The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 442

Pause. Thou acknowledgest the light (that is in him) and dost not ask after (his) caste. (For) in the other world there is no caste.

(2). Thou thyself causest to be done, thou thyself dost (all things), thou thyself puttest taunts into the mind (of man).

What is (then) dependence (on others), what the world?

Thou thyself causest the folly of the mind.

If thou comest and dwellest in the mind by the favour of the Guru:

The pain (of) darkness departs from within.

To the others thou dost not give the truth.

Him thou dost not interrogate * in the other world, (says) Nanak.

(1). The brass-plates and cymbals (are) the volitions of the heart. The drum (is) the world, the instrument (of which) sounds.

' TArfe s.f. Arab. ^j:^.^\:.u.o, profession, trade; here in the sense of low caste, mean profession, i.e. take or ask aecomit from hhii.

Narada ' dances — (this is) tte love of the Kali-yug. Where shall the abstinent and chaste set their foot?

(2). (If) a disciple turn to the Guru and eat;

(If) out of love for food he come and dwell in (his) house;

Though he be living and eating a hundred years:

That day is the best, (in which) he gets acquainted with the Lord.

(3). By having an interview mercy is not obtained.

The king administers justice (on him who) is in (his) power.^

(4). He has the shape and name of a man, (says) Xanak.

(But) in actions he is a dog, (being) at the gate (by) order.

(If) by the favour of the Guru he knows, (that he is) a guest:

Then he obtains some honour at the threshold (of God).

(1). As much as the sound is, so much is the hearing of the sound, as much as the form is, (so much) is thy body.

Thou thyself art the tongue, thou thyself the flavour,^ there is no other, I say, 0 mother!

My Lord is the only one, the only one, 0 brother, the only one.

(2). He himself destroys, he himself sets loose, he himself takes and gives.

He himself sees, he himself expands, he himself beholds (it).

(3). Whatever was to be done, that he has done, nothing else can be done.

As it is, such it is called, all is thy greatness.

(4). (In) the Kali-yug the Maya is selling liquors, the intoxicated mind keeps on drinking (her) sweet liquor.

He himself (the Supreme) makes forms of many kinds, so says helpless Ifanak.