes it, and constantly takes care of it.

¹⁵But at the very last moment, he must arise and depart. ||1||

¹⁶Without the Naam, the Name of the Lord, everything is false, O mortal.

¹⁷Those who do not vibrate and meditate on the Lord of the Universe, but instead are imbued with other things, - all those mortals are plundered by Maya. ||1||Pause||

¹⁸Bathing at sacred shrines of pilgrimage, filth is not washed off.

¹⁹Religious rituals are all just egotistical displays.

²⁰By pleasing and appeasing people, no one is saved.

²¹Without the Naam, they shall depart weeping. ||2||

²²Without the Lord's Name, the screen is not torn away.

²³I have studied all the Shaastras and Simritees.

²⁴He alone chants the Naam, whom the Lord Himself inspires to chant.

²⁵He obtains all fruits and rewards, and merges in peace. ||3||

²⁶O Savior Lord, please save me!

²⁷All peace and comforts are in Your Hand, God.

²⁸Whatever you attach me to, to that I am attached, O my Lord and Master.

²⁹O Nanak, the Lord is the Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts. ||4||13||24||

³⁰Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

³¹Whatever He does makes me happy.

³²The ignorant mind is encouraged, in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy.

³³Now, it does not waver at all; it has become stable and steady.

³⁴Receiving Truth, it is merged in the True Lord. ||1||

³⁵Pain is gone, and all illness is gone.

³⁶I have accepted the Will of God in my mind, associating with the Great Person, the Guru. ||1||Pause||

³⁷All is pure; all is immaculate.

³⁸Whatever exists is good.

³⁹Wherever He keeps me, that is the place of liberation for me.

⁴⁰Whatever He makes me chant, is His Name. ||2||

⁴¹That is the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage, where the Holy place their feet,

⁴²and that is heaven, where the Naam is chanted.

⁴³All bliss comes, when one obtains the Blessed Vision of the Lord's Darshan.

⁴⁴I sing continuously, continually, the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||3||

⁴⁵The Lord Himself is pervading in each and every heart.

⁴⁶The glory of the Merciful Lord is radiant and manifest.

⁴⁷The shutters are opened, and doubts have run away.

⁴⁸Nanak has met with the Perfect Guru. ||4||14||25||

⁴⁹Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

⁵⁰Millions of meditations and austerities rest in him,

⁵¹along with wealth, wisdom, miraculous spiritual powers and angelic spiritual insight.

⁵²He enjoys the various shows and forms, pleasures and delicacies;

⁵³the Naam, the Name of the Lord, dwells within the heart of the Gurmukh. ||1||

⁵⁴Such is the glorious greatness of the Name of the Lord.

⁵⁵Its value cannot be described. ||1||Pause||

⁵⁶He alone is brave, patient and perfectly wise;

¹he is intuitively in Samaadhi, profound and unfathomable.

²He is liberated forever and all his affairs are perfectly resolved;

³the Lord's Name abides within his heart. ||2||

⁴He is totally peaceful, blissful and healthy;

⁵he looks upon all impartially, and is perfectly detached.

⁶He does not come and go, and he never wavers;

⁷the Naam abides in his mind. ||3||

⁸God is Merciful to the meek; He is the Lord of the World, the Lord of the Universe.

⁹The Gurmukh meditates on Him, and his worries are gone.

¹⁰The Guru has blessed Nanak with the Naam;

¹¹he serves the Saints, and works for the Saints. ||4||15||26||

¹²Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

¹³Sing the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises, and the Beej Mantra, the Seed Mantra.

¹⁴Even the homeless find a home in the world hereafter.

¹⁵Fall at the feet of the Perfect Guru;

¹⁶you have slept for so many incarnations - wake up! ||1||

¹⁷Chant the Chant of the Lord's Name, Har, Har.

¹⁸By Guru's Grace, it shall be enshrined within your heart, and you shall cross over the terrifying world-ocean. ||1||Pause||

¹⁹Meditate on the eternal treasure of the Naam, the Name of the Lord, O mind,

²⁰and then, the screen of Maya shall be torn away.

²¹Drink in the Ambrosial Nectar of the Guru's Shabad,

²²and then your soul shall be rendered immaculate and pure. ||2||

²³Searching, searching, searching, I have realized

²⁴that without devotional worship of the Lord, no one is saved.

²⁵So vibrate, and meditate on that Lord in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy;

²⁶your mind and body shall be imbued with love for the Lord. ||3||

²⁷Renounce all your cleverness and trickery.

²⁸O mind, without the Lord's Name, there is no place of rest.

²⁹The Lord of the Universe, the Lord of the World, has taken pity on me.

³⁰Nanak seeks the protection and support of the Lord, Har, Har. ||4||16||27||

³¹Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

³²In the Saints' Congregation, play joyfully with the Lord,

³³and you will not have to meet the Messenger of Death hereafter.

³⁴Your egotistical intellect shall be dispelled,

³⁵and your evil-mindedness will be totally taken away. ||1||

³⁶Sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord's Name, O Pandit.

³⁷Religious rituals and egotism are of no use at all. You shall go home with happiness, O Pandit. ||1||Pause||

³⁸I have earned the profit, the wealth of the Lord's praise.

³⁹All my hopes have been fulfilled.

⁴⁰Pain has left me, and peace has come to my home.

⁴¹By the Grace of the Saints, my heart-lotus blossoms forth. ||2||

⁴²One who is blessed with the gift of the jewel of the Name,

⁴³obtains all treasures.

⁴⁴His mind becomes content, finding the Perfect Lord.

⁴⁵Why should he ever go begging again? ||3||

⁴⁶Hearing the Lord's sermon, he becomes pure and holy.

⁴⁷Chanting it with his tongue, he finds the way to salvation.

⁴⁸He alone is approved, who enshrines the Lord within his heart.

⁴⁹Nanak: such a humble being is exalted, O Siblings of Destiny. ||4||17||28||

⁵⁰Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

⁵¹No matter how hard you try to grab it, it does not come into your hands.

⁵²No matter how much you may love it, it does not go along with you.

⁵³Says Nanak, when you abandon it,

⁵⁴then it comes and falls at your feet. ||1||

⁵⁵Listen, O Saints: this is the pure philosophy.

⁵⁶Without the Lord's Name, there is no salvation. Meeting with the Perfect Guru, one is saved. ||1||Pause||

¹When someone tries to appease her,

²then she takes pride in herself.

³But when someone puts her out of his thoughts,

⁴then she serves him like a slave. ||2||

⁵She seems to please, but in the end, she deceives.

⁶She does not remain in any one place.

⁷She has bewitched a great many worlds.

⁸The Lord's humble servants cut her apart into pieces. ||3||

⁹Whoever begs from her remains hungry.

¹⁰Whoever is infatuated with her obtains nothing.

¹¹But one who renounces her, and joins the Society of the Saints,

¹²by great good fortune, O Nanak, is saved. ||4||18||29||

¹³Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁴See the Lord, the Universal Soul, in all.

¹⁵The One God is perfect, and all-pervading.

¹⁶Know that the priceless jewel is within your own heart.

¹⁷Realize that your essence is within your own self. ||1||

¹⁸Drink in the Ambrosial Nectar, by the Grace of the Saints.

¹⁹One who is blessed with high destiny, obtains it. Without a tongue, how can one know the taste? ||1||Pause||

²⁰How can a deaf person listen to the eighteen Puraanas and the Vedas?

²¹The blind man cannot see even a million lights.

²²The beast loves grass, and remains attached to it.

²³One who has not been taught - how can he understand? ||2||

²⁴God, the Knower, knows all.

²⁵He is with His devotees, through and through.

²⁶Those who sing God's Praises with joy and delight,

²⁷O Nanak - the Messenger of Death does not even approach them. ||3||19||30||

²⁸Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

²⁹Blessing me with His Name, He has purified and sanctified me.

³⁰The Lord's wealth is my capital. False hope has left me; this is my wealth.

³¹Breaking my bonds, the Lord has linked me to His service.

³²I am a devotee of the Lord, Har, Har; I sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||1||

³³The unstruck sound current vibrates and resounds.

³⁴The Lord's humble servants sing His Glorious Praises with love and delight; they are honored by the Divine Guru. ||1||Pause||

³⁵My pre-ordained destiny has been activated;

³⁶I have awakened from the sleep of countless incarnations.

³⁷In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, my aversion is gone.

³⁸My mind and body are imbued with love for the Lord. ||2||

³⁹The Merciful Savior Lord has saved me.

⁴⁰I have no service or work to my credit.

⁴¹In His Mercy, God has taken pity on me;

⁴²He lifted me up and pulled me out, when I was suffering in pain. ||3||

⁴³Listening, listening to His Praises, joy has welled up within my mind.

⁴⁴Twenty-four hours a day, I sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord.

⁴⁵Singing, singing His Praises, I have obtained the supreme status.

⁴⁶By Guru's Grace, Nanak is lovingly focused on the Lord. ||4||20||31||

⁴⁷Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

⁴⁸In exchange for a shell, he gives up a jewel.

⁴⁹He tries to get what he must give up.

⁵⁰He collects those things which are worthless.

⁵¹Enticed by Maya, he takes the crooked path. ||1||

⁵²You unfortunate man - have you no shame?

⁵³You do not remember in your mind the ocean of peace, the perfect Transcendent Lord God. ||1||Pause||

⁵⁴Nectar seems bitter to you, and poison is sweet.

⁵⁵Such is your condition, you faithless cynic, which I have seen with my own eyes.

⁵⁶You are fond of falsehood, fraud and egotism.

¹If you hear the Naam, the Name of the Lord, you feel like you have been stung by a scorpion. ||2||

²You continually yearn for Maya,

³and you never chant the Lord's Praises with your mouth.

⁴The Lord is fearless and formless; He is the Great Giver.

⁵But you do not love Him, you fool! ||3||

⁶God, the True King, is above the heads of all kings.

⁷He is the independent, perfect Lord King.

⁸People are intoxicated by emotional attachment, entangled in doubt and family life.

⁹Nanak: they are saved only by Your Mercy, Lord. ||4||21||32||

¹⁰Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

¹¹Night and day, I chant the Lord's Name.

¹²Hereafter, I shall obtain a seat in the Court of the Lord.

¹³I am in bliss forever; I have no sorrow.

¹⁴The disease of ego never afflicts me. ||1||

¹⁵O Saints of the Lord, seek out those who know God.

¹⁶You shall be wonderstruck with wonder at the wonderful Lord; meditate in remembrance on the Lord, O mortal, and obtain the supreme status. ||1||Pause||

¹⁷Calculating, measuring, and thinking in every way,

¹⁸see that without the Naam, no one can be carried across.

¹⁹Of all your efforts, none will go along with you.

²⁰You can cross over the terrifying world-ocean only through the love of God. ||2||

²¹By merely washing the body, one's filth is not removed.

²²Afflicted by egotism, duality only increases.

²³That humble being who takes the medicine of the Name of the Lord, Har, Har

²⁴- all his diseases are eradicated. ||3||

²⁵Take pity on me, O merciful, Supreme Lord God;

²⁶let me never forget the Lord of the World from my mind.

²⁷Let me be the dust of the feet of Your slaves;

²⁸O God, please fulfill Nanak's hope. ||4||22||33||

²⁹Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

³⁰You are my Protection, O perfect Divine Guru.

³¹There is no other than You.

³²You are all-powerful, O perfect Supreme Lord God.

³³He alone meditates on You, whose karma is perfect. ||1||

³⁴You Name, God, is the boat to carry us across.

³⁵My mind has grasped Your protection alone. Other than You, I have no place of rest at all. ||1||Pause||

³⁶Chanting, meditating on Your Name, I live,

³⁷and hereafter, I will obtain a seat in the Court of the Lord.

³⁸Pain and darkness are gone from my mind;

³⁹my evil-mindedness is dispelled, and I am absorbed in the Lord's Name. ||2||

⁴⁰I have enshrined love for the Lord's lotus feet.

⁴¹The lifestyle of the Perfect Guru is immaculate and pure.

⁴²My fear has run away, and the fearless Lord dwells within my mind.

⁴³My tongue continually chants the Ambrosial Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||3||

⁴⁴The nooses of millions of incarnations are cut away.

⁴⁵I have obtained the profit of the true wealth.

⁴⁶This treasure is inexhaustible; it will never run out.

⁴⁷O Nanak, the devotees look beautiful in the Court of the Lord. ||4||23||34||

⁴⁸Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

⁴⁹The Naam, the Name of the Lord, is a jewel, a ruby.

⁵⁰It brings Truth, contentment and spiritual wisdom.

⁵¹The Lord entrusts the treasures of peace,

⁵²This is the treasure of my Lord.

⁵³Consuming and expending it, it is never used up. The Lord has no end or limitation. ||1||Pause||

⁵⁴The Kirtan of the Lord's Praise is a priceless diamond.

⁵⁵It is the ocean of bliss and virtue.

⁵⁶In the Word of the Guru's Bani is the wealth of the unstruck sound current.

⁵⁷The Saints hold the key to it in their hands. ||2||

¹They sit there, in the cave of deep Samaadhi;

²the unique, perfect Lord God dwells there.

³God holds conversations with His devotees.

⁴There is no pleasure or pain, no birth or death there. ||3||

⁵One whom the Lord Himself blesses with His Mercy,

⁶obtains the Lord's wealth in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy.

⁷Nanak prays to the merciful Primal Lord;

⁸the Lord is my merchandise, and the Lord is my capital. ||4||24||35||

⁹Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁰The Vedas do not know His greatness.

¹¹Brahma does not know His mystery.

¹²Incarnated beings do not know His limit.

¹³The Transcendent Lord, the Supreme Lord God, is infinite. ||1||

¹⁴Only He Himself knows His own state.

¹⁵Others speak of Him only by hearsay. ||1||Pause||

¹⁶Shiva does not know His mystery.

¹⁷The gods gave grown weary of searching for Him.

¹⁸The goddesses do not know His mystery.

¹⁹Above all is the unseen, Supreme Lord God. ||2||

²⁰The Creator Lord plays His own plays.

²¹He Himself separates, and He Himself unites.

²²Some wander around, while others are linked to His devotional worship.

²³By His actions, He makes Himself known. ||3||

²⁴Listen to the true story of the Saints.

²⁵They speak only of what they see with their eyes.

²⁶He is not involved with virtue or vice.

²⁷Nanak's God is Himself all-in-all. ||4||25||36||

²⁸Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

²⁹I have not tried to do anything through knowledge.

³⁰I have no knowledge, intelligence or spiritual wisdom.

³¹I have not practiced chanting, deep meditation, humility or righteousness.

³²I know nothing of such good karma. ||1||

³³O my Beloved God, my Lord and Master,

³⁴there is none other than You. Even though I wander and make mistakes, I am still Yours, God. ||1||Pause||

³⁵I have no wealth, no intelligence, no miraculous spiritual powers; I am not enlightened.

³⁶I dwell in the village of corruption and sickness.

³⁷O my One Creator Lord God,

³⁸Your Name is the support of my mind. ||2||

³⁹Hearing, hearing Your Name, I live; this is my mind's consolation.

⁴⁰Your Name, God, is the Destroyer of sins.

⁴¹You, O Limitless Lord, are the Giver of the soul.

⁴²He alone knows You, unto whom You reveal Yourself. ||3||

⁴³Whoever has been created, rests his hopes in You.

⁴⁴All worship and adore You, God, O treasure of excellence.

⁴⁵Slave Nanak is a sacrifice to You.

⁴⁶My merciful Lord and Master is infinite. ||4||26||37||

⁴⁷Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

⁴⁸The Savior Lord is merciful.

⁴⁹Millions of incarnations are eradicated in an instant, contemplating the Lord.

⁵⁰All beings worship and adore Him.

⁵¹Receiving the Guru's Mantra, one meets God. ||1||

⁵²My God is the Giver of souls.

⁵³The Perfect Transcendent Lord Master, my God, imbues each and every heart. ||1||Pause||

⁵⁴My mind has grasped His Support.

⁵⁵My bonds have been shattered.

⁵⁶Within my heart, I meditate on the Lord, the embodiment of supreme bliss.

⁵⁷My mind is filled with ecstasy. ||2||

⁵⁸The Lord's Sanctuary is the boat to carry us across.

⁵⁹The Lord's Feet are the embodiment of life itself.

¹They are the Support of the breath of life of the Saints.

²God is infinite, the highest of the high. ||3||

³That mind is excellent and sublime, which meditates in remembrance on the Lord.

⁴In His Mercy, the Lord Himself bestows it.

⁵Peace, intuitive poise and bliss are found in the Lord's Name.

⁶Meeting with the Guru, Nanak chants the Name. ||4||27||38||

⁷Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

⁸Abandon all your clever tricks.

⁹Become His servant, and serve Him.

¹⁰Totally erase your self-conceit.

¹¹You shall obtain the fruits of your mind's desires. ||1||

¹²Be awake and aware with your Guru.

¹³Your hopes and desires shall be fulfilled, and you shall obtain all treasures from the Guru. ||1||Pause||

¹⁴Let no one think that God and Guru are separate.

¹⁵The True Guru is the Immaculate Lord.

¹⁶Do not believe that He is a mere human being;

¹⁷He gives honor to the dishonored. ||2||

¹⁸Hold tight to the Support of the Guru, the Lord.

¹⁹Give up all other hopes.

²⁰Ask for the treasure of the Name of the Lord,

²¹and then you shall be honored in the Court of the Lord. ||3||

²²Chant the Mantra of the Guru's Word.

²³This is the essence of true devotional worship.

²⁴When the True Guru becomes merciful,

²⁵slave Nanak is enraptured. ||4||28||39||

²⁶Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

²⁷Whatever happens, accept that as good.

²⁸Leave your egotistical pride behind.

²⁹Day and night, continually sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord.

³⁰This is the perfect purpose of human life. ||1||

³¹Meditate on the Lord, O Saints, and be in bliss.

³²Renounce your cleverness and all your tricks. Chant the Immaculate Chant of the Guru's Mantra. ||1||Pause||

³³Place the hopes of your mind in the One Lord.

³⁴Chant the Immaculate Name of the Lord, Har, Har.

³⁵Bow down to the Guru's Feet,

³⁶and cross over the terrifying world-ocean. ||2||

³⁷The Lord God is the Great Giver.

³⁸He has no end or limitation.

³⁹All treasures are in His home.

⁴⁰He will be your Saving Grace in the end. ||3||

⁴¹Nanak has obtained this treasure,

⁴²the immaculate Name of the Lord, Har, Har.

⁴³Whoever chants it, is emancipated.

⁴⁴It is obtained only by His Grace. ||4||29||40||

⁴⁵Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

⁴⁶Make this invaluable human life fruitful.

⁴⁷You shall not be destroyed when you go to the Lord's Court.

⁴⁸In this world and the next, you shall obtain honor and glory.

⁴⁹At the very last moment, He will save you. ||1||

⁵⁰Sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord.

⁵¹In both this world and the next, you shall be embellished with beauty, meditating on the wondrous Primal Lord God. ||1||Pause||

⁵²While standing up and sitting down, meditate on the Lord,

⁵³and all your troubles shall depart.

⁵⁴All your enemies will become friends.

⁵⁵Your consciousness shall be immaculate and pure. ||2||

⁵⁶This is the most exalted deed.

⁵⁷Of all faiths, this is the most sublime and excellent faith.

⁵⁸Meditating in remembrance on the Lord, you shall be saved.

⁵⁹You shall be rid of the burden of countless incarnations. ||3||

⁶⁰Your hopes shall be fulfilled,

⁶¹and the noose of the Messenger of Death will be cut away.

⁶²So listen to the Guru's Teachings.

⁶³O Nanak, you shall be absorbed in celestial peace. ||4||30||41||

¹Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

²Honor the One, to whom everything belongs.

³Leave your egotistical pride behind.

⁴You belong to Him; everyone belongs to Him.

⁵Worship and adore Him, and you shall be at peace forever. ||1||

⁶Why do you wander in doubt, you fool?

⁷Without the Naam, the Name of the Lord, nothing is of any use at all. Crying out, 'Mine, mine', a great many have departed, regretfully repenting. ||1||Pause||

⁸Whatever the Lord has done, accept that as good.

⁹Without accepting, you shall mingle with dust.

¹⁰His Will seems sweet to me.

¹¹By Guru's Grace, He comes to dwell in the mind. ||2||

¹²He Himself is carefree and independent, imperceptible.

¹³Twenty-four hours a day, O mind, meditate on Him.

¹⁴When He comes into the consciousness, pain is dispelled.

¹⁵Here and hereafter, your face shall be radiant and bright. ||3||

¹⁶Who, and how many have been saved, singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord?

¹⁷They cannot be counted or evaluated.

¹⁸Even the sinking iron is saved, in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy,

¹⁹O Nanak, as His Grace is received. ||4||31||42||

²⁰Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

²¹In your mind, meditate on the Lord God.

²²This is the Teaching given by the Perfect Guru.

²³All fears and terrors are taken away,

²⁴and your hopes shall be fulfilled. ||1||

²⁵Service to the Divine Guru is fruitful and rewarding.

²⁶His value cannot be described; the True Lord is unseen and mysterious. ||1||Pause||

²⁷He Himself is the Doer, the Cause of causes.

²⁸Meditate on Him forever, O my mind,

²⁹You shall be blessed with truth, intuition and peace, O my friend. ||2||

³⁰My Lord and Master is so very great.

³¹In an instant, He establishes and disestablishes.

³²There is no other than Him.

³³He is the Saving Grace of His humble servant. ||3||

³⁴Please take pity on me, and hear my prayer,

³⁵that Your servant may behold the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan.

³⁶Nanak chants the Chant of the Lord,

³⁷whose glory and radiance are the highest of all. ||4||32||43||

³⁸Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

³⁹Reliance on mortal man is useless.

⁴⁰O God, my Lord and Master, You are my only Support.

⁴¹I have discarded all other hopes.

⁴²I have met with my carefree Lord and Master, the treasure of virtue. ||1||

⁴³Meditate on the Name of the Lord alone, O my mind.

⁴⁴Your affairs shall be perfectly resolved; sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord, Har, Har, Har, O my mind. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁵You are the Doer, the Cause of causes.

⁴⁶Your lotus feet, Lord, are my Sanctuary.

⁴⁷I meditate on the Lord in my mind and body.

⁴⁸The blissful Lord has revealed His form to me. ||2||

⁴⁹I seek His eternal support;

⁵⁰He is the Creator of all beings.

⁵¹Remembering the Lord in meditation, the treasure is obtained.

⁵²At the very last instant, He shall be your Savior. ||3||

⁵³Be the dust of all men's feet.

⁵⁴Eradicate self-conceit, and merge in the Lord.

⁵⁵Night and day, meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

⁵⁶O Nanak, this is the most rewarding activity. ||4||33||44||

⁵⁷Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

⁵⁸He is the Doer, the Cause of causes, the bountiful Lord.

⁵⁹The merciful Lord cherishes all.

⁶⁰The Lord is unseen and infinite.

⁶¹God is great and endless. ||1||

¹I humbly pray to invoke the Universal Lord God, the Lord of the World.

²The Creator Lord is all-pervading, everywhere. ||1||Pause||

³He is the Lord of the Universe, the Life of the World.

⁴Within your heart, worship and adore the Destroyer of fear.

⁵The Master Rishi of the senses, Lord of the World, Lord of the Universe.

⁶He is perfect, ever-present everywhere, the Liberator. ||2||

⁷You are the One and only merciful Master,

⁸spiritual teacher, prophet, religious teacher.

⁹Master of hearts, Dispenser of justice,

¹⁰more sacred than the Koran and the Bible. ||3||

¹¹The Lord is powerful and merciful.

¹²The all-pervading Lord is the support of each and every heart.

¹³The luminous Lord dwells everywhere.

¹⁴His play cannot be known. ||4||

¹⁵Be kind and compassionate to me, O Creator Lord.

¹⁶Bless me with devotion and meditation, O Lord Creator.

¹⁷Says Nanak, the Guru has rid me of doubt.

¹⁸The Muslim God Allah and the Hindu God Paarbrahm are one and the same. ||5||34||45||

¹⁹Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

²⁰The sins of millions of incarnations are eradicated.

²¹Meditating on the Lord, Har, Har, pain will not afflict you.

²²When the Lord's lotus feet are enshrined in the mind,

²³all terrible evils are taken away from the body. ||1||

²⁴Sing the Praise of the Lord of the World, O mortal being.

²⁵The Unspoken Speech of the True Lord God is perfect. Dwelling upon it, one's light merges into the Light. ||1||Pause||

²⁶Hunger and thirst are totally quenched;

²⁷by the Grace of the Saints, meditate on the immortal Lord.

²⁸Night and day, serve God.

²⁹This is the sign that one has met with the Lord. ||2||

³⁰Worldly entanglements are ended, when God becomes merciful.

³¹Gazing upon the Blessed Vision of the Guru's Darshan, I am enraptured.

³²My perfect pre-destined karma has been activated.

³³With my tongue, I continually sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||3||

³⁴The Saints of the Lord are accepted and approved forever.

³⁵The foreheads of the Saintly people are marked with the Lord's insignia.

³⁶One who is blessed with the dust of the feet of the Lord's slave,

³⁷O Nanak, obtains the supreme status. ||4||35||46||

³⁸Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

³⁹Let yourself be a sacrifice to the Blessed Vision of the Lord's Darshan.

⁴⁰Focus your heart's meditation on the Lord's lotus feet.

⁴¹Apply the dust of the feet of the Saints to your forehead,

⁴²and the filthy evil-mindedness of countless incarnations will be washed off. ||1||

⁴³Meeting Him, egotistical pride is eradicated,

⁴⁴and you will come to see the Supreme Lord God in all. The Perfect Lord God has showered His Mercy. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁵This is the Guru's Praise, to chant the Name of the Lord.

⁴⁶This is devotion to the Guru, to sing forever the Glorious Praises of the Lord.

⁴⁷This is contemplation upon the Guru, to know that the Lord is close at hand.

⁴⁸Accept the Word of the Guru's Shabad as Truth. ||2||

⁴⁹Through the Word of the Guru's Teachings, look upon pleasure and pain as one and the same.

⁵⁰Hunger and thirst shall never afflict you.

⁵¹The mind becomes content and satisfied through the Word of the Guru's Shabad.

⁵²Meditate on the Lord of the Universe, and He will cover all your faults. ||3||

⁵³The Guru is the Supreme Lord God; the Guru is the Lord of the Universe.

⁵⁴The Guru is the Great Giver, merciful and forgiving.

⁵⁵One whose mind is attached to the Guru's feet,

⁵⁶O slave Nanak, is blessed with perfect destiny. ||4||36||47||

¹Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

²What supports you in this world?

³You ignorant fool, who is your companion?

⁴The Lord is your only companion; no one knows His condition.

⁵You look upon the five thieves as your friends. ||1||

⁶Serve that home, which will save you, my friend.

⁷Chant the Glorious Praises of the Lord of the Universe, day and night; in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, love Him in your mind. ||1||Pause||

⁸This human life is passing away in egotism and conflict.

⁹You are not satisfied; such is the flavor of sin.

¹⁰Wandering and roaming around, you suffer terrible pain.

¹¹You cannot cross over the impassable sea of Maya. ||2||

¹²You do the deeds which do not help you at all.

¹³As you plant, so shall you harvest.

¹⁴There is none other than the Lord to save you.

¹⁵You will be saved, only if God grants His Grace. ||3||

¹⁶Your Name, God, is the Purifier of sinners.

¹⁷Please bless Your slave with that gift.

¹⁸Please grant Your Grace, God, and emancipate me.

¹⁹Nanak has grasped Your Sanctuary, God. ||4||37||48||

²⁰Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

²¹I have found peace in this world.

²²I will not have to appear before the Righteous Judge of Dharma to give my account.

²³I will be respected in the Court of the Lord,

²⁴and I will not have to enter the womb of reincarnation ever again. ||1||

²⁵Now, I know the value of friendship with the Saints.

²⁶In His Mercy, the Lord has blessed me with His Name. My pre-ordained destiny has been fulfilled. ||1||Pause||

²⁷My consciousness is attached to the Guru's feet.

²⁸Blessed, blessed is this fortunate time of union.

²⁹I have applied the dust of the Saints' feet to my forehead,

³⁰and all my sins and pains have been eradicated. ||2||

³¹Performing true service to the Holy,

³²the mortal's mind is purified.

³³I have seen the fruitful vision of the Lord's humble slave.

³⁴God's Name dwells within each and every heart. ||3||

³⁵All my troubles and sufferings have been taken away;

³⁶I have merged into the One, from whom I originated.

³⁷The Lord of the Universe, incomparably beautiful, has become merciful.

³⁸O Nanak, God is perfect and forgiving. ||4||38||49||

³⁹Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

⁴⁰The tiger leads the cow to the pasture,

⁴¹the shell is worth thousands of dollars,

⁴²and the elephant nurses the goat,

⁴³when God bestows His Glance of Grace. ||1||

⁴⁴You are the treasure of mercy, O my Beloved Lord God.

