The fleshly-minded praise (their) egotism, their talk is egotism and selfishness.
(But those) who do not praise (him, i.e. Hari), they die, they are all consumed (by their) slander.
Humble!Nanak (says): the disciples are saved muttering Hari, Hari, the supreme bliss.
0 true Guru, show (me) Hari the Lord, (that) I may meditate on the name of Hari in my mind! Nanak (says): I will utter with (my) mouth the pure name of Hari, that is removing all pain.
Paurt.
Thou thyself art formless and void of all darkness, 0 King Hari!
By whom thou, the True one, art meditated upon with one mind, all their pain is removed. Thou hast no partner, who is brought near (to thee) and informed (by thee). There is no donor like thyself, 0 pure one, thou art considered as true in my mind.
0 my 4rue Lord, 0 True one, true is (thy) name!
III.
SM I.
In (thy) heart is the disease of egotism, by error thou art led astray, 0 fleshly-minded wicked man! Nanak (says): remove thy disease by meeting with the true Guru and the pious, good men!
The heart and body of the disciple are imbued with love to Hari, the depository of (all) excellences. Humble iNanak (says): him, who flees to the asylum of Hari, he unites (with himself), praise to the Guru!
Pauri.
Thou art the creator, the unattainable Supreme Spirit, with whom art thou to be compared? (If) one would be like thee, it would be told; thou art like thyself (only), (thus) it is read. Thou alone art existing in all creatures, to the disciple thou art manifest.2 Thou art the true Lord of all, thou art higher than all.
"What thou doest, that, 0 True one, will take place, then why should one grieve?
IV.
SM L 1 have love to the beloved in heart and body; those who are attached (to the beloved) day and night: (On them) bestow mercy, 0 Lord, the true Guru, that they may dwell in comfort! (says) humble Nanak.
1 The Lahore lithographed copy reads: lTffe*HT> but the MSS. (Nos. 2483 and 2484) read ITlfERT, which we have followed in our translation.
2 XJlTJrgWr, instead of l(^Jr^t*^» the sake of the rhyme.
RAG GAURI, MAH. IV., VAR V- VI.
Slok II.
In whose heart there is love to the beloved, they will shine (at the gate) in proportion as they utter (the name of the beloved).
Nanak (says): Hari himself knows those, who entertain love to the beloved.
Pauri.
Thou art the creator, thou thyself art unerring and not subject to (any) mistake.
What thou doest, 0 True one, that is good, by the word of the Guru thou makest comprehend (this).
Thou art the powerful cause of causes, there is none other.
Thou art the Lord, unattainable and merciful, all meditate on thee.
All creatures are thine and thou art every one's, thou deliverest all.
V.
Slok L Hear, 0 sweetheart, the message of love, the eyes are attentively fixed (on thee)! (With whom) by the pleased Guru the sweetheart is joined, they dwell in comfort, (says) humble Nanak.
Slok II.
The true Guru is bountiful and merciful, whose mercy is everlasting.
The true Guru is inwardly without enmity, that One Brahm he beholds (in) all.
Who entertain enmity with him, who is without enmity, of those no one remains.
The true Guru is seeking the best of all, how should evil come from him?
As one desires a fruit from the true Guru, such a one he gets.
Nanak (says): the creator is knowing all, from whom nothing is hidden.
Pauri.
Whom the Lord makes great, him I consider as great.
Whom the Lord pleases, him he pardons, he is acceptable to the Lord.1 If one offend him, he is a foolish ignorant man.
Whom the true Guru unites (with himself), he utters (his) excellences and praises (his) qualities. Nanak (says): he is perfectly true; who comprehends (him), is absorbed in the True one.
VI. Slok I.
Hari is true, devoid of all darkness and immortal, without fear, without enmity, without form.
By whom he is muttered with one mind and one thought, their burden of egotism goes off.
Ey which disciples Hari is adored, victory to those pious people!
If one slander the perfect true Guru, him the whole world curses.
In the true Guru he himself is abiding, Hari himself is protecting him.
