The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 76

As their understanding is, so is their way.

The account is one and the same, (in consequence of which) they come and go.^

He {i.e. God) takes and gives, there is no remissness (on his part).*

(2). Thine are the creatures and thou belongest to the creatures.

To whom (else) shall they come and weep, 0 Lord?

As thou art the Lord, they come (to thee) and weep.

"Who (does) good works, he has full understanding.

"Without good works it (^i.e. the understanding) decreases in the heart.

(4). Nanak bows ( = says): what sort of a man will get divine knowledge?

He who knows his own self, will comprehend (God).

That sage is acceptable at the threshold (of God).

' Occupied with or in a low business, or a low-caste man.

^ It is difficult to say wliat is exactly meant by yOcJ t 3(d, as there is no hint to what it is to be referred. Very likely the sense is: my weight (3T3 '""y have this meauiug) is great, which I, as a clever man, have or exercise.

' WVfT is the final account taken and asked at the threshold of God, according to which they come and go, i.e. are subjected to transmigration.

sir! rag, MAH. I., SARD XXXI. XXXII. XXXIII. 39

(1). Thou art the ocean, wise and clear-sighted, how shall I, the little fish, obtain (thy) end? "Wherever I see, there art thou, if I go out from thee, I bui'st and die.

I do not know the fisher nor do I know the net. "When pain overtakes me, I remember thee.

(2). Thou, 0 beloved! art known as brimful, I am far oif. "WTiatever I do, that is in thy presence.

Thou seest, I do not acknowledge (it). Ifeither thy work nor thy name.

(3). As much as thou givest, so much I eat. I have no other door, to which door shall I go?

Nanak makes one supplication: soul and body, all is with thee.

(4). He himself is near, he himself is far, he himself is in the midst.

He himself sees and hears, he himself by his power makes the world.

That order, 0 JS'anak! which is pleasing to him, is authoritative.

(1). "Why is the creatm-e conceited in its mind? The gift is in the hand of the giver. As he pleases, so he gives or does not give. "What is effected by the word of the creature?

Pause. "Who himself is true, to him pleases truth. "Who is blind and ignorant, (to him pleases) nonsensical talk. (2). "Whose the trees are, (his is) the garden. As their kind (species) is, so is their name.

According to the nature of the blossom the fruit is defined (set down). Having sown himseK he himself will eat it. (3). A wall is raw, (if) the clay in it be raw.' If the intellect is unsalted, the flavour is insipid. 0 Xanak! the simple-minded are put right {i.e. succeed). "Without the name there is no commendation (at the threshold of God).

(1). The fraudless (man) fraud does not deceive, nor can a dagger wound him.

As the Lord keeps him, so he remains, (but) the soul of tliis greedy man is agitated.

' T^T?q, Srar THT (='3tT), the wall is raw, not good, firm, if the clay from which it is made be ran", i.e. bad, sandy.