The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 67

(Dwelling) in a full, beautiful place, he fulfils the hope of the hopeless.

0 Nanak! if he is found full, how shall his qualities diminish?

^1). Come, sister, cling to my neck, (cling) to my breast, 0 dear companion! Having joined (me) tell (me) stories about thy powerful sweetheart (husband). In the true Lord are all virtues, in us are all vices.

Pause. 0 creator! every one is in thy power.

One word should be considered: when thou art, what are the others? (2). Go ask the woman beloved by her husband: by what cleverness is he enjoyed by you? "Easily with contentment she is adorned, who speaks sweetly.

The sweet friend is then met with, when I hear the word (instruction) of the Guru." (3). How many are thy powers, how great is thy donation? How many are thy living creatures, who praise thee day and night? How many are thy forms and colours, how many the high-born and the outcasts? (4). If the True one is found, comfort* springs up (in the heart); the true ones are absorbed into the True one.

' J|fy*lfT must be read irfewt («' having gone), but in all such cases the Anusvara is never placed. ^ As the word 3T3 signifies also God, SIH'lty' may denote a man wlio turns his face towards God, a seeker of God.

^ The Guru is here the Gurdev (the incarnate Guru). Tliis is shown by the whole context.

* \r3T> full, denotes in reference to God: all-filling, all-pervading and perfect in himself.

If attention is made, honour springs up; hy the words of the Guru he (=one) eats up his fear. 0 Ifanak! the true king himself unites (him with himself).

(1). It has come to a good issue/ that I have been saved, (that) egotism has died away from (my) house (=body).

The messengers (of Tama) render service again, (because I have) faith in the true Gniii.

He who abandons his own volitions- is an idle talker; the True one (alone) is without concern.

0 heart! if the True one is found, fear departs.

How shall (one) become without dread and fear?

The disciple is absorbed by means of the word (of the Guru).

(2). How much utterance (of the name) is made (and yet) in uttering no end is reached!

How many are the beggars! he alone is the bountiful.

By the indwelling in the heart of him, whose the life of the creatures is, comfort is obtained.

(3). The world is a dream, (in which) a play is made; for a moment he (God) makes her play the play.

United (by God), those who are aUke, meet together, separated (by God) they rise and go.

What has pleased him, that is done, anything else cannot be done.

(4). By the disciple the thing^ {i.e. the name of Hari) is purchased, (this is) true trade-stock, true capital.

By whom the true (stock) is sold, praise to that perfect Guru!

0 Nanak! he wUl recognize (know) the thing, who traffics in truth.

(1). A metal is again joined to a metal, he who praises is absorbed into the object of praise.

Apply (to thyself) deep red,' thick, true colour!

The True one is found by the contented, having uttered "Hari"' with one mind.

0 brother, (become) the dust of the holy people!

In the assembly of the saints the Gtiru (=God) is obtained, (final) liberation and the cow of all things.*