The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 478

(3). One may fix (his) name as having all qualities and as having none. Both (names) meeting together are united (in him). (4). Nanak says: by the Guru error and fear are put aside. The blissful (Supreme) is seen ' by every eye.

(1). I do not know any contrivance and dexteiity. Day and night I praise thy name.

Pause. I am vicious and have not any \'irtuo. That Lord is doing and causing to be done (everything). (2). I am foolish, doltish, ignorant and thoughtless. I am longing in my mind after thy name.

(3). Muttering, austerities, continence and works I do not practise. The name of the Lord I adore in (my) mind. (4). I do not know anything, little is my understanding. Nanak says: (I am) in thy as)'lum, 0 Lord!

(1). Hari, Hari, these two words are (my) rosary.

Muttering and muttering (them) he became merciful (to me) the poor one.

Pause. I make supplication to my own true Guru:

Mercifully keep (me) in (thy) asylum, give me the muttering of Hari, Hari! (2). (Who) keeps the rosary of Hari in his heart: He removes the pain of regeneration and death.

(3). Who keeps (him) in (his) heart and utters with (his) mouth: Hari, Hari! That man does not vacillate in any way neither here nor there. (4). Nanak says: who is imbued with love to the name: With him the rosary of Hari goes (to the other world).

546 RAG ASA; JIAH. V., SABD LXXI.-LXXIV. (CXXXVIII. -CXLI.)

(1). (Who) becomes his, whose everything is: That man no contamination whatever enters.

Pause. The servant of Hari is always emancipated.

Whatever he does, that is good; the practice of the slave of the pious people is exceedingly pure. (2). W^ho, having forsaken all, has come to the asylum of Hari: How should the Maya enter that man? (3). In whose mind the treasure of the name is: He has no care not even in a dream. (4). Nanak says: (by whom) the true Guru is obtained: All (his) error and infatuation are extinguished.

(1). When my Lord has become kindly disposed (to me): Then, say, how should pain and error (be) near (me)?

Pause. Having heard, having heard the report about thee I live. Save me, who am destitute of virtues! (2). Pain is effaced, care is forgotten.

Fruit is obtained by muttering the mantra of the true Guru. (3). He is true, he is true.

Remembering and remembering string and keep (him) in thy bosom! (4). Nanak says: what work has he (to do), In whose mind the name of Hari dwells?

(1). By lust, wrath and egotism (people) are ruined. By remembering Hari the people of Hari are set free.

Pause. Those are drunk in the intoxication of the Maya. The devotees are waking and given to the remembrance of Hari.

(2). By reason of spiritual blindness and error one is made to wander about in many wombs. The devotee is stationary, (by whom) the feet of Hari are meditated on. (3). (I am) shutting up the blind well (of) my house. The saints are emancipated, who comprehend, (that) Hari is near (them). (4). Nanak says: who is in the asylum of the Lord: He gets here happiness and in the other world salvation.

(1). Thou art my wave, I am thy fish. Thou art my Lord, I am at thy gate.

I have seized (thy) asylum, 0 Lord, weighty with excellences!

RAG ASA; MAH. V., SABD LXXV.— LXXTII. (CXLII.-CXLIV.) 547

(2). Thou art my life, thou (art) my support.

Having seen thee the lotus (of my heart) opens.

(3). Thou art my salvation and honour, my ground for assurance.

(4). May I daily mutter the name, the depository of (aU) excellences!

(1). He who is weeping, practises falsehood. Another, (though) laughing, is grieving.

Some one dies, in the house of another (there is) singing.

Some one weeps, another laughing and laughing is conducting the bride.'