The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 210

Serve that true pure Spirit, Hari, the divine male, the ordainer (of aU things)!

Thou thyseK, thyself art wise, the great, great divine male.-

Vho in heart and mind are meditating on thee, 0 my True one, to them I am devoted.

The body is created (by him), having put the soul (into it) (and) preserved, having made harmony (between body and soul).

With his eyes he (=man) sees, with (his) tongue he speaks, with (his) ears he hears.

"With (his) feet he walks, with (his) hands he is working, what is given (to him) he puts on and eats.

By whom creation is made, him he does not know, the blind one does blind (works).

When (the vessel of the body) is broken, then it becomes shards, the form cannot (again) be shaped.

Nanak (says): without the Guru the Lord is not (obtained), without the Lord (one) does not get across.

" From the part of the donor good things are given," this the fleshly-minded one knows.

His intelligence, wisdom and cleverness, how shall it be told and described?

Who, sitting within, does the work, he is known in the four comers (of the earth).

Who performs religious works, he gets the name of a religious man, by committing sins he is known as a sinner.

Thou thyself, 0 creator, doest all (this) sport, how shall another be mentioned (and) described (as a religious man or a sinner)?

As long as thy light (is in him), so long he is enlightened, in (him) thou speakest; without the luminous (Supreme Being) can any one do anything? show (that), 0 clever one I^

Nanak (says): to the disciple it has become manifest, that Hari alone is clever and wise.

Thou thyself, having produced the world, didst put it into (several) occupations.

Having placed on it the deception of spiritual blindness thou thyself didst put it away (from thee).

Within (it) is the fire of (worldly) thirst, the hungry and thirsty are not satiated.

This world is in doubt (duality), having died it is born (again), it is coming and going.

' *rf3 tTT5^ = tTI^; similarly f^T3^ = HiJMlS. on account of the rhyme.

" I" ^3T3\> 37 is probably a meaningless alliteration; whenever the Sikhs cannot find a rhyme, thev add a meaningless syllable to make it up. But ^3T3T might possibly be the participle present from ^Qj^HlQd^l, (I am) praising (thee), the great divine male, only that in this case no subject is hinted at.

^ t^WI^\^ on account of the rhyme, instead of fffWIcft^; similarly the following JT-Hld^TK instead of *1-Hlc\.

Without the true Guru the spiritual blindness is not broken, all become tired having done works (for the sake of their emancipation).

By means of the instruction of the Guru the name is meditated upon, he (= man or the disciple) is filled ■with comfort, when it is pleasing to thee.

He saves his own family, blessed is the mother, who gave birth (to him)!

His beauty and intelligence is brilliant, who has applied his thoughts on Hari.

(Who is) seeing without eyes, hearing without ears,

Walking without feet, working without hands,

Speaking without tongue and thus dying, whilst living: