Raag Sorath

¹One Universal Creator God. Truth Is The Name. Creative Being Personified. No Fear. No Hatred. Image Of The Undying. Beyond Birth. Self-Existent. By Guru's Grace:

²Sorat'h, First Mehl, First House, Chau-Padhay:

³Death comes to all, and all must suffer separation.

⁴Go and ask the clever people, whether they shall meet in the world hereafter.

⁵Those who forget my Lord and Master shall suffer in terrible pain. ||1||

⁶So praise the True Lord,

⁷by whose Grace peace ever prevails. ||Pause||

⁸Praise Him as great; He is, and He shall ever be.

⁹You alone are the Great Giver; mankind cannot give anything.

¹⁰Whatever pleases Him, comes to pass; what good does it do to cry out in protest? ||2||

¹¹Many have proclaimed their sovereignty over millions of fortresses on the earth, but they have now departed.

¹²And those, whom even the sky could not contain, had ropes put through their noses.

¹³O mind, if you only knew the torment in your future, you would not relish the sweet pleasures of the present. ||3||

¹⁴O Nanak, as many as are the sins one commits, so many are the chains around his neck.

¹⁵If he possesses virtues, then the chains are cut away; these virtues are his brothers, his true brothers.

¹⁶Going to the world hereafter, those who have no Guru are not accepted; they are beaten, and expelled. ||4||1||

¹⁷Sorat'h, First Mehl, First House:

¹⁸Make your mind the farmer, good deeds the farm, modesty the water, and your body the field.

¹⁹Let the Lord's Name be the seed, contentment the plow, and your humble dress the fence.

²⁰Doing deeds of love, the seed shall sprout, and you shall see your home flourish. ||1||

²¹O Baba, the wealth of Maya does not go with anyone.

²²This Maya has bewitched the world, but only a rare few understand this. ||Pause||

²³Make your ever-decreasing life your shop, and make the Lord's Name your merchandise.

²⁴Make understanding and contemplation your warehouse, and in that warehouse, store the Lord's Name.

²⁵Deal with the Lord's dealers, earn your profits, and rejoice in your mind. ||2||

²⁶Let your trade be listening to scripture, and let Truth be the horses you take to sell.

²⁷Gather up merits for your travelling expenses, and do not think of tomorrow in your mind.

²⁸When you arrive in the land of the Formless Lord, you shall find peace in the Mansion of His Presence. ||3||

²⁹Let your service be the focusing of your consciousness, and let your occupation be the placing of faith in the Naam.

¹Let your work be restraint from sin; only then will people call you blessed.

²O Nanak, the Lord shall look upon you with His Glance of Grace, and you shall be blessed with honor four times over. ||4||2||

³Sorat'h, First Mehl, Chau-Thukay:

⁴The son is dear to his mother and father; he is the wise son-in-law to his father-in-law.

⁵The father is dear to his son and daughter, and the brother is very dear to his brother.

⁶By the Order of the Lord's Command, he leaves his house and goes outside, and in an instant, everything becomes alien to him.

⁷The self-willed manmukh does not remember the Name of the Lord, does not give in charity, and does not cleanse his consciousness; his body rolls in the dust. ||1||

⁸The mind is comforted by the Comforter of the Naam.

⁹I fall at the Guru's feet - I am a sacrifice to Him; He has given me to understand the true understanding. ||Pause||

¹⁰The mind is impressed with the false love of the world; he quarrels with the Lord's humble servant.

¹¹Infatuated with Maya, night and day, he sees only the worldly path; he does not chant the Naam, and drinking poison, he dies.

¹²He is imbued and infatuated with vicious talk; the Word of the Shabad does not come into his consciousness.

¹³He is not imbued with the Lord's Love, and he is not impressed by the taste of the Name; the self-willed manmukh loses his honor. ||2||

¹⁴He does not enjoy celestial peace in the Company of the Holy, and there is not even a bit of sweetness on his tongue.

¹⁵He calls his mind, body and wealth his own; he has no knowledge of the Court of the Lord.

¹⁶Closing his eyes, he walks in darkness; he cannot see the home of his own being, O Siblings of Destiny.

¹⁷Tied up at Death's door, he finds no place of rest; he receives the rewards of his own actions. ||3||

¹⁸When the Lord casts His Glance of Grace, then I see Him with my own eyes; He is indescribable, and cannot be described.

¹⁹With my ears, I continually listen to the Word of the Shabad, and I praise Him; His Ambrosial Name abides within my heart.

²⁰He is Fearless, Formless and absolutely without vengeance; I am absorbed in His Perfect Light.

²¹O Nanak, without the Guru, doubt is not dispelled; through the True Name, glorious greatness is obtained. ||4||3||

²²Sorat'h, First Mehl, Dho-Thukay:

²³In the realm of land, and in the realm of water, Your seat is the chamber of the four directions.

²⁴Yours is the one and only form of the entire universe; Your mouth is the mint to fashion all. ||1||

²⁵O my Lord Master, Your play is so wonderful!

²⁶You are pervading and permeating the water, the land and the sky; You Yourself are contained in all. ||Pause||

²⁷Wherever I look, there I see Your Light, but what is Your form?

²⁸You have one form, but it is unseen; there is none like any other. ||2||

²⁹The beings born of eggs, born of the womb, born of the earth and born of sweat, all are created by You.

³⁰I have seen one glory of Yours, that You are pervading and permeating in all. ||3||

³¹Your Glories are so numerous, and I do not know even one of them; I am such a fool - please, give me some of them!

³²Prays Nanak, listen, O my Lord Master: I am sinking like a stone - please, save me! ||4||4||

³³Sorat'h, First Mehl:

³⁴I am a wicked sinner and a great hypocrite; You are the Immaculate and Formless Lord.

³⁵Tasting the Ambrosial Nectar, I am imbued with supreme bliss; O Lord and Master, I seek Your Sanctuary. ||1||

³⁶O Creator Lord, You are the honor of the dishonored.

³⁷In my lap is the honor and glory of the wealth of the Name; I merge into the True Word of the Shabad. ||Pause||

³⁸You are perfect, while I am worthless and imperfect. You are profound, while I am trivial.

¹My mind is imbued with You, day and night and morning, O Lord; my tongue chants Your Name, and my mind meditates on You. ||2||

²You are True, and I am absorbed into You; through the mystery of the Shabad, I shall ultimately become True as well.

³Those who are imbued with the Naam day and night are pure, while those who die to be reborn are impure. ||3||

⁴I do not see any other like the Lord; who else should I praise? No one is equal to Him.

⁵Prays Nanak, I am the slave of His slaves; by Guru's Instruction, I know Him. ||4||5||

⁶Sorat'h, First Mehl:

⁷He is unknowable, infinite, unapproachable and imperceptible. He is not subject to death or karma.

⁸His caste is casteless; He is unborn, self-illumined, and free of doubt and desire. ||1||

⁹I am a sacrifice to the Truest of the True.

¹⁰He has no form, no color and no features; through the True Word of the Shabad, He reveals Himself. ||Pause||

¹¹He has no mother, father, sons or relatives; He is free of sexual desire; He has no wife.

¹²He has no ancestry; He is immaculate. He is infinite and endless; O Lord, Your Light is pervading all. ||2||

¹³Deep within each and every heart, God is hidden; His Light is in each and every heart.

¹⁴The heavy doors are opened by Guru's Instructions; one becomes fearless, in the trance of deep meditation. ||3||

¹⁵The Lord created all beings, and placed death over the heads of all; all the world is under His Power.

¹⁶Serving the True Guru, the treasure is obtained; living the Word of the Shabad, one is emancipated. ||4||

¹⁷In the pure vessel, the True Name is contained; how few are those who practice true conduct.

¹⁸The individual soul is united with the Supreme Soul; Nanak seeks Your Sanctuary, Lord. ||5||6||

¹⁹Sorat'h, First Mehl:

²⁰Like a fish without water is the faithless cynic, who dies of thirst.

²¹So shall you die, O mind, without the Lord, as your breath goes in vain. ||1||

²²O mind, chant the Lord's Name, and praise Him.

²³Without the Guru, how will you obtain this juice? The Guru shall unite you with the Lord. ||Pause||

²⁴For the Gurmukh, meeting with the Society of the Saints is like making a pilgrimage to a sacred shrine.

²⁵The benefit of bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage is obtained by the Blessed Vision of the Guru's Darshan. ||2||

²⁶Like the Yogi without abstinence, and like penance without truth and contentment,

²⁷so is the body without the Lord's Name; death will slay it, because of the sin within. ||3||

²⁸The faithless cynic does not obtain the Lord's Love; the Lord's Love is obtained only through the True Guru.

²⁹One who meets with the Guru, the Giver of pleasure and pain, says Nanak, is absorbed in the Lord's Praise. ||4||7||

³⁰Sorat'h, First Mehl:

³¹You, God, are the Giver of gifts, the Lord of perfect understanding; I am a mere beggar at Your Door.

³²What should I beg for? Nothing remains permanent; O Lord, please, bless me with Your Beloved Name. ||1||

³³In each and every heart, the Lord, the Lord of the forest, is permeating and pervading.

³⁴In the water, on the land, and in the sky, He is pervading but hidden; through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, He is revealed. ||Pause||

³⁵In this world, in the nether regions of the underworld, and in the Akaashic Ethers, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Lord; He has showered me with His Mercy.

³⁶He is the unborn Lord God; He is, and shall ever be. Deep within your heart, behold Him, the Destroyer of ego. ||2||

¹This wretched world is caught in birth and death; in the love of duality, it has forgotten devotional worship of the Lord.

²Meeting the True Guru, the Guru's Teachings are obtained; the faithless cynic loses the game of life. ||3||

³Breaking my bonds, the True Guru has set me free, and I shall not be cast into the womb of reincarnation again.

⁴O Nanak, the jewel of spiritual wisdom shines forth, and the Lord, the Formless Lord, dwells within my mind. ||4||8||

⁵Sorat'h, First Mehl:

⁶The treasure of the Name, for which you have come into the world - that Ambrosial Nectar is with the Guru.

⁷Renounce costumes, disguises and clever tricks; this fruit is not obtained by duplicity. ||1||

⁸O my mind, remain steady, and do not wander away.

⁹By searching around on the outside, you shall only suffer great pain; the Ambrosial Nectar is found within the home of your own being. ||Pause||

¹⁰Renounce corruption, and seek virtue; committing sins, you shall only come to regret and repent.

¹¹You do not know the difference between good and evil; again and again, you sink into the mud. ||2||

¹²Within you is the great filth of greed and falsehood; why do you bother to wash your body on the outside?

¹³Chant the Immaculate Naam, the Name of the Lord always, under Guru's Instruction; only then will your innermost being be emancipated. ||3||

¹⁴Let greed and slander be far away from you, and renounce falsehood; through the True Word of the Guru's Shabad, you shall obtain the true fruit.

¹⁵As it pleases You, You preserve me, Dear Lord; servant Nanak sings the Praises of Your Shabad. ||4||9||

¹⁶Sorat'h, First Mehl, Panch-Padhay:

¹⁷You cannot save your own home from being plundered; why do you spy on the houses of others?

¹⁸That Gurmukh who joins himself to the Guru's service, saves his own home, and tastes the Lord's Nectar. ||1||

¹⁹O mind, you must realize what your intellect is focused on.

²⁰Forgetting the Naam, the Name of the Lord, one is involved with other tastes; the unfortunate wretch shall come to regret it in the end. ||Pause||

²¹When things come, he is pleased, but when they go, he weeps and wails; this pain and pleasure remains attached to him.

²²The Lord Himself causes him to enjoy pleasure and endure pain; the Gurmukh, however, remains unaffected. ||2||

²³What else can be said to be above the subtle essence of the Lord? One who drinks it in is satisfied and satiated.

²⁴One who is lured by Maya loses this juice; that faithless cynic is tied to his evil-mindedness. ||3||

²⁵The Lord is the life of the mind, the Master of the breath of life; the Divine Lord is contained in the body.

²⁶If You so bless us, Lord, then we sing Your Praises; the mind is satisfied and fulfilled, lovingly attached to the Lord. ||4||

²⁷In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, the subtle essence of the Lord is obtained; meeting the Guru, the fear of death departs.

²⁸O Nanak, chant the Name of the Lord, as Gurmukh; you shall obtain the Lord, and realize your pre-ordained destiny. ||5||10||

²⁹Sorat'h, First Mehl:

³⁰Destiny, pre-ordained by the Lord, looms over the heads of all beings; no one is without this pre-ordained destiny.

³¹Only He Himself is beyond destiny; creating the creation by His creative power, He beholds it, and causes His Command to be followed. ||1||

³²O mind, chant the Name of the Lord, and be at peace.

³³Day and night, serve at the Guru's feet; the Lord is the Giver, and the Enjoyer. ||Pause||

¹He is within - see Him outside as well; there is no one, other than Him.

²As Gurmukh, look upon all with the single eye of equality; in each and every heart, the Divine Light is contained. ||2||

³Restrain your fickle mind, and keep it steady within its own home; meeting the Guru, this understanding is obtained.

⁴Seeing the unseen Lord, you shall be amazed and delighted; forgetting your pain, you shall be at peace. ||3||

⁵Drinking in the ambrosial nectar, you shall attain the highest bliss, and dwell within the home of your own self.

⁶So sing the Praises of the Lord, the Destroyer of the fear of birth and death, and you shall not be reincarnated again. ||4||

⁷The essence, the immaculate Lord, the Light of all - I am He and He is me - there is no difference between us.

⁸The Infinite Transcendent Lord, the Supreme Lord God - Nanak has met with Him, the Guru. ||5||11||

⁹Sorat'h, First Mehl, Third House:

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

¹¹When I am pleasing to Him, then I sing His Praises.

¹²Singing His Praises, I receive the fruits of my rewards.

¹³The rewards of singing His Praises

¹⁴O my mind, through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, the treasure is obtained;

¹⁵this is why I remain immersed in the True Name. ||Pause||

¹⁶When I awoke within myself to the Guru's Teachings,

¹⁷then I renounced my fickle intellect.

¹⁸When the Light of the Guru's Teachings dawned,

¹⁹and then all darkness was dispelled. ||2||

²⁰When the mind is attached to the Guru's Feet,

²¹then the Path of Death recedes.

²²Through the Fear of God, one attains the Fearless Lord;

²³then, one enters the home of celestial bliss. ||3||

²⁴Prays Nanak, how rare are those who reflect and understand,

²⁵the most sublime action in this world.

²⁶The noblest deed is to sing the Lord's Praises,

²⁷and so meet the Lord Himself. ||4||1||12||

²⁸Sorat'h, Third Mehl, First House:

²⁹One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

³⁰All of Your servants, who relish the Word of Your Shabad, serve You.

³¹By Guru's Grace, they become pure, eradicating self-conceit from within.

³²Night and day, they continually sing the Glorious Praises of the True Lord; they are adorned with the Word of the Guru's Shabad. ||1||

³³O my Lord and Master, I am Your child; I seek Your Sanctuary.

³⁴You are the One and Only Lord, the Truest of the True; You Yourself are the Destroyer of ego. ||Pause||

³⁵Those who remain wakeful obtain God; through the Word of the Shabad, they conquer their ego.

³⁶Immersed in family life, the Lord's humble servant ever remains detached; he reflects upon the essence of spiritual wisdom.

³⁷Serving the True Guru, he finds eternal peace, and he keeps the Lord enshrined in his heart. ||2||

³⁸This mind wanders in the ten directions; it is consumed by the love of duality.

¹The foolish self-willed manmukh does not remember the Lord's Name; he wastes away his life in vain.

²But when he meets the True Guru, then he obtains the Name; he sheds egotism and emotional attachment. ||3||

³The Lord's humble servants are True - they practice Truth, and reflect upon the Word of the Guru's Shabad.

⁴The True Lord God unites them with Himself, and they keep the True Lord enshrined in their hearts.

⁵O Nanak, through the Name, I have obtained salvation and understanding; this alone is my wealth. ||4||1||

⁶Sorat'h, Third Mehl:

⁷The True Lord has blessed His devotees with the treasure of devotional worship, and the wealth of the Lord's Name.

⁸The wealth of the Naam, shall never be exhausted; no one can estimate its worth.

⁹With the wealth of the Naam, their faces are radiant, and they attain the True Lord. ||1||

¹⁰O my mind, through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, the Lord is found.

¹¹Without the Shabad, the world wanders around, and receives its punishment in the Court of the Lord. ||Pause||

¹²Within this body dwell the five thieves: sexual desire, anger, greed, emotional attachment and egotism.

¹³They plunder the Nectar, but the self-willed manmukh does not realize it; no one hears his complaint.

¹⁴The world is blind, and its dealings are blind as well; without the Guru, there is only pitch darkness. ||2||

¹⁵Indulging in egotism and possessiveness, they are ruined; when they depart, nothing goes along with them.

¹⁶But one who becomes Gurmukh meditates on the Naam, and ever contemplates the Lord's Name.

¹⁷Through the True Word of Gurbani, he sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord; blessed with the Lord's Glance of Grace, he is enraptured. ||3||

¹⁸The spiritual wisdom of the True Guru is a steady light within the heart. The Lord's decree is over the heads of even kings.

¹⁹Night and day, the Lord's devotees worship Him; night and day, they gather in the true profit of the Lord's Name.

²⁰O Nanak, through the Lord's Name, one is emancipated; attuned to the Shabad, he finds the Lord. ||4||2||

²¹Sorat'h, Third Mehl:

²²If one becomes the slave of the Lord's slaves, then he finds the Lord, and eradicates ego from within.

²³The Lord of bliss is his object of devotion; night and day, he sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord.

²⁴Attuned to the Word of the Shabad, the Lord's devotees remain ever as one, absorbed in the Lord. ||1||

²⁵O Dear Lord, Your Glance of Grace is True.

²⁶Show mercy to Your slave, O Beloved Lord, and preserve my honor. ||Pause||

²⁷Continually praising the Word of the Shabad, I live; under Guru's Instruction, my fear has been dispelled.

²⁸My True Lord God is so beautiful! Serving the Guru, my consciousness is focused on Him.

²⁹One who chants the True Word of the Shabad, and the Truest of the True, the Word of His Bani, remains wakeful, day and night. ||2||

³⁰He is so very deep and profound, the Giver of eternal peace; no one can find His limit.

³¹Serving the Perfect Guru, one becomes carefree, enshrining the Lord within the mind.

³²The mind and body become immaculately pure, and a lasting peace fills the heart; doubt is eradicated from within. ||3||

³³The Way of the Lord is always such a difficult path; only a few find it, contemplating the Guru.

³⁴Imbued with the Lord's Love, and intoxicated with the Shabad, he renounces ego and corruption.

³⁵O Nanak, imbued with the Naam, and the Love of the One Lord, he is embellished with the Word of the Shabad. ||4||3||

¹Sorat'h, Third Mehl:

²Dear Beloved Lord, I praise You continually, as long as there is the breath within my body.

³If I were to forget You, for a moment, even for an instant, O Lord Master, it would be like fifty years for me.

⁴I was always such a fool and an idiot, O Siblings of Destiny, but now, through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, my mind is enlightened. ||1||

⁵Dear Lord, You Yourself bestow understanding.

⁶Dear Lord, I am forever a sacrifice to You; I am dedicated and devoted to Your Name. ||Pause||

⁷I have died in the Word of the Shabad, and through the Shabad, I am dead while yet alive, O Siblings of Destiny; through the Shabad, I have been liberated.

⁸Through the Shabad, my mind and body have been purified, and the Lord has come to dwell within my mind.

⁹The Guru is the Giver of the Shabad; my mind is imbued with it, and I remain absorbed in the Lord. ||2||

¹⁰Those who do not know the Shabad are blind and deaf; why did they even bother to come into the world?

¹¹They do not obtain the subtle essence of the Lord's elixir; they waste away their lives, and are reincarnated over and over again.

¹²The blind, idiotic, self-willed manmukhs are like maggots in manure, and in manure they rot away. ||3||

¹³The Lord Himself creates us, watches over us, and places us on the Path, O Siblings of Destiny; there is no one other than Him.

¹⁴No one can erase that which is pre-ordained, O Siblings of Destiny; whatever the Creator wills, comes to pass.

¹⁵O Nanak, the Naam, the Name of the Lord, abides deep within the mind; O Siblings of Destiny, there is no other at all. ||4||4||

¹⁶Sorat'h, Third Mehl:

¹⁷The Gurmukhs practice devotional worship, and become pleasing to God; night and day, they chant the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

¹⁸You Yourself protect and take care of Your devotees, who are pleasing to Your Mind.

¹⁹You are the Giver of virtue, realized through the Word of Your Shabad. Uttering Your Glories, we merge with You, O Glorious Lord. ||1||

²⁰O my mind, remember always the Dear Lord.

²¹At the very last moment, He alone shall be your best friend; He shall always stand by you. ||Pause||

²²The gathering of the wicked enemies shall always practice falsehood; they do not contemplate understanding.

²³Who can obtain fruit from the slander of evil enemies? Remember that Harnaakhash was torn apart by the Lord's claws.

²⁴Prahlaad, the Lord's humble servant, constantly sang the Glorious Praises of the Lord, and the Dear Lord saved him. ||2||

²⁵The self-willed manmukhs see themselves as being very virtuous; they have absolutely no understanding at all.

²⁶They indulge in slander of the humble spiritual people; they waste their lives away, and then they have to depart.

²⁷They never think of the Lord's Name, and in the end, they depart, regretting and repenting. ||3||

²⁸The Lord makes the lives of His devotees fruitful; He Himself links them to the Guru's service.

²⁹Imbued with the Word of the Shabad, and intoxicated with celestial bliss, night and day, they sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord.

³⁰Slave Nanak utters this prayer: O Lord, please, let me fall at their feet. ||4||5||

³¹Sorat'h, Third Mehl:

³²He alone is a Sikh, a friend, a relative and a sibling, who walks in the Way of the Guru's Will.

³³One who walks according to his own will, O Siblings of Destiny, suffers separation from the Lord, and shall be punished.

³⁴Without the True Guru, peace is never obtained, O Siblings of Destiny; again and again, he regrets and repents. ||1||

³⁵The Lord's slaves are happy, O Siblings of Destiny.

¹The sins and sorrows of countless lifetimes are eradicated; the Lord Himself unites them in His Union. ||Pause||

²All of these relatives are like chains upon the soul, O Siblings of Destiny; the world is deluded by doubt.

³Without the Guru, the chains cannot be broken; the Gurmukhs find the door of salvation.

⁴One who performs rituals without realizing the Word of the Guru's Shabad, shall die and be reborn, again and again. ||2||

⁵The world is entangled in egotism and possessiveness, O Siblings of Destiny, but no one belongs to anyone else.

⁶The Gurmukhs attain the Mansion of the Lord's Presence, singing the Glories of the Lord; they dwell in the home of their own inner being.

⁷One who understands here, realizes himself; the Lord God belongs to him. ||3||

⁸The True Guru is forever merciful, O Siblings of Destiny; without good destiny, what can anyone obtain?

⁹He looks alike upon all with His Glance of Grace, but people receive the fruits of their rewards according to their love for the Lord.

¹⁰O Nanak, when the Naam, the Name of the Lord, comes to dwell within the mind, then self-conceit is eradicated from within. ||4||6||

¹¹Sorat'h, Third Mehl, Chau-Thukay:

¹²True devotional worship is obtained only through the True Guru, when the True Word of His Bani is in the heart.

¹³Serving the True Guru, eternal peace is obtained; egotism is obliterated through the Word of the Shabad.

¹⁴Without the Guru, there is no true devotion; otherwise, people wander around, deluded by ignorance.

¹⁵The self-willed manmukhs wander around, suffering in constant pain; they drown and die, even without water. ||1||

¹⁶O Siblings of Destiny, remain forever in the Lord's Sanctuary, under His Protection.

¹⁷Bestowing His Glance of Grace, He preserves our honor, and blesses us with the glory of the Lord's Name. ||Pause||

¹⁸Through the Perfect Guru, one comes to understand himself, contemplating the True Word of the Shabad.

¹⁹The Lord, the Life of the world, ever abides in his heart, and he renounces sexual desire, anger and egotism.

²⁰The Lord is ever-present, permeating and pervading all places; the Name of the Infinite Lord is enshrined within the heart.

²¹Throughout the ages, through the Word of His Bani, His Shabad is realized, and the Name becomes so sweet and beloved to the mind. ||2||

²²Serving the Guru, one realizes the Naam, the Name of the Lord; fruitful is his life, and his coming into the world.

²³Tasting the sublime elixir of the Lord, his mind is satisfied and satiated forever; singing the Glories of the Glorious Lord, he is fulfilled and satisfied.

²⁴The lotus of his heart blossoms forth, he is ever imbued with the Lord's Love, and the unstruck melody of the Shabad resounds within him.

²⁵His body and mind become immaculately pure; his speech becomes immaculate as well, and he merges in the Truest of the True. ||3||

²⁶No one knows the state of the Lord's Name; through the Guru's Teachings, it comes to abide in the heart.

²⁷One who becomes Gurmukh, understands the Path; his tongue savors the sublime essence of the Lord's Nectar.

²⁸Meditation, austere self-discipline and self-restraint are all obtained from the Guru; the Naam, the Name of the Lord, comes to abide within the heart.

²⁹O Nanak, those humble beings who praise the Naam are beautiful; they are honored in the Court of the True Lord. ||4||7||

³⁰Sorat'h, Third Mehl, Dho-Thukay:

³¹Meeting the True Guru, one turns away from the world, O Siblings of Destiny; when he remains dead while yet alive, he obtains true understanding.

³²He alone is the Guru, and he alone is a Sikh, O Siblings of Destiny, whose light merges in the Light. ||1||

³³O my mind, be lovingly attuned to the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.

³⁴Chanting the Name of the Lord, it seems so sweet to the mind, O Siblings of Destiny; the Gurmukhs obtain a place in the Court of the Lord. ||Pause||

¹Without the Guru, love for the Lord does not well up, O Siblings of Destiny; the self-willed manmukhs are engrossed in the love of duality.

²Actions performed by the manmukh are like the threshing of the chaff - they obtain nothing for their efforts. ||2||

³Meeting the Guru, the Naam comes to permeate the mind, O Siblings of Destiny, with true love and affection.

