The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 606

SAVAIE EEFEREIXO TU MAU. II., VII.— X. 699

Thou didst receive (thy) authority by the medium of the Guru (Kinak), goodness (and) contentment thou didst take (from him).

Huri was touched, says humble Kalu impartially,' (his) sight was given to Lahaua.

In (thy) mind thou didst obtain faith, profound comprehension was given (thee) by his Highness. The poison was destroyed and annihilated from (thy) body, nectar was drunk in (thy) heart. Joy sprang up in the heart, (that) by the invisible one (bis) skill is displayed in (this) Yuga. The true Gui-u is naturally delighted in deep meditation, he is continually immersed' in it. (Thou art) generous, able to take away poverty, in seeing (thee) the sins' are afraid. I, Kalu, utter always with joy (and) comfort the glory of Lahana with (my) tongue.

VIII. The name is (thy) medicine, the name (thy) support, and meditation on the name (is) always (thy) happiness, (thy) flag of the name is beautiful.

Thou art steeped in love with the name, in the Kali-yug thou didst teach* the name to gods and men. Who has received the touch of the name, (his) goodness is manifest (like) the sun in the world.. By having an interview with the Guru bathing at the sixty-eight Tirthas is made.

(Thou art) the true Tirtha, the true bathing and feeding, (thy) love is always true, telling the True one thou art beautiful.

The True one is obtained from the word of the Guru, thou teachest the true name (thy) companions. Whose continence is true, (whose) fasting is true, (him) the humble poet Kalu praises. By having an interview with the Guru (one's) life is true (and) accepted.

(Thy) nectar-sight brings on good fortune and takes away all the filth of sins and vices.

Lust, wrath, greediness and infatuation it subdues, all it overcomes.

Happiness always dwells in the mind, it removes pain from the world.

The Guru is the ocean of the nine treasures, he washes away all the blackness of the birth.

That brave ' Guru should be served day and night with natural ease.

By having an interview with the Guru the pain of birth and death goes off.

' TJVf, adj. impartial, without love or hatred, or: truly (Sansk. HT)- i!5^ =?%•

^ o^MHM = Sausk fcuf^tj, both i having been changed to a.

* T^ = Sansk. '^^ipl, to teach, to instruct in.

' o/OdM- The Sikhs explain this word as signifying: " Talu says." But it is very unlikely that these words are to be divided into eTTT and 4w, as the last line of this verse coincides verbally with the last line of the two preceding verses, nhirli ciiciiinstance points to the same author. 5TrZ?5 on the other hand, if taken as one word, is obscure. It may be compared with the Sindbl ^^3. " young strong man, from which a diminutive is derived by adding the affix ^. The vowels arc easily transposed and would not stand in the way of this derivation.

fOO SAVAIE EEFERRING TO MAH. III., I.— IV.

Remember that true divine male, whose name alone is real ' in the world!

By which the devotees are brought over the water of existence, that foremost name remember!

Delighting in that name Kanak established Lahana, in whom (are) all perfections.

By the poet Kalh the praise of the very intelligent Amardas is spread.

His fame is manifest in the world like the rays of the sun, (like) a branch of the Maulsar! shrub. ^

la the north and south, in the east and west men mutter: " victory! "

The disciples of the Guru taste the name of Hari, which is bestowing blessings, the Ganga was reverted (by it) and turned to the west.

That name, (which) is bringing the guileless devotees over the world of (individual) existence, became manifest ' to Guru Amardas.

That name remember the Takshas and Kinnaras, the ascetics and Siddhas in their deep meditation on Hara.

The Nakshatras and the circle of Dhru * remember (it), Narada with the others and the excellent Prahlad.

The moon and the sun delight* in the name, by which people hard like rooks are saved.