(6). The cause of causes is the creator. In his hand are the order and reflection. As he looks upon, so it becomes.
He himself, himself is the Lord.
Whatever is made, (that is made) according to his own pleasure.
He is far from all and with all.
He comprehends, sees and makes discrimination.
He himself is One and he himself is many.
He does not die nor perish, he neither comes nor goes.
Nanak (says): he is always contained (in all).
RAG GATJRI, MAH. V., SUKHMANI XIII.
(7). He himself instructs, he himself understands. He himself is intimately connected with every one. By himself his own expansion is made. Everything is his, he is its producer. * Say, is anything done separate from him?
In every place that one alone is.
His own works he himself is doing.
He makes innumerable amusements and sports.
He himself is in his mind (and) his mind is in himself.1 Nanak (says): no estimate of him can be told.
(8). True, true, true is the Lord.
By the favour of the Guru he is described by some (rare) one.
True, true, true (is he, by whom) all is made.
Among crores some rare one knows him.
Splendid, splendid, splendid is thy form, Excessively beautiful, boundless and incomparable.
Pure, pure, pure is thy voice.
In everybody it is heard with the ears and praised.
Pure, pure, pure and clean Is (thy) name; he mutters it, who loves it in his heart, (says) Nanak.
Slok Who falls on the asylum of the saints, that man will be saved.
By slandering the saints (one) will be regenerated again and again, 0 TTanak!
Astpadt.
(1). By afflicting the saints (one's) lifetime is diminished. By afflicting the saints he does not escape from Yama. By afflicting the saints all happiness goes.
By afflicting the saints he falls into hell.
By afflicting the saints his mind becomes defiled.
By afflicting the saints he becomes denuded of lustre.
Who strikes z the saints, him no one protects.
By afflicting the saints he is degraded from his post.
If the compassionate saints bestow mercy (on him): The slanderer also crosses in the society of the saints, (says) Nanak.
(2). By afflicting the saints he becomes restless. By afflicting the saints he chatters like a crow.
By afflicting the saints he falls into the womb of snakes.
By afflicting the saints (he falls into) the womb of creeping animals.
By afflicting the saints he burns in thirst.
By reason of afflicting the saints every one deceives him.
1 The sense is: the Supreme Being is in and to itself subject and object at the same time.
2 The MSS. at my disposal all read: *T3" 5^ XJ% °F%> is struck by the saints; but this is quite against the context. It should be read: 1$$ (spffT) instead of RAG GAFRI, MAH. Y., SUKHMANI XIII.
By afflicting the saints all Lis dignity goes.
Ey afflicting the saints he (becomes) the lowest of all.
Who is injuring the saints (finds) no place (of rest).
Nanak (says): if it please the saints, he also will obtain salvation.
(3). The slanderer of the saints is a very mischievous person.1 The slanderer of the saints does not find a moment's rest. The slanderer of the saints is a great murderer.
The slanderer of the saints is killed by the Lord.
The slanderer of the saints remains void of satiety.
The slanderer of the saints is afflicted and indigent.
The slanderer of the saints (is oppressed by) all diseases.
The slanderer of the saints is always separated (from the Supreme).
The slander of the saints is the greatest crime.
Nanak (says): if it pleases the saints, he also will obtain emancipation.
(4). "Who is injuring the saints is always impure. "Who is injuring the saints is nobody's friend. Who is injuring the saints incurs punishment. "Who is injuring the saints, him everybody forsakes. Who is injuring the saints is very selfish.
Who is injuring the saints is always subject to change.2 Who is injuring the saints is regenerated and dies. By afflicting the saints he turns away from (eternal) happiness. Who is injuring the saints gets no place (of rest).
Nanak (says): if it pleases the saints, they unite (him with the Supreme).
(5). Who is injuring the saints is broken off in the midst of life. Who is injuring the saints does not come up to any work.
Who is injuring the saints is caused to wander about in the desert.
Who is injuring the saints is thrown into the wilderness.
Who is injuring the saints is inside hollow (empty), Like the corpse of a dead man without breath.
Who is injuring the saints has no root whatever.
Having* sown himself he himself eats it.
Who is injuring the saints has no other protector.