⁴He always sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord, O Siblings of Destiny, with infinite love for the Guru. ||3||

⁵How blessed and approved is his coming into the world, O Siblings of Destiny, who focuses his mind on serving the Guru.

⁶O Nanak, the Name of the Lord is obtained, O Siblings of Destiny, through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, and we merge with the Lord. ||4||8||

⁷Sorat'h, Third Mehl, First House:

⁸The three worlds are entangled in the three qualities, O Siblings of Destiny; the Guru imparts understanding.

⁹Attached to the Lord's Name, one is emancipated, O Siblings of Destiny; go and ask the wise ones about this. ||1||

¹⁰O mind, renounce the three qualities, and focus your consciousness on the fourth state.

¹¹The Dear Lord abides in the mind, O Siblings of Destiny; ever sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||Pause||

¹²From the Naam, everyone originated, O Siblings of Destiny; forgetting the Naam, they die away.

¹³The ignorant world is blind, O Siblings of Destiny; those who sleep are plundered. ||2||

¹⁴Those Gurmukhs who remain awake are saved, O Siblings of Destiny; they cross over the terrifying world-ocean.

¹⁵In this world, the Name of the Lord is the true profit, O Siblings of Destiny; keep it enshrined within your heart. ||3||

¹⁶In the Guru's Sanctuary, O Siblings of Destiny, you shall be saved; be lovingly attuned to the Lord's Name.

¹⁷O Nanak, the Name of the Lord is the boat, and the Name is the raft, O Siblings of Destiny; setting out on it, the Lord's humble servant crosses over the world-ocean. ||4||9||

¹⁸Sorat'h, Third Mehl, First House:

¹⁹The True Guru is the ocean of peace in the world; there is no other place of rest and peace.

²⁰The world is afflicted with the painful disease of egotism; dying, only to be reborn, it cries out in pain. ||1||

²¹O mind, serve the True Guru, and obtain peace.

²²If you serve the True Guru, you shall find peace; otherwise, you shall depart, after wasting away your life in vain. ||Pause||

²³Led around by the three qualities, he does many deeds, but he does not come to taste and savor the subtle essence of the Lord.

²⁴He says his evening prayers, and makes offerings of water, and recites his morning prayers, but without true understanding, he still suffers in pain. ||2||

²⁵One who serves the True Guru is very fortunate; as the Lord so wills, he meets with the Guru.

²⁶Drinking in the sublime essence of the Lord, His humble servants remain ever satisfied; they eradicate self-conceit from within themselves. ||3||

²⁷This world is blind, and all act blindly; without the Guru, no one finds the Path.

²⁸O Nanak, meeting with the True Guru, one sees with his eyes, and finds the True Lord within the home of his own being. ||4||10||

²⁹Sorat'h, Third Mehl:

³⁰Without serving the True Guru, he suffers in terrible pain, and throughout the four ages, he wanders aimlessly.

³¹I am poor and meek, and throughout the ages, You are the Great Giver - please, grant me the understanding of the Shabad. ||1||

³²O Dear Beloved Lord, please show mercy to me.

³³Unite me in the Union of the True Guru, the Great Giver, and give me the support of the Lord's Name. ||Pause||

³⁴Conquering my desires and duality, I have merged in celestial peace, and I have found the Naam, the Name of the Infinite Lord.

³⁵I have tasted the sublime essence of the Lord, and my soul has become immaculately pure; the Lord is the Destroyer of sins. ||2||

¹Dying in the Word of the Shabad, you shall live forever, and you shall never die again.

²The Ambrosial Nectar of the Naam is ever-sweet to the mind; but how few are those who obtain the Shabad. ||3||

³The Great Giver keeps His Gifts in His Hand; He gives them to those with whom He is pleased.

⁴O Nanak, imbued with the Naam, they find peace, and in the Court of the Lord, they are exalted. ||4||11||

⁵Sorat'h, Third Mehl:

⁶Serving the True Guru, the divine melody wells up within, and one is blessed with wisdom and salvation.

⁷The True Name of the Lord comes to abide in the mind, and through the Name, one merges in the Name. ||1||

⁸Without the True Guru, the whole world is insane.

⁹The blind, self-willed manmukhs do not realize the Word of the Shabad; they are deluded by false doubts. ||Pause||

¹⁰The three-faced Maya had led them astray in doubt, and they are snared by the noose of egotism.

¹¹Birth and death hang over their heads, and being reborn from the womb, they suffer in pain. ||2||

¹²The three qualities permeate the whole world; acting in ego, it loses its honor.

¹³But one who becomes Gurmukh comes to realize the fourth state of celestial bliss; he finds peace through the Name of the Lord. ||3||

¹⁴The three qualities are all Yours, O Lord; You Yourself created them. Whatever You do, comes to pass.

¹⁵O Nanak, through the Lord's Name, one is emancipated; through the Shabad, he is rid of egotism. ||4||12||

¹⁶Sorat'h, Fourth Mehl, First House:

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

¹⁸My Beloved Lord Himself pervades and permeates all; He Himself is, all by Himself.

¹⁹My Beloved Himself is the trader in this world; He Himself is the true banker.

²⁰My Beloved Himself is the trade and the trader; He Himself is the true credit. ||1||

²¹O mind, meditate on the Lord, Har, Har, and praise His Name.

²²By Guru's Grace, the Beloved, Ambrosial, unapproachable and unfathomable Lord is obtained. ||Pause||

²³The Beloved Himself sees and hears everything; He Himself speaks through the mouths of all beings.

²⁴The Beloved Himself leads us into the wilderness, and He Himself shows us the Way.

²⁵The Beloved Himself is Himself all-in-all; He Himself is carefree. ||2||

²⁶The Beloved Himself, all by Himself, created everything; He Himself links all to their tasks.

²⁷The Beloved Himself creates the Creation, and He Himself destroys it.

²⁸He Himself is the wharf, and He Himself is the ferryman, who ferries us across. ||3||

²⁹The Beloved Himself is the ocean, and the boat; He Himself is the Guru, the boatman who steers it

³⁰. The Beloved Himself sets sail and crosses over; He, the King, beholds His wondrous play.

³¹The Beloved Himself is the Merciful Master; O servant Nanak, He forgives and blends with Himself. ||4||1||

³²Sorat'h, Fourth Mehl:

³³He Himself is born of the egg, from the womb, from sweat and from the earth; He Himself is the continents and all the worlds.

³⁴He Himself is the thread, and He Himself is the many beads; through His Almighty Power, He has strung the worlds.

¹He holds the thread, and when He withdraws the thread, the beads scatter into heaps. ||1||

²O my mind, there is no other than the Lord for me.

³The treasure of the Beloved Naam is within the True Guru; in His Mercy, he pours the Ambrosial Nectar into my mouth. ||Pause||

⁴The Beloved Himself is in all the oceans and lands; whatever God does, comes to pass.

⁵The Beloved brings nourishment to all; there is no other than Him.

⁶The Beloved Himself plays, and whatever He Himself does, comes to pass. ||2||

⁷The Beloved Himself, all by Himself, is immaculate and pure; He Himself is immaculate and pure.

⁸The Beloved Himself determines the value of all; whatever He does comes to pass.

⁹The Beloved Himself is unseen - He cannot be seen; He Himself causes us to see. ||3||

¹⁰The Beloved Himself is deep and profound and unfathomable; there is no other as great as He.

¹¹The Beloved Himself enjoys every heart; He is contained within every woman and man.

¹²O Nanak, the Beloved is pervading everywhere, but He is hidden; through the Guru, He is revealed. ||4||2||

¹³Sorat'h, Fourth Mehl:

¹⁴He Himself, the Beloved, is Himself all-in-all; He Himself establishes and disestablishes.

¹⁵The Beloved Himself beholds, and rejoices; God Himself works wonders, and beholds them.

¹⁶The Beloved Himself is contained in all the woods and meadows; as Gurmukh, He reveals Himself. ||1||

¹⁷Meditate, O mind, on the Lord, Har, Har; through the sublime essence of Lord's Name, you shall be satisfied.

¹⁸The Ambrosial Nectar of the Naam, is the sweetest juice; through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, its taste is revealed. ||Pause||

¹⁹The Beloved is Himself the place of pilgrimage and the raft; God Himself ferries Himself across.

²⁰The Beloved Himself casts the net over all the world; the Lord Himself is the fish.

²¹The Beloved Himself is infallible; He makes no mistakes. There is no other like Him to be seen. ||2||

²²The Beloved Himself is the Yogi's horn, and the sound current of the Naad; He Himself plays the tune.

²³The Beloved Himself is the Yogi, the Primal Being; He Himself practices intense meditation.

²⁴He Himself is the True Guru, and He Himself is the disciple; God Himself imparts the Teachings. ||3||

²⁵The Beloved Himself inspires us to chant His Name, and He Himself practices meditation.

²⁶The Beloved Himself is the Ambrosial Nectar; He Himself is the juice of it.

²⁷The Beloved Himself praises Himself; servant Nanak is satisfied, with the sublime essence of the Lord. ||4||3||

²⁸Sorat'h, Fourth Mehl:

²⁹God Himself is the balance scale, He Himself is the weigher, and He Himself weighs with the weights.

³⁰He Himself is the banker, He Himself is the trader, and He Himself makes the trades.

³¹The Beloved Himself fashioned the world, and He Himself counter-balances it with a gram. ||1||

³²My mind meditates on the Lord, Har, Har, and finds peace.

³³The Name of the Beloved Lord, Har, Har, is a treasure; the Perfect Guru has made it seem sweet to me. ||Pause||

³⁴The Beloved Himself is the earth, and He Himself is the water; He Himself acts, and causes others to act.

³⁵The Beloved Himself issues His Commands, and keeps the water and the land bound down.

³⁶The Beloved Himself instills the Fear of God; He binds the tiger and the goat together. ||2||

¹The Beloved Lord Himself is the firewood, and He Himself keeps the fire within the wood.

²The Beloved Lord Himself, all by Himself, permeates them, and because of the Fear of God, the fire cannot burn the wood.

³The Beloved Himself kills and revives; all draw the breath of life, given by Him. ||3||

⁴The Beloved Himself is power and presence; He Himself engages us in our work.

⁵As the Beloved makes me walk, I walk, as it pleases my Lord God.

⁶The Beloved Himself is the musician, and the musical instrument; servant Nanak vibrates His vibration. ||4||4||

⁷Sorat'h, Fourth Mehl:

⁸The Beloved Himself created the Universe; He made the light of the sun and the moon.

⁹The Beloved Himself is the power of the powerless; He Himself is the honor of the dishonored.

¹⁰The Beloved Himself grants His Grace and protects us; He Himself is wise and all-knowing. ||1||

¹¹O my mind, chant the Name of the Lord, and receive His Insignia.

¹²Join the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation, and meditate on the Lord, Har, Har; you shall not have to come and go in reincarnation again. ||Pause||

¹³The Beloved Himself pervades His Glorious Praises, and He Himself approves them.

¹⁴The Beloved Himself grants His forgiveness, and He Himself bestows the Insignia of Truth.

¹⁵The Beloved Himself obeys His Will, and He Himself issues His Command. ||2||

¹⁶The Beloved Himself is the treasure of devotion; He Himself gives His gifts.

¹⁷The Beloved Himself commits some to His service, and He Himself blesses them with honor.

¹⁸The Beloved Himself is absorbed in Samaadhi; He Himself is the treasure of excellence. ||3||

¹⁹The Beloved Himself is the greatest; He Himself is supreme.

²⁰The Beloved Himself appraises the value; He Himself is the scale, and the weights.

²¹The Beloved Himself is unweighable - He weighs Himself; servant Nanak is forever a sacrifice to Him. ||4||5||

²²Sorat'h, Fourth Mehl:

²³The Beloved Himself commits some to His service; He Himself blesses them with the joy of devotional worship.

²⁴The Beloved Himself causes us to sing His Glorious Praises; He Himself is absorbed in the Word of His Shabad.

²⁵He Himself is the pen, and He Himself is the scribe; He Himself inscribes His inscription. ||1||

²⁶O my mind, joyfully chant the Name of the Lord.

²⁷Those very fortunate ones are in ecstasy night and day; through the Perfect Guru, they obtain the profit of the Lord's Name. ||Pause||

²⁸The Beloved Himself is the milk-maid and Krishna; He Himself herds the cows in the woods.

²⁹The Beloved Himself is the blue-skinned, handsome one; He Himself plays on His flute.

³⁰The Beloved Himself took the form of a child, and destroyed Kuwalia-peer, the mad elephant. ||2||

³¹The Beloved Himself sets the stage; He performs the plays, and He Himself watches them.

³²The Beloved Himself assumed the form of the child, and killed the demons Chandoor, Kansa and Kaysee.

³³The Beloved Himself, by Himself, is the embodiment of power; He shatters the power of the fools and idiots. ||3||

³⁴The Beloved Himself created the whole world. In His hands He holds the power of the ages.

¹The Beloved Himself puts the chains around their necks; as God pulls them, must they go.

²Whoever harbors pride shall be destroyed, O Beloved; meditating on the Lord, Nanak is absorbed in devotional worship. ||4||6||

³Sorat'h, Fourth Mehl, Dho-Thukay:

⁴Separated from the Lord for countless lifetimes, the self-willed manmukh suffers in pain, engaged in acts of egotism.

⁵Beholding the Holy Saint, I found God; O Lord of the Universe, I seek Your Sanctuary. ||1||

⁶The Love of God is very dear to me.

⁷When I joined the Sat Sangat, the Company of the Holy People, the Lord, the embodiment of peace, came into my heart. ||Pause||

⁸You dwell, hidden, within my heart day and night, Lord; but the poor fools do not understand Your Love.

⁹Meeting with the Almighty True Guru, God was revealed to me; I sing His Glorious Praises, and reflect upon His Glories. ||2||

¹⁰As Gurmukh, I have become enlightened; peace has come, and evil-mindedness has been dispelled from my mind.

¹¹Understanding the relationship of the individual soul with God, I have found peace, in Your Sat Sangat, Your True Congregation, O Lord. ||3||

¹²Those who are blessed by Your Kind Mercy, meet the Almighty Lord, and find the Guru.

¹³Nanak has found the immeasurable, celestial peace; night and day, he remains awake to the Lord, the Master of the Forest of the Universe. ||4||7||

¹⁴Sorat'h, Fourth Mehl:

¹⁵The inner depths of my mind are pierced by love for the Lord; I cannot live without the Lord.

¹⁶Just as the fish dies without water, I die without the Lord's Name. ||1||

¹⁷O my God, please bless me with the water of Your Name.

¹⁸I beg for Your Name, deep within myself, day and night; through the Name, I find peace. ||Pause||

¹⁹The song-bird cries out for lack of water - without water, its thirst cannot be quenched.

²⁰The Gurmukh obtains the water of celestial bliss, and is rejuvenated, blossoming forth through the blessed Love of the Lord. ||2||

²¹The self-willed manmukhs are hungry, wandering around in the ten directions; without the Name, they suffer in pain.

²²They are born, only to die, and enter into reincarnation again; in the Court of the Lord, they are punished. ||3||

²³But if the Lord shows His Mercy, then one comes to sing His Glorious Praises; deep within the nucleus of his own self, he finds the sublime essence of the Lord's elixir.

²⁴The Lord has become Merciful to meek Nanak, and through the Word of the Shabad, his desires are quenched. ||4||8||

²⁵Sorat'h, Fourth Mehl, Panch-Padhay:

²⁶If one eats the uneatable, then he becomes a Siddha, a being of perfect spirituality; through this perfection, he obtains wisdom.

²⁷When the arrow of the Lord's Love pierces his body, then his doubt is eradicated. ||1||

²⁸O my Lord of the Universe, please bless Your humble servant with glory.

²⁹Under Guru's Instructions, enlighten me with the Lord's Name, that I may dwell forever in Your Sanctuary. ||Pause||

³⁰This whole world is engrossed in coming and going; O my foolish and ignorant mind, be mindful of the Lord.

³¹O Dear Lord, please, take pity upon me, and unite me with the Guru, that I may merge in the Lord's Name. ||2||

³²Only one who has it knows God; he alone has it, to whom God has given it

³³Only one who tastes it knows it, like the mute, who tastes the sweet candy, but cannot speak of it.

¹The jewel is concealed, but it is not concealed, even though one may try to conceal it. ||4||

²Everything is Yours, O Inner-knower, Searcher of hearts; You are the Lord God of all.

³He alone receives the gift, unto whom You give it; O servant Nanak, there is no one else. ||5||9||

⁴Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl, First House, Thi-Thukay:

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

⁶Who should I ask? Who should I worship? All were created by Him.

⁷Whoever appears to be the greatest of the great, shall ultimately be mixed with the dust.

⁸The Fearless, Formless Lord, the Destroyer of Fear bestows all comforts, and the nine treasures. ||1||

⁹O Dear Lord, Your gifts alone satisfy me.

¹⁰Why should I praise the poor helpless man? Why should I feel subservient to him? ||Pause||

¹¹All things come to one who meditates on the Lord; the Lord satisfies his hunger.

¹²The Lord, the Giver of peace, bestows such wealth, that it can never be exhausted.

¹³I am in ecstasy, absorbed in celestial peace; the True Guru has united me in His Union. ||2||

¹⁴O mind, chant the Naam, the Name of the Lord; worship the Naam, night and day, and recite the Naam.

¹⁵Listen to the Teachings of the Holy Saints, and all fear of death will be dispelled.

¹⁶Those blessed by God's Grace are attached to the Word of the Guru's Bani. ||3||

¹⁷Who can estimate Your worth, God? You are kind and compassionate to all beings.

¹⁸Everything which You do, prevails; I am just a poor child - what can I do?

¹⁹Protect and preserve Your servant Nanak; be kind to him, like a father to his son. ||4||1||

²⁰Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl, First House, Chau-Thukay:

²¹Praise the Guru, and the Lord of the Universe, O Siblings of Destiny; enshrine Him in your mind, body and heart.

²²Let the True Lord and Master abide in your mind, O Siblings of Destiny; this is the most excellent way of life.

²³Those bodies, in which the Name of the Lord does not well up, O Siblings of Destiny - those bodies are reduced to ashes.

²⁴I am a sacrifice to the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, O Siblings of Destiny; they take the Support of the One and Only Lord. ||1||

²⁵So worship and adore that True Lord, O Siblings of Destiny; He alone does everything.

²⁶The Perfect Guru has taught me, O Siblings of Destiny, that without Him, there is no other at all. ||Pause||

²⁷Without the Naam, the Name of the Lord, they putrefy and die, O Siblings of Destiny; their numbers cannot be counted.

²⁸Without Truth, purity cannot be achieved, O Siblings of Destiny; the Lord is true and unfathomable.

²⁹Coming and going do not end, O Siblings of Destiny; pride in worldly valuables is false.

³⁰The Gurmukh saves millions of people, O Siblings of Destiny, blessing them with even a particle of the Name. ||2||

³¹I have searched through the Simritees and the Shaastras, O Siblings of Destiny - without the True Guru, doubt does not depart.

³²They are so tired of performing their many deeds, O Siblings of Destiny, but they fall into bondage again and again.

³³I have searched in the four directions, O Siblings of Destiny, but without the True Guru, there is no place at all.

¹By great good fortune, I found the Guru, O Siblings of Destiny, and I meditate on the Name of the Lord, Har, Har. ||3||

²The Truth is forever pure, O Siblings of Destiny; those who are true are pure.

³When the Lord bestows His Glance of Grace, O Siblings of Destiny, then one obtains Him.

⁴Among millions, O Siblings of Destiny, hardly one humble servant of the Lord is found.

⁵Nanak is imbued with the True Name, O Siblings of Destiny; hearing it, the mind and body become immaculately pure. ||4||2||

⁶Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl, Dho-Thukay:

⁷As long as this person believes in love and hate, it is difficult for him to meet the Lord.

⁸As long as he discriminates between himself and others, he will distance himself from the Lord. ||1||

⁹O Lord, grant me such understanding,

¹⁰that I might serve the Holy Saints, and seek the protection of their feet, and not forget them, for a moment, even an instant. ||Pause||

¹¹O foolish, thoughtless and fickle mind, such understanding did not come into your heart.

¹²Renouncing the Lord of Life, you have become engrossed in other things, and you are involved with your enemies. ||2||

¹³Sorrow does not afflict one who does not harbor self-conceit; in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, I have attained this understanding.

¹⁴Know that the babbling of the faithless cynic is like wind passing by. ||3||

¹⁵This mind is inundated by millions of sins - what can I say?

¹⁶Nanak, Your humble servant has come to Your Sanctuary, God; please, erase all his accounts. ||4||3||

¹⁷Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁸Children, spouses, men and women in one's household, are all bound by Maya.

¹⁹At the very last moment, none of them shall stand by you; their love is totally false. ||1||

²⁰O man, why do you pamper your body so?

²¹It shall disperse like a cloud of smoke; vibrate upon the One, the Beloved Lord. ||Pause||

²²There are three ways in which the body can be consumed - it can be thrown into water, given to the dogs, or cremated to ashes.

²³He considers himself to be immortal; he sits in his home, and forgets the Lord, the Cause of causes. ||2||

²⁴In various ways, the Lord has fashioned the beads, and strung them on a slender thread.

²⁵The thread shall break, O wretched man, and then, you shall repent and regret. ||3||

²⁶He created you, and after creating you, He adorned you - meditate on Him day and night.

²⁷God has showered His Mercy upon servant Nanak; I hold tight to the Support of the True Guru. ||4||4||

²⁸Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

²⁹I met the True Guru, by great good fortune, and my mind has been enlightened.

³⁰No one else can equal me, because I have the loving support of my Lord and Master. ||1||

³¹I am a sacrifice to my True Guru.

³²I am at peace in this world, and I shall be in celestial peace in the next; my home is filled with bliss. ||Pause||

³³He is the Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts, the Creator, my Lord and Master.

³⁴I have become fearless, attached to the Guru's feet; I take the Support of the Name of the One Lord. ||2||

³⁵Fruitful is the Blessed Vision of His Darshan; the Form of God is deathless; He is and shall always be.

³⁶He hugs His humble servants close, and protects and preserves them; their love for Him is sweet to Him. ||3||

³⁷Great is His glorious greatness, and wondrous is His magnificence; through Him, all affairs are resolved.

¹Nanak has met with the Perfect Guru; all his sorrows have been dispelled. ||4||5||

²Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

³To the happy person, everyone seems happy; to the sick person, everyone seems sick.

⁴The Lord and Master acts, and causes us to act; union is in His Hands. ||1||

⁵O my mind, no one appears to be mistaken, to one who has dispelled his own doubts;

⁶One whose mind is comforted in the Society of the Saints, believes that all are joyful.

⁷One whose mind is afflicted by the disease of egotism, cries out in birth and death. ||2||

⁸Everything is clear to one whose eyes are blessed with the ointment of spiritual wisdom.

⁹In the darkness of spiritual ignorance, he sees nothing at all; he wanders around in reincarnation, over and over again. ||3||

¹⁰Hear my prayer, O Lord and Master; Nanak begs for this happiness:

¹¹whereever Your Holy Saints sing the Kirtan of Your Praises, let my mind be attached to that place. ||4||6||

¹²Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

¹³My body belongs to the Saints, my wealth belongs to the Saints, and my mind belongs to the Saints.

¹⁴By the Grace of the Saints, I meditate on the Lord's Name, and then, all comforts come to me. ||1||

¹⁵Without the Saints, there are no other givers.

¹⁶Whoever takes to the Sanctuary of the Holy Saints, is carried across. ||Pause||

¹⁷Millions of sins are erased by serving the humble Saints, and singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord with love.

¹⁸One finds peace in this world, and one's face is radiant in the next world, by associating with the humble Saints, through great good fortune. ||2||

¹⁹I have only one tongue, and the Lord's humble servant is filled with countless virtues; how can I sing his praises?

²⁰The inaccessible, unapproachable and eternally unchanging Lord is obtained in the Sanctuary of the Saints. ||3||

²¹I am worthless, lowly, without friends or support, and full of sins; I long for the Shelter of the Saints.

²²I am drowning in the deep, dark pit of household attachments - please save me, Lord! ||4||7||

²³Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl, First House:

²⁴O Creator Lord, You fulfill the desires of those, within whose heart You abide.

²⁵Your slaves do not forget You; the dust of Your feet is pleasing to their minds. ||1||

²⁶Your Unspoken Speech cannot be spoken.

²⁷O treasure of excellence, Giver of peace, Lord and Master, Your greatness is the highest of all. ||Pause||

²⁸The mortal does those deeds, and those alone, which You ordained by destiny.

²⁹Your servant, whom You bless with Your service, is satisfied and fulfilled, beholding the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan. ||2||

³⁰You are contained in all, but he alone realizes this, whom You bless with understanding.

³¹By Guru's Grace, his spiritual ignorance is dispelled, and he is respected everywhere. ||3||

³²He alone is spiritually enlightened, he alone is a meditator, and he alone is a man of good nature.

³³Says Nanak, one unto whom the Lord becomes Merciful, does not forget the Lord from his mind. ||4||8||

³⁴Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

³⁵The whole creation is engrossed in emotional attachment; sometimes, one is high, and at other times, low.

³⁶No one can be purified by any rituals or devices; they cannot reach their goal. ||1||

¹O my mind, emancipation is attained in the Sanctuary of the Holy Saints.

²Without the Perfect Guru, births and deaths do not cease, and one comes and goes, over and over again. ||Pause||

³The whole world is entangled in what is called the delusion of doubt.

⁴The perfect devotee of the Primal Lord God remains detached from everything. ||2||

⁵Don't indulge in slander for any reason, for everything is the creation of the Lord and Master.

⁶One who is blessed with the Mercy of my God, dwells on the Name in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy. ||3||

⁷The Supreme Lord God, the Transcendent Lord, the True Guru, saves all.

⁸Says Nanak, without the Guru, no one crosses over; this is the perfect essence of all contemplation. ||4||9||

⁹Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁰I have searched and searched and searched, and found that the Lord's Name is the most sublime reality.

