The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 199

(8). By whom creation Is made, he knows (with certainty).

He himself unites (him), (who) knows (him) by means of the word (of the Guru). _

Kanak (says): the name is obtained by those people, on whose forehead (this) destiny was written

(1). He himself Is the primeval, boundless male (=Supreme Being), He himself establishes, and having established disestabUshes (again). In all exists that One; the disciple obtains lustre.

Pause. I ^m devoted 0 Lord, I am devoted (to them, who) are meditating on the name of the Formless one. He has no form nor sign (and is yet) seen in everybody (=in everything created), the cbsciple is apprehending the inapprehensible one.

(2). Thou art kind and merciful, that Lord.

If the Guru bestow his favour, he gives the name; who praises (the name), he is absorbed in the name.

Thv store-rooms are fiUed with devotion.",. j

The disciple gets the name, his heart Is thereby Imbued with love, naturally he is applying deep

(4). Day by day I sing thy attributes, 0 Lord!

Thee I praise, 0 my beloved! „, ^.,,. • i 3

Without thee I do not want any one else, by the favour of the Guru thou art to be obtamed.

. fetrr^fenn = f?5T:n or feftmn, the syllable ^fenn beh,g a meaningless alliteration. = The sense of this expression, "thy store-rooms arc filled with devotion or adoration," is: aU devot.on is bestowed by thee from thy inexhaustible treasury. ' Vl^fe'KT is here gerundive.

RAG MAJH, MAIL V., ASTPAD. I. (XXXV.) 181

(5). The measure of the unattainable and inapprehensible one is not obtained.

If thou bestowest thy own mercy, then thou unitost (with thyself).

By means of the word of the perfect Guru thou art meditated upon; who obeys the word (of the Guru), is obtaining comfort.

(6). The tongue of a virtuous woman sings the attributes (of Hari).

(Who) praises the name, she is pleasing to the True one.

The (female) disciple remains always imbued with love (to Hari), having met with the True one she is obtainiug lustre.

(7). The fleshly-minded one does (religious) works out of egotism.

In the gambling (for) life all the play is lost (by her).

Within (her) is greediness and great darkness, again and again she is coming and going.

(8). The creator himself gives greatness (to those):

To whom he decreed it from the beginning.

Nanak (says): who gets the name, the fear-destroying, he obtains comfort from the word of the Guru.

(1). Within (the mind) the inapprehensible one cannot be apprehended.

Having taken the jewel of the name he has concealed it.

The unattainable, inapprehensible one, who is higher than all, is apprehended' from the word of the Guru.

I am devoted, 0 Lord, I am devoted (to them, who) in the Kali-(yug) proclaim the name.