The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 300

(3). (They are) asking for happiness, (yet) their pain increases.

Without the One (they are) false, they do not become emancipated.

"Who continually says: "the creator," he sees (him).

(4). He extinguishes the fire of (worldly) thirst by the word (of the Guru),

(Who) by the instruction of the Guru causes the name to dwell in his heart,

(And) sings in true manner the excellences of Hari.

(5). In the body of the disciple is true love (to Hari).

(Who is) without the name, (does not get) his own place. -

Who is devoted to the love (of Hari), is most dear (to the) king (Hari).

(If) he bestow his (favourable) glance (on him), then he comprehends the name.

(6). The illusion of the Maya is all troubles.

The fleshly-minded one is dirty, wicked and ugly.

(If) he serve the true Guru, the troubles cease.

(Who has) the nectar-name, (he has) always happiness.

(7). The disciple comprehends (the True one), bestowing (on him) one (continual) meditation.

He lives in his own house and is absorbed in the True one.

From the perfect Guru he obtains this wisdom.

(8). (If) I would tell (His) story, there would be no end of it.

Having asked the Guru I saw, that there is no other gate.

Pain and pleasure (are allotted) by his decree and pleasure.

Nanak humbly says: devoutly meditate (on him)!

(1). " The Maya is the second," '■' so thinks the world. Lust, wrath, selfishness are perdition.

Whom shall I call the second? there is none.

(2). (She is) the second (to) the foolish one, (who) talks of two.

' The sense is: they carry about with themselves all passions. " t^^ dl G > his own place (of rest), i.e. final emancipation.

^ ^tT^ *ITfS*HT> Maya is the second (next the Supreme). In the mind of the people the Maya has a reality, thougli she is only an illusion.

He comes and goes, having died he becomes (again) a second.'

(3). The earth and the sky I do not look upon as two.

(4). I see the sun and the moon, the bright lamps.

In all is the dearly beloved youth contiguously.^