Xanak (says): if it pleases the saints, they save him.
(6). Who is injuring the saints is so in agony, As a fish without water flutters about.
Who is injuring the saints is hungry and not satiated, As fire is not satiated with fuel.
Who is injuring the saints is left alone, As a seedless sesam-stalk is (left) distressed in the field.
Who is injuring the saints is devoid of virtue.
Who is injuring the saints is always talking falsehood.
The deed of the slanderer is falling on himself.
Nanak (says): what pleases to that one ( = Hari), that is done.
1 *H33TT^ (Sansk. ^inn ifi|*^), literally: wearing1 a drawn bow, i.e. prone to desperate deeds.
2 f^W l<Tl refers here especially to the changes in transmigration.
BAG GAURI, MAH. V., SUKHMANI XIV.
(7). Who is injuring the saints, his constitution becomes impaired. Who is injuring the saints is punished at the threshold (of Hari). Who is injuring the saints is always paused to pant.
Who is injuring the saints neither dies nor is vivified.
The hope of him, who is injuring the saints, is not fulfilled.
Who is injuring the saints rises and departs hopeless.
By injury to the saints no one is satisfied.
As He pleases, such a one he becomes.
The destiny,1 that has fallen on one, no one effaces.
JNanak (says): that True one knows it.
(8). All creatures are his, he is the creator. To him worship be always (paid)!
Praise the Lord day and night!
Meditate on him at every breath and morsel!
All is his work.
As he makes one, such he becomes. His own sport he himself is executing. Who else makes reflection?
On whom he bestows mercy, to him he gives his own name. Those are very fortunate men, (says) Nanak.
XIV.
Slok.
Give up cunning, 0 friends, remember Hari, Hari the King!
Put in your heart your hope only on Hari! pain, error and fear go, (says) Nauak.
Astpadi.
(1). Know, all reliance on man is in vain! The Lord alone is able to give, Ey whose gift thou remainest satiated.
Thirst will not again befall (thee).
He alone kills and preserves.
Nothing is in the hands of man.
By comprehending his order thou obtainest happiness.
Stringing His name (like pearls) keep (it) in thy breast!
Eemembering, remembering, remembering that Lord, No harm whatever will befall (thee), (says) Mnak.
(2). Praise in thy heart the Formless one! 0 my mind, do (this) true business! With a pure tongue drink nectar!
Thou wilt always render thy life happy.
Behold with thy eyes the beauty of the Lord!
In the society of the pious all fear 2 passes away.
Go with thy feet on the road of Govind!
(Thy) sins are effaced, (if) Hari be muttered only a little.
1 fidd * destiny, as the consequence of former works.
RAG GAURI, MAH. V., SUKHMANI XIV.
Do the work of Hari, (hear) with thy ears the story ahout Hari! At the threshold of Hari thy head (will be) bright, (says) Kanak.
(3). Those people are very fortunate in the world, Who continually sing the excellences of Hari. "Who reflect on the name of Earn: Those are wealthy and rich in the world.
Who with heart, body and mouth utter Hari, the most excellent: Know, those are continually happy.
Who knows the One, the One, the One: He has a perfect knowledge of this and that world.
Whose heart is won over to the name: He knows him, in whom there is no darkness.
(4). Who by the favour of the Guru comprehends his own self: Know, his thirst is quenched.
Who are uttering the praise of Hari in the society of the pious: Those people of Hari are free from all sickness.
Who day by day is extolling the praise (of Hari) only: He, though having a family, is free from worldly concerns.
Who puts his hope on the One: From him the noose of Yama is cut off.
Who in his heart is hungry after the Supreme Brahm: Him no pain befalls, (says) Nanak.
(5). Into whose heart and thought Hari comes: That saint is happy and does not shake.1 On whom the Lord bestows his own mercy: Say, of whom should that worshipper be afraid?
As it was, so it appeared (to him): In his own work he himself is contained.
Searching and searching he (the disciple) has become successful.
By the favour of the Guru the whole truth was comprehended.
When I behold, everything is the root ( = the Supreme).
He is minute and he is large, (says) Nanak.
(6). He (the Supreme) is not born at all nor does he die. He himself performs his own works.
