The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 536

Those people who having died live, by them nectar is drunk in (their) mind, love has sprung up by the instruction of the Guru, 0 dear!

In (their) mind is love to Hari, Hari, (on whom) the Guru bestows favour, being emancipated, although in the body, they obtain happiness.

In life and death they are happy by the name of Hari, in their mind and heart is that Hari.

In their mind Hari, Hari dwells, by the instruction of the Guru Hari is tasted, the juice of Hari, Hari, they di'ink in gulps, 0 dear!

In (their) mind the name is caused to be muttered, to (whose) mind Hari, Hari is pleasing, in the mind of the devotees there is a longing after Hari, 0 dear!

(2). In the world death is not liked, continually their own self is concealed, lest Yama seize and carry them off, 0 dear!

Hari is inside and outside, Hari is the only Lord, this life cannot be preserved, 0 dear!

How should the life be preserved, (if) the thing be wanted by Hari? whose the thing is, he takes it away, 0 dear!

The self-willed men, making pitiful lamentations, are led astray (though) applying all medicines, 0 dear!

Whose the thing is, (that) Lord takes it, the people of the Lord are saved by doing the word (of the Guru), 0 dear!

In the world death is not liked, continually their own self is concealed, lest Tama seize and carry them off, 0 dear!

(3). From the beginning death is written, the disciple is approved of, the (pious) people are saved by meditating on Hari, Hari, 0 dear!

From Hari splendour is obtained, greatness from the name of Hari, to the threshold of Hari they go dressed in a dress of honour, 0 dear!

At the threshold of Hari they are dressed (with a dress of honour), by the name of Hari they are perfected, from the name of Hari happiness is obtained.

The pain of birth and death is effaced, in the lovely name of Hari they are absorbed.

The people of Hari and the Lord blend together and become one, the people of Hari (and) the Lord are identical, 0 dear!

From the beginning death is written, the disciple is approved of, the (pious) people are saved by meditating on Hari, Hari, 0 dear!

(4). The world is produced and destroyed, it goes on being destroyed, (who) clings to the face of the Guru becomes immovable, 0 dear!

The Guru makes firm (his) mantra (in the heart), the juice of Hari he gives to taste, extracting the nectar of Hari from the mouth of Hari, 0 dear!

The nectar-juice of Hari is obtained (from him), the dead one is vivified (thereby), death does not again take place.

(By whom) the name of Hari, the degree of immortality, is obtained, he is absorbed in the name of Hari.

To humble Nanak the name is support and prop, without the name there is none other, 0 dear!

The world is produced and destroyed, it goes on being destroyed,' (who) clings to the face of the Guru becomes immovable, 0 dear!

(I). Great is my Govind, unattainable, incomprehensible, first, free from (all) spots, formless, 0 dear!

His state cannot be told, immeasurable is his greatness, my GSvind is invisible, boundless, 0 dear!

G5vind is invisible, boundless, infinite, he knows his own self.

What may be said by this helpless creature, that it may describe thee?

On whom thou bestowest thy own (favourable) glance, that disciple reflects (on thee), Sir!

Great is my Govind, unattainable, incomprehensible, first, free from (all) spots, formless, 0 dear!

(2). Thou art the primeval male, the boundless creator, thy end cannot be reached. Sir!