¹¹Contemplating it for even an instant, sins are erased; the Gurmukh is carried across and saved. ||1||

¹²Drink in the sublime essence of the Lord's Name, O man of spiritual wisdom.

¹³Listening to the Ambrosial Words of the Holy Saints, the mind finds absolute fulfillment and satisfaction. ||Pause||

¹⁴Liberation, pleasures, and the true way of life are obtained from the Lord, the Giver of all peace.

¹⁵The Perfect Lord, the Architect of Destiny, blesses His slave with the gift of devotional worship. ||2||

¹⁶Hear with your ears, and sing with your tongue, and meditate within your heart on Him.

¹⁷The Lord and Master is all-powerful, the Cause of causes; without Him, there is nothing at all. ||3||

¹⁸By great good fortune, I have obtained the jewel of human life; have mercy on me, O Merciful Lord.

¹⁹In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, Nanak sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord, and contemplates Him forever in meditation. ||4||10||

²⁰Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

²¹After taking your cleansing bath, remember your God in meditation, and your mind and body shall be free of disease.

²²Millions of obstacles are removed, in the Sanctuary of God, and good fortune dawns. ||1||

²³The Word of God's Bani, and His Shabad, are the best utterances.

²⁴So constantly sing them, listen to them, and read them, O Siblings of Destiny, and the Perfect Guru shall save you. ||Pause||

²⁵The glorious greatness of the True Lord is immeasurable; the Merciful Lord is the Lover of His devotees.

²⁶He has preserved the honor of His Saints; from the very beginning of time, His Nature is to cherish them. ||2||

²⁷So eat the Ambrosial Name of the Lord as your food; put it into your mouth at all times.

²⁸The pains of old age and death shall all depart, when you constantly sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord of the Universe. ||3||

²⁹My Lord and Master has heard my prayer, and all my affairs have been resolved.

³⁰The glorious greatness of Guru Nanak is manifest, throughout all the ages. ||4||11||

³¹Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl, Second House, Chau-Padhay:

³²One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

³³The One God is our father; we are the children of the One God. You are our Guru.

³⁴Listen, friends: my soul is a sacrifice, a sacrifice to You; O Lord, reveal to me the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan. ||1||

¹Listen, friends: I am a sacrifice to the dust of Your feet.

²This mind is yours, O Siblings of Destiny. ||Pause||

³I wash your feet, I massage and clean them; I give this mind to you.

⁴Listen, friends: I have come to Your Sanctuary; teach me, that I might unite with God. ||2||

⁵Do not be proud; seek His Sanctuary, and accept as good all that He does.

⁶Listen, friends: dedicate your soul, body and your whole being to Him; thus you shall receive the Blessed Vision of His Darshan. ||3||

⁷He has shown mercy to me, by the Grace of the Saints; the Lord's Name is sweet to me.

⁸The Guru has shown mercy to servant Nanak; I see the casteless, immaculate Lord everywhere. ||4||1||12||

⁹Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁰God is the Lord and Master of millions of universes; He is the Giver of all beings.

¹¹He ever cherishes and cares for all beings, but the fool does not appreciate any of His virtues. ||1||

¹²I do not know how to worship the Lord in adoration.

¹³I can only repeat, "Lord, Lord, Guru, Guru."

¹⁴O Dear Lord, I go by the name of the Lord's slave. ||Pause||

¹⁵The Compassionate Lord is Merciful to the meek, the ocean of peace; He fills all hearts.

¹⁶He sees, hears, and is always with me; but I am a fool, and I think that He is far away. ||2||

¹⁷The Lord is limitless, but I can only describe Him within my limitations; what do I know, about what He is like?

¹⁸I offer my prayer to my True Guru; I am so foolish - please, teach me! ||3||

¹⁹I am just a fool, but millions of sinners just like me have been saved.

²⁰Those who have heard, and seen Guru Nanak, do not descend into the womb of reincarnation again. ||4||2||13||

²¹Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

²²Those things, which caused me such anxiety, have all vanished.

²³Now, I sleep in peace and tranquility, and my mind is in a state of deep and profound peace; the inverted lotus of my heart has blossomed forth. ||1||

²⁴Behold, a wondrous miracle has happened!

²⁵That Lord and Master, whose wisdom is said to be unfathomable, has been enshrined within my heart, by the Guru. ||Pause||

²⁶The demons which tormented me so much, have themselves become terrified.

²⁷They pray: please, save us from your Lord Master; we seek your protection. ||2||

²⁸When the treasure of the Lord of the Universe is opened, those who are pre-destined, receive it.

²⁹The Guru has given me the one jewel, and my mind and body have become peaceful and tranquil. ||3||

³⁰The Guru has blessed me with the one drop of Ambrosial Nectar, and so I have become stable, unmoving and immortal - I shall not die.

³¹The Lord blessed Guru Nanak with the treasure of devotional worship, and did not call him to account again. ||4||3||14||

³²Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

³³Those whose minds are attached to the lotus feet of the Lord - those humble beings are satisfied and fulfilled.

³⁴But those, within whose hearts the priceless virtue does not abide - those men remain thirsty and unsatisfied. ||1||

³⁵Worshipping the Lord in adoration, one becomes happy, and free of disease.

³⁶But one who forgets my Dear Lord - know him to be afflicted with tens of thousands of illnesses. ||Pause||

¹Those who hold tightly to Your Support, God, are happy in Your Sanctuary.

²But those humble beings who forget the Primal Lord, the Architect of Destiny, are counted among the most miserable beings. ||2||

³One who has faith in the Guru, and who is lovingly attached to God, enjoys the delights of supreme ecstasy.

⁴One who forgets God and forsakes the Guru, falls into the most horrible hell. ||3||

⁵As the Lord engages someone, so he is engaged, and so does he perform.

⁶Nanak has taken to the Shelter of the Saints; his heart is absorbed in the Lord's feet. ||4||4||15||

⁷Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

⁸As the king is entangled in kingly affairs, and the egotist in his own egotism,

⁹and the greedy man is enticed by greed, so is the spiritually enlightened being absorbed in the Love of the Lord. ||1||

¹⁰This is what befits the Lord's servant.

¹¹Beholding the Lord near at hand, he serves the True Guru, and he is satisfied through the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises. ||Pause||

¹²The addict is addicted to his drug, and the landlord is in love with his land.

¹³As the baby is attached to his milk, so the Saint is in love with God. ||2||

¹⁴The scholar is absorbed in scholarship, and the eyes are happy to see.

¹⁵As the tongue savors the tastes, so does the humble servant of the Lord sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||3||

¹⁶As is the hunger, so is the fulfiller; He is the Lord and Master of all hearts.

¹⁷Nanak thirsts for the Blessed Vision of the Lord's Darshan; he has met God, the Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts. ||4||5||16||

¹⁸Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁹We are filthy, and You are immaculate, O Creator Lord; we are worthless, and You are the Great Giver.

²⁰We are fools, and You are wise and all-knowing. You are the knower of all things. ||1||

²¹O Lord, this is what we are, and this is what You are.

²²We are sinners, and You are the Destroyer of sins. Your abode is so beautiful, O Lord and Master. ||Pause||

²³You fashion all, and having fashioned them, You bless them. You bestow upon them soul, body and the breath of life.

²⁴We are worthless - we have no virtue at all; please, bless us with Your gift, O Merciful Lordand Master. ||2||

²⁵You do good for us, but we do not see it as good; You are kind and compassionate, forever and ever.

²⁶You are the Giver of peace, the Primal Lord, the Architect of Destiny; please, save us, Your children! ||3||

²⁷You are the treasure, eternal Lord King; all beings and creatures beg of You.

²⁸Says Nanak, such is our condition; please, Lord, keep us on the Path of the Saints. ||4||6||17||

²⁹Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl, Second House:

³⁰In our mother's womb, You blessed us with Your meditative remembrance, and You preserved us there.

³¹Through the countless waves of the ocean of fire, please, carry us across and save us, O Savior Lord! ||1||

³²O Lord, You are the Master above my head.

³³Here and hereafter, You alone are my Support. ||Pause||

³⁴He looks upon the creation like a mountain of gold, and sees the Creator as a blade of grass.

³⁵You are the Great Giver, and we are all mere beggars; O God, You give gifts according to Your Will. ||2||

³⁶In an instant, You are one thing, and in another instant, You are another. Wondrous are Your ways!

³⁷You are beautiful, mysterious, profound, unfathomable, lofty, inaccessible and infinite. ||3||

¹When You brought me to the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, then I heard the Bani of Your Word.

²Nanak is in ecstasy, beholding the Glory of the Primal Lord of Nirvaanaa. ||4||7||18||

³Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

⁴I am the dust of the feet of the Beloved Saints; I seek the Protection of their Sanctuary.

⁵The Saints are my all-powerful Support; the Saints are my ornament and decoration. ||1||

⁶I am hand and glove with the Saints.

⁷I have realized my pre-ordained destiny.

⁸This mind is yours, O Siblings of Destiny. ||Pause||

⁹My dealings are with the Saints, and my business is with the Saints.

¹⁰I have earned the profit with the Saints, and the treasure filled to over-flowing with devotion to the Lord. ||2||

¹¹The Saints entrusted to me the capital, and my mind's delusion was dispelled.

¹²What can the Righteous Judge of Dharma do now? All my accounts have been torn up. ||3||

¹³I have found the greatest bliss, and I am at peace, by the Grace of the Saints.

¹⁴Says Nanak, my mind is reconciled with the Lord; it is imbued with the wondrous Love of the Lord. ||4||8||19||

¹⁵Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁶All the things that you see, O man, you shall have to leave behind.

¹⁷Let your dealings be with the Lord's Name, and you shall attain the state of Nirvaanaa. ||1||

¹⁸O my Beloved, You are the Giver of peace.

¹⁹The Perfect Guru has given me these Teachings, and I am attuned to You. ||Pause||

²⁰In sexual desire, anger, greed, emotional attachment and self-conceit, peace is not to be found.

²¹So be the dust of the feet of all, O my mind, and then you shall find bliss, joy and peace. ||2||

²²He knows the condition of your inner self, and He will not let your work go in vain - serve Him, O mind.

²³Worship Him, and dedicate this mind unto Him, the Image of the Undying Lord, the Divine Guru. ||3||

²⁴He is the Lord of the Universe, the Compassionate Lord, the Supreme Lord God, the Formless Lord.

²⁵The Naam is my merchandise, the Naam is my nourishment; the Naam, O Nanak, is the Support of my breath of life. ||4||9||20||

²⁶Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

²⁷He infuses the breath into the dead bodies, and he reunited the separated ones.

²⁸Even beasts, demons and fools become attentive listeners, when He sings the Praises of the Lord's Name. ||1||

²⁹Behold the glorious greatness of the Perfect Guru.

³⁰His worth cannot be described. ||Pause||

³¹He has demolished the abode of sorrow and disease, and brought bliss, joy and happiness.

³²He effortlessly awards the fruits of the mind's desire, and all works are brought to perfection. ||2||

³³He finds peace in this world, and his face is radiant in the world hereafter; his comings and goings are finished.

³⁴He becomes fearless, and his heart is filled with the Naam, the Name of the Lord; his mind is pleasing to the True Guru. ||3||

³⁵Standing up and sitting down, he sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord; his pain, sorrow and doubt are dispelled.

³⁶Says Nanak, his karma is perfect; his mind is attached to the Guru's feet. ||4||10||21||

³⁷Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

³⁸Forsaking the jewel, he is attached to the shell; nothing will come of it.

¹O my mind, meditate forever on the Perfect, Supreme Lord God, the Transcendent Lord. ||1||

²Meditate in remembrance on the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, O mortal.

³Your frail body shall perish, you ignorant fool. ||Pause||

⁴Illusions and dream-objects possess nothing of greatness.

⁵Without meditating on the Lord, nothing succeeds, and nothing will go along with you. ||2||

⁶Acting in egotism and pride, his life passes away, and he does nothing for his soul.

⁷Wandering and wandering all around, he is never satisfied; he does not remember the Name of the Lord. ||3||

⁸Intoxicated with the taste of corruption, cruel pleasures and countless sins, he is consigned to the cycle of reincarnation.

⁹Nanak offers his prayer to God, to eradicate his demerits. ||4||11||22||

¹⁰Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

¹¹Sing the Glorious Praises of the Perfect, Imperishable Lord, and the poison of sexual desire and anger shall be burnt away.

¹²You shall cross over the awesome, arduous ocean of fire, in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy. ||1||

¹³The Perfect Guru has dispelled the darkness of doubt.

¹⁴Remember God with love and devotion; He is near at hand. ||Pause||

¹⁵Drink in the sublime essence, the treasure of the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, and your mind and body shall remain satisfied.

¹⁶The Transcendent Lord is totally permeating and pervading everywhere; where would He come from, and where would He go? ||2||

¹⁷One whose mind is filled with the Lord, is a person of meditation, penance, self-restraint and spiritual wisdom, and a knower of reality.

¹⁸The Gurmukh obtains the jewel of the Naam; his efforts come to perfect fruition. ||3||

¹⁹All his struggles, sufferings and pains are dispelled, and the noose of death is cut away from him.

²⁰Says Nanak, God has extended His Mercy, and so his mind and body blossom forth. ||4||12||23||

²¹Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

²²God is the Doer, the Cause of causes, the Great Giver; God is the Supreme Lord and Master.

²³The Merciful Lord created all beings; God is the Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts. ||1||

²⁴My Guru is Himself my friend and support.

²⁵I am in celestial peace, bliss, joy, pleasure and wondrous glory. ||Pause||

²⁶Seeking the Sanctuary of the Guru, my fears have been dispelled, and I am accepted in the Court of the True Lord.

²⁷Singing His Glorious Praises, and worshipping in adoration the Name of the Lord, I have reached my destination. ||2||

²⁸Everyone applauds and congratulates me; the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, is dear to me.

²⁹I am forever a sacrifice to my God, who has totally protected and preserved my honor. ||3||

³⁰They are saved, who receive the Blessed Vision of His Darshan; they listen to the spiritual dialogue of the Naam.

³¹Nanak's God has become Merciful to him; he has arrived home in ecstasy. ||4||13||24||

³²Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

³³In God's Sanctuary, all fears depart, suffering disappears, and peace is obtained.

³⁴When the Supreme Lord God and Master becomes merciful, we meditate on the Perfect True Guru. ||1||

³⁵O Dear God, You are my Lord Master and Great Giver.

³⁶By Your Mercy, O God, Merciful to the meek, imbue me with Your Love, that I might sing Your Glorious Praises. ||Pause||

³⁷The True Guru has implanted the treasure of the Naam within me, and all my anxieties have been dispelled.

¹By His Mercy, He has made me His own, and the imperishable Lord has come to dwell within my mind. ||2||

²No misfortune afflicts one who is protected by the True Guru.

³The Lotus Feet of God come to abide within his heart, and he savors the sublime essence of the Lord's Ambrosial Nectar. ||3||

⁴So, as a servant, serve your God, who fulfills your mind's desires.

⁵Slave Nanak is a sacrifice to the Perfect Lord, who has protected and preserved his honor. ||4||14||25||

⁶Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

⁷Infatuated with the darkness of emotional attachment to Maya, he does not know the Lord, the Great Giver.

⁸The Lord created his body and fashioned his soul, but he claims that his power is his own. ||1||

⁹O foolish mind, God, your Lord and Master is watching over you.

¹⁰Whatever you do, He knows; nothing can remain concealed from Him. ||Pause||

¹¹You are intoxicated with the tastes of the tongue, with greed and pride; countless sins spring from these.

¹²You wandered in pain through countless incarnations, weighed down by the chains of egotism. ||2||

¹³Behind closed doors, hidden by many screens, the man takes his pleasure with another man's wife.

¹⁴When Chitr and Gupt, the celestial accountants of the conscious and subconscious, call for your account, who will screen you then? ||3||

¹⁵O Perfect Lord, Merciful to the meek, Destroyer of pain, without You, I have no shelter at all.

¹⁶Please, lift me up out of the world-ocean; O God, I have come to Your Sanctuary. ||4||15||26||

¹⁷Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁸The Supreme Lord God has become my helper and friend; His sermon and the Kirtan of His Praises have brought me peace.

¹⁹Chant the Word of the Perfect Guru's Bani, and be ever in bliss, O mortal. ||1||

²⁰Remember the True Lord in meditation, O Siblings of Destiny.

²¹In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, eternal peace is obtained, and the Lord is never forgotten. ||Pause||

²²Your Name, O Transcendent Lord, is Ambrosial Nectar; whoever meditates on it, lives.

²³One who is blessed with God's Grace - that humble servant becomes immaculate and pure. ||2||

²⁴Obstacles are removed, and all pains are eliminated; my mind is attached to the Guru's feet.

²⁵Singing the Glorious Praises of the immovable and imperishable Lord, one remains awake to the Lord's Love, day and night. ||3||

²⁶He obtains the fruits of his mind's desires, listening to the comforting sermon of the Lord.

²⁷In the beginning, in the middle, and in the end, God is Nanak's best friend. ||4||16||27||

²⁸Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl, Panch-Padhay:

²⁹May my emotional attachment, my sense of mine and yours, and my self-conceit be dispelled. ||1||

³⁰O Saints, show me such a way,

³¹by which my egotism and pride might be eliminated. ||1||Pause||

³²I see the Supreme Lord God in all beings, and I am the dust of all. ||2||

³³I see God always with me, and the wall of doubt has been shattered. ||3||

³⁴The medicine of the Naam, and the Immaculate Water of Ambrosial Nectar, are obtained through the Guru's Gate. ||4||

³⁵Says Nanak, one who has such pre-ordained destiny inscribed upon his forehead, meets with the Guru, and his diseases are cured. ||5||17||28||

¹Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl, Second House, Dho-Padhay:

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

³Fire is contained in all firewood, and butter is contained in all milk.

⁴God's Light is contained in the high and the low; the Lord is in the hearts of all beings. ||1||

⁵O Saints, He is pervading and permeating each and every heart.

⁶The Perfect Lord is completely permeating everyone, everywhere; He is diffused in the water and the land. ||1||Pause||

⁷Nanak sings the Praises of the Lord, the treasure of excellence; the True Guru has dispelled his doubt.

⁸The Lord is pervading everywhere, permeating all, and yet, He is unattached from all. ||2||1||29||

⁹Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁰Meditating on Him, one is in ecstasy; the pains of birth and death and fear are removed.

¹¹The four cardinal blessings, and the nine treasures are received; you shall never feel hunger or thirst again. ||1||

¹²Chanting His Name, you shall be at peace.

¹³With each and every breath, meditate on the Lord and Master, O my soul, with mind, body and mouth. ||1||Pause||

¹⁴You shall find peace, and your mind shall be soothed and cooled; the fire of desire shall not burn within you.

¹⁵The Guru has revealed God to Nanak, in the three worlds, in the water, the earth and the woods. ||2||2||30||

¹⁶Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁷Sexual desire, anger, greed, falsehood and slander - please, save me from these, O Lord.

¹⁸Please eradicate these from within me, and call me to come close to You. ||1||

¹⁹You alone teach me Your Ways.

²⁰With the Lord's humble servants, I sing His Praises. ||1||Pause||

²¹May I never forget the Lord within my heart; please, instill such understanding within my mind.

²²By great good fortune, servant Nanak has met with the Perfect Guru, and now, he will not go anywhere else. ||2||3||31||

²³Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

²⁴Meditating in remembrance on Him, all things are obtained, and one's efforts shall not be in vain.

²⁵Forsaking God, why do you attach yourself to another? He is contained in everything. ||1||

²⁶O Saints, meditate in remembrance on the World-Lord, Har, Har.

²⁷Joining the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord; your efforts shall be rewarded. ||1||Pause||

²⁸He ever preserves and cherishes His servant; with Love, He hugs him close.

²⁹Says Nanak, forgetting You, O God, how can the world find life? ||2||4||32||

³⁰Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

³¹He is imperishable, the Giver of all beings; meditating on Him, all filth is removed.

³²He is the treasure of excellence, the object of His devotees, but rare are those who find Him. ||1||

³³O my mind, meditate on the Guru, and God, the Cherisher of the world.

³⁴Seeking His Sanctuary, one finds peace, and he shall not suffer in pain again. ||1||Pause||

³⁵By great good fortune, one obtains the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy. Meeting them, evil-mindedness is eliminated.

¹Slave Nanak yearns for the dust of the feet of those, who have woven the Lord's Name into their hearts. ||2||5||33||

²Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

³He dispels the pains of countless incarnations, and lends support to the dry and shrivelled mind.

⁴Beholding the Blessed Vision of His Darshan, one is enraptured, contemplating the Name of the Lord. ||1||

⁵My physician is the Guru, the Lord of the Universe.

⁶He places the medicine of the Naam into my mouth, and cuts away the noose of Death. ||1||Pause||

⁷He is the all-powerful, Perfect Lord, the Architect of Destiny; He Himself is the Doer of deeds.

⁸The Lord Himself saves His slave; Nanak takes the Support of the Naam. ||2||6||34||

⁹Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁰Only You know the state of my innermost self; You alone can judge me.

¹¹Please forgive me, O Lord God Master; I have committed thousands of sins and mistakes. ||1||

¹²O my Dear Lord God Master, You are always near me.

¹³O Lord, please bless Your disciple with the shelter of Your feet. ||1||Pause||

¹⁴Infinite and endless is my Lord and Master; He is lofty, virtuous and profoundly deep.

¹⁵Cutting away the noose of death, the Lord has made Nanak His slave, and now, what does he owe to anyone else? ||2||7||35||

¹⁶Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁷The Guru, the Lord of the Universe, became merciful to me, and I obtained all of my mind's desires.

¹⁸I have become stable and steady, touching the Lord's Feet, and singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord of the Universe. ||1||

¹⁹It is a good time, a perfectly auspicious time.

²⁰I am in celestial peace, tranquility and ecstasy, chanting the Naam, the Name of the Lord; the unstruck melody of the sound current vibrates and resounds. ||1||Pause||

²¹Meeting with my Beloved Lord and Master, my home has become a mansion filled with happiness.

²²Servant Nanak has attained the treasure of the Lord's Name; all his desires have been fulfilled. ||2||8||36||

²³Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

²⁴The Guru's feet abide within my heart; God has blessed me with good fortune.

²⁵The Perfect Transcendent Lord became merciful to me, and I found the treasure of the Naam within my mind. ||1||

²⁶My Guru is my Saving Grace, my only best friend.

²⁷Over and over again, He blesses me with double, even four-fold, greatness. ||1||Pause||

²⁸God saves all beings and creatures, giving them the Blessed Vision of His Darshan.

²⁹Wondrous is the glorious greatness of the Perfect Guru; Nanak is forever a sacrifice to Him. ||2||9||37||

³⁰Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

³¹I gather in and collect the immaculate wealth of the Naam; this commodity is inaccessible and incomparable.

³²Revel in it, delight in it, be happy and enjoy peace, and live long, O Sikhs and brethren. ||1||

³³I have the support of the Lotus Feet of the Lord.

³⁴By the Grace of the Saints, I have found the boat of Truth; embarking on it, I sail across the ocean of poison. ||1||Pause||

³⁵The perfect, imperishable Lord has become merciful; He Himself has taken care of me.

³⁶Beholding, beholding His Vision, Nanak has blossomed forth in ecstasy. O Nanak, He is beyond estimation. ||2||10||38||

³⁷Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

³⁸The Perfect Guru has revealed His power, and compassion has welled up in every heart.

³⁹Blending me with Himself, He has blessed me with glorious greatness, and I have found pleasure and happiness. ||1||

⁴⁰The Perfect True Guru is always with me.

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

²Inwardly and outwardly, in all places and interspaces, wherever I look, He is there.

³Nanak has found the Guru, by great good fortune; no one else is as great as He. ||2||11||39||

⁴Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

⁵I have been blessed with peace, pleasure, bliss, and the celestial sound current, gazing upon the feet of God.

⁶The Savior has saved His child, and the True Guru has cured his fever. ||1||

⁷I have been saved, in the True Guru's Sanctuary;

⁸service to Him does not go in vain. ||1||Pause||

⁹There is peace within the home of one's heart, and there is peace outside as well, when God becomes kind and compassionate.

¹⁰O Nanak, no obstacles block my way; my God has become gracious and merciful to me. ||2||12||40||

¹¹Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

¹²In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, my mind became excited, and I sang the Praises of the jewel of the Naam.

¹³My anxiety was dispelled, meditating in remembrance on the Infinite Lord; I have crossed over the world ocean, O Siblings of Destiny. ||1||

¹⁴I enshrine the Lord's Feet within my heart.

¹⁵I have found peace, and the celestial sound current resounds within me; countless diseases have been eradicated. ||Pause||

¹⁶Which of Your Glorious Virtues can I speak and describe? Your worth cannot be estimated.

¹⁷O Nanak, the Lord's devotees become imperishable and immortal; their God becomes their friend and support. ||2||13||41||

¹⁸Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁹My sufferings have come to an end, and all diseases have been eradicated.

²⁰God has showered me with His Grace. Twenty-four hours a day, I worship and adore my Lord and Master; my efforts have come to fruition. ||1||

²¹O Dear Lord, You are my peace, wealth and capital.

²²Please, save me, O my Beloved! I offer this prayer to my God. ||Pause||

²³Whatever I ask for, I receive; I have total faith in my Master.

²⁴Says Nanak, I have met with the Perfect Guru, and all my fears have been dispelled. ||2||14||42||

²⁵Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

²⁶Meditating, meditating in remembrance on my Guru, the True Guru, all pains have been eradicated.

²⁷The fever and the disease are gone, through the Word of the Guru's Teachings, and I have obtained the fruits of my mind's desires. ||1||

²⁸My Perfect Guru is the Giver of peace.

²⁹He is the Doer, the Cause of causes, the Almighty Lord and Master, the Perfect Primal Lord, the Architect of Destiny. ||Pause||

³⁰Sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord in bliss, joy and ecstasy; Guru Nanak has become kind and compassionate.

³¹Shouts of cheers and congratulations ring out all over the world; the Supreme Lord God has become my Savior and Protector. ||2||15||43||

³²Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

³³He did not take my accounts into account; such is His forgiving nature.

³⁴He gave me His hand, and saved me and made me His own; forever and ever, I enjoy His Love. ||1||

³⁵The True Lord and Master is forever merciful and forgiving.

