I would utter the name of the one Lord of the world hundreds of thousands of times with all my tongues.

In this way I should ascend the stairs of the Lord, and become one with Him.

On hearing of the exaltation of the religious the vile become jealous.[3]

Nanak, the former have found the Kind One, while false is the boasting of the false.

XXXIII

I have no strength to speak and no strength to be silent.[4]

I have no strength to ask and no strength to give

I have no strength to live, and no strength to die,

I have no strength to acquire empire or wealth which produce a commotion in the heart.

I have no strength to meditate on Thee or ponder on divine knowledge;

I have no strength to find the way to escape from the world.

He in whose arm there is strength, may see what he can do.

Nanak, no one is of superior or inferior strength before God.

[1. To supply human necessities.

2. That is, before man is born, his Portion is fully allotted him.

3. Literally--on hearing matters connected with heaven worms grow jealous.

4. This hyperbole means that man has no strength to do anything without God's assistance.]

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XXXIV

God created nights, seasons, lunar days, and week days,

Wind, water, fire, and the nether regions.

In the midst of these He established the earth as a temple.

In it He placed living beings of different habits and kinds.

Their names are various and endless,

And they are judged according to their acts.

True is God, and true is His court.

There the elect are accepted and honoured.

The Merciful One marketh them according to their acts.

The bad and the good shall there be distinguished.

Nanak, on arrival there, this shall be seen.

XXXV

Such is the practice in the realm of righteousness.

I now describe the condition of the realm of knowledge.

How many winds, waters, and fires! how many Krishans and Shivs!

How many Brahmas[1] who fashioned worlds! how many forms, colours, and garbs!

How many lands of grace like this![2] now many mountains!

how many Dhrus and instructors[3] such as his.

How many Indars, how many moons and suns, how many regions and countries!

How many Sidhs, Budhs, how many Naths! now many goddesses and representations of them!

How many demigods and demons! how many saints, how many jewels and seas!

How many sources of life! how many languages! and how many lines of kings!

How many possessors of divine knowledge! now many worshippers! Nanak, there is no end of them.

[1. The Hindus believe it was through the agency of Brahma God created the world.

2. Where men reap the results of their acts.