The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 411

Xauak has fled to the asylum of him, who is the inapprehensible Supreme Spirit.

The terrible hell, (in which there are) many tortures, is the place for the ungrateful. Who are smitten down by that Lord, 0 Xanak, they, being refused, die.

All remedies are applied by him {i.e. the slanderer), (but) there is no medicine for the slanderer. (Whom) the Lord himself leads astray, 0 Nanak, he is consumed and faUs (again) into the womb.

The perfect true Guru being pleased gives the true inexhaustible wealth of Hari.

AU cares are effaced (thereby), the fear of Yama ceases.

Lust, wrath (and all) wickedness are destroyed in the society of the pious.

Who are serving another besides the True one, they will die hip-broken.

On Xanak the Guru has bestowed communion with the name.

He is not an ascetic, (who) is covetous in his heart, the deceitful one wanders about for the sake of the ilayu.

First, being called, he does not take the alms of the pious one, afterwai-ds repenting, the ascetic comes and places him in the heU of the childless."

AU the righteous people begin to laugh, that the ascetic is overcome by greediness and worldly desires.

Where he sees little wealth, there the ascetic does not go near, by keeping his look on much wealtli the ascetic loses his sanctity.

0 brother, this is no ascetic, he is a heron, thus the pious people think.

' The sense is: the ascetic does not at first take the alms offered by a pious man, afterwards repenting of it he curses him and places him in the hell of the childless (ITS, the hell, destined for the childless).

The ascetic, wlio slanders the pious people, he is smitten down by God on account of this fault, (though) he may be praised by the world.

Behold, by the slander of the great (pious) people all the fruit, which the ascetic had acquired, is gone, destroyed by the ascetic (himself)! '

Outside he sits amongst the pious and is called an ascetic.

(But when) he sits inside (the house), he commits sin.

Hari manifests and shows (his) inward sin to the pious.

Dharm-Rae says to the servants of Yama: seize and put this ascetic there, where the great murderers are!

No one has further any connexion with this ascetic, he is cursed by the true Guru.

"What is going on at the gate of Hari, that Nanak tells; he comprehends it, who is fitted for it by God.

By the devotion of Hari, Hari is adored; the greatness of Hari,

The praise of Hari the devotees are always singing; the name of Hari is bestowing happiness (on them). On the devotees of Hari the greatness of the name is always bestowed and it becomes always greater. The devotees of Hari are placed firmly in (their) houses, he preserves their honour. Hari will ask account from (their) slanderers, he will punish them severely. As the slanderers arc acting in their own heart, such a fruit they obtain.

What is done within (the heart) will at last become manifest, though one do it sitting within the earth.

Humble Nanak is happy having seen the greatness of Hari.

Paup. Hari himself is the protector of his devotees, what can the sinner do (against them)? The foolish conceited man practises conceit, he eats poison and dies. Few are the days (of life), as a ripe field is cut down. As the works are, they are practising, such will be their reward. The Lord of humble Nanak is great, he is the Lord of all.

The fleshly-minded one is thoroughly misled, (he lives) in greediness, covetousness, and egotism.

Quarrelling day by day he passes his time, he does not reflect on the word of the Guru.

All their sense and understanding is taken away by the creator, what they talk, is all nonsense.