The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 222

(The tree) is abounding in succulence (and) always green, by (religious) works (and) meditation (its fruit) ripens.

(The wise one) is eating the flavours of the sirup,' the gift descends on the head (of) the wise one.

(There is) a tree of gold, (its) leaves are red corals, (its) blossoms jewels and rubies.

Fruits of gems are found on it, who eats (them) with his mouth, he is happy in (his) heart and mind.

Nanak (says): (whose) destiny it may be, on (his) face (and) forehead (this) lot is written.

The sixty-eight Tirthas (are) at the feet of the Guru.

The excellent (men) always worship (the feet of the Guru).

Laughter, desire, covetousness, wrath, are four streams of fire.

Those who fall (into them), are burnt; 0 Nanak, it is crossed over by sticking to (religious) works.

Die whilst living! having destroyed (one's own self) one will not regret it.

This world is false (unreal), who are apprised of it?

Without bestowing love on the True one it has run after (worldly) business.

Death is a bad thing; destruction and death (hang) over the head of the world.

By the order (of Hari) the executioner (of Yama) (stands) on the head (of every one) and lies in wait.

(If) he himself {i.e. Hari) gives (his) love, he is made to dwell in the heart.

(If) not forty-eight minutes, not a minute procrastination be made, he is obtained.

(Who) by the favour of the Guru comprehends (the truth), he is absorbed in the True one.

The Tummi and Tumma is poison, the fiuit of the Akk, Dhatura and Nimm (is poison).'

It abides in that self-willed man, into whose mind Thou dost not come.

Nanak (says): the enmity of (those) is told (before Tama), who walk without (doing) religious works.

The mind of the bird is in conformity with (its) destiny, now it is high, now low.

Now it is on a sandal-tree, now on the bough of an Akk-tree, now in high love.

Nanak (says): by the order (of God) it is moved about, the course (of) the Lord is applied (to it).

Many give explanations, having given (them) they go.

They give explanations of the Veda, (but) its end (object) they do not obtain.

By reading (the Veda) they do not obtain (its) secret, by comprehending (the truth) they do.

' \(fs s.f. sirup or melted sugar; the flavour of the fruits, when ripened, is compared to a sirup in sweetness.

* Tlie 3''ft 's a smaller kind of the ^TTi '" Gurmukhi it signifies a very bitter fruit, a colocynth (not as in Sanskrit, a long white gourd). The JH^ (Sansk. "^aft) is the gigantic swalloiv-wort; the l|^cl| (VtR^). the thorn-apple; the fe*l (Sausk. («(4«|), Azadirachta lodica, a tree bearing bitter fruits.

Is there in any dress of the six (philosophical) systems an absorption in the True one?' The true (divine) male is inapprehensible, by means of the word (of the Guru) he becomes manifest (bright).

He who minds the incomprehensible name, obtains the threshold (of Hari).