The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 552

Everything is in the power (of him), whose that our Lord is.

(His) arms are seized, the name is given (to him), the hand (of Hari) is put on (his) head.

He does not enter the ocean of the world, the nectar -juice of Hari is tasted (by him).

In the society of the pious he delights in the name, in the great battle-field he is victorious.

Nanak says: (who (is) in the asylum of the Lord, he is not again uprooted by Yama.

(1). What is done by day and night, that comes on (one's) head.

From whom he is hiding himself, he sees (him, being) with (him).

The creator (being) with (him) sees (him), why should sin be committed?

(If) good works be done, if the name be taken, one will go by no means to hell.

Remember the eight watches the name of Hari, it goes with (thee)!

Adore (him) always in the society of the pious! the sins, thou hast committed, are effaced (thereby), (says) Nanak.

(2). Practising deceit thou flUest (thy) beUy, 0 ignorant fool! Hari, the donor, gives everything.

The Lord is always bountiful and kind, why is he forgotten from (thy) mind?

Join the society of the pious, adore him who is without an associate, all (thy) families will be saved.

The Siddhas, the ascetics, the gods, the Munis, the devotees are relying on the name.

Nanak says: the one Lord, the creator, should always be adored!

(3). Insincerity should not be made, the Lord is examining (men).

Those, who are practising falsehood (and) hypocrisy, are born (again) in the world.

The ocean of the world is crossed by them, by whom the One is meditated upon.

Abandoning lust, wrath and the censure of those, who are unblamable, they come to the asylum of the Lord.

In water (and) on the surface of the earth the high, unattainable, boundless Lord is contained.

Nanak says: he is the prop of his people, the lotus-foot is (theii-) support.

(4). Behold, (all is) a mirage, nothing is durable.

As many as the appearances of the Maya are, they do not go with (thee).

Hari is always a companion with (thee), day and night he should be kept in mind!

Without the One Hari there is nothing else, other love (but Hari's) should be burnt!

Consider that One Lord in (thy) mind as friend, youth, wealth, (yea) as all!

Nanak says: by a great lot he is obtained, (who obtains him) enters into happiness (and) tranquillity (of mind).

' The sense is: they, who remember Hari, do not see hell. Varna cries out to them: victory (to you)! his mei-sengers flee from them.

(1). (In) the error of the Maya (and) in fear, in the error of the Maya (and) in fear, alas! in sharp, perverse intoxication, alas! life is passing uselessly!