Blessed, blessed is he, who is singing the excellences of the Guru, to him (be) constantly reverence! Nanak is a sacrifice to them, by whom the creator is muttered.
Stoic II.
By himself the earth is created, by himself the sky.
By himself the creatures are produced in it, he himself gives the morsel into (their) mouth. He himself is abiding (in) all, he himself is the depository of (all) qualities. Humble Nanak (says): meditate thou on the name, all sins are cut off by it!
1 3T^ft = ^|cM, on account of the rhyme.
RAG GAURI, MAH. IV., VAR VII. VIII.
Pauri.
Thou art the true Lord, the truth, truth is pleasing to the true one. "Who are praising thee as the True^one, near them the servant of Yama does not go. Their faces are bright at the gate, to whose heart the true Hari is pleasing. The false ones are thrown back; in whose heart is falsehood and hypocrisy, they incur great pain. The faces of the false ones become black, the false ones become sweepings.
VII.
Sidle L The true Guru is the field of religious duties, as one sows on it, such a fruit he gets. By the disciples of the Guru nectar is sown and Hari gives them the fruit of nectar. Their faces are bright in this and that world, at the true gate they receive from Hari a dress of honour.
In the heart of some is falsehood, they practise continually falsehood; these, as they sow, such a fruit they will eat.
When the true Guru, the banker,1 will look closely at them, they will all be disclosed as counterfeit. They get always such (a fruit) as they intend, they are such as they are sounded by God.3 In both worlds the Lord himself abides, working continually he beholds all his proceedings.
In him, who is directing his mind on the One, the One is abiding, to whom he (the One) attaches himself, he becomes acceptable.
Some one makes many words, (but) in whose house the thing is, he eats it.
"Without the true Guru the right knowledge is not obtained, egotism does not depart from within. The selfish ones suffer the pain of hunger, they stretch out their hand and beg at every house. Falsehood and deceit do not remain hidden, outward show and plating go off. For whom it is written before, with him the true Guru, the Lord falls in.
As when iron is brought in contact with the philosopher's stone, so one falling in with the society (of the pious) becomes gold.
0 Lord of humble TTanak, thou art the Lord, as it pleases (thee), so thou makest (men) go.
Pauri.
By whom Hari is served in (their) heart, them Hari himself unites (with himself).
His qualities are communicated to them, who burn all their vices by means of the word (of the Guru).
(Their) vices are sold for straws, to whom he gives, they obtain true (qualities).
(I am) a sacrifice to my own Guru, who has effaced (my) vices and displayed (in me) virtues.
Great is the grandeur of the great one, the disciple sings (his) praise.
SM I.
In the true Guru is a great majesty; who daily meditates on the name of Hari, Hari: He, uttering the name of Hari, Hari (gets) purity and control of the senses, by the name of Hari he is satiated.
The name of Hari (is his) strength, the name of Hari (is his) tribunal, the name of Hari procures his protection.
2 The sense is: they emit such a sound as God makes them emit, just as a musical instrument gives such a sound as the player desires.
RAG GAURI, MAH. IV., VAR IX.
Who intently adores the shape (body) of the Guru, he gets the fruits Jus heart desires. Who slanders the true perfect Guru, him the creator will cause to be killed. That time will not again come into his hand, what he has sown, he will eat himself. He is carried off to the horrible hell with a black face, as they put a neck-halter on a thief. If he fall again on the asylum of the true Guru, he is saved, when he meditates on the name of Hari, Hari.
Nanak proclaims the words of Hari, thus he pleases Hari, the creator.
Slolc II.
Who does not mind the order of the perfect Guru, he is self-willed, ignorant and robbed by the Maya, the poison.
In his heart is falsehood, he is known as practising falsehood, hopeless strifes are put on his neck by God.
He sells many words, but his words please no one.
He wanders about in every house like an ill-fated woman; who comes in contact with him, to him also (his) marks are communicated.
Who becomes a disciple, he remains undenled, he leaves the side of that one and sits down, at the side of the Guru.
Who conceals his own Guru, he is not a good man, 0 ye saints, by him profit and capital, all is lost.
Nanak lets first hear the Shastras and the Vedas.
