The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 562

The true Guru should be magnified and praised, in whom there is a vast greatness. (When) they are united with (him, i.e. the Guru), (his, i.e. God's) favourable look falls (upon them). "When it pleases him {i.e. the Guru), then he (God) is caused to dwell in the heart (of the disciple). Having given the order and having put the hand on the head, he eradicates wickedness from within. From the pleased king (= Guru) the nine treasures are obtained.

First, (if) he himself be pure and come and sit in a pure (place).

(And if) by a pure one it {i.e. the food) be placed before, no one goes having become defiled.

(If) being pure he eat and take to read a Slok

(And) be called to a dirty place (=the closet), who will find fault with this?

Com is a god, water is a god, fire is a god (and) salt.

When the fifth, ghee, is put into it, then the food becomes pure.

The body that is covered with sins, that is spit upon.

The mouth, that does not utter the name and eats juices without the name:

That mouth is spit upon, let it thus be known, (says) Xanak.

In a vessel he is coagulated, from a vessel he is born.'

A vessel he asks (in marriage) and marries.

(With) a vessel friendship is made, (with) a vessel he goes his way.

(When) the vessel dies, (another) vessel is sought, with a vessel is his engagement.

How should that be called bad, from which a Eaja is born?

From a vessel a vessel is produced, without a vessel there is nobody.

Xanak (says): without the vessel is (only) that True one.

By whose mouth he is always praised, the favour of his lot is beautiful.

Xanak (says): they will have a bright face at that true court.

' 33 (HT''!^) a vessel = a woman (compare the use of tlie Greek crveuo?).

Every one says: (it is my) own; Tvliose it is not, he is singled out.' It is (his) own doing, by himself (also) the account is made up. As there is no remaining here, why does the world walk about in pride? No one should be called bad, having read this word it is understood. "With a fool one should not strive.

0 Nanak, by insipid talk body and mind become insipid.

(Such a one) is called utterly insipid, what exudes from the insipid one is insipid. (When) the insipid one is called to the threshold, the insipid is spit in the face. The insipid one is called a fool, he is punished by being beaten with a slipper.^

Slok II.; mahald I. Inside they are false, outside (they have) a good name in the world, inside (they are full of) deceit. (Though) they bathe at the sixty-eight Tirthas, (their) filth does not go off. Whose silk is within and outside a patched quilt, they are excellent in the world. They have conceived love to the Lord, reflecting on seeing (him). In pleasure they laugh, in pleasure they weep, in silence also they go. They do not care for anybody except the true Lord.

They ask for provisions on the road to the gate (of the Lord), when he gives, then they eat. There is One tribunal, One pen, between us and thee there is union. At the gate he {i.e. the Lord) takes account, as oil is pressed out by pressure, 0 Xanak.

By himself the instrument is made, by himself the machinery is kept up. He beholds his own work, he keeps and cares for the unripe and the ripe.

What has come (into the world), that will go (again), every one, that has come, is turned back again (into dissolution).

How should that Lord be forgotten from the mind, whose the creatures and their lives are? His own work is arranged by himself with his own hands.

What sort of love is this, that clings to another?

Nanak (says): he is described as a lover, who is always absorbed (in the beloved). (Who) considers the good (only) as good (and who) by the evil becomes abated: He is not called a lover; he is (a lover), who abides in the divine decree.