He is coming and going, visible and invisible. The whole creation is kept in obedience (by him). He himself is in all.
He, using many contrivances, establishes and disestablishes.
He is imperishable without any intermission.
He continually upholds the earth and the universe.
Inapprehensible and impenetable is the majesty (of) the Supreme Spirit.
(If) he himself causes (his name) to be muttered, then muttering (of it is made), (says) Nanak.
(7). By whom the Lord is known, they are lustrous. All the world is saved by their advice.
The worshippers of the Lord are saving all.
The worshippers of the Lord are causing pain to be forgotten.
1 335T%= 3^5 > on account of the rhyme (*>fT%).
RAG GrAURI, MAH. V., SUKHMANI XV.
The merciful one himself unites (them with himself), Muttering the word of the Guru they become happy. To their service he applies himself, On whom, as endowed with a great fot, he bestows mercy.
Muttering the name he obtains tranquillity.
Nanak (says): on that man he bestows very high honour.
(8). "Whatever he does, that (is done) according to the pleasure of the Lord.
Continually Hari dwells with (every creature).
What is naturally done, that is done."
(Who knows this), he comprehends the creator.
What the Lord does, is sweet to his people.
As it was, so it is shown (to them): "From whom (the creatures) have sprung, in him they are absorbed.''
He is the abode of happiness, with him they accord.
He himself gives honour to himself.
Nanak (says): know, the Lord and his people are One.
XV. Slok.
In every part (of the universe) the Lord is brimful, he is knowing the desire (of the creatures). By whose remembrance salvation is obtained, to him ISanak is a sacrifice.
Astpadi.
(1). What is broken, Gopal is joining together again. He himself is the cherisher of all creatures.
Who in his heart is caring for all: From him no one (goes away) unprofited.
0 my heart, mutter always Hari!
He himself is the imperishable Lord.
One's own doing will take no effect whatever, Though one desire it most eagerly.1 Without him (i.e. Hari) nothing is of any use to thee.
(Thou wilt obtain) salvation by muttering the one name of Hari.
(2). Being beautiful one should not be charmed (by it): It is the light of the Lord, that shines in all bodies. Being rich why should one be proud, As all wealth is the gift of him.
If one be called a very great hero: Without the will of the Lord where will he run?
If one be a liberal donor: The foolish one shall know him as the giver.
The disease of whose egotism is broken by the favour of the Guru: That man is always free from disease, (says) Nanak.
(3). As a post is supporting a house: So the word of the Guru is supporting the mind.
1?T TT©" 1£T?^ 5*fff> literally: though one desire it with a hundred breaths. "J-JT^ is Format. Plur.
RAG GAURI, MAH. V., SUKHMAN1 XV.
As a stone being put into a boat crosses (the waters): So a man is saved by clinging to the feet of the Guru. As a lamp is lighting up the darkness: So light (is kindled) in the mind by seeing the sight of the Guru. As one finds a road in a great wilderness:. So by joining the pious light shines forth. The dust of those saints I desire. 0 Hari, fulfil the desire of Nanak!
(4). 0 foolish heart, why is lamentation made (by thee)? What is written before, that is obtained.
Pain and pleasure the Lord is giving.
Giving up others think of him!
Whatever he does, that consider as happiness!
0 ignorant one, why dost thou wander about in error?
What thing has come with thee, (To which) thou stickest with delight (like) a greedy moth? Mutter the name of Earn in thy heart!
Thou wilt go (then) with honour to (his) house, (says) Nanak.
(5). The goods, for the acquisition of which thou art come (into the world): The name of Earn is acquired in the house of the saints.
Give up conceit and buy in (thy) mind, Weigh in thy heart the name of Earn!
Lade a batch of goods and go with the saints!
Having given up other worldly concerns, Everybody will call (thee) blessed, blessed.
(Thy) face (will be) bright at the threshold of Hari.
This traffic some rare one carries on.
Nanak is always a sacrifice to him.
(6). Washing the feet of the pious drink (the water, in which they were washed)! Offer up thy life to the pious!
Make ablution in the dust of the pious! Become a sacrifice to the pious!
The service of the pious is obtained by the very fortunate one.
In the society of the pious the praise of Hari is sung.
