The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 80

(2). The fleshly-minded do not know the name, without the name honour is lost.

They have not tasted the relish of the name, they cling to another love.

Worms of ordure fall upon ordure, they are absorbed in ordure.

(3). His human birth is fruitful, who walks in the love of the true Guru.

He saves his own family, blessed is the mother who has given birth to liira.

The name of Hari, Hari is meditated upon (by him), upon whom he bestows his mercy and pleasure.

(4). By which disciples the name is meditated upon, having removed from within their own self.

Those are pure from inside and outside, the true ones are absorbed in the True one.

Those have become acceptable, who meditate on Hari by the instruction' of the Guru.

(I). To the devotees of Hari, Hari is wealth and capital, having asked the Guru they carry on traffic.

They praise continually the name of Hari, the name of Hari is (their) trading stock and support.

By the perfect Guru the name of Hari is established (in them), the devotees of Hari have an inex- haustible storehouse.

0 brother, admonish this heart (of thine)!

"Why does this (thy) heart indulge in laziness? 0 disciple, read (repeat) the name!

(2). The devotee of Hari has love to Hari, if he reflect attending to the Guru.

By hypocrisy devotion is not made, the word duality is wretched.

That man, though united (by the Guru with the Supreme Spirit) does not blend (with him), in whose heart is the thought of difterence.'

(3). He is called a worshipper of Hari, who keeps Hari in the breast.

Soul and body he entrusts and puts before (Hari), having destroyed egotism' from within.

Blessed and acceptable is that disciple who is never discomfited.

' f^TJ? <JJd*<^ \rf3 f^WrfS signiBes literally: in whose contemplation Hari is by means of the —. ^ r^tjo^, separation, discrimination, here identical witli ^^fliqT. duality. The sense is: a man wlio still considers himself different, apart from the Supreme Spirit, cannot be united with him. ' Egotism = the idea of individual existence as distinct from the Supreme Being.

44 SIRI RAG, MAH. III., SABD VII. VIII. (XL. XLI.)

(4). If he (Hari) is found by destiny, then he is obtained; without destiny he cannot be obtained.

Eighty-four lakhs are longing for him; -whom he unites, he is united with Hari.

0 Kanak! by the disciple Hari is obtained, by being always absorbed in the name of Hari.

(1). The name of Hari is an ocean of comfort, by the disciple it is obtained. By whom daily the name is meditated upon, he is easily absorbed in the name. His heart is in love with the true Hari, his tongue sings the qualities of Hari.

O brother, the world is pained by second love!

He who has come to the asylum of the Guru obtains comfort, having daily meditated on the name. (2). To the true one dirt does not stick, a pure mind meditates on Hari.

If by the disciple the word (of the Guni) is known, he is absorbed in the immortal name of Hari. By the Guru divine knowledge is kindled very bright, ignorance and darkness pass away. (3). The fleshly-minded are filthy, fiUed with dirt, (in them) is the thirst and passion of egotism. "Without the word the dirt does not go off, they die and ai-e born (again) and become wretched. They cling to imposture ' and have neither this nor that side.

(4). The disciple practises silent repetition of the name, austerity and continence; his love is (directed) to the name of Hari.