(But) the word of the perfect Guru comes (stands) above them.
To the disciples of the Guru the grandeur of the perfect Guru pleases, the self-willed do not get this opportunity.
Pmcri.
The perfectly True one is greater than all, he obtains him, whom the true Guru appoints. He is the true Guru, who is meditating on the True one, the perfectly True one and the true Guru are One.
He is the true Guru, the divine male, by whom the five intoxicated ones are subdued. Who without serving the true Guru adore their own self, in them is falsehood, fie upon (them)! (their) faces are dull.
What they speak does not please any one, their faces are black by deviating from the true Guru.
IX.
The whole field belongs to Hari the Lord, by himself it is cultivated.
Pardoning the disciples he makes germinate (their field), by the self-willed their stock (of seed) is lost. Every one sows for his own advantage, that field is made to germinate, which is pleasing to Hari. Ey the disciples of the Guru the neotar of Hari is sown, the nectar-name of Hari, as fruit they obtain nectar.
Yama, the mouse, is constantly gnawing the field, by Hari the creator he is beaten and ejected. The field comes forth and germinates, by Hari, who is bestowing heaps of corns, it is caused to germinate.
All their care and anxiety he removes, by whom the true Guru, the divine male, is meditated upon. Humble Nanak (says): (by whom) the name is adored, he himself is saved and he saves (also) tbe whole world.
1 This Slok is written out by the Sikhs as a charm against mice, and buried in small vessels on the four corners of a field.
RAG GrAURI, MAH. IV., VAR X, The whole day the fleshly-minded one is ahsorhed in covetousness (and) other things. By night he is buried in sleep, al^the nine 1 are remiss in sleep.
On the head of the fleshly-minded is the order of (their) wives, they constantly lead them astray.
The men, who are doing what they are told by their wives, are impure, foul and vile.
The man, who is given to lust, is an impure man, he goes along asking his wives.
Who walks according to the bidding of the true Guru, he is a true and good man.
Women and men are all created by himself, the sport of Hari is performed in all.
All thy work is very good, (says) Nanak.
Pauri.
Thou art unconcerned (about anything) and bottomless, how should the inestimable one be estimated? They are very fortunate, who are meditating on thee (and) with whom the true Guru falls in. The word of the true Guru is true and beautiful, the word of the Guru is brought about. The others, who in emulation of the true Guru are talking nonsense, are false, by falsehood they are broken down.
Something else is in their heart and something else in their mouth, chattering about the Maya, the poison, they are dying in grief.
X. SM I.
The service of the true Guru is pure, that man becomes pure, who performs service (to the Guru). In whose heart is hypocrisy and false change (of mind), they are separated by the True one himself.2 The true disciples sit at the side of the true Guru and pass their time. There, the false ones are not found in any good place.
To whom the word of the true Guru is not pleasing, their faces are dirty, they wander about blasted by God.
In whose heart there is no love to Hari, how long will those fleshly-minded ones be caused to take possession (of bodies) as goblins?
Who meets with the true Guru, he keeps his own mind steady, he himself abides with his own thing.
Humble Nanak (says); some the Guru joins and gives them happiness, some, who are deceitful, are separated by himself.
In whose heart there is meditation on the name of Hari, their affairs are put right by God. Their dependence on men ceases, Hari the Lord sits near them and takes their side. (If) Hari is on (their) side, then every one is on (their) side, all who see (their) sight, applaud (them). Wholesale merchant and king, all are made by Hari, all come and make supplication to (his) people. The grandeur of the perfect Guru is great, by serving the great Hari inestimable happiness is obtained.
By the perfect Guru the gift (of) the immovable Hari is given, (though) he always bestows, it increases still more.3 A calumniator cannot see (his) greatness, that one is consumed by the creator himself. Humble Nanak utters the excellences of the creator, he is always protecting his votaries.
1 The nine are very likely the Tf^^f, the nine sentiments or passions.
2 -HtI^tS; its meaning is unknown.
3 i.e. the store of the gifts of the Guru.
RAG GATJRI, MAH. IV., VAR XL XII.
