A place of rest is recognized when men dwell there permanently.

What manner of resting-place is the world?

Tie up the practice of sincerity as thy travelling expenses, and remain attached to the Name.

Jogis sit in devotional postures, mullas dwell at places of rest;

Pandits read books; sidhs sit in the palaces of the gods;

Demigods, sidhs, heavenly musicians, munis, saints, shaikhs, pirs, and commanders

Have gone, stage by stage, and others too are departing.

Emperors, kings, princes, nobles have marched away.

Man must depart in a ghari or two; O my heart, understand that thou too must go.

This is told in hymns, yet few are they who understand it.

Nanak humbly asserteth, God is contained in sea and land, in the upper and lower regions;

He is unseen, inscrutable, omnipotent, the kind Creator.

The Merciful alone is permanent; the whole world beside is transitory.

Call Him permanent on whose head no destiny is recorded.

The heavens and the earth shall pass away; He the one God alone is permanent.

By day the sun travelleth, by night the moon; hundreds of thousands of stars pass away.

The one God alone is our resting-place, Nanak saith verily.[1]

Upon this the Pir was convinced that the Guru was an exalted spiritual leader.

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