From many harms the pious protect.
Who sings the excellences of Hari tastes the nectar-juice.
Who seizes the protection of the saints comes to the gate (of Hari).
He obtains all happiness, (says) Nanak.
(7). The dead one He is vivifying. To the hungry one he is giving food.
In whose favourable look all treasures are (contained): He bestows what is apportioned (to man), according to what is written before.
Everything is his, he is able to do (all things).
Besides none other has been nor will be.
0 man, mutter him continually day and night!
This is the highest and purest work.
To whom he gives mercifully the name: That man becomes pure, (says) Nanak.
RAG GATTRI, MAH. V., STJKHMANI XVI.
(8). In whose heart there is faith in the Guru: Into that man's mind comes Hari, the Lord. (That) devotee is heard of in the three worlds, In whose heart the One is. True is (his) work, true his conduct, In (whose) heart the True one is, (who) utters the True one with his mouth.
True is (his) look, true his impression, (That) the True one exists, (that) (his) expansion is true.
Who considers the Supreme Brahm as true: That man is absorbed in the True one, (says) Nanak.
XYI.
Sl&k.
He has no form, nor mark nor colour whatever, the Lord is free from the three qualities. Him he makes comprehend (this), 0 Nanak, to whom he is very propitious.
Astpadi.
(1). Keep the eternal Lord in thy heart! Give up affection to men!
~No one at all is far from him.
In all is incessantly that One.
He himself is seeing, he himself is knowing.
He is deep and profound and all-wise.
The supreme Brahm, the Lord Govind, Is the depository of mercy, compassionate and forgiving.
I will fall down at the feet of thy saints!
This desire is in the heart of Nanak.
(2). He is fulfilling the desire of him who is joining his asylum. What is done (by him), that will take place.
Who takes away and gives in the twinkling of an eye: His counsel nobody else knows. In whose (house) are always joyful festive occasions: In his house all things are heard.
In dominion he is a king, in the Y5ga he is a Yogi (JogI).
In austerity he is a great ascetic, in the married state given to enjoyment.
By meditating on whom the devotees obtain happiness: The end of that Supreme Spirit no one has obtained, (says) Nanak.
(3). Whose sport cannot be estimated: Entering (his estimate) all the gods were foiled. What does the son know of the birth of the father? The whole (creation) he has strung into his string.1 To whom he gives wisdom, divine knowledge and meditation: Those his servants meditate on the name. Whom he leads astray in the three qualities: 1 The sense is: he keeps the whole creation, he has made, as in a string and directs it, as he pleases.
BAG GAURI, MAH. V., SUKHMANI XVI.
He is born and dies, comes and goes again. The high and low places are his.
As he causes (them) to be born, such they are born,1 (says) Nanak.
(4). Who has many forms and many appearances: He makes various disguises, (being himself) unchanging.
An expansion of various kinds is made By the eternal Lord, who is always the same.
In a moment he makes various proceedings.
He is present in every place.
He has made a structure of various kinds.
His own estimate he himself knows.
All creatures are his, all places are his.
Nanak lives by muttering the name of Hari.
(5). Ey the name are supported all the creatures.
By the name are supported the regions and the universe. By the name are supported the Smriti, Yeda and Puranas. By the name are supported hearing, knowledge and meditation. By the name are supported the sky and the nether region. By the name are supported all forms.
By the name are supported the (seven) cities and all the worlds. By the name they are saved, having heard (it) with their ears. Whom he mercifully applies to his name: That man obtains salvation in the fourth state,2 (says) Nanak.
(6). (His) form is true, whose place is true.
The Supreme Spirit alone is true primeval nature (as cause of the material world).
(His) work is true, whose word is true.
The true Supreme Spirit is contained in all.
His works are true, whose creation is true.
True is his root, true his production.
True and perfectly spotless is what he does.
Whom he makes comprehend (this), to him all is good.
The true name of the Lord is giving happiness.
True faith (in it) is obtained from the Guru, (says) Nanak.
(7). True is the word and instruction of the pious. True are those men, into whose heart it enters. True is the attachment, if one comprehend (it).
Who is muttering the name, his salvation is brought about.