⁴⁵I cannot even describe Your many Glorious Virtues. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁶The cat sees the meat, but does not eat it,

⁴⁷and the great butcher throws away his knife;

⁴⁸the Creator Lord God abides in the heart;

⁴⁹the net holding the fish breaks apart. ||2||

⁵⁰The dry wood blossoms forth in greenery and red flowers;

⁵¹in the high desert, the beautiful lotus flower blooms.

⁵²The Divine True Guru puts out the fire.

⁵³He links His servant to His service. ||3||

⁵⁴He saves even the ungrateful;

⁵⁵my God is forever merciful.

⁵⁶He is forever the helper and support of the humble Saints.

⁵⁷Nanak has found the Sanctuary of His lotus feet. ||4||39||50||

⁵⁸Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

¹God killed the five tigers.

²He has driven out the ten wolves.

³The three whirl-pools have stopped spinning.

⁴In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, the fear of reincarnation is gone. ||1||

⁵Meditating, meditating in remembrance on the Lord of the Universe, I live.

⁶In His Mercy, He protects His slave; the True Lord is forever and ever the forgiver. ||1||Pause||

⁷The mountain of sin is burnt down, like straw,

⁸by chanting and meditating on the Name, and worshipping God's feet.

⁹God, the embodiment of bliss, becomes manifest everywhere.

¹⁰Linked to His loving devotional worship, I enjoy peace. ||2||

¹¹I have crossed over the world-ocean, as if it were no bigger than a calf's footprint on the ground.

¹²I shall never again have to endure suffering or grief.

¹³The ocean is contained in the pitcher.

¹⁴This is not such an amazing thing for the Creator to do. ||3||

¹⁵When I am separated from Him, then I am consigned to the nether regions.

¹⁶When He lifts me up and pulls me out, then I am enraptured by His Glance of Grace.

¹⁷Vice and virtue are not under my control.

¹⁸With love and affection, Nanak sings His Glorious Praises. ||4||40||51||

¹⁹Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

²⁰Neither your body nor your mind belong to you.

²¹Attached to Maya, you are entangled in fraud.

²²You play like a baby lamb.

²³But suddenly, Death will catch you in its noose. ||1||

²⁴Seek the Sanctuary of the Lord's lotus feet, O my mind.

²⁵Chant the Name of the Lord, which will be your help and support. As Gurmukh, you shall obtain the true wealth. ||1||Pause||

²⁶Your unfinished worldly affairs will never be resolved.

²⁷You shall always regret your sexual desire, anger and pride.

²⁸You act in corruption in order to survive,

²⁹but not even an iota will go along with you, you ignorant fool! ||2||

³⁰You practice deception, and you know many tricks;

³¹for the sake of mere shells, you throw dust upon your head.

³²You never even think of the One who gave you life.

³³The pain of false greed never leaves you. ||3||

³⁴When the Supreme Lord God becomes merciful,

³⁵this mind becomes the dust of the feet of the Holy.

³⁶With His lotus hands, He has attached us to the hem of His robe.

³⁷Nanak merges in the Truest of the True. ||4||41||52||

³⁸Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

³⁹I seek the Sanctuary of the Sovereign Lord.

⁴⁰I have become fearless, singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord of the Universe. In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, my pains have been taken away. ||1||Pause||

⁴¹That person, within whose mind the Lord abides,

⁴²does not see the impassible world-ocean.

⁴³All one's affairs are resolved,

⁴⁴by chanting continually the Name of the Lord, Har, Har. ||1||

⁴⁵Why should His slave feel any anxiety?

⁴⁶The fear of birth and death is dispelled;

⁴⁷I am a sacrifice to the Perfect Guru. ||2||

⁴⁸I am enraptured, meeting with the Guru, the Transcendent Lord.

⁴⁹He alone obtains the Blessed Vision of the Lord's Darshan, who is blessed by His Mercy.

⁵⁰One who is blessed by the Grace of the Supreme Lord God,

⁵¹crosses over the terrifying world-ocean in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy. ||3||

⁵²Drink in the Ambrosial Nectar, O Beloved Holy people.

⁵³Your face shall be radiant and bright in the Court of the Lord.

⁵⁴Celebrate and be blissful, and abandon all corruption.

⁵⁵O Nanak, meditate on the Lord and cross over. ||4||42||53||

¹Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

²The fire runs away from the fuel.

³The water runs away from the dust in all directions.

⁴The feet are above, and the sky is beneath.

⁵The ocean appears in the cup. ||1||

⁶Such is our all-powerful dear Lord.

⁷His devotees do not forget Him, even for an instant. Twenty-four hours a day, O mind, meditate on Him. ||1||Pause||

⁸First comes the butter, and then the milk.

⁹The dirt cleans the soap.

¹⁰The fearless are afraid of fear.

¹¹The living are killed by the dead. ||2||

¹²The visible body is hidden, and the etheric body is seen.

¹³The Lord of the world does all these things.

¹⁴The one who is cheated, is not cheated by the cheat.

¹⁵With no merchandise, the trader trades again and again. ||3||

¹⁶So join the Society of the Saints, and chant the Lord's Name.

¹⁷So say the Simritees, Shaastras, Vedas and Puraanas.

¹⁸Rare are those who contemplate and meditate on God.

¹⁹O Nanak, they attain the supreme status. ||4||43||54||

²⁰Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

²¹Whatever pleases Him happens.

²²Forever and ever, I seek the Sanctuary of the Lord.There is none other than God. ||1||Pause||

²³You look upon your children, spouse and wealth; none of these will go along with you.

²⁴Eating the poisonous potion, you have gone astray. You will have to go, and leave Maya and your mansions. ||1||

²⁵Slandering others, you are totally ruined; because of your past actions, you shall be consigned to the womb of reincarnation.

²⁶Your past actions will not just go away; the most horrible Messenger of Death shall seize you. ||2||

²⁷You tell lies, and do not practice what you preach. Your desires are not satisfied - what a shame.

²⁸You have contracted an incurable disease; slandering the Saints, your body is wasting away; you are utterly ruined. ||3||

²⁹He embellishes those whom He has fashioned. He Himself gave life to the Saints.

³⁰O Nanak, He hugs His slaves close in His Embrace. Please grant Your Grace, O Supreme Lord God, and be kind to me as well. ||4||44||55||

³¹Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

³²Such is the Perfect Divine Guru, my help and support.

³³Meditation on Him is not wasted. ||1||Pause||

³⁴Gazing upon the Blessed Vision of His Darshan, I am enraptured.

³⁵The dust of His feet snaps the noose of Death.

³⁶His lotus feet dwell within my mind,

³⁷and so all the affairs of my body are arranged and resolved. ||1||

³⁸One upon whom He places His Hand, is protected.

³⁹My God is the Master of the masterless.

⁴⁰He is the Savior of sinners, the treasure of mercy.

⁴¹Forever and ever, I am a sacrifice to Him. ||2||

⁴²One whom He blesses with His Immaculate Mantra,

⁴³renounces corruption; his egotistical pride is dispelled.

⁴⁴Meditate on the One Lord in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy.

⁴⁵Sins are erased, through the love of the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||3||

⁴⁶The Guru, the Transcendent Lord, dwells among all.

⁴⁷The treasure of virtue pervades and permeates each and every heart.

⁴⁸Please grant me the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan;

⁴⁹O God, I place my hopes in You. Nanak continually offers this true prayer. ||4||45||56||

¹Raag Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl, Second House, Dho-Padhay:

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

³Sing the songs of Praise of the Lord.

⁴Chanting the Naam, the Name of the Lord, total peace is obtained; coming and going is ended, my friend. ||1||Pause||

⁵Singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord, one is enlightened,

⁶and comes to dwell in His lotus feet. ||1||

⁷In the Society of the Saints, one is saved.

⁸O Nanak, he crosses over the terrifying world-ocean. ||2||1||57||

⁹Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁰My Guru is perfect, my Guru is perfect.

¹¹Chanting the Lord's Name, I am always at peace; all my illness and fraud is dispelled. ||1||Pause||

¹²Worship and adore that One Lord alone.

¹³In His Sanctuary, eternal peace is obtained. ||1||

¹⁴One who feels hunger for the Naam sleeps in peace.

¹⁵Meditating in remembrance on the Lord, all pains are dispelled. ||2||

¹⁶Enjoy celestial bliss, O my Siblings of Destiny.

¹⁷The Perfect Guru has eradicated all anxiety. ||3||

¹⁸Twenty-four hours a day, chant God's Chant.

¹⁹O Nanak, He Himself shall save you. ||4||2||58||

²⁰Raag Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl, Partaal, Third House:

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

²²I humbly bow to the Lord, the Supreme Being.

²³The One, the One and Only Creator Lord permeates the water, the land, the earth and the sky. ||1||Pause||

²⁴Over and over again, the Creator Lord destroys, sustains and creates.

²⁵He has no home; He needs no nourishment. ||1||

²⁶The Naam, the Name of the Lord, is deep and profound, strong, poised, lofty, exalted and infinite.

²⁷He stages His plays; His Virtues are priceless. Nanak is a sacrifice to Him. ||2||1||59||

²⁸Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

²⁹You must abandon your beauty, pleasures, fragrances and enjoyments; beguiled by gold and sexual desire, you must still leave Maya behind. ||1||Pause||

³⁰You gaze upon billions and trillions of treasures and riches, which delight and comfort your mind,

³¹but these will not go along with you. ||1||

³²Entangled with children, spouse, siblings and friends, you are enticed and fooled; these pass like the shadow of a tree.

³³Nanak seeks the Sanctuary of His lotus feet; He has found peace in the faith of the Saints. ||2||2||60||

³⁴One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

³⁵Raag Raamkalee, Ninth Mehl, Thi-Padhay:

³⁶O mind, take the sheltering support of the Lord's Name.

³⁷Remembering Him in meditation, evil-mindedness is dispelled, and the state of Nirvaanaa is obtained. ||1||Pause||

³⁸Know that one who sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord is very fortunate.

³⁹The sins of countless incarnations are washed off, and he attains the heavenly realm. ||1||

¹At the very last moment, Ajaamal became aware of the Lord;

²that state which even the supreme Yogis desire - he attained that state in an instant. ||2||

³The elephant had no virtue and no knowledge; what religious rituals has he performed?

⁴O Nanak, behold the way of the Lord, who bestowed the gift of fearlessness. ||3||1||

⁵Raamkalee, Ninth Mehl:

⁶Holy people: what way should I now adopt,

⁷by which all evil-mindedness may be dispelled, and the mind may vibrate in devotional worship to the Lord? ||1||Pause||

⁸My mind is entangled in Maya; it knows nothing at all of spiritual wisdom.

⁹What is that Name, by which the world, contemplating it, might attain the state of Nirvaanaa? ||1||

¹⁰When the Saints became kind and compassionate, they told me this.

¹¹Understand, that whoever sings the Kirtan of God's Praises, has performed all religious rituals. ||2||

¹²One who enshrines the Lord's Name in his heart night and day - even for an instant

¹³- has his fear of Death eradicated. O Nanak, his life is approved and fulfilled. ||3||2||

¹⁴Raamkalee, Ninth Mehl:

¹⁵O mortal, focus your thoughts on the Lord.

¹⁶Moment by moment, your life is running out; night and day, your body is passing away in vain. ||1||Pause||

¹⁷You have wasted your youth in corrupt pleasures, and your childhood in ignorance.

¹⁸You have grown old, and even now, you do not understand, the evil-mindedness in which you are entangled. ||1||

¹⁹Why have you forgotten your Lord and Master, who blessed you with this human life?

²⁰Remembering Him in meditation, one is liberated. And yet, you do not sing His Praises, even for an instant. ||2||

²¹Why are you intoxicated with Maya? It will not go along with you.

²²Says Nanak, think of Him, remember Him in your mind. He is the Fulfiller of desires, who will be your help and support in the end. ||3||3||81||

²³Raamkalee, First Mehl, Ashtpadheeyaa:

²⁴One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

²⁵The same moon rises, and the same stars; the same sun shines in the sky.

²⁶The earth is the same, and the same wind blows. The age in which we dwell affects living beings, but not these places. ||1||

²⁷Give up your attachment to life.

²⁸Those who act like tyrants are accepted and approved - recognize that this is the sign of the Dark Age of Kali Yuga. ||1||Pause||

²⁹Kali Yuga has not been heard to have come to any country, or to be sitting at any sacred shrine.

³⁰It is not where the generous person gives to charities, nor seated in the mansion he has built. ||2||

³¹If someone practices Truth, he is frustrated; prosperity does not come to the home of the sincere.

³²If someone chants the Lord's Name, he is scorned. These are the signs of Kali Yuga. ||3||

³³Whoever is in charge, is humiliated. Why should the servant be afraid,

³⁴when the master is put in chains? He dies at the hands of his servant. ||4||

¹Chant the Praises of the Lord; Kali Yuga has come.

²The justice of the previous three ages is gone. One obtains virtue, only if the Lord bestows it. ||1||Pause||

³In this turbulent age of Kali Yuga, Muslim law decides the cases, and the blue-robed Qazi is the judge.

⁴The Guru's Bani has taken the place of Brahma's Veda, and the singing of the Lord's Praises are good deeds. ||5||

⁵Worship without faith; self-discipline without truthfulness; the ritual of the sacred thread without chastity - what good are these?

⁶You may bathe and wash, and apply a ritualistic tilak mark to your forehead, but without inner purity, there is no understanding. ||6||

⁷In Kali Yuga, the Koran and the Bible have become famous.

⁸The Pandit's scriptures and the Puraanas are not respected.

⁹O Nanak, the Lord's Name now is Rehmaan, the Merciful.

¹⁰Know that there is only One Creator of the creation. ||7||

¹¹Nanak has obtained the glorious greatness of the Naam, the Name of the Lord. There is no action higher than this.

¹²If someone goes out to beg for what is already in his own home, then he should be chastised. ||8||1||

¹³Raamkalee, First Mehl:

¹⁴You preach to the world, and set up your house.

¹⁵Abandoning your Yogic postures, how will you find the True Lord?

¹⁶You are attached to possessiveness and the love of sexual pleasure.

¹⁷You are not a renunciate, nor a man of the world. ||1||

¹⁸Yogi, remain seated, and the pain of duality will run away from you.

¹⁹You beg from door to door, and you don't feel ashamed. ||1||Pause||

²⁰You sing the songs, but you do not understand your own self.

²¹How will the burning pain within be relieved?

²²Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, let your mind be absorbed in the Lord's Love,

²³and you will intuitively experience the charity of contemplation. ||2||

²⁴You apply ashes to your body, while acting in hypocrisy.

²⁵Attached to Maya, you will be beaten by Death's heavy club.

²⁶Your begging bowl is broken; it will not hold the charity of the Lord's Love.

²⁷Bound in bondage, you come and go. ||3||

²⁸You do not control your seed and semen, and yet you claim to practice abstinence.

²⁹You beg from Maya, lured by the three qualities.

³⁰You have no compassion; the Lord's Light does not shine in you.

³¹You are drowned, drowned in worldly entanglements. ||4||

³²You wear religious robes, and your patched coat assumes many disguises.

³³You play all sorts of false tricks, like a juggler.

³⁴The fire of anxiety burns brightly within you.

³⁵Without the karma of good actions, how can you cross over? ||5||

³⁶You make ear-rings of glass to wear in your ears.

³⁷But liberation does not come from learning without understanding.

³⁸You are lured by the tastes of the tongue and sex organs.

³⁹You have become a beast; this sign cannot be erased. ||6||

⁴⁰The people of the world are entangled in the three modes; the Yogis are entangled in the three modes.

⁴¹Contemplating the Word of the Shabad, sorrows are dispelled.

⁴²Through the Shabad, one becomes radiant, pure and truthful.

⁴³One who contemplates the true lifestyle is a Yogi. ||7||

⁴⁴The nine treasures are with You, Lord; You are potent, the Cause of causes.

⁴⁵You establish and disestablish; whatever You do, happens.

⁴⁶One who practices celibacy, chastity, self-control, truth and pure consciousness

⁴⁷- O Nanak, that Yogi is the friend of the three worlds. ||8||2||

⁴⁸Raamkalee, First Mehl:

⁴⁹Above the six chakras of the body dwells the detached mind.

⁵⁰Awareness of the vibration of the Word of the Shabad has been awakened deep within.

⁵¹The unstruck melody of the sound current resonates and resounds within; my mind is attuned to it.

⁵²Through the Guru's Teachings, my faith is confirmed in the True Name. ||1||

⁵³O mortal, through devotion to the Lord, peace is obtained.

⁵⁴The Lord, Har, Har, seems sweet to the Gurmukh, who merges in the Name of the Lord, Har, Har. ||1||Pause||

¹Eradicating attachment to Maya, one merges into the Lord.

²Meeting with the True Guru, we unite in His Union.

³The Naam, the Name of the Lord, is a priceless jewel, a diamond.

⁴Attuned to it, the mind is comforted and encouraged. ||2||

⁵The diseases of egotism and possessiveness do not afflict

⁶one who worships the Lord. Fear of the Messenger of Death runs away.

⁷The Messenger of Death, the enemy of the soul, does not touch me at all.

⁸The Immaculate Name of the Lord illuminates my heart. ||3||

⁹Contemplating the Shabad, we become Nirankaari - we come to belong to the Formless Lord God.

¹⁰Awakening to the Guru's Teachings, evil-mindedness is taken away.

¹¹Remaining awake and aware night and day, lovingly focused on the Lord,

¹²one becomes Jivan Mukta - liberated while yet alive. He finds this state deep within himself. ||4||

¹³In the secluded cave, I remain unattached.

¹⁴With the Word of the Shabad, I have killed the five thieves.

¹⁵My mind does not waver or go to the home of any other.

¹⁶I remain intuitively absorbed deep within. ||5||

¹⁷As Gurmukh, I remain awake and aware, unattached.

¹⁸Forever detached, I am woven into the essence of reality.

¹⁹The world is asleep; it dies, and comes and goes in reincarnation.

²⁰Without the Word of the Guru's Shabad, it does not understand. ||6||

²¹The unstruck sound current of the Shabad vibrates day and night.

²²The Gurmukh knows the state of the eternal, unchanging Lord God.

²³When someone realizes the Shabad, then he truly knows.

²⁴The One Lord is permeating and pervading everywhere in Nirvaanaa. ||7||

²⁵My mind is intuitively absorbed in the state of deepest Samaadhi;

²⁶renouncing egotism and greed, I have come to know the One Lord.

²⁷When the disciple's mind accepts the Guru,

²⁸O Nanak, duality is eradicated, and he merges in the Lord. ||8||3||

²⁹Raamkalee, First Mehl:

³⁰You calculate the auspicious days, but you do not understand

³¹that the One Creator Lord is above these auspicious days.

³²He alone knows the way, who meets the Guru.

³³When one follows the Guru's Teachings, then he realizes the Hukam of God's Command. ||1||

³⁴Do not tell lies, O Pandit; O religious scholar, speak the Truth.

³⁵When egotism is eradicated through the Word of the Shabad, then one finds His home. ||1||Pause||

³⁶Calculating and counting, the astrologer draws the horoscope.

³⁷He studies it and announces it, but he does not understand reality.

³⁸Understand, that the Word of the Guru's Shabad is above all.

³⁹Do not speak of anything else; it is all just ashes. ||2||

⁴⁰You bathe, wash, and worship stones.

⁴¹But without being imbued with the Lord, you are the filthiest of the filthy.

⁴²Subduing your pride, you shall receive the supreme wealth of God.

⁴³The mortal is liberated and emancipated, meditating on the Lord. ||3||

⁴⁴You study the arguments, but do not contemplate the Vedas.

⁴⁵You drown yourself - how will you save your ancestors?

⁴⁶How rare is that person who realizes that God is in each and every heart.

⁴⁷When one meets the True Guru, then he understands. ||4||

⁴⁸Making his calculations, cynicism and suffering afflict his soul.

⁴⁹Seeking the Sanctuary of the Guru, peace is found.

⁵⁰I sinned and made mistakes, but now I seek Your Sanctuary.

⁵¹The Guru led me to meet the Lord, according to my past actions. ||5||

⁵²If one does not enter the Guru's Sanctuary, God cannot be found.

⁵³Deluded by doubt, one is born, only to die, and come back again.

⁵⁴Dying in corruption, he is bound and gagged at Death's door.

⁵⁵The Naam, the Name of the Lord, is not in his heart, and he does not act according to the Shabad. ||6||

⁵⁶Some call themselves Pandits, religious scholars and spiritual teachers.

⁵⁷Tinged with double-mindedness, they do not find the Mansion of the Lord's Presence.

¹One who takes the Support of the Naam, by Guru's Grace,

²is a rare person, one among millions, incomparable. ||7||

³One is bad, and another good, but the One True Lord is contained in all.

⁴Understand this, O spiritual teacher, through the support of the True Guru:

⁵rare indeed is that Gurmukh, who realizes the One Lord.

⁶His comings and goings cease, and he merges in the Lord. ||8||

⁷Those who have the One Universal Creator Lord within their hearts,

⁸possess all virtues; they contemplate the True Lord.

⁹One who acts in harmony with the Guru's Will,

¹⁰O Nanak, is absorbed in the Truest of the True. ||9||4||

¹¹Raamkalee, First Mehl:

¹²Practicing restraint by Hatha Yoga, the body wears away.

¹³The mind is not softened by fasting or austerities.

¹⁴Nothing else is equal to worship of the Lord's Name. ||1||

¹⁵Serve the Guru, O mind, and associate with the humble servants of the Lord.

¹⁶The tyrannical Messenger of Death cannot touch you, and the serpent of Maya cannot sting you, when you drink in the sublime essence of the Lord. ||1||Pause||

¹⁷The world reads the arguments, and is softened only by music.

¹⁸In the three modes and corruption, they are born and die.

¹⁹Without the Lord's Name, they endure suffering and pain. ||2||

²⁰The Yogi draws the breath upwards, and opens the Tenth Gate.

²¹He practices inner cleansing and the six rituals of purification.

²²But without the Lord's Name, the breath he draws is useless. ||3||

²³The fire of the five passions burns within him; how can he be calm?

²⁴The thief is within him; how can he taste the taste?

²⁵One who becomes Gurmukh conquers the body-fortress. ||4||

²⁶With filth within, he wanders around at places of pilgrimage.

²⁷His mind is not pure, so what is the use of performing ritual cleansings?

²⁸He carries the karma of his own past actions; who else can he blame? ||5||

²⁹He does not eat food; he tortures his body.

³⁰Without the Guru's wisdom, he is not satisfied.

³¹The self-willed manmukh is born only to die, and be born again. ||6||

³²Go, and ask the True Guru, and associate with the Lord's humble servants.

³³Your mind shall merge into the Lord, and you shall not be reincarnated to die again.

³⁴Without the Lord's Name, what can anyone do? ||7||

³⁵Silence the mouse scurrying around within you.

³⁶Serve the Primal Lord, by chanting the Lord's Name.

³⁷O Nanak, God blesses us with His Name, when He grants His Grace. ||8||5||

³⁸Raamkalee, First Mehl:

³⁹The created Universe emanated from within You; there is no other at all.

⁴⁰Whatever is said to be, is from You, O God.

⁴¹He is the True Lord and Master, throughout the ages.

⁴²Creation and destruction do not come from anyone else. ||1||

⁴³Such is my Lord and Master, profound and unfathomable.

⁴⁴Whoever meditates on Him, finds peace. The arrow of the Messenger of Death does not strike one who has the Name of the Lord. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁵The Naam, the Name of the Lord, is a priceless jewel, a diamond.

⁴⁶The True Lord Master is immortal and immeasurable.

⁴⁷That tongue which chants the True Name is pure.

⁴⁸The True Lord is in the home of the self; there is no doubt about it. ||2||

⁴⁹Some sit in the forests, and some make their home in the mountains.

⁵⁰Forgetting the Naam, they rot away in egotistical pride.

⁵¹Without the Naam, what is the use of spiritual wisdom and meditation?

⁵²The Gurmukhs are honored in the Court of the Lord. ||3||

⁵³Acting stubbornly in egotism, one does not find the Lord.

⁵⁴Studying the scriptures, reading them to other people,

¹and wandering around at places of pilgrimage, the disease is not taken away.

²Without the Naam, how can one find peace? ||4||

³No matter how much he tries, he cannot control his semen and seed.

⁴His mind wavers, and he falls into hell.

⁵Bound and gagged in the City of Death, he is tortured.

⁶Without the Name, his soul cries out in agony. ||5||

⁷The many Siddhas and seekers, silent sages and demi-gods

⁸cannot satisfy themselves by practicing restraint through Hatha Yoga.

⁹One who contemplates the Word of the Shabad, and serves the Guru

¹⁰- his mind and body become immaculate, and his egotistical pride is obliterated. ||6||

¹¹Blessed with Your Grace, I obtain the True Name.

¹²I remain in Your Sanctuary, in loving devotion.

¹³Love for Your devotional worship has welled up within me.

¹⁴As Gurmukh, I chant and meditate on the Lord's Name. ||7||

¹⁵When one is rid of egotism and pride, his mind is drenched in the Lord's Love.

¹⁶Practicing fraud and hypocrisy, he does not find God.

¹⁷Without the Word of the Guru's Shabad, he cannot find the Lord's Door.

¹⁸O Nanak, the Gurmukh contemplates the essence of reality. ||8||6||

¹⁹Raamkalee, First Mehl:

²⁰As you come, so will you leave, you fool; as you were born, so will you die.

²¹As you enjoy pleasures, so will you suffer pain. Forgetting the Naam, the Name of the Lord, you will fall into the terrifying world-ocean. ||1||

²²Gazing upon your body and wealth, you are so proud.

²³Your love for gold and sexual pleasures increases; why have you forgotten the Naam, and why do you wander in doubt? ||1||Pause||

²⁴You do not practice truth, abstinence, self-discipline or humility; the ghost within your skeleton has turned to dry wood.

²⁵You have not practiced charity, donations, cleansing baths or austerities. Without the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, your life has gone in vain. ||2||

²⁶Attached to greed, you have forgotten the Naam. Coming and going, your life has been ruined.

²⁷When the Messenger of Death grabs you by your hair, you will be punished. You are unconscious, and have fallen into Death's mouth. ||3||

²⁸Day and night, you jealously slander others; in your heart, you have neither the Naam, nor compassion for all.

²⁹Without the Word of the Guru's Shabad, you will not find salvation or honor. Without the Lord's Name, you shall go to hell. ||4||

³⁰In an instant, you change into various costumes, like a juggler; you are entangled in emotional attachment and sin.

³¹You gaze here and there upon the expanse of Maya; you are intoxicated with attachment to Maya. ||5||

³²You act in corruption, and put on ostentatious shows, but without awareness of the Shabad, you have fallen into confusion.

³³You suffer great pain from the disease of egotism. Following the Guru's Teachings, you shall be rid of this disease. ||6||

³⁴Seeing peace and wealth come to him, the faithless cynic become proud in his mind.

³⁵But He who owns this body and wealth, takes them back again, and then the mortal feels anxiety and pain deep within. ||7||

³⁶At the very last instant, nothing goes along with you; all is visible only by His Mercy.

³⁷God is our Primal and Infinite Lord; enshrining the Lord's Name in the heart, one crosses over. ||8||

³⁸You weep for the dead, but who hears you weeping? The dead have fallen to the serpent in the terrifying world-ocean.

³⁹Gazing upon his family, wealth, household and mansions, the faithless cynic is entangled in worthless worldly affairs. ||9||

¹He comes when the Lord sends him; when the Lord calls him back, he goes.

²Whatever he does, the Lord is doing. The Forgiving Lord forgives him. ||10||

³I seek to be with those who have tasted this sublime essence of the Lord.

⁴Wealth, miraculous spiritual powers, wisdom and spiritual knowledge, are obtained from the Guru. The treasure of liberation is obtained in His Sanctuary. ||11||

⁵The Gurmukh looks upon pain and pleasure as one and the same; he remains untouched by joy and sorrow.

⁶Conquering his self-conceit, the Gurmukh finds the Lord; O Nanak, he intuitively merges into the Lord. ||12||7||

⁷Raamkalee, Dakhanee, First Mehl:

⁸Abstinence, chastity, self-control and truthfulness have been implanted within me; I am imbued with the sublime essence of the True Word of the Shabad. ||1||

⁹My Merciful Guru remains forever imbued with the Lord's Love.

