The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 601

(114). 0 thou, who art seeking the love of thy husband, in thy body is some vice.

Those who have the name of happy married women, they are not given to idle prating (and) wrangling.

(115). (If) patience in the heart (be) the bow, (and if) this be bent by patience: '

The arrow of patience does not miss the creator.

(116). Patience is within the patient ones, thus they burn (their) body.

They become near God, (but their) secret they do not give to any one.

(117). This is the object" of patience; if thou, 0 servant (of God), render it firm.

Increasing thou becomest a sea, decreasing thou dost not become a canal.'

(118). 0 Farid, the Darvesh-ship is difficult; (with most) it is the love to buttered bread.

By some few (only) the (true) rite of the Darveshes is set agoing.

(119). (lly) body is heated like an oven, (my) bones burn like fuel.

(If) I am tired in my feet, I move on on my head in the hope, that my beloved may be met with.

(120). Mah. v.* Do not heat (thy) body like an oven, do not burn (thy) bones like fuel!

"What is the good of injuring (thy) head and feet? behold (thy) beloved inside!

(121). I am seeking my sweetheart and my sweetheart is with me.

Nanak (says): the invisible one is not seen, (to) the disciple he {i.e. the Guru) shows (him).

(122). Seeing the geese swimming the cranes (also) became desirous (of swimming).

The helpless cranes sank and died, with the head downwards and the feet upwards.

(123). "When I know, that it is a great goose,^ I keep company with it.

If I know, that it is a helpless crane, I never associate "^ with it in (my) life.

(124). What is the goose, what is the crane? on which he looks favourably:

If it pleases him, 0 Nanak, he makes from (that) crow a goose.'

(125). The bird is alone on the pond, the nooses (and) entanglements are fifty.

This body is immersed in the waves; 0 True one, (my) hope is in thee!

(126). What is that word, what that virtue, what that gem (and) mantra?

"What that garb, that I may make, by which the beloved one may come into my power?

(127). Bowing is that word, patience the virtue, the tongue the gem and mantra.

Make these three thy garb, 0 sister, then the beloved one will come into thy power!

' The Lahnre lithographed copy reads: jf^Jc^, which gives no sense. Tlie manuscript reading is ^TUc^ = |V>Orf {n and r frequently interchanging, as in Sindhi), part, past of |A0f<<Sl7 to be bent, literally: this the bent one of patience = this being bent by patience.

^ TWTQ^ n. object, purpose. In tliis sense the word frequently occurs in tlie Grantli. But the other meaning: sweetness, savour, (from ^1^) ^vill also suit the context here.