Make a raft of devotion and penance, so mayest thou cross the stream.[3]

There is no lake, no overflowing; such a road is easy.

O Lord, Thy name alone is the madder with which my robe is dyed.

Such colour is everlasting, O my dear.

If thou, my beloved, go not thus arrayed to meet the Bridegroom, how canst thou meet Him?

If thou possess virtues, He will meet thee.

If He become united with thee, He will not part from thee; that is, if union be really effected.

It is the True One who putteth an end to transmigration.

She who hath abandoned egotism hath sewed for herself a garment to please the Bridegroom.

Under the Guru's instruction she obtaineth her reward in the ambrosial converse of her Lord.

Nanak saith, O female companions, the Lord is thoroughly dear.

We are His slaves, true is our Spouse.

Then Shaikh Brahm uttered the following:--

They who have heart-felt love for God are the true;

But they who have one thing in their hearts and utter another are accounted false.

[1. Also translated--Touch not safflower: its dye will depart.

2. Sûhi.

3. Wahela, also translated--comfortably.]

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They who are imbued with the love of God and a longing to behold Him are also true.

They who forget God's name are a burden to the earth.

God hath attached to His skirt those who were darweshes at His gate.

Blest the mothers who bore them; profitable was their advent into the world.

O Cherisher, Thou art illimitable, unapproachable, and endless.

I kiss the feet of those who recognize the True One.

I seek Thy shelter, O God; it is Thou who pardonest.

Grant Thy worship as charity to Shaikh Farid.[1]

On this the Guru uttered the hymn called Suchajji, the fortunate, in the Suhi measure:--

When I have Thee I have everything; Thou, O Lord, art my treasure.

In Thee I dwell in peace, in Thee to dwell is my pride;

If it please Thee, Thou bestowest a throne and greatness; if it please Thee, Thou makest man a forlorn mendicant;

If it please Thee, rivers flow over dry land, and the lotus bloometh in the heavens;

If it please Thee, man crosseth the terrible ocean; if it please Thee, he is drowned therein;

If it please Thee, Thou art my merry Spouse--I am absorbed in Thy praises, O Lord[2] of excellences.

If it please Thee, O Lord, Thou terrifiest me, and then I am undone with transmigration.

O Lord, Thou art inaccessible and unequalled; I am exhausted uttering Thy praises.

What can I ask of Thee? What can I say to Thee? I hunger and thirst for a sight of Thee.

Under the instruction of the Guru I have obtained the Lord; Nanak's prayer hath been granted.

[1. Âsa.

2. Tâsh is a Persian word meaning Lord. The gyânis translate it vessel.]

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