The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 283

1 am a sacrifice to him, whose support* the name alone is.

(1). How great shall be counted the grandeur of those men, who are imbued with love to the Supreme Brahm?

' f*r3T»KT. for the sake of the rhyme = filfeWT-

T*l<c m<c (repeated) is here an interjection of alihorreiice or fright. ^ %^ ^Trft, supply: o^dfo, they make. ^ HfvT signifies here / (= XtQ).

JH'^THT = WTT^. for the sake of the rhyme. JW^TH^ is otherwise adjective, which is out of question here.

298 EAG GAURI, MAH. V., SABD CXXXII. CXXXIII. (CCII. CCIII.)

Happiness, tranquillity and joy are ■with them, no other donor is equal to them.

(2). Those people are come to rescue the ■world, ■who are thii'sty after (their) sight.

Who falls on their asylum, he is saved, in the society of the saints his desire is fulfilled.

(3). (If) I fall do^wn at their feet, then I live, in the society of the pious (I am) happy.

0 Lord, be merciful, (that) my mind may become the dust of (thy) devotees!

(4). Dominion, youth, lifetime, ■whatever is seen in this ■world, ■wastes a^way.

The treasure of the name is always young and spotless, this wealth of Hari Nanak acquired.

The practice of Jog I have heard from the Guru.

To me the true Guru has slio^wn it by (his) ■word (instruction).

(1). The nine regions of the earth are contained in this (human) body; every moment I pay reverence (to it).

Dedication to the Guru (is = signifies) the ring in the ears, the One formless is (thereby) firmly established (in the heart).

(2). (When) the five,' having met together, have become slaves and are brought into the power of the One (spirit):

WTien the ten averse ones- (have become) obedient, then the Jogis become pure.

(3). Who burns his doubt (or error) and applies (its) ashes (to his body), he beholds the way as one.^

That tranquillity and happiness is enjoyed (by him), which is written by the Lord on (his) forehead.

(4). Where there is no fear, there he establishes his seat, (his) little blowing horn is the sound not produced by blowing.*

Reflection on the Supreme he keeps as his staff, devotion to the name pleases his mind.

(•5). If such a veiy fortunate Jog! be met with, he cuts asunder the fetters of the Maya.

Service and adoration I perform to that person, Nanak licks his feet.

Hear the wonderful things of the name! meditating (on them) take them all, 0 friend! To whom the medicine of Hari is given by the Guru, his mind (becomes) pure. (1). Darkness is effaced from that body, (in which) the lamp of the word of the Guru shines brightly. His net of error is cut asunder, who has faith in the society of the pious.

(2). Take a ferry-boat, the water of existence is deep and difiicult, the boat is the society of the pious.

' ■SfdlJlHS, fem. of y J|3f\, "Iiich has here its original meaning: averse, reluctant (Sansk. ■f^'^jf't't.)- Tlic ten are the ten senses, viz.: five ^Tlf^f and five ^flf«j^4|, i.e. hearing, feeling, seeing, tasting, and smelling-, and the five organs of acficin: the voice, tlie hands, the feet, the anus and parts of generation.

^ The whole is a figure. Tlie sense is: lie «ho clears away his doubt (i.e. his duality), «ill see, that the way is one, whatever may lie the outward ditlerences of the setts.

* The JogIs wear a little blowing horn (fjTS^), which they sound before eating and drinking and every religious observance, in token of adoration.