³⁶My Perfect Guru has bound me to Him, and now, I am in absolute ecstasy. ||Pause||

³⁷The One who fashioned the body and placed the soul within, who gives you clothing and nourishment

³⁸- He Himself preserves the honor of His slaves. Nanak is forever a sacrifice to Him. ||2||16||44||

¹Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

²The Lord God Himself has rid the whole world of its sins, and saved it.

³The Supreme Lord God extended His mercy, and confirmed His innate nature. ||1||

⁴I have attained the Protective Sanctuary of the Lord, my King.

⁵In celestial peace and ecstasy, I sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord, and my mind, body and being are at peace. ||Pause||

⁶My True Guru is the Savior of sinners; I have placed my trust and faith in Him.

⁷The True Lord has heard Nanak's prayer, and He has forgiven everything. ||2||17||45||

⁸Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

⁹The Supreme Lord God, the Transcendent Lord, has forgiven me, and all diseases have been cured.

¹⁰Those who come to the Sanctuary of the True Guru are saved, and all their affairs are resolved. ||1||

¹¹The Lord's humble servant meditates in remembrance on the Naam, the Name of the Lord; this is his only support.

¹²The Perfect True Guru extended His Mercy, and the fever has been dispelled. ||Pause||

¹³So celebrate and be happy, my beloveds - the Guru has saved Hargobind.

¹⁴Great is the glorious greatness of the Creator, O Nanak; True is the Word of His Shabad, and True is the sermon of His Teachings. ||2||18||46||

¹⁵Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁶My Lord and Master has become Merciful, in His True Court.

¹⁷The True Guru has taken away the fever, and the whole world is at peace, O Siblings of Destiny.

¹⁸The Lord Himself protects His beings and creatures, and the Messenger of Death is out of work. ||1||

¹⁹Enshrine the Lord's feet within your heart.

²⁰Forever and ever, meditate in remembrance on God, O Siblings of Destiny. He is the Eradicator of suffering and sins. ||1||Pause||

²¹He fashioned all beings, O Siblings of Destiny, and His Sanctuary saves them.

²²He is the Almighty Creator, the Cause of causes, O Siblings of Destiny; He, the True Lord, is True.

²³Nanak: meditate on God, O Siblings of Destiny, and your mind and body shall be cool and calm. ||2||19||47||

²⁴Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

²⁵O Saints, meditate on the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.

²⁶Never forget God, the ocean of peace; thus you shall obtain the fruits of your mind's desires. ||1||Pause||

²⁷Extending His Mercy, the Perfect True Guru has dispelled the fever.

²⁸The Supreme Lord God has become kind and compassionate, and my whole family is now free of pain and suffering. ||1||

²⁹The Treasure of absolute joy, sublime elixir and beauty, the Name of the Lord is my only Support.

³⁰O Nanak, the Transcendent Lord has preserved my honor, and saved the whole world. ||2||20||48||

³¹Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

³²My True Guru is my Savior and Protector.

³³Showering us with His Mercy and Grace, God extended His Hand, and saved Hargobind, who is now safe and secure. ||1||Pause||

³⁴The fever is gone - God Himself eradicated it, and preserved the honor of His servant.

³⁵I have obtained all blessings from the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy; I am a sacrifice to the True Guru. ||1||

³⁶God has saved me, both here and hereafter. He has not taken my merits and demerits into account.

¹Your Word is eternal, O Guru Nanak; You placed Your Hand of blessing upon my forehead. ||2||21||49||

²Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

³All beings and creatures were created by Him; He alone is the support and friend of the Saints.

⁴He Himself preserves the honor of His servants; their glorious greatness becomes perfect. ||1||

⁵The Perfect Supreme Lord God is always with me.

⁶The Perfect Guru has perfectly and totally protected me, and now everyone is kind and compassionate to me. ||1||Pause||

⁷Night and day, Nanak meditates on the Naam, the Name of the Lord; He is the Giver of the soul, and the breath of life itself.

⁸He hugs His slave close in His loving embrace, like the mother and father hug their child. ||2||22||50||

⁹Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl, Third House, Chau-Padhay:

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

¹¹Meeting with the council, my doubts were not dispelled.

¹²The chiefs did not give me satisfaction.

¹³I presented my dispute to the noblemen as well.

¹⁴But it was only settled by meeting with the King, my Lord. ||1||

¹⁵Now, I do not go searching anywhere else,

¹⁶because I have met the Guru, the Lord of the Universe. ||Pause||

¹⁷When I came to God's Darbaar, His Holy Court,

¹⁸then all of my cries and complaints were settled.

¹⁹Now that I have attained what I had sought,

²⁰where should I come and where should I go? ||2||

²¹There, true justice is administered.

²²There, the Lord Master and His disciple are one and the same.

²³The Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts, knows.

²⁴Without our speaking, He understands. ||3||

²⁵He is the King of all places.

²⁶There, the unstruck melody of the Shabad resounds.

²⁷Of what use is cleverness when dealing with Him?

²⁸Meeting with Him, O Nanak, one loses his self-conceit. ||4||1||51||

²⁹Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

³⁰Enshrine the Naam, the Name of the Lord, within your heart;

³¹sitting within your own home, meditate on the Guru.

³²The Perfect Guru has spoken the Truth;

³³the True Peace is obtained only from the Lord. ||1||

³⁴My Guru has become merciful.

³⁵In bliss, peace, pleasure and joy, I have returned to my own home, after my purifying bath. ||Pause||

³⁶True is the glorious greatness of the Guru;

³⁷His worth cannot be described.

³⁸He is the Supreme Overlord of kings.

³⁹Meeting with the Guru, the mind is enraptured. ||2||

⁴⁰All sins are washed away,

⁴¹meeting with the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy.

⁴²The Lord's Name is the treasure of excellence;

⁴³chanting it, one's affairs are perfectly resolved. ||3||

⁴⁴The Guru has opened the door of liberation,

⁴⁵and the entire world applauds Him with cheers of victory.

⁴⁶O Nanak, God is always with me;

⁴⁷my fears of birth and death are gone. ||4||2||52||

⁴⁸Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

⁴⁹The Perfect Guru has granted His Grace,

⁵⁰and God has fulfilled my desire.

⁵¹After taking my bath of purification, I returned to my home,

⁵²and I found bliss, happiness and peace. ||1||

⁵³O Saints, salvation comes from the Lord's Name.

⁵⁴While standing up and sitting down, meditate on the Lord's Name. Night and day, do good deeds. ||1||Pause||

¹The way of the Saints is the ladder of righteous living, found only by great good fortune.

²The sins of millions of incarnations are washed away, by focusing your consciousness on the Lord's feet. ||2||

³So sing the Praises of your God forever; His almighty power is perfect.

⁴All beings and creatures are purified, listening to the True Teachings of the True Guru. ||3||

⁵The True Guru has implanted the Naam, the Name of the Lord, within me; it is the Eliminator of obstructions, the Destroyer of all pains.

⁶All of my sins were erased, and I have been purified; servant Nanak has returned to his home of peace. ||4||3||53||

⁷Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

⁸O Lord Master, You are the ocean of excellence.

⁹My home and all my possessions are Yours.

¹⁰The Guru, the Lord of the world, is my Savior.

¹¹All beings have become kind and compassionate to me. ||1||

¹²Meditating on the Guru's feet, I am in bliss.

¹³There is no fear at all, in God's Sanctuary. ||Pause||

¹⁴You dwell in the hearts of Your slaves, Lord.

¹⁵God has laid the eternal foundation.

¹⁶You are my strength, wealth and support.

¹⁷You are my Almighty Lord and Master. ||2||

¹⁸Whoever finds the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy,

¹⁹is saved by God Himself.

²⁰By His Grace, He has blessed me with the sublime essence of the Naam.

²¹All joy and pleasure then came to me. ||3||

²²God became my helper and my best friend;

²³everyone rises up and bows down at my feet.

²⁴With each and every breath, meditate on God;

²⁵O Nanak, sing the songs of joy to the Lord. ||4||4||54||

²⁶Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

²⁷Celestial peace and bliss have come,

²⁸meeting God, who is so pleasing to my mind.

²⁹The Perfect Guru showered me with His Mercy,

³⁰and I attained salvation. ||1||

³¹My mind is absorbed in loving devotional worship of the Lord,

³²and the unstruck melody of the celestial sound current ever resounds within me. ||Pause||

³³The Lord's feet are my all-powerful shelter and support;

³⁴my dependence on other people is totally finished.

³⁵I have found the Life of the world, the Great Giver;

³⁶in joyful rapture, I sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||2||

³⁷God has cut away the noose of death.

³⁸My mind's desires have been fulfilled;

³⁹wherever I look, He is there.

⁴⁰Without the Lord God, there is no other at all. ||3||

⁴¹In His Mercy, God has protected and preserved me.

⁴²I am rid of all the pains of countless incarnations.

⁴³I have meditated on the Naam, the Name of the Fearless Lord;

⁴⁴O Nanak, I have found eternal peace. ||4||5||55||

⁴⁵Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

⁴⁶The Creator has brought utter peace to my home;

⁴⁷the fever has left my family.

⁴⁸The Perfect Guru has saved us.

⁴⁹I sought the Sanctuary of the True Lord. ||1||

⁵⁰The Transcendent Lord Himself has become my Protector.

⁵¹Tranquility, intuitive peace and poise welled up in an instant, and my mind was comforted forever. ||Pause||

⁵²The Lord, Har, Har, gave me the medicine of His Name,

⁵³which has cured all disease.

⁵⁴He extended His Mercy to me,

⁵⁵and resolved all these affairs. ||2||

⁵⁶God confirmed His loving nature;

⁵⁷He did not take my merits or demerits into account.

⁵⁸The Word of the Guru's Shabad has become manifest,

¹and through it, my honor was totally preserved. ||3||

²I speak as You cause me to speak;

³O Lord and Master, You are the ocean of excellence.

⁴Nanak chants the Naam, the Name of the Lord, according to the Teachings of Truth.

⁵God preserves the honor of His slaves. ||4||6||56||

⁶Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

⁷The Creator Lord Himself stood between us,

⁸and not a hair upon my head was touched.

⁹The Guru made my cleansing bath successful;

¹⁰meditating on the Lord, Har, Har, my sins were erased. ||1||

¹¹O Saints, the purifying pool of Ram Das is sublime.

¹²Whoever bathes in it, his family and ancestry are saved, and his soul is saved as well. ||1||Pause||

¹³The world sings cheers of victory,

¹⁴and the fruits of his mind's desires are obtained.

¹⁵Whoever comes and bathes here,

¹⁶One who bathes in the healing pool of the Saints,

¹⁷that humble being obtains the supreme status.

¹⁸He does not die, or come and go in reincarnation;

¹⁹he meditates on the Name of the Lord, Har, Har. ||3||

²⁰He alone knows this about God,

²¹whom God blesses with His kindness.

²²Baba Nanak seeks the Sanctuary of God;

²³all his worries and anxieties are dispelled. ||4||7||57||

²⁴Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

²⁵The Supreme Lord God has stood by me and fulfilled me,

²⁶and nothing is left unfinished.

²⁷Attached to the Guru's feet, I am saved;

²⁸I contemplate and cherish the Name of the Lord, Har, Har. ||1||

²⁹He is forever the Savior of His slaves.

³⁰Bestowing His Mercy, He made me His own and preserved me; like a mother or father, He cherishes me. ||1||Pause||

³¹By great good fortune, I found the True Guru,

³²who obliterated the path of the Messenger of Death.

³³My consciousness is focused on loving, devotional worship of the Lord.

³⁴One who lives in this meditation is very fortunate indeed. ||2||

³⁵He sings the Ambrosial Word of the Guru's Bani,

³⁶and bathes in the dust of the feet of the Holy.

³⁷He Himself bestows His Name.

³⁸God, the Creator, saves us. ||3||

³⁹The Blessed Vision of the Lord's Darshan is the support of the breath of life.

⁴⁰This is the perfect, pure wisdom.

⁴¹The Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts, has granted His Mercy;

⁴²slave Nanak seeks the Sanctuary of his Lord and Master. ||4||8||58||

⁴³Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

⁴⁴The Perfect Guru has attached me to His feet.

⁴⁵I have obtained the Lord as my companion, my support, my best friend.

⁴⁶Wherever I go, I am happy there.

⁴⁷By His Kind Mercy, God united me with Himself. ||1||

⁴⁸So sing forever the Glorious Praises of the Lord with loving devotion.

⁴⁹You shall obtain all the fruits of your mind's desires, and the Lord shall become the companion and the support of your soul. ||1||Pause||

⁵⁰The Lord is the support of the breath of life.

⁵¹I am the dust of the feet of the Holy people.

⁵²I am a sinner, but the Lord made me pure.

⁵³By His Kind Mercy, the Lord blessed me with His Praises. ||2||

⁵⁴The Supreme Lord God cherishes and nurtures me.

⁵⁵He is always with me, the Protector of my soul.

⁵⁶Singing the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises day and night,

⁵⁷I shall not be consigned to reincarnation again. ||3||

⁵⁸One who is blessed by the Primal Lord, the Architect of Destiny,

⁵⁹realizes the subtle essence of the Lord.

⁶⁰The Messenger of Death does not come near him.

⁶¹In the Lord's Sanctuary, Nanak has found peace. ||4||9||59||

¹Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

²The Perfect Guru has made me perfect.

³God is totally pervading and permeating everywhere.

⁴With joy and pleasure, I take my purifying bath.

⁵I am a sacrifice to the Supreme Lord God. ||1||

⁶I enshrine the lotus feet of the Guru within my heart.

⁷Not even the tiniest obstacle blocks my way; all my affairs are resolved. ||1||Pause||

⁸Meeting with the Holy Saints, my evil-mindedness was eradicated.

⁹All the sinners are purified.

¹⁰Bathing in the sacred pool of Guru Ram Das,

¹¹all the sins one has committed are washed away. ||2||

¹²So sing forever the Glorious Praises of the Lord of the Universe;

¹³joining the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, meditate on Him.

¹⁴The fruits of your mind's desires are obtained

¹⁵by meditating on the Perfect Guru within your heart. ||3||

¹⁶The Guru, the Lord of the World, is blissful;

¹⁷chanting, meditating on the Lord of supreme bliss, He lives.

¹⁸Servant Nanak meditates on the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

¹⁹God has confirmed His innate nature. ||4||10||60||

²⁰Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

²¹In the ten directions, the clouds cover the sky like a canopy; through the dark clouds, lightning flashes, and I am terrified.

²²By bed is empty, and my eyes are sleepless; my Husband Lord has gone far away. ||1||

²³Now, I receive no messages from Him, O mother!

²⁴When my Beloved used to go even a mile away, He would send me four letters. ||Pause||

²⁵How could I forget this Dear Beloved of mine? He is the Giver of peace, and all virtues.

²⁶Ascending to His Mansion, I gaze upon His path, and my eyes are filled with tears. ||2||

²⁷The wall of egotism and pride separates us, but I can hear Him nearby.

²⁸There is a veil between us, like the wings of a butterfly; without being able to see Him, He seems so far away. ||3||

²⁹The Lord and Master of all has become merciful; He has dispelled all my sufferings.

³⁰Says Nanak, when the Guru tore down the wall of egotism, then, I found my Merciful Lord and Master. ||4||

³¹All my fears have been dispelled, O mother!

³²Whoever I seek, the Guru leads me to find.

³³The Lord, our King, is the treasure of all virtue. ||Second Pause||11||61||

³⁴Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

³⁵The Restorer of what was taken away, the Liberator from captivity; the Formless Lord, the Destroyer of pain.

³⁶I do not know about karma and good deeds; I do not know about Dharma and righteous living. I am so greedy, chasing after Maya.

³⁷I go by the name of God's devotee; please, save this honor of Yours. ||1||

³⁸O Dear Lord, You are the honor of the dishonored.

³⁹You make the unworthy ones worthy, O my Lord of the Universe; I am a sacrifice to Your almighty creative power. ||Pause||

⁴⁰Like the child, innocently making thousands of mistakes

⁴¹his father teaches him, and scolds him so many times, but still, he hugs him close in his embrace.

⁴²Please forgive my past actions, God, and place me on Your path for the future. ||2||

⁴³The Lord, the Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts, knows all about my state of mind; so who else should I go to and speak to?

⁴⁴The Lord, the Lord of the Universe, is not pleased by mere recitation of words; if it is pleasing to His Will, He preserves our honor.

⁴⁵I have seen all other shelters, but Yours alone remains for me. ||3||

¹Becoming kind and compassionate, God the Lord and Master Himself listens to my prayer.

²He unites me in Union with the Perfect True Guru, and all the cares and anxieties of my mind are dispelled.

³The Lord, Har, Har, has placed the medicine of the Naam into my mouth; servant Nanak abides in peace. ||4||12||62||

⁴Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

⁵Remembering, remembering God in meditation, bliss ensues, and one is rid of all suffering and pain.

⁶Singing the Glorious Praises of God, and meditating on Him, all my affairs are brought into harmony. ||1||

⁷Your Name is the Life of the world.

⁸The Perfect Guru has taught me, that by meditating, I cross over the terrifying world-ocean. ||Pause||

⁹You are Your own advisor; You hear everything, God, and You do everything.

¹⁰You Yourself are the Giver, and You Yourself are the Enjoyer. What can this poor creature do? ||2||

¹¹Which of Your Glorious Virtues should I describe and speak of? Your value cannot be described.

¹²I live by beholding, beholding You, O God. Your glorious greatness is wonderful and amazing! ||3||

¹³Granting His Grace, God my Lord and Master Himself saved my honor, and my intellect has been made perfect.

¹⁴Forever and ever, Nanak is a sacrifice, longing for the dust of the feet of the Saints. ||4||13||63||

¹⁵Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁶I bow in reverence to the Perfect Guru.

¹⁷God has resolved all my affairs.

¹⁸The Lord has showered me with His Mercy.

¹⁹God has perfectly preserved my honor. ||1||

²⁰He has become the help and support of His slave.

²¹The Creator has achieved all my goals, and now, nothing is lacking. ||Pause||

²²The Creator Lord has caused the pool of nectar to be constructed.

²³The wealth of Maya follows in my footsteps,

²⁴and now, nothing is lacking at all.

²⁵This is pleasing to my Perfect True Guru. ||2||

²⁶Remembering, remembering the Merciful Lord in meditation,

²⁷all beings have become kind and compassionate to me.

²⁸Hail! Hail to the Lord of the world,

²⁹who created the perfect creation. ||3||

³⁰You are my Great Lord and Master.

³¹These blessings and wealth are Yours.

³²Servant Nanak has meditated on the One Lord;

³³he has obtained the fruitful rewards for all good deeds. ||4||14||64||

³⁴Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl, Third House, Dho-Padhay:

³⁵One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

³⁶Bathing in the nectar tank of Ram Das,

³⁷all sins are erased.

³⁸One becomes immaculately pure, taking this cleansing bath.

³⁹The Perfect Guru has bestowed this gift. ||1||

⁴⁰God has blessed all with peace and pleasure.

⁴¹Everything is safe and sound, as we contemplate the Word of the Guru's Shabad. ||Pause||

⁴²In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, filth is washed off.

⁴³The Supreme Lord God has become our friend and helper.

⁴⁴Nanak meditates on the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

⁴⁵He has found God, the Primal Being. ||2||1||65||

⁴⁶Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

⁴⁷The Supreme Lord God has established that home,

¹I found the Guru, the ocean of peace,

²This is the glorious greatness of the Naam.

³Twenty-four hours a day, I sing His Glorious Praises.

⁴I obtained this from the Perfect Guru. ||Pause||

⁵God's sermon is inexpressible.

⁶His humble servants speak words of Ambrosial Nectar.

⁷Slave Nanak has spoken.

⁸Through the Perfect Guru, it is known. ||2||2||66||

⁹Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁰The Guru has blessed me with peace here,

¹¹and the Guru has arranged peace and pleasure for me hereafter.

¹²I have all treasures and comforts,

¹³meditating on the Guru in my heart. ||1||

¹⁴This is the glorious greatness of my True Guru;

¹⁵I have obtained the fruits of my mind's desires.

¹⁶O Saints, His Glory increases day by day. ||Pause||

¹⁷All beings and creatures have become kind and compassionate to me; my God has made them so.

¹⁸Nanak has met with the Lord of the world with intuitive ease, and with Truth, he is pleased. ||2||3||67||

¹⁹Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

²⁰The Word of the Guru's Shabad is my Saving Grace.

²¹It is a guardian posted on all four sides around me.

²²My mind is attached to the Lord's Name.

²³The Messenger of Death has run away in shame. ||1||

²⁴O Dear Lord, You are my Giver of peace.

²⁵The Perfect Lord, the Architect of Destiny, has shattered my bonds, and made my mind immaculately pure. ||Pause||

²⁶O Nanak, God is eternal and imperishable.

²⁷Service to Him shall never go unrewarded.

²⁸Your slaves are in bliss;

²⁹chanting and meditating, their desires are fulfilled. ||2||4||68||

³⁰Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

³¹I am a sacrifice to my Guru.

³²He has totally preserved my honor.

³³I have obtained the fruits of my mind's desires.

³⁴I meditate forever on my God. ||1||

³⁵O Saints, without Him, there is no other at all.

³⁶He is God, the Cause of causes. ||Pause||

³⁷My God has given me His Blessing.

³⁸He has made all creatures subject to me.

³⁹Servant Nanak meditates on the Naam, the Name of the Lord,

⁴⁰and all his sorrows depart. ||2||5||69||

⁴¹Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

⁴²The Perfect Guru has dispelled the fever.

⁴³The unstruck melody of the sound current resounds.

⁴⁴God has bestowed all comforts.

⁴⁵In His Mercy, He Himself has given them. ||1||

⁴⁶The True Guru Himself has eradicated the disease.

⁴⁷All the Sikhs and Saints are filled with joy, meditating on the Name of the Lord, Har, Har. ||Pause||

⁴⁸They obtain that which they ask for.

⁴⁹God gives to His Saints.

⁵⁰God saved Hargobind.

⁵¹Servant Nanak speaks the Truth. ||2||6||70||

⁵²Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

⁵³You make me do what pleases You.

⁵⁴I have no cleverness at all.

⁵⁵I am just a child - I seek Your Protection.

⁵⁶God Himself preserves my honor. ||1||

⁵⁷The Lord is my King; He is my mother and father.

⁵⁸In Your Mercy, You cherish me; I do whatever You make me do. ||Pause||

⁵⁹The beings and creatures are Your creation.

⁶⁰O God, their reins are in Your hands.

¹Whatever You cause us to do, we do.

²Nanak, Your slave, seeks Your Protection. ||2||7||71||

³Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

⁴I have woven the Lord's Name into the fabric of my heart.

⁵All my affairs are resolved.

⁶His mind is attached to God's feet,

⁷whose destiny is perfect. ||1||

⁸Joining the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, I meditate on the Lord.

⁹Twenty-four hours a day, I worship and adore the Lord, Har, Har; I have obtained the fruits of my mind's desires. ||Pause||

¹⁰The seeds of my past actions have sprouted.

¹¹My mind is attached to the Lord's Name.

¹²My mind and body are absorbed into the Blessed Vision of the Lord's Darshan.

¹³Slave Nanak sings the Glorious Praises of the True Lord. ||2||8||72||

¹⁴Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁵Meeting with the Guru, I contemplate God.

¹⁶All of my affairs have been resolved.

¹⁷No one speaks ill of me.

¹⁸Everyone congratulates me on my victory. ||1||

¹⁹O Saints, I seek the True Sanctuary of the Lord and Master.

²⁰All beings and creatures are in His hands; He is God, the Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts. ||Pause||

²¹He has resolved all of my affairs.

²²God has confirmed His innate nature.

²³God's Name is the Purifier of sinners.

²⁴Servant Nanak is forever a sacrifice to Him. ||2||9||73||

²⁵Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

²⁶The Supreme Lord God created and embellished him.

²⁷The Guru has saved this small child.

²⁸So celebrate and be happy, father and mother.

²⁹The Transcendent Lord is the Giver of souls. ||1||

³⁰Your slaves, O Lord, focus on pure thoughts.

³¹You preserve the honor of Your slaves, and You Yourself arrange their affairs. ||Pause||

³²My God is so benevolent.

³³His Almighty Power is manifest.

³⁴Nanak has come to His Sanctuary.

³⁵He has obtained the fruits of his mind's desires. ||2||10||74||

³⁶Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

³⁷Forever and ever, I chant the Lord's Name.

³⁸God Himself has saved my child.

³⁹He healed him from the smallpox.

⁴⁰My troubles have been removed through the Lord's Name. ||1||

⁴¹My God is forever Merciful.

⁴²He heard the prayer of His devotee, and now all beings are kind and compassionate to him. ||Pause||

⁴³God is Almighty, the Cause of causes.

⁴⁴Remembering the Lord in meditation, all pains and sorrows vanish.

⁴⁵He has heard the prayer of His slave.

⁴⁶O Nanak, now everyone sleeps in peace. ||2||11||75||

⁴⁷Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

⁴⁸I meditated on my Guru.

⁴⁹I met with Him, and returned home in joy.

⁵⁰This is the glorious greatness of the Naam.

⁵¹Its value cannot be estimated. ||1||

⁵²O Saints, worship and adore the Lord, Har, Har, Har.

⁵³Worship the Lord in adoration, and you shall obtain everything; your affairs shall all be resolved. ||Pause||

⁵⁴He alone is attached in loving devotion to God,

⁵⁵who realizes his great destiny.

⁵⁶Servant Nanak meditates on the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

⁵⁷He obtains the rewards of all joys and peace. ||2||12||76||

⁵⁸Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

⁵⁹The Transcendent Lord has given me His support.

⁶⁰The house of pain and disease has been demolished.

⁶¹The men and women celebrate.

⁶²The Lord God, Har, Har, has extended His Mercy. ||1||

¹O Saints, there is peace everywhere.

²The Supreme Lord God, the Perfect Transcendent Lord, is pervading everywhere. ||Pause||

³The Bani of His Word emanated from the Primal Lord.

⁴It eradicates all anxiety.

⁵The Lord is merciful, kind and compassionate.

⁶Nanak chants the Naam, the Name of the True Lord. ||2||13||77||

⁷Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

⁸Here and hereafter, He is our Savior.

