The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 204

Son, wife, property (do not go) with (man), that Hari (alone is) imperishable.

Adhering, adhering (to) a false business the whole (world) is dead (by) spiritual blindness.

Without°the name of the One Hari it [i.e. the world) is robbed on the way onwards (to the other

Having forgotten the Deity (man) is ruined; without the Lord there is none other.

Who cling to the feet of the beloved, their reputation is pure.

(This) is the prayer of Nanak to the Lord: 0 Lord, join (me), let me obtain thee!

Then Vaisakh becomes beautiful, when the saints meet with that Han.

(4). In (the month of) JCth'- union with Hari should be desired, before whom all bow.

(Who) clings to the skirt of Hari, the sweetheart, (him) he does not hand over bound to any one.

Eubies and pearls are the name of the Lord, they cannot be stolen. ^

(With) Narayan are (all) the pleasures, which are grateful to the mind.

What Hari wishes, that he does, that very thing the creatures do.

Who are made by the Lord his own, they are called happy.

Who, being taken as his own, are united (with him), how should they be separated (from him)

(By whom) the society of the pious is obtained, they, 0 Nanak, enjoy pleasures.

0 Lord Hari, (the month of) Jeth is delightful to him, on whose forehead (this) lot (is written).

(5). (The month of) Asfir' becomes hot to him, with whom Hari is not.

Having forsaken the life of the world, the divine male, the hope of man:

He is ruined by duality, on his neck has fallen the noose of Tama.

What he sows, that he reaps, what is written on his forehead.

The night is passed, it {i.e. the world) is repenting, it has risen and gone off hopeless.

With whom the pious fall in, they are liberated at the threshold.

0 Lord, bestow thy own mercy! (I am) tlursting after thy sight.

0 Lord, without thee there is none other! this is the prayer (=word) of Nanak.

(The month of) Asar becomes agreeable to him, in whose heart the feet of Hari dwell.

(6). In (the month 'of) Savan' (that) woman is excellent (who) has love to the lotus of the foot

(Whose) mind and body is imbued with love to the True one, (her) support is the One name.

The pleasure of the world is false, all, that is seen, is ashes.

A drop of the nectar of Hari is delightful, who joins the saints, he (or she) is drinking it. Wood and grass has become green from the Lord, the boundless divine male is powerful. (My) heart is longing to be united with Hari; by destiny he is bestowing it. By whom the Lord has been obtained, to those (female) companions I am always devoted. Nanak (says): 0 Hari, bestow mercy! by means of the word of the Guru (thou art) accom- plishing (me). p rr • (The month of) Savan is pleasant' to them, on (whose) breast is the necklace of the name ot Han.

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