[1. Jhâlâ is a woman's head of hair. The actors, who in India are generally all men, wear female wigs.

2. Bhini. Literally--dewy; when the atmosphere is calm and the heat not excessive.]

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They cannot fly or obtain supernatural power.

Leaping and dancing are human recreations,

Nanak, they who have the fear of God in their hearts have also love.

PAURI V

Thy name is the Formless: by repeating it man goeth not to hell.

The soul and body are all Thine: what Thou givest man eateth: to say aught else were waste of words.

O man, if thou desire thine advantage, do good acts and be lowly.

Even though thou stave off old age, it shall come to thee in the disguise of death.

None may remain when his measure is full.

SLOK VI

The Musalmans praise the Shariat, read it, and reflect on it;

But God's servants are they who employ themselves in His service in order to behold Him.

The Hindus praise the Praised One whose appearance and form are incomparable;

They bathe in holy streams, perform idol-worship and adoration, use[1] copious incense of sandal.

The Jogis meditate on God the Creator, whom they call the Unseen,

Whose form is minute, whose name is the Bright One, and who is the image of their bodies.[2]

In the minds of the generous contentment is produced in their desire to give.

Others give, but ask a thousandfold more, and still meant the world to honour them.

Why mention thieves, adulterers, perjurers, evil and sinful men?

[1. Some suppose kâr to be a noun meaning the lines Hindus draw on the ground to enclose cooking-places, within which others are not

admitted.

2. The Jogis, when in intensely deep meditation, close their eves. On opening them and looking upward they suppose that they behold God in their own image in the firmament.]

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Many depart from here after eating what they had amassed in previous births;[1] shall they have any business whatever in the next world?[2]

The animals which live in the water, dry land, the fourteen worlds, and all creation--

What they say Thou alone knowest; for them too Thou carest.

Saith Nanak, the saints hunger to praise Thee; the true Name is their support.

In everlasting joy they abide day and night: may I obtain the dust of the feet of such virtuous men!

Guru Nanak and Shaikh Brahm discussed the question of the disposal of the dead. The Shaik maintained that a man who was burned would either go to hell or not rise at the day of judgement.

Guru Nanak

The ashes of the Musalman fall into the potter's clod;

Vessels and bricks are fashioned from them; they cry out as they burn.

The poor ashes burn and weep, and sparks fly from them.

Nanak, the Creator who made the world, knoweth whether it is better to be burned or buried.

PAURI VI