Beautiful is the woman who hath God for her Spouse; that God pleaseth me.

Nanak, she who is united with God by the Word shall not be separated from Him.

The following was addressed to Hindu devotees whom the Guru met in his wanderings in the Himalayas:--

[1. That is, there is no remedy for my negligence now.

2. The epic poems Ramâyan and Mahâbhârat.]

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Though man perform lip-devotion, penance, and austerities, dwell at places of pilgrimage,

Bestow alms and perform acts of devotion, what are these without the True One?

As he soweth so shall he reap; human life is lost without virtue.

O silly one, happiness is obtained by being a slave to virtue.

She who under the Guru's instruction abandoneth evil, shall be absorbed in the Perfect One.

The following is a brief lecture against hypocrisy, with a few precepts to obtain future happiness:--

God carefully draweth the touchstone over men in order to assay them.

The counterfeit shall not be accepted; the genuine shall be put into His treasury.

Dispel hopes and fears, so shall thy filth be washed away.

Everybody asketh for happiness; nobody asketh for misery.

Great misery attendeth on happiness, but the perverse understand it not.

They who consider happiness and misery the same, and know the secret of the Word shall be happy.

Man may escape from the dangers of this world by accepting the Guru and hearkening to his instructions:--

The fearful ocean of the world is dangerous and formidable; it hath no shore or limit,

No boat, no raft, no pole, and no boatman;

But the true Guru hath a vessel for the terrible ocean, and ferrieth over him on whom he looketh with favour.

Love for God is inculcated by familiar Indian examples:--

O man, entertain such love for God as the lotus hath for the water.

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Such love doth it bear it, that it bloometh even when dashed down by the waves.

The creatures which God created in water die without it, and therefore love it.

O man, how shalt thou be delivered without love?

God pervadeth the hearts of the pious, and bestoweth oil them a store of devotion.

O man, entertain such love for God as the fish for the water.

The more it hath, the happier it becometh, and the greater its peace of mind and body.

Without water it could not live for a moment; God alone knoweth the sufferings of its heart.

O man, entertain such love for God as the chatrik for rain:

Though the tanks be full and the earth drenched, it will not drink from either.

If so fated, it shall obtain the rain-drops, otherwise it is fated to die.

O man, entertain such love for God as water for milk.

The water alone is consumed in boiling and alloweth not tile milk to be consumed.

God uniteth the separated, and conferreth true greatness.