Paari.
Thou art the Lord, unattainable and compassionate, very bountiful and wise.
Like thou no one comes into my sight, thou art clever and pleasing to me.
Love to the family and all that is seen, is passing away, it is coming and going.
Who direct their mind on anything else but the True one, they are given to falsehood, false is their hope.
Nanak (says): meditate thou on the True one, the ignorant are consumed and die without the True one!
XL SIoJc L (If) first true love be not bestowed (on Hari), talking afterwards (of it) is of no use. The helpless self-willed man wanders about halfway,1 how shall he obtain happiness by (mere) words? In whose heart there is no love to the true Guru, he comes in falsehood and departs in falsehood. If my Lord Hari, the creator, bestow mercy (on him), then the true Guru, the Supreme Brahm, comes into (his) sight.
Then he drinks nectar, (when) the word of the Guru removes all his anxiety, care and error. He remains always injoyday and night, humble Nanak (says): day by.dayhesingstheexcellencesofHari.
Who is called a disciple of the true Guru, he, rising early, meditates on the name. He makes efforts early in the morning, he makes ablution, he bathes in the pond of nectar. According to the instruction of the Guru he makes the Jap 2 of Hari, Hari, and all his sins and faults go off.
Again, when the day rises, he sings the Gur-banI,3 in sitting and rising he meditates on the name. Who at every breath and morsel meditates on my Hari, Hari, he is a disciple of the Guru and pleasing to the Guru.
To whom my Lord is merciful, that disciple of the Guru he lets hear the instruction of the Guru. Humble Nanak asks for the dust of that disciple of the Guru, who himself mutters and makes others mutter the name.
Pawn.
They are a few rare ones, who are meditating on thee, the True one.
Who in heart and mind are adoring the One, their abundance innumerable crores are eating. All (the world) is meditating on thee, they are aecepted, whom thou likest, 0 Lord! Who, without serving the true Guru, are eating and dressing themselves, they die, having died they are reborn leprous.
Being present they speak sweetly, outside they emit poison from their mouth; (these) quarrelsome and insincere people are separated by the Lord (from himself).
XII.
mi i.
(Whose) tattered blue (or) black quilt is filled with filth and lice, those disaffected ones are driven away.4 No one allows (one) to sit near (him) in the world, who has fallen into ordure; the fleshly-minded one comes having the very same filth applied (to himself).
^The sense is: halfway between God and the world.
2 The Jap of Hari (the muttering: Hari, Hari!) as a devotional exercise.
3 The Gur-banT is another devotional exercise, consisting of singing the praises of Hari.
* The construction of this verse is very intricate; the Sikh Granthis could not give me any explanation of it. %*lffef or <£}Jtf has here a double meaning: disaffected (turning away their face from the Guru) and (with the verb HjGcM) to turn off or drive away (similarly: %*fffcf 3t1cM)' The construction is: \$Xh %HVft RAG GrAURI, MAH. IV., VAR XIII.
Who for censuring and slandering others is sent off, (his) face will he hlack there also (in the other world); in both (worlds) (the face) of the disaffected ones is black.
"Turn (him) out," (so) it is heard in the whole world, 0 brother! The disaffected servant is beaten with shoes, being done up he rises and goes home.
Further on he is no more allowed to mix with societies and relatives, his wife and niece bring him again home.
This and the other world, both are lost, in hunger and thirst he always cries.
Elessed, blessed is the Lord, the creator, the Supreme Spirit, who himself causes true justice to be done.
Who slanders the perfect true Guru, he is by the True one killed and consumed. This word is spoken by him, by whom the whole world is produced.1 Slolc II.
Whose master is naked and hungry, whence shall his servant get enough to eat?
The thing, that is in the house of the master, comes into the hands of the servant, whence shall he (the servant) get, what there is not?
That service is difficult, if one, having been served, asks again an account (from the servant).
Eanak (says): serve thou Hari the Guru, whose sight is fruitful, no one will ask again an account (from thee).
Pauri.
~Em.dk (says): the saints reflect (on what) the four Yedas are saying.
