The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 174

(1). "Who dies by the word (instruction of the Guru), he, being dead, is bom (again, anew). Death does not press him down, pain does not torment him.

Light, being blended with the Luminous (Supreme Being), is absorbed (in him), the mind, having heard (the word of the Guru), is absorbed in the True one.

I am devoted, I am devoted, 0 Lord, (to them, who) from the name of Hari obtain lustre. Serving the true Guru (their) mind is applied to the True one, by the doctrine of the Guru they are easily absorbed.

(2). (Her) body is raw and wears raw clothing.

Clinging to another (but God) she does not attain the palace (of Hari).

Day by day, quickly, and day and night she goes about, without the beloved she incurs much pain.

(3). Body and caste do not go onward (to the other world).

Where account is asked, there she is set free, who acquires the True one.

Those, who serve the true Guru, are blessed here and there, they are absorbed in the name.

(4). "Who with fear and faith shows love (to him):

She attains by the favour of the Guru the palace and house (of Hari).

Daily and always, by day and night, he (Hari) dallies (with her), he is applying (to her) colour of majTth.'

' Tlie subject is JI^HT^. ° 3T§= ^ify Tr3. steeped in love. TtTTS '37r, colour or dye made from inajitli {s.f.), a red dye, that does not go off. Tlie sense is: he steeps her in true love.

156 I^Ati JIAJU, JIAH. III. ASTPAD. V. (VI.)

(5). The beloved is always abiding with all.

By the favoui" of the Guru he casts some glauce of favour.

My Lord is far higher than high, bestowing mercy he himself is uniting (with himself).

(6). By the infatuation of the Maya the world has fallen asleep.

From whom the sleep' (comes), he awakes (it), by the instruction of the Guru he is imparting^ sagacity of mind (to the world).

(7). "Who drinks nectar,' he removes (his) error.

By the favour of the Guru he obtains final emancipation.

"Who is given to devotion is always a Bairagi; who destroys his own self, (him) he (Hari) is uniting (with himself).*

, (8). He himself ijroduces (the creatures) and puts (them) into their occupation.

To the eighty-four lakhs of (living creatiu-es) he himself gives their daily bread.

Nanak (says): those, who meditate on the name, are attached to the True one; what is pleasing to him, that work he causes to be done.

(1). "Within (the body) a diamond and a ruby are made (by Hari). By the word of the Guru he (Hari) causes examination (of it) to be made.

In (whose) lap the True one is (and who) praise the True one, (to them) the True one is applying the touchstone.

I am devoted, 0 Lord, I am devoted (to them, who) fix the word of the Guru in (their) hearts.

In the instruction^ of the Guru he, who is void of all darkness, is obtained (by them); the Luminous one is blending light (with himself).

(2). "Within the body is a large outlay (of things).