The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 226

What can the things do to the earth, in which everything is produced?

Nanak (says): then the honour (of a thing) is known, when he {i.e. God) protects (its) honour.

Pauri. Thou, 0 true Lord, art always happy. Thou art the true court, the others are coming and going. Who asks the true gift, he is like thee.

' The (S*^c^ is a sort of broom, made of white wool, with which the Jainas cleanse the place before and after them, lest they by inadvertence destroy a living being. Tliis broom they call JtIOc^I.

' tT^TTi a niendicaut; they worsliip Shiva aud the Liuga and hate the Bralimau. They wear matted hail' and ring a bell wlien begging.

^ ^113 has here the meaning of "fntgal temperance."

* 14S<.1, s.m. a sliect spread out to receive rice, etc., from the cooking vessel. Tlie sense is: every one gets liis ^fuU) share of food.

' The argument used here is just the same as that advanced iu the Bhagavad-Gita, iii. 10.

True is thy order, by the word (of the Guru) it is made pleasant.

By minding it divine knowledge and meditation are obtained from thee.

According to (one's former) works the sign' is made, it does not go off, though one try to remove it.

Thou art the true donor, thou givest always, as it increases, (the more thou givest).

Nanak asks for that gift, which is pleasing to thee.

Who has been initiated and instructed (in truth), he, by means of praising (Hari) is absorbed in the True one.

"What instruction shall be given to them, whose Gur-dev Nanak is?

Whom he himself causes to apprehend (the truth), he apprehends (it).

To whom he himself makes it known, to him becomes known everything.

Having related, related the story he fights (with) the Maya.'

By his order he makes all forms (of existence).

Nanak (says): the word is told by himself.

(His) misapprehension ceases, to whom (this) gift is made.

I, the unemployed musician, was put (by him) into (his) work.

Many times, by day and night, an order was given (by him to me) from the beginning.

The musician was called by the I,ord to the true palace.

With true praises praising (him) he obtained clothing.

The true nectar-name was given (to him) as food.

(By whom) it is eaten, they are satiated and obtain comfort.

(If) he (God) bestows favour (on) the musician, the word (=name) is sounded (by him).

Nanak (says): having praised the True one the Omnipresent was obtained (by me).

' <^*< I A, the sign, mark, i.e. tlie allotment put donii for a creature.