⁹God, the True Guru, is Merciful to the meek.

¹⁰He Himself protects His slaves.

¹¹In each and every heart, the Beautiful Word of His Shabad resounds. ||1||

¹²I am a sacrifice to the Guru's Feet.

¹³Day and night, with each and every breath, I remember Him; He is totally pervading and permeating all places. ||Pause||

¹⁴He Himself has become my help and support.

¹⁵True is the support of the True Lord.

¹⁶Glorious and great is devotional worship to You.

¹⁷Nanak has found God's Sanctuary. ||2||14||78||

¹⁸Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁹When it was pleasing to the Perfect True Guru,

²⁰then I chanted the Naam, the Name of the Pervading Lord.

²¹The Lord of the Universe extended His Mercy to me,

²²and God saved my honor. ||1||

²³The Lord's feet are forever peace-giving.

²⁴Whatever fruit one desires, he receives; his hopes shall not go in vain. ||1||Pause||

²⁵That Saint, unto whom the Lord of Life, the Great Giver, extends His Mercy - he alone sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord.

²⁶His soul is absorbed in loving devotional worship; his mind is pleasing to the Supreme Lord God. ||2||

²⁷Twenty-four hours a day, he chants the Praises of the Lord, and the bitter poison does not affect him.

²⁸My Creator Lord has united me with Himself, and the Holy Saints have become my companions. ||3||

²⁹Taking me by the hand, He has given me everything, and blended me with Himself.

³⁰Says Nanak, everything has been perfectly resolved; I have found the Perfect True Guru. ||4||15||79||

³¹Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

³²Humility is my spiked club.

³³My dagger is to be the dust of all men's feet.

³⁴No evil-doer can withstand these weapons.

³⁵The Perfect Guru has given me this understanding. ||1||

³⁶The Name of the Lord, Har, Har, is the support and shelter of the Saints.

³⁷One who remembers the Lord in meditation, is emancipated; millions have been saved in this way. ||1||Pause||

³⁸In the Society of the Saints, I sing His Praises.

³⁹I have found this, the perfect wealth of the Lord.

⁴⁰Says Nanak, I have eradicated my self-conceit.

⁴¹I see the Supreme Lord God everywhere. ||2||16||80||

⁴²Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

⁴³The Perfect Guru has done it perfectly.

⁴⁴He blessed me with forgiveness.

⁴⁵I have found lasting peace and bliss.

⁴⁶Everywhere, the people dwell in peace. ||1||

⁴⁷Devotional worship to the Lord is what gives rewards.

⁴⁸The Perfect Guru, by His Grace, gave it to me; how rare are those who know this. ||Pause||

⁴⁹Sing the Word of the Guru's Bani, O Siblings of Destiny.

⁵⁰That is always rewarding and peace-giving.

⁵¹Nanak has meditated on the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

⁵²He has realized his pre-ordained destiny. ||2||17||81||

⁵³Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

¹I worship and adore the Perfect Guru.

²All my affairs have been resolved.

³All desires have been fulfilled.

⁴The unstruck melody of the sound current resounds. ||1||

⁵O Saints, meditating on the Lord, we obtain peace.

⁶In the home of the Saints, celestial peace is pervading; all pain and suffering is dispelled. ||1||Pause||

⁷The Word of the Perfect Guru's Bani

⁸is pleasing to the Mind of the Supreme Lord God.

⁹Slave Nanak speaks

¹⁰the Unspoken, immaculate sermon of the Lord. ||2||18||82||

¹¹Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

¹²The hungry man is not ashamed to eat.

¹³Just so, the humble servant of the Lord sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||1||

¹⁴Why are you so lazy in your own affairs?

¹⁵Remembering Him in meditation, your face shall be radiant in the Court of the Lord; you shall find peace, forever and ever. ||1||Pause||

¹⁶Just as the lustful man is enticed by lust,

¹⁷so is the Lord's slave pleased with the Lord's Praise. ||2||

¹⁸Just as the mother holds her baby close,

¹⁹so does the spiritual person cherish the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||3||

²⁰This is obtained from the Perfect Guru.

²¹Servant Nanak meditates on the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||4||19||83||

²²Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

²³Safe and sound, I have returned home.

²⁴The slanderer's face is blackened with ashes.

²⁵The Perfect Guru has dressed in robes of honor.

²⁶All my pains and sufferings are over. ||1||

²⁷O Saints, this is the glorious greatness of the True Lord.

²⁸He has created such wonder and glory! ||1||Pause||

²⁹I speak according to the Will of my Lord and Master.

³⁰God's slave chants the Word of His Bani.

³¹O Nanak, God is the Giver of peace.

³²He has created the perfect creation. ||2||20||84||

³³Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

³⁴Within my heart, I meditate on God.

³⁵I have returned home safe and sound.

³⁶The world has become contented.

³⁷The Perfect Guru has saved me. ||1||

³⁸O Saints, my God is forever merciful.

³⁹The Lord of the world does not call His devotee to account; He protects His children. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁰I have enshrined the Lord's Name within my heart.

⁴¹He has resolved all my affairs.

⁴²The Perfect Guru was pleased, and blessed me,

⁴³and now, Nanak shall never again suffer pain. ||2||21||85||

⁴⁴Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

⁴⁵The Lord abides in my mind and body.

⁴⁶Everyone congratulates me on my victory.

⁴⁷This is the glorious greatness of the Perfect Guru.

⁴⁸His value cannot be described. ||1||

⁴⁹I am a sacrifice to Your Name.

⁵⁰He alone, whom You have forgiven, O my Beloved, sings Your Praises. ||1||Pause||

⁵¹You are my Great Lord and Master.

⁵²You are the support of the Saints.

⁵³Nanak has entered God's Sanctuary.

⁵⁴The faces of the slanderers are blackened with ashes. ||2||22||86||

⁵⁵Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

⁵⁶Peace in this world, O my friends,

⁵⁷and bliss in the world hereafter - God has given me this.

⁵⁸The Transcendent Lord has arranged these arrangements;

⁵⁹I shall never waver again. ||1||

⁶⁰My mind is pleased with the True Lord Master.

⁶¹I know the Lord to be pervading all. ||1||Pause||

¹All beings are Yours, O Merciful Lord.

²You cherish Your devotees.

³Your glorious greatness is wonderful and marvellous.

⁴Nanak ever meditates on the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||2||23||87||

⁵Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

⁶The Lord is always with me.

⁷The Messenger of Death does not approach me.

⁸God holds me close in His embrace, and protects me.

⁹True are the Teachings of the True Guru. ||1||

¹⁰The Perfect Guru has done it perfectly.

¹¹He has beaten and driven off my enemies, and given me, His slave, the sublime understanding of the neutral mind. ||1||Pause||

¹²God has blessed all places with prosperity.

¹³I have returned again safe and sound.

¹⁴Nanak has entered God's Sanctuary.

¹⁵It has eradicated all disease. ||2||24||88||

¹⁶Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁷The True Guru is the Giver of all peace and comfort - seek His Sanctuary.

¹⁸Beholding the Blessed Vision of His Darshan, bliss ensues, pain is dispelled, and one sings the Lord's Praises. ||1||

¹⁹Drink in the sublime essence of the Lord, O Siblings of Destiny.

²⁰Chant the Naam, the Name of the Lord; worship the Naam in adoration, and enter the Sanctuary of the Perfect Guru. ||Pause||

²¹Only one who has such pre-ordained destiny receives it; he alone becomes perfect, O Siblings of Destiny.

²²Nanak's prayer, O Dear God, is to remain lovingly absorbed in the Naam. ||2||25||89||

²³Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

²⁴The Lord is the Cause of Causes, the Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts; He preserves the honor of His servant.

²⁵He is hailed and congratulated throughout the world, and he tastes the sublime essence of the Word of the Guru's Shabad. ||1||

²⁶Dear God, Lord of the world, You are my only support.

²⁷You are all-powerful, the Giver of Sanctuary; twenty-four hours a day, I meditate on You. ||Pause||

²⁸That humble being, who vibrates upon You, O God, is not afflicted by anxiety.

²⁹Attached to the Feet of the True Guru, his fear is dispelled, and within his mind, he sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||2||

³⁰He abides in celestial peace and utter ecstasy; the True Guru has comforted him.

³¹He has returned home victorious, with honor, and his hopes have been fulfilled. ||3||

³²Perfect are the Teachings of the Perfect Guru; Perfect are the actions of God.

³³Grasping hold of the Guru's feet, Nanak has crossed over the terrifying world-ocean, chanting the Name of the Lord, Har, Har. ||4||26||90||

³⁴Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

³⁵Becoming merciful, the Destroyer of the pains of the poor has Himself devised all devices.

³⁶In an instant, He has saved His humble servant; the Perfect Guru has cut away his bonds. ||1||

³⁷O my mind, meditate forever on the Guru, the Lord of the Universe.

³⁸All illness shall depart from this body, and you shall obtain the fruits of your mind's desires. ||Pause||

³⁹God created all beings and creatures; He is lofty, inaccessible and infinite.

⁴⁰In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, Nanak meditates on the Naam, the Name of the Lord; his face is radiant in the Court of the Lord. ||2||27||91||

⁴¹Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

⁴²I meditate in remembrance on my Lord.

⁴³Day and night, I ever meditate on Him.

⁴⁴He gave me His hand, and protected me.

⁴⁵I drink in the most sublime essence of the Lord's Name. ||1||

¹I am a sacrifice to my Guru.

²God, the Great Giver, the Perfect One, has become merciful to me, and now, all are kind to me. ||Pause||

³Servant Nanak has entered His Sanctuary.

⁴He has perfectly preserved his honor.

⁵All suffering has been dispelled.

⁶So enjoy peace, O my Siblings of Destiny! ||2||28||92||

⁷Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

⁸Hear my prayer, O my Lord and Master; all beings and creatures were created by You.

⁹You preserve the honor of Your Name, O Lord, Cause of causes. ||1||

¹⁰O Dear God, Beloved, please, make me Your own.

¹¹Whether good or bad, I am Yours. ||Pause||

¹²The Almighty Lord and Master heard my prayer; cutting away my bonds, He has adorned me.

¹³He dressed me in robes of honor, and blended His servant with Himself; Nanak is revealed in glory throughout the world. ||2||29||93||

¹⁴Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

¹⁵All beings and creatures are subservient to all those who serve in the Lord's Court.

¹⁶Their God made them His own, and carried them across the terrifying world-ocean. ||1||

¹⁷He resolves all the affairs of His Saints.

¹⁸He is merciful to the meek, kind and compassionate, the ocean of kindness, my Perfect Lord and Master. ||Pause||

¹⁹I am asked to come and be seated, everywhere I go, and I lack nothing.

²⁰The Lord blesses His humble devotee with robes of honor; O Nanak, the Glory of God is manifest. ||2||30||94||

²¹Sorat'h, Ninth Mehl:

²²One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

²³O mind, love the Lord.

²⁴With your ears, hear the Glorious Praises of the Lord of the Universe, and with your tongue, sing His song. ||1||Pause||

²⁵Join the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, and meditate in remembrance on the Lord; even a sinner like yourself will become pure.

²⁶Death is on the prowl, with its mouth wide open, friend. ||1||

²⁷Today or tomorrow, eventually it will seize you; understand this in your consciousness.

²⁸Says Nanak, meditate, and vibrate upon the Lord; this opportunity is slipping away! ||2||1||

²⁹Sorat'h, Ninth Mehl:

³⁰The mind remains in the mind.

³¹He does not meditate on the Lord, nor does he perform service at sacred shrines, and so death seizes him by the hair. ||1||Pause||

³²Wife, friends, children, carriages, property, total wealth, the entire world

³³- know that all of these things are false. The Lord's meditation alone is true. ||1||

³⁴Wandering, wandering around for so many ages, he has grown weary, and finally, he obtained this human body.

³⁵Says Nanak, this is the opportunity to meet the Lord; why don't you remember Him in meditation? ||2||2||

³⁶Sorat'h, Ninth Mehl:

³⁷O mind, what evil-mindedness have you developed?

³⁸You are engrossed in the pleasures of other men's wives, and slander; you have not worshipped the Lord at all. ||1||Pause||

³⁹You do not know the way to liberation, but you run all around chasing wealth.

¹In the end, nothing shall go along with you; you have entrapped yourself in vain. ||1||

²You have not meditated or vibrated upon the Lord; you have not served the Guru, or His humble servants; spiritual wisdom has not welled up within you.

³The Immaculate Lord is within your heart, and yet you search for Him in the wilderness. ||2||

⁴You have wandered through many many births; you are exhausted but have still not found a way out of this endless cycle.

⁵Now that you have obtained this human body, meditate on the Lord's Feet; Nanak advises with this advice. ||3||3||

⁶Sorat'h, Ninth Mehl:

⁷O mind, contemplate the Sanctuary of God.

⁸Meditating on Him in remembrance, Ganika the prostitute was saved; enshrine His Praises within your heart. ||1||Pause||

⁹Meditating on Him in remembrance, Dhroo became immortal, and obtained the state of fearlessness.

¹⁰The Lord and Master removes suffering in this way - why have you forgotten Him? ||1||

¹¹As soon as the elephant took to the protective Sanctuary of the Lord, the ocean of mercy, he escaped from the crocodile.

¹²How much can I describe the Glorious Praises of the Naam? Whoever chants the Lord's Name, his bonds are broken. ||2||

¹³Ajaamal, known throughout the world as a sinner, was redeemed in an instant.

¹⁴Says Nanak, remember the Chintaamani, the jewel which fulfills all desires, and you too shall be carried across and saved. ||3||4||

¹⁵Sorat'h, Ninth Mehl:

¹⁶What efforts should the mortal make,

¹⁷to attain devotional worship of the Lord, and eradicate the fear of death? ||1||Pause||

¹⁸Which actions, what sort of knowledge, and what religion - what Dharma should one practice?

¹⁹What Name of the Guru should one remember in meditation, to cross over the terrifying world-ocean? ||1||

²⁰In this Dark Age of Kali Yuga, the Name of the One Lord is the treasure of mercy; chanting it, one obtains salvation.

²¹No other religion is comparable to this; so speak the Vedas. ||2||

²²He is beyond pain and pleasure, forever unattached; He is called the Lord of the world.

²³He dwells deep within your inner self, O Nanak, like the image in a mirror. ||3||5||

²⁴Sorat'h, Ninth Mehl:

²⁵O mother, how can I see the Lord of the world?

²⁶In the utter darkness of emotional attachment and spiritual ignorance, my mind remains entangled. ||1||Pause||

²⁷Deluded by doubt, I have wasted my whole life; I have not obtained a stable intellect.

²⁸I remain under the influence of corrupting sins, night and day, and I have not renounced wickedness. ||1||

²⁹I never joined the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, and I did not sing the Kirtan of God's Praises.

³⁰O servant Nanak, I have no virtues at all; keep me in Your Sanctuary, Lord. ||2||6||

³¹Sorat'h, Ninth Mehl:

³²O mother, my mind is out of control.

³³Night and day, it runs after sin and corruption. How can I restrain it? ||1||Pause||

³⁴He listens to the teachings of the Vedas, the Puraanas and the Simritees, but he does not enshrine them in his heart, even for an instant.

³⁵Engrossed in the wealth and women of others, his life passes away uselessly. ||1||

³⁶He has gone insane with the wine of Maya, and does not understand even a bit of spiritual wisdom.

³⁷Deep within his heart, the Immaculate Lord dwells, but he does not know this secret. ||2||

¹When I came to the Sanctuary of the Holy Saints, all my evil-mindedness was dispelled.

²Then, O Nanak, I remembered the Chintaamani, the jewel which fulfills all desires, and the noose of Death was snapped. ||3||7||

³Sorat'h, Ninth Mehl:

⁴O man, grasp this Truth firmly in your soul.

⁵The whole world is just like a dream; it will pass away in an instant. ||1||Pause||

⁶Like a wall of sand, built up and plastered with great care, which does not last even a few days,

⁷just so are the pleasures of Maya. Why are you entangled in them, you ignorant fool? ||1||

⁸Understand this today - it is not yet too late! Chant and vibrate the Name of the Lord.

⁹Says Nanak, this is the subtle wisdom of the Holy Saints, which I proclaim out loud to you. ||2||8||

¹⁰Sorat'h, Ninth Mehl:

¹¹In this world, I have not found any true friend.

¹²The whole world is attached to its own pleasures, and when trouble comes, no one is with you. ||1||Pause||

¹³Wives, friends, children and relatives - all are attached to wealth.

¹⁴When they see a poor man, they all forsake his company and run away. ||1||

¹⁵So what should I say to this crazy mind, which is affectionately attached to them?

¹⁶The Lord is the Master of the meek, the Destroyer of all fears, and I have forgotten to praise Him. ||2||

¹⁷Like a dog's tail, which will never straighten out, the mind will not change, no matter how many things are tried.

¹⁸Says Nanak, please, Lord, uphold the honor of Your innate nature; I chant Your Name. ||3||9||

¹⁹Sorat'h, Ninth Mehl:

²⁰O mind, you have not accepted the Guru's Teachings.

²¹What is the use of shaving your head, and wearing saffron robes? ||1||Pause||

²²Abandoning Truth, you cling to falsehood; your life is uselessly wasting away.

²³Practicing hypocrisy, you fill your belly, and then sleep like an animal. ||1||

²⁴You do not know the Way of the Lord's meditation; you have sold yourself into Maya's hands.

²⁵The madman remains entangled in vice and corruption; he has forgotten the jewel of the Naam. ||2||

²⁶He remains thoughtless, not thinking of the Lord of the Universe; his life is uselessly passing away.

²⁷Says Nanak, O Lord, please, confirm your innate nature; this mortal is continually making mistakes. ||3||10||

²⁸Sorat'h, Ninth Mehl:

²⁹That man, who in the midst of pain, does not feel pain,

³⁰who is not affected by pleasure, affection or fear, and who looks alike upon gold and dust;||1||Pause||

³¹Who is not swayed by either slander or praise, nor affected by greed, attachment or pride;

³²who remains unaffected by joy and sorrow, honor and dishonor;||1||

³³who renounces all hopes and desires and remains desireless in the world;

³⁴who is not touched by sexual desire or anger - within his heart, God dwells. ||2||

³⁵That man, blessed by Guru's Grace, understands this way.

³⁶O Nanak, he merges with the Lord of the Universe, like water with water. ||3||11||

¹Sorat'h, Ninth Mehl:

²O dear friend, know this in your mind.

³The world is entangled in its own pleasures; no one is for anyone else. ||1||Pause||

⁴In good times, many come and sit together, surrounding you on all four sides.

⁵But when hard times come, they all leave, and no one comes near you. ||1||

⁶Your wife, whom you love so much, and who has remained ever attached to you,

⁷runs away crying, "Ghost! Ghost!", as soon as the swan-soul leaves this body. ||2||

⁸This is the way they act - those whom we love so much.

⁹At the very last moment, O Nanak, no one is any use at all, except the Dear Lord. ||3||12||139||

¹⁰Sorat'h, First Mehl, First House, Ashtpadheeyaa, Chau-Thukay:

¹¹One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

¹²I am not torn by duality, because I do not worship any other than the Lord; I do not visit tombs or crematoriums.

¹³I do not enter the houses of strangers, engrossed in desire. The Naam, the Name of the Lord, has satisfied my desires.

¹⁴Deep within my heart, the Guru has shown me the home of my being, and my mind is imbued with peace and poise, O Siblings of Destiny.

¹⁵You Yourself are all-knowing, and You Yourself are all-seeing; You alone bestow intelligence, O Lord. ||1||

¹⁶My mind is detached, imbued with detachment; the Word of the Shabad has pierced my mind, O my mother.

¹⁷God's Light shines continually within the nucleus of my deepest self; I am lovingly attached to the Bani, the Word of the True Lord Master. ||Pause||

¹⁸Countless detached renunciates talk of detachment and renunciation, but he alone is a true renunciate, who is pleasing to the Lord Master.

¹⁹The Word of the Shabad is ever in his heart; he is absorbed in the Fear of God, and he works to serve the Guru.

²⁰He remembers the One Lord, his mind does not waver, and he restrains its wanderings.

²¹He is intoxicated with celestial bliss, and is ever imbued with the Lord's Love; he sings the Glorious Praises of the True Lord. ||2||

²²The mind is like the wind, but if it comes to rest in peace, even for an instant, then he shall abide in the peace of the Name, O Siblings of Destiny.

²³His tongue, eyes and ears are imbued with Truth; O Lord, You quench the fires of desire.

²⁴In hope, the renunciate remains free of hopes; in the home of his own inner self, he is absorbed in the trance of deep meditation.

²⁵He remains content, satisfied with the charity of the Naam; he drinks in the Ambrosial Amrit with ease. ||3||

²⁶There is no renunciation in duality, as long as there is even a particle of duality.

²⁷The whole world is Yours, Lord; You alone are the Giver. There is not any other, O Siblings of Destiny.

²⁸The self-willed manmukh dwells in misery forever, while the Lord bestows greatness upon the Gurmukh.

²⁹God is infinite, endless, inaccessible and unfathomable; His worth cannot be described. ||4||

³⁰The consciousness in deep Samaadhi, the Supreme Being, the Lord of the three worlds - these are Your Names, Lord.

³¹The creatures born into this world have their destiny inscribed upon their foreheads; they experience according to their destinies.

³²The Lord Himself causes them to do good and bad deeds; He Himself makes them steadfast in devotional worship.

³³The filth of their mind and mouth is washed off when they live in the Fear of God; the inaccessible Lord Himself blesses them with spiritual wisdom. ||5||

¹Only those who taste it know its sweet taste, like the mute, who eats the candy, and only smiles.

²How can I describe the indescribable, O Siblings of Destiny? I shall follow His Will forever.

³If one meets with the Guru, the Generous Giver, then he understands; those who have no Guru cannot understand this.

⁴As the Lord causes us to act, so do we act, O Siblings of Destiny. What other clever tricks can anyone try? ||6||

⁵Some are deluded by doubt, while others are imbued with devotional worship; Your play is infinite and endless.

⁶As You engage them, they receive the fruits of their rewards; You alone are the One who issues Your Commands.

⁷I would serve You, if anything were my own; my soul and body are Yours.

⁸One who meets with the True Guru, by His Grace, takes the Support of the Ambrosial Naam. ||7||

⁹He dwells in the heavenly realms, and his virtues radiantly shine forth; meditation and spiritual wisdom are found in virtue.

¹⁰The Naam is pleasing to his mind; he speaks it, and causes others to speak it as well. He speaks the essential essence of wisdom.

¹¹The Word of the Shabad is his Guru and spiritual teacher, profound and unfathomable; without the Shabad, the world is insane.

¹²He is a perfect renunciate, naturally at ease, O Nanak, whose mind is pleased with the True Lord. ||8||1||

¹³Sorat'h, First Mehl, Thi-Thukay:

¹⁴Hope and desire are entrapments, O Siblings of Destiny. Religious rituals and ceremonies are traps.

¹⁵Because of good and bad deeds, one is born into the world, O Siblings of Destiny; forgetting the Naam, the Name of the Lord, he is ruined.

¹⁶This Maya is the enticer of the world, O Siblings of Destiny; all such actions are corrupt. ||1||

¹⁷Listen, O ritualistic Pandit:

¹⁸that religious ritual which produces happiness, O Siblings of Destiny, is contemplation of the essence of the soul. ||Pause||

¹⁹You may stand and recite the Shaastras and the Vedas, O Siblings of Destiny, but these are just worldly actions.

²⁰Filth cannot be washed away by hypocrisy, O Siblings of Destiny; the filth of corruption and sin is within you.

²¹This is how the spider is destroyed, O Siblings of Destiny, by falling head-long in its own web. ||2||

²²So many are destroyed by their own evil-mindedness, O Siblings of Destiny; in the love of duality, they are ruined.

²³Without the True Guru, the Name is not obtained, O Siblings of Destiny; without the Name, doubt does not depart.

²⁴If one serves the True Guru, then he obtains peace, O Siblings of Destiny; his comings and goings are ended. ||3||

²⁵True celestial peace comes from the Guru, O Siblings of Destiny; the immaculate mind is absorbed into the True Lord.

²⁶One who serves the Guru, understands, O Siblings of Destiny; without the Guru, the way is not found.

²⁷What can anyone do, with greed within? O Siblings of Destiny, by telling lies, they eat poison. ||4||

²⁸O Pandit, by churning cream, butter is produced.

²⁹By churning water, you shall only see water, O Siblings of Destiny; this world is like that.

³⁰Without the Guru, he is ruined by doubt, O Siblings of Destiny; the unseen Divine Lord is in each and every heart. ||5||

³¹This world is like a thread of cotton, O Siblings of Destiny, which Maya has tied on all ten sides.

³²Without the Guru, the knots cannot be untied, O Siblings of Destiny; I am so tired of religious rituals.

³³This world is deluded by doubt, O Siblings of Destiny; no one can say anything about it. ||6||

³⁴Meeting with the Guru, the Fear of God comes to abide in the mind; to die in the Fear of God is one's true destiny.

³⁵In the Court of the Lord, the Naam is far superior to ritualistic cleansing baths, charity and good deeds, O Siblings of Destiny.

¹One who implants the Naam within himself, through the Guru's halter - O Siblings of Destiny, the Lord dwells in his mind, and he is free of hypocrisy. ||7||

²This body is the jeweller's shop, O Siblings of Destiny; the incomparable Naam is the merchandise.

³The merchant secures this merchandise, O Siblings of Destiny, by contemplating the Word of the Guru's Shabad.

⁴Blessed is the merchant, O Nanak, who meets the Guru, and engages in this trade. ||8||2||

⁵Sorat'h, First Mehl:

⁶Those who serve the True Guru, O Beloved, their companions are saved as well.

⁷No one blocks their way, O Beloved, and the Lord's Ambrosial Nectar is on their tongue.

⁸Without the Fear of God, they are so heavy that they sink and drown, O Beloved; but the Lord, casting His Glance of Grace, carries them across. ||1||

⁹I ever praise You, O Beloved, I ever sing Your Praises.

¹⁰Without the boat, one is drowned in the sea of fear, O Beloved; how can I reach the distant shore? ||1||Pause||

¹¹I praise the Praiseworthy Lord, O Beloved; there is no other one to praise.

