Meeting with the True Guru, one's filth is washed off, meditating on the Lord, the Primal Being, the All-knowing One.

Servant Nanak is forever a sacrifice to those who serve their Lord God. ||37||

Mortals give great thought to Maya and emotional attachment; they harbor great hopes, in greed and corruption.

The self-willed manmukhs do not become steady and stable; they die and are gone in an instant.

Only those who are blessed with great good fortune meet the True Guru, and leave behind their egotism and corruption.

Chanting the Name of the Lord, they find peace; servant Nanak contemplates the Word of the Shabad. ||38||

Without the True Guru, there is no devotional worship, and no love of the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

Servant Nanak worships and adores the Naam, with love and affection for the Guru. ||39||

Do not trust greedy people, if you can avoid doing so.

At the very last moment, they will deceive you there, where no one will be able to lend a helping hand.

Whoever associates with the self-willed manmukhs, will have his face blackened and dirtied.

Black are the faces of those greedy people; they lose their lives, and leave in disgrace.

O Lord, let me join the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation; may the Name of the Lord God abide in my mind.

The filth and pollution of birth and death is washed away, O servant Nanak, singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||40||

Whatever is pre-destined by the Lord God Creator, cannot be erased.

Body and soul are all His. The Sovereign Lord King cherishes all.

The gossipers and slanderers shall remain hungry and die, rolling in the dust; their hands cannot reach anywhere.

Outwardly, they do all the proper deeds, but they are hypocrites; in their minds and hearts, they practice deception and fraud.

Whatever is planted in the farm of the body, shall come and stand before them in the end.

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Nanak offers this prayer: O Lord God, please forgive me, and unite me with Yourself. ||41||

The mortal being does not understand the comings and goings of reincarnation; he does not see the Court of the Lord.

He is wrapped up in emotional attachment and Maya, and within his being is the darkness of ignorance.

The sleeping person wakes, only when he is hit on the head by a heavy club.

The Gurmukhs dwell upon the Lord; they find the door of salvation.

O Nanak, they themselves are saved, and all their relatives are carried across as well. ||42||

Whoever dies in the Word of the Shabad, is known to be truly dead.

By Guru's Grace, the mortal is satisfied by the sublime essence of the Lord.

Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, he is recognized in the Court of the Lord.

Without the Shabad, everyone is dead.