The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 183

' T^f^ ^f^. §7 signifies here secret, mystery.

" l^owi. •'•'«• a palace-servant (otherwise eunuch).,

' JJ^ signifies here: joy, comfort, happiness.

* dWI<^feW7> verbal adjective ^<V4|0, changed to 375T^fe»HT for the sake of the rhyme.

EAG MAJH, MAH. III., ASTPAD. XV. (XVI.) 165

He always takes care (of it), no one is empty (destitute of his care).

As the smell is, that it gets, so it is, the indwelling (soul) is to be known (from) the smell.

(6). The fleshly-minded are sick in the world.

The giver of comfort, the unattainable, the boundless one, is forgotten (by them).

In pain they continually wander about lamenting, without the Guru they get no composure.

(7). By whom the rules' are made, he knows them.

As he himself makes (them), he knows (them to be made) by his order.

As he puts (the rule) inside, so it is, he himself is (also) putting (it) outside.

(8). Without that True one I have none other.

"Whom he attaches (to himself), he becomes pure.

Nanak (says): the name dwells within the body; to whom he gives it, he obtains it.

(1). (Who) causes to dwell in his heart the nectar-name:

"Who always praises the nectar-speech, he obtains the free gift' of the nectar.

I am devoted, 0 Lord, I am devoted (to them, who) fix the nectar-speech in (their) heart.

(Who) fix the nectar-speech in (their) heart, they (are) meditating on the nectar-name.

(2). He always utters from (his) mouth the nectar-speech.

The nectar he always looks and glances at with (his) eyes.

The nectar-story he always teUs day and night and proclaims it to others.

(3). Being steeped in nectar-dye he applies deep meditation.

The nectar he obtains by the favour of the Guru.

(His) tongue speaks day and night nectar, in mind and body he is drinking' nectar.

(4). That he {i.e. Hari) does, what is not in (anybody's) thought.

By (his) order the nectar-speech exists, by (his) order he causes the nectar to be drunk.

(5). Wonderful are the works of Hari, the creator.

This (human) mind, which is going astray, he is turning back (to himself).