What the devotees utter with their mouth, those words take effect.
It is manifest, spread about and known, all people are hearing it: The foolish men, who are in enmity with the saints, obtain no happiness.
They desire their virtues, they are burning in selfishness.
What can those helpless ones do, when their own lot is bad?
Who are struck down by that Supreme Brahm, they are destroyed by any one.
The branches of a tree are drying up, that is cut off by the root.
Who in his heart is meditating on Hari the Guru, his grandeur is great.
Ey the perfect, true Guru, being pleased, it is given, it does not diminish a bit, though one try to diminish it.
The true Lord is on the side of the true Guru, all the people, who chatter (against him), 'die. The faces of the slanderers are made black by Hari the creator, by himself (the Guru's honour) is increased.
In proportion as the slanderer slanders (him), it (i.e. the Guru's honour) increases continually more. Humble Nanak (says): by whom Hari is adored, at their feet he places the whole (world).
Slok II.
Who keeps account2 with the true Guru, to him all this and that world is lost.
He continually gnashes with his teeth, he emits foam, prating and prating he breaks'down.
1 The verse is said to refer to some Marvahl Khatris, who were sent by some disaffected people to Dilli, to complain of the Guru, and were thus turned out by the king. Under the true Guru he understands himself, who in this and in the following verses pronounces his whole wrath against his backbiters.
2 ~1[<53 who keeps account, i.e. who closely watches his proceedings, which the Guru did not like by any means.
RAG GAURI, MAH. IV., VAR XIV.
He makes always schemes for money and wealth, (but) his former property also flies away. What does he gain, what does he eat, into whose heart the pain of doubt has fallen? Who entertains enmity with him, who is without enmity, he takes upon his head all the sins of the world.
He gets no entrance neither at the front nor hack, in whose heart is calumny and in the mouth a mango.
If he stretches out his hand to gold, it closes upon ashes.
(But) if he come again to the asylum of the Guru, his former vices are pardoned. Humble Nanak (says): (by whom) daily the name is meditated upon, (his) blemishes and sins go off by the remembrance of Hari.
Paurt.
Thou art perfectly true, thou art above all, thou art the supreme authority.
Who are meditating on thee the True one, who serve (thee) the True one, who put (their) hope on (thee) the True one: In (their) heart is happiness,1 (their) faces are bright, they speak truth, thy strength, 0 True one, (is in them).
Those disciples are devotees, by whom he is praised, (whose) flag is the true word (of the Guru). (I am) always a sacrifice (to them), who are serving the perfectly True one.
XIV. Sidh I.
Who are smitten by the perfect true Guru himself, they are now smitten by the true Guru. Though it be much desired to unite them (with the society of the pious), the creator does not allow, that they be united.
They get no entrance into the society of the pious, in the society they are inquired after by the Guru. If one go and join them now, him the executioner of Yama kills.
The false ones, who were cursed by the Guru Baba, they were also cursed by the Guru Angad. The Guru in the third generation reflected: what is in the hand of these helpless ones? By the Guru, that is anointed in the fourth generation, all slanderers and wicked people are saved. If some son (of theirs), (becoming) a disciple, serve the true Guru, all his affairs are put right. He will obtain the fruit, he desires, having got sons, wealth and riches, Hari saves and unites (him with himself).
All treasures are in the true Guru, into whose breast they were put by Hari. He gets the perfect true Guru, on whose forehead this destiny is written.
Humble Nanak asks for the dust of those, who are the beloved disciples and friends of the Guru.
SlOk II.
To whom he himself gives greatness, at their feet he himself also lays down the world. Then one would be afraid, if anything would be done by oneself, (but) in all the creator makes go on his own skill.
Behold, 0 brother, this arena ( = the world) belongs to the beloved true Hari, who by his own power makes all bow down (to his saints).
Hari, the Lord protects his own devotees, the faces of the calumniators and wicked people he causes to be blackened.
The greatness of the true Guru increases always more, Hari himself causes constantly praise and devotion to be made.
RAG GrAURI, MAH. IV., VAR XV.
