I have not received that water which I love.

Seeing it, my body blossomed forth, and I was blessed with a deep and beautiful color. ||30||

No one lives long enough to accomplish all he wishes.

Only the spiritually wise live forever; they are honored for their intuitive awareness.

Bit by bit, life passes away, even though the mortal tries to hold it back.

O Nanak, unto whom should we complain? Death takes one's life away without anyone's consent. ||31||

Do not blame the Sovereign Lord; when someone grows old, his intellect leaves him.

The blind man talks and babbles, and then falls into the ditch. ||32||

All that the Perfect Lord does is perfect; there is not too little, or too much.

O Nanak, knowing this as Gurmukh, the mortal merges into the Perfect Lord God. ||33||

Section 43 - Shaloks In Addition To The Vaars - Part 004

Shalok, Third Mehl:

One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

Do not call the wandering beggars holy men, if their minds are filled with doubt.

Whoever gives to them, O Nanak, earns the same sort of merit. ||1||

One who begs for the supreme status of the Fearless and Immaculate Lord

- how rare are those who have the opportunity, O Nanak, to give food to such a person. ||2||

If I were a religious scholar, an astrologer, or one who could recite the four Vedas,

I could be famous throughout the nine regions of the earth, for my wisdom and thoughtful contemplation. ||3||

If a Brahmin kills a cow or a female infant, and accepts the offerings of an evil person,

he is cursed with the leprosy of curses and criticism; he is forever and ever filled with egotistical pride.

One who forgets the Naam, O Nanak, is covered by countless sins.

Let all wisdom be burnt away, except for the essence of spiritual wisdom. ||4||

No one can erase that primal destiny written upon one's forehead.

O Nanak, whatever is written there, comes to pass. He alone understands, who is blessed by God's Grace. ||5||

Those who forget the Naam, the Name of the Lord, and become attached to greed and fraud,

are engrossed in the entanglements of Maya the enticer, with the fire of desire within them.

Those who, like the pumpkin vine, are too stubborn climb the trellis, are cheated by Maya the cheater.

The self-willed manmukhs are bound and gagged and led away; the dogs do not join the herd of cows.

The Lord Himself misleads the misguided ones, and He Himself unites them in His Union.

O Nanak, the Gurmukhs are saved; they walk in harmony with the Will of the True Guru. ||6||

I praise the Praiseworthy Lord, and sing the Praises of the True Lord.

O Nanak, the One Lord alone is True; stay away from all other doors. ||7||

O Nanak, wherever I go, I find the True Lord.