The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 146

' The sense is: though one attempt to unite him with the Supreme, he is not united, he does not blend with.

' {if)t^ ( = 51^) contemplation, meditation (without any regard to the prescribed works) and TJY3 s.m. ( = \n'f%ri) busy, stirring or running, worldly, active life, corresponding to fil^f% and iraf^ respectively.

^ fSTHTM^'' "" account of tlie rliyme (gTt(\) = f5Ttft-

^ S^ WlQcM to bring into account, i.e. before Hari, to make nortliy, acceptable.

Faurl. Mutter the name of Hari, Hari, 0 my heart, by which always, day and night, comfort is brought about. Mutter the name of Hari, Hari, 0 my heart, by the remembrance of which all sins and vices go off.' Mutter the name of Hari, Hari, 0 my heart, by which poverty and all pain of hunger cease. Mutter the name of Hari, 0 my heart, the disciples show (bestow) their love with (their) mouth. On which mouth the lot is written from the beginning by the true Hari, by that mouth he (Hari) causes the name to be recited.

"WTio have not served the true Guru nor reflected on the word (of the Guru). Into (their) heart divine knowledge has not come, they are corpses in the world. The round of the eighty-four lakhs (of forms of existence) is allotted to them, they die and are bom (again) and become wretched.

He does service to the true Guru, whom he (Hari) himself causes to do so.

In the true Guru is the treasure of the name, by destiny it is obtained.

"Who are attached to the true word of the Guru, by them always true meditation is made.

0 Nanak, whom he unites (with himself), he is not separated (again), he is easily absorbed (in him).

He is a worshipper of Bhagavan, who knows Bhagavan.

(Wlio) by the favour of the Guru knows his own self.

(Who) resti-ains (his) running (mind) and brings (it) into one house.

(Who) whilst living dies and praises the name.

Such a worshipper of Bhagavan will become very great.

0 Nanak, he is (or will be) absorbed in the True one.

He is called a BhagautI, (but) in his heart is hypocrisy.

By hypocrisy he never obtains the Supreme Brahm.

Who calumniates another, heaps up filth within (himself).

Though he wash off the dirt on the outside, the defilement of the mind does not go off.

He disputes with the society of the saints.

Day by day he is af3.ict.ed and absorbed in second love ( = duality).

He does not remember the name of Hari, (but) does much work.

What is written before, that cannot be effaced.

0 Nanak, without the true Guru being served he does not obtain final emancipation.

Pauri. By whom the true Guru is meditated upon, they do not sleep in distress (fretting). - By whom the true Guru is meditated upon, they are fuUy satiated.

' W0jj>=?5U3; similarly the following?5f^Tn3^ =?5ftl^HT^,753TT3^ = 55303. 'FMT?^ = TrUT^ (honorific plural, referred to Hari). When the first rhyme CHT?^) is once put down, the following final nouns are often violently pressed into it, though they become thereby quite disfigured and unintrllin-ihle.

^ The words fl5f^?T^TtfV must thus be divided: ^ SjtW ^ H^^lJl; 'T^^ = fl^ftl (rhyming with the folloning JlTUfnfVj, they do not sleep in distress or fretting; o^^^AT. «•»• to be distressed, to fret, Sindhi ^^OT or qieui. It would lead me too far, to refute all the false interpretations of the Sikh Granthis, which they put on this passage.

By whom the true Guru is meditated upon, they are not afraid of Tama.

To whom Hari has become merciful, they fall down at the feet of the true Guru.