The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 220

(Then), (says) Nanak, the Lord dwells in the heart, trae bathing is made (in it).

Those are perfect wholesale merchants, by whom the all-present one is obtained.

They remain unconcerned (all) the eight (watches = the whole day) in the same state of mind.

He, who is unfathomable in appearance (and) form, is obtained by (some) rare one.

By a perfect destiny the perfect Guru (is obtained), whose word is perfect.

Nanak (says): (if) he makes (it) full, the weight is not diminished.

When thou art, then what are others? by me the True one is proclaimed.

By her, who is robbed by (worldly) business, the thief, the palace (of Hari) is not obtained.

By this hard mind the service (of Hari) is discarded.

In whose body the True one is not found, that is broken and shaped (again). ^

How shall it be weighed with a full weight and balance?

No one says: (I am) little, in egotism people go on.

' Tlie reading JHlfU. as found in some IISS., is nTong, liTV-f, the substantive, must be read. In tlie more modern MSS.the copyists no longer know how to make the proper difference between J>rn-r and JHTfV- " IJ^Id' *•'"• dream. The sense is: that creature is compelled to enter new bodies.

The good ones are examined and picked out at the gate (of Hari). The ware is found in one shop ' by means of the perfect Guru.

(Vho) removes the eight, (who) destroys the eight, (who) destroys the nine (of) the body:'

In him (is) the name, containing the nine treasures, the One deep in qualities (= the Supreme Being)

By them, whose lot it is, he is praised, says Nanak, having made (to themselves) a Gum (or) Pir.'

In the fourth watch of the dawn (of day) the desire (after Hari) of the intelligent ones springs up.*

They have friendship with those oceans,' in their heart and mouth is the true name.

There nectar is distributed, (according to) one's destiny favour is bestowed.

The body, the gold, is closely examined, its colour comes fully out (on the touchstone).'

If the glance of the banker be favourable, it {i.e. the body) is not again thrown into the heat (to be

"Who removes the seven (temperaments),' he is true and good, he sits with the learned.

There demerit and merit are reflected upon, the capital of falsehood sinks down.

There the false ones (like spurious coins) are thrown down, the good ones are applauded.

Talking {i.e. remonstrating against this process) is superfluous (= useless), 0 Nanak, pain and pleasure

The breath (wind) is the Guru, water the father, the great earth the mother. Day and night, the two are the male and female nurses, the whole world sports. In the presence (of God) Dharm (raja = Tama) reads the good and bad actions (of the creatures). By their own works some are near and some far off (from God). By whom the name is meditated upon, they are gone, having done their work. Nanak (says): they are bright in their face; how many other people are released (from existence) in their company!

' T^^T> ware, or else ^1T3'. the thing, i.e. the name or the absolute being. 7TZ> the shop, i.e. the heart. ^ W3\. the eight; what eight? perhaps the ^SHT^ or eight affections of the body, the eight members of the body ("^SlStl). and the nine (^TT) outlets of the body. 1(11^ = 'HIT^. removing {adj.). ' i.e. having chosen for themselves a Guru (or) PIr.

* The sense is: early, at the dawn of day, the intelligent ones, who have found the Supreme within their body, are fiUed witli desire to praise him.

' f^AI T^YlMT^T filQ ■^♦IbT. friendship with those oceans, i.e. friendship, love to Hari, the ocean. The plural is honorific or to be e.xplained in tlie pantheistic sense of the Granth.