The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 209

Om! the true name is tbe creator, tbe divine male.

I. Sloli I.; mahala I. The Guru is the donor, the house (of tbe) Guru (is a house of) coolness (=refreshment), the Guru is the lamp in the three worlds.

Tlie boon of immortality, 0 Nanak, happiness is obtained by the mind being won over (or con- ciliated with him).

In (his) first affection' he sticks to the milk of (bis mother's) teat.

In the second (he gets) knowledge of mother (and) father.

In the third (of) brother, brother's wife (and) sister.

In the fourth affection sporting springs up.

In the fifth (there is) running after eating and drinking.

In the sixth he inquires after the caste of women.

In the seventh a household is set up (by him).

In the eighth wrath is indulged in, (the cause of) the destruction of the body.

In the ninth (his hairs become) white, heavy (his) breathing.

In the tenth he is burnt and becomes ashes.

The soul has flown away having inquired after the road.

He has come, gone (and) died — a (mere) name!

Afterwards he calls (to) the platter the crows.*

Nanak (says): the affection of the fleshly-minded one is blind.

(Up to) ten (years goes) childhood, (with) twenty (years there is) sporting (amorous dalliance), (being a man) of thirty he is called beautiful.

(Being) a man of forty he is in full strength, (being) a man of fifty (his) foot becomes weak, with sixty old age comes on.

(Being) a man of seventy he is weak in understanding, (being) a man of eighty he is no more able to do work.

With ninety he is sitting on a couch, being feeble he does not at all know (anything).

I have searched and sought and seen, (says) Nanak, (that) the world is a house of smoke.

' fV'KlH. affection, love; ten kinds of affections of men are mentioned, though tliey.are not applicable to all states, the whole description being too artificial and therefore unnatural.

° There are many readings: fjTjfY?. Tsfl'S'. ffl^R'S'; 't is best to read fij ( =?t) i[t3 or ^sfV?; the reading tiT3n3 gives no sense.

* The sense is: when the shraddha is over, in which the nearest relation has offered a platter (made of leaves and filled with fxjl^ or rice-balls), he calls the crows to eat up tlie offering.

Thou art the creator, the unattainable divine male, by thyself creation is produced.

Manifold (is thy) production, of many, many kinds and sorts.

Thou knowest (it), by whom they are produced, all is thy sport.

Some come, some go off, without the name they die.'

The disciples are deeply tinged with colour, they are steeped in colour, in the colour of Hari.