The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 464

(4). In the whole family she is the best.

She gives advice to the younger and elder brother (of her husband).

Blessed is that house, in which she appears.

Humble Nanak (says): in happiness the time is passed (there).

(1). If I give advice, she does not let it ripen.

Near virtue and continence she is standing ' (to prevent them).

She puts on many garbs and shows many forms.

She does not let (me) dwell in the house, she makes (me) wander about separate (from it).

She is the mistress of the house (and) does not let (me) dwell in the house. (If) I make efforts, I am entangled (in them).'* (2). Being sent by himself she has come as a ruler. The nine regions and all countiies are overcome (by her).

At the border (of a river) and holy watering-place she does not allow the Yoga and renunciation of the world. ^

Studying the Smriti and the Veda they become (therefore) tired.

(3). Wherever I sit, there she sits with (me).

I have fallen on the asylum of the vile one, I do not get a place where to remain.

(4). Having heard (his) instruction I came to the true Guru.

The Guru taught (me) the mantra of the name of Hari, Hari.

I dwell (now) in my own house singing the excellences of the endless (Hari).

I have met with the Lord, (says) Xanak, and become free from care.

Pause. The house is mine, she is the mistress. She is the ruler, (but) by the Guru wc were made courtiers (of Hari).

(1). The advice (of) the first is, that I should set a going ( = read) the leaves (of the Veda). The advice (of) the second is, that I should summon (to me) two men. The advice (of) the third is, that I should make some contrivance. Having given up everything I have meditated on thee, 0 Lord!

Pause. (I have) great joy, freedom from care and tranquillity. (My) enemies have died and I have obtained happiness.

l^MiJT froni tr553T to stand. The subject is here apparently the Maya. ' V3% = Vrr or \f? (V^^, to fall), for the sake of the rhyme. The sense is: she knows even to hinder the practice of the Yoga (abstract contemplation) and llie abandonment of the world.

RAO ASA; MAH. V., SABD YI. VH- (LSXIII. LXXIY.)

Soul and body, all belongs to Hari, (to him) I shall give (it).

(3). Having abandoned thee, to whose protection should one go?

To whom does thy servant owe obsequiousness?

Whomever thou proteotest, taking him to thy neck—

(His) honour is preserved by the Lord, congratulation is made (to him).

(1). For the sake of traffic (I) passed through a foreign country. (I) heard of an incomparable thing and procured it.

Binding the stock of (his) excellences into the hem of my garment I brought it. Having seen the gem this (= my) mind clung to it.

Pause. The retail-dealers of the wholesale merchant came to (his) gate.