Without the true Guru none hath found God: without the true Guru none hath found God.

God hath put Himself into the true Guru; He hath made manifest and proclaimed this.

Salvation is ever obtained by meeting the true Guru who hath banished worldly love from within him.

Best are the meditations of him who hath fixed his mind on the True One:

He hath found the Giver of life to the world.

[1. And have done nothing meritorious in this birth.

2. This verse is also translated--Many depart from here after spending what they possessed; had they any other business in this world?]

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SLOK VII

In pride man cometh, in pride he departeth;

In pride is man born, in pride he dieth

In pride he giveth, in pride he taketh;

In pride he earneth, in pride he spendeth;

In pride man becometh true or false;

In pride man meditateth evil or good;

In pride he goeth to hell or heaven;

In pride he rejoiceth, in pride he mourneth;

In pride he becometh filthy, in pride he is cleansed;

In pride man loseth his caste and race;

In pride are the ignorant, in pride the clever;

In pride one knoweth not the value of deliverance or salvation;

In pride is mammon and in pride its effect on the heart;

In pride are animals created.

When pride is removed, God's gate is seen.

Without divine knowledge man worrieth himself by talking.

Nanak, the Commander hath thus ordained it

As man regardeth God, so God regardeth him.[1]

Guru Angad

It is the nature of pride that it produceth pride.

This pride is a trammel which subjecteth man to repeated transmigration.

What is the origin of pride, and by what device shall it depart?

For pride it is ordained that, man wander according to his previous acts.

Pride is a chronic disease, but there is also a medicine for it in the heart.

If God bestow His grace, man shall avail himself of the Guru's instruction;

Saith Nanak, hear, O ye men, in this way trouble shall depart.

[1. Also translated--

(a) Treat men according to their acts.

(b) Treat others as thou wouldst be treated thyself.

]

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PAURI VII

They who have meditated on God as the truest of the true, have done real worship and are contented;

They have refrained from evil,[1] done good deeds, and practised honesty;

They have lived on a little corn and water, and burst the entanglements of the world.

Thou art the great Bestower; ever Thou givest gifts which increase a quarterfold.

They who have magnified the great God have found Him.

SLOK VIII

Men, trees, the banks of sacred streams, clouds, fields,

Islands, peoples, countries, continents, the universe,

The sources of production from eggs, wombs, the earth, and perspiration,