The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 434

Having seen the immovable one I do not move to any other place.

(If my) heart continues clinging (to him), I obtain intimacy (with him).

(18). Tliatha. This one is far, the cheat near.

At last, at last (my) mind was made sedate.

By which cheat the whole world is cheated (and) devoured:

That cheat was cheated (by me), (my) mind came to a place (of rest).

(19). Bada. If fear (of God) springs up, fear goes.

Then fear is absorbed in the fear (of God).

If (his) feai- (of God) subside,^ fear sticks again (to him).

(Who) has become fearless (of God), (in his) breast fear is produced, he flees.

(20). Bhadha. (He is) near, whom else does he seek?

In searching about (one's) life is wasted.

When searching about he ascends the Sumeru: '

He is obtained in the fort, by whom the fort is made.*

(21). Nana. A man that enters battle makes a close fight.'

(22). Tata. The impassable (ocean) cannot be crossed.

The body is contained in the three worlds.

When the three worlds are contained in the body:

Then the substance is united (with the absolute) substance, the True one is obtained.

(23). Thafhd. The bottom of the bottomless one is not obtained.

That one is bottomless, this one (=the human mind) is not kept steady.

(24). Bada. What thou seest, that is passing away.

Whom thou dost not see, on him continue to reflect!

'WTien in the tenth gate the key is given:

Then the sight of the Merciful one is obtained.

' Od^cNI '••«• to apply the mind; 4Hc)HcM v.a. to understand, to comprehend.

^ 55 3o; oJdAI is to 1)6 taken here in its original meaning: to burst, to break = to subside (Sansk.

^ M*\<i is here the crown of the head, where the tenth gate is.

* SvJl (=?>fo)> originally: cohesiveness = close fight.

484 RAG GAURI; BAVANAKHRI OF EABIR, 25— 3C.