The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 295

From the Guru being pleased everything is obtained, humble!Xanak is always devoted (to him).

Gauri mujh; mahald V. CLXXI. CCXLI. Pause. By muttering: Hari, Bam, Bam, Bam, Bam!

(1). In muttering Bam Govind (my) face became pure.

From whom the glory of Hari is heard, he is (my) brother and friend.

(2). In whom (are contained) all things, all fruits and aU excellences:

How should (that) Govind be forgotten from (one's) mind, by remembering whom pain departs?

(3). By clinging to whose garment's hem one lives and is brought over the water of existence:

' Those, who give hints and signs, are the saints. " By tlieh- eyes," i.e. by the eyes of those, who, when having Iieard a word of instruction, keep silence and meditate upon it.

7i\ ^TTU WmfR. literally: it is not known to adore, tTTU^ being constructed with the past con- junctive participle, like t1|/>(^T, the active of it.

314 BAG GAURI, MAH. V., SABD CLXXII.; MAH. IX., SABD I. II. (CCXLII.— CCXLIV.)

Having met with that saint {i.e. Guru) salvation is obtained, the face (becomes) bright at the court (of Hari).

(4). The praise of Govind, the fountain of life, is the capital of the saints.

Nanak (says): they are saved by muttering the name, at the true gate they are applauded.

Gaiirl mcijli; mahald V. CLXXII. CCXLII. Pause. Sing the excellences of the sweet Hari, 0 dear, sing thou the excellences of the sweet Hari! By being attached to the True one the placeless one obtains a place. (1). All other tastes are insipid, body and mind become insipid. What one does without the Lord, that is wasted, (wasted) is that life. (2). Having seized the hem of the saint (= Guru) he will cross this world. If the Supreme Brahm be worshipped, (one's) whole retinue is saved.

(3). He is (my) sweetheart and relative, he is (my) friend, (who) puts the name of Hari into (my) heart.

(Who), having effaced all (my) vices, shows benevolence (to me).

(4). (My) property, treasury, village and house (are in) the repository of the foot of Hari.

Nanak is a beggar at thy gate, 0 Lord, he asks thee for a gift.

Om! by the favour of the true Guru! EAGU GAURI; MAHALA IX.'

0 ye pious people, give up the pride of the heart!

Lust, wrath, the society of the wicked, flee from them day and night!

(1). Who considers both, pleasure and pain, honour and dishonour, as the same,

"Who remains aloof from joy and grief, by him the substance of the universe" is known.

(2). That one may give up both praise and blame and seek for final emancipation.

This sport, says humble Nanak, is difficult, by some (rare) disciple it is known.

Paicse. 0 ye pious, (this) creation is made by Kam.

One considers (him) as perishable,' another as eternal, (but) the wonderful one cannot be apprehended. (1). Man is in the power of lust, wrath and spiritual delusion, the person of Hari is forgotten. The unreal body is considered as real, like a dream in the night. (2). What is seen, that all perishes, like the shade of a cloud. Humble Nanak has known the world as vain, he remained (therefore) in the asylum of Ram.

' i.e. Guru Tegh Babatkir, the ninth Sikh Guru, born a.d. 1612 (1621?), e.xecuted (at Dellil) 167j. ^ tT3T33; the substance of the universe, i.e. the supreme or absolute being, constituting the substance of the universe.

' fyo^ ftn^^ fS? WrfWS *IT^> '•'■■ ItSm, that he {i.e. Ram) perishes, another, tliat he is firm, eternal.

RAG GArPt], MAH. IX,, SABD III.— VI. (CCXLV.— CCXLYIII.) 315