He himself {i.e. Hari) is true, by the True one all is made.
He himself knows his own secret thought.
Whose the creation is, he is the creator.
Another does not understand (it), though he reflect (upon it).
The right knowledge of the creator no creature has.
Nanak (says): what pleases to him, that exists.
2 tjGt| I = "31j\*HT> the state of abstraction from without and absorption in the contemplation of one's own spirit.
RAG GATJRT, MAH. V., SUKHMAJSTI XYII.
(8). Ey the wonder of wonders1 they became astonished.
By whom it is comprehended, he has got a taste of it.
His people are steeped in the colour of the Lord.
By the word of the Guru all things are obtained (by them).
They are the donors and removers of pain, In whose society the world crosses (the waters of existence).
The servant of his people is very fortunate.
In the society of his people devout meditation is bestowed on the One.
His people sing the excellences and praises of Govind.
By the favour of the Guru they obtain their reward, (says) Nanak.
Sl&k.
At the beginning is the True one, at the beginning of the Yuga is the True one. The True one is, 0 Nanak, and will be also.
Astpadt.
(1). His foot is true, true who is touching it (in adoration). His worship is true, true his worshipper.
His sight is true, true who is seeing it.
His name is true, true who is meditating on it.
He himself is true, true every one who has (him).
He himself is the excellences, he himself is praising the excellences.
The word is true, true the Lord, who is telling it.
The hearing is true, true he who hears (his) praise.
To him, who understands, all is true.
Nanak (says): true, true is that Lord.
(2). By whom his own true nature is acknowledged in his heart: He has comprehended the root of the cause of causes.
Into whose heart faith in the Lord has come: In his mind the knowledge of the truth is disclosed.
He is allowed to dwell without any fear.
From whom he has sprung, in him he is absorbed.
The thing, that is mixed up with the thing, Cannot he called separated (from it).
(Who) understanding the (right) discrimination (of Brahm from the objective world) comprehends (it): He obtains the One Narayan, (says) Nanak.
(3). The worshipper of the Lord is obedient to him. The.worshipper of the Lord is always adoring him. In the heart of the worshipper of the Lord is faith. The practise of the worshipper of the Lord is spotless. The worshipper knows, that the Lord is with him. The worshipper of the Lord is in love with the name. The worshipper the Lord is cherishing.
The Formless one preserves (the honour) of his worshipper.
1 fxpFRTTS frrrnr, the wonder of wonders = the Supreme.
RAG GrAURI, MAH. V., SUKHMANI XVII.
He is a worshipper, on whom the Lord bestows mercy.
Nanak (saye): that worshipper remembers him at every breath.
(4). He himself conceals the faults of his people.
He himself preserves (the honour) of his worshipper throughout.
To his own servant he gives greatness.
His own worshipper he makes mutter the name.
He himself preserves the honour of his worshipper.
No one apprehends his secret thought.
No one comes up to the worshipper of the Lord.
The worshippers of the Lord are higher than high.
"Whom the Lord applies to his own worship: That worshipper becomes manifest in the ten directions (of the globe), (says) Nanak.
(5). Into a little worm be puts ingenuity. Crores and Lakhs of armies he makes ashes. Whose breath he himself does not take away: Him he preserves giving him his hand. (Though) man be making efforts of many kinds: His works are in vain.
(If) he kill, none other will protect. He is the protector of all living beings. Why, 0 man, art thou thoughtful?
Mutter the inapprehensible, the wonderful Lord! (says) Nanak.
(6). Without intermission the Lord should be muttered! Having drunk nectar this mind and body are satiated. Ey whom the jewel of the name is obtained: That disciple does not look upon anything else.
The name is (his) wealth, the name is (his) beauty and delight.
The name is his happiness, the name of Hari (his) companionship.
The people, who.are satiated by the juice of the name, Praise it (in their) mind and body and are absorbed in the name.
In rising, sitting and sleeping The name is always of use to his people, (says) Nanak.
(7). Utter his praise with (thy) tongue day and night! Ey the Lord (this) gift is bestowed on his own people. Who worship him cheerfully in their heart: They remain absorbed with their Lord.
He knows, what has been and what will be.
The Lord knows his own order.
Who can describe his greatness?
