Nanak saith, these are the marks of a Jogi.

He who maketh his body the vessel, remembrance of God his milk,

Who putteth pure truth into it as his acid,

Who by contrivance and effort easily curdleth the milk--

Without contrivance it would be spoiled--

Who useth divine knowledge as his churning staff and the Name as its string;

Who in this way repeateth only the Name,

And who by rolling and rolling extracteth the butter--

Nanak saith, these are the marks of a Jogi.

The Jogis wondered if he were a Bairagi. The Guru defined the word for them:--

He is a Bairagi who is sold to God,

Who in the presence of God subdueth mammon,

Who performeth the work of God and mammon,[1]

Who beareth an unbearable and intangible thing,

Who hath abandoned wrath, avarice, and pride--

Nanak saith, such a man is a Bairagi.

He who abideth lonely in the house of enjoyment,

And dwelleth in the house of worship--

[1. That is, who performs his worldly avocations and thinks of God at the same time.]

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Where the cat fleeth at the sound of a mouse[1]--

Nanak saith, is a Bairagi.

He is a Bairagi who embraceth contentment,

Who reverseth his breath and is absorbed in God,

Who subjecteth to himself the five senses--

Such a Bairagi shall rise higher than Shiv.

He who renounceth evil ways and fixeth his attention on the one God,

Nanak saith, is a Bairagi.

Upon this the followers of Gorakhnath pressed the Guru to adopt the style of a Jogi. The Guru asked them to describe a Jogi. They replied:--

A Jogi weareth earrings, a patched coat, carrieth a wallet, a staff,

And a deer's horn which soundeth through the world.

The Jogis were proceeding to give a further description of their sect when the Guru interrupted and offered spiritual substitutes for all the externals of a Jogi:--

Put the Guru's word into thy heart for the rings in thine ears; wear the patched coat of forbearance;

Whatever God doeth consider as good; in this way shalt thou easily obtain the treasure of jog.

O father, in this way the soul which hath been a pilgrim in every age, uniteth with the Supreme Essence.

He who obtaineth the ambrosial name of the Pure One, and maketh reflection his Jogi's cup,

Divine knowledge his staff, and the Omnipresent the ashes he smeareth on his body, shall enjoy the great elixir of divine knowledge.

Make God's praise thy prayer, the Guru's instruction thy sect of Atits,[2]

The renunciation of desires and quarrels thy sitting in contemplation in God's citadel[3]--

[1. Where hypocrisy flees before humility.

2. By Atîts here is meant a sect of Jogis who consider themselves liberated from worldly restraints.

3 The brain.]

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