Thy light pervadeth creatures; creatures are contained in Thy light; Thou fillest inanimate and animate creation.[1]

Thou art the true Lord; beautiful is Thy praise; he who uttereth it is saved.

Nanak uttereth the words of the Creator; what is to be done God continueth to do.

Guru Angad

The Jogis deem it their duty to acquire divine knowledge, the Brahmans to read the Veds,

The Khatris to exercise bravery, the Sudars to work for others;

But the highest duty of all is to repeat the name of the one God.[2]

He who knoweth the secret of this

Is a bright God himself, and Nanak is his slave.

Guru Angad

There is one God, the God of all gods, the Supreme God of souls.

He who knoweth the secrets of the soul and of God,

Is a bright God himself, and Nanak is his slave.

Guru Nanak

Water remaineth if confined in a vessel; but it cannot remain without a vessel.

The mind controlled by divine knowledge is restrained; but without a guru there can be no divine knowledge.

[1. Also translated--Thy power (kala) is inconceivable (a, not, and kalna, to know).

2 Also translated--

The Jogis speak of divine knowledge, the Brahmans of the Veds;

The Khatris of bravery, the Sûdars of working for others.

All that they speak is concerning the one God.

]

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PAURI XII

When the literate man is sinful he deserveth Punishment; but punish not the illiterate saint.

As man acteth so shall he be described.

Play not such a game as shall bring thee defeat on arriving at God's court.

The literate and the illiterate shall be judged hereafter The headstrong shall be punished in the next world.

SLOK XIII

Guru Nanak

Nanak, this body of ours[1] hath one carriage and one driver.

They are both changed in every age: the holy man knoweth this.

In the Sat age contentment was the carriage, piety the driver in front;

In the Treta age continence was the carriage, strength the driver in front;

In the Dwapar age penance was the carriage, truth the driver in front;

In the Kal age passion[2] is the carriage, falsehood the driver in front.

Guru Nanak

The Sam Ved saith that the Lord is white-robed,[3] that men desired truth, abode in truth, and that all were absorbed in truth.

The Rig saith that God's name is everywhere contained, that it is as the sun in heaven;

That by repeating it sins depart,

[1. Meru is the large bead in which the two ends of a rosary are joined, without which it is believed that prayers repeated on the rosary are of no avail. Mer sharîr here means man's body, which is superior to that of other animals.