In the third watch, when both hunger and thirst bark, the morsels of food are put in the mouth.
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What is eaten become ashes, but still man has got friendship with eating.
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In the fourth watch drowsiness comes he closes his eyes and goes into the dream-land.
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Rising up he again engages in strife and sets the stage as if he is to live for hundreds of years.
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If, at all times and every moment, during the eight watches of the day man feels fear of God.
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O Nanak! the Lord abides within his mind and true becomes his ablution.
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Second Guru.
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They are the perfect bankers, who have found the perfect Lord.
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Throughout the eight watches of the day they remain unconcerned, and in the love of one God.
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Hardly any one can obtain the sight of the infinitely beauteous Lord.
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Through perfect good fortune man meets the Perfect Guru whose speech is perfect.
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Nanak if the Guru makes man perfect his weight decreases not.
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Pauri.
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When Thou art mine what more do I desire? I tell the truth O my Lord!
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She, who is defrauded by the thievish worldly affairs, obtains not her Lord's palace.
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Her mind is so much stone-hearted that she loses the chance of his service.
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The heart, where-in the True Lord is not found that should be destroyed and re-built.
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When weighed with the perfect weights how can her weight be found to be correct?
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If her ego goes, no one will say she is of short weight.
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The genuine are assayed and accepted in the Court of the All-seeing Lord.
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The true merchandise is in only one shop. It is obtained from the perfect Guru.
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Slok Second Guru.
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During the eight watches of the day and night, O mortal! destroy eight things (five deadly sins and three qualities) and in the ninth place, do subdue thy body.
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Within the body are the nine treasures of the unique Lord's Name. The virtuous and profound persons search those treasures.
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Making the Guru their spiritual guide the fortunate sing the praises of the Lord, O Nanak!
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In the fourth watch of the early morn, yearning arises in the mind of the men of exalted understanding.
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They have friendship with the streams and in their mind and mouth is the True Name.
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There ambrosia is distributed and the fortunate receive Name's gift.
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The body is assayed like gold and takes on the colour of spiritual progress.
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If the jeweler casts His merciful glance it is not again put in the fire.
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During the other seven watches, it is good to speak the truth and sit with the literates.
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There vice and virtue are discriminated and the capital of falsehood decreases.
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There the counterfeit are cast aside and the genuine are applauded.
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Vain is man's utterance, O Nanak! the weal and woe are near (in the power of) the Master.
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Second Guru.
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Air is the Guru, water is the Father, earth the great Mother,
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and day and night the two male nurse and female nurse, in whose lap the entire world plays.
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The merits and demerits shall he read in the presence of the Righteous Justice.
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According to their respective deeds some shall be near some distant from the Lord.
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They who have pondered on the Name and have departed after putting in toil.
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Nanak, their faces shall be bright and many shall be emancipated along with them.
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Pauri.
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The True food is the Lord's love. So says the True Guru.
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With the True Good I am appeased and with Truth I am delighted.
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True are the citadels and hamlets of him, who abides in his own home.
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When the True Guru is pleased man receives the Name and flowers in the Lord's love.
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In the Court of the True Lord, one cannot enter through false-hood.
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By telling nothing but untruth, that mansion of the Lord is lost.
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