Ang-601 — Chapter 86

He wastes this precious human life through duality.

He does not know his own self, and trapped by doubts, he cries out in pain. ||6||

Speak, read and hear of the One Lord.

The Support of the earth shall bless you with courage, righteousness and protection.

Chastity, purity and self-restraint are infused into the heart,

when one centers his mind in the fourth state. ||7||

They are immaculate and true, and filth does not stick to them.

Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, their doubt and fear depart.

The form and personality of the Primal Lord are incomparably beautiful.

Nanak begs for the Lord, the Embodiment of Truth. ||8||1||

Dhanaasaree, First Mehl:

That union with the Lord is acceptable, which is united in intuitive poise.

Thereafter, one does not die, and does not come and go in reincarnation.

The Lord's slave is in the Lord, and the Lord is in His slave.

Wherever I look, I see none other than the Lord. ||1||

The Gurmukhs worship the Lord, and find His celestial home.

Without meeting the Guru, they die, and come and go in reincarnation. ||1||Pause||

So make Him your Guru, who implants the Truth within you,

who leads you to speak the Unspoken Speech, and who merges you in the Word of the Shabad.

God's people have no other work to do;

they love the True Lord and Master, and they love the Truth. ||2||

The mind is in the body, and the True Lord is in the mind.

Merging into the True Lord, one is absorbed into Truth.

God's servant bows at His feet.

Meeting the True Guru, one meets with the Lord. ||3||

He Himself watches over us, and He Himself makes us see.

He is not pleased by stubborn-mindedness, nor by various religious robes.

He fashioned the body-vessels, and infused the Ambrosial Nectar into them;

God's Mind is pleased only by loving devotional worship. ||4||

Reading and studying, one becomes confused, and suffers punishment.

By great cleverness, one is consigned to coming and going in reincarnation.

One who chants the Naam, the Name of the Lord, and eats the food of the Fear of God

becomes Gurmukh, the Lord's servant, and remains absorbed in the Lord. ||5||

He worships stones, dwells at sacred shrines of pilgrimage and in the jungles,

wanders, roams around and becomes a renunciate.

But his mind is still filthy - how can he become pure?

One who meets the True Lord obtains honor. ||6||

One who embodies good conduct and contemplative meditation,

his mind abides in intuitive poise and contentment, since the beginning of time, and throughout the ages.

In the twinkling of an eye, he saves millions.

Have mercy on me, O my Beloved, and let me meet the Guru. ||7||

Unto whom, O God, should I praise You?

Without You, there is no other at all.

As it pleases You, keep me under Your Will.

Nanak, with intuitive poise and natural love, sings Your Glorious Praises. ||8||2||

Dhanaasaree, Fifth Mehl, Sixth House, Ashtapadee:

One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

Whoever is born into the world, is entangled in it; human birth is obtained only by good destiny.

I look to Your support, O Holy Saint; give me Your hand, and protect me. By Your Grace, let me meet the Lord, my King. ||1||

I wandered through countless incarnations, but I did not find stability anywhere.

I serve the Guru, and I fall at His feet, praying, "O Dear Lord of the Universe, please, show me the way." ||1||Pause||

I have tried so many things to acquire the wealth of Maya, and to cherish it in my mind; I have passed my life constantly crying out, "Mine, mine!"