The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 403

Who, without serving the true Guru, are eating and dressing themselves, they die, having died they are reborn leprous.

Being present they speak sweetly, outside they emit poison from their mouth; (these) quarrelsome and insincere people are separated by the Lord (from himself).

XII. Slok 1. (Whose) tattered blue (or) black quilt is filled with filth and lice, those disaffected ones arc driven away.^ No one allows (one) to sit near (him) in the world, who has fallen into ordure; the fleshly-minded one comes having the very same filth applied (to himself).

' The sense is: halfway between God and the world.

" The Jap of lliiri (the mutterhig: Hari, Hari!) as a devotional exercise.

■^ The Giir-hani is another devotional exercise, consisting of singing the praises of Hari.

* The construction of this verse is very intricate; the Sikli Grauthis could not give me any explanation of it. %JTftf or ^Htf has here a double meaning: disaffected (turning away their face from the Guru) and (with the verb 'LJ'T'Q'OT) '« '«'« <!#'o'' drive away (siniiiiirly: %»Tftf 5tI<M)- The construction is: fs'fis ^ITVfT 3%»?fy VTfH*HT-

"WTio for censuring and slandering others is sent off, (his) face will be black there also (in the other world); in both (worlds) (the face) of the disaffected ones is black.

" Turn (him) out," (so) it is heard in the whole world, 0 brother! The disaffected servant is beaten with shoes, being done up he rises and goes home.

Further on he is no more allowed to mis with societies and relatives, his wife and niece bring him again home.

This and the other world, both are lost, in hunger and thirst he always cries.

Blessed, blessed is the Lord, the creator, the Supreme Spirit, who himself causes true justice to be done.

Who slanders the perfect true Guru, he is by the True one killed and consumed.

This word is spoken by him, by whom the whole world is produced.'

Slok II. Whose master is naked and hungry, whence shall his servant get enough to eat? The thing, that is in the house of the master, comes into the hands of the servant, whence shall he (the servant) get, what there is not?

That service is difficult, if one, having been served, asks again an account (from the servant). KTmak (says): serve thou Hari the Guru, whose sight is fruitful, no one will ask again an aeeount

Nanak (says): the saints reflect (on what) the four Yedas are saying.

What the devotees utter with tlieir mouth, those words take effect.

It is manifest, spread about and known, all people are hearing it:

The foolish men, who are in enmity with the saints, obtain no happiness.

They desire their virtues, they are burning in selfishness.

What can those helpless ones do, when their own lot is bad?

Who are struck down by that Supreme Brahm, they are destroyed by any one.

The branches of a tree are drying up, that is cut off by the root.

Who in his heart is meditating on Hari the Guru, his grandeur is great.

By the perfect, true Guru, being pleased, it is given, it does not diminish a bit, though one try to diminish it.

The true Lord is on the side of the true Guru, all the people, who chatter (against him), die.

The faces of the slanderers are made black by Hari the creator, by himself (the Guru's honour) is increased.

In proportion as the slanderer slanders (him), it {i.e. the Guru's honour) increases continually more.

Humble Xanak (says): by whom Hari is adored, at their feet he places the whole (world).