Not one is able to tell his excellences.
In whose presence the Lord dwells the eight watches: Those are perfect men, (says) Nanak.
(8). 0 my heart, seize the protection of those, Give thy mind and body to those people, Who have known their own Lord!
Those people are the donors of all things.
In their asylum thou wilt obtain all happiness.
By their sight thou wilt efface all sins.
RAG GAURI, MAH. V., SUKHMANI XVIII.
Give up all other cunning!
Apply thyself to the service of those people!
Thy coming and going will he stopped.
Adore always the feet of those people! (says) Nanak.
SIoL By whom the true Supreme Spirit is known, he is called the true Guru.
In his society the disciple is saved, he sings the excellences of Hari, (says) Nanak.
Astpadi.
(1). The true Guru is cherishing (his) disciple. To (his) servant the Guru is always compassionate.
The Guru removes the filth of the foolishness of the disciple.
By means of the words of the Guru he (the disciple) utters the name of Hari.
The true Guru cuts the honds of the disciple.
The disciple of the Guru recedes from change (of the mind).
The true Guru gives to the disciple the wealth of the name.
The disciple of the Guru is very fortunate.
The true Guru adjusts for the disciple this and that world.
IsTanak (says): the true Guru remembers the disciple with his heart.1 (2). The servant, who lives in the house of the Guru, Performs the order of the Guru with his heart.
He does not hring himself forward in any way to notice. He always meditates in his mind on the name of Hari. Who sells his heart to the true Guru: That servant's affairs are all right. Who is doing service disinterestedly: He obtains the Lord.
On whom he (= the Lord) bestows his own mercy: That disciple gets the instruction of the Guru, (says) Kanak.
(3). Who wins over the whole2 heart of the Guru: That disciple knows the way to the Lord.
He is the true Guru, in whose heart is the name of Hari.
Many times I am a sacrifice to (that) Guru.
All treasures (are in him), (he is) the donor of the creatures.
The eight watches he is steeped in the colour of the Supreme Brahm.
(His) people are in Brahm and the Supreme BraTim is in (his) people.
In himself alone (there is) no error whatever.
By a thousand dexterities he cannot be acquired.
Nanak (says): such a Guru is obtained by him, whose lot is great.
(4). His {i.e. the Guru's) sight is fruitful, who sees him becomes purified. Who is touching (in adoration) his feet, his walk and practice (become) spotless. Who is meeting with (him) utters the excellences of Earn.
He goes to the threshold of the Supreme Brahm.
1 ift*H TSTfe *WTch he remembers him with his heart = he bears him in his heart.
2 iffa 'f\]+{c£, literally: tweuty twentieths = the whole.
RAG GAURI, MAIL V., SUKHMANI XVIII.
Hearing (his) words the ears are satiated.
There is contentment in the heart, the soul is assured.
On whom the perfect Guru, whose mantra is unfailing, Looks with his nectar-glance, he becomes a saint.
(His) excellences (are) endless, an estimate (of them) is not obtained.
Nanak (says): whom he pleases, him he unites (with Hari).
(5). The tongue is one, (his) praises many. The true all-filling Supreme Spirit No man reaches by discrimination or by any word.
Unattainable, inapprehensible is the Lord, who enjoys perfect bliss.
He is not eating, without enmity, bestowing happiness.
No one can make an estimate of him.
Many devotees continually serve him.
They remember the lotus-foot in their heart.
(I am) always a sacrifice to my own true Guru, By whose favour (I am) muttering such a Lord, (says) Nanak.
(6). This juice of Hari some (rare) man obtains. Who drinks (this) nectar, he becomes immortal. That man is never destroyed, In whose heart his ( = Hari's) excellences are displayed.
(Who) takes the eight watches the name of Hari: To that worshipper he gives true instruction.
He does not come into contact with the illusion of the Maya, Who keeps in his mind the One Hari.
(To him) in darkness a lamp shines.
Error, illusion and pain are removed from him, (says) Nauak.
(7). In heat coolness is made.
Joy takes place, the troubles are extinct, 0 brother! The cares about regeneration and death are effaced By the full instruction of the pious.
Pear ceases, he (i.e. the disciple) dwells in a state of fearlessness.
