The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 211

(He), (says) Nanak, having known the order (of the Lord), is then united (with) the Lord.

Who is crippled in the legs, lame in his hands and blind, how shall he run and cling to the neck (of the beloved)?

Make feet of fear, hands of faith, eyes of understanding!

Nanak says: thus, 0 clever one! a meeting (with) the sweetheart is brought about.

Always, always thou art the (only) One, by thee another sport is made. Having produced egotism, pride and covetousness thou didst put (them) into the creatures. As it is pleasing to thee, so thou keepest (them), all do what thou causest them to do. On some thou bestowest (this) gift and unitest (them with thee), by thee they are applied to the instruction of the Guru.

Some stand and serve thee, without the name nothing else pleases (them).

Others are employed in work, some are applied to true work.

(Some have) sons, wife, family, some remain uncontaminated (by such ties), who please thee.

Those (these latter ones) are inside and outside pure, they are absorbed in the true name.

(If) I make a cavern in a mountain of gold or in water, under the earth.

Or in the earth or in the sky, (if) I remain (the feet turned) upwards and the head downwards. (If) I put on (my) body abundant clothes and wash (them) always, putting (them) off.' (If) I read aloud the white, red, yellow and black Vedas."

(If), having become filthy I carry about filth (on my body): (all this is) folly and unsoundness of mind.

Emancipated' I become by the name, says Nanak, having reflected on the word of the Guru.

' Snft. part. p. conj. from ^T^TST ( = Hindust. UaJI^) to put off.

* These are unusual appellations of the four Vedas. As no further Iiint is given, it is difficult to say, if these appellations are to be applied to the usual order of the Vedas (Rik, Yajur, Sama, Atharva), or not. ' AloQ, literally: not I, released from individuality (in German: cin nicht-ich).

Slok II.; mahald I. Having waslied his clottes he himself washes his hody and practises continence. The dirt sticking to his heart he does not know, from the outside he washes (himself). The blind one, being led astray, has fallen into the net of Tama. Another's thing (property) he considers as his own and earns pain in egotism.

Nanak (says): the egotism (individuality) of the disciple is broken, he meditates on the name of Hari, Hari.

The name he mutters, the name he worships, by the name he enters happiness.

There is conjunction of the body (with) the soul, (they are) joined in union.

By him separation is made, by whom it is produced.'

The fool is given to enjoyments, (but) all (is) pain.

From pleasure diseases arise by committing sin.

From joy, grief (arises), (man) is consumed (by the Supreme) having brought on separation (of the soul from the body).

The fool, making an estimate (of his meritorious actions) raises a quarrel.'

From the hand of the true Guru (comes) the settlement, (by him) the quarrel is brought to an end.

"WTiat the creator does, that will take place, what is done (moved) (against or without him), does not succeed.

He himself is ruined (and those who are) with (him), he ruins (also).

KTinak (says): as such a guide he becomes known.

In whose heart the True one is, he praises with his mouth the true name (and) the True one.

He himself is walking in the way of Hari and puts others into the way of Hari.