The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 391

True are all the words, the pious are uttering.

Whatever happens, that they consider as happiness.

(Because) they know the Lord (as) the cause of causes.

Nanak (says): all, who have seen (his) sight, are fascinated' (thereby).

(5). He himself is true and true is all his work.

Prom that Lord all the creation has sprung.

If it pleases him, he makes an expansion.

If it pleases him, he is of one form (only).-

(His) manifold ingenuity cannot be apprehended.

Whom he pleases, he unites (with himself).

That man he himself makes comprehend (the truth), says Nanak.

(6). In all creatui'es he himself is abiding.

He has made one sport of coming and going.^

' Hxf^ = *{n. o" account of the rhyme (G Jl)-

' The sense is: he re-absorbs all into himself.

' The sense is: it his sport or pleasure, that creatures come and go.

In the midst of all he remains uncontaminated.

"Whatever is to be said, that he says himself.

By (his) order (one) comes, by (his) order (one) goes.

Nanak (says): whom he pleases, him he re-absorbs.

He himself is good and his work is very good.

He himself knows what is in his own mind.

He himself is true and all (his) practice is true.

Lengthwise and crosswise he is absorbed with himself.

If there would be somebody else, information would be got.

By the favour of the Guru Nanak knows this.

(8). Who knows (him), to him always happiness accrues.

That Lord himself unites (him with himself).

Emancipated whilst living, in whose heart the Lord is.

It is good fortune, good fortune, good fortune, that the man has come,