The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 355

Nanak (says): preserve (me), bestowing thy own kindness (on me)!

Thou art mother and father, we are thy children.

What is made by thee, that is obedient to thee.

Thy own secret mind thou thyself knowest.

Nanak, thy slave, is always a sacrifice (to thee).

Slot Who, forsaking the Lord, the giver, clings to another: He never becomes accomplished, without the name his honour goes.

frTRTi V7> litprally: the foot of Vislinn, a song in praise of Vishnu, in which the beauty of his lotus- foot is set forth.

(1). These things thou takest and puttest them behind (thyself).

On account of one thing thou throwest away thy faith,

If he do not give the one and also take away the ten.

From whom nothing, nothing can be enforced:

(2). The wholesale-merchant gives his own innumerable stock (of goods).

Eating and drinking (man) lives in joy and pleasure.

If the wholesale-merchant takes again something of his deposit:

"Who puts the thing before him, whose (property) it is,

And (who) minds the order of the Lord with his head:

The Lord is always merciful, (says) Nanak.

(3). There is much devotedness for the sake of the Maya.

That passes away and he repents in his heart.

0 mind, love to the name of Hari is giving comfort.

He himself bestows it {i.e. the love) out of mercy, (says) Nanak.

(4). Vanity is all, the body, wealth and family.

Tanity is egotism, selfishness and the Maya.

Vanity is dominion, youth, wealth and property.

Vanity are chariots, elephants, horses and clothes.

Vanity delight in the Maya, seeing whom one laughs.

Vanity is fraud, spiritual blindness and conceit.

Vanity it is, if one be proud of himself.

Durable is worship in the asylum of the pious.

Nanak (says): (one) lives muttering continually the feet of Hari.