¹⁰Day and night, He remains lovingly focused on the One Lord; gazing upon the True Lord, He is pleased. ||1||Pause||

¹¹He abides in the Tenth Gate, and looks equally upon all; He is imbued with the unstruck sound current of the Shabad. ||2||

¹²Wearing the loin-cloth of chastity, He remains absorbed in the all-pervading Lord; His tongue enjoys the taste of God's Love. ||3||

¹³The One who created the creation has met the True Guru; contemplating the Guru's lifestyle, He is pleased. ||4||

¹⁴All are in the One, and the One is in all. This is what the True Guru has shown me. ||5||

¹⁵He who created the worlds, solar systems and galaxies - that God cannot be known. ||6||

¹⁶From the lamp of God, the lamp within is lit; the Divine Light illuminates the three worlds. ||7||

¹⁷The Guru sits on the true throne in the true mansion; He is attuned, absorbed in the Fearless Lord. ||8||

¹⁸The Guru, the detached Yogi, has enticed the hearts of all; He plays His harp in each and every heart. ||9||

¹⁹O Nanak, in God's Sanctuary, one is emancipated; the True Guru becomes our true help and support. ||10||8||

²⁰Raamkalee, First Mehl:

²¹He has made His home in the monastery of the heart; He has infused His power into the earth and the sky. ||1||

²²Through the Word of the Shabad, the Gurmukhs have saved so very many, O Saints. ||1||Pause||

²³He conquers attachment, and eradicates egotism, and sees Your Divine Light pervading the three worlds, Lord. ||2||

²⁴He conquers desire, and enshrines the Lord within his mind; he contemplates the Word of the True Guru's Shabad. ||3||

²⁵The horn of consciousness vibrates the unstruck sound current; Your Light illuminates each and every heart, Lord. ||4||

²⁶He plays the flute of the universe in his mind, and lights the fire of God. ||5||

²⁷Bringing together the five elements, day and night, the Lord's lamp shines with the Immaculate Light of the Infinite. ||6||

²⁸The right and left nostrils, the sun and the moon channels, are the strings of the body-harp; they vibrate the wondrous melody of the Shabad. ||7||

²⁹The true hermit obtains a seat in the City of God, the invisible, inaccessible, infinite. ||8||

³⁰The mind is the king of the city of the body; the five sources of knowledge dwell within it. ||9||

³¹Seated in his home, this king chants the Shabad; he administers justice and virtue. ||10||

³²What can poor death or birth say to him? Conquering his mind, he remains dead while yet alive. ||11||

¹Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are manifestations of the One God. He Himself is the Doer of deeds. ||12||

²One who purifies his body, crosses over the terrifying world-ocean; he contemplates the essence of his own soul. ||13||

³Serving the Guru, he finds everlasting peace; deep within, the Shabad permeates him, coloring him with virtue. ||14||

⁴The Giver of virtue unites with Himself, one who conquers egotism and desire. ||15||

⁵Eradicating the three qualities, dwell in the fourth state. This is the unparalleled devotional worship. ||16||

⁶This is the Yoga of the Gurmukh: Through the Shabad, he understands his own soul, and he enshrines within his heart the One Lord. ||17||

⁷Imbued with the Shabad, his mind becomes steady and stable; this is the most excellent action. ||18||

⁸This true hermit does not enter into religious debates or hypocrisy; the Gurmukh contemplates the Shabad. ||19||

⁹The Gurmukh practices Yoga - he is the true hermit; he practices abstinence and truth, and contemplates the Shabad. ||20||

¹⁰One who dies in the Shabad and conquers his mind is the true hermit; he understands the Way of Yoga. ||21||

¹¹Attachment to Maya is the terrifying world-ocean; through the Shabad, the true hermit saves himself, and his ancestors as well. ||22||

¹²Contemplating the Shabad, you shall be a hero throughout the four ages, O hermit; contemplate the Word of the Guru's Bani in devotion. ||23||

¹³This mind is enticed by Maya, O hermit; contemplating the Shabad, you shall find release. ||24||

¹⁴He Himself forgives, and unites in His Union; Nanak seeks Your Sanctuary, Lord. ||25||9||

¹⁵Raamkalee, Third Mehl, Ashtpadheeyaa:

¹⁶One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

¹⁷Make humility your ear-rings, Yogi, and compassion your patched coat.

¹⁸Let coming and going be the ashes you apply to your body, Yogi, and then you shall conquer the three worlds. ||1||

¹⁹Play that harp, Yogi,

²⁰which vibrates the unstruck sound current, and remain lovingly absorbed in the Lord. ||1||Pause||

²¹Make truth and contentment your plate and pouch, Yogi; take the Ambrosial Naam as your food.

²²Make meditation your walking stick, Yogi, and make higher consciousness the horn you blow. ||2||

²³Make your stable mind the Yogic posture you sit in, Yogi, and then you shall be rid of your tormenting desires.

²⁴Go begging in the village of the body, Yogi, and then, you shall obtain the Naam in your lap. ||3||

²⁵This harp does not center you in meditation, Yogi, nor does it bring the True Name into your lap.

²⁶This harp does not bring you peace, Yogi, nor eliminate egotism from within you. ||4||

²⁷Make the Fear of God, and the Love of God, the two gourds of your lute, Yogi, and make this body its neck.

²⁸Become Gurmukh, and then vibrate the strings; in this way, your desires shall depart. ||5||

²⁹One who understands the Hukam of the Lord's Command is called a Yogi; he links his consciousness to the One Lord.

³⁰His cynicism is dispelled, and he becomes immaculately pure; this is how he finds the Way of Yoga. ||6||

³¹Everything that comes into view shall be destroyed; focus your consciousness on the Lord.

³²Enshrine love for the True Guru, and then you shall obtain this understanding. ||7||

¹This is not Yoga, O Yogi, to abandon your family and wander around.

²The Name of the Lord, Har, Har, is within the household of the body. By Guru's Grace, you shall find your Lord God. ||8||

³This world is a puppet of clay, Yogi; the terrible disease, the desire for Maya is in it.

⁴Making all sorts of efforts, and wearing religious robes, Yogi, this disease cannot be cured. ||9||

⁵The Name of the Lord is the medicine, Yogi; the Lord enshrines it in the mind.

⁶One who becomes Gurmukh understands this; he alone finds the Way of Yoga. ||10||

⁷The Path of Yoga is very difficult, Yogi; he alone finds it, whom God blesses with His Grace.

⁸Inside and outside, he sees the One Lord; he eliminates doubt from within himself. ||11||

⁹So play the harp which vibrates without being played, Yogi.

¹⁰Says Nanak, thus you shall be liberated, Yogi, and remain merged in the True Lord. ||12||1||10||

¹¹Raamkalee, Third Mehl:

¹²The treasure of devotional worship is revealed to the Gurmukh; the True Guru has inspired me to understand this understanding. ||1||

¹³O Saints, the Gurmukh is blessed with glorious greatness. ||1||Pause||

¹⁴Dwelling always in Truth, celestial peace wells up; sexual desire and anger are eliminated from within. ||2||

¹⁵Eradicating self-conceit, remain lovingly focused on the Naam, the Name of the Lord; through the Word of the Shabad, burn away possessiveness. ||3||

¹⁶By Him we are created, and by Him we are destroyed; in the end, the Naam will be our only help and support. ||4||

¹⁷He is ever-present; don't think that He is far away. He created the creation. ||5||

¹⁸Deep within your heart, chant the True Word of the Shabad; remain lovingly absorbed in the True Lord. ||6||

¹⁹The Priceless Naam is in the Society of the Saints; by great good fortune, it is obtained. ||7||

²⁰Do not be deluded by doubt; serve the True Guru, and keep your mind steady in one place. ||8||

²¹Without the Name, everyone wanders around in confusion; they waste away their lives in vain. ||9||

²²Yogi, you have lost the Way; you wander around confused. Through hypocrisy, Yoga is not attained. ||10||

²³Sitting in Yogic postures in the City of God, through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, you shall find Yoga. ||11||

²⁴Restrain your restless wanderings through the Shabad, and the Naam will come to dwell in your mind. ||12||

²⁵This body is a pool, O Saints; bathe in it, and enshrine love for the Lord. ||13||

²⁶Those who cleanse themselves through the Naam, are the most immaculate people; through the Shabad, they wash off their filth. ||14||

²⁷Trapped by the three qualities, the unconscious person does not think of the Naam; without the Name, he wastes away. ||15||

²⁸The three forms of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are trapped in the three qualities, lost in confusion. ||16||

²⁹By Guru's Grace, this triad is eradicated, and one is lovingly absorbed in the fourth state. ||17||

³⁰The Pandits, the religious scholars, read, study and discuss the arguments; they do not understand. ||18||

³¹Engrossed in corruption, they wander in confusion; who can they possibly instruct, O Siblings of Destiny? ||19||

³²The Bani, the Word of the humble devotee is the most sublime and exalted; it prevails throughout the ages. ||20||

³³One who is committed to this Bani is emancipated, and through the Shabad, merges in Truth. ||21||

¹One who searches the village of the body, through the Shabad, obtains the nine treasures of the Naam. ||22||

²Conquering desire, the mind is absorbed in intuitive ease, and then one chants the Lord's Praises without speaking. ||23||

³Let your eyes gaze upon the Wondrous Lord; let your consciousness be attached to the Unseen Lord. ||24||

⁴The Unseen Lord is forever absolute and immaculate; one's light merges into the Light. ||25||

⁵I praise my Guru forever, who has inspired me to understand this true understanding. ||26||

⁶Nanak offers this one prayer: through the Name, may I find salvation and honor. ||27||2||11||

⁷Raamkalee, Third Mehl:

⁸It is so hard to obtain that devotional worship of the Lord, O Saints. It cannot be described at all. ||1||

⁹O Saints, as Gurmukh, find the Perfect Lord,

¹⁰and worship the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||1||Pause||

¹¹Without the Lord, everything is filthy, O Saints; what offering should I place before Him? ||2||

¹²Whatever pleases the True Lord is devotional worship; His Will abides in the mind. ||3||

¹³Everyone worships Him, O Saints, but the self-willed manmukh is not accepted or approved. ||4||

¹⁴If someone dies in the Word of the Shabad, his mind become immaculate, O Saints; such worship is accepted and approved. ||5||

¹⁵Sanctified and pure are those true beings, who enshrine love for the Shabad. ||6||

¹⁶There is no worship of the Lord, other than the Name; the world wanders, deluded by doubt. ||7||

¹⁷The Gurmukh understands his own self, O Saints; he lolvingly centers his mind on the Lord's Name. ||8||

¹⁸The Immaculate Lord Himself inspires worship of Him; through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, it is accepted and approved. ||9||

¹⁹Those who worship Him, but do not know the Way, are polluted with the love of duality. ||10||

²⁰One who becomes Gurmukh, knows what worship is; the Lord's Will abides within his mind. ||11||

²¹One who accepts the Lord's Will obtains total peace, O Saints; in the end, the Naam will be our help and support. ||12||

²²One who does not understand his own self, O Saints, falsely flatters himself. ||13||

²³The Messenger of Death does not give up on those who practices hypocrisy; they are dragged away in disgrace. ||14||

²⁴Those who have the Shabad deep within, understand themselves; they find the way of salvation. ||15||

²⁵Their minds enter into the deepest state of Samaadhi, and their light is absorbed into the Light. ||16||

²⁶The Gurmukhs listen constantly to the Naam, and chant it in the True Congregation. ||17||

²⁷The Gurmukhs sing the Lord's Praises, and erase self-conceit; they obtain true honor in the Court of the Lord. ||18||

²⁸True are their words; they speak only the Truth; they lovingly focus on the True Name. ||19||

²⁹My God is the Destroyer of fear, the Destroyer of sin; in the end, He is our only help and support. ||20||

³⁰He Himself pervades and permeates everything; O Nanak, glorious greatness is obtained through the Naam. ||21||3||12||

³¹Raamkalee, Third Mehl:

³²I am filthy and polluted, proud and egotistical; receiving the Word of the Shabad, my filth is taken away. ||1||

³³O Saints, the Gurmukhs are saved through the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

³⁴The True Name abides deep within their hearts. The Creator Himself embellishes them. ||1||Pause||

¹Touching the philosopher's stone, they themselves become the philosopher's stone; the Dear Lord Himself blesses them with His Mercy. ||2||

²Some wear religious robes, and wander around in pride; they lose their life in the gamble. ||3||

³Some worship the Lord in devotion, night and day; day and night, they keep the Lord's Name enshrined in their hearts. ||4||

⁴Those who are imbued with Him night and day, are spontaneously intoxicated with Him; they intuitively conquer their ego. ||5||

⁵Without the Fear of God, devotional worship is never performed; through the Love and the Fear of God, devotional worship is embellished. ||6||

⁶The Shabad burns away emotional attachment to Maya, and then one contemplates the essence of spiritual wisdom. ||7||

⁷The Creator Himself inspires us to act; He Himself blesses us with His treasure. ||8||

⁸The limits of His virtues cannot be found; I sing His Praises and contemplate the Word of the Shabad. ||9||

⁹I chant the Lord's Name, and praise my Dear Lord; egotism is eradicated from within me. ||10||

¹⁰The treasure of the Naam is obtained from the Guru; the treasures of the True Lord are inexhaustible. ||11||

¹¹He Himself is pleased with His devotees; by His Grace, He infuses His strength within them. ||12||

¹²They always feel hunger for the True Name; they sing and contemplate the Shabad. ||13||

¹³Soul, body and everything are His; it is so difficult to speak of, and contemplate Him. ||14||

¹⁴Those humble beings who are attached to the Shabad are saved; they cross over the terrifying world-ocean. ||15||

¹⁵Without the True Lord, no one can cross over; how rare are those who contemplate and understand this. ||16||

¹⁶We obtain only that which is pre-ordained; receiving the Lord's Shabad, we are embellished. ||17||

¹⁷Imbued with the Shabad, the body becomes golden, and loves only the True Name. ||18||

¹⁸The body is then filled to overflowing with Ambrosial Nectar, obtained by contemplating the Shabad. ||19||

¹⁹Those who seek God, find Him; others burst and die from their own egotism. ||20||

²⁰The debaters waste away, while the servants serve, with love and affection for the Guru. ||21||

²¹He alone is a Yogi, who contemplates the essence of spiritual wisdom, and conquers egotism and thirsty desire. ||22||

²²The True Guru, the Great Giver, is revealed to those upon whom You bestow Your Grace, O Lord. ||23||

²³Those who do not serve the True Guru, and who are attached to Maya, are drowned; they die in their own egotism. ||24||

²⁴As long as there is breath within you, so long you should serve the Lord; then, you will go and meet the Lord. ||25||

²⁵Night and day, she remains awake and aware, day and night; she is the darling bride of her Beloved Husband Lord. ||26||

²⁶I offer my body and mind in sacrifice to my Guru; I am a sacrifice to Him. ||27||

²⁷Attachment to Maya will end and go away; only by contemplating the Shabad will you be saved. ||28||

²⁸They are awake and aware, whom the Lord Himself awakens; so contemplate the Word of the Guru's Shabad. ||29||

²⁹O Nanak, those who do not remember the Naam are dead. The devotees live in contemplative meditation. ||30||4||13||

³⁰Raamkalee, Third Mehl:

³¹Receiving the treasure of the Naam, the Name of the Lord, from the Guru, I remain satisfied and fulfilled. ||1||

³²O Saints, the Gurmukhs attain the state of liberation.

¹The One Name abides deep within my heart; such is the glorious greatness of the Perfect Lord. ||1||Pause||

²He Himself is the Creator, and He Himself is the Enjoyer. He Himself gives sustenance to all. ||2||

³Whatever He wants to do, He is doing; no one else can do anything. ||3||

⁴He Himself fashions and creates the creation; He links each and every person to their task. ||4||

⁵If you serve Him, then you will find peace; the True Guru will unite you in His Union. ||5||

⁶The Lord Himself creates Himself; the Unseen Lord cannot be seen. ||6||

⁷He Himself kills, and brings back to life; He does not have even an iota of greed. ||7||

⁸Some are made givers, and some are made beggars; He Himself inspires us to devotional worship. ||8||

⁹Those who know the One Lord are very fortunate; they remain absorbed in the True Lord. ||9||

¹⁰He Himself is beautiful, He Himself is wise and clever; His worth cannot be expressed. ||10||

¹¹He Himself infuses pain and pleasure; He Himself makes them wander around in doubt. ||11||

¹²The Great Giver is revealed to the Gurmukh; without the Guru, the world wanders in darkness. ||12||

¹³Those who taste, enjoy the flavor; the True Guru imparts this understanding. ||13||

¹⁴Some, the Lord causes to forget and lose the Name; others become Gurmukh, and are granted this understanding. ||14||

¹⁵Forever and ever, praise the Lord, O Saints; how glorious is His greatness! ||15||

¹⁶There is no other King except Him; He administers justice, as He has made it. ||16||

¹⁷His justice is always True; how rare are those who accept His Command. ||17||

¹⁸O mortal, meditate forever on the Lord, who has made the Gurmukh in His making. ||18||

¹⁹That humble being who meets with the True Guru is fulfilled; the Naam abides in his heart. ||19||

²⁰The True Lord is Himself forever True; He announces His Bani, the Word of His Shabad. ||20||

²¹Nanak is wonderstruck, hearing and seeing His Lord; my God is all-pervading, everywhere. ||21||5||14||

²²Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl, Ashtpadheeyaa:

²³One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

²⁴Some make a big show of their worldly influence.

²⁵Some make a big show of devotional worship.

²⁶Some practice inner cleansing teahniques, and control the breath through Kundalini Yoga.

²⁷I am meek; I worship and adore the Lord, Har, Har. ||1||

²⁸I place my faith in You alone, O Beloved Lord.

²⁹I do not know any other way. ||1||Pause||

³⁰Some abandon their homes, and live in the forests.

³¹Some put themselves on silence, and call themselves hermits.

³²Some claim that they are devotees of the One Lord alone.

³³I am meek; I seek the shelter and support of the Lord, Har, Har. ||2||

³⁴Some say that they live at sacred shrines of pilgrimage.

³⁵Some refuse food and become Udaasis, shaven-headed renunciates.

³⁶Some have wandered all across the earth.

³⁷I am meek; I have fallen at the door of the Lord, Har, Har. ||3||

³⁸Some say that they belong to great and noble families.

¹Some say that they have the arms of their many brothers to protect them.

²Some say that they have great expanses of wealth.

³I am meek; I have the support of the Lord, Har, Har. ||4||

⁴Some dance, wearing ankle bells.

⁵Some fast and take vows, and wear malas.

⁶Some apply ceremonial tilak marks to their foreheads.

⁷I am meek; I meditate on the Lord, Har, Har, Har. ||5||

⁸Some work spells using the miraculous spiritual powers of the Siddhas.

⁹Some wear various religious robes and establish their authority.

¹⁰Some perform Tantric spells, and chant various mantras.

¹¹I am meek; I serve the Lord, Har, Har, Har. ||6||

¹²One calls himself a wise Pandit, a religious scholar.

¹³One performs the six rituals to appease Shiva.

¹⁴One maintains the rituals of pure lifestyle, and does good deeds.

¹⁵I am meek; I seek the Sanctuary of the Lord, Har, Har, Har. ||7||

¹⁶I have studied the religions and rituals of all the ages.

¹⁷Without the Name, this mind is not awakened.

¹⁸Says Nanak, when I found the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy,

¹⁹my thirsty desires were satisfied, and I was totally cooled and soothed. ||8||1||

²⁰Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

²¹He created you out of this water.

²²From clay, He fashioned your body.

²³He blessed you with the light of reason and clear consciousness.

²⁴In your mother's womb, He preserved you. ||1||

²⁵Contemplate your Savior Lord.

²⁶Give up all others thoughts, O mind. ||1||Pause||

²⁷He gave you your mother and father;

²⁸he gave you your charming children and siblings;

²⁹he gave you your spouse and friends;

³⁰enshrine that Lord and Master in your consciousness. ||2||

³¹He gave you the invaluable air;

³²He gave you the priceless water;

³³He gave you burning fire;

³⁴let your mind remain in the Sanctuary of that Lord and Master. ||3||

³⁵He gave you the thirty-six varieties of tasty foods;

³⁶He gave you a place within to hold them;

³⁷He gave you the earth, and things to use;

³⁸enshrine in your consciousness the feet of that Lord and Master. ||4||

³⁹He gave you eyes to see, and ears to hear;

⁴⁰He gave you hands to work with, and a nose and a tongue;

⁴¹He gave you feet to walk upon, and the crowning glory of your head;

⁴²O mind, worship the Feet of that Lord and Master. ||5||

⁴³He transformed you from impure to pure;

⁴⁴He installed you above the heads of all creatures;

⁴⁵now, you may fulfill your destiny or not;

⁴⁶Your affairs shall be resolved, O mind, meditating on God. ||6||

⁴⁷Here and there, only the One God exists.

⁴⁸Wherever I look, there You are.

⁴⁹My mind is reluctant to serve Him;

⁵⁰forgetting Him, I cannot survive, even for an instant. ||7||

⁵¹I am a sinner, without any virtue at all.

⁵²I do not serve You, or do any good deeds.

⁵³By great good fortune, I have found the boat - the Guru.

⁵⁴Slave Nanak has crossed over, with Him. ||8||2||

⁵⁵Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

⁵⁶Some pass their lives enjoying pleasures and beauty.

¹Some pass their lives with their mothers, fathers and children.

²Some pass their lives in power, estates and trade.

³The Saints pass their lives with the support of the Lord's Name. ||1||

⁴The world is the creation of the True Lord.

⁵He alone is the Master of all. ||1||Pause||

⁶Some pass their lives in arguments and debates about scriptures.

⁷Some pass their lives tasting flavors.

⁸Some pass their lives attached to women.

⁹The Saints are absorbed only in the Name of the Lord. ||2||

¹⁰Some pass their lives gambling.

¹¹Some pass their lives getting drunk.

¹²Some pass their lives stealing the property of others.

¹³The humble servants of the Lord pass their lives meditating on the Naam. ||3||

¹⁴Some pass their lives in Yoga, strict meditation, worship and adoration.

¹⁵Some, in sickness, sorrow and doubt.

¹⁶Some pass their lives practicing control of the breath.

¹⁷The Saints pass their lives singing the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises. ||4||

¹⁸Some pass their lives walking day and night.

¹⁹Some pass their lives on the fields of battle.

²⁰Some pass their lives teaching children.

²¹The Saints pass their lives singing the Lord's Praise. ||5||

²²Some pass their lives as actors, acting and dancing.

²³Some pass their lives taking the lives of others.

²⁴Some pass their lives ruling by intimidation.

²⁵The Saints pass their lives chanting the Lord's Praises. ||6||

²⁶Some pass their lives counseling and giving advice.

²⁷Some pass their lives forced to serve others.

²⁸Some pass their lives exploring life's mysteries.

²⁹The Saints pass their lives drinking in the sublime essence of the Lord. ||7||

³⁰As the Lord attaches us, so we are attached.

³¹No one is foolish, and no one is wise.

³²Nanak is a sacrifice, a sacrifice to those who are blessed

³³Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

³⁴Even in a forest fire, some trees remain green.

³⁵The infant is released from the pain of the mother's womb.

³⁶Meditating in remembrance on the Naam, the Name of the Lord, fear is dispelled.

³⁷Just so, the Sovereign Lord protects and saves the Saints. ||1||

³⁸Such is the Merciful Lord, my Protector.

³⁹Wherever I look, I see You cherishing and nurturing. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁰As thirst is quenched by drinking water;

⁴¹as the bride blossoms forth when her husband comes home;

⁴²as wealth is the support of the greedy person

⁴³- just so, the humble servant of the Lord loves the Name of the Lord, Har, Har. ||2||

⁴⁴As the farmer protects his fields;

⁴⁵as the mother and father show compassion to their child;

⁴⁶as the lover merges on seeing the beloved;

⁴⁷just so does the Lord hug His humble servant close in His Embrace. ||3||

⁴⁸As the blind man is in ecstasy, when he can see again;

⁴⁹and the mute, when he is able to speak and sing songs;

⁵⁰and the cripple, being able to climb over the mountain

⁵¹- just so, the Name of the Lord saves all. ||4||

⁵²As cold is dispelled by fire,

⁵³sins are driven out in the Society of the Saints.

⁵⁴As cloth is cleaned by soap,

⁵⁵just so, by chanting the Naam, all doubts and fears are dispelled. ||5||

⁵⁶As the chakvi bird longs for the sun,

⁵⁷as the rainbird thirsts for the rain drop,

⁵⁸as the deer's ears are attuned to the sound of the bell,

⁵⁹the Lord's Name is pleasing to the mind of the Lord's humble servant. ||6||

¹By Your Grace, we love You.

²When You show Mercy, then You come into our minds.

³When the Support of the earth granted His Grace,

⁴then I was released from my bonds. ||7||

⁵I have seen all places with my eyes wide open.

⁶There is no other than Him.

⁷Doubt and fear are dispelled, by Guru's Grace.

⁸Nanak sees the wondrous Lord everywhere. ||8||4||

⁹Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁰All beings and creatures that are seen, God, depend on Your Support. ||1||

¹¹This mind is saved through the Name of the Lord. ||1||Pause||

¹²In an instant, He establishes and disestablishes, by His Creative Power. All is the Creation of the Creator. ||2||

¹³Sexual desire, anger, greed, falsehood and slander are banished in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy. ||3||

¹⁴Chanting the Naam, the Name of the Lord, the mind becomes immaculate, and life is passed in absolute peace. ||4||

¹⁵That mortal who enters the Sanctuary of the devotees, does not lose out, here or hereafter. ||5||

¹⁶Pleasure and pain, and the condition of this mind, I place before You, Lord. ||6||

¹⁷You are the Giver of all beings; You cherish what You have made. ||7||

¹⁸So many millions of times, Nanak is a sacrifice to Your humble servants. ||8||5||

¹⁹Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl, Ashtapadee:

²⁰One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

²¹Receiving the Blessed Vision of His Darshan, all sins are erased, and He unites me with the Lord. ||1||

²²My Guru is the Transcendent Lord, the Giver of peace.

²³He implants the Naam, the Name of the Supreme Lord God within us; in the end, He is our help and support. ||1||Pause||

²⁴The source of all pain within is destroyed; I apply the dust of the feet of the Saints to my forehead. ||2||

²⁵In an instant, He purifies the sinners, and dispels the darkness of ignorance. ||3||

²⁶The Lord is all-powerful, the Cause of causes. Nanak seeks His Sanctuary. ||4||

²⁷Shattering the bonds, the Guru implants the Lord's lotus feet within, and lovingly attunes us to the One Word of the Shabad. ||5||

²⁸He has lifted me up, and pulled me out of the deep, dark pit of sin; I am attuned to the True Shabad. ||6||

²⁹The fear of birth and death is taken away; I shall never wander again. ||7||

³⁰This mind is imbued with the sublime elixir of the Naam; drinking in the Ambrosial Nectar, it is satisfied. ||8||

³¹Joining the Society of the Saints, I sing the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises; I dwell in the eternal, unchanging place. ||9||

³²The Perfect Guru has given me the perfect teachings; there is nothing except the Lord, O Siblings of Destiny. ||10||

³³I have obtained the treasure of the Naam, by great good fortune; O Nanak, I shall not fall into hell. ||11||

³⁴Clever tricks have not worked for me; I shall act according to the Instructions of the Perfect Guru. ||12||

³⁵He is chanting, intense meditation, austere self-discipline and purification. He Himself acts, and causes us to act. ||13||

³⁶In the midst of children and spouse, and utter corruption, the True Guru has carried me across. ||14||

¹You Yourself take care of Your beings; You Yourself attach them to the hem of Your robe. ||15||

²I have built the boat of true Dharmic faith, to cross over the terrifying world-ocean. ||16||

³The Lord Master is unlimited and endless; Nanak is a sacrifice, a sacrifice to Him. ||17||

⁴Being of Immortal Manifestation, He is not born; He is self-existent; He is the Light in the darkness of Kali Yuga. ||18||

⁵He is the Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts, the Giver of souls; gazing upon Him, I am satisfied and fulfilled. ||19||

⁶He is the One Universal Creator Lord, immaculate and fearless; He is permeating and pervading all the water and the land. ||20||

⁷He blesses His devotees with the Gift of devotional worship; Nanak longs for the Lord, O my mother. ||21||1||6||

⁸Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl,

⁹Salok:

¹⁰Study the Word of the Shabad, O beloveds. It is your anchoring support in life and in death.

¹¹Your face shall be radiant, and you will be at peace forever, O Nanak, meditating in remembrance on the One Lord. ||1||

¹²My mind and body are imbued with my Beloved Lord; I have been blessed with loving devotion to the Lord, O Saints. ||1||

¹³The True Guru has approved my cargo, O Saints.

¹⁴He has blessed His slave with the profit of the Lord's Name; all my thirst is quenched, O Saints. ||1||Pause||

¹⁵Searching and searching, I have found the One Lord, the jewel; I cannot express His value, O Saints. ||2||

¹⁶I focus my meditation on His Lotus Feet; I am absorbed in the True Vision of His Darshan, O Saints. ||3||

¹⁷Singing, singing His Glorious Praises, I am enraptured; meditating in remembrance on the Lord, I am satisfied and fulfilled, O Saints. ||4||

¹⁸The Lord, the Supreme Soul, is permeating within all; what comes, and what goes, O Saints? ||5||

¹⁹At the very beginning of time, and throughout the ages, He is, and He shall always be; He is the Giver of peace to all beings, O Saints. ||6||

²⁰He Himself is endless; His end cannot be found. He is totally pervading and permeating everywhere, O Saints. ||7||

²¹Nanak: the Lord is my friend, companion, wealth, youth, son, father and mother, O Saints. ||8||2||7||

²²Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

²³In thought, word and deed, I contemplate the Lord's Name.

