forgetting Thy name is so attached to worldly goods, that he hath forgotten the Real Thing. Without Thy supreme mercy, how shall we cross the ocean of the world? O great King, lust, wrath, greed, worldly love, jealousy, and other evil passions greatly trouble our minds, but on coming towards Thee worldly maladies and afflictions are healed and dispelled. Show us such favour that we may by word and deed be Thine, and that in all things we may obtain Thine assistance and support.

Grant to Thy Sikhs the gift of Sikhism, the gift of the Guru's instruction, the gift of faith, the gift of confidence in Thee, and the gift of reading and understanding the holy Granth Sāhib.

May the Sikh choirs, mansions, and banners ever abide! Victory to the faith! May the minds of the Sikhs be humble but their intellects exalted! Utter Wāhguru! Wāhguru!! Wāhguru!!!

We offer this Ardas in Thy presence and at Thy lotus feet. Pardon our errors and mistakes. May all Sikhs who read and hear the Gurus’ hymns be profited!

Through Nānak, may Thy name, O God, be exalted,

And all prosper by Thy grace!

Sri Wāhguru ji ka Khalsa! Sri Wāhguru ji ki Fatah!

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Footnotes

64:1 Throughout the quotations the unusual spelling adopted by Mr. Macauliffe, e.g. Makka for Mecca, Quran for Koran, Veds for Vedas, Indar for India, Krishan for Krishna, etc., is followed.

64:2 These words, though omitted by Mr. Macauliffe, are inserted in deference to Sikh opinion.

65:1 In Oriental poetry it is the custom to insert the name of the poet at the end of any section.

67:1 Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiv form the Hindu triad, and are generally speaking regarded as the gods of creation, preservation, and destruction.

67:2 Consort of Shiv.

67:3 The Hindu goddess of wealth, consort of Vishnu.

67:4 The Hindu goddess of eloquence and learning.

68:1 The Sat, Tretā, Dwāpar, and Kal ages, corresponding to the golden, silver, brass, and iron ages of Greece and Rome.

68:2 Ancient Indian geographers divided the world into nine regions, or continents.

69:1 Indar, an ancient Hindu Deity, King of the Gods. In the Vedas, Lord of the sky.

69:2 Jog, originally meant the union of the soul of God. It is applied to certain practices adopted by ascetics (Jogis) for that end.

69:3 Sacred books of the Hindus.

70:1 Muhammadan saints.

71:1 Death.

73:1 Māya, illusion.

73:2 Pandit means literally a learned man. Here Brahmans learned in Sanscrit.

73:3 Sacred books of the Hindus, of which there are fourteen in number.

73:4 Muhammadan saints.

75:1 Indian musical measures (or rāgs) were allotted wives and daughters, i.e. variations of these tunes.

75:2 God of death.

75:3 A name of Shiv.

75:4 A Hindu goddess.