¹²Those who praise my God are good, O Beloved; they are imbued with the Word of the Shabad, and His Love.

¹³If I join them, O Beloved, I can churn the essence and so find joy. ||2||

¹⁴The gateway to honor is Truth, O Beloved; it bears the Insignia of the True Name of the Lord.

¹⁵We come into the world, and we depart, with our destiny written and pre-ordained, O Beloved; realize the Command of the Commander.

¹⁶Without the Guru, this Command is not understood, O Beloved; True is the Power of the True Lord. ||3||

¹⁷By His Command, we are conceived, O Beloved, and by His Command, we grow in the womb.

¹⁸By His Command, we are born, O Beloved, head-first, and upside-down.

¹⁹The Gurmukh is honored in the Court of the Lord, O Beloved; he departs after resolving his affairs. ||4||

²⁰By His Command, one comes into the world, O Beloved, and by His Will, he goes.

²¹By His Will, some are bound and gagged and driven away, O Beloved; the self-willed manmukhs suffer their punishment.

²²By His Command, the Word of the Shabad, is realized, O Beloved, and one goes to the Court of the Lord robed in honor. ||5||

²³By His Command, some accounts are accounted for, O Beloved; by His Command, some suffer in egotism and duality.

²⁴By His Command, one wanders in reincarnation, O Beloved; deceived by sins and demerits, he cries out in his suffering.

²⁵If he comes to realize the Command of the Lord's Will, O Beloved, then he is blessed with Truth and Honor. ||6||

²⁶It is so difficult to speak it, O Beloved; how can we speak, and hear, the True Name?

²⁷I am a sacrifice to those who praise the Lord, O Beloved.

²⁸I have obtained the Name, and I am satisfied, O Beloved; by His Grace, I am united in His Union. ||7||

²⁹If my body were to become the paper, O Beloved, and my mind the inkpot;

³⁰and if my tongue became the pen, O Beloved, I would write, and contemplate, the Glorious Praises of the True Lord.

³¹Blessed is that scribe, O Nanak, who writes the True Name, and enshrines it within his heart. ||8||3||

³²Sorat'h, First Mehl, Dho-Thukay:

³³You are the Giver of virtue, O Immaculate Lord, but my mind is not immaculate, O Siblings of Destiny.

³⁴I am a worthless sinner, O Siblings of Destiny; virtue is obtained from You alone, Lord. ||1||

³⁵O my Beloved Creator Lord, You create, and You behold.

³⁶I am a hypocritical sinner, O Siblings of Destiny. Bless my mind and body with Your Name, O Lord. ||Pause||

¹The poisonous Maya has enticed the consciousness, O Siblings of Destiny; through clever tricks, one loses his honor.

²The True Lord and Master abides in the consciousness, O Siblings of Destiny, if the Guru's spiritual wisdom permeates it. ||2||

³Beautiful, beautiful, the Lord is called, O Siblings of Destiny; beautiful, like the deep crimson color of the poppy.

⁴If man loves the Lord with detachment, O Siblings of Destiny, he is judged to be true and infallible in the Lord's court and home. ||3||

⁵You are pervading the realms of the underworld and the heavenly skies; Your wisdom and glories are in each and every heart.

⁶Meeting with the Guru, one finds peace, O Siblings of Destiny, and pride is dispelled from the mind. ||4||

⁷Scrubbing with water, the body can be cleaned, O Siblings of Destiny, but the body becomes dirty again.

⁸Bathing in the supreme essence of spiritual wisdom, O Siblings of Destiny, the mind and body become pure. ||5||

⁹Why worship gods and goddesses, O Siblings of Destiny? What can we ask of them? What can they give us?

¹⁰The stone gods are washed with water, O Siblings of Destiny, but they just sink in the water. ||6||

¹¹Without the Guru, the unseen Lord cannot be seen, O Siblings of Destiny; the world is drowning, having lost its honor.

¹²Greatness is in the hands of my Lord and Master, O Siblings of Destiny; as He is pleased, He gives. ||7||

¹³That soul-bride, who talks sweetly and speaks the Truth, O Siblings of Destiny, becomes pleasing to her Husband Lord.

¹⁴Pierced by His Love, she abides in Truth, O Siblings of Destiny, deeply imbued with the Lord's Name. ||8||

¹⁵Everyone calls God his own, O Siblings of Destiny, but the all-knowing Lord is known only through the Guru.

¹⁶Those who are pierced by His Love are saved, O Siblings of Destiny; they bear the Insignia of the True Word of the Shabad. ||9||

¹⁷A large pile of firewood, O Siblings of Destiny, will burn if a small fire is applied.

¹⁸In the same way, if the Naam, the Name of the Lord, dwells in the heart for a moment, even for an instant, O Siblings of Destiny, then one meets the Lord with ease, O Nanak. ||10||4||

¹⁹Sorat'h, Third Mehl, First House, Thi-Thukay:

²⁰One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

²¹You always preserve the honor of Your devotees, O Dear Lord; You have protected them from the very beginning of time.

²²You protected Your servant Prahlaad, O Dear Lord, and annihilated Harnaakhash.

²³The Gurmukhs place their faith in the Dear Lord, but the self-willed manmukhs are deluded by doubt. ||1||

²⁴O Dear Lord, this is Your Glory.

²⁵You preserve the honor of Your devotees, O Lord Master; Your devotees seek Your Sanctuary. ||Pause||

²⁶The Messenger of Death cannot touch Your devotees; death cannot even approach them.

²⁷The Name of the Lord alone abides in their minds; through the Naam, the Name of the Lord, they find liberation.

²⁸Wealth and all the spiritual powers of the Siddhis fall at the feet of the Lord's devotees; they obtain peace and poise from the Guru. ||2||

²⁹The self-willed manmukhs have no faith; they are filled with greed and self-interest.

³⁰They are not Gurmukh - they do not understand the Word of the Shabad in their hearts; they do not love the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

³¹Their masks of falsehood and hypocrisy shall fall off; the self-willed manmukhs speak with insipid words. ||3||

³²You are pervading through Your devotees, O Dear God; through Your devotees, You are known.

³³All the people are enticed by Maya; they are Yours, Lord - You alone are the Architect of Destiny.

¹Overcoming my egotism and quieting the desires within my mind, I have come to realize the Word of the Guru's Shabad. ||4||

²God automatically does the work of those who love the Name of the Lord.

³By Guru's Grace, he ever dwells in their minds, and He resolves all their affairs.

⁴Whoever challenges them is destroyed; they have the Lord God as their Savior. ||5||

⁵Without serving the True Guru, no one finds the Lord; the self-willed manmukhs die crying out in pain.

⁶They come and go, and find no place of rest; in pain and suffering, they perish.

⁷But one who becomes Gurmukh drinks in the Ambrosial Nectar, and is easily absorbed in the True Name. ||6||

⁸Without serving the True Guru, one cannot escape reincarnation, even by performing numerous rituals.

⁹Those who read the Vedas, and argue and debate without the Lord, lose their honor.

¹⁰True is the True Guru, and True is the Word of His Bani; in the Guru's Sanctuary, one is saved. ||7||

¹¹Those whose minds are filled with the Lord are judged as true in the Court of the Lord; they are hailed as true in the True Court.

¹²Their praises echo throughout the ages, and no one can erase them.

¹³Nanak is forever a sacrifice to those who enshrine the Lord within their hearts. ||8||1||

¹⁴Sorat'h, Third Mehl, Dho-Thukay:

¹⁵He Himself forgives the worthless, O Siblings of Destiny; He commits them to the service of the True Guru.

¹⁶Service to the True Guru is sublime, O Siblings of Destiny; through it, one's consciousness is attached to the Lord's Name. ||1||

¹⁷The Dear Lord forgives, and unites with Himself.

¹⁸I am a sinner, totally without virtue, O Siblings of Destiny; the Perfect True Guru has blended me. ||Pause||

¹⁹So many, so many sinners have been forgiven, O beloved one, by contemplating the True Word of the Shabad.

²⁰They got on board the boat of the True Guru, who carried them across the terrifying world-ocean, O Siblings of Destiny. ||2||

²¹I have been transformed from rusty iron into gold, O Siblings of Destiny, united in Union with the Guru, the Philosopher's Stone.

²²Eliminating my self-conceit, the Name has come to dwell within my mind, O Siblings of Destiny; my light has merged in the Light. ||3||

²³I am a sacrifice, I am a sacrifice, O Siblings of Destiny, I am forever a sacrifice to my True Guru.

²⁴He has given me the treasure of the Naam; O Siblings of Destiny, through the Guru's Teachings, I am absorbed in celestial bliss. ||4||

²⁵Without the Guru, celestial peace is not produced, O Siblings of Destiny; go and ask the spiritual teachers about this.

²⁶Serve the True Guru forever, O Siblings of Destiny, and eradicate self-conceit from within. ||5||

²⁷Under Guru's Instruction, the Fear of God is produced, O Siblings of Destiny; true and excellent are the deeds done in the Fear of God.

²⁸Then, one is blessed with the treasure of the Lord's Love, O Siblings of Destiny, and the Support of the True Name. ||6||

²⁹I fall at the feet of those who serve their True Guru, O Siblings of Destiny.

³⁰I have fulfilled my life, O Siblings of Destiny, and my family has been saved as well. ||7||

³¹The True Word of the Guru's Bani, and the True Word of the Shabad, O Siblings of Destiny, are obtained only by Guru's Grace.

³²O Nanak, with the Name of the Lord abiding in one's mind, no obstacles stand in one's way, O Siblings of Destiny. ||8||2||

¹Sorat'h, Third Mehl:

²The Dear Lord is realized through the Word of His Shabad, O Siblings of Destiny, which is found only by perfect destiny.

³The happy soul-brides are forever in peace, O Siblings of Destiny; night and day, they are attuned to the Lord's Love. ||1||

⁴O Dear Lord, You Yourself color us in Your Love.

⁵Sing, continually sing His Praises, imbued with His Love, O Siblings of Destiny; be in love with the Lord. ||Pause||

⁶Work to serve the Guru, O Siblings of Destiny; abandon self-conceit, and focus your consciousness.

⁷You shall be in peace forever, and you shall not suffer in pain any longer, O Siblings of Destiny; the Lord Himself shall come and abide in your mind. ||2||

⁸She who does not know the Will of her Husband Lord, O Siblings of Destiny, is an ill-mannered and bitter bride.

⁹She does things with a stubborn mind, O Siblings of Destiny; without the Name, she is false. ||3||

¹⁰They alone sing the Lord's Praises, who have such pre-ordained destiny written upon their foreheads, O Siblings of Destiny; through the Love of the True Lord, they find detachment.

¹¹Night and day, they are imbued with His Love; they utter His Glorious Praises, O Siblings of Destiny, and they lovingly focus their consciousness on the Fearless Guru. ||4||

¹²He kills and revives all, O Siblings of Destiny; serve Him, day and night.

¹³How can we forget Him from our minds, O Siblings of Destiny? His gifts are glorious and great. ||5||

¹⁴The self-willed manmukh is filthy and double-minded, O Siblings of Destiny; the finds no place of rest in the Court of the Lord.

¹⁵But if she becomes Gurmukh, then she chants the Glorious Praises of the Lord, O Siblings of Destiny; the meets her True Beloved, and merges in Him. ||6||

¹⁶In this life, she has not focused her consciousness on the Lord, O Siblings of Destiny; how can she show her face when she leaves?

¹⁷In spite of the warning calls which were sounded, she has been plundered, O Siblings of Destiny; she yearned only for corruption. ||7||

¹⁸Those who dwell upon the Naam, O Siblings of Destiny, their bodies are ever peaceful and tranquil.

¹⁹O Nanak, dwell upon the Naam; the Lord is infinite, virtuous and unfathomable, O Siblings of Destiny. ||8||3||

²⁰Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl, First House, Ashtpadheeyaa:

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

²²The One who created the whole world, O Siblings of Destiny, is the Almighty Lord, the Cause of causes.

²³He fashioned the soul and the body, O Siblings of Destiny, by His own power.

²⁴How can He be described? How can He be seen, O Siblings of Destiny? The Creator is One; He is indescribable.

²⁵Praise the Guru, the Lord of the Universe, O Siblings of Destiny; through Him, the essence is known. ||1||

²⁶O my mind, meditate on the Lord, the Lord God.

²⁷He blesses His servant with the gift of the Naam; He is the Destroyer of pain and suffering. ||Pause||

²⁸Everything is in His home, O Siblings of Destiny; His warehouse is overflowing with the nine treasures.

²⁹His worth cannot be estimated, O Siblings of Destiny; He is lofty, inaccessible and infinite.

³⁰He cherishes all beings and creatures, O Siblings of Destiny; he continually takes care of them.

³¹So meet with the Perfect True Guru, O Siblings of Destiny, and merge in the Word of the Shabad. ||2||

³²Adoring the feet of the True Guru, O Siblings of Destiny, doubt and fear are dispelled.

³³Joining the Society of the Saints, cleanse your mind, O Siblings of Destiny, and dwell in the Name of the Lord.

³⁴The darkness of ignorance shall be dispelled, O Siblings of Destiny, and the lotus of your heart shall blossom forth.

³⁵By the Guru's Word, peace wells up, O Siblings of Destiny; all fruits are with the True Guru. ||3||

¹Give up your sense of mine and yours, O Siblings of Destiny, and become the dust of the feet of all.

²In each and every heart, God is contained, O Siblings of Destiny; He sees, and hears, and is ever-present with us.

³On that day when one forgets the Supreme Lord God, O Siblings of Destiny, on that day, one ought to die crying out in pain.

⁴He is the all-powerful Cause of Causes, O Siblings of Destiny; he is totally filled with all powers. ||4||

⁵The Love of the Name is the greatest treasure, O Siblings of Destiny; through it, emotional attachment to Maya is dispelled.

⁶If it is pleasing to His Will, then He unites us in His Union, O Siblings of Destiny; the Naam, the Name of the Lord, comes to abide in the mind.

⁷The heart-lotus of the Gurmukh blossoms forth, O Siblings of Destiny, and the heart is illumined.

⁸The Glory of God has been revealed, O Siblings of Destiny, and the earth and sky have blossomed forth. ||5||

⁹The Perfect Guru has blessed me with contentment, O Siblings of Destiny; day and night, I remain attached to the Lord's Love.

¹⁰My tongue continually chants the Lord's Name, O Siblings of Destiny; this is the true taste, and the object of human life.

¹¹Listening with my ears, I hear and so I live, O Siblings of Destiny; I have obtained the unchanging, unmoving state.

¹²That soul,which does not place its faith in the Lord shall burn, O Siblings of Destiny. ||6||

¹³My Lord and Master has so many virtues, O Siblings of Destiny; I am a sacrifice to Him.

¹⁴He nurtures even the most worthless, O Siblings of Destiny, and gives home to the homeless.

¹⁵He gives us nourishment with each and every breath, O Siblings of Destiny; His Name is everlasting.

¹⁶One who meets with the True Guru, O Siblings of Destiny, does so only by perfect destiny. ||7||

¹⁷Without Him, I cannot live, even for an instant, O Siblings of Destiny; He is totally filled with all powers.

¹⁸With every breath and morsel of food, I will not forget Him, O Siblings of Destiny; I behold Him ever-present.

¹⁹In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, I meet Him, O Siblings of Destiny; He is totally pervading and permeating everywhere.

²⁰Those who do not embrace love for the Lord, O Siblings of Destiny, always die crying out in pain. ||8||

²¹Grasping hold of the hem of His robe, O Siblings of Destiny, we are carried across the world-ocean of fear and pain.

²²By His Glance of Grace, He has blessed us, O Siblings of Destiny; He shall be with us until the very end.

²³My mind and body are soothed and calmed, O Siblings of Destiny, nourished by the food of the Naam.

²⁴Nanak has entered His Sanctuary, O Siblings of Destiny; the Lord is the Destroyer of sins. ||9||1||

²⁵Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl:

²⁶The womb of the mother is an ocean of pain, O Beloved; even there, the Lord causes His Name to be chanted.

²⁷When he emerges, he finds corruption pervading everywhere, O Beloved, and he becomes increasingly attached to Maya.

²⁸One whom the Lord blesses with His kind favor, O Beloved, meets the Perfect Guru.

²⁹He worships the Lord in adoration with each and every breath, O Beloved; he is lovingly attached to the Lord's Name. ||1||

³⁰You are the support of my mind and body, O Beloved; You are the support of my mind and body.

³¹There is no other Creator except for You, O Beloved; You alone are the Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts. ||Pause||

³²After wandering in doubt for millions of incarnations, he comes into the world, O Beloved; for uncounted lifetimes, he has suffered in pain.

³³He has forgotten his True Lord and Master, O Beloved, and so he suffers terrible punishment.

³⁴Those who meet with the Perfect True Guru, O Beloved, are attached to the True Name.

¹We are saved by following those, O Beloved, who seek the Sanctuary of the True Lord. ||2||

²He thinks that his food is so sweet, O Beloved, but it makes his body ill.

³It turns out to be bitter, O Beloved, and it produces only sadness.

⁴The Lord leads him astray in the enjoyment of pleasures, O Beloved, and so his sense of separation does not depart.

⁵Those who meet the Guru are saved, O Beloved; this is their pre-ordained destiny. ||3||

⁶He is filled with longing for Maya, O Beloved, and so the Lord does not ever come into his mind.

⁷Those who forget You, O Supreme Lord Master, their bodies turn to dust.

⁸They cry out and scream horribly, O Beloved, but their torment does not end.

⁹Those who meet the Guru, and reform themselves, O Beloved, their capital remains intact. ||4||

¹⁰As far as possible, do not associate with the faithless cynics, O Beloved.

¹¹Meeting with them, the Lord is forgotten, O Beloved, and you rise and depart with a blackened face.

¹²The self-willed manmukh finds no rest or shelter, O Beloved; in the Court of the Lord, they are punished.

¹³Those who meet with the Guru, and reform themselves, O Beloved, their affairs are resolved. ||5||

¹⁴One may have thousands of clever tricks and techniques of austere self-discipline, O Beloved, but not even one of them will go with him.

¹⁵Those who turn their backs on the Lord of the Universe, O Beloved, their families are stained with disgrace.

¹⁶They do not realize that they do have Him , O Beloved; falsehood will not go with them.

¹⁷Those who meet with the True Guru, O Beloved, dwell upon the True Name. ||6||

¹⁸When the Lord casts His Glance of Grace, O Beloved, one is blessed with Truth, contentment, wisdom and meditation.

¹⁹Night and day, he sings the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises, O Beloved, totally filled with Ambrosial Nectar.

²⁰He crosses over the sea of pain, O Beloved, and swims across the terrifying world-ocean.

²¹One who is pleasing to His Will, He unites with Himself, O Beloved; he is forever true. ||7||

²²The all-powerful Divine Lord is compassionate, O Beloved; He is the Support of His devotees.

²³I seek His Sanctuary, O Beloved; He is the Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts.

²⁴He has adorned me in this world and the next, O Beloved; He has placed the Emblem of Truth upon my forehead.

²⁵I shall never forget that God, O Beloved; Nanak is forever a sacrifice to Him. ||8||2||

²⁶Sorat'h, Fifth Mehl, Second House, Ashtpadheeyaa:

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

²⁸They read scriptures, and contemplate the Vedas; they practice the inner cleansing techniques of Yoga, and control of the breath.

²⁹But they cannot escape from the company of the five passions; they are increasingly bound to egotism. ||1||

³⁰O Beloved, this is not the way to meet the Lord; I have performed these rituals so many times.

³¹I have collapsed, exhausted, at the Door of my Lord Master; I pray that He may grant me a discerning intellect. ||Pause||

³²One may remain silent and use his hands as begging bowls, and wander naked in the forest.

³³He may make pilgrimages to river banks and sacred shrines all over the world, but his sense of duality will not leave him. ||2||

¹His mind's desires may lead him to go and dwell at sacred places of pilgrimage, and offer his head to be sawn off;

²but this will not cause the filth of his mind to depart, even though he may make thousands of efforts. ||3||

³He may give gifts of all sorts - gold, women, horses and elephants.

⁴He may make offerings of corn, clothes and land in abundance, but this will not lead him to the Lord's Door. ||4||

⁵He may remain devoted to worship and adoration, bowing his forehead to the floor, practicing the six religious rituals.

⁶He indulges in egotism and pride, and falls into entanglements, but he does not meet the Lord by these devices. ||5||

⁷He practices the eighty-four postures of Yoga, and acquires the supernatural powers of the Siddhas, but he gets tired of practicing these.

⁸He lives a long life, but is reincarnated again and again; he has not met with the Lord. ||6||

⁹He may enjoy princely pleasures, and regal pomp and ceremony, and issue unchallenged commands.

¹⁰He may lie on beautiful beds, perfumed with sandalwood oil, but this will led him only to the gates of the most horrible hell. ||7||

¹¹Singing the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, is the highest of all actions.

¹²Says Nanak, he alone obtains it, who is pre-destined to receive it. ||8||

¹³Your slave is intoxicated with this Love of Yours.

¹⁴The Destroyer of the pains of the poor has become merciful to me, and this mind is imbued with the Praises of the Lord, Har, Har. ||Second Pause||1||3||

¹⁵Vaar Of Raag Sorat'h, Fourth Mehl:

¹⁶One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

¹⁷Salok, First Mehl:

¹⁸Sorat'h is always beautiful, if it brings the True Lord to dwell in the mind of the soul-bride.

¹⁹Her teeth are clean and her mind is not split by duality; the Name of the True Lord is on her tongue.

²⁰Here and hereafter, she abides in the Fear of God, and serves the True Guru without hesitation.

²¹Discarding worldly adornments, she meets her Husband Lord, and she celebrates joyfully with Him.

²²She is adorned forever with the Name in her mind, and she does not have even an iota of filth.

²³Her husband's younger and elder brothers, the corrupt desires, have died, suffering in pain; and now, who fears Maya, the mother-in-law?

²⁴If she becomes pleasing to her Husband Lord, O Nanak, she bears the jewel of good karma upon her forehead, and everything is Truth to her. ||1||

²⁵Fourth Mehl:

²⁶Sorat'h is beautiful only when it leads the soul-bride to seek the Lord's Name.

²⁷She pleases her Guru and God; under Guru's Instruction, she speaks the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.

²⁸She is attracted to the Lord's Name, day and night, and her body is drenched in the color of the Love of the Lord, Har, Har.

²⁹No other being like the Lord God can be found; I have looked and searched over the whole world.

³⁰The Guru, the True Guru, has implanted the Naam within me; my mind does not waver any more.

³¹Servant Nanak is the Lord's slave, the slave of the slaves of the Guru, the True Guru. ||2||

³²Pauree:

³³You Yourself are the Creator, the Fashioner of the world.

³⁴You Yourself have arranged the play, and You Yourself arrange it.

³⁵You Yourself are the Giver and the Creator; You Yourself are the Enjoyer.

³⁶The Word of Your Shabad is pervading everywhere, O Creator Lord.

³⁷As Gurmukh, I ever praise the Lord; I am a sacrifice to the Guru. ||1||

¹Salok, Third Mehl:

²In the flames of egotism, he is burnt to death; he wanders in doubt and the love of duality.

³The Perfect True Guru saves him, making him His own.

⁴This world is burning; through the Sublime Word of the Guru's Shabad, this comes to be seen.

⁵Those who are attuned to the Shabad are cooled and soothed; O Nanak, they practice Truth. ||1||

⁶Third Mehl:

⁷Service to the True Guru is fruitful and rewarding; blessed and acceptable is such a life.

⁸Those who do not forget the True Guru, in life and in death, are truly wise people.

⁹Their families are saved, and they are approved by the Lord.

¹⁰The Gurmukhs are approved in death as in life, while the self-willed manmukhs continue the cycle of birth and death.

¹¹O Nanak, they are not described as dead, who are absorbed in the Word of the Guru's Shabad. ||2||

¹²Pauree:

¹³Serve the Immaculate Lord God, and meditate on the Lord's Name.

¹⁴Join the Society of the Holy Saints, and be absorbed in the Lord's Name.

¹⁵O Lord, glorious and great is service to You; I am so foolish

¹⁶- please, commit me to it. I am Your servant and slave; command me, according to Your Will.

¹⁷As Gurmukh, I shall serve You, as Guru has instructed me. ||2||

¹⁸Salok, Third Mehl:

¹⁹He acts according to pre-ordained destiny, written by the Creator Himself.

²⁰Emotional attachment has drugged him, and he has forgotten the Lord, the treasure of virtue.

²¹Don't think that he is alive in the world - he is dead, through the love of duality.

²²Those who do not meditate on the Lord, as Gurmukh, are not permitted to sit near the Lord.

²³They suffer the most horrible pain and suffering, and neither their sons nor their wives go along with them.

²⁴Their faces are blackened among men, and they sigh in deep regret.

²⁵No one places any reliance in the self-willed manmukhs; trust in them is lost.

²⁶O Nanak, the Gurmukhs live in absolute peace; the Naam, the Name of the Lord, abides within them. ||1||

²⁷Third Mehl:

²⁸They alone are relatives, and they alone are friends, who, as Gurmukh, join together in love.

²⁹Night and day, they act according to the True Guru's Will; they remain absorbed in the True Name.

³⁰Those who are attached to the love of duality are not called friends; they practice egotism and corruption.

³¹The self-willed manmukhs are selfish; they cannot resolve anyone's affairs.

³²O Nanak, they act according to their pre-ordained destiny; no one can erase it. ||2||

³³Pauree:

³⁴You Yourself created the world, and You Yourself arranged the play of it.

³⁵You Yourself created the three qualities, and fostered emotional attachment to Maya.

³⁶He is called to account for his deeds done in egotism; he continues coming and going in reincarnation.

³⁷The Guru instructs those whom the Lord Himself blesses with Grace.

³⁸I am a sacrifice to my Guru; forever and ever, I am a sacrifice to Him. ||3||

³⁹Salok, Third Mehl:

⁴⁰The love of Maya is enticing; without teeth, it has eaten up the world.

⁴¹The self-willed manmukhs are eaten away, while the Gurmukhs are saved; they focus their consciousness on the True Name.