²⁴The horrible world-ocean is very treacherous; O Nanak, the Gurmukh is carried across. ||1||Pause||

²⁵Inwardly, peace, and outwardly, peace; meditating on the Lord, evil tendencies are crushed. ||1||

²⁶He has rid me of what was clinging to me; my Dear Lord God has blessed me with His Grace. ||2||

²⁷The Saints are saved, in His Sanctuary; the very egotistical people rot away and die. ||3||

²⁸In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, I have obtained this fruit, the Support of the One Name alone. ||4||

²⁹No one is strong, and no one is weak; all are manifestations of Your Light, Lord. ||5||

³⁰You are the all-powerful, indescribable, unfathomable, all-pervading Lord. ||6||

³¹Who can estimate Your value, O Creator Lord? God has no end or limitation. ||7||

³²Please bless Nanak with the glorious greatness of the gift of the Naam, and the dust of the feet of Your Saints. ||8||3||8||22||

¹Raamkalee, Third Mehl, Anand ~ The Song Of Bliss:

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

³I am in ecstasy, O my mother, for I have found my True Guru.

⁴I have found the True Guru, with intuitive ease, and my mind vibrates with the music of bliss.

⁵The jewelled melodies and their related celestial harmonies have come to sing the Word of the Shabad.

⁶The Lord dwells within the minds of those who sing the Shabad.

⁷Says Nanak, I am in ecstasy, for I have found my True Guru. ||1||

⁸O my mind, remain always with the Lord.

⁹Remain always with the Lord, O my mind, and all sufferings will be forgotten.

¹⁰He will accept You as His own, and all your affairs will be perfectly arranged.

¹¹Our Lord and Master is all-powerful to do all things, so why forget Him from your mind?

¹²Says Nanak, O my mind, remain always with the Lord. ||2||

¹³O my True Lord and Master, what is there which is not in Your celestial home?

¹⁴Everything is in Your home; they receive, unto whom You give.

¹⁵Constantly singing Your Praises and Glories, Your Name is enshrined in the mind.

¹⁶The divine melody of the Shabad vibrates for those, within whose minds the Naam abides.

¹⁷Says Nanak, O my True Lord and Master, what is there which is not in Your home? ||3||

¹⁸The True Name is my only support.

¹⁹The True Name is my only support; it satisfies all hunger.

²⁰It has brought peace and tranquility to my mind; it has fulfilled all my desires.

²¹I am forever a sacrifice to the Guru, who possesses such glorious greatness.

²²Says Nanak, listen, O Saints; enshrine love for the Shabad.

²³The True Name is my only support. ||4||

²⁴The Panch Shabad, the five primal sounds, vibrate in that blessed house.

²⁵In that blessed house, the Shabad vibrates; He infuses His almighty power into it.

²⁶Through You, we subdue the five demons of desire, and slay Death, the torturer.

²⁷Those who have such pre-ordained destiny are attached to the Lord's Name.

²⁸Says Nanak, they are at peace, and the unstruck sound current vibrates within their homes. ||5||

²⁹Without the true love of devotion, the body is without honor.

³⁰The body is dishonored without devotional love; what can the poor wretches do?

³¹No one except You is all-powerful; please bestow Your Mercy, O Lord of all nature.

³²There is no place of rest, other than the Name; attached to the Shabad, we are embellished with beauty.

³³Says Nanak, without devotional love, what can the poor wretches do? ||6||

³⁴Bliss, bliss - everyone talks of bliss; bliss is known only through the Guru.

³⁵Eternal bliss in known only through the Guru, when the Beloved Lord grants His Grace.

³⁶Granting His Grace, He cuts away our sins; He blesses us with the healing ointment of spiritual wisdom.

³⁷Those who eradicate attachment from within themselves, are adorned with the Shabad, the Word of the True Lord.

³⁸Says Nanak, this alone is bliss - bliss which is known through the Guru. ||7||

¹O Baba, he alone receives it, unto whom You give it.

²He alone receives it, unto whom You give it; what can the other poor wretched beings do?

³Some are deluded by doubt, wandering in the ten directions; some are adorned with attachment to the Naam.

⁴By Guru's Grace, the mind becomes immaculate and pure, for those who follow God's Will.

⁵Says Nanak, he alone receives it, unto whom You give it, O Beloved Lord. ||8||

⁶Come, Beloved Saints, let us speak the Unspoken Speech of the Lord.

⁷How can we speak the Unspoken Speech of the Lord? Through which door will we find Him?

⁸Surrender body, mind, wealth, and everything to the Guru; obey the Order of His Will, and you will find Him.

⁹Obey the Hukam of the Guru's Command, and sing the True Word of His Bani.

¹⁰Says Nanak, listen, O Saints, and speak the Unspoken Speech of the Lord. ||9||

¹¹O fickle mind, through cleverness, no one has found the Lord.

¹²Through cleverness, no one has found Him; listen, O my mind.

¹³This Maya is so fascinating; because of it, people wander in doubt.

¹⁴This fascinating Maya was created by the One who has administered this potion.

¹⁵I am a sacrifice to the One who has made emotional attachment sweet.

¹⁶Says Nanak, O fickle mind, no one has found Him through cleverness. ||10||

¹⁷O beloved mind, contemplate the True Lord forever.

¹⁸This family which you see shall not go along with you.

¹⁹They shall not go along with you, so why do you focus your attention on them?

²⁰Don't do anything that you will regret in the end.

²¹Listen to the Teachings of the True Guru - these shall go along with you.

²²Says Nanak, O beloved mind, contemplate the True Lord forever. ||11||

²³O inaccessible and unfathomable Lord, Your limits cannot be found.

²⁴No one has found Your limits; only You Yourself know.

²⁵All living beings and creatures are Your play; how can anyone describe You?

²⁶You speak, and You gaze upon all; You created the Universe.

²⁷Says Nanak, You are forever inaccessible; Your limits cannot be found. ||12||

²⁸The angelic beings and the silent sages search for the Ambrosial Nectar; this Amrit is obtained from the Guru.

²⁹This Amrit is obtained, when the Guru grants His Grace; He enshrines the True Lord within the mind.

³⁰All living beings and creatures were created by You; only some come to see the Guru, and seek His blessing.

³¹Their greed, avarice and egotism are dispelled, and the True Guru seems sweet.

³²Says Nanak, those with whom the Lord is pleased, obtain the Amrit, through the Guru. ||13||

³³The lifestyle of the devotees is unique and distinct.

³⁴The devotees' lifestyle is unique and distinct; they follow the most difficult path.

³⁵They renounce greed, avarice, egotism and desire; they do not talk too much.

³⁶The path they take is sharper than a two-edged sword, and finer than a hair.

¹By Guru's Grace, they shed their selfishness and conceit; their hopes are merged in the Lord.

²Says Nanak, the lifestyle of the devotees, in each and every age, is unique and distinct. ||14||

³As You make me walk, so do I walk, O my Lord and Master; what else do I know of Your Glorious Virtues?

⁴As You cause them to walk, they walk - You have placed them on the Path.

⁵In Your Mercy, You attach them to the Naam; they meditate forever on the Lord, Har, Har.

⁶Those whom You cause to listen to Your sermon, find peace in the Gurdwara, the Guru's Gate.

⁷Says Nanak, O my True Lord and Master, you make us walk according to Your Will. ||15||

⁸This song of praise is the Shabad, the most beautiful Word of God.

⁹This beauteous Shabad is the everlasting song of praise, spoken by the True Guru.

¹⁰This is enshrined in the minds of those who are so pre-destined by the Lord.

¹¹Some wander around, babbling on and on, but none obtain Him by babbling.

¹²Says Nanak, the Shabad, this song of praise, has been spoken by the True Guru. ||16||

¹³Those humble beings who meditate on the Lord become pure.

¹⁴Meditating on the Lord, they become pure; as Gurmukh, they meditate on Him.

¹⁵They are pure, along with their mothers, fathers, family and friends; all their companions are pure as well.

¹⁶Pure are those who speak, and pure are those who listen; those who enshrine it within their minds are pure.

¹⁷Says Nanak, pure and holy are those who, as Gurmukh, meditate on the Lord, Har, Har. ||17||

¹⁸By religious rituals, intuitive poise is not found; without intuitive poise, skepticism does not depart.

¹⁹Skepticism does not depart by contrived actions; everybody is tired of performing these rituals.

²⁰The soul is polluted by skepticism; how can it be cleansed?

²¹Wash your mind by attaching it to the Shabad, and keep your consciousness focused on the Lord.

²²Says Nanak, by Guru's Grace, intuitive poise is produced, and this skepticism is dispelled. ||18||

²³Inwardly polluted, and outwardly pure.

²⁴Those who are outwardly pure and yet polluted within, lose their lives in the gamble.

²⁵They contract this terrible disease of desire, and in their minds, they forget about dying.

²⁶In the Vedas, the ultimate objective is the Naam, the Name of the Lord; but they do not hear this, and they wander around like demons.

²⁷Says Nanak, those who forsake Truth and cling to falsehood, lose their lives in the gamble. ||19||

²⁸Inwardly pure, and outwardly pure.

²⁹Those who are outwardly pure and also pure within, through the Guru, perform good deeds.

³⁰Not even an iota of falsehood touches them; their hopes are absorbed in the Truth.

³¹Those who earn the jewel of this human life, are the most excellent of merchants.

³²Says Nanak, those whose minds are pure, abide with the Guru forever. ||20||

³³If a Sikh turns to the Guru with sincere faith, as sunmukh

³⁴if a Sikh turns to the Guru with sincere faith, as sunmukh, his soul abides with the Guru.

³⁵Within his heart, he meditates on the lotus feet of the Guru; deep within his soul, he contemplates Him.

³⁶Renouncing selfishness and conceit, he remains always on the side of the Guru; he does not know anyone except the Guru.

¹Says Nanak, listen, O Saints: such a Sikh turns toward the Guru with sincere faith, and becomes sunmukh. ||21||

²One who turns away from the Guru, and becomes baymukh - without the True Guru, he shall not find liberation.

³He shall not find liberation anywhere else either; go and ask the wise ones about this.

⁴He shall wander through countless incarnations; without the True Guru, he shall not find liberation.

⁵But liberation is attained, when one is attached to the feet of the True Guru, chanting the Word of the Shabad.

⁶Says Nanak, contemplate this and see, that without the True Guru, there is no liberation. ||22||

⁷Come, O beloved Sikhs of the True Guru, and sing the True Word of His Bani.

⁸Sing the Guru's Bani, the supreme Word of Words.

⁹Those who are blessed by the Lord's Glance of Grace - their hearts are imbued with this Bani.

¹⁰Drink in this Ambrosial Nectar, and remain in the Lord's Love forever; meditate on the Lord, the Sustainer of the world.

¹¹Says Nanak, sing this True Bani forever. ||23||

¹²Without the True Guru, other songs are false.

¹³The songs are false without the True Guru; all other songs are false.

¹⁴The speakers are false, and the listeners are false; those who speak and recite are false.

¹⁵They may continually chant, 'Har, Har' with their tongues, but they do not know what they are saying.

¹⁶Their consciousness is lured by Maya; they are just reciting mechanically.

¹⁷Says Nanak, without the True Guru, other songs are false. ||24||

¹⁸The Word of the Guru's Shabad is a jewel, studded with diamonds.

¹⁹The mind which is attached to this jewel, merges into the Shabad.

²⁰One whose mind is attuned to the Shabad, enshrines love for the True Lord.

²¹He Himself is the diamond, and He Himself is the jewel; one who is blessed, understands its value.

²²Says Nanak, the Shabad is a jewel, studded with diamonds. ||25||

²³He Himself created Shiva and Shakti, mind and matter; the Creator subjects them to His Command.

²⁴Enforcing His Order, He Himself sees all. How rare are those who, as Gurmukh, come to know Him.

²⁵They break their bonds, and attain liberation; they enshrine the Shabad within their minds.

²⁶Those whom the Lord Himself makes Gurmukh, lovingly focus their consciousness on the One Lord.

²⁷Says Nanak, He Himself is the Creator; He Himself reveals the Hukam of His Command. ||26||

²⁸The Simritees and the Shaastras discriminate between good and evil, but they do not know the true essence of reality.

²⁹They do not know the true essence of reality without the Guru; they do not know the true essence of reality.

³⁰The world is asleep in the three modes and doubt; it passes the night of its life sleeping.

³¹Those humble beings remain awake and aware, within whose minds, by Guru's Grace, the Lord abides; they chant the Ambrosial Word of the Guru's Bani.

³²Says Nanak, they alone obtain the essence of reality, who night and day remain lovingly absorbed in the Lord; they pass the night of their life awake and aware. ||27||

³³He nourished us in the mother's womb; why forget Him from the mind?

³⁴Why forget from the mind such a Great Giver, who gave us sustenance in the fire of the womb?

³⁵Nothing can harm one, whom the Lord inspires to embrace His Love.

¹He Himself is the love, and He Himself is the embrace; the Gurmukh contemplates Him forever.

²Says Nanak, why forget such a Great Giver from the mind? ||28||

³As is the fire within the womb, so is Maya outside.

⁴The fire of Maya is one and the same; the Creator has staged this play.

⁵According to His Will, the child is born, and the family is very pleased.

⁶Love for the Lord wears off, and the child becomes attached to desires; the script of Maya runs its course.

⁷This is Maya, by which the Lord is forgotten; emotional attachment and love of duality well up.

⁸Says Nanak, by Guru's Grace, those who enshrine love for the Lord find Him, in the midst of Maya. ||29||

⁹The Lord Himself is priceless; His worth cannot be estimated.

¹⁰His worth cannot be estimated, even though people have grown weary of trying.

¹¹If you meet such a True Guru, offer your head to Him; your selfishness and conceit will be eradicated from within.

¹²Your soul belongs to Him; remain united with Him, and the Lord will come to dwell in your mind.

¹³The Lord Himself is priceless; very fortunate are those, O Nanak, who attain to the Lord. ||30||

¹⁴The Lord is my capital; my mind is the merchant.

¹⁵The Lord is my capital, and my mind is the merchant; through the True Guru, I know my capital.

¹⁶Meditate continually on the Lord, Har, Har, O my soul, and you shall collect your profits daily.

¹⁷This wealth is obtained by those who are pleasing to the Lord's Will.

¹⁸Says Nanak, the Lord is my capital, and my mind is the merchant. ||31||

¹⁹O my tongue, you are engrossed in other tastes, but your thirsty desire is not quenched.

²⁰Your thirst shall not be quenched by any means, until you attain the subtle essence of the Lord.

²¹If you do obtain the subtle essence of the Lord, and drink in this essence of the Lord, you shall not be troubled by desire again.

²²This subtle essence of the Lord is obtained by good karma, when one comes to meet with the True Guru.

²³Says Nanak, all other tastes and essences are forgotten, when the Lord comes to dwell within the mind. ||32||

²⁴O my body, the Lord infused His Light into you, and then you came into the world.

²⁵The Lord infused His Light into you, and then you came into the world.

²⁶The Lord Himself is your mother, and He Himself is your father; He created the created beings, and revealed the world to them.

²⁷By Guru's Grace, some understand, and then it's a show; it seems like just a show.

²⁸Says Nanak, He laid the foundation of the Universe, and infused His Light, and then you came into the world. ||33||

²⁹My mind has become joyful, hearing of God's coming.

³⁰Sing the songs of joy to welcome the Lord, O my companions; my household has become the Lord's Mansion.

³¹Sing continually the songs of joy to welcome the Lord, O my companions, and sorrow and suffering will not afflict you.

³²Blessed is that day, when I am attached to the Guru's feet and meditate on my Husband Lord.

³³I have come to know the unstruck sound current and the Word of the Guru's Shabad; I enjoy the sublime essence of the Lord, the Lord's Name.

¹Says Nanak, God Himself has met me; He is the Doer, the Cause of causes. ||34||

²O my body, why have you come into this world? What actions have you committed?

³And what actions have you committed, O my body, since you came into this world?

⁴The Lord who formed your form - you have not enshrined that Lord in your mind.

⁵By Guru's Grace, the Lord abides within the mind, and one's pre-ordained destiny is fulfilled.

⁶Says Nanak, this body is adorned and honored, when one's consciousness is focused on the True Guru. ||35||

⁷O my eyes, the Lord has infused His Light into you; do not look upon any other than the Lord.

⁸Do not look upon any other than the Lord; the Lord alone is worthy of beholding.

⁹This whole world which you see is the image of the Lord; only the image of the Lord is seen.

¹⁰By Guru's Grace, I understand, and I see only the One Lord; there is no one except the Lord.

¹¹Says Nanak, these eyes were blind; but meeting the True Guru, they became all-seeing. ||36||

¹²O my ears, you were created only to hear the Truth.

¹³To hear the Truth, you were created and attached to the body; listen to the True Bani.

¹⁴Hearing it, the mind and body are rejuvenated, and the tongue is absorbed in Ambrosial Nectar.

¹⁵The True Lord is unseen and wondrous; His state cannot be described.

¹⁶Says Nanak, listen to the Ambrosial Naam and become holy; you were created only to hear the Truth. ||37||

¹⁷The Lord placed the soul to the cave of the body, and blew the breath of life into the musical instrument of the body.

¹⁸He blew the breath of life into the musical instrument of the body, and revealed the nine doors; but He kept the Tenth Door hidden.

¹⁹Through the Gurdwara, the Guru's Gate, some are blessed with loving faith, and the Tenth Door is revealed to them.

²⁰There are many images of the Lord, and the nine treasures of the Naam; His limits cannot be found.

²¹Says Nanak, the Lord placed the soul to the cave of the body, and blew the breath of life into the musical instrument of the body. ||38||

²²Sing this true song of praise in the true home of your soul.

²³Sing the song of praise in your true home; meditate there on the True Lord forever.

²⁴They alone meditate on You, O True Lord, who are pleasing to Your Will; as Gurmukh, they understand.

²⁵This Truth is the Lord and Master of all; whoever is blessed, obtains it.

²⁶Says Nanak, sing the true song of praise in the true home of your soul. ||39||

²⁷Listen to the song of bliss, O most fortunate ones; all your longings shall be fulfilled.

²⁸I have obtained the Supreme Lord God, and all sorrows have been forgotten.

²⁹Pain, illness and suffering have departed, listening to the True Bani.

³⁰The Saints and their friends are in ecstasy, knowing the Perfect Guru.

³¹Pure are the listeners, and pure are the speakers; the True Guru is all-pervading and permeating.

³²Prays Nanak, touching the Guru's Feet, the unstruck sound current of the celestial bugles vibrates and resounds. ||40||1||

¹Raamkalee, Sadd ~ The Call Of Death:

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

³He is the Great Giver of the Universe, the Lover of His devotees, throughout the three worlds.

⁴One who is merged in the Word of the Guru's Shabad does not know any other.

⁵Dwelling upon the Word of the Guru's Shabad, he does not know any other; he meditates on the One Name of the Lord.

⁶By the Grace of Guru Nanak and Guru Angad, Guru Amar Das obtained the supreme status.

⁷And when the call came for Him to depart, He merged in the Name of the Lord.

⁸Through devotional worship in this world, the imperishable, immovable, immeasurable Lord is found. ||1||

⁹The Guru gladly accepted the Lord's Will, and so the Guru easily reached the Lord God's Presence.

¹⁰The True Guru prays to the Lord, "Please, save my honor. This is my prayer".

¹¹Please save the honor of Your humble servant, O Lord; please bless him with Your Immaculate Name.

¹²At this time of final departure, it is our only help and support; it destroys death, and the Messenger of Death.

¹³The Lord God heard the prayer of the True Guru, and granted His request.

¹⁴The Lord showered His Mercy, and blended the True Guru with Himself; He said, "Blessed! Blessed! Wonderful!" ||2||

¹⁵Listen O my Sikhs, my children and Siblings of Destiny; it is my Lord's Will that I must now go to Him.

¹⁶The Guru gladly accepted the Lord's Will, and my Lord God applauded Him.

¹⁷One who is pleased with the Lord God's Will is a devotee, the True Guru, the Primal Lord.

¹⁸The unstruck sound current of bliss resounds and vibrates; the Lord hugs him close in His embrace.

¹⁹O my children, siblings and family, look carefully in your minds, and see.

²⁰The pre-ordained death warrant cannot be avoided; the Guru is going to be with the Lord God. ||3||

²¹The True Guru, in His Own Sweet Will, sat up and summoned His family.

²²Let no one weep for me after I am gone. That would not please me at all.

²³When a friend receives a robe of honor, then his friends are pleased with his honor.

²⁴Consider this and see, O my children and siblings; the Lord has given the True Guru the robe of supreme honor.

²⁵The True Guru Himself sat up, and appointed the successor to the Throne of Raja Yoga, the Yoga of Meditation and Success.

²⁶All the Sikhs, relatives, children and siblings have fallen at the Feet of Guru Ram Das. ||4||

²⁷Finally, the True Guru said, "When I am gone, sing Kirtan in Praise of the Lord, in Nirvaanaa."

²⁸Call in the long-haired scholarly Saints of the Lord, to read the sermon of the Lord, Har, Har.

²⁹Read the sermon of the Lord, and listen to the Lord's Name; the Guru is pleased with love for the Lord.

³⁰Do not bother with offering rice-balls on leaves, lighting lamps, and other rituals like floating the body out on the Ganges; instead, let my remains be given up to the Lord's Pool.

³¹The Lord was pleased as the True Guru spoke; he was blended then with the all-knowing Primal Lord God.

³²The Guru then blessed the Sodhi Ram Das with the ceremonial tilak mark, the insignia of the True Word of the Shabad. ||5||

¹And as the True Guru, the Primal Lord spoke, and the Gursikhs obeyed His Will.

²His son Mohri turned sunmukh, and become obedient to Him; he bowed, and touched Ram Das' feet.

³Then, everyone bowed and touched the feet of Ram Das, into whom the Guru infused His essence.

⁴And any that did not bow then because of envy - later, the True Guru brought them around to bow in humility.

⁵It pleased the Guru, the Lord, to bestow glorious greatness upon Him; such was the pre-ordained destiny of the Lord's Will.

⁶Says Sundar, listen, O Saints: all the world fell at His feet. ||6||1||

⁷Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl, Chhant:

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

⁹Friend, my Friend - standing so near to me is my Friend!

¹⁰Beloved, the Lord my Beloved - with my eyes, I have seen the Lord, my Beloved!

¹¹With my eyes I have seen Him, sleeping upon the bed within each and every heart; my Beloved is the sweetest ambrosial nectar.

¹²He is with all, but he cannot be found; the fool does not know His taste.

¹³Intoxicated with the wine of Maya, the mortal babbles on about trivial affairs; giving in to the illusion, he cannot meet the Lord.

¹⁴Says Nanak, without the Guru, he cannot understand the Lord, the Friend who is standing near everyone. ||1||

¹⁵God, my God - the Support of the breath of life is my God.

¹⁶Merciful Lord, my Merciful Lord - the Giver of gifts is my Merciful Lord.

¹⁷The Giver of gifts is infinite and unlimited; deep within each and every heart, He is so beautiful!

¹⁸He created Maya, His slave, so powerfully pervasive - she has enticed all beings and creatures.

¹⁹One whom the Lord saves, chants the True Name, and contemplates the Word of the Guru's Shabad.

²⁰Says Nanak, one who is pleasing to God - God is very dear to him. ||2||

²¹I take pride, I take pride in God; I take pride in my God.

²²Wise, God is wise; my Lord and Master is all-wise, and all-knowing.

²³All-wise and all-knowing, and forever supreme; the Name of the Lord is Ambrosial Nectar.

²⁴Those who have such pre-ordained destiny recorded upon their foreheads, taste it, and are satisfied with the Lord of the Universe.

²⁵They meditate on Him, and find Him; they place all their pride in Him.

²⁶Says Nanak, He is seated on His eternal throne; True is His royal court. ||3||

²⁷The song of joy, the Lord's song of joy; listen to the song of joy of my God.

²⁸The wedding song, God's wedding song; the unstruck sound current of His wedding song resounds.

²⁹The unstruck sound current vibrates, and the Word of the Shabad resounds; there is continuous, continual rejoicing.

³⁰Meditating on that God, everything is obtained; He does not die, or come or go.

³¹Thirst is quenched, and hopes are fulfilled; the Gurmukh meets with the absolute, unmanifest Lord.

³²Says Nanak, in the Home of my God, the songs of joy are continuously, continually heard. ||4||1||

¹Raamkalee Fifth Mehl:

²Meditate on the Lord, Har, Har, O mind; don't forget Him, even for an instant.

³Enshrine the Lord, Raam, Raam, Raam, Raam, within your heart and throat.

⁴Enshrine within your heart the Primal Lord, Har, Har, the all-pervading, supreme, immaculate Lord God.

⁵He sends fear far away; He is the Destroyer of sin; He eradicates the unbearable pains of the terrifying world-ocean.

⁶Contemplate the Lord of the World, the Cherisher of the World, the Lord, the Virtuous Lord of the Universe.

⁷Prays Nanak, joining the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, remember the Lord, day and night. ||1||

⁸His lotus feet are the support and anchor of His humble servants.

⁹He takes the Naam, the Name of the Infinite Lord, as his wealth, property and treasure.

¹⁰Those who have the treasure of the Lord's Name, enjoy the taste of the One Lord.

¹¹They meditate on the Infinite Lord with each and every breath, as their pleasure, joy and beauty.

¹²The Naam, the Name of the Lord, is the Destroyer of sins, the only deed of redemption. The Naam drives out the fear of the Messenger of Death.

¹³Prays Nanak, the support of His lotus feet is the capital of His humble servant. ||2||

¹⁴Your Glorious Virtues are endless, O my Lord and Master; no one knows them all.

¹⁵Seeing and hearing of Your wondrous plays, O Merciful Lord, Your devotees narrate them.

¹⁶All beings and creatures meditate on You, O Primal Transcendent Lord, Master of men.

¹⁷All beings are beggars; You are the One Giver, O Lord of the Universe, Embodiment of mercy.

¹⁸He alone is holy, a Saint, a truly wise person, who is accepted by the Dear Lord.

¹⁹Prays Nanak, they alone realize You, unto whom You show Mercy. ||3||

²⁰I am unworthy and without any master; I seek Your Sanctuary, Lord.

²¹I am a sacrifice, a sacrifice, a sacrifice to the Divine Guru, who has implanted the Naam within me.

²²The Guru blessed me with the Naam; happiness came, and all my desires were fulfilled.

²³The fire of desire has been quenched, and peace and tranquility have come; after such a long separation, I have met my Lord again.

²⁴I have found ecstasy, pleasure and true intuitive poise, singing the great glories, the song of bliss of the Lord.

²⁵Prays Nanak, I have obtained the Name of God from the Perfect Guru. ||4||2||

²⁶Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

²⁷Rise early each morning, and with the Saints, sing the melodious harmony, the unstruck sound current of the Shabad.

²⁸All sins and sufferings are erased, chanting the Lord's Name, under Guru's Instructions.

²⁹Dwell upon the Lord's Name, and drink in the Nectar; day and night, worship and adore Him.

³⁰The merits of Yoga, charity and religious rituals are obtained by grasping His lotus feet.

³¹Loving devotion to the merciful, enticing Lord takes away all pain.

³²Prays Nanak, cross over the world-ocean, meditating on the Lord, your Lord and Master. ||1||

³³Meditation on the Lord of the Universe is an ocean of peace; Your devotees sing Your Glorious Praises, Lord.

³⁴Ecstasy, bliss and great happiness are obtained by grasping hold of the Guru's feet.

³⁵Meeting with the treasure of peace, their pains are taken away; granting His Grace, God protects them.

³⁶Those who grasp the Lord's feet - their fears and doubts run away, and they chant the Name of the Lord.

³⁷He thinks of the One Lord, and he sings of the One God; he gazes upon the One Lord alone.

¹Prays Nanak, God has granted His Grace, and I have found the Perfect True Guru. ||2||

²Meet with the holy, humble servants of God; meeting with the Lord, listen to the Kirtan of His Praises.

³God is the Merciful Master, the Lord of wealth; there is no end to His Virtues.

⁴The Merciful Lord is the Dispeller of pain, the Giver of Sanctuary, the Eradicator of all evil.

⁵Emotional attachment, sorrow, corruption and pain - chanting the Naam, the Name of the Lord, one is saved from these.

⁶All beings are Yours, O my God; bless me with Your Mercy, that I may become the dust under the feet of all men.

⁷Prays Nanak, O God, be kind to me, that I may chant Your Name, and live. ||3||

⁸God saves His humble devotees, attaching them to His feet.

⁹Twenty-four hours a day, they meditate in remembrance on their God; they meditae on the One Name.

¹⁰Meditating on that God, they cross over the terrifying world-ocean, and their comings and goings cease.

¹¹They enjoy eternal peace and pleasure, singing the Kirtan of God's Praises; His Will seems so sweet to them.

¹²All my desires are fulfilled, meeting with the Perfect True Guru.

¹³Prays Nanak, God has blended me with Himself; I shall never suffer pain or sorrow again. ||4||3||

¹⁴Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl, Chhant.

¹⁵Salok:

¹⁶In the Sanctuary of His lotus feet, I sing His Glorious Praises in ecstasy and bliss.

