When it pleases Thee, O Lord! then the mortal smears his body with ashes and sounds the horn and the shell.
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When it pleases Thee one reads then the Muslim texts, and is acclaimed a Mullah and a Sheikh.
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When it is Thy will Then they become kings and enjoy good many sweet and saltish savours.
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When it is Thy will men wield the sword and sever the head from the neck.
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When it is Thine will, O master! people go in foreign lands and hearing various news, return home.
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When it is Thine pleasure man is absorbed in Thy Name and when it is Thy will he becomes pleasing to Thee.
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Nanak makes one supplication (that he may walk according to Thy will). All else is to practice false-hood.
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First Guru.
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As Thou art great all the greatness emanates from Thee. Being good Thou doest nothing but Good.
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When Thou art True then all that flows from Thee is true. Absolutely nothing is false.
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Talking, seeing, uttering, living, walking and perishing are from Thee, O Lord.
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Nanak, the True Lord Himself creates by His order and in His order He keeps all the beings.
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Pauri.
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Fearlessly serve the True Guru and thy wandering shall cease.
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Do thou that work, the work which the True Guru asks thee to do.
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If the True Guru becomes merciful, then alone can we dwell on the Name.
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The illustrious and genuine profit of the devotional service of God is obtained through the Guru.
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The way-ward person is in the inky darkness of falsehood and practises falsehood.
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Arrive at the True Guru's gate and repeat the True Name, O man.
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The true ones are called within the mansion of the True Master.
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Nanak the truthful person is, for ever true and is absorbed in the True Being.
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Slok, First Guru.
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The dark-age is the scalpel, the kings are the butchers and righteousness has taken wings and flown.
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In this no-moon night of false-hood, the moon of truth is not seen to rise anywhere.
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In my search, I have become bewildered.
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In darkness, I find no path.
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By taking pride, mortal bewails in pain.
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Says Nanak by what means can the mortal be delivered?
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Third Guru.
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In This dark age the Lord's praise has appeared as a light for the world.
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Through the Guru, a few swim across the life-ocean.
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The Lord bestows this light to him on whom He casts His merciful glance.
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Nanak, through the Guru he (such a man) receives the Name jewel.
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Pauri.
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Between the devotees of God and worldly men there can never be an alliance.
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The Creator Himself is infallible Duped by any one he errs not.
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His saints, who practise the whole truth, the Maker blends with His own self.
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The world-hardened men, who eat poison by repeatedly telling lies the Lord Himself has led astray.
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They know not the ultimate reality of departure and increase the poison of lust and wrath.
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The devotees, who night and day meditate on the Name perform God's service.
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Becoming the slave of the Lord's slaves they efface their self conceit from within them.
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Bright are their countenances in the Husband's Court, and they are adorned with the True Name.
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Slok, Fist Guru.
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Who praise God in the early morn and meditate on Him with single mind;
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They are the perfect kings and they die fighting against the deadly sins at the right time.
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In the second watch there are many ways in which the attention of the mind is scattered.
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Many fall into the unfathomable water, suffer immersions and cannot emerge out.
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