The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 370

He does not die nor perish, he neither comes nor goes.

Nanak (says): he is always contained (in all).

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(7). He himself instructs, he himself understands.

He himself is intimately connected with every one.

He makes innumerable amusements and sports.

He himself is in his mind (and) his mind is in himself.'

Nanak (says): no estimate of him can be told.

By the favour of the Guru he is described by some (rare) one.

True, true, true (is he, by whom) all is made.

Splendid, splendid, splendid is thy form,

Excessively beautiful, boundless and incomparable.

In eveiybody it is heard with the ears and praised.

Is (thy) name; he mutters it, who loves it in his heart, (says) Nanak.

Who falls on the asylum of the saints, that man will be saved.

By slandering the saints (one) will be regenerated again and again, 0 Nanak!

(1). By afflicting the saints (one's) lifetime is diminished.

By afflicting the saints he does not escape from Yama.

By afflicting the saints all happiness goes.

By afflicting the saints he falls into hell.

By afflicting the saints his mind becomes defiled.

By afflicting the saints he becomes denuded of lustre.

Who strikes - the saints, him no one protects.

By afflicting the saints he is degraded from his post.

If the compassionate saints bestow mercy (on him):

The slanderer also crosses in the society of the saints, (says) Nanak.

(2). By afflicting the saints he becomes restless.

By afflicting the saints he chatters like a crow.

By afflicting the saints he falls into the womb of snakes.

By afflicting the saints (he falls into) the womb of creeping animals.