Mutter day by day the name, 0 ye disciples of the Guru! Hari the creator himself causes it to be uttered by the mouth.
The faces of the disciples maizes bright the beloved Hari, in the whole world he raises the cry: victory to the Guru!
Humble Nanak is the slave of Hari, Hari preserves the honour of the slaves of Hari.
Pauri.
Thou thyself art the true Lord, thou art our true wholesale merchant. Make firm (in us) the true capital of (thy) name, 0 Lord, we are thy retail-dealers! (Who) serve the True one, who traffic in the True one, who recite his pure qualities: Those people, by reason of being (his) servants, are united (with him), by the word of the Guru they are accomplished.
Thou, the true Lord, art inapprehensible, (but) by the word of the Guru thou makest (thyself ) known.
XV. Slolc I.
In whose heart the calumny of another is harboured, he will never do well. T$o one heeds what he says, he cries continually standing in a desert.
In whose heart there is backbiting (and who) becomes known as a backbiter, all his clever achievements are lost.
Who always makes untrue backbiting of another, he cannot show his face, it has become black. In the Kali-yug the body is the field of actions, as one sows, such he will eat. Justice is not administered by (mere) words; (by whom) poison is eaten, he dies at that very moment.
Behold, 0 brother, the true justice of the creator! as one acts, so he receives.
To humble Nanak the whole right insight is given, he proclaims the affairs of the gate of Hari.1 Blok II.
Who are separated (from Hari), (when) the Guru is present, they get no entrance at the gate (of Hari).
(If) any go and join those slanderers, (their) faces turn pallid, they are spit in the face. Who are cursed by the true Guru, they are cursed in the whole world, they are always going about without knowing what to do.
By whom their own Guru is concealed, they wander about sighing. Their hunger never ceases, they constantly cry out in hunger. No one hears what they say, they always die gradually.
They cannot see the greatness of the true Guru, they get no place neither in that nor in this world. Who goes and joins them, who are smitten by the true Guru, (by him) all (his) remaining honour is lost.
Who are cursed by the Guru, they (become) further on leprous; who joins such a one, him he (the Guru) makes take up (his) leprosy.
Hari does not look on those, who apply their mind to another love. What is decreed by the creator himself, against that there is no remedy. Humble Nanak (says): adore thou the name, nothing can come up to that! The majesty of the name is great, and it is constantly more increasing.2 1 The sense is: he proclaims what is going on at the gate of Hari.
2 tJrflJl is a meaningless corruption (for the sake of the rhyme) instead of ti^lQ, verbal adjective: rising; tJ^I 0 > it is going on rising, increasing.
440 RAG GAURI, MAH. IV., VAR XVI. XVII.
SM III.
Who is appointed (Guru) by the Guru then being, the majesty of that man is great.
To him all the world bows and falls down at bis feet, his fame is spread in the world.
To bim the (nine) regions and the universe pay reverence; on whose bead the perfect Guru places his hand, be (also) becomes perfect.
The majesty of the Guru becomes always greater, no one can come up to him.
Humble Nanak has been appointed (Guru) by Hari the creator himself, that Lord himself protects (his) honour.
Pauri.
In the body is a boundless castle, in it are shops also.
The disciple, who carries on traffic, collects the substance of Hari.
The treasure of the name of Hari is purchased, diamonds and red corals.
"Who are seeking wealth in another place besides (their) body, they are fools and goblins.
Those foolish ones are turned about in error, like a deer is led astray in brambles.1 XVI. SM I.
Who slanders the perfect true Guru, he becomes distressed in the world.
The hell is horrible and a well of pain, he is seized and carried there.
No one hears his cries and screams, in distress he weeps.
He loses all, this and that world, profit and capital, all is wasted.
He is made the ox of an oilman and yoked on by his early rising master.
Hari sees and hears always everything, before him nothing is hidden.
What he sows, that he reaps, as one has sown before (in a former birth).
On whom the Lord bestows his own mercy, he washes the feet of the true Guru.
Following the Guru, the true Guru, he crosses over, as iron with wood.2 Humble Nanak (says): meditate thou on the name! muttering Hari happiness is obtained by the name of Hari.
