The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 66

0 Ifanak! the true king does not ask nor deliberate.

0 father! other sleeping is a poor pleasure.

By which sleep the body is pained and disorder rules in the mind.

(1). A body (besmeared) with kungu, adorned with jewels, perfume of aloe-wood, the breath (kept fast) in the body.

The mark of the sixty-eight Tirthas in the face — in this there is display of little wisdom. In that is wisdom: praising the true name, the abode of (all) excellences.

Pause. 0 father! other wisdom, other and other:

If it be practised a hundred times, it is the false effort of the false ones.

(2). He (=one) may apply himself to worship, he may be called a Pir, the whole world may flock to him.

He may make his own name famous, he may be counted amongst the Siddhs.

"^Tien his (honour) does not fall into account 'before God), all (his) worship is (but) a wretched thing.

(3). Those who are established by the true Guru,* nobody can efface.

"Within them is the abode of the name, by the name they will become manifest.

(By whom) the name is worshipped, the name is minded, they are always unbroken^ and true.

(4). "When dust is mingled with dust, what wiU become of the soul?

' TTtrf^ (Pers. tli^oi-L:) is the Siudhi TrT^TcT. a back-strap of a horse, merely put on for ornament's sake.

^ Nanak is said to have uttered these verses on being asked by his father Kalu to mount a horse and to go home. — See Sikha de raj etc., p. 294.

' The word;j^, other, does not quite agree with the preceding verse, and seems to be a mere repetition without any reference to the context. Tlie sense is: this and all sucli other moimting.

* Tlie Siklis always now refer the words mVh W3 to their Guru, as an incarnation of tlie Deity.

' Wrt?3> imbroken, not subject to death (fai^J ^T TnT T ^)-

All clevernesses are burnt (with the body); it rises and goes weeping.

0 Nanak! the name being forgotten what will become (of it) when having gone' to the gate (of God)?

Siri Rag; maJiaJd I. IX. (1). The virtues of the virtuous woman are spread (abroad), the vicious woman pines. If the fascinating woman longs for her husband, there is no meeting (with him), the friend (=husband) is hard-hearted.

There is no boat nor buoy, he is not obtained, the friend is far off.

Pause. My perfect Lord is motionless on his throne.

If he makes the disciple^ perfect, the True and TJnweighable one is obtained. (2). The palace of my Lord Hari is beautiful; in it are gems and rubies. His castle of pearls, pure diamonds and gold, is delightful. Without a ladder how shall I ascend to (his) castle?

1 am happy by the meditation on Hari (my) Guru.

(3). The Guru^ is the ladder, the Guru is the boat, the Guru is the buoy, the name of Hari.

The Guru is the pond, the sea, the boat, the Guru is the Tlrtha and the sea.

If she pleases him, she is bright, she goes to bathe in the true tank.

(4). He is called brimful,* dwelling on a full throne.