The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 208

(2). The petitions of the creatures he hears, Hari is the powerful, boundless (divine) male.

In death and life (I) adore (him), (who is) the support of all.

In (my) father-in-law's and in (my) father's house (I belong to) that beloved (husband) whose retinue is great.

(He is) high, unattainable, of unfathomable wisdom, without any end (and) limit.

That is service, (which) will please him, (if one) become the dust of the saints.

God is a kind protector of the poor, saving the fallen ones.

(From) the beginning, (from) the beginning of the Tug, he is protecting (them), true is the name of the creator.

(His) value nobody knows, nobody is weighing (him).

In heart and body he dwells continually, (says) Ifanak, (of whom) no estimate (can be made).

Who (are) serving day (and) night the Lord, to them (I am) always devoted.

(3). The saints always, always adore the donor of all:

By whom soul and body are created, who in mercy has given life.'

By means of the word of the Guru (his) pure mantr is worshipped and muttered.

(His) value cannot be told, the Lord is endless.

In whose heart ^Narayan dwells, he is called a saint.^

The desires of the creatures are fulfilled, (if) the Lord, the sweetheart, be found.

Nanak lives by muttering Hari, all sins (he is) destroying.

The creature, that does not forget (him) day and night, becomes flourishing.

(4). All the contentions the Lord is bringing to an end, to me, the humble, (he is giving) a place.

1 grasp the shelter of Hari, muttering in (my) heart continually (his) name I live.

0 Lord, bestow thy own mercy (on me), (that) I may repose in the dust of (thy) servants!

As thou keepest (me), so I remain, what thou givest, that I put on and eat.

0 Lord, produce (in me) that effort, (that), having joined the pious, I may sing (thy) praises!

No other place is seen, where shall I go to cry?

(Thou art) destroying ignorance, removing darkness, 0 high, unattainable and unmeasurable one! *

May (my) separated mind be united with Hari! this is the aim of Nanak.

AU welfare (1 obtain) in that day, (in which) I touch the feet of Hari, the Guru.

' <'dc^ = 7^. S being merely an alliteration. " f^T7, s./. life as the sentient principle or motivity.

^ 3d|^3^, the Supreme God, but also applied to a saint or devotee. * JHHT@ = *lfH'n-r. without measure.

To be sung after the tune: Mai Kamurld and Candrahara, the SobTs.'