The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 449

(6). (When) he bestows a glance of favour (on any one), then this spiritual blindness departs. Nanak remains absorbed with Hari.

(1). The True, inapprehensible, boundless one does himself (everything). I am a sinner, thou art the pardoner.

What is done out of obstinacy of mind, that thou destroyest at the end.

3^»Jl lcs*iqi, s.f. the fourth state, that of abstraction from without and absorption in the coiiteniphi- tioii of one's own spirit (as identical witli the Snpreme).

(2). The raiuJ of the self-willed one is sunk in falsehood.

Without remembcriug Hari it is disti'essed by sin.

(3). Having given up folly acquire some profit!

What is produced, that (is produced) from the inapprehensible, indivisible one.

Hari the Guru is obtained, (our) devotion is strengthened.

(5). The whole (world) is sleeping and suffers loss.

To the mind of Nanak the name of Ram is pleasing.

(1). (When one) is meditating on science, then he is rendering services to others. When he is subduing the five (senses), then he is dwelling at a Tirtha.

Pause. The toe-bells sound, if (my) mind be applied (to devotion). Then what will Yama do to me further on (= in the other world)? (2). When one has laid aside (all) hope, then he is a Sanyasi. When one is given to chastity, then he is enjoying his body. (3). Who is reflecting on kindness, is naked-bodied. He dies himself and does not kill others. (4). Thou art One, (but) hast many other garbs. Nanak does not know thy marvels.

(1). I am defiled, not (having practised) one (virtue); practising virtues I will wash away (my fillh). My bridegroom wakes, 1 sleep the whole night long.

Pause. How shall I thus become dear to my husband? My bridegroom wakes, I sleep the whole night long. (2). Longing (for him) I come to the bed, (That) in future I please (my) bridegroom, why should I not please (liim)?

Pause. What do I know, what will happen, 0 mother! Without the sight of Hari I cannot live. (3). I have not tasted love, my thirst is not quenched. That youth is gone and the woman repents.

Pause. Till now I wake in expectation and desire. I have become dejected, I remain hopeless. (4). (If) she adorn herself by doing away egotism: Then the woman sports with her husband on the bed.

Pause. Then, (says) Nanak, she will please the mind of her husband. Having given up greatness she will be absorbed in her husband.

(1). In her father's house the woman (is) very ignorant. I had no knowledge of that bridegroom.

Fame. My bridegroom is One, there is no other. If he bestow a favourable look, then union is brought about. (2). In her father-in-law's house the True one is known by the woman. With natural ease her beloved is recognized (by her). (3). By the favour of the Guru such wisdom is obtained. Then the woman is pleasing to the mind of her husband. (4). Kanak says: if she adorns herself with fear and love: Then she always sports with her husband on the bed.

(1). There is not any one's son nor any one's mother. By false affection and error (the world) is misled.

When thou givest it (to me), then I mutter thy name.

(2). One may weep (on account of) many vices.

(3). By the favour of the Guru foolishness is done away.

(4). Nanak says: if one gets such an understanding:

Then he is absorbed in the perfectly True one.

(1). In that pond his dwellings are made, (by whom) water and fire are produced.

1 am fascinated by the lotus,' (but) the foot does not go there. I saw, that (people) were drowned Ln it.

Pause. 0 foolish mind, why dost thou not think of the One? By forgetting Hari thy virtues are consumed. (2). I am not chaste nor learned, foolish and stupid I was born. Nanak says: (I flee) to the asylum of those, by whom thou art not forgotten.

(1). There are six houses, six Gurus, sis (methods of) instruction.'' The Guru of the Gurus is One, the garbs many.