The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 310

Kanak (says): the union does not cease (again), he obtains true gain.

(1). (If) by the favour of the Gui'u one comprehend (the truth), then matters come to an issue. The pure name, that is in every house, is my Lord.

"Without the word of the Guru one is not emancipated, reflect and look!

If one do Lakhs of (religious) works, without the Guru there is darkness (in him).

(2). "Who are blind and without understanding, what shall be said to them?

Without the Guru the road is not known, in which wise shall one get through?

(3). The counterfeit it calls genuine, (because) it has no knowledge of the genuine.

To the blind one it gives the name of examiner; the time of the Kali-yug is wonderful.

(4). The sleeping one it calls awake, the waking one asleep.

The living one it calls dead, for the dead one it is not weeping.

(5). The coming one it calls going, the going one come.

"What is another's it calls its own, what is its own, is not considered (as such).

(6). What is sweet, it calls bitter, the bitter it calls sweet.

Who is attached (to it), it calumniates: such things I have seen in the Kali-yug.

(7). It worships the maid-servant (= the Maya), the Lord is not seen (by it).

Empty water is churned, (but) no butter comes out of it.

(8). ("Who) explains this word, he is my Guru.

Nanak (says): (who) knows his own self, he is boundless.

' fJWT^j divhic knonledge, the oiily sure means of effecting final emancipation.

■ T^^i firm, i.e. no more siilyect to transmigration.

■* 3rS Wo? (Sausk. JIUJl * ), tlie place or repository of all qualities or virtues, an epithet of tlie Supreme.

RAG GAURI, MAH. Ill, ASTPAD. I. II. (XIX. XX.) 331

(9). He himself is all, he himself exists (in all), by himself (all) is led astray. By the mercy of the Guru it is understood, (that in) all Brahm is contained.

EAGU GAUEI GUAEEUl; M.iHALA III. Astpadls.

(I). Impurity' of the miud is second love. Who are led astray and are erring, come and go.

Pause. The impurity of the self-wUIed one never goes off,

As long as he does not delight in the word (of the Guru) and in the name of Hari. (2). All is impurity, whatever has the form of spiritual blindness. (Such a one) repeatedly dies and is born again. (3). There is impm-ity in fire, wind, water. There is impurity (of) food, as much as one may eat. (4). By impurity (of) works worship cannot be made. The mind of him becomes pure, who is attached to the name. (5). By serving the true Guru impurity goes off. (Such a one) does not die nor is bom again nor doth death eat (him). (6). Let any one search the Shastras and the Smriti and see! Without the name no final emancipation is obtained.

(7). In the four Tugs the name is the highest thing; having reflected on the word (of the Guru), The disciple will cross over (the water of existence) in the Kali-yug. (8). (When) the true (disciple) dies, he does not come nor go (again). Nanak (says): the disciple remains absorbed (in the Supreme).

(1). The disciple (is engaged in) the service (of him, who is) the support of life. The disciple keeps Hari in his heart and breast. The disciple (gets) lustre at the true gate.

0 Pandit, read Hari and give up passions!