The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 241

The disciple is delighted, (when) the Guru receives (him) into favour.

(4). All other delight is an imsolid delusion of the Maya.

It passes away and is a false glass and plating.

Humble Nanak (says): delight and satiety is (only) the true Guru.

- *rftf \ftQc\T. to apply to the mouth, i.r. to receive (an inferior) into fsvour, to become familiar with.

' f^ fnfeWT = f^ $ fitfenrr; l" the oUer language it would be f^ firfejjr, by meeting with whom.

* 7>3 VT^ ■H^f3 = 7r3 Vlfe vVfe. the final i in "VJTS^ being here lengthened in order to get a long metrical syllable; 7J^ VT^ "T^^ signifies therefore literally: (to) a man it is life's delight.

" 3R5TZ = 3T?5. T^rft is a meaningless alliteration to rhyme with tTTS-

RAG GATJRI, MAH. IV., SABD V.— VII. (XLIII.— XLV.) 233

(1). The service of the true Guru is rendered fruitful:

By meeting with whom the name of Hari, of Hari the Lord, is meditated upon.

By whom Hari is muttered, after them many people are emancipated.

Pause. 0 disciple, 0 my brother, say: Hari! Saying: Hari! aU sins go off.

(2). "When the Guru is met with, then the mind is brought into subjection. The five running (senses) are stopped, Hari is meditated upon. Day by day the qualities of Hari are sung in the city (=body). (3). Who put the dust of the feet of the Guru on their mouth: They abandon falsehoods and meditate devoutly on Hari. They are bright-faced at the threshold of Hari, 0 brother! (4). The service of the Guru is pleasing to Hari himself. Krishna and Balabhadra^ meditate at the feet of the Guru. Nanak (says): the disciple Hari himself brings across.

(1). Hari himself is the Jogi and carries a staff (like a Jogi).

Hari himself, the Banvari,- is contained (in all).

Hari himself practises austerities and is given to deep contemplation.

Pause. My Eam, who is of this kind, is all-filling. Hari dwells near and is not far off.

(2). Haxi himself is the word, the attention and contemplation is he himself. Hari himself sees, he himself is expanded.

Hari himself causes (his name) to be muttered, Hari himself mutters it. (3). Hari himself is the cloud (and) the stream of nectar (= water). Hari is the nectar, he himself is (also) the drinker (of it). Hari himself is bringing about final emancipation. (4). Hari himself is the boat, the buoy and raft.' Hari himself is, by (means of) the instruction of the Guru, salvation. Hari himself, (says) Nanak, is carrying across.*

(1). Thou art our wholesale merchant and our Lord, what sort of goods thou givest us, that we take. "We deal in the name of Hari with pleasure, if thou thyself, having become merciful, givest it (to us).

' t|M3^, name of the elder brother of Krishna.

^ "^^^THY = ^Ifllwf^i an epithet of Krishna, wearing a garland of wild flowers.

^ S'THT. s.m. ( = Sausk. cITT^' '"•) hoat, raft.

* VT^ VjKSOI. to bring or ferry across; Ifl^OT is here the causal of \|<J(M (to fall).

234 EAG GAURI, MAH. IV., SABD A'lII. IX. (XLYI. XLYII.)

Hari makes (us) carry on traffic, giving us a stock of goods, 0 dear!

(2). He obtains the gain of the worship of Huri and his wealth, who is pleasing to the mind of Hari, the true wholesale merchant.

(By whom), muttering Hari, the goods of Hari are laden, him Tama, the tax-gatherer, does not approach.

(3). The tradesmen, who caiTy on another traffic, are absorbed in pain, being tossed about by other (things).