¹⁷O Nanak, worship God in adoration, the Eradicator of misfortune. ||1||

¹⁸Chhant:

¹⁹God is the Eradicator of misfortune; there is none other than Him.

²⁰Forever and ever, remember the Lord in meditation; He is permeating the water, the land and the sky.

²¹He is permeating and pervading the water, the land and the sky; do not forget Him from your mind, even for an instant.

²²Blessed was that day, when I grasped the Guru's feet; all virtues rest in the Lord of the Universe.

²³So serve Him day and night, O servant; whatever pleases Him, happens.

²⁴Nanak is a sacrifice to the Giver of peace; his mind and body are enlightened. ||1||

²⁵Salok:

²⁶Meditating in remembrance on the Lord, the mind and body find peace; the thought of duality is dispelled.

²⁷Nanak takes the support of the Lord of the World, the Lord of the Universe, the Destroyer of troubles. ||1||

²⁸Chhant:

²⁹The Merciful Lord has eradicated my fears and troubles.

³⁰In ecstasy, I sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord; God is the Cherisher, the Master of the meek.

³¹The Cherishing Lord is imperishable, the One and only Primal Lord; I am imbued with His Love.

³²When I placed my hands and forehead upon His Feet, He blended me with Himself; I became awake and aware forever, night and day.

³³My soul, body, household and home belong to Him, along with my body, youth, wealth and property.

³⁴Forever and ever, Nanak is a sacrifice to Him, who cherishes and nurtures all beings. ||2||

³⁵Salok:

³⁶My tongue chants the Name of the Lord, and chants the Glorious Praises of the Lord of the Universe.

³⁷Nanak has grasped the sheltering support of the One Transcendent Lord, who shall save him in the end. ||1||

³⁸Chhant:

³⁹He is God, our Lord and Master, our Saving Grace. Grab hold of the hem of His robe.

⁴⁰Vibrate, and meditate on the Merciful Divine Lord in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy; renounce your intellectual mind.

¹Seek the Support of the One Lord, and surrender your soul to Him; place your hopes only in the Sustainer of the World.

²Those who are imbued with the Lord's Name, in the Saadh Sangat, cross over the terrifying world-ocean.

³The corrupting sins of birth and death are eradicated, and no stain ever sticks to them again.

⁴Nanak is a sacrifice to the Perfect Primal Lord; His marriage is eternal. ||3||

⁵Salok:

⁶Righteous faith, wealth, fulfilment of desires and salvation; the Lord bestows these four blessings.

⁷One who has such pre-ordained destiny upon his forehead, O Nanak, has all his desires fulfilled. ||1||

⁸Chhant:

⁹All my desires are fulfilled, meeting with my Immaculate, Sovereign Lord.

¹⁰I am in ecstasy, O very fortunate ones; the Dear Lord has become manifest in my own home.

¹¹My Beloved has come to my home, because of my past actions; how can I count His Glories?

¹²The Lord, the Giver of peace and intuition, is infinite and perfect; with what tongue can I describe His Glorious Virtues?

¹³He hugs me close in His embrace, and merges me into Himself; there is no place of rest other than Him.

¹⁴Nanak is forever a sacrifice to the Creator, who is contained in, and permeating all. ||4||4||

¹⁵Raag Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁶Sing the melodious harmonies, O my companions, and meditate on the One Lord.

¹⁷Serve your True Guru, O my companions, and you shall obtain the fruits of your mind's desires.

¹⁸Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl, Ruti ~ The Seasons. Salok:

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

²⁰Bow to the Supreme Lord God, and seek the dust of the feet of the Holy.

²¹Cast out your self-conceit, and vibrate, meditate, on the Lord, Har, Har. O Nanak, God is all-pervading. ||1||

²²He is the Eradicator of sins, the Destroyer of fear, the Ocean of peace, the Sovereign Lord King.

²³Merciful to the meek, the Destroyer of pain: O Nanak, always meditate on Him. ||2||

²⁴Chhant:

²⁵Sing His Praises, O very fortunate ones, and the Dear Lord God shall bless you with His Mercy.

²⁶Blessed and auspicious is that season, that month, that moment, that hour, when you chant the Lord's Glorious Praises.

²⁷Blessed are those humble beings, who are imbued with love for His Praises, and who meditate single-mindedly on Him.

²⁸Their lives become fruitful, and they find that Lord God.

²⁹Donations to charities and religious rituals are not equal to meditation on the Lord, who destroys all sins.

³⁰Prays Nanak, meditating in remembrance on Him, I live; birth and death are finished for me. ||1||

³¹Salok:

³²Strive for the inaccessible and unfathomable Lord, and bow in humility to His lotus feet.

³³O Nanak, that sermon alone is pleasing to You, Lord, which inspires us to take the Support of the Name. ||1||

³⁴Seek the Sanctuary of the Saints, O friends; meditate in remembrance on your infinite Lord and Master.

³⁵The dried branch shall blossom forth in its greenery again, O Nanak, meditating on the Lord God. ||2||

³⁶Chhant:

³⁷The season of spring is delightful; the months of Chayt and Baisaakhi are the most pleasant months.

³⁸I have obtained the Dear Lord as my Husband, and my mind, body and breath have blossomed forth.

³⁹The eternal, unchanging Lord has come into my home as my Husband, O my companions; dwelling upon His lotus feet, I blossom forth in bliss.

¹The Lord of the Universe is beautiful, proficient, wise and all-knowing;

²His Virtues are priceless. By great good fortune, I have found Him; my pain is dispelled, and my hopes are fulfilled.

³Prays Nanak, I have entered Your Sanctuary, Lord, and my fear of death is eradicated. ||2||

⁴Salok:

⁵Without the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, one dies wandering around in confusion, performing all sorts of rituals.

⁶O Nanak, all are bound by the attractive bonds of Maya, and the karmic record of past actions. ||1||

⁷Those who are pleasing to God are united with Him; He separates others from Himself.

⁸Nanak has entered the Sanctuary of God; His greatness is glorious! ||2||

⁹Chhant:

¹⁰In the summer season, in the months of Jayt'h and Asaarh, the heat is terrible, intense and severe.

¹¹The discarded bride is separated from His Love, and the Lord does not even look at her.

¹²She does not see her Lord, and she dies with an aching sigh; she is defrauded and plundered by her great pride.

¹³She flails around, like a fish out of water; attached to Maya, she is alienated from the Lord.

¹⁴She sins, and so she is fearful of reincarnation; the Messenger of Death will surely punish her.

¹⁵Prays Nanak, take me under Your sheltering support, Lord, and protect me; You are the Fulfiller of desire. ||3||

¹⁶Salok:

¹⁷With loving faith, I am attached to my Beloved; I cannot survive without Him, even for an instant.

¹⁸He is permeating and pervading my mind and body, O Nanak, with intuitive ease. ||1||

¹⁹My Friend has taken me by the hand; He has been my best friend, lifetime after lifetime.

²⁰He has made me the slave of His feet; O Nanak, my consciousness is filled with love for God. ||2||

²¹Chhant:

²²The rainy season is beautiful; the months of Saawan and Bhaadon bring bliss.

²³The clouds are low, and heavy with rain; the waters and the lands are filled with honey.

²⁴God is all-pervading everywhere; the nine treasures of the Lord's Name fill the homes of all hearts.

²⁵Meditating in remembrance on the Lord and Master, the Searcher of hearts, all one's ancestry is saved.

²⁶No blemish sticks to that being who remains awake and aware in the Love of the Lord; the Merciful Lord is forever forgiving.

²⁷Prays Nanak, I have found my Husband Lord, who is forever pleasing to my mind. ||4||

²⁸Salok:

²⁹Thirsty with desire, I wander around; when will I behold the Lord of the World?

³⁰Is there any humble Saint, any friend, O Nanak, who can lead me to meet with God? ||1||

³¹Without meeting Him, I have no peace or tranquility; I cannot survive for a moment, even for an instant.

³²Entering the Sanctuary of the Lord's Holy Saints, O Nanak, my desires are fulfilled. ||2||

³³Chhant:

³⁴In the cool, autumn season, in the months of Assu and Katik, I am thirsty for the Lord.

³⁵Searching for the Blessed Vision of His Darshan, I wander around wondering, when will I meet my Lord, the treasure of virtue?

³⁶Without my Beloved Husband Lord, I find no peace, and all my necklaces and bracelets become cursed.

³⁷So beautiful, so wise, so clever and knowing; still, without the breath, it is just a body.

³⁸I look here and there, in the ten directions; my mind is so thirsty to meet God!

³⁹Prays Nanak, shower Your Mercy upon me; unite me with Yourself, O God, O treasure of virtue. ||5||

⁴⁰Salok:

⁴¹The fire of desire is cooled and quenched; my mind and body are filled with peace and tranquility.

⁴²O Nanak, I have met my Perfect God; the illusion of duality is dispelled. ||1||

¹The Lord Himself sent His Holy Saints, to tell us that He is not far away.

²O Nanak, doubt and fear are dispelled, chanting the Name of the all-pervading Lord. ||2||

³Chhant:

⁴In the cold season of Maghar and Poh, the Lord reveals Himself.

⁵My burning desires were quenched, when I obtained the Blessed Vision of His Darshan; the fraudulent illusion of Maya is gone.

⁶All my desires have been fulfilled, meeting the Lord face-to-face; I am His servant, I serve at His feet.

⁷My necklaces, hair-ties, all decorations and adornments, are in singing the Glorious Praises of the unseen, mysterious Lord.

⁸I long for loving devotion to the Lord of the Universe, and so the Messenger of Death cannot even see me.

⁹Prays Nanak, God has united me with Himself; I shall never suffer separation from my Beloved again. ||6||

¹⁰Salok:

¹¹The happy soul bride has found the wealth of the Lord; her consciousness does not waver.

¹²Joining together with the Saints, O Nanak, God, my Friend, has revealed Himself in my home. ||1||

¹³With her Beloved Husband Lord, she enjoys millions of melodies, pleasures and joys.

¹⁴The fruits of the mind's desires are obtained, O Nanak, chanting the Lord's Name. ||2||

¹⁵Chhant:

¹⁶The snowy winter season, the months of Maagh and Phagun, are pleasing and ennobling to the mind.

¹⁷O my friends and companions, sing the songs of joy; my Husband Lord has come into my home.

¹⁸My Beloved has come into my home; I meditate on Him in my mind. The bed of my heart is beautifully adorned.

¹⁹The woods, the meadows and the three worlds have blossomed forth in their greenery; gazing upon the Blessed Vision of His Darshan, I am fascinated.

²⁰I have met my Lord and Master, and my desires are fulfilled; my mind chants His Immaculate Mantra.

²¹Prays Nanak, I celebrate continuously; I have met my Husband Lord, the Lord of excellence. ||7||

²²Salok:

²³The Saints are the helpers, the support of the soul; they carry us cross the terrifying world-ocean.

²⁴Know that they are the highest of all; O Nanak, they love the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||1||

²⁵Those who know Him, cross over; they are the brave heroes, the heroic warriors.

²⁶Nanak is a sacrifice to those who meditate on the Lord, and cross over to the other shore. ||2||

²⁷Chhant:

²⁸His feet are exalted above all. They eradicate all suffering.

²⁹They destroy the pains of coming and going. They bring loving devotion to the Lord.

³⁰Imbued with the Lord's Love, one is intoxicated with intuitive peace and poise, and does not forget the Lord from his mind, even for an instant.

³¹Shedding my self-conceit, I have entered the Sanctuary of His Feet; all virtues rest in the Lord of the Universe.

³²I bow in humility to the Lord of the Universe, the treasure of virtue, the Lord of excellence, our Primal Lord and Master.

³³Prays Nanak, shower me with Your Mercy, Lord; throughout the ages, You take the same form. ||8||1||6||8||

³⁴Raamkalee, First Mehl, Dakhanee, Ongkaar:

³⁵One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

³⁶From Ongkaar, the One Universal Creator God, Brahma was created.

³⁷He kept Ongkaar in his consciousness.

³⁸From Ongkaar, the mountains and the ages were created.

³⁹Ongkaar created the Vedas.

¹Ongkaar saves the world through the Shabad.

²Ongkaar saves the Gurmukhs.

³Listen to the Message of the Universal, Imperishable Creator Lord.

⁴The Universal, Imperishable Creator Lord is the essence of the three worlds. ||1||

⁵Listen, O Pandit, O religious scholar, why are you writing about worldly debates?

⁶As Gurmukh, write only the Name of the Lord, the Lord of the World. ||1||Pause||

⁷Sassa: He created the entire universe with ease; His One Light pervades the three worlds.

⁸Become Gurmukh, and obtain the real thing; gather the gems and pearls.

⁹If one understands, realizes and comprehends what he reads and studies, in the end he shall realize that the True Lord dwells deep within his nucleus.

¹⁰The Gurmukh sees and contemplates the True Lord; without the True Lord, the world is false. ||2||

¹¹Dhadha: Those who enshrine Dharmic faith and dwell in the City of Dharma are worthy; their minds are steadfast and stable.

¹²Dhadha: If the dust of their feet touches one's face and forehead, he is transformed from iron into gold.

¹³Blessed is the Support of the Earth; He Himself is not born; His measure and speech are perfect and True.

¹⁴Only the Creator Himself knows His own extent; He alone knows the Brave Guru. ||3||

¹⁵In love with duality, spiritual wisdom is lost; the mortal rots away in pride, and eats poison.

¹⁶He thinks that the sublime essence of the Guru's song is useless, and he does not like to hear it. He loses the profound, unfathomable Lord.

¹⁷Through the Guru's Words of Truth, the Ambrosial Nectar is obtained, and the mind and body find joy in the True Lord.

¹⁸He Himself is the Gurmukh, and He Himself bestows the Ambrosial Nectar; He Himself leads us to drink it in. ||4||

¹⁹Everyone says that God is the One and only, but they are engrossed in egotism and pride.

²⁰Realize that the One God is inside and outside; understand this, that the Mansion of His Presence is within the home of your heart.

²¹God is near at hand; do not think that God is far away. The One Lord permeates the entire universe.

²²There in One Universal Creator Lord; there is no other at all. O Nanak, merge into the One Lord. ||5||

²³How can you keep the Creator under your control? He cannot be seized or measured.

²⁴Maya has made the mortal insane; she has administered the poisonous drug of falsehood.

²⁵Addicted to greed and avarice, the mortal is ruined, and then later, he regrets and repents.

²⁶So serve the One Lord, and attain the state of Salvation; your comings and goings shall cease. ||6||

²⁷The One Lord is in all actions, colors and forms.

²⁸He manifests in many shapes through wind, water and fire.

²⁹The One Soul wanders through the three worlds.

³⁰One who understands and comprehends the One Lord is honored.

³¹One who gathers in spiritual wisdom and meditation, dwells in the state of balance.

³²How rare are those who, as Gurmukh, attain the One Lord.

³³They alone find peace, whom the Lord blesses with His Grace.

³⁴In the Gurdwara, the Guru's Door, they speak and hear of the Lord. ||7||

³⁵His Light illuminates the ocean and the earth.

³⁶Throughout the three worlds, is the Guru, the Lord of the World.

³⁷The Lord reveals His various forms;

³⁸granting His Grace, He enters the home of the heart.

³⁹The clouds hang low, and the rain is pouring down.

⁴⁰The Lord embellishes and exalts with the Sublime Word of the Shabad.

⁴¹One who knows the mystery of the One God,

⁴²is Himself the Creator, Himself the Divine Lord. ||8||

⁴³When the sun rises, the demons are slain;

⁴⁴the mortal looks upwards, and contemplates the Shabad.

⁴⁵The Lord is beyond the beginning and the end, beyond the three worlds.

⁴⁶He Himself acts, speaks and listens.

¹He is the Architect of Destiny; He blesses us with mind and body.

²That Architect of Destiny is in my mind and mouth.

³God is the Life of the world; there is no other at all.

⁴O Nanak, imbued with the Naam, the Name of the Lord, one is honored. ||9||

⁵One who lovingly chants the Name of the Sovereign Lord King,

⁶fights the battle and conquers his own mind;

⁷day and night, he remains imbued with the Lord's Love.

⁸He is famous throughout the three worlds and the four ages.

⁹One who knows the Lord, becomes like Him.

¹⁰He becomes absolutely immaculate, and his body is sanctified.

¹¹His heart is happy, in love with the One Lord.

¹²He lovingly centers his attention deep within upon the True Word of the Shabad. ||10||

¹³Don't be angry - drink in the Ambrosial Nectar; you shall not remain in this world forever.

¹⁴The ruling kings and the paupers shall not remain; they come and go, throughout the four ages.

¹⁵Everyone says that they will remain, but none of them remain; unto whom should I offer my prayer?

¹⁶The One Shabad, the Name of the Lord, will never fail you; the Guru grants honor and understanding. ||11||

¹⁷My shyness and hesitation have died and gone, and I walk with my face unveiled.

¹⁸The confusion and doubt from my crazy, insane mother-in-law has been removed from over my head.

¹⁹My Beloved has summoned me with joyful caresses; my mind is filled with the bliss of the Shabad.

²⁰Imbued with the Love of my Beloved, I have become Gurmukh, and carefree. ||12||

²¹Chant the jewel of the Naam, and earn the profit of the Lord.

²²Greed, avarice, evil and egotism;

²³slander, inuendo and gossip;

²⁴the self-willed manmukh is blind, foolish and ignorant.

²⁵For the sake of earning the profit of the Lord, the mortal comes into the world.

²⁶But he becomes a mere slave laborer, and is mugged by the mugger, Maya.

²⁷One who earns the profit of the Naam, with the capital of faith,

²⁸O Nanak, is truly honored by the True Supreme King. ||13||

²⁹The world is ruined on the path of Death.

³⁰No one has the power to erase Maya's influence.

³¹If wealth visits the home of the lowliest clown,

³²seeing that wealth, all pay their respects to him.

³³Even an idiot is thought of as clever, if he is rich.

³⁴Without devotional worship, the world is insane.

³⁵The One Lord is contained among all.

³⁶He reveals Himself, unto those whom He blesses with His Grace. ||14||

³⁷Throughout the ages, the Lord is eternally established; He has no vengeance.

³⁸He is not subject to birth and death; He is not entangled in worldly affairs.

³⁹Whatever is seen, is the Lord Himself.

⁴⁰Creating Himself, He establishes Himself in the heart.

⁴¹He Himself is unfathomable; He links people to their affairs.

⁴²He is the Way of Yoga, the Life of the World.

⁴³Living a righteous lifestyle, true peace is found.

⁴⁴Without the Naam, the Name of the Lord, how can anyone find liberation? ||15||

⁴⁵Without the Name, even one's own body is an enemy.

⁴⁶Why not meet the Lord, and take away the pain of your mind?

⁴⁷The traveller comes and goes along the highway.

⁴⁸What did he bring when he came, and what will he take away when he goes?

⁴⁹Without the Name, one loses everywhere.

⁵⁰The profit is earned, when the Lord grants understanding.

⁵¹In merchandise and trade, the merchant is trading.

⁵²Without the Name, how can one find honor and nobility? ||16||

⁵³One who contemplates the Lord's Virtues is spiritually wise.

⁵⁴Through His Virtues, one receives spiritual wisdom.

⁵⁵How rare in this world, is the Giver of virtue.

⁵⁶The True way of life comes through contemplation of the Guru.

⁵⁷The Lord is inaccessible and unfathomable. His worth cannot be estimated.

¹They alone meet Him, whom the Lord causes to meet.

²The virtuous soul bride continually contemplates His Virtues.

³O Nanak, following the Guru's Teachings, one meets the Lord, the true friend. ||17||

⁴Unfulfilled sexual desire and unresolved anger waste the body away,

⁵as gold is dissolved by borax.

⁶The gold is touched to the touchstone, and tested by fire;

⁷when its pure color shows through, it is pleasing to the eye of the assayer.

⁸The world is a beast, and arrogent Death is the butcher.

⁹The created beings of the Creator receive the karma of their actions.

¹⁰He who created the world, knows its worth.

¹¹What else can be said? There is nothing at all to say. ||18||

¹²Searching, searching, I drink in the Ambrosial Nectar.

¹³I have adopted the way of tolerance, and given my mind to the True Guru.

¹⁴Everyone calls himself true and genuine.

¹⁵He alone is true, who obtains the jewel throughout the four ages.

¹⁶Eating and drinking, one dies, but still does not know.

¹⁷He dies in an instant, when he realizes the Word of the Shabad.

¹⁸His consciousness becomes permanently stable, and his mind accepts death.

¹⁹By Guru's Grace, he realizes the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||19||

²⁰The Profound Lord dwells in the sky of the mind, the Tenth Gate;

²¹singing His Glorious Praises, one dwells in intuitive poise and peace.

²²He does not go to come, or come to go.

²³By Guru's Grace, he remains lovingly focused on the Lord.

²⁴The Lord of the mind-sky is inaccessible, independent and beyond birth.

²⁵The most worthy Samaadhi is to keep the consciousness stable, focused on Him.

²⁶Remembering the Lord's Name, one is not subject to reincarnation.

²⁷The Guru's Teachings are the most Excellent; all other ways lack the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||20||

²⁸Wandering to countless doorsteps and homes, I have grown weary.

²⁹My incarnations are countless, without limit.

³⁰I have had so many mothers and fathers, sons and daughters.

³¹I have had so many gurus and disciples.

³²Through a false guru, liberation is not found.

³³There are so many brides of the One Husband Lord - consider this.

³⁴The Gurmukh dies, and lives with God.

³⁵Searching in the ten directions, I found Him within my own home.

³⁶I have met Him; the True Guru has led me to meet Him. ||21||

³⁷The Gurmukh sings, and the Gurmukh speaks.

³⁸The Gurmukh evaluates the value of the Lord, and inspires others to evaluate Him as well.

³⁹The Gurmukh comes and goes without fear.

⁴⁰His filth is taken away, and his stains are burnt off.

⁴¹The Gurmukh contemplates the sound current of the Naad for his Vedas.

⁴²The Gurmukh's cleansing bath is the performance of good deeds.

⁴³For the Gurmukh, the Shabad is the most excellent Ambrosial Nectar.

⁴⁴O Nanak, the Gurmukh crosses over. ||22||

⁴⁵The fickle consciousness does not remain stable.

⁴⁶The deer secretly nibbles at the green sprouts.

⁴⁷One who enshrines the Lord's lotus feet in his heart and consciousness

⁴⁸lives long, always remembering the Lord.

⁴⁹Everyone has worries and cares.

⁵⁰He alone finds peace, who thinks of the One Lord.

⁵¹When the Lord dwells in the consciousness, and one is absorbed in the Lord's Name,

⁵²one is liberated, and returns home with honor. ||23||

⁵³The body falls apart, when one knot is untied.

⁵⁴Behold, the world is on the decline; it will be totally destroyed.

⁵⁵Only one who looks alike upon sunshine and shade

⁵⁶has his bonds shattered; he is liberated and returns home.

⁵⁷Maya is empty and petty; she has defrauded the world.

⁵⁸Such destiny is pre-ordained by past actions.

⁵⁹Youth is wasting away; old age and death hover above the head.

¹The body falls apart, like algae upon the water. ||24||

²God Himself appears throughout the three worlds.

³Throughout the ages, He is the Great Giver; there is no other at all.

⁴As it pleases You, You protect and preserve us.

⁵I ask for the Lord's Praises, which bless me with honor and credit.

⁶Remaining awake and aware, I am pleasing to You, O Lord.

⁷When You unite me with Yourself, then I am merged in You.

⁸I chant Your Victorious Praises, O Life of the World.

⁹Accepting the Guru's Teachings, one is sure to merge in the One Lord. ||25||

¹⁰Why do you speak such nonsense, and argue with the world?

¹¹You shall die repenting, when you see your own insanity.

¹²He is born, only to die, but he does not wish to live.

¹³He comes hopeful, and then goes, without hope.

¹⁴Regretting, repenting and grieving, he is dust mixing with dust.

¹⁵Death does not chew up one who sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord.

¹⁶The nine treasures are obtained through the Name of the Lord;

¹⁷the Lord bestows intuitive peace and poise. ||26||

¹⁸He speaks spiritual wisdom, and He Himself understands it.

¹⁹He Himself knows it, and He Himself comprehends it.

²⁰One who takes the Words of the Guru into his very fiber,

²¹is immaculate and holy, and is pleasing to the True Lord.

²²In the ocean of the Guru, there is no shortage of pearls.

²³The treasure of jewels is truly inexhaustible.

²⁴Do those deeds which the Guru has ordained.

²⁵Why are you chasing after the Guru's actions?

²⁶O Nanak, through the Guru's Teachings, merge in the True Lord. ||27||

²⁷Love is broken, when one speaks in defiance.

²⁸The arm is broken, when it is pulled from both sides.

²⁹Love breaks, when the speech goes sour.

³⁰The Husband Lord abandons and leaves behind the evil-minded bride.

³¹The broken knot is tied again, through contemplation and meditation.

³²Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, one's affairs are resolved in one's own home.

³³One who earns the profit of the True Name, will not lose it again;

³⁴the Lord and Master of the three worlds is your best friend. ||28||

³⁵Control your mind, and keep it in its place.

³⁶The world is destroyed by conflict, regretting its sinful mistakes.

³⁷There is one Husband Lord, and all are His brides.

³⁸The false bride wears many costumes.

³⁹He stops her from going into the homes of others;

⁴⁰He summons her to the Mansion of His Presence, and no obstacles block her path.

⁴¹She is embellished with the Word of the Shabad, and is loved by the True Lord.

⁴²She is the happy soul bride, who takes the Support of her Lord and Master. ||29||

⁴³Wandering and roaming around, O my companion, your beautiful robes are torn.

⁴⁴In jealousy, the body is not at peace; without the Fear of God, multitudes are ruined.

⁴⁵One who remains dead within her own home, through the Fear of God, is looked upon with favor by her all-knowing Husband Lord.

⁴⁶She maintains fear of her Guru, and chants the Name of the Fearless Lord.

⁴⁷Living on the mountain, I suffer such great thirst; when I see Him, I know that He is not far away.

⁴⁸My thirst is quenched, and I have accepted the Word of the Shabad. I drink my fill of the Ambrosial Nectar.

⁴⁹Everyone says, "Give! Give!" As He pleases, He gives.

⁵⁰Through the Gurdwara, the Guru's Door, He gives, and quenches the thirst. ||30||

⁵¹Searching and seeking, I fell down and collapsed upon the bank of the river of life.

⁵²Those who are heavy with sin sink down, but those who are light swim across.

⁵³I am a sacrifice to those who meet the immortal and immeasurable Lord.

⁵⁴The dust of their feet brings emancipation; in their company, we are united in the Lord's Union.

⁵⁵I gave my mind to my Guru, and received the Immaculate Name.

¹I serve the One who gave me the Naam; I am a sacrifice to Him.

²He who builds, also demolishes; there is no other than Him.

³By Guru's Grace, I contemplate Him, and then my body does not suffer in pain. ||31||

⁴No one is mine - whose gown should I grasp and hold? No one ever was, and no one shall ever be mine.

⁵Coming and going, one is ruined, afflicted with the disease of dual-mindedness.

⁶Those beings who lack the Naam, the Name of the Lord, collapse like pillars of salt.

⁷Without the Name, how can they find release? They fall into hell in the end.

⁸Using a limited number of words, we describe the unlimited True Lord.

⁹The ignorant lack understanding. Without the Guru, there is no spiritual wisdom.

¹⁰The separated soul is like the broken string of a guitar, which does not vibrate its sound.

¹¹God unites the separated souls with Himself, awakening their destiny. ||32||

¹²The body is the tree, and the mind is the bird; the birds in the tree are the five senses.

¹³They peck at the essence of reality, and merge with the One Lord. They are never trapped at all.

¹⁴But the others fly away in a hurry, when they see the food.

¹⁵Their feathers are clipped, and they are caught in the noose; through their mistakes, they are caught in disaster.

¹⁶Without the True Lord, how can anyone find release? The jewel of the Lord's Glorious Praises comes by the karma of good actions.

¹⁷When He Himself releases them, only then are they released. He Himself is the Great Master.

¹⁸By Guru's Grace, they are released, when He Himself grants His Grace.

¹⁹Glorious greatness rests in His Hands. He blesses those with whom He is pleased. ||33||

²⁰The soul trembles and shakes, when it loses its mooring and support.

²¹Only the support of the True Lord brings honor and glory. Through it, one's works are never in vain.

²²The Lord is eternal and forever stable; the Guru is stable, and contemplation upon the True Lord is stable.

²³O Lord and Master of angels, men and Yogic masters, You are the support of the unsupported.

²⁴In all places and interspaces, You are the Giver, the Great Giver.

²⁵Wherever I look, there I see You, Lord; You have no end or limitation.

²⁶You are pervading and permeating the places and interspaces; reflecting upon the Word of the Guru's Shabad, You are found.

²⁷You give gifts even when they are not asked for; You are great, inaccessible and infinite. ||34||

²⁸O Merciful Lord, You are the embodiment of mercy; creating the Creation, You behold it.

