The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 472

In rising and sitting, in sleeping and waking, continually Hari should be meditated upon! (2). CWhose) courts are very wonderful and beautiful, (who) has acquired high praises in battle; ^ "Who boasts with his mouth: I will kill, bind (and) set free!

(When) the order of the Supreme Brahm has come, he departs giving up (all) in one day. (3). He does many works and contrivances, (but) the creator he does not know. He gives instruction (to others), but he himself does not do the truth, the word (of the Guru) he does not recognize.

He has come naked and will go naked, as an elephant shakes off the dust.

(4). Hear, 0 my pious friend: all this expansion is false!

Saying: "mine, mine" they are drowned, the ignorant people are consumed and die.

Nanak, having met with the Guru, meditates on the name, by the true name he is saved.

(Being) blind by (worldly) occupations; some (rare) man of Hari wakes.

(2). (Their) life is absorbed (in) love to the very fascinating and beloved (Maya).

(3). The incomparable lotus-foot of Hari is the mantra of the saints.

(4). Nanak wakes in the society of the pious out of love to divine knowledge.

On him, whose lot is groat, mercy (is bestowed).

' xWrTTTt, corrupted for the sake of the rhyme instead of ■g»HT^ (Pers. Arab. cOUJ, earnest mouey = price, cost).

' "M<clrfl.«•'«■ a panegyrical kind of poetry, in wliicli the bravery of heroes, etc., is extolled; thence praises, panegyrics generally.

BiG ISA; MAH. V., SABD XL.-XLII. (CVII.-CIX.)

(,). «„ p,e..s the., h. U „„pt.d,.™ «»t i...e h.ppine»..d t»,.illit, (..) th. „ind

The p.we.f.1 cause ot causes i. buundta, tb.re i..0 other, 0 fr,e.d!

Those people become satiated (and) tuU (,oi it;, (uy wu; (3). mo is in thy protection, 0 Lord, he has no care

muat ha™* the t™, u.«e Ms.eeupati.u, iu b,e t. the.a»..t H.„ he.. su.t^

^.,, fi.,.'« filth > he f through) several births, obtains his own doing ( = deseita).

(1). Who washes another s filth, he (tmou; p^trance havin" gone to the city of

Here (he finds) no comfort (and there) at the threshold (no) entrance, havm. „

■Rv tVip slanderer his whole life is lost.

(C -lot r.«>h auythiu., further o. (iu the other ™>'') '^ ^J" ^^ «,„, 21 (Wheal the let «f the helpless.toderer has Mleu, <vh.t will th t poor man do H ■ Jru ae here.,her,..... protect, (hiu,), to,h.ar.h.U he «•• J™" fa N...tatiou accrue, to) the slanderer in aaj wa,, thus rt plea.e. the lord, ^i. calu„.iates L pieu., ^'^ ^ ^7^ i: t^S" le S^' ^talT:::y:»". P-^- "-ri..he sl.ude,e., are.,.pt.,a, (h, hi.,.

S' xt'r::;r;2r::3r.irt: sLfa., cd.t, he does.ot h.co.e.c.

• The sense is: to wash the filthy clothes of another, i.e. to criticize his actions.

'?f3 's here =;RTT3 «■/•,,,. j •♦i,„„f u^t\ The sense of these two

. 33 ^31 = 33 Sff, ^31 being here used as a postposU.on.

EAG ASA; MAH. T., SABD XLIII.— XLV. (CX.— CXII.) 537

(3). As a false rupee is discovered, -when it comes into the sight of the money-changer:

(So) the inward governor knows everything; what is hidden from him?