I would utter the name of the one Lord of the world hundreds of thousands of times with all my tongues.

In this way I should ascend the stairs of the Lord, and become one with Him.

On hearing of the exaltation of the religious, the vile become jealous.

Nānak, the former have found the Kind One, while false is the boasting of the false.

From the Asa Ki Wār 1

(Repeated by Sikhs in the morning.)

There is but one God whose name is true, the

[paragraph continues] Creator, devoid of fear and enmity, immortal, unborn, self-existent, great and beneficent.

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Guru Angad

Were a hundred moons to rise, and a thousand suns to mount the sky;

Even with such light there would be appalling darkness without the Guru.

Guru Nānak

Nānak, they who very clever in their own estimation think not of the Guru,

Shall be left like spurious sesames in a reaped field.

They shall be left in the field, saith Nānak, without an owner:

The wretches may even bear fruit and flower, but they shall be as ashes within their bodies.

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

Islands, peoples, countries, continents, the universe,

Lakes, mountains, animals—O Nānak, God knoweth their condition.

Nānak, God having created animals taketh care of them all.

The Creator who created the world hath to take thought for it also.

It is the same Creator who made the world who taketh thought for it.

To Him be obeisance; blessings be on Him His court is imperishable.

Nānak, without the true Name what is a sacrificial mask? what a sacrificial thread?

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.

He who knoweth the secret of this

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

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Guru Angad

He who offereth salutation and at the same time criticiseth God's works, hath made a mistake from the beginning.

Both his salutation and criticism are in vain; Nānak, such a person shall not obtain a place in God's court.

Guru Nānak

Ever remember that Lord by worshipping whom thou shalt find happiness.

Why hast thou done such evil deeds as thou shalt suffer for?

Do absolutely nothing evil, look well before then;

So throw the dice that thou mayest not lose with the Lord,

Nay, that thou mayest gain some profit.

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