The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 206

(If) in (the month of) Katik the pious people be joined, all sorrows become extinct.

(10). In (the month of) ilanghar' those are beautiful, who are seated with Hari, (their) beloved.

How shaU I describe the beauty of those, who are united by the Lord (with himself)?

The body and mind of (those) companions, who are with the pious, has flourished with Ram.

Those, who are without the holy people, remain solitary.

Their pain never ceases, they have fallen into the power of Yama.

By whom their own Lord is laid hold of, they are always seen standing.

Gems, jewels, rubies are with Hari, he is setting (them) on them.

Nanak desires the dust of those who have fallen on the asylum and the gate of the Lord.

Who adore the Lord in the (month of) Manghar, they are not born again.

' Sausk. ■%nPy»t- In Gurmiikbi ItfTT?? and JJfTT are in use.

^ 0*ilO?<I> s.m. dim. (of ■@>nTr, Pers. jjugUl) literally: the rising (of love, etc.).

* Literally: Iinw, having gone, will it be met (with) Hari?

tT^^T T<S-HJl > loss of birth or life, i.e. their life goes for nothing, is uselessly wasted. ' In Sansk. ^TRfiTT: or?TT^lftq; in Siudlii also: jfftre (Pasto^^).

(11). lu (the month of )Pokh' cold does not affect (her), (who) has clung to the neck of Hari, (her)Lord.

(Her) mind is perforated by the lotus of the foot (of Hari), (there is in her) a desire for an interview (with Hari).

(Her) shelter is Govind Gopal, the king, she serves (her) Lord.-

The world cannot affect (her), having met (with) the pious she sings the excellences (of Hari).

From whom she was produced, (with) him she is united; (by) true love she is absorbed (in him).

By the Supreme Brahm she is taken by the hand and absorbed (in him), she is not again separated (from him).

I am devoted a hundred thousand times (to her, whose) sweetheart is Hari, the unattainable, the unfathomable one.

I fall on the protection (of those), (says) Nanak, (who have) fallen down at the gate of Narayan.

(The month of) Pokh is pleasant (to her, she has) all comforts, on whom the fearless (Hari) bestows (them).

(12). In (the month of) Magh' make ablution and bathing with the dust of the saints!

Having heard the name of Hari meditate (on it), give alms to all!

The filth of the business of life goes off, pride will leave the heart.

(Thou) art not deluded by lust; covetousness, the dog, becomes extinct.

The world praises those who walk in the true way.

All the religious merit of the sixty-eight Tirthas (is nothing), mercy to the creatures is approved of.

To whom he gives it out of mercy, he is a wise man.