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The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 504

Without the word of the Guru he afflicts his life.

(6). Having seen the wonderful one they remain amazed.

In everybody, in gods and men there is naturally (his) deep meditation.

(His) stream remains brimful in the mind.

(7). Who (entertain) devotion (and) a desire (for Hari), (in whose) mouth the name is:

In the society of (those) saints and devotees is Ham.

(Their) fetters are broken, easily meditation (is performed by them).

The disciples are emancipated by the knowledge of Hari, the Guru.

(8). The affliction of the angel of Tama does not touch him,

Who wakes in devout meditation on the name of Earn.

He is kind to (his) devotees, Hari is with his devotees.

Nanak (says): they are emancipated by love to Hari.

(1). Who serves the Guru, he knows the Lord.

(His) pain is effaced, who recognizes the True one by means of the word (of the Guru).

By serving the true Guru thou wilt see the Lord with (thy) eyes.

(2). A fetter is mother and father in the world.

A fetter is son and wife (and) duality in the mind.

(4). A fetter is husbandry, which the cultivator carries on.

He bears the fire of egotism (and) the Raja asks gifts.

(One) does not become satiated, the love of the Maya is (rather) increasing.

(6). It is a fetter, that the wholesale merchant collect perishable wealth.

Without devotion to Hari he is not accepted.

(7). A fetter is the Yeda, dispute and pride.

By a fetter (one) is destroyed, spu'itual blindness (is) a disease.

Those, who are preserved by the true Guru, are not fettered.

(1). On which the hair-plaits' are beautifully arranged, putting red lead on the dividing lines:

Those heads are sheared by scissors, dust comes on (their) neck.

(Who) were within palaces, they do not now meet to sit in the presence (of their husbands).-

0 primeval divine male, thy end is not obtained, thou goest on making disguises and seest them.

(2). Since they have been married, they shine at the side of their bridegrooms.

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