The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 490

(4). The whole world is subject to this law, he is saved, who has the perfect Guru.

Nanak says: the ocean of existence is crossed (by them), whose bodies have been purified.

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' In iTS^m the q is again a meaningless alliteratioQ.

566 RAG ASA; MAIL V., SABD CXXVIII.— CXXXI. (CXCY.— CXCVIII.)

(1). "What is done secretly, that is seen by thee, the silly, foolish people deny it.

deceiving (the fruit of) their (own) doings they are bound, afterwards they repent again (of it).

Pause. By my Lord eveiy procedure is known before.

From him. who is carried away by doubt, thou concealest thyself, afterwards the creature is listened to. ' (2). To whatever they are applied (by thee), to that they stick, what can any man do? Pardon me, 0 Supreme Brahm, 0 Lord, Nanak is always a sacrifice to thee.

(1). Thehonour of thy own servant thou thyself keepest, thou thyself makest (him) mutter (thy) name. Wherever the work of (thy) servant is, there he runs, having risen.

Pause. To (his) servant he shows, (that) he is near (him). Whatever the servant says to the Lord, that comes to pass instantly. (2). I am a sacrifice to that servant, who pleases his Lord. Having heard the report about him (my) mind became happy, Nanak comes to worship him.

(I). The rope-dancer exhibits disguises in many ways; as he is, such (am I), 0 dear. ( I) wandered about in many wombs in error and never have entered happiness, 0 dear!

Pause. The virtuous saints are my friends, without Hari (I am) continually overcome, 0 dear! Having fallen in with the society of the pious the excellences of Hari are sung (by me), regeneration, the (great) thing, is overcome, 0 dear!

(2). Say, in which wise shall the Maya with the three qualities, which was made by Brahm, be crossed?

The bottomless, hard whirlpool is crossed by means of the word of the Guru.

(3). Searching and searching I reflected, this truth was known by Kanak, 0 dear!

By remembering the name, the invaluable treasure, (my) mind, the ruby, believed (in it).

Dupade. (1). By the favour of the Guru he (Hari) dwells in my mind, what I ask, I obtain, 0 dear! By delighting in the name this (my) mind is satiated, I do not run again anywhere, 0 dear!

Pause. My Lord is higher than aU, day and night I praise him. In a moment he establishes and disestablishes, of him I make thee afraid, 0 dear!

' Tfftw?^ *fr<^ '-c- TftW sft "£113 W^, the word of the creature is minded (hj- thee).

RAG ASA; MAH. V., SABD CXXXII.— OXXXV. (CXCIX.-CCIT.) 507

(2). When I behold my own Lord aud master, I do not think in my mind of other friends. Nanak, the slave, is dressed by the Lord himself (with a dress of honour), having effaced error and fear in a moment.'

(1). The four castes and those who are pommelling the public, on the palm of whose hands the six philosophical systems are:

The beautiful, the clever, the handsome, the intelligent are deluded and deceived by the five,' 0 dear!

Pause. Is there such a strong man as to meet and beat the five heroes and champions? By whom the five are beaten and cut to jsieces, he is a perfect man in this Kali-yuga, 0 dear! (2). A very great tribe, that does not flee, a strong and obstinate army Is destroyed by that man, says Nanak, (who is) in the shelter^ of the society of the pious.

The highest good of the soul is the story about Hari, all other enjoyments are insipid, 0 dear!

(1). The Munis, acquainted with the six (philosophical systems) calculate much (in their) thought, and nothing is fixed (by them).''

(2). The pure, infinite, comfortable antidote^ against poison is matured in the society of the pious, (says) Nanak.

My beloved is the nectar- holding (word).