⁴²Without the Name, the world wanders around insane; the Gurmukhs come to see this.

¹Involved in worldly affairs, he wastes his life in vain; the peace-giving Lord does not come to abide in his mind.

²O Nanak, they alone obtain the Name, who have such pre-ordained destiny. ||1||

³Third Mehl:

⁴The home within is filled with Ambrosial Nectar, but the self-willed manmukh does not get to taste it.

⁵He is like the deer, who does not recognize its own musk-scent; it wanders around, deluded by doubt.

⁶The manmukh forsakes the Ambrosial Nectar, and instead gathers poison; the Creator Himself has fooled him.

⁷How rare are the Gurmukhs, who obtain this understanding; they behold the Lord God within themselves.

⁸Their minds and bodies are cooled and soothed, and their tongues enjoy the sublime taste of the Lord.

⁹Through the Word of the Shabad, the Name wells up; through the Shabad, we are united in the Lord's Union.

¹⁰Without the Shabad, the whole world is insane, and it loses its life in vain.

¹¹The Shabad alone is Ambrosial Nectar; O Nanak, the Gurmukhs obtain it. ||2||

¹²Pauree:

¹³The Lord God is inaccessible; tell me, how can we find Him?

¹⁴He has no form or feature, and He cannot be seen; tell me, how can we meditate on Him?

¹⁵The Lord is formless, immaculate and inaccessible; which of His Virtues should we speak of and sing?

¹⁶They alone walk on the Lord's Path, whom the Lord Himself instructs.

¹⁷The Perfect Guru has revealed Him to me; serving the Guru, He is found. ||4||

¹⁸Salok, Third Mehl:

¹⁹It is as if my body has been crushed in the oil-press, without yielding even a drop of blood;

²⁰it is as if my soul has been cut apart into pieces for the sake of the Love of the True Lord;

²¹O Nanak, still, night and day, my Union with the Lord is not broken. ||1||

²²Third Mehl:

²³My Friend is so full of joy and love; He colors my mind with the color of His Love,

²⁴like the fabric which is treated to retain the color of the dye.

²⁵O Nanak, this color does not depart, and no other color can be imparted to this fabric. ||2||

²⁶Pauree:

²⁷The Lord Himself is pervading everywhere; the Lord Himself causes us to chant His Name.

²⁸The Lord Himself created the creation; He commits all to their tasks.

²⁹He engages some in devotional worship, and others, He causes to stray.

³⁰He places some on the Path, while He leads others into the wilderness.

³¹Servant Nanak meditates on the Naam, the Name of the Lord; as Gurmukh, he sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||5||

³²Salok, Third Mehl:

³³Service to the True Guru is fruitful and rewarding, if one performs it with his mind focused on it.

³⁴The fruits of the mind's desires are obtained, and egotism departs from within.

³⁵His bonds are broken, and he is liberated; he remains absorbed in the True Lord.

³⁶It is so difficult to obtain the Naam in this world; it comes to dwell in the mind of the Gurmukh.

³⁷O Nanak, I am a sacrifice to one who serves his True Guru. ||1||

³⁸Third Mehl:

³⁹The mind of the self-willed manmukh is so very stubborn; it is stuck in the love of duality.

⁴⁰He does not find peace, even in dreams; he passes his life in misery and suffering.

⁴¹The Pandits have grown weary of going door to door, reading and reciting their scriptures; the Siddhas have gone into their trances of Samaadhi.

⁴²This mind cannot be controlled; they are tired of performing religious rituals.

⁴³The impersonators have grown weary of wearing false costumes, and bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines.

¹They do not know the state of their own minds; they are deluded by doubt and egotism.

²By Guru's Grace, the Fear of God is obtained; by great good fortune, the Lord comes to abide in the mind.

³When the Fear of God comes, the mind is restrained, and through the Word of the Shabad, the ego is burnt away.

⁴Those who are imbued with Truth are immaculate; their light merges in the Light.

⁵Meeting the True Guru, one obtains the Name; O Nanak, he is absorbed in peace. ||2||

⁶Pauree:

⁷The pleasures of kings and emperors are pleasing, but they last for only a few days.

⁸These pleasures of Maya are like the color of the safflower, which wears off in a moment.

⁹They do not go with him when he departs; instead, he carries the load of sins upon his head.

¹⁰When death seizes him, and marches him away, then he looks absolutely hideous.

¹¹That lost opportunity will not come into his hands again, and in the end, he regrets and repents. ||6||

¹²Salok, Third Mehl:

¹³Those who turn their faces away from the True Guru, suffer in sorrow and bondage.

¹⁴Again and again, they are born only to die; they cannot meet their Lord.

¹⁵The disease of doubt does not depart, and they find only pain and more pain.

¹⁶O Nanak, if the Gracious Lord forgives, then one is united in Union with the Word of the Shabad. ||1||

¹⁷Third Mehl:

¹⁸Those who turn their faces away from the True Guru, shall find no place of rest or shelter.

¹⁹They wander around from door to door, like a woman forsaken, with a bad character and a bad reputation.

²⁰O Nanak, the Gurmukhs are forgiven, and united in Union with the True Guru. ||2||

²¹Pauree:

²²Those who serve the True Lord, the Destroyer of ego, cross over the terrifying world-ocean.

²³Those who chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, are passed over by the Messenger of Death.

²⁴Those who meditate on the Lord, go to His Court in robes of honor.

²⁵They alone serve You, O Lord, whom You bless with Grace.

²⁶I sing continually Your Glorious Praises, O Beloved; as Gurmukh, my doubts and fears have been dispelled. ||7||

²⁷Salok, Third Mehl:

²⁸Upon the plate, three things have been placed; this is the sublime, ambrosial food of the Lord.

²⁹Eating this, the mind is satisfied, and the Door of Salvation is found.

³⁰It is so difficult to obtain this food, O Saints; it is obtained only by contemplating the Guru.

³¹Why should we cast this riddle out of our minds? We should keep it ever enshrined in our hearts.

³²The True Guru has posed this riddle. The Guru's Sikhs have found its solution.

³³O Nanak, he alone understands this, whom the Lord inspires to understand. The Gurmukhs work hard, and find the Lord. ||1||

³⁴Third Mehl:

³⁵Those whom the Primal Lord unites, remain in Union with Him; they focus their consciousness on the True Guru.

³⁶Those whom the Lord Himself separates, remain separated; in the love of duality, they are ruined.

³⁷O Nanak, without good karma, what can anyone obtain? He earns what he is pre-destined to receive. ||2||

³⁸Pauree:

³⁹Sitting together, the companions sing the Songs of the Lord's Praises.

⁴⁰They praise the Lord's Name continually; they are a sacrifice to the Lord.

⁴¹Those who hear, and believe in the Lord's Name, to them I am a sacrifice.

⁴²O Lord, let me unite with the Gurmukhs, who are united with You.

⁴³I am a sacrifice to those who, day and night, behold their Guru. ||8||

⁴⁴Salok, Third Mehl:

¹Without the Name of the Lord, everyone wanders around the world, losing.

²The self-willed manmukhs do their deeds in the pitch black darkness of egotism.

³The Gurmukhs drink in the Ambrosial Nectar, O Nanak, contemplating the Word of the Shabad. ||1||

⁴Third Mehl:

⁵He wakes in peace, and he sleeps in peace.

⁶The Gurmukh praises the Lord night and day.

⁷The self-willed manmukh remains deluded by his doubts.

⁸He is filled with anxiety, and he cannot even sleep.

⁹The spiritually wise wake and sleep in peace.

¹⁰Nanak is a sacrifice to those who are imbued with the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||2||

¹¹Pauree:

¹²They alone meditate on the Lord's Name, who are imbued with the Lord.

¹³They meditate on the One Lord; the One and Only Lord is True.

¹⁴The One Lord is pervading everywhere; the One Lord created the Universe.

¹⁵Those who meditate on the Lord's Name, cast out their fears.

¹⁶The Lord Himself blesses them with Guru's Instruction; the Gurmukh meditates on the Lord. ||9||

¹⁷Salok, Third Mehl:

¹⁸Spiritual wisdom, which would bring understanding, does not enter into his mind.

¹⁹Without seeing, how can he praise the Lord? The blind act in blindness.

²⁰O Nanak, when one realizes the Word of the Shabad, then the Naam comes to abide in the mind. ||1||

²¹Third Mehl:

²²There is One Bani; there is One Guru; there is one Shabad to contemplate.

²³True is the merchandise, and true is the shop; the warehouses are overflowing with jewels.

²⁴By Guru's Grace, they are obtained, if the Great Giver gives them.

²⁵Dealing in this true merchandise, one earns the profit of the incomparable Naam.

²⁶In the midst of poison, the Ambrosial Nectar is revealed; by His Mercy, one drinks it in.

²⁷O Nanak, praise the True Lord; blessed is the Creator, the Embellisher. ||2||

²⁸Pauree:

²⁹Those who are permeated by falsehood, do not love the Truth.

³⁰If someone speaks the Truth, falsehood is burnt away.

³¹The false are satisfied by falsehood, like the crows who eat manure.

³²When the Lord grants His Grace, then one meditates on the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

³³As Gurmukh, worship the Lord's Name in adoration; fraud and sin shall disappear. ||10||

³⁴Salok, Third Mehl:

³⁵O Shaykh, you wander in the four directions, blown by the four winds; bring your mind back to the home of the One Lord.

³⁶Renounce your petty arguments, and realize the Word of the Guru's Shabad.

³⁷Bow in humble respect before the True Guru; He is the Knower who knows everything.

³⁸Burn away your hopes and desires, and live like a guest in this world.

³⁹If you walk in harmony with the True Guru's Will, then you shall be honored in the Court of the Lord.

⁴⁰O Nanak, those who do not contemplate the Naam, the Name of the Lord - cursed are their clothes, and cursed is their food. ||1||

⁴¹Third Mehl:

⁴²There is no end to the Lord's Glorious Praises; His worth cannot be described.

⁴³O Nanak, the Gurmukhs chant the Glorious Praises of the Lord; they are absorbed in His Glorious Virtues. ||2||

⁴⁴Pauree:

⁴⁵The Lord has adorned the coat of the body; He has embroidered it with devotional worship.

⁴⁶The Lord has woven His silk into it, in so many ways and fashions.

⁴⁷How rare is that man of understanding, who understands, and deliberates within.

⁴⁸He alone understands these deliberations, whom the Lord Himself inspires to understand.

⁴⁹Poor servant Nanak speaks: the Gurmukhs know the Lord, the Lord is True. ||11||

¹Salok, Third Mehl:

²Great men speak the teachings by relating them to individual situations, but the whole world shares in them.

³One who becomes Gurmukh knows the Fear of God, and realizes his own self.

⁴If, by Guru's Grace, one remains dead while yet alive, the mind becomes content in itself.

⁵Those who have no faith in their own minds, O Nanak - how can they speak of spiritual wisdom? ||1||

⁶Third Mehl:

⁷Those who do not focus their consciousness on the Lord, as Gurmukh, suffer pain and grief in the end.

⁸They are blind, inwardly and outwardly, and they do not understand anything.

⁹O Pandit, O religious scholar, the whole world is fed for the sake of those who are attuned to the Lord's Name.

¹⁰Those who praise the Word of the Guru's Shabad, remain blended with the Lord.

¹¹O Pandit, O religious scholar, no one is satisfied, and no one finds true wealth through the love of duality.

¹²They have grown weary of reading scriptures, but still, they do not find contentment, and they pass their lives burning, night and day.

¹³Their cries and complaints never end, and doubt does not depart from within them.

¹⁴O Nanak, without the Naam, the Name of the Lord, they rise up and depart with blackened faces. ||2||

¹⁵Pauree:

¹⁶O Beloved, lead me to meet my True Friend; meeting with Him, I shall ask Him to show me the Path.

¹⁷I am a sacrifice to that Friend, who shows it to me.

¹⁸I share His Virtues with Him, and meditate on the Lord's Name.

¹⁹I serve my Beloved Lord forever; serving the Lord, I have found peace.

²⁰I am a sacrifice to the True Guru, who has imparted this understanding to me. ||12||

²¹Salok, Third Mehl:

²²O Pandit, O religious scholar, your filth shall not be erased, even if you read the Vedas for four ages.

²³The three qualities are the roots of Maya; in egotism, one forgets the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

²⁴The Pandits are deluded, attached to duality, and they deal only in Maya.

²⁵They are filled with thirst and hunger; the ignorant fools starve to death.

²⁶Serving the True Guru, peace is obtained, contemplating the True Word of the Shabad.

²⁷Hunger and thirst have departed from within me; I am in love with the True Name.

²⁸O Nanak, those who are imbued with the Naam, who keep the Lord clasped tightly to their hearts, are automatically satisfied. ||1||

²⁹Third Mehl:

³⁰The self-willed manmukh does not serve the Lord's Name, and so he suffers in horrible pain.

³¹He is filled with the darkness of ignorance, and he does not understand anything.

³²Because of his stubborn mind, he does not plant the seeds of intuitive peace; what will he eat in the world hereafter, to satisfy his hunger?

³³He has forgotten the treasure of the Naam; he is caught in the love of duality.

³⁴O Nanak, the Gurmukhs are honored with glory, when the Lord Himself unites them in His Union. ||2||

³⁵Pauree:

³⁶The tongue which sings the Lord's Praises, is so very beautiful.

³⁷One who speaks the Lord's Name, with mind, body and mouth, is pleasing to the Lord.

³⁸That Gurmukh tastes the the sublime taste of the Lord, and is satisfied.

³⁹She sings continually the Glorious Praises of her Beloved; singing His Glorious Praises, she is uplifted.

⁴⁰She is blessed with the Lord's Mercy, and she chants the Words of the Guru, the True Guru. ||13||

⁴¹Salok, Third Mehl:

⁴²The elephant offers its head to the reins, and the anvil offers itself to the hammer;

⁴³just so, we offer our minds and bodies to our Guru; we stand before Him, and serve Him.

¹This is how the Gurmukhs eliminate their self-conceit, and come to rule the whole world.

²O Nanak, the Gurmukh understands, when the Lord casts His Glance of Grace. ||1||

³Third Mehl:

⁴Blessed and approved is the coming into the world, of those Gurmukhs who meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

⁵O Nanak, they save their families, and they are honored in the Court of the Lord. ||2||

⁶Pauree:

⁷The Guru unites His Sikhs, the Gurmukhs, with the Lord.

⁸The Guru keeps some of them with Himself, and engages others in His Service.

⁹Those who cherish their Beloved in their conscious minds, the Guru blesses them with His Love.

¹⁰The Guru loves all of His Gursikhs equally well, like friends, children and siblings.

¹¹So chant the Name of the Guru, the True Guru, everyone! Chanting the Name of the Guru, Guru, you shall be rejuvenated. ||14||

¹²Salok, Third Mehl:

¹³O Nanak, the blind, ignorant fools do not remember the Naam, the Name of the Lord; they involve themselves in other activities.

¹⁴They are bound and gagged at the door of the Messenger of Death; they are punished, and in the end, they rot away in manure. ||1||

¹⁵Third Mehl:

¹⁶O Nanak, those humble beings are true and approved, who serve their True Guru.

¹⁷They remain absorbed in the Name of the Lord, and their comings and goings cease. ||2||

¹⁸Pauree:

¹⁹Gathering the wealth and property of Maya, brings only pain in the end.

²⁰Homes, mansions and adorned palaces will not go with anyone.

²¹He may breed horses of various colors, but these will not be of any use to him.

²²O human, link your consciousness to the Lord's Name, and in the end, it shall be your companion and helper.

²³Servant Nanak meditates on the Naam, the Name of the Lord; the Gurmukh is blessed with peace. ||15||

²⁴Salok, Third Mehl:

²⁵Without the karma of good actions, the Name is not obtained; it can be obtained only by perfect good karma.

²⁶O Nanak, if the Lord casts His Glance of Grace, then under Guru's Instruction, one is united in His Union. ||1||

²⁷First Mehl:

²⁸Some are cremated, and some are buried; some are eaten by dogs.

²⁹Some are thrown into water, while others are thrown into wells.

³⁰O Nanak, it is not known, where they go and into what they merge. ||2||

³¹Pauree:

³²The food and clothes, and all the worldly possessions of those who are attuned to the Lord's Name are sacred.

³³All the homes, temples, palaces and way-stations are sacred, where the Gurmukhs, the selfless servants, the Sikhs and the renouncers of the world, go and take their rest.

³⁴All the horses, saddles and horse blankets are sacred, upon which the Gurmukhs, the Sikhs, the Holy and the Saints, mount and ride.

³⁵All the rituals and Dharmic practices and deeds are sacred, for those who utter the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, the True Name of the Lord.

³⁶Those Gurmukhs, those Sikhs, who have purity as their treasure, go to their Guru. ||16||

³⁷Salok, Third Mehl:

³⁸O Nanak, forsaking the Name, he loses everything, in this world and the next.

³⁹Chanting, deep meditation and austere self-disciplined practices are all wasted; he is deceived by the love of duality.

⁴⁰He is bound and gagged at the door of the Messenger of Death. He is beaten, and receives terrible punishment. ||1||

¹Third Mehl:

²They inflict their hatred upon the Saints, and they love the wicked sinners.

³They find no peace in either this world or the next; they are born only to die, again and again.

⁴Their hunger is never satisfied, and they are ruined by duality.

⁵The faces of these slanderers are blackened in the Court of the True Lord.

⁶O Nanak, without the Naam, they find no shelter on either this shore, or the one beyond. ||2||

⁷Pauree:

⁸Those who meditate on the Lord's Name, are imbued with the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, in their minds.

⁹For those who worship the One Lord in their conscious minds, there is no other than the One Lord.

¹⁰They alone serve the Lord, upon whose foreheads such pre-ordained destiny is written.

¹¹They continually sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord, and singing the Glories of the Glorious Lord, they are uplifted.

¹²Great is the greatness of the Gurmukhs, who, through the Perfect Guru, remain absorbed in the Lord's Name. ||17||

¹³Salok, Third Mehl:

¹⁴It is very difficult to serve the True Guru; offer your head, and eradicate self-conceit.

¹⁵One who dies in the Word of the Shabad shall never have to die again; his service is totally approved.

¹⁶Touching the philosopher's stone, one becomes the philosopher's stone, which transforms lead into gold; remain lovingly attached to the True Lord.

¹⁷One who has such pre-ordained destiny, comes to meet the True Guru and God.

¹⁸O Nanak, the Lord's servant does not meet Him because of his own account; he alone is acceptable, whom the Lord forgives. ||1||

¹⁹Third Mehl:

²⁰The fools do not know the difference between good and bad; they are deceived by their self-interests.

²¹But if they contemplate the Word of the Shabad, they obtain the Mansion of the Lord's Presence, and their light merges in the Light.

²²The Fear of God is always on their minds, and so they come to understand everything.

²³The True Guru is pervading the homes within; He Himself blends them with the Lord.

²⁴O Nanak, they meet the True Guru, and all their desires are fulfilled, if the Lord grants His Grace and so wills. ||2||

²⁵Pauree:

²⁶Blessed, blessed is the good fortune of those devotees, who, with their mouths, utter the Name of the Lord.

²⁷Blessed, blessed is the good fortune of those Saints, who, with their ears, listen to the Lord's Praises.

²⁸Blessed, blessed is the good fortune of those holy people, who sing the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises, and so become virtuous.

²⁹Blessed, blessed is the good fortune of those Gurmukhs, who live as Gursikhs, and conquer their minds.

³⁰But the greatest good fortune of all, is that of the Guru's Sikhs, who fall at the Guru's feet. ||18||

³¹Salok, Third Mehl:

³²One who knows God, and who lovingly focuses his attention on the One Word of the Shabad, keeps his spirituality intact.

³³The nine treasures and the eighteen spiritual powers of the Siddhas follow him, who keeps the Lord enshrined in his heart.

³⁴Without the True Guru, the Name is not found; understand this, and reflect upon it.

³⁵O Nanak, through perfect good destiny, one meets the True Guru, and finds peace, throughout the four ages. ||1||

³⁶Third Mehl:

³⁷Whether he is young or old, the self-willed manmukh cannot escape hunger and thirst.

³⁸The Gurmukhs are imbued with the Word of the Shabad; they are at peace, having lost their self-conceit.

³⁹They are satisfied and satiated within; they never feel hungry again.

¹O Nanak, whatever the Gurmukhs do is acceptable; they remain lovingly absorbed in the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||2||

²Pauree:

³I am a sacrifice to those Sikhs who are Gurmukhs.

⁴I behold the Blessed Vision, the Darshan of those who meditate on the Lord's Name.

⁵Listening to the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises, I contemplate His virtues; I write His Praises on the fabric of my mind.

⁶I praise the Lord's Name with love, and eradicate all my sins.

⁷Blessed, blessed and beauteous is that body and place, where my Guru places His feet. ||19||

⁸Salok, Third Mehl:

⁹Without the Guru, spiritual wisdom is not obtained, and peace does not come to abide in the mind.

¹⁰O Nanak, without the Naam, the Name of the Lord, the self-willed manmukhs depart, after having wasted their lives. ||1||

¹¹Third Mehl:

¹²All the Siddhas, spiritual masters and seekers search for the Name; they have grown weary of concentrating and focusing their attention.

¹³Without the True Guru, no one finds the Name; the Gurmukhs unite in Union with the Lord.

¹⁴Without the Name, all food and clothes are worthless; cursed is such spirituality, and cursed are such miraculous powers.

¹⁵That alone is spirituality, and that alone is miraculous power, which the Carefree Lord spontaneously bestows.

¹⁶O Nanak, the Lord's Name abides in the mind of the Gurmukh; this is spirituality, and this is miraculous power. ||2||

¹⁷Pauree:

¹⁸I am a minstrel of God, my Lord and Master; every day, I sing the songs of the Lord's Glorious Praises.

¹⁹I sing the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises, and I listen to the Praises of the Lord, the Master of wealth and Maya.

²⁰The Lord is the Great Giver; all the world is begging; all beings and creatures are beggars.

²¹O Lord, You are kind and compassionate; You give Your gifts to even worms and insects among the rocks.

²²Servant Nanak meditates on the Naam, the Name of the Lord; as Gurmukh, he has become truly wealthy. ||20||

²³Salok, Third Mehl:

²⁴Reading and studying are just worldly pursuits, if there is thirst and corruption within.

²⁵Reading in egotism, all have grown weary; through the love of duality, they are ruined.

²⁶He alone is educated, and he alone is a wise Pandit, who contemplates the Word of the Guru's Shabad.

²⁷He searches within himself, and finds the true essence; he finds the Door of Salvation.

²⁸He finds the Lord, the treasure of excellence, and peacefully contemplates Him.

²⁹Blessed is the trader, O Nanak, who, as Gurmukh, takes the Name as his only Support. ||1||

³⁰Third Mehl:

³¹Without conquering his mind, no one can be successful. See this, and concentrate on it.

³²The wandering holy men are tired of of making pilgrimages to sacred shrines; they have not been able to conquer their minds.

³³The Gurmukh has conquered his mind, and he remains lovingly absorbed in the True Lord.

³⁴O Nanak, this is how the filth of the mind is removed; the Word of the Shabad burns away the ego. ||2||

³⁵Pauree:

³⁶O Saints of the Lord, O my Siblings of Destiny, please meet with me, and implant the Name of the One Lord within me.

³⁷O humble servants of the Lord, adorn me with the decorations of the Lord, Har, Har; let me wear the robes of the Lord's forgiveness.

³⁸Such decorations are pleasing to my God; such love is dear to the Lord.

³⁹I chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, day and night; in an instant, all sins are eradicated.

⁴⁰That Gurmukh, unto whom the Lord becomes merciful, chants the Lord's Name, and wins the game of life. ||21||

¹Salok, Third Mehl:

²The filth of countless incarnations sticks to this mind; it has become pitch black.

³The oily rag cannot be cleaned by merely washing it, even if it is washed a hundred times.

⁴By Guru's Grace, one remains dead while yet alive; his intellect is transformed, and he becomes detached from the world.

⁵O Nanak, no filth sticks to him, and he does not fall into the womb again. ||1||

⁶Third Mehl:

⁷Kali Yuga is called the Dark Age, but the most sublime state is attained in this age.

⁸The Gurmukh obtains the fruit, the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises; this is his destiny, ordained by the Lord.

⁹O Nanak, by Guru's Grace, he worships the Lord night and day; he chants the Lord's Name, and remains absorbed in the Lord's devotional worship. ||2||

¹⁰Pauree:

¹¹O Lord, unite me with the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, so that with my mouth, I may speak the sublime Word of the Guru's Bani.

¹²I sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord, and constantly chant the Lord's Name; through the Guru's Teachings, I enjoy the Lord's Love constantly.

¹³I take the medicine of meditation on the Lord's Name, which has cured all diseases and multitudes of sufferings.

¹⁴Those who do not forget the Lord, while breathing or eating - know them to be the perfect servants of the Lord.

¹⁵Those Gurmukhs who worship the Lord in adoration end their subservience to the Messenger of Death, and to the world. ||22||

¹⁶Salok, Third Mehl:

¹⁷O man, you have been tormented by a nightmare, and you have passed your life in sleep.

¹⁸You did not wake to hear the Word of the True Guru's Shabad; you have no inspiration within yourself.

¹⁹That body burns, which has no virtue, and which does not serve the Guru.

²⁰I have seen that the world is burning, in egotism and the love of duality.

²¹O Nanak, those who seek the Guru's Sanctuary are saved; within their minds, they meditate on the True Word of the Shabad. ||1||

²²Third Mehl:

²³Attuned to the Word of the Shabad, the soul-bride is rid of egotism, and she is glorified.

²⁴If she walks steadily in the way of His Will, then she is adorned with decorations.

²⁵Her couch becomes beautiful, and she constantly enjoys her Husband Lord; she obtains the Lord as her Husband.

²⁶The Lord does not die, and she never suffers pain; she is a happy soul-bride forever.

²⁷O Nanak, the Lord God unites her with Himself; she enshrines love and affection for the Guru. ||2||

²⁸Pauree:

²⁹Those who conceal and deny their Guru, are the most evil people.

³⁰O Dear Lord, let me not even see them; they are the worst sinners and murderers.

