Nanak, the unfortunate one, begs for the charity of Truth; please bless him with this glory. ||4||11||

Prabhaatee, First Mehl:

If I remain silent, the world calls me a fool.

If I talk too much, I miss out on Your Love.

My mistakes and faults will be judged in Your Court.

Without the Naam, the Name of the Lord, how can I maintain good conduct? ||1||

Such is the falsehood which is plundering the world.

The slanderer slanders me, but even so, I love him. ||1||Pause||

He alone knows the way, who has been slandered.

Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, he is stamped with the Lord's Insignia in His Court.

He realizes the Naam, the Cause of causes, deep within himself.

He alone knows the way, who is blessed by the Lord's Glance of Grace. ||2||

I am filthy and polluted; the True Lord is Immaculate and Sublime.

Calling oneself sublime, one does not become exalted.

The self-willed manmukh openly eats the great poison.

But one who becomes Gurmukh is absorbed in the Name. ||3||

I am blind, deaf, foolish and ignorant,

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the lowest of the low, the worst of the worst.

I am poor, but I have the Wealth of Your Name, O my Beloved.

This is the most excellent wealth; all else is poison and ashes. ||4||

I pay no attention to slander and praise; I contemplate the Word of the Shabad.

I celebrate the One who blesses me with His Bounty.

Whomever You forgive, O Lord, is blessed with status and honor.

Says Nanak, I speak as He causes me to speak. ||5||12||

Prabhaatee, First Mehl:

Eating too much, one's filth only increases; wearing fancy clothes, one's home is disgraced.

Talking too much, one only starts arguments. Without the Name, everything is poison - know this well. ||1||

O Baba, such is the treacherous trap which has caught my mind;

riding out the waves of the storm, it will be enlightened by intuitive wisdom. ||1||Pause||

They eat poison, speak poison and do poisonous deeds.

Bound and gagged at Death's door, they are punished; they can be saved only through the True Name. ||2||

As they come, they go. Their actions are recorded, and go along with them.

The self-willed manmukh loses his capital, and is punished in the Court of the Lord. ||3||

The world is false and polluted; only the True One is Pure. Contemplate Him through the Word of the Guru's Shabad.

Those who have God's spiritual wisdom within, are known to be very rare. ||4||

They endure the unendurable, and the Nectar of the Lord, the Embodiment of Bliss, trickles into them continuously.

O Nanak, the fish is in love with the water; if it pleases You, Lord, please enshrine such love within me. ||5||13||

Prabhaatee, First Mehl: