The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 129

(13). The tnie Gui'u, being met with, is known.

By the meeting with whom the name is praised.

Without the true Guru it is not obtained; the whole (world), doing (religious) works, has become tired,' 0 Lord!

(14). I have devoted myself to the true Guru.

Who has put me, who was led astray by error, into the (right) way.

If he bestows his own favourable look, he himself unites (with himself), Sir!

0 Nanak, he has become manifest to that disciple, to whom the creator has communicated his Ught, Sir!

(16). By the Lord himself he is cherished.

He preserves the honour of his own servant, putting both hands on his forehead. Sir!

(17). All abstinences and cunnings have come to an end.

His glory is laid out manifest, all the world cries: victory! Sir!

(18). My virtues (and) vices he has not taken into account.

Taking me to his neck he has preserved (me), no hot wind touches (me). Sir!

(19). In my heart and body the Lord is meditated upon.

The fruit desii-ed by my heart I have obtained.

Thou ai-t Lord above a king and emperor, Nanak lives reciting silently (thy) name, 0 Lord!

Thou hast made another sport (= the world) and shown it.

In aU is the perfectly True one; whom he pleases, him he lets know (the truth), Sir I

(21). (Where) he is obtained by the favour of the Guru.

There the infatuation of the Maya is brought to an end.

He himself, out of his own mercy, absorbs (with himself). Sir-!

(22). (Thou art) the Gopis, the river, the cowherd.

By (thy) order the vessels are made, thou thyself having broken (them) makest (them again),' 0 Lord!

(23). Who have fixed their mind on the true Guru.

' Tlie 5!cWf3> 0'" foolishness, consists in considering oneself different from the Supreme.

^ The words Wd[ ^^ W^ft 'jftRH must he thus constructed: fl^T »H7f3 ^ftW ^ (^J^ ^).

' Has become tired, knocked up. Tlie sense is: all their (religious) works have been of no use, the name was not obtained by their works.

' The sense is: the Lord has rememl)ered tliat it is bis practice ever to forgive.

' JKTQ '^fTi ff^fS tTV© may also be translated: thou thyself, having prepared (or adorned them), breakest (them).

A pure light is in those men, they are gone, having adorned their human birth, Sir!