3. Nârad, who instructed Dhru to obtain his exalted dignity. Nârad is said to have been a son of Brahma. His father advised him to marry, but he rejected his advice saying it was only proper to love Krishan. Father and son then began to curse each other with immoral and disastrous results for both. One of Nârad's epithets is Strife-maker.]

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XXXVI

In the realm of knowledge the light of divine knowledge is resplendent.

There are heard songs from which millions of joys and pleasures proceed.

Beauty is the attribute of the realm of happiness.[1]

There things are fashioned in an incomparable manner.

What is done there cannot be described.

Whoever endeavoureth to describe it shall afterwards repent.

There are fashioned knowledge, wisdom, intellect, and understanding;

And there too is fashioned the skill of demigods and men of supernatural power.

XXXVII

Force is the attribute of the realm of action.[2]

Incomparable are they who dwell therein.

There are very powerful warriors and heroes

They are filled with the might of Ram.-

There are many Sitas[3] in the midst of greatness,

Their beauty cannot be described

They die not, neither are they led astray[4]

In whose hearts God dwelleth.

There dwell congregations of saints

They rejoice; the True One is in their hearts.

God dwelleth in the true realm.[5]

He looketh on its denizens with an eye of favour, and rendereth them happy.

There are continents, worlds, and universes.

Whoever trieth to describe them shall never arrive at an end.

[1. Sharm khand. Sharm is here not the Persian sharm, shame, nor the Sanskrit shram, toil. It is the Sanskrit sharman, happiness. The verse is also translated--Beautiful are the words of those who have attained the realm of the happy.

2. That is, the world.

3 Sita's name is apparently introduced here as she was the wife of Ram mentioned in the preceding line.

4 Na thâge jâh, literally--are not deceived.

5. Sach Khand.]

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There are worlds upon worlds and forms upon forms.

They fulfil their functions according to God's orders:

God beholding and contemplating them is pleased.

Nanak, to describe them would be impossible.[1]

XXXVIII

Make continence thy furnace, resignation thy goldsmith,

Understanding thine anvil, divine knowledge thy tools,

The fear of God thy bellows, austerities thy fire,

Divine love thy crucible, and melt God's name therein.

In such a true mint the Word shall be coined.

This is the practice of those on whom God looketh with an eye of favour.

Nanak, the Kind One by a glance maketh them happy.

SLOK

The air is the guru, water our father, and the great earth our mother;