The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 172

If from the mouth of the Guru the True one be obtained, tlien it is seen.

There are nine gates (to the body), in the tenth' he is emancipated and causes the unbeaten sound to be sounded.

Who by the favour of the Guru causes him to dwell in (his) heart:

He remains day by day and continually imbued with his love, and obtains acuteness of mind at the true gate.

(5). Who has not got knowledge of sin and religious merit:

She clings to duality and is led astray by error.

Blind by ignorance she does not know the way, again and again she comes and goes.

(6). From the service of the Guru comfort is always obtained.

By the discourse of the Guru darkness is blotted out, the shutters, hard like adamant, he (the Guru) is opening.

(7). Having destroyed egotism (individuality) he (Hari) is established in the mind.

The mind is always directed on the feet of the Guru.

By the mercy of the Guru heart and body are pure, (it is) meditating on the pure name.

(8). Life and death (rest) all with thee.

On whom thou bestowest (thy favour), to him thou givest greatness.

Kanak (says): Meditate thou always on the name, thou art (thus) adjusting* (thy) birth and death.

«o< icjlc^'irr. the last three syllables, <j(c\i>rT, a'c a mere alliteration, without any incaning, as the whole cannot be taken here as verbal adjective.

^1^3 s-m., Sansk. ^TTf^ft. busy stirring, running after tlie tilings of this world (the same as Tl^'pfJ).

He who concentrates the vital air or breath in the tenth gate (from which the soul takes its flight from the body) is already emancipated and hears there the Om. * The sense is: thou art putting a stop to.

]54 RAG MaJh, MAH. III., ASTPAD. II. III. (III. IV.)

II. III. (1). My Lord is spotless, unattainable, boundless. Without scales he weighs the world.

Wlio becomes a disciple, he comprehends (him), having recited (his) qualities he is absorbed in him, who is endowed with (all) qualities.

I am devoted, I am devoted (to them), 0 Lord, who make the name of Hari dwell in (their) heart.

Those who stick to the True one are daily awake, at the true gate they obtain lustre.

(2). He himself hears and he himself sees.

On whom he bestows a favourable look, that man is of account.

Whom he himself applies to (himself), he is applied, tlie disciple is acquiring the True one.

(3). Whom he himself leads astray, where will he obtain a (helping) hand?

What is written before, that cannot be effaced.

With whom the true Guru has met, they are very fortunate, on account of (their) perfect destiny he is uniting (them with Hari).

(4). In her father's house the woman was daily asleep.