²⁹Please shower Your Mercy upon me, O God, and unite me with Yourself. In an instant, You destroy and rebuild.

³⁰You are all-wise and all-seeing; You are the Greatest Giver of all givers.

³¹He is the Eradicator of poverty, and the Destroyer of pain; the Gurmukh realizes spiritual wisdom and meditation. ||35||

³²Losing his wealth, he cries out in anguish; the fool's consciousness is engrossed in wealth.

³³How rare are those who gather the wealth of Truth, and love the Immaculate Naam, the Name of the Lord.

³⁴If by losing your wealth, you may become absorbed in the Love of the One Lord, then just let it go.

³⁵Dedicate your mind, and surrender your head; seek only the Support of the Creator Lord.

³⁶Worldly affairs and wanderings cease, when the mind is filled with the bliss of the Shabad.

³⁷Even one's enemies become friends, meeting with the Guru, the Lord of the Universe.

³⁸Wandering from forest to forest searching, you will find that those things are within the home of your own heart.

³⁹United by the True Guru, you shall remain united, and the pains of birth and death will be ended. ||36||

⁴⁰Through various rituals, one does not find release. Without virtue, one is sent to the City of Death.

⁴¹One will not have this world or the next; committing sinful mistakes, one comes to regret and repent in the end.

¹He has neither spiritual wisdom or meditation; neither Dharmic faith mor meditation.

²Without the Name, how can one be fearless? How can he understand egotistical pride?

³I am so tired - how can I get there? This ocean has no bottom or end.

⁴I have no loving companions, whom I can ask for help.

⁵O Nanak, crying out, "Beloved, Beloved", we are united with the Uniter.

⁶He who separated me, unites me again; my love for the Guru is infinite. ||37||

⁷Sin is bad, but it is dear to the sinner.

⁸He loads himself with sin, and expands his world through sin.

⁹Sin is far away from one who understands himself.

¹⁰He is not afflicted by sorrow or separation.

¹¹How can one avoid falling into hell? How can he cheat the Messenger of Death?

¹²How can coming and going be forgotten? Falsehood is bad, and death is cruel.

¹³The mind is enveloped by entanglements, and into entanglements it falls.

¹⁴Without the Name, how can anyone be saved? They rot away in sin. ||38||

¹⁵Again and again, the crow falls into the trap.

¹⁶Then he regrets it, but what can he do now?

¹⁷Even though he is trapped, he pecks at the food; he does not understand.

¹⁸If he meets the True Guru, then he sees with his eyes.

¹⁹Like a fish, he is caught in the noose of death.

²⁰Do not seek liberation from anyone else, except the Guru, the Great Giver.

²¹Over and over again, he comes; over and over again, he goes.

²²Be absorbed in love for the One Lord, and remain lovingly focused on Him.

²³In this way you shall be saved, and you shall not fall into the trap again. ||39||

²⁴She calls out, "Brother, O brother - stay, O brother!" But he becomes a stranger.

²⁵Her brother departs for his own home, and his sister burns with the pain of separation.

²⁶In this world, her father's home, the daughter, the innocent soul bride, loves her Young Husband Lord.

²⁷If you long for your Husband Lord, O soul bride, then serve the True Guru with love.

²⁸How rare are the spiritually wise, who meet the True Guru, and truly understand.

²⁹All glorious greatness rests in the Lord and Master's Hands. He grants them, when He is pleased.

³⁰How rare are those who contemplate the Word of the Guru's Bani; they become Gurmukh.

³¹This is the Bani of the Supreme Being; through it, one dwells within the home of his inner being. ||40||

³²Shattering and breaking apart, He creates and re-creates; creating, He shatters again. He builds up what He has demolished, and demolishes what He has built.

³³He dries up the pools which are full, and fills the dried tanks again. He is all-powerful and independent.

³⁴Deluded by doubt, they have gone insane; without destiny, what do they obtain?

³⁵The Gurmukhs know that God holds the string; wherever He pulls it, they must go.

³⁶Those who sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord, are forever imbued with His Love; they never again feel regret.

³⁷Bhabha: If someone seeks, and then becomes Gurmukh, then he comes to dwell in the home of his own heart.

³⁸Bhabha: The way of the terrifying world-ocean is treacherous. Remain free of hope, in the midst of hope, and you shall cross over.

³⁹By Guru's Grace, one comes to understand himself; in this way, he remains dead while yet alive. ||41||

⁴⁰Crying out for the wealth and riches of Maya, they die; but Maya does not go along with them.

⁴¹The soul-swan arises and departs, sad and depressed, leaving its wealth behind.

⁴²The false mind is hunted by the Messenger of Death; it carries its faults along when it goes.

⁴³The mind turns inward, and merges with mind, when it is with virtue.

¹Crying out, "Mine, mine!", they have died, but without the Name, they find only pain.

²So where are their forts, mansions, palaces and courts? They are like a short story.

³O Nanak, without the True Name, the false just come and go.

⁴He Himself is clever and so very beautiful; He Himself is wise and all-knowing. ||42||

⁵Those who come, must go in the end; they come and go, regretting and repenting.

⁶They will pass through 8.4 millions species; this number does not decrease or rise.

⁷They alone are saved, who love the Lord.

⁸Their worldly entanglements are ended, and Maya is conquered.

⁹Whoever is seen, shall depart; who should I make my friend?

¹⁰I dedicate my soul, and place my body and mind in offering before Him.

¹¹You are eternally stable, O Creator, Lord and Master; I lean on Your Support.

¹²Conquered by virtue, egotism is killed; imbued with the Word of the Shabad, the mind rejects the world. ||43||

¹³Neither the kings nor the nobles will remain; neither the rich nor the poor will remain.

¹⁴When one's turn comes, no one can stay here.

¹⁵The path is difficult and treacherous; the pools and mountains are impassable.

¹⁶My body is filled with faults; I am dying of grief. Without virtue, how can I enter my home?

¹⁷The virtuous take virtue, and meet God; how can I meet them with love?

¹⁸If ony I could be like them, chanting and meditating within my heart on the Lord.

¹⁹He is overflowing with faults and demerits, but virtue dwells within him as well.

²⁰Without the True Guru, he does not see God's Virtues; he does not chant the Glorious Virtues of God. ||44||

²¹God's soldiers take care of their homes; their pay is pre-ordained, before they come into the world.

²²They serve their Supreme Lord and Master, and obtain the profit.

²³They renounce greed, avarice and evil, and forget them from their minds.

²⁴In the fortress of the body, they announce the victory of their Supreme King; they are never ever vanquished.

²⁵One who calls himself a servant of his Lord and Master, and yet speaks defiantly to Him,

²⁶shall forfeit his pay, and not be seated upon the throne.

²⁷Glorious greatness rests in the hands of my Beloved; He gives, according to the Pleasure of His Will.

²⁸He Himself does everything; who else should we address? No one else does anything. ||45||

²⁹I cannot conceive of any other, who could be seated upon the royal cushions.

³⁰The Supreme Man of men eradicates hell; He is True, and True is His Name.

³¹I wandered around searching for Him in the forests and meadows; I contemplate Him within my mind.

³²The treasures of myriads of pearls, jewels and emeralds are in the hands of the True Guru.

³³Meeting with God, I am exalted and elevated; I love the One Lord single-mindedly.

³⁴O Nanak, one who lovingly meets with his Beloved, earns profit in the world hereafter.

³⁵He who created and formed the creation, made your form as well.

³⁶As Gurmukh, meditate on the Infinite Lord, who has no end or limitation. ||46||

³⁷Rharha: The Dear Lord is beautiful;

³⁸There is no other king, except Him.

³⁹Rharha: Listen to the spell, and the Lord will come to dwell in your mind.

⁴⁰By Guru's Grace, one finds the Lord; do not be deluded by doubt.

⁴¹He alone is the true banker, who has the capital of the wealth of the Lord.

⁴²The Gurmukh is perfect - applaud him!

⁴³Through the beautiful Word of the Guru's Bani, the Lord is obtained; contemplate the Word of the Guru's Shabad.

¹Self-conceit is eliminated, and pain is eradicated; the soul bride obtains her Husband Lord. ||47||

²He hoards gold and silver, but this wealth is false and poisonous, nothing more than ashes.

³He calls himself a banker, gathering wealth, but he is ruined by his dual-mindedness.

⁴The truthful ones gather Truth; the True Name is priceless.

⁵The Lord is immaculate and pure; through Him, their honor is true, and their speech is true.

⁶You are my friend and companion, all-knowing Lord; You are the lake, and You are the swan.

⁷I am a sacrifice to that being, whose mind is filled with the True Lord and Master.

⁸Know the One who created love and attachment to Maya, the Enticer.

⁹One who realizes the all-knowing Primal Lord, looks alike upon poison and nectar. ||48||

¹⁰Without patience and forgiveness, countless hundreds of thousands have perished.

¹¹Their numbers cannot be counted; how could I count them? Bothered and bewildered, uncounted numbers have died.

¹²One who realizes his Lord and Master is set free, and not bound by chains.

¹³Through the Word of the Shabad, enter the Mansion of the Lord's Presence; you shall be blessed with patience, forgiveness, truth and peace.

¹⁴Partake of the true wealth of meditation, and the Lord Himself shall abide within your body.

¹⁵With mind, body and mouth, chant His Glorious Virtues forever; courage and composure shall enter deep within your mind.

¹⁶Through egotism, one is distracted and ruined; other than the Lord, all things are corrupt.

¹⁷Forming His creatures, He placed Himself within them; the Creator is unattached and infinite. ||49||

¹⁸No one knows the mystery of the Creator of the World.

¹⁹Whatever the Creator of the World does, is certain to occur.

²⁰For wealth, some meditate on the Lord.

²¹By pre-ordained destiny, wealth is obtained.

²²For the sake of wealth, some become servants or thieves.

²³Wealth does not go along with them when they die; it passes into the hands of others.

²⁴Without Truth, honor is not obtained in the Court of the Lord.

²⁵Drinking in the subtle essence of the Lord, one is emancipated in the end. ||50||

²⁶Seeing and perceiving, O my companions, I am wonder-struck and amazed.

²⁷My egotism, which proclaimed itself in possessiveness and self-conceit, is dead. My mind chants the Word of the Shabad, and attains spiritual wisdom.

²⁸I am so tired of wearing all these necklaces, hair-ties and bracelets, and decorating myself.

²⁹Meeting with my Beloved, I have found peace; now, I wear the necklace of total virtue.

³⁰O Nanak, the Gurmukh attains the Lord, with love and affection.

³¹Without the Lord, who has found peace? Reflect upon this in your mind, and see.

³²Read about the Lord, understand the Lord, and enshrine love for the Lord.

³³Chant the Lord's Name, and meditate on the Lord; hold tight to the Support of the Name of the Lord. ||51||

³⁴The inscription inscribed by the Creator Lord cannot be erased, O my companions.

³⁵He who created the universe, in His Mercy, installs His Feet within us.

³⁶Glorious greatness rests in the Hands of the Creator; reflect upon the Guru, and understand this.

³⁷This inscription cannot be challenged. As it pleases You, You care for me.

³⁸By Your Glance of Grace, I have found peace; O Nanak, reflect upon the Shabad.

³⁹The self-willed manmukhs are confused; they rot away and die. Only by reflecting upon the Guru can they be saved.

⁴⁰What can anyone say, about that Primal Lord, who cannot be seen?

⁴¹I am a sacrifice to my Guru, who has revealed Him to me, within my own heart. ||52||

⁴²That Pandit, that religious scholar, is said to be well-educated, if he contemplates knowledge with intuitive ease.

¹Considering his knowledge, he finds the essence of reality, and lovingly focuses his attention on the Name of the Lord.

²The self-willed manmukh sells his knowledge; he earns poison, and eats poison.

³The fool does not think of the Word of the Shabad. He has no understanding, no comprehension. ||53||

⁴That Pandit is called Gurmukh, who imparts understanding to his students.

⁵Contemplate the Naam, the Name of the Lord; gather in the Naam, and earn the true profit in this world.

⁶With the true notebook of the true mind, study the most sublime Word of the Shabad.

⁷O Nanak, he alone is learned, and he alone is a wise Pandit, who wears the necklace of the Lord's Name. ||54||1||

⁸Raamkalee, First Mehl, Sidh Gosht ~ Conversations With The Siddhas:

⁹One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

¹⁰The Siddhas formed an assembly; sitting in their Yogic postures, they shouted, "Salute this gathering of Saints."

¹¹I offer my salutation to the One who is true, infinite and incomparably beautiful.

¹²I cut off my head, and offer it to Him; I dedicate my body and mind to Him.

¹³O Nanak, meeting with the Saints, Truth is obtained, and one is spontaneously blessed with distinction. ||1||

¹⁴What is the use of wandering around? Purity comes only through Truth.

¹⁵Without the True Word of the Shabad, no one finds liberation. ||1||Pause||

¹⁶Who are you? What is your name? What is your way? What is your goal?

¹⁷We pray that you will answer us truthfully; we are a sacrifice to the humble Saints.

¹⁸Where is your seat? Where do you live, boy? Where did you come from, and where are you going?

¹⁹Tell us, Nanak - the detached Siddhas wait to hear your reply. What is your path?" ||2||

²⁰He dwells deep within the nucleus of each and every heart. This is my seat and my home. I walk in harmony with the Will of the True Guru.

²¹I came from the Celestial Lord God; I go wherever He orders me to go. I am Nanak, forever under the Command of His Will.

²²I sit in the posture of the eternal, imperishable Lord. These are the Teachings I have received from the Guru.

²³As Gurmukh, I have come to understand and realize myself; I merge in the Truest of the True. ||3||

²⁴"The world-ocean is treacherous and impassable; how can one cross over?"

²⁵Charpat the Yogi says, "O Nanak, think it over, and give us your true reply."

²⁶What answer can I give to someone, who claims to understand himself?

²⁷I speak the Truth; if you have already crossed over, how can I argue with you? ||4||

²⁸The lotus flower floats untouched upon the surface of the water, and the duck swims through the stream;

²⁹with one's consciousness focused on the Word of the Shabad, one crosses over the terrifying world-ocean. O Nanak, chant the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

³⁰One who lives alone, as a hermit, enshrining the One Lord in his mind, remaining unaffected by hope in the midst of hope,

³¹sees and inspires others to see the inaccessible, unfathomable Lord. Nanak is his slave. ||5||

³²"Listen, Lord, to our prayer. We seek your true opinion.

³³Don't be angry with us - please tell us: How can we find the Guru's Door?"

³⁴This fickle mind sits in its true home, O Nanak, through the Support of the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

³⁵The Creator Himself unites us in Union, and inspires us to love the Truth. ||6||

³⁶"Away from stores and highways, we live in the woods, among plants and trees.

³⁷For food, we take fruits and roots. This is the spiritual wisdom spoken by the renunciates.

¹We bathe at sacred shrines of pilgrimage, and obtain the fruits of peace; not even an iota of filth sticks to us.

²Luhaareepaa, the disciple of Gorakh says, this is the Way of Yoga." ||7||

³In the stores and on the road, do not sleep; do not let your consciousness covet anyone else's home.

⁴Without the Name, the mind has no firm support; O Nanak, this hunger never departs.

⁵The Guru has revealed the stores and the city within the home of my own heart, where I intuitively carry on the true trade.

⁶Sleep little, and eat little; O Nanak, this is the essence of wisdom. ||8||

⁷"Wear the robes of the sect of Yogis who follow Gorakh; put on the ear-rings, begging wallet and patched coat.

⁸Among the twelve schools of Yoga, ours is the highest; among the six schools of philosophy, ours is the best path.

⁹This is the way to instruct the mind, so you will never suffer beatings again."

¹⁰Nanak speaks: the Gurmukh understands; this is the way that Yoga is attained. ||9||

¹¹Let constant absorption in the Word of the Shabad deep within be your ear-rings; eradicate egotism and attachment.

¹²Discard sexual desire, anger and egotism, and through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, attain true understanding.

¹³For your patched coat and begging bowl, see the Lord God pervading and permeating everywhere; O Nanak, the One Lord will carry you across.

¹⁴True is our Lord and Master, and True is His Name. Analyze it, and you shall find the Word of the Guru to be True. ||10||

¹⁵Let your mind turn away in detachment from the world, and let this be your begging bowl. Let the lessons of the five elements be your cap.

¹⁶Let the body be your meditation mat, and the mind your loin cloth.

¹⁷Let truth, contentment and self-discipline be your companions.

¹⁸O Nanak, the Gurmukh dwells on the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||11||

¹⁹"Who is hidden? Who is liberated?

²⁰Who is united, inwardly and outwardly?

²¹Who comes, and who goes?

²²Who is permeating and pervading the three worlds?" ||12||

²³He is hidden within each and every heart. The Gurmukh is liberated.

²⁴Through the Word of the Shabad, one is united, inwardly and outwardly.

²⁵The self-willed manmukh perishes, and comes and goes.

²⁶O Nanak, the Gurmukh merges in Truth. ||13||

²⁷"How is one placed in bondage, and consumed by the serpent of Maya?

²⁸How does one lose, and how does one gain?

²⁹How does one become immaculate and pure? How is the darkness of ignorance removed?

³⁰One who understands this essence of reality is our Guru." ||14||

³¹Man is bound by evil-mindedness, and consumed by Maya, the serpent.

³²The self-willed manmukh loses, and the Gurmukh gains.

³³Meeting the True Guru, darkness is dispelled.

³⁴O Nanak, eradicating egotism, one merges in the Lord. ||15||

³⁵Focused deep within, in perfect absorption,

³⁶the soul-swan does not fly away, and the body-wall does not collapse.

³⁷Then, one knows that his true home is in the cave of intuitive poise.

³⁸O Nanak, the True Lord loves those who are truthful. ||16||

³⁹"Why have you left your house and become a wandering Udaasee?

⁴⁰Why have you adopted these religious robes?

⁴¹What merchandise do you trade?

⁴²How will you carry others across with you?" ||17||

⁴³I became a wandering Udaasee, searching for the Gurmukhs.

⁴⁴I have adopted these robes seeking the Blessed Vision of the Lord's Darshan.

⁴⁵I trade in the merchandise of Truth.

⁴⁶O Nanak, as Gurmukh, I carry others across. ||18||

⁴⁷"How have you changed the course of your life?

⁴⁸With what have you linked your mind?

¹How have you subdued your hopes and desires?

²How have you found the Light deep within your nucleus?

³Without teeth, how can you eat iron?

⁴Give us your true opinion, Nanak." ||19||

⁵Born into the House of the True Guru, my wandering in reincarnation ended.

⁶My mind is attached and attuned to the unstruck sound current.

⁷Through the Word of the Shabad, my hopes and desires have been burnt away.

⁸As Gurmukh, I found the Light deep within the nucleus of my self.

⁹Eradicating the three qualities, one eats iron.

¹⁰O Nanak, the Emancipator emancipates. ||20||

¹¹"What can you tell us about the beginning? In what home did the absolute dwell then?

¹²What are the ear-rings of spiritual wisdom? Who dwells in each and every heart?

¹³How can one avoid the attack of death? How can one enter the home of fearlessness?

¹⁴How can one know the posture of intuition and contentment, and overcome one's adversaries?"

¹⁵Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, egotism and corruption are conquered, and then one comes to dwell in the home of the self within.

¹⁶One who realizes the Shabad of the One who created the creation - Nanak is his slave. ||21||

¹⁷"Where did we come from? Where are we going? Where will we be absorbed?

¹⁸One who reveals the meaning of this Shabad is the Guru, who has no greed at all.

¹⁹How can one find the essence of the unmanifest reality? How does one become Gurmukh, and enshrine love for the Lord?

²⁰He Himself is consciousness, He Himself is the Creator; share with us, Nanak, your wisdom."

²¹By His Command we come, and by His Command we go; by His Command, we merge in absorption.

²²Through the Perfect Guru, live the Truth; through the Word of the Shabad, the state of dignity is attained. ||22||

²³We can only express a sense of wonder about the beginning. The absolute abided endlessly deep within Himself then.

²⁴Consider freedom from desire to be the ear-rings of the Guru's spiritual wisdom. The True Lord, the Soul of all, dwells within each and every heart.

²⁵Through the Guru's Word, one merges in the absolute, and intuitively receives the immaculate essence.

²⁶O Nanak, that Sikh who seeks and finds the Way does not serve any other.

²⁷Wonderful and amazing is His Command; He alone realizes His Command and knows the true way of life of His creatures.

²⁸One who eradicates his self-conceit becomes free of desire; he alone is a Yogi, who enshrines the True Lord deep within. ||23||

²⁹From His state of absolute existence, He assumed the immaculate form; from formless, He assumed the supreme form.

³⁰By pleasing the True Guru, the supreme status is obtained, and one is absorbed in the True Word of the Shabad.

³¹He knows the True Lord as the One and only; he sends his egotism and duality far away.

³²He alone is a Yogi, who realizes the Word of the Guru's Shabad; the lotus of the heart blossoms forth within.

³³If one remains dead while yet alive, then he understands everything; he knows the Lord deep within himself, who is kind and compassionate to all.

³⁴O Nanak, he is blessed with glorious greatness; he realizes himself in all beings. ||24||

³⁵We emerge from Truth, and merge into Truth again. The pure being merges into the One True Lord.

³⁶The false come, and find no place of rest; in duality, they come and go.

³⁷This coming and going in reincarnation is ended through the Word of the Guru's Shabad; the Lord Himself analyzes and grants His forgiveness.

³⁸One who suffers from the disease of duality, forgets the Naam, the source of nectar.

¹He alone understands, whom the Lord inspires to understand. Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, one is liberated.

²O Nanak, the Emancipator emancipates one who drives out egotism and duality. ||25||

³The self-willed manmukhs are deluded, under the shadow of death.

⁴They look into the homes of others, and lose.

⁵The manmukhs are confused by doubt, wandering in the wilderness.

⁶Having lost their way, they are plundered; they chant their mantras at cremation grounds.

⁷They do not think of the Shabad; instead, they utter obscenities.

⁸O Nanak, those who are attuned to the Truth know peace. ||26||

⁹The Gurmukh lives in the Fear of God, the True Lord.

¹⁰Through the Word of the Guru's Bani, the Gurmukh refines the unrefined.

¹¹The Gurmukh sings the immaculate, Glorious Praises of the Lord.

¹²The Gurmukh attains the supreme, sanctified status.

¹³The Gurmukh meditates on the Lord with every hair of his body.

¹⁴O Nanak, the Gurmukh merges in Truth. ||27||

¹⁵The Gurmukh is pleasing to the True Guru; this is contemplation on the Vedas.

¹⁶Pleasing the True Guru, the Gurmukh is carried across.

¹⁷Pleasing the True Guru, the Gurmukh receives the spiritual wisdom of the Shabad.

¹⁸Pleasing the True Guru, the Gurmukh comes to know the path within.

¹⁹The Gurmukh attains the unseen and infinite Lord.

²⁰O Nanak, the Gurmukh finds the door of liberation. ||28||

²¹The Gurmukh speaks the unspoken wisdom.

²²In the midst of his family, the Gurmukh lives a spiritual life.

²³The Gurmukh lovingly meditates deep within.

²⁴The Gurmukh obtains the Shabad, and righteous conduct.

²⁵He knows the mystery of the Shabad, and inspires others to know it.

²⁶O Nanak, burning away his ego, he merges in the Lord. ||29||

²⁷The True Lord fashioned the earth for the sake of the Gurmukhs.

²⁸There, he set in motion the play of creation and destruction.

²⁹One who is filled with the Word of the Guru's Shabad enshrines love for the Lord.

³⁰Attuned to the Truth, he goes to his home with honor.

³¹Without the True Word of the Shabad, no one receives honor.

³²O Nanak, without the Name, how can one be absorbed in Truth? ||30||

³³The Gurmukh obtains the eight miraculous spiritual powers, and all wisdom.

³⁴The Gurmukh crosses over the terrifying world-ocean, and obtains true understanding.

³⁵The Gurmukh knows the ways of truth and untruth.

³⁶The Gurmukh knows worldliness and renunciation.

³⁷The Gurmukh crosses over, and carries others across as well.

³⁸O Nanak, the Gurmukh is emancipated through the Shabad. ||31||

³⁹Attuned to the Naam, the Name of the Lord, egotism is dispelled.

⁴⁰Attuned to the Naam, they remain absorbed in the True Lord.

⁴¹Attuned to the Naam, they contemplate the Way of Yoga.

⁴²Attuned to the Naam, they find the door of liberation.

⁴³Attuned to the Naam, they understand the three worlds.

⁴⁴O Nanak, attuned to the Naam, eternal peace is found. ||32||

⁴⁵Attuned to the Naam, they attain Sidh Gosht - conversation with the Siddhas.

⁴⁶Attuned to the Naam, they practice intense meditation forever.

⁴⁷Attuned to the Naam, they live the true and excellent lifestyle.

⁴⁸Attuned to the Naam, they contemplate the Lord's virtues and spiritual wisdom.

⁴⁹Without the Name, all that is spoken is useless.

⁵⁰O Nanak, attuned to the Naam, their victory is celebrated. ||33||

⁵¹Through the Perfect Guru, one obtains the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

⁵²The Way of Yoga is to remain absorbed in Truth.

⁵³The Yogis wander in the twelve schools of Yoga; the Sannyaasis in six and four.

⁵⁴One who remains dead while yet alive, through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, finds the door of liberation.

¹Without the Shabad, all are attached to duality. Contemplate this in your heart, and see.

²O Nanak, blessed and very fortunate are those who keep the True Lord enshrined in their hearts. ||34||

³The Gurmukh obtains the jewel, lovingly focused on the Lord.

⁴The Gurmukh intuitively recognizes the value of this jewel.

⁵The Gurmukh practices Truth in action.

⁶The mind of the Gurmukh is pleased with the True Lord.

⁷The Gurmukh sees the unseen, when it pleases the Lord.

⁸O Nanak, the Gurmukh does not have to endure punishment. ||35||

⁹The Gurmukh is blessed with the Name, charity and purification.

¹⁰The Gurmukh centers his meditation on the celestial Lord.

¹¹The Gurmukh obtains honor in the Court of the Lord.

¹²The Gurmukh obtains the Supreme Lord, the Destroyer of fear.

¹³The Gurmukh does good deeds, an inspires others to do so.

¹⁴O Nanak, the Gurmukh unites in the Lord's Union. ||36||

¹⁵The Gurmukh understands the Simritees, the Shaastras and the Vedas.

¹⁶The Gurmukh knows the secrets of each and every heart.

¹⁷The Gurmukh eliminates hate and envy.

¹⁸The Gurmukh erases all accounting.

¹⁹The Gurmukh is imbued with love for the Lord's Name.

²⁰O Nanak, the Gurmukh realizes his Lord and Master. ||37||

²¹Without the Guru, one wanders, coming and going in reincarnation.

²²Without the Guru, one's work is useless.

²³Without the Guru, the mind is totally unsteady.

²⁴Without the Guru, one is unsatisfied, and eats poison.

²⁵Without the Guru, one is stung by the poisonous snake of Maya, and dies.

²⁶O Nanak without the Guru, all is lost. ||38||

²⁷One who meets the Guru is carried across.

²⁸His sins are erased, and he is emancipated through virtue.

²⁹The supreme peace of liberation is attained, contemplating the Word of the Guru's Shabad.

³⁰The Gurmukh is never defeated.

³¹In the store of the body, this mind is the merchant;

³²O Nanak, it deals intuitively in Truth. ||39||

³³The Gurmukh is the bridge, built by the Architect of Destiny.

³⁴The demons of passion which plundered Sri Lanka - the body - have been conquered.

³⁵Ram Chand - the mind - has slaughtered Raawan - pride;

³⁶the Gurmukh understands the secret revealed by Babheekhan.

³⁷The Gurmukh carries even stones across the ocean.

³⁸The Gurmukh saves millions of people. ||40||

³⁹The comings and goings in reincarnation are ended for the Gurmukh.

⁴⁰The Gurmukh is honored in the Court of the Lord.

⁴¹The Gurmukh distinguishes the true from the false.

⁴²The Gurmukh focuses his meditation on the celestial Lord.

⁴³In the Court of the Lord, the Gurmukh is absorbed in His Praises.

⁴⁴O Nanak, the Gurmukh is not bound by bonds. ||41||

⁴⁵The Gurmukh obtains the Name of the Immaculate Lord.

⁴⁶Through the Shabad, the Gurmukh burns away his ego.

⁴⁷The Gurmukh sings the Glorious Praises of the True Lord.

⁴⁸The Gurmukh remains absorbed in the True Lord.

⁴⁹Through the True Name, the Gurmukh is honored and exalted.

⁵⁰O Nanak, the Gurmukh understands all the worlds. ||42||

⁵¹"What is the root, the source of all? What teachings hold for these times?

⁵²Who is your guru? Whose disciple are you?

⁵³What is that speech, by which you remain unattached?

⁵⁴Listen to what we say, O Nanak, you little boy.

⁵⁵Give us your opinion on what we have said.

⁵⁶How can the Shabad carry us across the terrifying world-ocean?" ||43||

¹From the air came the beginning. This is the age of the True Guru's Teachings.

