The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 103

(1). On account of my trust in thee indulgent treatment has been shown to me. The child errs and makes mistakes, thou, 0 Hari, art father and mother!

Pause. TeUing and causing to be told (legends) is easy, (but) what is pleasing to thee is difficult. (2). I put my tmst in thee, I know, thy own self is I. In all and without aU art thou, 0 father! who art not in need of anything. (3). 0 father, I do not know what word is conformable to thee! He who is free from bonds, 0 saints, keeps affection for me! (4). The Lord has become merciful, coming and going has been stopped. Having met with the Guru, the Supreme Brahm was known by Xanak.

' Some rare one is knowing, supply: the fact, that good aud bad actions are not existing for the devotee, who sees in all Brahm.

^ By telling or narrating stories or legends of the gods, making others tell theoi, emancipation is not obtained. Tlip recital of the legends of the gods is considered very meritorious.

^ Wfc^Jlfi' «'(/• (Sansk. ■^Srf^TfT) literally: not disappeared, not gone = present (everywhere), STR^- Tlie e.xplanation (in the Panjabi Dictionary): free from the ordinary conditions of human life, is gratuitous.

SIEI RAG, MAH. V., SABD XXVIII. XXIX. (XCVIII. XCIX.) 73

1. Having joined the saints death has been cut off.

The true Lord has settled in (my) heart, the Lord has become merciful.

The perfect, true Guru has been met with (and) all troubles have become extinct.

0 my true Guru, I am a sacrifice for thee!

1 devote myself for thy sight, having been pleased thou hast given me the nectar-name. (2). Those are wise men, who have served thee in love.

Final emancipation is obtained (following) after those, in whose heart the treasure of the name is.

There is no donor like the Guru, who has given the gift of the soul.'

(3). Those have become acceptable, (with) whom the Guru has met by (their) good destiny.^

Those who are in love with the True one, get a place to sit in his court.

In the hand of the creator are honours; they obtain what is written before (for them).

(4). True is the creator, true the maker; true is the Lord, true his support.

The perfectly True^ one is praised (by him), whose intelligence and discrimination is true.

He is contained in all unintermittingly; Nanak lives by reciting silently the One.

(1). The Guru, the Supreme Lord, should be worshipped, loving him in heart and body!

The true Guru is the donor of the creatures, he gives support to every one.

The words of the true Guru should be done, this is true consideration.

Without being attached to the society of the saints all the fascination of the Maya is (but) ashes.

Pmcse. 0 my friend, remember the name of Hari, Hari!

(If) connexion with the saints dwell in the heart, the toil is accomplished.^ (2). The Guru is infinitely powerful, the very fortunate get an interview with him. The Guru is inapprehensible, pure, like the Guru there is none other.

The Guru is the creator, the Guru the maker, the disciple has true information (regarding liim). "Without the Guru there is nothing, what the Guru wishes to do, that is done. (3). The Guru is the Tirtha, the Guru is the Coral-tree,^ the Guru is the accomplisher of the desires (of men).

The Guru is the donor, having given the name of Hari he saves the whole world.

The Guru is powerful, the Guru is formless (or the formless Supreme Being), high, inaccessible, infinite.

The greatness of the Guru is incomprehensible, what wiU the narrator say?

' JJlU+l-il^ must here be taken as a Tatpurusha, the gift of the soul, i.e. the gift, by which the soul may be saved.