The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 170

He who gives life to the world is not contaminated,- by seeing his sight separations cease,' 0 dear!

(4). Putting it into the hem of his garment he causes the whole creation to cross ( = he saves it).

He himself causes his own name to be muttered.

The Guru is the boat, by his mercy he obtains it, (says) Nanak, who from the beginning has union with him, 0 dear!

(1). He is the cause (causality), who himself causes to be done (all things). That is a good place, where he puts down.

He is clever, he is famous, to whom the command (of the Lord) is sweet, 0 dear! (2). The whole (creation) is strung (by him) in one thread.* Whom he (himself) applies (to them), he clings to his feet.

Whose lotus (heart), being raised upwards has opened, he sees him, who is free from all contamina- tion,' 0 dear!

I am a sacrifice for thy saints, by whom lust, wrath and covetousness are ground down. 0 Lord!

(4). Thou art without enmity, thy saints are without spot.

Nanak lives meditating, meditating (on thee), (his) error is destroyed, his fear ground down, 0 Lord!

His death is not put off for twenty-four minutes.

He, who always serves the Supreme Brahm, he, having met with the Guru, is to be called im- movable.

(2). In whose heart love and attachment (to Hari) have sprung up:

He sings day by day his praises, and is continually awake.

The Lord, having seized his arm, unites him (w4th himself), on whose forehead the allotment (is written).

f5^3T> existing for himself or by himself, separate from the world aud at the same time being the VriBT. the expansion of the world. Or in philosophic language: he is transcendental and immanent.

^??iV, contamination by contact with the world; the Supreme is the WT^V^f. the life of the world, hut not mixed up with tlie world and thereby contaminated.

The sense is: though the Supreme is not mi.xed up with the world so as to be identical with the world (gross Pantheism), yet those who have got a sight of him (have known him) know, that they are not separated from him.

' The sense is: the Supreme is the thread, on which all is strung (as beads).

♦IdtJ l7>dTlA. free from all contamination (by contact with the world), or free from all darkness. ^ o<<»*i«> is the same as tTJyf^W if^f^^^, sin.

(3). The lotus of the foot (of Hari) dwells in the heart of (his) devotees.

(Who) continually desire the dust of tlie saints, (to them) the name of the True one is a pledge.

(4). In rising and sitting down Hari, Hari should be sung ( = praised).

By whose remembrance an immovable boon is obtained.

0 Lord, become merciful to Xanak! what thou doest, (I) endure.

(1). By the word (of the Guru) he {i.e. Hari) imbues with love (to him), by his order he prepares' (the disciples).

He calls (them) to the true court and palace.

0 my true Lord, compassionate to the poor, in (thee) the True one my heart is believing!

1 am a sacrifice, 0 Lord, I am a sacrifice, for the beautiful word (of the Guru)! ^

(Thy) nectar-name is always giving comfort, by the instruction of the Guru thou art establishing it in (my) heart!