Those female disciples are very fortunate, happy married women, with whom Hari the king has met. In their heart light is manifested, they are absorbed in the name, (says) Nanak.
Pauri.
This body is all virtue, in which the light of the True one is.
A jewel is hidden and concealed in it, some (rare) disciple and votary draws it out, having searched for it.
When the whole is known (as) the Supreme Being, then the One is contained (everywhere), the One is lengthwise and crosswise.
The One is seen, the One is minded, the One is heard with the ears.
Humble Nanak (says): keep thou in mind the name and thy service is becoming perfectly true!
SM I.
All relishes are in the heart of those, in whose mind Hari dwells. Those faces are bright at the threshold of Hari, all go to see them, 1 = ^35 = ^§>' 2 TjlffgJHT is » meaningless alliteration instead of rffTf.
BAG GAURI, MAIL IV., VAK XVIII.
By whom the name of the fearless one is meditated upon, they have no fear.
The supreme Hari is embraced by them, for whom it has been decreed by himself.
They receive a dress of honour at the gate of Hari, in whose heart Hari dwells.
They themselves cross with all their family, and after them they release the whole world.
0 Hari, join to humble Kanak (thy) people! seeing them we live.
Slok II.
That ground becomes green, on which my true Guru sits.
Those creatures become flourishing, by which my true Guru is seen.
Blessed, blessed is the father, blessed, blessed the family, blessed, blessed (the mother, by whom the Guru is born.
Blessed, blessed is the Guru, by whom the name is adored; he himself crosses and he rescues them (also), by whom he is seen.
0 Hari, mercifully join to me the true Guru, (that) humble Nanak may wash (his) feet!
Pauri.
The true Guru is the perfectly True one and immortal, by whom Hari is kept in (his) breast. The true Guru is the perfectly True one, the Supreme Spirit,1 by whom lust and wrath, the baneful thing, is destroyed.
When the perfect true Guru is seen, the mind is subdued within.
(I am) constantly a sacrifice to my own Guru, (ram) devoted (to him).
The disciple is victorious, the self-willed one is overcome.
Slok I.
With (whom) he (Hari) joins the true Guru out of mercy, (that) disciple will meditate on the name. Who does that which will please the true Guru, (him) the perfect Guru will let dwell in (his) house. In whose heart there is meditation on the name, all their fear he (the Guru) will remove. For whose protection Hari himself stands up, what will all other machinations avail (against them)? Humble Nanak (says): meditate thou on the name! in this and that world Hari will rescue (thee).
Slok II.
To the disciples of the Guru the greatness of the true Guru is pleasing.
Hari preserves the honour of the true Guru, it is continually increasing.
In the mind of the true Guru is the supreme Brahm, the supreme Brahm rescues him.
(Whose) strength and tribunal the true Guru is, to them Hari makes bow down the whole (world).
By whom my true Guru is seen and loved, all their sins he removes.
Those faces (will be) bright at the threshold of Hari and much honoured.
Humble Nanak asks the dust of those, who are" the disciples of the Guru and my brethren.
Pauri.
1 utter and praise (his) qualities, true is the greatness of the perfectly True one.
Who praises (him) is true, true is (his) praise, (but) none has got the (right) estimate of the True one.
Who have tasted the juice of the perfectly True one, they remain satiated.
Those are knowing the relish of Hari, as by a dumb one sweetness is eaten (but cannot be told).
1 The Guru is here, as so often elsewhere, perfectly identified with the Supreme.
RAG GAURI, MAH. IV., III., VAR XIX. XX.
From the perfect Guru the fruition of Hari, the Lord, is obtained (and) congratulation is uttered in the heart (in consequence thereof).1 XIX. SM I.
Within whom there are flowing sores, they know the pain thereof.
Who know Hari, (they know) the pangs of separation (from him), I am always a sacrifice to them.
Who join to me Hari my sweetheart, for them I roll (my) head on the ground.2 Who perform the work of the Guru, to those disciples I am the slave of slaves.3 Who are steeped in the deep red eolour of Hari, (their) body is rilled with love to Hari.
