The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 553

(In) an impenetrable, terrible forest, (in) an impenetrable, terrible forest, alas! the thieves of the heart are robbing the house, alas! the sun is day by day eating up (the life).

The days are eating up (the life), they are passing without the Lord, join (me), 0 Lord, 0 com- passionate husband!

Many births and deaths have been gone thi-ough, without the society of the beloved one there is no salvation at all.

I am without family, beauty, incense, divine knowledge, without thee what mother have I?

Having joined (my) hands, (says) Nanak, I have come to (thy) asylum, 0 beloved Lord, 0 Nar Har'i, effect (my) salvation! '

(2). A fish destitute of water, a fish destitute of water, oh! being separated from it {i.e. the water) is wretched in mind and body, oh! how is life getting on without the beloved?

It faces the arrow, it faces the arrow, oh! the deer offers up heart, body and life, oh! it is pierced easily whilst listening.-

Love to the beloved has sprung up, join the passionate lover! the body is wretched remaining one moment without him.

The eyelids are not closed, the mind is imbued with love to the beloved, thinking daily of the Lord.

Who are attached to Vishnu (and) intoxicated with the name, they are putting away fear, ejror, duality, (yea) all.

Bestow mercy and pity, 0 kind, all-filling Hari! Nanak is being immersed in (thy) love.

(3). The black bee is humming about, the black bee is humming about, oh! it is intoxicated with the scent of the nectar-juice of the flowers, oh! it is binding itself by (its) love to the lotus.

In the mind of the Catrik there is thirst, in the mind of the Catrik there is thirst, oh! in (its) mind there is a longing for a beautiful drop of the cloud, oh! drinking a little ' its heat passes away.

0 consumer of heat, 0 destroyer of pain, join (me), in (my) heart there is excessive love (to thee)!

Beautiful, clever (and) wise is the Lord, by which tongue is (his) excellency told?

Seize (my) arm, give (me) the name! (on whom thou art) bestowing a favourable look, (his) sins are effaced.

Nanak says: he who is seeing the sight of Hari, the purifier of the sinners, is not in distress.

(4). I think in (my) mind of the Lord, I think in (my) mind of the Lord, oh! keep (me), the friendless one, in thy asylum, oh! join (me) cheerfully, take (my) life!

(My) meditation is (on thy) beautiful body, (my) meditation is (on thy) beautiful body, oh! (my) mind is desirous of the knowledge of Gopal, oh! (thou art) preserving the honour of (thy) beggars.

The Lord is fulfilling (theii-) hope, he is destroying (their) pain, all (their) desire is granted.

"Who clings to the neck of Hari, (her) days are happy, having met with (her) Lord, (her) bed is beautiful.

By the Lord a favourable look is bestowed (on her), Murari is met with, all (her) sins are annihilated.

Nanak says: my desire is fulfilled, the bearer of felicity is met with, the depository of (all) excellences.

' 3n3 = 5rf3. on account of the rhyme. ' Tlie deer is said to listen to the melodious voice ol' tlie hunter.

Om! the true name is the creator, the (divine) male without fear, without enmity, of a timeless form, not produced from the womb. By the favour of the Guru!

{The Sidles also are written hij the first mahald)} [To he swig) after the melody of As Roja, the handless one.

Slok I.; mahald I. I am a sacrifice to my own Guru daily a hundred times. E)- whom out of men gods are made without any delay.

SloTc II.; mahald II. If a hundred moons rise, if a thousand suns ascend: In spite of there heing so much Ught, there is terrible darkness without the Guru.

Slok III.; mahala I. 0 Nanak, (who) in their cautious mind do not reflect on the Guru: They are left like an empty stalk of sesam on a cleared field.- Kanak says: it is left on the field by its owner,' (For though) it flourish, there are ashes in the body of the helpless (stalk).

Paur'i. By himself his own self was made, by himself (his) name was contrived. Sitting down (in repose) he sees (with) pleasure, (what) is made (by) the second power.' Thou thyself art the bountiful creator, being pleased thou givest and bestowest favour. Thou art knowing all; having given thou takest (again) away the life (from) the body. Sitting down (quietly) (thou) seest (with) pleasure.