The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 345

" Without adoring Hari there is no emancipation."

Thou art powerful, incalculable and boundless.

0 merciful one, keep (the honour) of him, who has fallen on (thy) asylum! We are (thy) children, 0 Gopal, (says) Nanak.

When egotism is extinct, then happiness is obtained, mind and body become free from disease. Nanak (says): he comes into sight, who is worthy to be praised.

Pauri. Khahha (Kh.). Standing praise him,

Who in a moment makes brimful that, which is not quite full. (If) a man is becoming quite humble,

He, being freed fi-om the bonds of matter, mutters daily the Lord. (If) it pleases the Lord, he gives him happiness. The supreme Brahm is so unmeasurable, Innumerable sins he is pardoning in a moment. Nanak (says): the Lord is always merciful.

1 speak truth, hear, 0 my mind, fall on the asylum of Hari the king! Give up all contrivance and cunning, (says) Nanak, he will absorb (thee).

Sasa (S.). 0 foolish one, give up cunning!

By skill and command (of men) the Lord is not swayed.

Thou practisest a thousand kinds of cunning.

Whom he himself applies to the service of the pious:

SM. Hari, Hari should be uttered with the mouth, by his indwelling in the mind happiness is obtained. Nanak (says): in all he is contained, in every place is he.

176 RAG GAURI, MAH. V., BAVANAKHEI LII. LIII.

Betold, in the bodies of all the Lord is fully present.

Continually (men) go and return, the breaker of (this) pain (of transmigration) is the knowledge (imparted by) the Guru.

(Who) is freed from his own self, to him happiness accrues; (in whom) is (no more) his own self, in him is he himself.

The pain of regeneration and death is cut off by the power of the society of the saints.

The merciful one makes firm the name out of benevolence (to them).

One never gets free from the account,' every moment (we are) erring. (But) the forgiver is forgiving, (says) Nanak, and brings across.

(Man) is untrue to his salt, sinful, estranged (from God), of little understanding.

(By whom) soul, body and comforts are given, him he does not consider as true.

Por the sake of profit and the Maya he goes about searching in the ten directions (of the globe).

The Lord, the liberal donor, he does not let dwell in his mind for a moment.

By covetousness, the false passion, he is deluded, wealth is in his mind.

"With lechers, thieves, great revilers he spends his time.

If it pleases thee, tlien thou pardonest the bad ones with the good.

Nanak (says): if it pleases the supreme Brahm, a stone (even) swims on the water.

They eat, drink, sport and laugh, (but) must wander about in many births. Draw (me) out from the water of existence, 0 Lord! Nanak relies on thee.

Sporting continually they come, (but) incur pain in many wombs.