The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 405

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.

Mutter Jay 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 makes 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.

Paurl.. Thou thyself art the true Lord, tliou 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.

In whose heart the calumny of another is harboured, he will never do well.

No 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 achieve- ments 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.'

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.

"^Tiat 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.^

' The sense is: he proclaims what is going on at the gate of Hari.

'^ ri^lJl is a meaningless corruption (for the sake of the rhyme) instead of tt;^|0, verbal adjective: rising; ^^ M-^yQ, it is going; on rising, increasing.