The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 527

They are not subject to old age nor to death nor do they fall into hell, who meditate on the name • of Hari.

WTio say: Hari, Hari! they do not dry up nor do they suffer pain, 0 dear, (says) Nanak.

Who take the name, they become lustrous, their reward is happiness; who mind (it), they go having won (the play), 0 dear!

Om! By the favour of the true Guru! I. V.

(1). Hear thou, 0 black deer, why art thou attached to the gardens? '

The fruit of poison is sweet four days, then thou becomest again hot.

Thou becomest again hot and quite intoxicated, without the name thou art in pain.

That ' gives waves like the ocean, it flashes like lightning.

Without Hari there is no protector and he is forgotten by thee.

Nanak speaks truth: think, 0 mind! thou wilt die, 0 black deer!

(2). 0 black bee wandering about flowers, very heavy is (thy) pain.

I asked my own Guru, reflecting on truth.

Eeflecting I asked the true Guru, the black bee is attached to creepers.

When the sun rises, (its) body falls (to the ground), like oil it is heated.

On the way to Tama it is bound and beaten, without the word (of the Guru) it is a goblin.

Nanak speaks truth: think, 0 mind, thou wilt die, 0 black bee!

(3). 0 my soul, the stranger, into what trouble dost thou fall!

In (whose) mind the true Lord dwells, is he ensnared by the net of Tama, 0 brother?

The fish separated (from the water) weeps in its eyes, the fisherman threw a net over it.

The infatuation of the Maya is sweet to the world, at the end it is led astray by error.

Applying thy mind to Hari perform worship, drop doubt from thy mind!

Nanak speaks truth: think, 0 my mind, my soul, the stranger!

(4). A canal separated from the river is (again) united with (it).

Continually (the world) takes in sweet poison, some (rare) Jogi knows (this).

Some one knows (it) naturally and gets acquainted with Hari, he, by whom the true Guru is thought of.

Without the name of Hari they are led astray by error, the foolish thoughtless people are consumed.

Who are not attached to the name of Hari (and in whose) heart the True one is not, they weep at the end in lamentations.

Nanak speaks truth: he (Hari) unites (with himself) by the true word (of the Guru) those, who were a long time separated (from him).

<J|^ s.f. An enclosed piece of ground, a garden. "SJt^ is here a meaningless alliteration. ^ It does not appear from tlje context, to what "BTT " that " is to be referred.

Um! By the favour of the true Guru! I. Yl.