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Thou thyself givest pain and joy, 0 creator, the disciple is seeing Hari.

(3). The creator himself does and causes to be done (everything).

He himself makes the word (of the Guru) dwell in the mind.

From the instruction (of the Guru) the nectar-sound ( = the name) springs up, the disciple teUs and proclaims it.

(4). Thou thyself (art) the creator, thou thyself (art) the enjoyer.

(His) bonds are broken, he is always free (from matter):

He himself is always free, he himself is true, (who) is apprehending the inapprehensible one.

(5). Thou thyself (ai-t) the Maya, thou thyself the shade (caused by the Maya).

Thou thyseK the spiritual blindness, (by whom) the world was created.

Thou thyself (art) the giver of the excellences,' thou thyself singest the excellences, thou thyself tellest and proclaimest (them).

(6). Thou thyself doest and thou thyself causest to be done (everything).

Thou thyseK establishest and thou thyself disestabUshest.

Without thee nothing is done, thou thyself art putting (the creatures) into (their) work.

(7). Thou thyself kiUest and thou thyself vivifiest.

■ TliOH overlookest the world with one glance.

^ Tlie sense is: he puts his own praise into the mouth of the devotee, and he himself is also the devotee who sings it

KAG MAJfll, MAH. III., ASTPAD. XXVII. (XXVIII.) 175

Thou thyself unitest (them) ' and causest (them) to be united (with thee). From (thy) service comfort is always obtained, the disciple is easily absorbed (in thee). (8). Thou thyself art higher than high. To whom thou showest thyself, that one sees (thee).

Nanak (says): in (whose) heart the name dwells, he himself, having seen (him), is showing (him to others).

XXVII. XXVIII. (1). My Lord is brimfully contained in all places.

By the favour of the Guru I obtain him even in (my own) house ( = body). I always cling (to him), with one mind I meditate (on him); the disciple is absorbed in the True one.

I am devoted, 0 Lord, I am devoted (to them, who) mate the world-soul dwell in (their) mind.

Hari is the world-soul, fearless, bountiful; by means of the doctrine of the Guru they are easily absorbed (in him).

(2). In the house (=body) is the earth, the heaven and the nether region.

Even in the house is the young beloved always.

The giver of comfort remains always in joy, by means of the instruction of the Guru he is easily blending (with the disciples).

(3). In (whose) body is: "I, I," "mine" ( = individuality ):

(His) turn of birth and death does not cease.

"Who becomes a disciple, he destroys his egotism (=individuality), he is meditating on the perfectly True one.

(4). Within the body is (religious) demerit and (religious) merit, two brothers.