Please be fair with me, All-knowing Lord God. ||7||

God smiled at me and spoke, passing judgement.

He made all the demons perform service for me.

You are my Lord and Master; all this home belongs to You.

Says Nanak, the Guru has passed judgement. ||8||1||

Prabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:

Section 34 - Raag Prabhaatee - Part 022

Within the mind dwell anger and massive ego.

Worship services are performed with great pomp and ceremony.

Ritual cleansing baths are taken, and sacred marks are applied to the body.

But still, the filth and pollution within never depart. ||1||

No one has ever found God in this way.

The sacred mudras - ritualistic hand gestures - are made, but the mind remains enticed by Maya. ||1||Pause||

They commit sins, under the influence of the five thieves.

They bathe at sacred shrines, and claim that everything has been washed off.

Then they commit them again, without fear of the consequences.

The sinners are bound and gagged, and taken to the City of Death. ||2||

The ankle-bells shake and the cymbals vibrate,

but those who have deception within wander lost like demons.

By destroying its hole, the snake is not killed.

God, who created you, knows everything. ||3||

You worship fire and wear saffron colored robes.

Stung by your misfortune, you abandon your home.

Leaving your own country, you wander in foreign lands.

But you bring the five rejects with you. ||4||

You have split your ears, and now you steal crumbs.

You beg from door to door, but you fail to be satisfied.

You have abandoned your own wife, but now you sneak glances at other women.

God is not found by wearing religious robes; you are utterly miserable! ||5||

He does not speak; he is on silence.

But he is filled with desire; he is made to wander in reincarnation.

Abstaining from food, his body suffers in pain.

He does not realize the Hukam of the Lord's Command; he is afflicted by possessiveness. ||6||

Without the True Guru, no one has attained the supreme status.

Go ahead and ask all the Vedas and the Simritees.

The self-willed manmukhs do useless deeds.

They are like a house of sand, which cannot stand. ||7||

One unto whom the Lord of the Universe becomes Merciful,

sews the Word of the Guru's Shabad into his robes.

Out of millions, it is rare that such a Saint is seen.

O Nanak, with him, we are carried across. ||8||

If one has such good destiny, then the Blessed Vision of His Darshan is obtained.

He saves himself, and carries across all his family as well. ||1||SECOND PAUSE||2||

Prabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:

Meditating in remembrance on the Naam, all the sins are erased.

The accounts held by the Righteous Judge of Dharma are torn up.