Every trouble is effaced from the mind.
Whose he was, by him mercy was bestowed (on him), On account of muttering the name of the Murari in the society of the pious.
Stability 1 is obtained (by him), wandering and moving about (in transmigration) has ceased, After having heard the name of Hari with his ears, (says) Nanak.
(8). He himself is without qualities and endowed with all qualities, By whose ingenuity the whole (creation) is deluded.
By the Lord himself his own deeds are done. He himself gets his own estimate. Without Hari there is none other. In all that One is unintermittingly.
He is thoroughly contained in (every) form and appearance. (These) explications are made in the society of the pious. The creation (of the world) is made and upheld by his own skill. Nanak is many times a sacrifice (to him).
1 fqfcj stability, as opposed to wandering about in transmigration.
RAG G-AURI, MAH. V., SUKHMANI XIX.
XIX.
SloL Nothing goes with (man) except the^worship (of Hari), the whole visible world is (but) ashes. To acquire the name of Hari, Hari, this is the best wealth, (says) Nanak.
Astpadi.
(1). Joining the saints make reflection! Remember the one name, (it is) a support! Eorget all other contrivances, 0 friend! Keep the lotns-foot in thy heart and breast! That powerful Lord is the cause of causes.
Seize firmly the name of Hari, (it is the best) thing!
Acquire this wealth and thou wilt be fortunate!
The counsel of the saints is spotless.
Rely in thy heart on the One!
All thy diseases will be done away, (says) Nanak.
(2). The wealth, for whose sake thou runnest to the four quarters (of the earth), Thou wilt obtain by the service of Hari.
The happiness, which thou always desirest, 0 friend, (Thou wilt obtain) by love to the pious.
The splendour, for whose sake thou dost good works, (Thou wilt obtain), if thou flee to the asylum of Hari.
By many contrivances (thy) sickness does not cease.
(Thy) sickness is done away by applying the medicine of Hari.
The greatest treasure is the name of Hari.
By muttering it (thou wilt be) approved at the threshold, (says) Nanak.
(3). Instruct thy mind in the name of Hari!
(Thy mind), that is running to the ten directions (of the globe), will come to rest.
No harm whatever will befall him, In whose heart that Hari dwells.
The Kali-yug is hot, the name of Hari is cool.
Continually remembering it thou wilt obtain happiness.
(Thy) fear is destroyed, thy hope fulfilled.
Who by devoutness and attachment is enlightening himself: To his house comes the imperishable one and dwells therein.
Nanak (says): (from him) the noose of Tama is cut off.
(4). Who is discussing the truth, he is a true man. -Who is regenerated and dies, is quite an unskilful person. Coming and going are effaced by serving the Lord, By giving up one's own self in the asylum of the Gurdev.
Thus one's life, the jewel, is saved, By continually remembering Hari, the support of life.
By many contrivances (people) are not emancipated, (Nor) by reflecting on the Smriti, the Shastras and the Vedas.
Perform worship to Hari with thy mind!
And thou wilt obtain the fruit, thou art desiring, (says) Nanak.
(5). Thy wealth will not go with thee.
Why art thou (then) clinging to it, 0 foolish heart?
RAO GAURI, MAH. V., SUKHMANI XX.
Son, friends, family and wife: Say, which of them wilt thou have for a protector?
Dominions and merriments and plenty of worldly goods: Say, what deliverance (comes) from them?
Horses, elephants and riding on chariots, Is a vain ostentation, a vain display.
Ey whom (all these things) were given, him he does not comprehend, (he is) a stranger (to him). Having forgotten the name he repents (of it), (says) Nanak.
(6). 0 ignorant one, take thou the instruction of the Guru! Without worship (of Hari) many clever ones have been drowned. 0 friend, worship Hari in thy heart!
Thy intellect will become pure.
Keep the lotus-foot in thy mind!
The sins of (thy) various births will go off.
Mutter thyself, and make others mutter the name!
By continually hearing and uttering (it) thou wilt obtain salvation.
The truly existing of all things 1 is the name of Hari.
Sing his excellences with natural ease! (says) Nanak.
(7). Singing his excellences thy filth will go off. The poison of egotism and wickedness departs.
