The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 104

*\B\\M> Abl. of M3\Q, from?T*rTT> good lot or desthiy. This seems to be the simplest explanation, the meaniug " naturally" not fitting so well tlie context. JraiB. literally: truer than true = perfectly true. * The sense is: man's toil is accomplished, or over. ' 'UT3rrT3> Sansk. TTTfT^TfT. the Coral-tree, one of the five trees of heaven.

74 f^IRI KAG. MAH. v.. SABD XXX. (0.); MAH. I., ASTPAD. I.

(4). As many fruits as are desired in the heart, so many are with the Guru.

The (fruits) written before are to be obtained (by him), (to whom) he gives the capital of the true name.

He who has come to the asylum of the true Guru, will not again be destroyed.

0 Hari, mayst thou never be forgotten by Nanak! this life, body and breath are thine.

(1). Hear, 0 saints, 0 brother! final emancipation (is obtained) by the true name.

The feet of the Guru should be embraced,' the name of Hari is the Tirtha.

In the next world (such a one) is received at the threshold, the placeless one obtains a place.

O brother, true is the service of the true Guru!

From the Guru, being pleased, the (aU-) filling, the invisible and indivisible' is obtained.

(2). (I am) devoted to the true Gui'u, who has given (me) the true name.

Daily I praise the True one, the qualities of the True one I sing.

The True one I eat, the True one I put on (as clothes), true is the name of the True one.

(3). May he not be forgotten at any breath (or) morsel, the Guru himself is the fruit-yielding body (or person).

Like the Guru none is seen, recite him (silently) day and night!

If he bestow a favourable look, then is obtained the true name, the vessel of (all) qualities.

(4). The Guru, the Supreme Lord, is One, he is contained in all.

To whom it was decreed before, they meditate on the name.

0 Nanak! who has resorted to the asylum of the Guru, does not die nor does he come (again) having gone.

(1). Speaking, speaking (my) heart is proclaiming (his qualities), as, as it is known (to my heart), so it proclaims (them).

He, who is proclaimed, how great is he, in which place is he? '

As many as are telling (his qualities), aU having told (them) continue meditating (upon them).

' T3^cVr (srevana), (Saiisk. -4||%|iJ(T|), v.a. To embrace, to hold fast, to resort to.

*>r3^ = Wf3^> having no difference (from the universe), the identity of the Supreme and of the universe.

The JK*I4M<1 does not always contain the exact number of eight verses, but sometimes one more or less.

* The whole verse is obscure and the sense can only be arrived at by conjecture.

Pause. 0 father, he (Hari) is invisible, inaccessible, infinite! True is the preserver, of a pure name, of a pure place.'

(2). It is not known how much thy command is, no one knows to write it down. If a hundred poets be assembled, not a moment they cause to arrive (at it), though they weep. His value has been obtained (found out) by no one, all tell it by hearsay. (3). Pirs, prophets, SaUks, Siidiqs and martyrs.^

Shekhs, ilullas, Darveshes: a great blessing has come upon them, who continually read (his) salutation.^ (4). Without asking (any body) he makes, without asking he pulls down, without asking he gives and takes.