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Shri Guru Granth Sahib: Raag Malaar

Section 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 001

Raag Malaar, Chau-Padas, First Mehl, First House:

One Universal Creator God. Truth Is The Name. Creative Being Personified. No Fear. No Hatred. Image Of The Undying. Beyond Birth. Self-Existent. By Guru's Grace:

Eating, drinking, laughing and sleeping, the mortal forgets about dying.

Forgetting his Lord and Master, the mortal is ruined, and his life is cursed. He cannot remain forever. ||1||

O mortal, meditate on the One Lord.

You shall go to your true home with honor. ||1 Pause||

Those who serve You - what can they give You? They beg for and receive what cannot remain.

You are the Great Giver of all souls; You are the Life within all living beings. ||2||

The Gurmukhs meditate, and receive the Ambrosial Nectar; thus they become pure.

Day and night, chant the Naam, the Name of the Lord, O mortal. It makes the filthy immacuate. ||3||

As is the season, so is the comfort of the body, and so is the body itself.

O Nanak, that season is beautiful; without the Name, what season is it? ||4||1||

Malaar, First Mehl:

I offer prayers to my Beloved Guru, that He may unite me with my Husband Lord.

I hear the thunder in the clouds, and my mind is cooled and soothed; imbued with the Love of my Dear Beloved, I sing His Glorious Praises. ||1||

The rain pours down, and my mind is drenched with His Love.

The drop of Ambrosial Nectar pleases my heart; the Guru has fascinated my mind, which is drenched in the sublime essence of the Lord. ||1||Pause||

With intuitive peace and poise, the soul-bride is loved by her Husband Lord; her mind is pleased and appeased by the Guru's Teachings.

She is the happy soul-bride of her Husband Lord; her mind and body are filled with joy by His Love. ||2||

Discarding her demerits, she becomes detached; with the Lord as her Husband, her marriage is eternal.

She never suffers separation or sorrow; her Lord God showers her with His Grace. ||3||

Her mind is steady and stable; she does not come and go in reincarnation.

She takes the Shelter of the Perfect Guru. O Nanak, as Gurmukh, chant the Naam; you shall be accepted as the true soul-bride of the Lord. ||4||2||

Malaar, First Mehl:

They pretend to understand the Truth, but they are not satisfied by the Naam; they waste their lives in egotism.

Section 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 002

Caught in slander and attachment to the wealth and women of others, they eat poison and suffer in pain.

They think about the Shabad, but they are not released from their fear and fraud; the minds and mouths are filled with Maya, Maya.

Loading the heavy and crushing load, they die, only to be reborn, and waste their lives again. ||1||