²The Shabad is the Guru, upon whom I lovingly focus my consciousness; I am the chaylaa, the disciple.

³Speaking the Unspoken Speech, I remain unattached.

⁴O Nanak, throughout the ages, the Lord of the World is my Guru.

⁵I contemplate the sermon of the Shabad, the Word of the One God.

⁶The Gurmukh puts out the fire of egotism. ||44||

⁷"With teeth of wax, how can one chew iron?

⁸What is that food, which takes away pride?

⁹How can one live in the palace, the home of snow, wearing robes of fire?

¹⁰Where is that cave, within which one may remain unshaken?

¹¹Who should we know to be pervading here and there?

¹²What is that meditation, which leads the mind to be absorbed in itself?" ||45||

¹³Eradicating egotism and individualism from within,

¹⁴and erasing duality, the mortal becomes one with God.

¹⁵The world is difficult for the foolish, self-willed manmukh;

¹⁶practicing the Shabad, one chews iron.

¹⁷Know the One Lord, inside and out.

¹⁸O Nanak, the fire is quenched, through the Pleasure of the True Guru's Will. ||46||

¹⁹Imbued with the True Fear of God, pride is taken away;

²⁰realize that He is One, and contemplate the Shabad.

²¹With the True Shabad abiding deep within the heart,

²²the body and mind are cooled and soothed, and colored with the Lord's Love.

²³The fire of sexual desire, anger and corruption is quenched.

²⁴O Nanak, the Beloved bestows His Glance of Grace. ||47||

²⁵"The moon of the mind is cool and dark; how is it enlightened?

²⁶How does the sun blaze so brilliantly?

²⁷How can the constant watchful gaze of Death be turned away?

²⁸By what understanding is the honor of the Gurmukh preserved?

²⁹Who is the warrior, who conquers Death?

³⁰Give us your thoughtful reply, O Nanak." ||48||

³¹Giving voice to the Shabad, the moon of the mind is illuminated with infinity.

³²When the sun dwells in the house of the moon, the darkness is dispelled.

³³Pleasure and pain are just the same, when one takes the Support of the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

³⁴He Himself saves, and carries us across.

³⁵With faith in the Guru, the mind merges in Truth,

³⁶and then, prays Nanak, one is not consumed by Death. ||49||

³⁷The essence of the Naam, the Name of the Lord, is known to be the most exalted and excellent of all.

³⁸Without the Name, one is afflicted by pain and death.

³⁹When one's essence merges into the essence, the mind is satisfied and fulfilled.

⁴⁰Duality is gone, and one enters into the home of the One Lord.

⁴¹The breath blows across the sky of the Tenth Gate and vibrates.

⁴²O Nanak, the mortal then intuitively meets the eternal, unchanging Lord. ||50||

⁴³The absolute Lord is deep within; the absolute Lord is outside us as well. The absolute Lord totally fills the three worlds.

⁴⁴One who knows the Lord in the fourth state, is not subject to virtue or vice.

⁴⁵One who knows the mystery of God the Absolute, who pervades each and every heart,

⁴⁶That humble being who is imbued with the Immaculate Naam,

⁴⁷O Nanak, is himself the Primal Lord, the Architect of Destiny. ||51||

⁴⁸"Everyone speaks of the Absolute Lord, the unmanifest void.

⁴⁹How can one find this absolute void?

⁵⁰Who are they, who are attuned to this absolute void?"

⁵¹They are like the Lord, from whom they originated.

⁵²They are not born, they do not die; they do not come and go.

⁵³O Nanak, the Gurmukhs instruct their minds. ||52||

⁵⁴By practicing control over the nine gates, one attains perfect control over the Tenth Gate.

⁵⁵There, the unstruck sound current of the absolute Lord vibrates and resounds.

⁵⁶Behold the True Lord ever-present, and merge with Him.

⁵⁷The True Lord is pervading and permeating each and every heart.

¹The hidden Bani of the Word is revealed.

²O Nanak, the True Lord is revealed and known. ||53||

³Meeting with the Lord through intuition and love, peace is found.

⁴The Gurmukh remains awake and aware; he does not fall sleep.

⁵He enshrines the unlimited, absolute Shabad deep within.

⁶Chanting the Shabad, he is liberated, and saves others as well.

⁷Those who practice the Guru's Teachings are attuned to the Truth.

⁸O Nanak, those who eradicate their self-conceit meet with the Lord; they do not remain separated by doubt. ||54||

⁹"Where is that place, where evil thoughts are destroyed?

¹⁰The mortal does not understand the essence of reality; why must he suffer in pain?"

¹¹No one can save one who is tied up at Death's door.

¹²Without the Shabad, no one has any credit or honor.

¹³"How can one obtain understanding and cross over?"

¹⁴O Nanak, the foolish self-willed manmukh does not understand. ||55||

¹⁵Evil thoughts are erased, contemplating the Word of the Guru's Shabad.

¹⁶Meeting with the True Guru, the door of liberation is found.

¹⁷The self-willed manmukh does not understand the essence of reality, and is burnt to ashes.

¹⁸His evil-mindedness separates him from the Lord, and he suffers.

¹⁹Accepting the Hukam of the Lord's Command, he is blessed with all virtues and spiritual wisdom.

²⁰O Nanak, he is honored in the Court of the Lord. ||56||

²¹One who possesses the merchandise, the wealth of the True Name,

²²crosses over, and carries others across with him as well.

²³One who intuitively understands, and is attuned to the Lord, is honored.

²⁴No one can estimate his worth.

²⁵Wherever I look, I see the Lord permeating and pervading.

²⁶O Nanak, through the Love of the True Lord, one crosses over. ||57||

²⁷"Where is the Shabad said to dwell? What will carry us across the terrifying world-ocean?

²⁸The breath, when exhaled, extends out ten finger lengths; what is the support of the breath?

²⁹Speaking and playing, how can one be stable and steady? How can the unseen be seen?"

³⁰Listen, O master; Nanak prays truly. Instruct your own mind.

³¹The Gurmukh is lovingly attuned to the True Shabad. Bestowing His Glance of Grace, He unites us in His Union.

³²He Himself is all-knowing and all-seeing. By perfect destiny, we merge in Him. ||58||

³³That Shabad dwells deep within the nucleus of all beings. God is invisible; wherever I look, there I see Him.

³⁴The air is the dwelling place of the absolute Lord. He has no qualities; He has all qualities.

³⁵When He bestows His Glance of Grace, the Shabad comes to abide within the heart, and doubt is eradicated from within.

³⁶The body and mind become immaculate, through the Immaculate Word of His Bani. Let His Name be enshrined in your mind.

³⁷The Shabad is the Guru, to carry you across the terrifying world-ocean. Know the One Lord alone, here and hereafter.

³⁸He has no form or color, shadow or illusion; O Nanak, realize the Shabad. ||59||

³⁹O reclusive hermit, the True, Absolute Lord is the support of the exhaled breath, which extends out ten finger lengths.

⁴⁰The Gurmukh speaks and churns the essence of reality, and realizes the unseen, infinite Lord.

⁴¹Eradicating the three qualities, he enshrines the Shabad within, and then, his mind is rid of egotism.

⁴²Inside and out, he knows the One Lord alone; he is in love with the Name of the Lord.

⁴³He understands the Sushmana, Ida and Pingala, when the unseen Lord reveals Himself.

⁴⁴O Nanak, the True Lord is above these three energy channels. Through the Word, the Shabad of the True Guru, one merges with Him. ||60||

⁴⁵"The air is said to be the soul of the mind. But what does the air feed on?

⁴⁶What is the way of the spiritual teacher, and the reclusive hermit? What is the occupation of the Siddha?"

¹Without the Shabad, the essence does not come, O hermit, and the thirst of egotism does not depart.

²Imbued with the Shabad, one finds the ambrosial essence, and remains fulfilled with the True Name.

³"What is that wisdom, by which one remains steady and stable? What food brings satisfaction?"

⁴O Nanak, when one looks upon pain and pleasure alike, through the True Guru, then he is not consumed by Death. ||61||

⁵If one is not imbued with the Lord's Love, nor intoxicated with His subtle essence,

⁶without the Word of the Guru's Shabad, he is frustrated, and consumed by his own inner fire.

⁷He does not preserve his semen and seed, and does not chant the Shabad.

⁸He does not control his breath; he does not worship and adore the True Lord.

⁹But one who speaks the Unspoken Speech, and remains balanced,

¹⁰O Nanak, attains the Lord, the Supreme Soul. ||62||

¹¹By Guru's Grace, one is attuned to the Lord's Love.

¹²Drinking in the Ambrosial Nectar, he is intoxicated with the Truth.

¹³Contemplating the Guru, the fire within is put out.

¹⁴Drinking in the Ambrosial Nectar, the soul settles in peace.

¹⁵Worshipping the True Lord in adoration, the Gurmukh crosses over the river of life.

¹⁶O Nanak, after deep contemplation, this is understood. ||63||

¹⁷"Where does this mind-elephant live? Where does the breath reside?

¹⁸Where should the Shabad reside, so that the wanderings of the mind may cease?"

¹⁹When the Lord blesses one with His Glance of Grace, he leads him to the True Guru. Then, this mind dwells in its own home within.

²⁰When the individual consumes his egotism, he becomes immaculate, and his wandering mind is restrained.

²¹"How can the root, the source of all be realized? How can the soul know itself? How can the sun enter into the house of the moon?"

²²The Gurmukh eliminates egotism from within; then, O Nanak, the sun naturally enters into the home of the moon. ||64||

²³When the mind becomes steady and stable, it abides in the heart, and then the Gurmukh realizes the root, the source of all.

²⁴The breath is seated in the home of the navel; the Gurmukh searches, and finds the essence of reality.

²⁵This Shabad permeates the nucleus of the self, deep within, in its own home; the Light of this Shabad pervades the three worlds.

²⁶Hunger for the True Lord shall consume your pain, and through the True Lord, you shall be satisfied.

²⁷The Gurmukh knows the unstruck sound current of the Bani; how rare are those who understand.

²⁸Says Nanak, one who speaks the Truth is dyed in the color of Truth, which will never fade away. ||65||

²⁹"When this heart and body did not exist, where did the mind reside?

³⁰When there was no support of the navel lotus, then in which home did the breath reside?

³¹When there was no form or shape, then how could anyone lovingly focus on the Shabad?

³²When there was no dungeon formed from egg and sperm, who could measure the Lord's value and extent?

³³When color, dress and form could not be seen, how could the True Lord be known?"

³⁴O Nanak, those who are attuned to the Naam, the Name of the Lord, are detached. Then and now, they see the Truest of the True. ||66||

³⁵When the heart and the body did not exist, O hermit, then the mind resided in the absolute, detached Lord.

³⁶When there was no support of the lotus of the navel, the breath remained in its own home, attuned to the Lord's Love.

³⁷When there was no form or shape or social class, then the Shabad, in its essence, resided in the unmanifest Lord.

³⁸When the world and the sky did not even exist, the Light of the Formless Lord filled the three worlds.

¹Color, dress and form were contained in the One Lord; the Shabad was contained in the One, Wondrous Lord.

²Without the True Name, no one can become pure; O Nanak, this is the Unspoken Speech. ||67||

³"How, in what way, was the world formed, O man? And what disaster will end it?"

⁴In egotism, the world was formed, O man; forgetting the Naam, it suffers and dies.

⁵One who becomes Gurmukh contemplates the essence of spiritual wisdom; through the Shabad, he burns away his egotism.

⁶His body and mind become immaculate, through the Immaculate Bani of the Word. He remains absorbed in Truth.

⁷Through the Naam, the Name of the Lord, he remains detached; he enshrines the True Name in his heart.

⁸O Nanak, without the Name, Yoga is never attained; reflect upon this in your heart, and see. ||68||

⁹The Gurmukh is one who reflects upon the True Word of the Shabad.

¹⁰The True Bani is revealed to the Gurmukh.

¹¹The mind of the Gurmukh is drenched with the Lord's Love, but how rare are those who understand this.

¹²The Gurmukh dwells in the home of the self, deep within.

¹³The Gurmukh realizes the Way of Yoga.

¹⁴O Nanak, the Gurmukh knows the One Lord alone. ||69||

¹⁵Without serving the True Guru, Yoga is not attained;

¹⁶without meeting the True Guru, no one is liberated.

¹⁷Without meeting the True Guru, the Naam cannot be found.

¹⁸Without meeting the True Guru, one suffers in terrible pain.

¹⁹Without meeting the True Guru, there is only the deep darkness of egotistical pride.

²⁰O Nanak, without the True Guru, one dies, having lost the opportunity of this life. ||70||

²¹The Gurmukh conquers his mind by subduing his ego.

²²The Gurmukh enshrines Truth in his heart.

²³The Gurmukh conquers the world; he knocks down the Messenger of Death, and kills it.

²⁴The Gurmukh does not lose in the Court of the Lord.

²⁵The Gurmukh is united in God's Union; he alone knows.

²⁶O Nanak, the Gurmukh realizes the Word of the Shabad. ||71||

²⁷This is the essence of the Shabad - listen, you hermits and Yogis. Without the Name, there is no Yoga.

²⁸Those who are attuned to the Name, remain intoxicated night and day; through the Name, they find peace.

²⁹Through the Name, everything is revealed; through the Name, understanding is obtained.

³⁰Without the Name, people wear all sorts of religious robes; the True Lord Himself has confused them.

³¹The Name is obtained only from the True Guru, O hermit, and then, the Way of Yoga is found.

³²Reflect upon this in your mind, and see; O Nanak, without the Name, there is no liberation. ||72||

³³You alone know Your state and extent, Lord; What can anyone say about it?

³⁴You Yourself are hidden, and You Yourself are revealed. You Yourself enjoy all pleasures.

³⁵The seekers, the Siddhas, the many gurus and disciples wander around searching for You, according to Your Will.

³⁶They beg for Your Name, and You bless them with this charity. I am a sacrifice to the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan.

³⁷The eternal imperishable Lord God has staged this play; the Gurmukh understands it.

³⁸O Nanak, He extends Himself throughout the ages; there is no other than Him. ||73||1||

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

²Vaar Of Raamkalee, Third Mehl, To Be Sung To The Tune Of 'Jodha And Veera Poorbaanee':

³To Be Sung To The Tune Of 'Jodha And Veera Poorbaanee':

⁴Salok, Third Mehl:

⁵The True Guru is the field of intuitive wisdom. One who is inspired to love Him,

⁶plants the seed of the Name there. The Name sprouts up, and he remains absorbed in the Name.

⁷But this egotism is the seed of skepticism; it has been uprooted.

⁸It is not planted there, and it does not sprout; whatever God grants us, we eat.

⁹When water mixes with water, it cannot be separated again.

¹⁰O Nanak, the Gurmukh is wonderful; come, poeple, and see!

¹¹But what can the poor people see? They do not understand.

¹²He alone sees, whom the Lord causes to see; the Lord comes to dwell in his mind. ||1||

¹³Third Mehl:

¹⁴The self-willed manmukh is the field of sorrow and suffering. He plains sorrow, and eats sorrow.

¹⁵In sorrow he is born, and in sorrow he dies. Acting in egotism, his life passes away.

¹⁶He does not understand the coming and going of reincarnation; the blind man acts in blindness.

¹⁷He does not know the One who gives, but he is attached to what is given.

¹⁸O Nanak, he acts according to his pre-ordained destiny. He cannot do anything else. ||2||

¹⁹Third Mehl:

²⁰Meeting the True Guru, everlasting peace is obtained. He Himself leads us to meet Him.

²¹This is the true meaning of peace, that one becomes immaculate within oneself.

²²The doubt of ignorance is eradicated, and spiritual wisdom is obtained.

²³Nanak comes to gaze upon the One Lord alone; wherever he looks, there He is. ||3||

²⁴Pauree:

²⁵The True Lord created His throne, upon which He sits.

²⁶He Himself is everything; this is what the Word of the Guru's Shabad says.

²⁷Through His almighty creative power, He created and fashioned the mansions and hotels.

²⁸He made the two lamps, the sun and the moon; He formed the perfect form.

²⁹He Himself sees, and He Himself hears; meditate on the Word of the Guru's Shabad. ||1||

³⁰Waaho! Waaho! Hail, hail, O True King! True is Your Name. ||1||Pause||

³¹Salok:

³²Kabeer, I have ground myself into henna paste.

³³O my Husband Lord, You took no notice of me; You never applied me to Your feet. ||1||

³⁴Third Mehl:

³⁵O Nanak, my Husband Lord keeps me like henna paste; He blesses me with His Glance of Grace.

³⁶He Himself grinds me, and He Himself rubs me; He Himself applies me to His feet.

³⁷This is the cup of love of my Lord and Master; He gives it as He chooses. ||2||

³⁸Pauree:

³⁹You created the world with its variety; by the Hukam of Your Command, it comes, goes, and merges again in You.

⁴⁰You Yourself see, and blossom forth; there is no one else at all.

⁴¹As it pleases You, You keep me. Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, I understand You.

⁴²You are the strength of all. As it pleases You, You lead us on.

⁴³There is no other as great as You; unto whom should I speak and talk? ||2||

⁴⁴Salok, Third Mehl:

⁴⁵Deluded by doubt, I wandered over the whole world. Searching, I became frustrated.

¹My Husband Lord has not blessed me with peace and tranquility; what will work with Him?

²By Guru's Grace, I meditate on the Lord; I enshrine Him deep within my heart.

³O Nanak, seated in his her own home, she finds her Husband Lord, when the Creator Lord grants His Grace. ||1||

⁴Third Mehl:

⁵Chasing after worldly affairs, the day is wasted, and the night passes in sleep.

⁶Speaking lies, one eats poison; the self-willed manmukh departs, crying out in pain.

⁷The Mesenger of Death holds his club over the mortal's head; in the love of duality, he loses his honor.

⁸He never even thinks of the Name of the Lord; over and over again, he comes and goes in reincarnation.

⁹But if, by Guru's Grace, the Lord's Name comes to dwell in his mind, then the Messenger of Death will not strike him down with his club.

¹⁰Then, O Nanak, he merges intuitively into the Lord, receiving His Grace. ||2||

¹¹Pauree:

¹²Some are linked to His Praises, when the Lord blesses them with the Guru's Teachings.

¹³Some are blessed with the Name of the eternal, unchanging True Lord.

¹⁴Water, air and fire, by His Will, worship Him.

¹⁵They are held in the Fear of God; He has formed the perfect form.

¹⁶The Hukam, the Command of the One Lord is all-pervasive; accepting it, peace is found. ||3||

¹⁷Salok:

¹⁸Kabeer, such is the touchstone of the Lord; the false cannot even touch it.

¹⁹He alone passes this test of the Lord, who remains dead while yet alive. ||1||

²⁰Third Mehl:

²¹How can this mind be conquered? How can it be killed?

²²If one does not accept the Word of the Shabad, egotism does not depart.

²³By Guru's Grace, egotism is eradicated, and then, one is Jivan Mukta - liberated while yet alive.

²⁴O Nanak, one whom the Lord forgives is united with Him, and then no obstacles block his way. ||2||

²⁵Third Mehl:

²⁶Everyone can say that they are dead while yet alive; how can they be liberated while yet alive?

²⁷If someone restrains himself through the Fear of God, and takes the medicine of the Love of God,

²⁸night and day, he sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord. In celestial peace and poise, he crosses over the poisonous, terrifying world-ocean, through the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

²⁹O Nanak, the Gurmukh finds the Lord; he is blessed with His Glance of Grace. ||3||

³⁰Pauree:

³¹God created the love of duality, and the three modes which pervade the universe.

³²He created Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, who act according to His Will.

³³The Pandits, the religious scholars, and the astrologers study their books, but they do not understand contemplation.

³⁴Everything is Your play, O True Creator Lord.

³⁵As it pleases You, You bless us with forgiveness, and merge us in the True Word of the Shabad. ||4||

³⁶Salok, Third Mehl:

³⁷The man of false mind practices falsehood.

³⁸He runs after Maya, and yet pretends to be a man of disciplined meditation.

³⁹Deluded by doubt, he visits all the sacred shrines of pilgrimage.

⁴⁰How can such a man of disciplined meditation attain the supreme status?

⁴¹By Guru's Grace, one lives the Truth.

⁴²O Nanak, such a man of disciplined meditation attains liberation. ||1||

⁴³Third Mehl:

⁴⁴He alone is a man of disciplined meditation, who practices this self-discipline.

⁴⁵Meeting with the True Guru, he contemplates the Word of the Shabad.

⁴⁶Serving the True Guru - this is the only acceptable disciplined meditation.

⁴⁷O Nanak, such a man of disciplined meditation is honored in the Court of the Lord. ||2||

⁴⁸Pauree:

⁴⁹He created the night and the day, for the activities of the world.

¹Following the Guru's Teachings, one's heart is illumined, and the darkness is dispelled.

²By the Hukam of His Command, He creates everything; He pervades and permeates all the woods and meadows.

³He Himself is everything; the Gurmukh constantly chants the Lord's Name.

⁴Through the Shabad, understanding comes; the True Lord Himself inspires us to understand. ||5||

⁵Salok, Third Mehl:

⁶He is not called a renunciate, whose consciousness is filled with doubt.

⁷Donations to him bring proportionate rewards.

⁸He hungers for the supreme status of the Fearless, Immaculate Lord;

⁹O Nanak, how rare are those who offer him this food. ||1||

¹⁰Third Mehl:

¹¹They are not called renunciates, who take food in the homes of others.

¹²For the sake of their bellies, they wear various religious robes.

¹³They alone are renunciates, O Nanak, who enter into their own souls.

¹⁴They seek and find their Husband Lord; they dwell within the home of their own inner self. ||2||

¹⁵Pauree:

¹⁶They sky and the earth are separate, but the True Lord supports them from within.

¹⁷True are all those homes and gates, within which the True Name is enshrined.

¹⁸The Hukam of the True Lord's Command is effective everywhere. The Gurmukh merges in the True Lord.

¹⁹He Himself is True, and True is His throne. Seated upon it, He administers true justice.

²⁰The Truest of the True is all-pervading everywhere; the Gurmukh sees the unseen. ||6||

²¹Salok, Third Mehl:

²²In the world-ocean, the Infinite Lord abides. The false come and go in reincarnation.

²³One who walks according to his own will, suffers terrible punishment.

²⁴All things are in the world-ocean, but they are obtained only by the karma of good actions.

²⁵O Nanak, he alone obtains the nine treasures, who walks in the Will of the Lord. ||1||

²⁶Third Mehl:

²⁷One who doesn't intuitively serve the True Guru, loses his life in egotism.

²⁸His tongue does not taste the sublime essence of the Lord, and his heart-lotus does not blossom forth.

²⁹The self-willed manmukh eats poison and dies; he is ruined by love and attachment to Maya.

³⁰Without the Name of the One Lord, his life is cursed, and his home is cursed as well.

³¹When God Himself bestows His Glance of Grace, then one becomes the slave of His slaves.

³²And then, night and day, he serves the True Guru, and never leaves His side.

³³As the lotus flower floats unaffected in the water, so does he remain detached in his own household.

³⁴O servant Nanak, the Lord acts, and inspires everyone to act, according to the Pleasure of His Will. He is the treasure of virtue. ||2||

³⁵Pauree:

³⁶For thirty-six ages, there was utter darkness. Then, the Lord revealed Himself.

³⁷He Himself created the entire universe. He Himself blessed it with understanding.

³⁸He created the Simritees and the Shaastras; He calculates the accounts of virtue and vice.

³⁹He alone understands, whom the Lord inspires to understand and to be pleased with the True Word of the Shabad.

⁴⁰He Himself is all-pervading; He Himself forgives, and unites with Himself. ||7||

⁴¹Salok, Third Mehl:

⁴²This body is all blood; without blood, the body cannot exist.

⁴³Those who are attuned to their Lord - their bodies are not filled with the blood of greed.

⁴⁴In the Fear of God, the body becomes thin, and the blood of greed passes out of the body.

¹As fire purifies metal, so does the Fear of the Lord eradicate the filth of evil-mindedness.

²O Nanak, beautiful are those humble beings, who are imbued with the Lord's Love. ||1||

³Third Mehl:

⁴In Raamkalee, I have enshrined the Lord in my mind; thus I have been embellished.

⁵Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, my heart-lotus has blossomed forth; the Lord blessed me with the treasure of devotional worship.

⁶My doubt was dispelled, and I woke up; the darkness of ignorance was dispelled.

⁷She who is in love with her Lord, is the most infinitely beautiful.

⁸Such a beautiful, happy soul-bride enjoys her Husband Lord forever.

⁹The self-willed manmukhs do not know how to decorate themselves; wasting their whole lives, they depart.

¹⁰Those who decorate themselves without devotional worship to the Lord, are continually reincarnated to suffer.

¹¹They do not obtain respect in this world; the Creator Lord alone knows what will happen to them in the world hereafter.

¹²O Nanak, the True Lord is the One and only; duality exists only in the world.

¹³He Himself enjoins them to good and bad; they do only that which the Creator Lord causes them to do. ||2||

¹⁴Third Mehl:

¹⁵Without serving the True Guru, tranquility is not obtained. It cannot be found anywhere else.

¹⁶No matter how much one may long for it, without the karma of good actions, it cannot be found.

¹⁷Those whose inner beings are filled with greed and corruption, are ruined through the love of duality.

¹⁸The cycle of birth and death is not ended, and filled with egotism, they suffer in pain.

¹⁹Those who focus their consciousness on the True Guru, do not remain unfulfilled.

²⁰They are not summoned by the Messenger of Death, and they do not suffer in pain.

²¹O Nanak, the Gurmukh is saved, merging in the True Word of the Shabad. ||3||

²²Pauree:

²³He Himself remains unattached forever; all others run after worldly affairs.

²⁴He Himself is eternal, unchanging and unmoving; the others continue coming and going in reincarnation.

²⁵Meditating on the Lord forever and ever, the Gurmukh finds peace.

²⁶He dwells in the home of his own inner being, absorbed in the Praise of the True Lord.

²⁷The True Lord is profound and unfathomable; through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, He is understood. ||8||

²⁸Salok, Third Mehl:

²⁹Meditate on the True Name; the True Lord is all-pervading.

³⁰O Nanak, one who realizes the Hukam of the Lord's Command, obtains the fruit of Truth.

³¹One who merely mouths the words, does not understand the Hukam of the True Lord's Command.

³²O Nanak, one who accepts the Will of the Lord is His devotee. Without accepting it, he is the falsest of the false. ||1||

³³Third Mehl:

³⁴The self-willed manmukhs do not know what they are saying. They are filled with sexual desire, anger and egotism.

³⁵They do not understand right places and wrong places; they are filled with greed and corruption.

³⁶They come, and sit and talk for their own purposes. The Messenger of Death strikes them down.

³⁷Hereafter, they are called to account in the Court of the Lord; the false ones are struck down and humiliated.

³⁸How can this filth of falsehood be washed off? Can anyone think about this, and find the way?

³⁹If one meets with the True Guru, He implants the Naam, the Name of the Lord within; all his sins are destroyed.

⁴⁰Let all bow in humility to that humble being who chants the Naam, and worships the Naam in adoration.

¹The Naam washes off the filth of falsehood; chanting the Naam, one becomes truthful.

²O servant Nanak, wondrous are the plays of the Lord, the Giver of life. ||2||

³Pauree:

⁴You are the Great Giver; no other is as great as You. Unto whom should I speak and talk?

⁵By Guru's Grace, I find You; You eradicate egotism from within.

⁶You are beyond sweet and salty flavors; True is Your glorious greatness.

⁷You bless those whom You forgive, and unite them with Yourself.

⁸You have placed the Ambrosial Nectar deep within the heart; the Gurmukh drinks it in. ||9||

⁹Salok, Third Mehl:

¹⁰The stories of one's ancestors make the children good children.

¹¹They accept what is pleasing to the Will of the True Guru, and act accordingly.

¹²Go and consult the Simritees, the Shaastras, the writings of Vyaas, Suk Dayv, Naarad, and all those who preach to the world.

¹³Those, whom the True Lord attaches, are attached to the Truth; they contemplate the True Name forever.

¹⁴O Nanak, their coming into the world is approved; they redeem all their ancestors. ||1||

¹⁵Third Mehl:

¹⁶The disciples whose teacher is blind, act blindly as well.

¹⁷They walk according to their own wills, and continually speak falsehood and lies.

¹⁸They practice falsehood and deception, and endlessly slander others.

¹⁹Slandering others, they drown themselves, and drown all their generations as well.

²⁰O Nanak, whatever the Lord links them to, to that they are linked; what can the poor creatures do? ||2||

²¹Pauree:

²²He keeps all under His Gaze; He created the entire Universe.

²³He has linked some to falsehood and deception; these self-willed manmukhs are plundered.

²⁴The Gurmukhs meditate on the Lord forever; their inner beings are filled with love.

²⁵Those who have the treasure of virtue, chant the Praises of the Lord.

²⁶O Nanak, meditate on the Naam, and the Glorious Praises of the True Lord. ||10||

²⁷Salok, First Mehl:

²⁸Men of charity gather wealth by committing sins, and then give it away in donations to charity.

