In all places, You are the One and Only. As it pleases You, Lord, please save and protect me!
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Through the Guru's Teachings, the True One abides within the mind. The Companionship of the Naam brings the most excellent honor.
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Eradicate the disease of egotism, and chant the True Shabad, the Word of the True Lord. ||8||
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You are pervading throughout the Akaashic Ethers, the nether regions and the three worlds.
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You Yourself are bhakti, loving devotional worship. You Yourself unite us in Union with Yourself.
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O Nanak, may I never forget the Naam! As is Your Pleasure, so is Your Will. ||9||13||
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Siree Raag, First Mehl:
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My mind is pierced through by the Name of the Lord. What else should I contemplate?
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Focusing your awareness on the Shabad, happiness wells up. Attuned to God, the most excellent peace is found.
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As it pleases You, please save me, Lord. The Name of the Lord is my Support. ||1||
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O mind, the Will of our Lord and Master is true.
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Focus your love upon the One who created and adorned your body and mind. ||1||Pause||
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If I cut my body into pieces, and burn them in the fire,
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and if I make my body and mind into firewood, and night and day burn them in the fire,
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and if I perform hundreds of thousands and millions of religious rituals-still, all these are not equal to the Name of the Lord. ||2||
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If my body were cut in half, if a saw was put to my head,
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and if my body were frozen in the Himalayas-even then, my mind would not be free of disease.
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None of these are equal to the Name of the Lord. I have seen and tried and tested them all. ||3||
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If I made a donation of castles of gold, and gave lots of fine horses and wondrous elephants in charity,
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and if I made donations of land and cows-even then, pride and ego would still be within me.
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The Name of the Lord has pierced my mind; the Guru has given me this true gift. ||4||
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There are so many stubborn-minded intelligent people, and so many who contemplate the Vedas.
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There are so many entanglements for the soul. Only as Gurmukh do we find the Gate of Liberation.
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Truth is higher than everything; but higher still is truthful living. ||5||
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Call everyone exalted; no one seems lowly.
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The One Lord has fashioned the vessels, and His One Light pervades the three worlds.
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Receiving His Grace, we obtain Truth. No one can erase His Primal Blessing. ||6||
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When one Holy person meets another Holy person, they abide in contentment, through the Love of the Guru.
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They contemplate the Unspoken Speech, merging in absorption in the True Guru.
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Drinking in the Ambrosial Nectar, they are contented; they go to the Court of the Lord in robes of honor. ||7||
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In each and every heart the Music of the Lord's Flute vibrates, night and day, with sublime love for the Shabad.
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Only those few who become Gurmukh understand this by instructing their minds.
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O Nanak, do not forget the Naam. Practicing the Shabad you shall be saved. ||8||14||
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Siree Raag, First Mehl:
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There are painted mansions to behold, white-washed, with beautiful doors;
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they were constructed to give pleasure to the mind, but this is only for the sake of the love of duality.
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The inner being is empty without love. The body shall crumble into a heap of ashes. ||1||
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O Siblings of Destiny, this body and wealth shall not go along with you.
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The Lord's Name is the pure wealth; through the Guru, God bestows this gift. ||1||Pause||
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The Lord's Name is the pure wealth; it is given only by the Giver.
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One who has the Guru, the Creator, as his Friend, shall not be questioned hereafter.
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He Himself delivers those who are delivered. He Himself is the Forgiver. ||2||
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