2. In Sanskrit literature, Mâya is styled anâdi, without a beginning, hence uncreated, but this is not the doctrine of the Gurus. To believe that God did not create Mâya would be to believe in a limitation of His power.

3. Also translated--Thou givest and takest life from the body.

4. Koch is here used as the correlative of sach, true.]

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Guru Nanak[1]

Great is His glory whose name is great;

Great is His glory whose justice is true;

Great is His glory whose seat is immovable;

Great is His glory who understandeth our utterances;

Great is His greatness who knoweth all our feelings;

Great is His glory who giveth without consulting others;

Great is His glory who is all in all Himself.

Nanak, His acts cannot be described.

All that He did and hath to do dependeth on His own will.

Guru Angad

This world is the True One's chamber; the True One's dwelling is therein.

Some by His order He absorbeth in Himself; others by His order He destroyeth.[2]

Some at His pleasure He withdraweth from mammon; others He causeth to abide therein.

It cannot be even told whom He will regenerate.

Nanak, he to whom God revealeth Himself, is known as holy.

PAURI II

Nanak, God having created animals recorded their names, and appointed Dharmraj to judge their acts.

At His own court the real truth is adjudged; He separateth and removeth those who are attached to mammon.

There the false find no place: they go to hell with blackened faces.

They who are imbued with Thy name win; the deceivers lose.

God recorded names and appointed Dharmraj to record acts.

[1. In the original, Mahala I. It is so written to mark the distinction between the preceding verses, which are sloks, and the following verses, which are in a different measure.

2. By separating from Himself.]

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SLOK III

Guru Nanak

Wonderful Thy word, wonderful Thy knowledge;

Wonderful Thy creatures, wonderful their species;

Wonderful their forms, wonderful their colours

Wonderful the animals which wander naked;

Wonderful Thy wind; wonderful Thy water;

Wonderful Thy fire which sporteth wondrously;

Wonderful the earth, wonderful the sources of production

Wonderful the pleasures to which mortals are attached

Wonderful is meeting, wonderful parting from Thee;

Wonderful is hunger, wonderful repletion;

Wonderful Thy praises, wonderful Thy eulogies;

Wonderful the desert, wonderful the road;

Wonderful Thy nearness, wonderful Thy remoteness

Wonderful to behold Thee present.

Beholding these wonderful things I remain wondering.

Nanak, they who understand them are supremely fortunate.

Guru Nanak