Mercifully join Nanak (to the Guru)! (my) head is sold to the Guru.
With vices my body is filled, how shall it become pure, 0 ye saints? By the diseiple virtues are bought, he washes off the filth of egotism.
The True one he purchases with pleasure, the traffic of the True one is carried on (by him). Loss does not befall him by any means, (to whom) that gain of Hari is pleasing. Nanak (says): by them the True one is purchased, for whom exaetly it is deereed, (that) they should obtain (him).
Patiri.
(Who) are praising the True one, (who are) praising the perfectly True one, they are pure men. In the heart of them, who serve the True one, the True one dwells, the perfectly true Hari is (their) protector.
By whom the True one is adored, they, having departed, are united with the True one. By whom the perfectly True one is not served, those self-willed fools (become) goblins. They are talking nonsense like those, 'who are intoxicated with liquor.
XX.
Sloh I.; mahald III.
In the Gauri Hag she has a good character, (who) keeps (her) husband in (her) mind. Who makes this her ornament, that she walks aeeording to the will of the true Guru. The true word (of the Guru) is (her) husband, whom she always enjoys. As the eolour of the boiled Manjlth is very deep red, so she gives her soul to the True one. In very deep eolour she is steeped, (her) love is directed on the True one.
Falsehood and deeeit do not remain hidden, (though) they put round (themselves) falsehood and deception.
They make false shows of greatness, who entertain love with falsehood. Nanak (says): he himself (only) is true, he himself beholds (everything).
Sloh II.; mahald IV.
In the soeiety of the saints the praise of Hari is made, in the eompany of the pious the beloved is met with.
1 The sense is: who has obtained from the Guru the fruition of Hari, he congratulates himself in his own heart. IjcVcM signifies here: to receive the fruition of; 3TfcT "M^ is the Ablative: from.
3 ^R^t^HT, a senseless corruption instead of?tfej>{t fche slave of slaves = the lowest slave. For the sake of the rhyme the words are often so disfigured, that they are hardly recognizable.
BAG- GAUI1I, MAS. III., IV., VAR XXI.
Those men are blessed men, who give instruction and assistance to others.
They confirm the name of Hari (in others), who proclaim the name of Hari: (for) by the name of Hari the world is saved. m Every one desires to see the Guru, by the nine regions and the universe he is worshipped.
By thyself thy own self is put into the true Guru, by thyself the Guru is adorned.
Thou thyself worshippest and causest the true Guru to be worshipped, 0 creator!
If one be separatedjrom the true Guru, his face (becomes) black, he is smitten down by Yama.
He gets no entrance neither in the future nor afterwards: (this) is reflected upon in their mind by the disciples of the Guru.
The people, who meet with the true Guru, are saved, by whom the name is remembered in their heart.
Ye, who are disciples and sons of humble Nanak, mutter Hari! Hari is saving you.
Sidle III.; mahala III. Ey egotism the world is led astray, by folly, worldly pursuits and passion.
(If) one meet with the true Guru, a look of favour is (cast upon him), but the self-willed one is in stark blindness.
Nanak (says): whom he himself (i.e. Hari) joins (to himself), he bestowslove on the word (of the Guru).
Pauri.
He praises and magnifies the perfectly True one, whose heart is steeped in love (to Hari). Ey whom the One is adored with one mind, their wall ( =body) is never tattered. Blessed, blessed are those men and applauded, by whom the true nectar is drunk with their tongue. To whose mind the perfectly True one is pleasing, they are accepted at the true threshold. Blessed, blessed is the birth of the lovers of truth, (their) faces (are made) bright, happiness is enjoyed (by them).
XXI. Sloh I.; mahala IV.
, The Sakats go and bow before the Guru, (but) they are insincere and false in their heart. "When the Guru says: rise, 0 my brother! they sit down being crammed together (like) herons.1 In the heart of the disciples of the Guru the true Guru abides, those who are privileged2 (by God), are selected (by the Guru).
Those insincere (Sakats) hide before and after their face, they do not mingle (with the disciples).