The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 119

All the world is coming and going, only the residence of the Merciful one is firm.

(7). He is called stationary, on whose head there is no destiny.

Heaven and earth will pass away, he alone (will remain) stationary.

(8). Day and sun will pass away, night and moon will pass away, lakhs of stars will be destroyed.^

He alone is stationary; 0 Nanak, call him the True one! ^

(1). If he (the Guru) bestow mercy on the disciple, devotion is made, without the Guru devotion cannot be made.

' The Jogis have eighty-four sitting-postures.

' Tlie Siddh, an ascetic, who is said to have acquired superhuman powers. In the folloning verse tlie Siddhs are a sort of demi-gods, inhabiting, with the inferior deities and Munis, tlie region between the sun and earth. — See Vishnu Purana, ed. Wilson, p. 227.

' The Ganas (Sansk. IJTII) are troops of inferior deities attendant on Shiva and under the superintendence of Ganesh.

* 'Mwrk' from \)iit^| or H64«^cM, to be destroyed, from the Sansk. 11^^.

* '^3Tfe 's Persian t_J«ij, call, say! The insertion of a Persian word or phrase is considered very elegant by the.Sikhs.

90 i^fRT RAC. MAH. TIT.. ASTPAP II. (XIX.)

He himself unites (the disciple with himself), if he (the disciple) understand i the truth), then he ■will hecome pure.

Hari is true, true is (his) word, by the word (of the Guru) union is brought about.

0 brother, why hast thou come into the world void of devotion?

The service of the perfect Guru is not performed (by thee), uselessly (thy) human birth is wasted.

(2). Hari himself is the life of the world, the donor, he himself, having bestowed (the gift), unites.

"What are these helpless creatures? what can one say or tell?

He himself gives greatness to the disciple, he himself makes (him) perform worship.

(3). Having seen (his) family he is charmed with fascination, when departing, it does not go with (him).

"Wto serves the true Guru, obtains tlie abode of (all) qualities, his value is not ascertained.

My friend is the Lord Hari, he wiU be a companion (also) at the end.

(4). In the father's family' the life of the world is the donor; by the fleshly-minded one (his) honour^ is lost.

Without the true Guru no one knows the road, the blind one (has) no place whatever.

In whose heart Hari, the giver of comfort, is not dwelling, he will regi'et it at the end, when he is gone.

(5). In the fathers family the life of the world is the donor; by the instruction of the Guru he is caused to dwell in the heart.

Daily, day and night, (such a one) performs devotion, the infatuation of his egotism (individuality) is stopped.

He becomes such as the person is, with whom he is in love; the true ones are absorbed in the True one.

(6). "When he himself (=Hari) bestows a favourable look, he (=the disciple) conceives love (to him), having reflected on the words of the Guru.

By the service of the true Guru tranquillity springs up, having extinguished the thirst of egotism.