³¹They wander from house to house, with impure minds, like wicked, forsaken women.

³²But by great good fortune, they may meet the Company of the Holy; as Gurmukhs, they are reformed.

³³O Lord, please be kind and let me meet the True Guru; I am a sacrifice to the Guru. ||23||

³⁴Salok, Third Mehl:

³⁵Serving the Guru, peace is produced, and then, one does not suffer in pain.

³⁶The cycle of birth and death is brought to an end, and death has no power over at all.

³⁷His mind is imbued with the Lord, and he remains merged in the True Lord.

³⁸O Nanak, I am a sacrifice to those who walk in the Way of the True Guru's Will. ||1||

³⁹Third Mehl:

⁴⁰Without the Word of the Shabad, purity is not obtained, even though the soul-bride may adorn herself with all sorts of decorations.

¹She does not know the value of her Husband Lord; she is attached to the love of duality.

²She is impure, and ill-mannered, O Nanak; among women, she is the most evil woman. ||2||

³Pauree:

⁴Be kind to me, Lord, that I might chant the Word of Your Bani.

⁵May I meditate on the Lord's Name, chant the Lord's Name, and obtain the profit of the Lord's Name.

⁶I am a sacrifice to those who chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, day and night.

⁷May I behold with my eyes those who worship and adore my Beloved True Guru.

⁸I am a sacrifice to my Guru, who has united me with my Lord, my friend, my very best friend. ||24||

⁹Salok, Fourth Mehl:

¹⁰The Lord loves His slaves; the Lord is the friend of His slaves.

¹¹The Lord is under the control of His slaves, like the musical instrument under the control of the musician.

¹²The Lord's slaves meditate on the Lord; they love their Beloved.

¹³Please, hear me, O God - let Your Grace rain over the whole world.

¹⁴The praise of the Lord's slaves is the Glory of the Lord.

¹⁵The Lord loves His Own Glory, and so His humble servant is celebrated and hailed.

¹⁶That humble servant of the Lord meditates on the Naam, the Name of the Lord; the Lord, and the Lord's humble servant, are one and the same.

¹⁷Servant Nanak is the slave of the Lord; O Lord, O God, please, preserve his honor. ||1||

¹⁸Fourth Mehl:

¹⁹Nanak loves the True Lord; without Him, he cannot even survive.

²⁰Meeting the True Guru, one finds the Perfect Lord, and the tongue enjoys the sublime essence of the Lord. ||2||

²¹Pauree:

²²Night and day, morning and night, I sing to You, Lord.

²³All beings and creatures meditate on Your Name.

²⁴You are the Giver, the Great Giver; we eat whatever You give us.

²⁵In the congregation of the devotees, sins are eradicated.

²⁶Servant Nanak is forever a sacrifice, a sacrifice, a sacrifice, O Lord. ||25||

²⁷Salok, Fourth Mehl:

²⁸He has spiritual ignorance within, and his intellect is dull and dim; he does not place his faith in the True Guru.

²⁹He has deceit within himself, and so he sees deception in all others; through his deceptions, he is totally ruined.

³⁰The True Guru's Will does not enter into his consciousness, and so he wanders around, pursuing his own interests.

³¹If He grants His Grace, then Nanak is absorbed into the Word of the Shabad. ||1||

³²Fourth Mehl:

³³The self-willed manmukhs are engrossed in emotional attachment to Maya; in the love of duality, their minds are unsteady.

³⁴Night and day, they are burning; day and night, they are totally ruined by their egotism.

³⁵Within them, is the total pitch darkness of greed, and no one even approaches them.

³⁶They themselves are miserable, and they never find peace; they are born, only to die, and die again.

³⁷O Nanak, the True Lord God forgives those, who focus their consciousness on the Guru's feet. ||2||

³⁸Pauree:

³⁹That Saint, that devotee, is acceptable, who is loved by God.

⁴⁰Those beings are wise, who meditate on the Lord.

⁴¹They eat the food, the treasure of the Ambrosial Naam, the Name of the Lord.

⁴²They apply the dust of the feet of the Saints to their foreheads.

¹O Nanak, they are purified, bathing in the sacred shrine of the Lord. ||26||

²Salok, Fourth Mehl:

³Within the Gurmukh is peace and tranquility; his mind and body are absorbed in the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

⁴He contemplates the Naam, he studies the Naam, and he remains lovingly absorbed in the Naam.

⁵He obtains the treasure of the Naam, and his anxiety is dispelled.

⁶Meeting with the Guru, the Naam wells up, and his thirst and hunger are completely relieved.

⁷O Nanak, imbued with the Naam, he gathers in the Naam. ||1||

⁸Fourth Mehl:

⁹One who is cursed by the True Guru, abandons his home, and wanders around aimlessly.

¹⁰He is jeered at, and his face is blackened in the world hereafter.

¹¹He babbles incoherently, and foaming at the mouth, he dies.

¹²What can anyone do? Such is his destiny, according to his past deeds.

¹³Wherever he goes, he is a liar, and by telling lies, he not liked by anyone.

¹⁴O Siblings of Destiny, behold this, the glorious greatness of our Lord and Master, O Saints; as one behaves, so does he receive.

¹⁵This shall be God's determination in His True Court; servant Nanak predicts and proclaims this. ||2||

¹⁶Pauree:

¹⁷The True Guru has established the village; the Guru has appointed its guards and protectors.

¹⁸My hopes are fulfilled, and my mind is imbued with the love of the Guru's Feet.

¹⁹The Guru is infinitely merciful; He has erased all my sins.

²⁰The Guru has showered me with His Mercy, and He has made me His own.

²¹Nanak is forever a sacrifice to the Guru, who has countless virtues. ||27||

²²Salok, First Mehl:

²³By His Command, we receive our pre-ordained rewards; so what can we do now, O Pandit?

²⁴When His Command is received, then it is decided; all beings move and act accordingly. ||1||

²⁵Second Mehl:

²⁶The string through the nose is in the hands of the Lord Master; one's own actions drive him on.

²⁷Wherever his food is, there he eats it; O Nanak, this is the Truth. ||2||

²⁸Pauree:

²⁹The Lord Himself puts everything in its proper place.

³⁰He Himself created the creation, and He Himself destroys it.

³¹He Himself fashions His creatures, and He Himself nourishes them.

³²He hugs His slaves close in His embrace, and blesses them with His Glance of Grace.

³³O Nanak, His devotees are forever in bliss; they have burnt away the love of duality. ||28||

³⁴Salok, Third Mehl:

³⁵O mind, meditate on the Dear Lord, with single-minded conscious concentration.

³⁶The glorious greatness of the Lord shall last forever and ever; He never regrets what He gives.

³⁷I am forever a sacrifice to the Lord; serving Him, peace is obtained.

³⁸O Nanak, the Gurmukh remains merged with the Lord; he burns away his ego through the Word of the Shabad. ||1||

³⁹Third Mehl:

⁴⁰He Himself enjoins us to serve Him, and He Himself blesses us with forgiveness.

⁴¹He Himself is the father and mother of all; He Himself cares for us.

⁴²O Nanak, those who meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord, abide in the home of their inner being; they are honored throughout the ages. ||2||

⁴³Pauree:

⁴⁴You are the Creator, all-powerful, able to do anything. Without You, there is no other at all.

¹You Yourself created the world, and You Yourself shall destroy it in the end.

²The Word of Your Shabad alone is pervading everywhere; whatever You do, comes to pass.

³God blesses the Gurmukh with glorious greatness, and then, he finds the Lord.

⁴As Gurmukh, Nanak worships and adores the Lord; let everyone proclaim, "Blessed, blessed, blessed is He, the Guru!" ||29||1||Sudh||

⁵Raag Sorat'h, The Word Of Devotee Kabeer Jee, First House:

⁶One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

⁷Worshipping their idols, the Hindus die; the Muslims die bowing their heads.

⁸The Hindus cremate their dead, while the Muslims bury theirs; neither finds Your true state, Lord. ||1||

⁹O mind, the world is a deep, dark pit.

¹⁰On all four sides, Death has spread his net. ||1||Pause||

¹¹Reciting their poems, the poets die; the mystical ascetics die while journeying to Kaydaar Naat'h.

¹²The Yogis die, with their matted hair, but even they do not find Your state, Lord. ||2||

¹³The kings die, gathering and hoarding their money, burying great quantities of gold.

¹⁴The Pandits die, reading and reciting the Vedas; women die, gazing at their own beauty. ||3||

¹⁵Without the Lord's Name, all come to ruin; behold, and know this, O body.

¹⁶Without the Name of the Lord, who can find salvation? Kabeer speaks the Teachings. ||4||1||

¹⁷When the body is burnt, it turns to ashes; if it is not cremated, then it is eaten by armies of worms.

¹⁸The unbaked clay pitcher dissolves, when water is poured into it; this is also the nature of the body. ||1||

¹⁹Why, O Siblings of Destiny, do you strut around, all puffed up with pride?

²⁰Have you forgotten those days, when you were hanging, face down, for ten months? ||1||Pause||

²¹Like the bee which collects honey, the fool eagerly gathers and collects wealth.

²²At the time of death, they shout, "Take him away, take him away! Why leave a ghost lying around?" ||2||

²³His wife accompanies him to the threshold, and his friends and companions beyond.

²⁴All the people and relatives go as far as the cremation grounds, and then, the soul-swan goes on alone. ||3||

²⁵Says Kabeer, listen, O mortal being: you have been seized by Death, and you have fallen into the deep, dark pit.

²⁶You have entangled yourself in the false wealth of Maya, like the parrot caught in the trap. ||4||2||

²⁷Listening to all the teachings of the Vedas and the Puraanas, I wanted to perform the religious rituals.

²⁸But seeing all the wise men caught by Death, I arose and left the Pandits; now I am free of this desire. ||1||

²⁹O mind, you have not completed the only task you were given;

³⁰you have not meditated on the Lord, your King. ||1||Pause||

³¹Going to the forests, they practice Yoga and deep, austere meditation; they live on roots and the fruits they gather.

³²The musicians, the Vedic scholars, the chanters of one word and the men of silence, all are listed on the Register of Death. ||2||

³³Loving devotional worship does not enter into your heart; pampering and adorning your body, you must still give it up.

³⁴You sit and play music, but you are still a hypocrite; what do you expect to receive from the Lord? ||3||

³⁵Death has fallen on the whole world; the doubting religious scholars are also listed on the Register of Death.

¹Says Kabeer, those humble people become pure - they become Khalsa - who know the Lord's loving devotional worship. ||4||3||

²Second House||

³With both of my eyes, I look around;

⁴I don't see anything except the Lord.

⁵My eyes gaze lovingly upon Him,

⁶and now, I cannot speak of anything else. ||1||

⁷My doubts were removed, and my fear ran away,

⁸when my consciousness became attached to the Lord's Name. ||1||Pause||

⁹When the magician beats his tambourine,

¹⁰everyone comes to see the show.

¹¹When the magician winds up his show,

¹²then he enjoys its play all alone. ||2||

¹³By preaching sermons, one's doubt is not dispelled.

¹⁴Everyone is tired of preaching and teaching.

¹⁵The Lord causes the Gurmukh to understand;

¹⁶his heart remains permeated with the Lord. ||3||

¹⁷When the Guru grants even a bit of His Grace,

¹⁸one's body, mind and entire being are absorbed into the Lord.

¹⁹Says Kabeer, I am imbued with the Lord's Love;

²⁰I have met with the Life of the world, the Great Giver. ||4||4||

²¹Let the sacred scriptures be your milk and cream,

²²and the ocean of the mind the churning vat.

²³Be the butter-churner of the Lord,

²⁴and your buttermilk shall not be wasted. ||1||

²⁵O soul-bride slave, why don't you take the Lord as your Husband?

²⁶He is the Life of the world, the Support of the breath of life. ||1||Pause||

²⁷The chain is around your neck, and the cuffs are on your feet.

²⁸The Lord has sent you wandering around from house to house.

²⁹And still, you do not meditate on the Lord, O soul-bride, slave.

³⁰Death is watching you, O wretched woman. ||2||

³¹The Lord God is the Cause of causes.

³²What is in the hands of the poor soul-bride, the slave?

³³She awakens from her slumber,

³⁴and she becomes attached to whatever the Lord attaches her. ||3||

³⁵O soul-bride, slave, where did you obtain that wisdom,

³⁶by which you erased your inscription of doubt?

³⁷Kabeer has tasted that subtle essence;

³⁸by Guru's Grace, his mind is reconciled with the Lord. ||4||5||

³⁹Without Him, we cannot even live;

⁴⁰when we meet Him, then our task is completed.

⁴¹People say it is good to live forever,

⁴²but without dying, there is no life. ||1||

⁴³So now, what sort wisdom should I contemplate and preach?

⁴⁴As I watch, worldly things dissipate. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁵Saffron is ground up, and mixed with sandalwood;

⁴⁶without eyes, the world is seen.

⁴⁷The son has given birth to his father;

⁴⁸without a place, the city has been established. ||2||

⁴⁹The humble beggar has found the Great Giver,

⁵⁰but he is unable to eat what he has been given.

⁵¹He cannot leave it alone, but it is never exhausted.

⁵²He shall not go to beg from others any longer. ||3||

⁵³Those select few, who know how to die while yet alive,

⁵⁴Kabeer has found that wealth;

⁵⁵meeting with the Lord, he has erased his self-conceit. ||4||6||

⁵⁶What use is it to read, and what use is it to study?

⁵⁷What use is it to listen to the Vedas and the Puraanas?

⁵⁸What use is reading and listening,

⁵⁹if celestial peace is not attained? ||1||

⁶⁰The fool does not chant the Name of the Lord.

⁶¹So what does he think of, over and over again? ||1||Pause||

⁶²In the darkness, we need a lamp

¹to find the incomprehensible thing.

²I have found this incomprehensible thing;

³my mind is illuminated and enlightened. ||2||

⁴Says Kabeer, now I know Him;

⁵since I know Him, my mind is pleased and appeased.

⁶My mind is pleased and appeased, and yet, people do not believe it.

⁷They do not believe it, so what can I do? ||3||7||

⁸In his heart there is deception, and yet in his mouth are words of wisdom.

⁹You are false - why are you churning water? ||1||

¹⁰Why do you bother to wash your body?

¹¹Your heart is still full of filth. ||1||Pause||

¹²The gourd may be washed at the sixty-eight sacred shrines,

¹³but even then, its bitterness is not removed. ||2||

¹⁴Says Kabeer after deep contemplation,

¹⁵please help me cross over the terrifying world-ocean, O Lord, O Destroyer of ego. ||3||8||

¹⁶Sorat'h:

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

¹⁸Practicing great hypocrisy, he acquires the wealth of others.

¹⁹Returning home, he squanders it on his wife and children. ||1||

²⁰O my mind, do not practice deception, even inadvertently.

²¹In the end, your own soul shall have to answer for its account. ||1||Pause||

²²Moment by moment, the body is wearing away, and old age is asserting itself.

²³And then, when you are old, no one shall pour water into your cup. ||2||

²⁴Says Kabeer, no one belongs to you.

²⁵Why not chant the Lord's Name in your heart, when you are still young? ||3||9||

²⁶O Saints, my windy mind has now become peaceful and still.

²⁷It seems that I have learned something of the science of Yoga. ||Pause||

²⁸The Guru has shown me the hole,

²⁹through which the deer carefully enters.

³⁰I have now closed off the doors,

³¹and the unstruck celestial sound current resounds. ||1||

³²The pitcher of my heart-lotus is filled with water;

³³I have spilled out the water, and set it upright.

³⁴Says Kabeer, the Lord's humble servant, this I know.

³⁵Now that I know this, my mind is pleased and appeased. ||2||10||

³⁶Raag Sorat'h:

³⁷I am so hungry, I cannot perform devotional worship service.

³⁸Here, Lord, take back Your mala.

³⁹I beg for the dust of the feet of the Saints.

⁴⁰I do not owe anyone anything. ||1||

⁴¹O Lord, how can I be with You?

⁴²If You do not give me Yourself, then I shall beg until I get You. ||Pause||

⁴³I ask for two kilos of flour,

⁴⁴and half a pound of ghee, and salt.

⁴⁵I ask for a pound of beans,

⁴⁶which I shall eat twice a day. ||2||

⁴⁷I ask for a cot, with four legs,

⁴⁸and a pillow and mattress.

⁴⁹I ask for a quilt to cover myself.

⁵⁰Your humble servant shall perform Your devotional worship service with love. ||3||

⁵¹I have no greed;

⁵²Your Name is the only ornament I wish for.

⁵³Says Kabeer, my mind is pleased and appeased;

⁵⁴now that my mind is pleased and appeased, I have come to know the Lord. ||4||11||

⁵⁵Raag Sorat'h, The Word Of Devotee Naam Dayv Jee, Second House:

⁵⁶One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

⁵⁷When I see Him, I sing His Praises.

⁵⁸Then I, his humble servant, become patient. ||1||

¹Meeting the Divine True Guru, I merge into the sound current of the Naad. ||1||Pause||

²Where the dazzling white light is seen,

³there the unstruck sound current of the Shabad resounds.

⁴One's light merges in the Light;

⁵by Guru's Grace, I know this. ||2||

⁶The jewels are in the treasure chamber of the heart-lotus.

⁷They sparkle and glitter like lightning.

⁸The Lord is near at hand, not far away.

⁹He is totally permeating and pervading in my soul. ||3||

¹⁰Where the light of the undying sun shines,

¹¹the light of burning lamps seems insignificant.

¹²By Guru's Grace, I know this.

¹³Servant Naam Dayv is absorbed in the Celestial Lord. ||4||1||

¹⁴Fourth House, Sorat'h:

¹⁵The woman next door asked Naam Dayv, "Who built your house?

¹⁶I shall pay him double wages. Tell me, who is your carpenter?" ||1||

¹⁷O sister, I cannot give this carpenter to you.

¹⁸Behold, my carpenter is pervading everywhere.

¹⁹My carpenter is the Support of the breath of life. ||1||Pause||

²⁰This carpenter demands the wages of love, if someone wants Him to build their house.

²¹When one breaks his ties with all the people and relatives, then the carpenter comes of His own accord. ||2||

²²I cannot describe such a carpenter, who is contained in everything, everywhere.

²³The mute tastes the most sublime ambrosial nectar, but if you ask him to describe it, he cannot. ||3||

²⁴Listen to the virtues of this carpenter, O sister; He stopped the oceans, and established Dhroo as the pole star.

²⁵Naam Dayv's Lord Master brought Sita back, and gave Sri Lanka to Bhabheekhan. ||4||2||

²⁶Sorat'h, Third House:

²⁷The skinless drum plays.

²⁸Without the rainy season, the clouds shake with thunder.

²⁹Without clouds, the rain falls,

³⁰if one contemplates the essence of reality. ||1||

³¹I have met my Beloved Lord.

³²Meeting with Him, my body is made beauteous and sublime. ||1||Pause||

³³Touching the philosopher's stone, I have been transformed into gold.

³⁴I have threaded the jewels into my mouth and mind.

³⁵I love Him as my own, and my doubt has been dispelled.

³⁶Seeking the Guru's guidance, my mind is content. ||2||

³⁷The water is contained within the pitcher;

³⁸I know that the One Lord is contained in all.

³⁹The mind of the disciple has faith in the Guru.

⁴⁰Servant Naam Dayv understands the essence of reality. ||3||3||

⁴¹Raag Sorat'h, The Word Of Devotee Ravi Daas Jee:

⁴²One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

⁴³When I am in my ego, then You are not with me. Now that You are with me, there is no egotism within me.

⁴⁴The wind may raise up huge waves in the vast ocean, but they are just water in water. ||1||

⁴⁵O Lord, what can I say about such an illusion?

⁴⁶Things are not as they seem. ||1||Pause||

⁴⁷It is like the king, who falls asleep upon his throne, and dreams that he is a beggar.

⁴⁸His kingdom is intact, but separated from it, he suffers in sorrow. Such is my own condition. ||2||

¹Like the story of the rope mistaken for a snake, the mystery has now been explained to me.

²Like the many bracelets, which I mistakenly thought were gold; now, I do not say what I said then. ||3||

³The One Lord is pervading the many forms; He enjoys Himself in all hearts.

⁴Says Ravi Daas, the Lord is nearer than our own hands and feet. Whatever will be, will be. ||4||1||

⁵If I am bound by the noose of emotional attachment, then I shall bind You, Lord, with the bonds of love.

⁶Go ahead and try to escape, Lord; I have escaped by worshipping and adoring You. ||1||

⁷O Lord, You know my love for You.

⁸Now, what will You do? ||1||Pause||

⁹A fish is caught, cut up, and cooked it in many different ways.

¹⁰Bit by bit, it is eaten, but still, it does not forget the water. ||2||

¹¹The Lord, our King, is father to no one, except those who love Him.

¹²The veil of emotional attachment has been cast over the entire world, but it does not bother the Lord's devotee. ||3||

¹³Says Ravi Daas, my devotion to the One Lord is increasing; now, who can I tell this to?

¹⁴That which brought me to worship and adore You - I am still suffering that pain. ||4||2||

¹⁵I obtained this precious human life as a reward for my past actions, but without discriminating wisdom, it is wasted in vain.

¹⁶Tell me, without devotional worship of the Lord, of what use are mansions and thrones like those of King Indra? ||1||

¹⁷You have not considered the sublime essence of the Name of the Lord, our King;

¹⁸this sublime essence shall cause you to forget all other essences. ||1||Pause||

¹⁹We do not know what we need to know, and we have become insane. We do not consider what we should consider; our days are passing away.

²⁰Our passions are strong, and our discriminating intellect is weak; we have no access to the supreme objective. ||2||

²¹We say one thing, and do something else; entangled in endless Maya, we do not understand anything.

²²Says Ravi Daas, Your slave, O Lord, I am disillusioned and detached; please, spare me Your anger, and have mercy on my soul. ||3||3||

²³He is the ocean of peace; the miraculous tree of life, the wish-fulfilling jewel, and the Kaamadhayna, the cow which fulfills all desires, all are in His power.

²⁴The four great blessings, the eighteen supernatural spiritual powers of the Siddhas, and the nine treasures, are all in the palm of His hand. ||1||

²⁵You do not chant with your tongue the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, Har.

²⁶Abandon your involvement in all other words. ||1||Pause||

²⁷The various Shaastras, Puranaas, and the Vedas of Brahma, are made up of thirty-four letters.

²⁸After deep contemplation, Vyaas spoke of the supreme objective; there is nothing equal to the Lord's Name. ||2||

²⁹Very fortunate are those who are absorbed in celestial bliss, and released from their entanglements; they are lovingly attached to the Lord.

³⁰Says Ravi Daas, enshrine the Lord's Light within your heart, and your fear of birth and death shall run away from you. ||3||4||

³¹If You are the mountain, Lord, then I am the peacock.

³²If You are the moon, then I am the partridge in love with it. ||1||

³³O Lord, if You will not break with me, then I will not break with You.

³⁴For, if I were to break with You, with whom would I then join? ||1||Pause||

³⁵If You are the lamp, then I am the wick.

³⁶If You are the sacred place of pilgrimage, then I am the pilgrim. ||2||

¹I am joined in true love with You, Lord.

²I am joined with You, and I have broken with all others. ||3||

³Wherever I go, there I serve You.

⁴There is no other Lord Master than You, O Divine Lord. ||4||

⁵Meditating, vibrating upon You, the noose of death is cut away.

⁶To attain devotional worship, Ravi Daas sings to You, Lord. ||5||5||

⁷The body is a wall of water, supported by the pillars of air; the egg and sperm are the mortar.

⁸The framework is made up of bones, flesh and veins; the poor soul-bird dwells within it. ||1||

⁹O mortal, what is mine, and what is yours?

¹⁰The soul is like a bird perched upon a tree. ||1||Pause||

¹¹You lay the foundation and build the walls.

¹²But in the end, three and a half cubits will be your measured space. ||2||

¹³You make your hair beautiful, and wear a stylish turban on your head.

¹⁴But in the end, this body shall be reduced to a pile of ashes. ||3||

¹⁵Your palaces are lofty, and your brides are beautiful.

¹⁶But without the Lord's Name, you shall lose the game entirely. ||4||

¹⁷My social status is low, my ancestry is low, and my life is wretched.

¹⁸I have come to Your Sanctuary, O Luminous Lord, my King; so says Ravi Daas, the shoemaker. ||5||6||

¹⁹I am a shoemaker, but I do not know how to mend shoes.

²⁰People come to me to mend their shoes. ||1||Pause||

²¹I have no awl to stitch them;

²²I have no knife to patch them. ||1||

²³Mending, mending, people waste their lives and ruin themselves.

²⁴Without wasting my time mending, I have found the Lord. ||2||

²⁵Ravi Daas chants the Lord's Name;

²⁶he is not concerned with the Messenger of Death. ||3||7||

²⁷Raag Sorat'h, The Word Of Devotee Bheekhan Jee:

²⁸One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

²⁹Tears well up in my eyes, my body has become weak, and my hair has become milky-white.

³⁰My throat is tight, and I cannot utter even one word; what can I do now? I am a mere mortal. ||1||

³¹O Lord, my King, Gardener of the world-garden, be my Physician,

³²and save me, Your Saint. ||1||Pause||

³³My head aches, my body is burning, and my heart is filled with anguish.

³⁴Such is the disease that has struck me; there is no medicine to cure it. ||2||

³⁵The Name of the Lord, the ambrosial, immaculate water, is the best medicine in the world.

³⁶By Guru's Grace, says servant Bheekhan, I have found the Door of Salvation. ||3||1||

³⁷Such is the Naam, the Name of the Lord, the invaluable jewel, the most sublime wealth, which I have found through good deeds.

³⁸By various efforts, I have enshrined it within my heart; this jewel cannot be hidden by hiding it. ||1||

³⁹The Glorious Praises of the Lord cannot be spoken by speaking.

⁴⁰They are like the sweet candies given to a mute. ||1||Pause||

⁴¹The tongue speaks, the ears listen, and the mind contemplates the Lord; they find peace and comfort.

⁴²Says Bheekhan, my eyes are content; wherever I look, there I see the Lord. ||2||2||