Thou becomest free from cares and wilt dwell in happiness, Eemembering at every breath and morsel the name of Hari. Give up all cunning, 0 my heart!
In the society of the pious thou wilt obtain true wealth. Make it thy business to collect the capital of Hari! Here (thou wilt have) happiness and at the threshold applause. He sees in all constantly the One, On whose forehead (this) destiny (is written), (says) Nanak.
(8). Mutter the One, praise the One! Bemember the One, recite the One in (thy) mind! Sing the excellences of the One, who is endless! In heart and body mutter the One Lord!
Hari himself is the only One.
The Lord is brimfully contained (in all).
Many expansions have emanated from the One.
Adoring the One (thy) sins are gone.
In the mind and body the One Lord is sporting.
Ey the favour of the Guru the One is known, (says) Nanak.
XX.
Slok Wandering and wandering about (I) have come and fallen on thy asylum, 0 Lord! 0 Lord, this is the prayer of Nanak: apply (me) to thy worship!
Asfpadl.
(1). The beggar, 0 Lord, asks a gift. Mercifully give (me) the name of Hari!
EAG GAUJ3I, MAIL V., SUKHMANI XX.
I ask for the dust of the piouB people.
0 Supreme Brahm, fulfil my desire! Continually I Bing the excellences of the Lord. At every breath I meditate on thee, <T Lord!
1 entertain love to the lotus-foot. I worship the Lord continually.
The One is (my) refuge, the One (my) support.
Nanak begB, that he may remember the name of the Lord!
(2). By the favourable glanee of the Lord great happiness is obtained. Some rare one gets the juice of Hari.
Those people are satiated, by whom it is tasted.
They are perfect men and are no more vacillating.
They are entirely filled with love, affection and inclination.
Desire (after Hari) springs up in the society of the pious.
They fall on (his) asylum giving up all others.
In their heart (there is) light, daily devout meditation is made.
By the very fortunate one that Lord is muttered.
ISanak (says): who is attached to the name, obtains comfort.
(3). The desire of the worshipper is fulfilled. From the true Guru he obtains spotless instruction. To his servant the Lord becomes merciful.
(His) worshipper is always made exalted.
Cutting (his) bonds (his) servant is made free.
Begeneration and death, pain and error are gone.
His wish is granted, all his desire is fulfilled.
He (Hari) dwells always with him in his presence.
Whose he ( = the servant) was, by him he is united (with himself).
ITanalc (says): by devotion he is absorbed in the name.
(4). Why should he be forgotten, who does not break (one's) work? 1 "Why should he be forgotten, who is acknowledging one's work? Why should he be forgotten, by whom everything is given?
Why should he be forgotten, who is the life of the creatures?
Why should he be forgotten, who preserves in the midst of fire?
By the favour of the Guru some rare one apprehends him.
Why should he be forgotten, who draws out from poison?
(Who) reunites him, who had broken away (from him) through various births.
By the perfect Guru this truth is taught.
By iNanak, the servant, his own Lord is meditated upon.
(5). 0 holy friend, do this work! Giving up others mutter the name of Hari! Eemembering it continually thou wilt obtain happiness. Mutter it thyself and make others mutter the name! By devotion and love the world is crossed.
Without devotion (to Hari) the body will be ashes.
1 ^m^5 75 £f IAcM j literally: uot to break one's work, i.e. not to let pnss unrequited. UfX^y ^lAcM is a Hindi translatiou of the Sansk. Ifcf^ = unthankful, and the following oft*HT tTT^ of the Sansk. fTTHJ = thankful.
RAG GATTRI, MAH. V., SUKHMANI XXI.
The depository of all welfare and happiness is the name. The drowning one gets rest. All troubles are extinguished.
Nanak (says): mutter the name, the depository of (all) excellences!
(6). Affection, love, inclination and desire spring up (in him), In (whose) mind and body this very relish is.
Seeing (his) sight with the eyes happiness is obtained.
The mind becomes joyful by washing the feet of the pious.
In the heart and body of the devotees is pleasure.
Some rare one obtains (their) society.
In mercy the one thing is given (to him), Who mutters by the favour of the Guru the name.