The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 74

The base ones have neither caste nor fellowship, by baseness nobody prospers.

The base practise baseness; having come (into this world) they lose their honour when, having gone.

(4). 0 Kanak! the heart should be instructed by the word of the Guru (and in) the praise (of Hari).

Those who are steeped in the love of the name of Earn, have no burden nor doubt.

In muttering Hari is the greatest profit, the fearless Hari (dwells then) in the heart.

(1). "Wealth, youth and a flower are guests for four days.

Like the leaf of a lotus,' after having brought forth flowers, is withering away.

Pause. Enjoy pleasure, when youth is fresh (blooming), 0 beloved! The few days (of youth) are (soon) over and the coat (=body) has become old. (2). My merry friends have departed and are fallen asleep in the grave-yard.'

1 also shall go sad and weep with a feeble voice.

(3). Thou hearest not at all the intelligence with thy ears, 0 woman!

Forthwith thou wilt come to thy father-in-law's house, thou wUt not be continually in thy father's house. 0 ^Nanak! know, she who has fallen asleep in her father's house out of season, has lost the bundle of her virtues and is gone off, having bound together vices.

(1). He himself is enjoying pleasure,' he himself is the pleasure, he himself is amusing (others) (with pleasure).

He himself is the petticoat ( = woman), he himself is the husband of the bed.

Fame. Given to pleasure is my Lord, brimful he is contained (everywhere). (2). He himself is the fisher and the fish, he himself is the water and the net.

' T-rSrfe. Sindhi M^jftiJ. Sansk. MHtlHt, the lotus plant, (not the floner) Nelumbium speciosum.

^ TTT3Tfe is explained by the Sikhs = c^^J j (in the graves), bnt the proper sense of the word is grave- yard, -rtldicv = Sansk. ^Vl^' decayed, the last syllable being originally ban = an, i.e. ^t*!, place, the place of the decayed.

^ H*ft*KT. '3^y 6\<i<^\, refers chiefly to sensual pleasure. d|<JcM is the causal of 3^^ (=3H^. •^•Hi. aid signifies either to amuse, to divert, or to cause (others) to dally with.

He himself is the bait' of the net, he himself is within (it) the greediness (of the fish). (3). My beloved himself is in many ways playful, 0 my (female) friend! He continually dallies (with) the favoured woman; behold! this is my state. (4). Nanak bows with supplication: thou art the lake, thou art the gander. Thou art the crane," thou art the white lotus, thou thyself seest (thy) opening.'

(1). Make this body the earth, (good) works the seed, the bow-holder* will pour water (upon it). (Make) the mind the husbandman, cause Hari to spring up (as a sprout) in the heart, thus then wilt obtain the state of final emancipation.

Why art thou proud, 0 fool! of the Maya (illusive wealth)?

Thy father, son, all thy wives, thy mother, will at the end not be thy companions.

(2). He who pulls out (from his heart) the abnormal state of sensuality and the wicked ones,' becomes meditating on the Supreme Spirit, after having given them up.

Then silent repetition (of the name), austerity and continence is made, when they {i.e. the wicked) are checked, the lotus opens in the hermitage {i.e. secluded heart).

(3). (Who) subdues the twenty-seven fold body,° (who) in the three stations' remembers continually death.

He recognizes in the ten and eighteen ' the Infinite; Nanak says: thus he is in one (continual) absorption (of thought).

(1). Make works the earth, the name the seed, give continually the water of truth.

Having become a husbandman, grow faith; paradise and hell is thus (obtained) by the fool (and) wise."

' *l^?^ s.m. dimhiutive of 'HS? (='nW'fi)> ^ plant (Arum ludicum), the root of which is sometimes eaten and used as a bait for fish.

' o^Gw (Saiisk. ^?T^) must here be translated by crane, for the sake of contrast. 5^^JKT> Sansk. ^f^^T, is the white lotus, that opens at night-time.

' fc-dl*! instead of HcJUTT (Sansk. f%cfiT^). the opening of the lotus (at night-time).