²⁹Their spiritual teachers go to their homes to instruct them.

³⁰The woman loves the man only for his wealth;

³¹they come and go as they please.

³²No one obeys the Shaastras or the Vedas.

³³Everyone worships himself.

³⁴Becoming judges, they sit and administer justice.

³⁵They chant on their malas, and call upon God.

³⁶They accept bribes, and block justice.

³⁷If someone asks them, they read quotations from their books.

³⁸The Muslim scriptures are in their ears and in their hearts.

³⁹They plunder the people, and engage in gossip and flattery.

⁴⁰They anoint their kitchens to try to become pure.

⁴¹Behold, such is the Hindu.

⁴²The Yogi, with matted hair and ashes on his body, has become a householder.

⁴³The children weep in front of him and behind him.

⁴⁴He does not attain Yoga - he has lost his way.

⁴⁵Why does he apply ashes to his forehead?

⁴⁶O Nanak, this is the sign of the Dark Age of Kali Yuga;

⁴⁷everyone says that he himself knows. ||1||

⁴⁸First Mehl:

⁴⁹The Hindu comes to the house of a Hindu.

⁵⁰He puts the sacred thread around his neck and reads the scriptures.

⁵¹He puts on the thread, but does evil deeds.

⁵²His cleansings and washings will not be approved.

⁵³The Muslim glorifies his own faith.

¹Without the Guru or a spiritual teacher, no one is accepted.

²They may be shown the way, but only a few go there.

³Without the karma of good actions, heaven is not attained.

⁴The Way of Yoga is demonstrated in the Yogi's monastery.

⁵They wear ear-rings to show the way.

⁶Wearing ear-rings, they wander around the world.

⁷The Creator Lord is everywhere.

⁸There are as many travellers as there are beings.

⁹When one's death warrant is issued, there is no delay.

¹⁰One who knows the Lord here, realizes Him there as well.

¹¹Others, whether Hindu or Muslim, are just babbling.

¹²Everyone's account is read in the Court of the Lord;

¹³without the karma of good actions, no one crosses over.

¹⁴One who speaks the True Name of the True Lord,

¹⁵O Nanak, is not called to account hereafter. ||2||

¹⁶Pauree:

¹⁷The fortress of the body is called the Mansion of the Lord.

¹⁸The rubies and gems are found within it; the Gurmukh chants the Name of the Lord.

¹⁹The body, the Mansion of the Lord, is very beautiful, when the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, is implanted deep within.

²⁰The self-willed manmukhs ruin themselves; they boil continuously in attachment to Maya.

²¹The One Lord is the Master of all. He is found only by perfect destiny. ||11||

²²Salok, First Mehl:

²³There is no Truth in suffering, there is no Truth in comfort. There is no Truth in wandering like animals through the water.

²⁴There is no Truth in shaving one's head; there is no Truth is studying the scriptures or wandering in foreign lands.

²⁵There is no Truth in trees, plants or stones, in mutilating oneself or suffering in pain.

²⁶There is no Truth in binding elephants in chains; there is no Truth in grazing cows.

²⁷He alone grants it, whose hands hold spritual perfection; he alone receives it, unto whom it is given.

²⁸O Nanak, he alone is blessed with glorious greatness, whose heart is filled with the Word of the Shabad.

²⁹God says, all hearts are mine, and I am in all hearts. Who can explain this to one who is confused?

³⁰Who can confuse that being, unto whom I have shown the Way?

³¹And who can show the Path to that being whom I have confused since the beginning of time? ||1||

³²First Mehl:

³³He alone is a householder, who restrains his passions

³⁴and begs for meditation, austerity and self-discipline.

³⁵He gives donations to charity with his body;

³⁶such a householder is as pure as the water of the Ganges.

³⁷Says Eeshar, the Lord is the embodiment of Truth.

³⁸The supreme essence of reality has no shape or form. ||2||

³⁹First Mehl:

⁴⁰He alone is a detached hermit, who burns away his self-conceit.

⁴¹He begs for suffering as his food.

⁴²In the city of the heart, he begs for charity.

⁴³Such a renunciate ascends to the City of God.

⁴⁴Says Gorakh, God is the embodiment of Truth;

⁴⁵the supreme essence of reality has no shape or form. ||3||

⁴⁶First Mehl:

⁴⁷He alone is an Udasi, a shaven-headed renunciate, who embraces renunciation.

⁴⁸He sees the Immaculate Lord dwelling in both the upper and lower regions.

⁴⁹He balances the sun and the moon energies.

⁵⁰The body-wall of such an Udasi does not collapse.

⁵¹Says Gopi Chand, God is the embodiment of Truth;

⁵²the supreme essence of reality has no shape or form. ||4||

⁵³First Mehl:

⁵⁴He alone is a Paakhandi, who cleanses his body of filth.

⁵⁵The fire of his body illuminates God within.

⁵⁶He does not waste his energy in wet dreams.

¹Such a Paakhandi does not grow old or die.

²Says Charpat, God is the embodiment of Truth;

³the supreme essence of reality has no shape or form. ||5||

⁴First Mehl:

⁵He alone is a Bairaagi, who turns himself toward God.

⁶In the Tenth Gate, the sky of the mind, he erects his pillar.

⁷Night and day, he remains in deep inner meditation.

⁸Such a Bairaagi is just like the True Lord.

⁹Says Bhart'har, God is the embodiment of Truth;

¹⁰the supreme essence of reality has no shape or form. ||6||

¹¹First Mehl:

¹²How is evil eradicated? How can the true way of life be found?

¹³What is the use of piercing the ears, or begging for food?

¹⁴Throughout existence and non-existence, there is only the Name of the One Lord.

¹⁵What is that Word, which holds the heart in its place?

¹⁶When you look alike upon sunshine and shade,

¹⁷says Nanak, then the Guru will speak to you.

¹⁸The students follow the six systems.

¹⁹They are neither worldly people, nor detached renunciates.

²⁰One who remains absorbed in the Formless Lord

²¹- why should he go out begging? ||7||

²²Pauree:

²³That alone is said to be the Lord's temple, where the Lord is known.

²⁴In the human body, the Guru's Word is found, when one understands that the Lord, the Supreme Soul, is in all.

²⁵Don't look for Him outside your self. The Creator, the Architect of Destiny, is within the home of your own heart.

²⁶The self-willed manmukh does not appreciate the value of the Lord's temple; they waste away and lose their lives.

²⁷The One Lord is pervading in all; through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, He can be found. ||12||

²⁸Salok, Third Mehl:

²⁹Only a fool listens to the words of the fool.

³⁰What are the signs of the fool? What does the fool do?

³¹A fool is stupid; he dies of egotism.

³²His actions always bring him pain; he lives in pain.

³³If someone's beloved friend falls into the pit, what can be used to pull him out?

³⁴One who becomes Gurmukh contemplates the Lord, and remains detached.

³⁵Chanting the Lord's Name, he saves himself, and he carries across those who are drowning as well.

³⁶O Nanak, he acts in accordance with the Will of God; he endures whatever he is given. ||1||

³⁷First Mehl:

³⁸Says Nanak, listen, O mind, to the True Teachings.

³⁹Opening His ledger, God will call you to account.

⁴⁰Those rebels who have unpaid accounts shall be called out.

⁴¹Azraa-eel, the Angel of Death, shall be appointed to punish them.

⁴²They will find no way to escape coming and going in reincarnation; they are trapped in the narrow path.

⁴³Falsehood will come to an end, O Nanak, and Truth will prevail in the end. ||2||

⁴⁴Pauree:

⁴⁵The body and everything belongs to the Lord; the Lord Himself is all-pervading.

⁴⁶The Lord's value cannot be estimated; nothing can be said about it.

⁴⁷By Guru's Grace, one praises the Lord, imbued with feelings of devotion.

⁴⁸The mind and body are totally rejuvenated, and egotism is eradicated.

⁴⁹Everything is the play of the Lord. The Gurmukh understands this. ||13||

⁵⁰Salok, First Mehl:

⁵¹Branded with a thousand marks of disgrace, Indra cried in shame.

⁵²Paras Raam returned home crying.

⁵³Ajai cried and wept, when he was made to eat the manure he had given, pretending it was charity.

⁵⁴Such is the punishment received in the Court of the Lord.

⁵⁵Rama wept when he was sent into exile,

¹and separated from Sita and Lakhshman.

²The ten-headed Raawan, who stole away Sita with the beat of his tambourine,

³The Paandavas once lived in the Presence of the Lord;

⁴Janmayjaa wept, that he had lost his way.

⁵One mistake, and he became a sinner.

⁶The Shaykhs, Pirs and spiritual teachers weep;

⁷at the very last instant, they suffer in agony.

⁸The kings weep - their ears are cut;

⁹they go begging from house to house.

¹⁰The miser weeps; he has to leave behind the wealth he has gathered.

¹¹The Pandit, the religious scholar, weeps when his learning is gone.

¹²The young woman weeps because she has no husband.

¹³O Nanak, the whole world is suffering.

¹⁴He alone is victorious, who believes in the Lord's Name.

¹⁵No other action is of any account. ||1||

¹⁶Second Mehl:

¹⁷Meditation, austerity and everything come through belief in the Lord's Name. All other actions are useless.

¹⁸O Nanak, believe in the One who is worth believing in. By Guru's Grace, he is realized. ||2||

¹⁹Pauree:

²⁰The union of the body and the soul-swan was pre-ordained by the Creator Lord.

²¹He is hidden, and yet pervading all. He is revealed to the Gurmukh.

²²Singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord, and chanting His Praises, one merges in His Glories.

²³True is the True Word of the Guru's Bani. One unites in Union with the True Lord.

²⁴He Himself is everything; He Himself grants glorious greatness. ||14||

²⁵Salok, Second Mehl:

²⁶O Nanak, the blind man may go to appraise the jewels,

²⁷but he will not know their value; he will return home after exposing his ignorance. ||1||

²⁸Second Mehl:

²⁹The Jeweller has come, and opened up the bag of jewels.

³⁰The merchandise and the merchant are merged together.

³¹They alone purchase the gem, O Nanak, who have virtue in their purse.

³²Those who do not appreciate the value of the jewels, wander like blind men in the world. ||2||

³³Pauree:

³⁴The fortress of the body has nine gates; the tenth gate is kept hidden.

³⁵The rigid door is not open; only through the Word of the Guru's Shabad can it be opened.

³⁶The unstruck sound current resounds and vibrates there. The Word of the Guru's Shabad is heard.

³⁷Deep within the nucleus of the heart, the Divine Light shines forth. Through devotional worship, one meets the Lord.

³⁸The One Lord is pervading and permeating all. He Himself created the creation. ||15||

³⁹Salok, Second Mehl:

⁴⁰He is truly blind, who follows the way shown by the blind man.

⁴¹O Nanak, why should the one who can see, get lost?

⁴²Do not call them blind, who have no eyes in their face.

⁴³They alone are blind, O Nanak, who wander away from their Lord and Master. ||1||

⁴⁴Second Mehl:

⁴⁵One whom the Lord has made blind - the Lord can make him see again.

⁴⁶He acts only as he knows, although he may be spoken to a hundred times.

⁴⁷Where the real thing is not seen, self-conceit prevails there - know this well.

⁴⁸O Nanak, how can the purshaser purchase the real thing, if he cannot recognize it? ||2||

⁴⁹Second Mehl:

⁵⁰How can someone be called blind, if he was made blind by the Lord's Command?

⁵¹O Nanak, one who does not understand the Hukam of the Lord's Command should be called blind. ||3||

¹Pauree:

²Deep within the body is the fortress of the Lord, and all lands and countries.

³He Himself sits in primal, profound Samaadhi; He Himself is all-pervading.

⁴He Himself created the Universe, and He Himself remains hidden within it.

⁵Serving the Guru, the Lord is known, and the Truth is revealed.

⁶He is True, the Truest of the True; the Guru has imparted this understanding. ||16||

⁷Salok, First Mehl:

⁸Night is the summer season, and day is the winter season; sexual desire and anger are the two fields planted.

⁹Greed prepares the soil, and the seed of falsehood is planted; attachment and love are the farmer and hired hand.

¹⁰Contemplation is the plow, and corruption is the harvest; this is what one earns and eats, according to the Hukam of the Lord's Command.

¹¹O Nanak, when one is called to give his account, he will be barren and infertile. ||1||

¹²First Mehl:

¹³Make the Fear of God the farm, purity the water, truth and contentment the cows and bulls,

¹⁴humility the plow, consciousness the plowman, remembrance the preparation of the soil, and union with the Lord the planting time.

¹⁵Let the Lord's Name be the seed, and His Forgiving Grace the harvest. Do this, and the whole world will seem false.

¹⁶O Nanak, if He bestows His Merciful Glance of Grace, then all your separation will be ended. ||2||

¹⁷Pauree:

¹⁸The self-willed manmukh is trapped in the darkness of emotional attachment; in the love of duality he speaks.

¹⁹The love of duality brings pain forever; he churns the water endlessly.

²⁰The Gurmukh meditates on the Naam, the Name of the Lord; he churns, and obtains the essence of reality.

²¹The Divine Light illuminates his heart deep within; he seeks the Lord, and obtains Him.

²²He Himself deludes in doubt; no one can comment on this. ||17||

²³Salok, Second Mehl:

²⁴O Nanak, don't be anxious; the Lord will take care of you.

²⁵He created the creatures in water, and He gives them their nourishment.

²⁶There are no stores open there, and no one farms there.

²⁷No business is ever transacted there, and no one buys or sells.

²⁸Animals eat other animals; this is what the Lord has given them as food.

²⁹He created them in the oceans, and He provides for them as well.

³⁰O Nanak, don't be anxious; the Lord will take care of you. ||1||

³¹First Mehl:

³²O Nanak, this soul is the fish, and death is the hungry fisherman.

³³The blind man does not even think of this. And suddenly, the net is cast.

³⁴O Nanak, his consciousness is unconscious, and he departs, bound by anxiety.

³⁵But if the Lord bestows His Glance of Grace, then He unites the soul with Himself. ||2||

³⁶Pauree:

³⁷They are true, forever true, who drink in the sublime essence of the Lord.

³⁸The True Lord abides in the mind of the Gurmukh; He strikes the true bargain.

³⁹Everything is in the home of the self within; only the very fortunate obtain it.

⁴⁰The hunger within is conquered and overcome, singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord.

⁴¹He Himself unites in His Union; He Himself blesses them with understanding. ||18||

⁴²Salok, First Mehl:

⁴³The cotton is ginned, woven and spun;

⁴⁴the cloth is laid out, washed and bleached white.

⁴⁵The tailor cuts it with his scissors, and sews it with his thread.

⁴⁶Thus, the torn and tattered honor is sewn up again, through the Lord's Praise, O Nanak, and one lives the true life.

⁴⁷Becoming worn, the cloth is torn; with needle and thread it is sewn up again.

⁴⁸It will not last for a month, or even a week. It barely lasts for an hour, or even a moment.

¹But the Truth does not grow old; and when it is stitched, it is never torn again.

²O Nanak, the Lord and Master is the Truest of the True. While we meditate on Him, we see Him. ||1||

³First Mehl:

⁴The knife is Truth, and its steel is totally True.

⁵Its workmanship is incomparably beautiful.

⁶It is sharpened on the grindstone of the Shabad.

⁷It is placed in the scabbard of virtue.

⁸If the Shaykh is killed with that,

⁹then the blood of greed will spill out.

¹⁰One who is slaughtered in this ritualistic way, will be attached to the Lord.

¹¹O Nanak, at the Lord's door, he is absorbed into His Blessed Vision. ||2||

¹²First Mehl:

¹³A beautiful dagger hangs by your waist, and you ride such a beautiful horse.

¹⁴But don't be too proud; O Nanak, you may fall head first to the ground. ||3||

¹⁵Pauree:

¹⁶They alone walk as Gurmukh, who receive the Shabad in the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation.

¹⁷Meditating on the True Lord, they become truthful; they carry in their robes the supplies of the Lord's wealth.

¹⁸The devotees look beautiful, singing the Praises of the Lord; following the Guru's Teachings, they become stable and unchanging.

¹⁹They enshrine the jewel of contemplation within their minds, and the most sublime Word of the Guru's Shabad.

²⁰He Himself unites in His Union; He Himself grants glorious greatness. ||19||

²¹Salok, Third Mehl:

²²Everyone is filled with hope; hardly anyone is free of hope.

²³O Nanak, blessed is the birth of one, who remains dead while yet alive. ||1||

²⁴Third Mehl:

²⁵Nothing is in the hands of hope. How can one become free of hope?

²⁶What can this poor being do? The Lord Himself creates confusion. ||2||

²⁷Pauree:

²⁸Cursed is the life in this world, without the True Name.

²⁹God is the Great Giver of givers. His wealth is permanent and unchanging.

³⁰That humble being is immaculate, who worships the Lord with each and every breath.

³¹With your tongue, vibrate the One Inaccessible Lord, the Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts.

³²He is all-pervading everywhere. Nanak is a sacrifice to Him. ||20||

³³Salok, First Mehl:

³⁴The union between the lake of the True Guru, and the swan of the soul, was pre-ordained from the very beginning, by the Pleasure of the Lord's Will.

³⁵The diamonds are in this lake; they are the food of the swans.

³⁶The cranes and the ravens may be very wise, but they do not remain in this lake.

³⁷They do not find their food there; their food is different.

³⁸Practicing Truth, the True Lord is found. False is the pride of the false.

³⁹O Nanak, they alone meet the True Guru, who are so pre-destined by the Lord's Command. ||1||

⁴⁰First Mehl:

⁴¹My Lord and Master is immaculate, as are those who think of Him.

⁴²O Nanak, serve Him, who gives to you forever and ever.

⁴³O Nanak, serve Him; by serving Him, sorrow is dispelled.

⁴⁴Faults and demerits vanish, and virtues take their place; peace comes to dwell in the mind. ||2||

⁴⁵Pauree:

⁴⁶He Himself is all-pervading; He Himself is absorbed in the profound state of Samaadhi.

⁴⁷He Himself instructs; the Gurmukh is satisfied and fulfilled.

⁴⁸Some, He causes to wander in the wilderness, while others are committed to His devotional worship.

⁴⁹He alone understands, whom the Lord causes to understand; He Himself attaches mortals to His Name.

⁵⁰O Nanak, meditating on the Naam, the Name of the Lord, true greatness is obtained. ||21||1|| Sudh||

¹Vaar Of Raamkalee, Fifth Mehl:

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

³Salok, Fifth Mehl:

⁴As I have heard of the True Guru, so I have seen Him.

⁵He re-unites the separated ones with God; He is the Mediator at the Court of the Lord.

⁶He implants the Mantra of the Lord's Name, and eradicates the illness of egotism.

⁷O Nanak, he alone meets the True Guru, who has such union pre-ordained. ||1||

⁸Fifth Mehl:

⁹If the One Lord is my Friend, then all are my friends. If the One Lord is my enemy, then all fight with me.

¹⁰The Perfect Guru has shown me that, without the Name, everything is useless.

¹¹The faithless cynics and the evil people wander in reincarnation; they are attached to other tastes.

¹²Servant Nanak has realized the Lord God, by the Grace of the Guru, the True Guru. ||2||

¹³Pauree:

¹⁴The Creator Lord created the Creation.

¹⁵He Himself is the perfect Banker; He Himself earns His profit.

¹⁶He Himself made the expansive Universe; He Himself is imbued with joy.

¹⁷The value of God's almighty creative power cannot be estimated.

¹⁸He is inaccessible, unfathomable, endless, the farthest of the far.

¹⁹He Himself is the greatest Emperor; He Himself is His own Prime Minister.

²⁰No one knows His worth, or the greatness of His resting place.

²¹He Himself is our True Lord and Master. He reveals Himself to the Gurmukh. ||1||

²²Salok, Fifth Mehl:

²³Listen, O my beloved friend: please show me the True Guru.

²⁴I dedicate my mind to Him; I keep Him continually enshrined within my heart.

²⁵Without the One and Only True Guru, life in this world is cursed.

²⁶O servant Nanak, they alone meet the True Guru, with whom He constantly abides. ||1||

²⁷Fifth Mehl:

²⁸Deep within me is the longing to meet You; how can I find You, God?

²⁹I will search for someone, some friend, who will unite me with my Beloved.

³⁰The Perfect Guru has united me with Him; wherever I look, there He is.

³¹Servant Nanak serves that God; there is no other as great as He is. ||2||

³²Pauree:

³³He is the Great Giver, the Generous Lord; with what mouth can I praise Him?

³⁴In His Mercy, He protects, preserves and sustains us.

³⁵No one is under anyone else's control; He is the One Support of all.

³⁶He cherishes all as His children, and reaches out with His hand.

³⁷He stages His joyous plays, which no one understands at all.

³⁸The all-powerful Lord gives His Support to all; I am a sacrifice to Him.

³⁹Night and day, sing the Praises of the One who is worthy of being praised.

⁴⁰Those who fall at the Guru's Feet, enjoy the sublime essence of the Lord. ||2||

⁴¹Salok, Fifth Mehl:

⁴²He has widened the narrow path for me, and preserved my integrity, along with that of my family.

⁴³He Himself has arranged and resolved my affairs. I dwell upon that God forever.

⁴⁴God is my mother and father; He hugs me close in His embrace, and cherishes me, like His tiny baby.

⁴⁵All beings and creatures have become kind and compassionate to me. O Nanak, the Lord has blessed me with His Glance of Grace. ||1||

¹Fifth Mehl:

²To ask for any other than You, Lord, is the most miserable of miseries.

³Please bless me with Your Name, and make me content; may the hunger of my mind be satisfied.

⁴The Guru has made the woods and meadows green again. O Nanak, is it any wonder that He blesses human beings as well? ||2||

⁵Pauree:

⁶Such is that Great Giver; may I never forget Him from my mind.

⁷I cannot survive without Him, for an instant, for a moment, for a second.

⁸Inwardly and outwardly, He is with us; how can we hide anything from Him?

⁹One whose honor He Himself has preserved, crosses over the terrifying world-ocean.

¹⁰He alone is a devotee, a spiritual teacher, and a disciplined pratictioner of meditation, whom the Lord has so blessed.

¹¹He alone is perfect and renowned as supreme, whom the Lord has blessed with His power.

¹²He alone endures the unendurable, whom the Lord inspires to endure it.

¹³And he alone meets the True Lord, within whose mind the Guru's Mantra is implanted. ||3||

¹⁴Salok, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁵Blessed are those beautiful Ragas which, when chanted, quench all thirst.

¹⁶Blessed are those beautiful people who, as Gurmukh, chant the Name of the Lord.

¹⁷I am a sacrifice to those who single-mindedly worship and adore the One Lord.

¹⁸I yearn for the dust of their feet; by His Grace, it is obtained.

¹⁹I am a sacrifice to those who are imbued with love for the Lord of the Universe.

²⁰I tell them the state of my soul, and pray that I may be united with the Sovereign Lord King, my Friend.

²¹The Perfect Guru has united me with Him, and the pains of birth and death have departed.

²²Servant Nanak has found the inaccessible, infinitely beautiful Lord, and he will not go anywhere else. ||1||

²³Fifth Mehl:

²⁴Blessed is that time, blessed is that hour, blessed is that second, excellent is that instant;

²⁵blessed is that day, and that opportunity, when I gazed upon the Blessed Vision of the Guru's Darshan.

²⁶The mind's desires are fulfilled, when the inaccessible, unfathomable Lord is obtained.

²⁷Egotism and emotional attachment are eradicated, and one leans only on the Support of the True Name.

²⁸O servant Nanak, one who is committed to the Lord's service - the whole world is saved along with him. ||2||

²⁹Pauree:

³⁰How rare are those who are blessed to praise the Lord, in devotional worship.

³¹Those who are blessed with the Lord's treasures are not called to give their account again.

³²Those who are imbued with His Love are absorbed in ecstasy.

³³They take the Support of the One Name; the One Name is their only food.

³⁴For their sake, the world eats and enjoys.

³⁵Their Beloved Lord belongs to them alone.

³⁶The Guru comes and meets them; they alone know God.

³⁷I am a sacrifice to those who are pleasing to their Lord and Master. ||4||

³⁸Salok, Fifth Mehl:

³⁹My friendship is with the One Lord alone; I am in love with the One Lord alone.

⁴⁰The Lord is my only friend; my companionship is with the One Lord alone.

⁴¹My conversation is with the One Lord alone; He never frowns, or turns His face away.

⁴²He alone knows the state of my soul; He never ignores my love.

⁴³He is my only counselor, all-powerful to destroy and create.

⁴⁴The Lord is my only Giver. He places His hand upon the heads of the generous in the world.

⁴⁵I take the Support of the One Lord alone; He is all-powerful, over the heads of all.

⁴⁶The Saint, the True Guru, has united me with the Lord. He placed His hand on my forehead.

¹The Guru led me to meet the greatest Lord and Master; He saved the whole world.

²The desires of the mind are fulfilled; I have attained my pre-destined Union with God.

³Nanak has obtained the True Name; He enjoys the enjoyments forever. ||1||

⁴Fifth Mehla:

⁵Friendship with the self-willed manmukhs is an alliance with Maya.

⁶As we watch, they run away; they never stand firm.

⁷As long as they get food and clothing, they stick around.

⁸But on that day when they receive nothing, then they start to curse.

⁹The self-willed manmukhs are ignorant and blind; they do not know the secrets of the soul.

¹⁰The false bond does not last; it is like stones joined with mud.

¹¹The blind do not understand themselves; they are engrossed in false worldly entanglements.

¹²Entangled in false attachments, they pass their lives in egotism and self-conceit.

¹³But that being, whom the Lord has blessed with His Mercy from the very beginning, does perfect deeds, and accumulates good karma.

¹⁴O servant Nanak, those humble beings alone are saved, who enter the Sanctuary of the True Guru. ||2||

¹⁵Pauree:

¹⁶Those who are imbued with the Lord's Vision, speak the Truth.

¹⁷How can I obtain the dust of those who realize their Lord and Master?

¹⁸The mind, stained by corruption, becomes pure by associating with them.

¹⁹One sees the Mansion of the Lord's Presence, when the door of doubt is opened.

²⁰That one, unto whom the Mansion of the Lord's Presence is revealed, is never pushed or shoved.

²¹My mind and body are enraptured, when the Lord blesses me, even for an instant, with His Glance of Grace.

²²The nine treasures, and the treasure of the Naam are obtained by commitment to the Word of the Guru's Shabad.

²³He alone is blessed with the dust of the feet of the Saints, upon whose forehead such pre-ordained desiny is inscribed. ||5||

²⁴Salok, Fifth Mehl:

²⁵O deer-eyed bride, I speak the Truth, which shall save you.

²⁶Listen to these beautiful words, O beauteous bride; your Beloved Lord is your mind's only support.

²⁷You have fallen in love with an evil person; tell me - show me why!

²⁸I lack nothing, and I am not sad or depressed; I have no deficiency at all.

²⁹I abandoned and lost my fascinating and beautiful Husband Lord; in this evil-mindedness, I have lost my good fortune.

³⁰I am not mistaken, and I am not confused; I have no egotism, and commit no offense.

³¹As You have linked me, so I am linked; listen to my true message.

³²She alone is the blessed soul-bride, and she alone is fortunate, upon whom the Husband Lord has showered His Mercy.

³³Her Husband Lord takes away all her faults and mistakes; hugging her close in His embrace, He embellishes her.

³⁴The unfortunate soul-bride makes this prayer: O Nanak, when will my turn come?

³⁵All the blessed soul-brides celebrate and make merry; bless me as well with a night of bliss, O Lord. ||1||

³⁶Fifth Mehl:

³⁷Why do you waver, O my mind? The Lord is the Fulfiller of hopes and desires.

³⁸Meditate on the True Guru, the Primal Being; He is the Destroyer of all pains.

³⁹Worship and adore the Lord's Name, O my mind; all sins and corruption shall be washed away.

⁴⁰Those who are blessed with such pre-ordained destiny, are in love with the Formless Lord.

⁴¹They abandon the tastes of Maya, and gather in the infinite wealth of the Naam.

⁴²Twenty-four hours a day, they are lovingly absorbed in the One Lord; they surrender and accept the Will of the Infinite Lord.

¹Servant Nanak begs for this one gift: please bless me, Lord, with the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan; my mind is in love with You. ||2||

²Pauree:

³One who is conscious of You finds everlasting peace.

⁴One who is conscious of You does not suffer at the hands of the Messenger of Death.

⁵One who is conscious of You is not anxious.

⁶One who has the Creator as his Friend - all his affairs are resolved.

⁷One who is conscious of You is renowned and respected.

⁸One who is conscious of You becomes very wealthy.

⁹One who is conscious of You has a great family.

¹⁰One who is conscious of You saves his ancestors. ||6||

¹¹Salok, Fifth Mehl:

¹²Blind inwardly, and blind outwardly, he sings falsely, falsely.

¹³He washes his body, and draws ritual marks on it, and totally runs after wealth.

¹⁴But the filth of his egotism is not removed from within, and over and over again, he comes and goes in reincarnation.