The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 474

IX. XLVIII. CXV. (1) He (the Supreme) has been before everything,^ what other knowledge does one have? His own erring and misled child the Supreme Brahm, the Lord, pardons.

Pause. My true Gm-u is always merciful, he protects me, the poor one. ^ ^^ ^. ^..

Imj) sickness is cut off (by him), great happiness is obtained (by me), the nectar-name of Han is

(2) (My) many sins are taken away, (my) bonds are cut, (I) have become emancipated. fL the very horrible blind weU (I) am drawn out by the Guru seizing (my) arm.

■' The words ought to be put in the following order: JKTJm Tp ts?^ 3 •

RAG ASA; MAH. V., SABD XLIX.-LI. (CXVL— CXVIII.) 539

(3). (1) have become fearless, all fear is effaced, (I) am protected by the protector. Such is thy gift, 0 ray Lord, all (my) affairs are adjusted (by thee). (4). The depository of (all) qualities, the Lord, I have acquired in (my) heart. Nanak has fallen on (his) asylum and is happy.

(1). ("WTien) thou art forgotten, then every one (becomes) an enemy (to me). (When) thou comest into (my) thought, then (every one does) service (to me). No one else is known (besides thee), 0 true, inapprehensible and inscrutable one!

Pause. (When) thou comest into (my) thought, then (thou art) always merciful (to me), what (can) by the helpless people (be done)?

Say, who should be called bad (or) good? all are thy creatures!

(2). I rely on thee, thou art (my) support, thou Iceepest (me) giving (me) thy hand.

On -whom thy mercy is, that man no calamity -whatever devours.

(3). That is happiness, that is greatness, which is pleasing, 0 Lord, to (thy) mind.

Thou art wise, thou art always kind, (if) the name be obtained, I enjoy pleasure.

(4). Before thee is my prayer: soul and body is all thine.

Nanak says: all is thy greatness, nobody knows my name.

(1). (If) the Lord, the inward governor, bestows mercy, Ilari is obtained in the society of the pious. (If) he, having opened the shutters, shows (his) sight, one is not subject again to regeneration.

Meet with the beloved Lord and thou wilt remove all thy pain, 0 dear!

Cross in the society of him, by whom the Supreme Brahm is adored in (his) heart!

(2). (WTio) wanders about in a great desert and in an ocean of fire, (who is) living in joy and grief:

(His) mind becomes pure having met with the true Guru, by muttering the immortal Hari with (his) tongue.

(3). (By whom) his body and all his wealth is set up (as the object of his thoughts), he is bound (by) a soft fetter. "

By the favour of the Guru (his) births are cut off, (by whom) the name of Hari is adored.

(4). They are kept by the Lord, the preserver, who are pleasing to their own Lord.

Soul and body is all thine, 0 donor I Xanak is always a sacrifice (to thee).

(Thou hast) escaped from spiritual blindness (and) dull sleep, what favour was bestowed (on thee), 0 dear?

The very fascinating (Maya) does not afi'ect thee, how is thy sloth gone, 0 dear?

(1). Lust, wrath and egotism are hard, who has escaped (from them) by means of continence, 0 dear?

The excellent men, Devas and Asuras, are subject to the three qualities, the whole world is robbed (by them), 0 dear!

(2). The fire of a burning forest consumes much grass, some green shrub is saved, O dear!