Speech is vain and useless. O Nanak, pain and pleasure are in the power of our Lord and Master. ||1||

Second Mehl:

Air is the Guru, Water is the Father, and Earth is the Great Mother of all.

Day and night are the two nurses, in whose lap all the world is at play.

Good deeds and bad deeds-the record is read out in the Presence of the Lord of Dharma.

According to their own actions, some are drawn closer, and some are driven farther away.

Those who have meditated on the Naam, the Name of the Lord, and departed after having worked by the sweat of their brow

-O Nanak, their faces are radiant in the Court of the Lord, and many others are saved along with them! ||2||

Pauree:

The True Food is the Love of the Lord; the True Guru has spoken.

With this True Food, I am satisfied, and with the Truth, I am delighted.

True are the cities and the villages, where one abides in the True Home of the self.

When the True Guru is pleased, one receives the Lord's Name, and blossoms forth in His Love.

No one enters the Court of the True Lord through falsehood.

By uttering falsehood and only falsehood, the Mansion of the Lord's Presence is lost.

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No one blocks the way of those who are blessed with the Banner of the True Word of the Shabad.

Hearing, understanding and speaking Truth, one is called to the Mansion of the Lord's Presence. ||18||

Shalok, First Mehl:

If I dressed myself in fire, and built my house of snow, and made iron my food;

and if I were to drink in all pain like water, and drive the entire earth before me;

and if I were to place the earth upon a scale and balance it with a single copper coin;

and if I were to become so great that I could not be contained, and if I were to control and lead all;

and if I were to possess so much power within my mind that I could cause others to do my bidding-so what?

As Great as our Lord and Master is, so great are His gifts. He bestows them according to His Will.

O Nanak, those upon whom the Lord casts His Glance of Grace, obtain the glorious greatness of the True Name. ||1||

Second Mehl:

The mouth is not satisfied by speaking, and the ears are not satisfied by hearing.

The eyes are not satisfied by seeing-each organ seeks out one sensory quality.

The hunger of the hungry is not appeased; by mere words, hunger is not relieved.

O Nanak, hunger is relieved only when one utters the Glorious Praises of the Praiseworthy Lord. ||2||

Pauree:

Without the True One, all are false, and all practice falsehood.

Without the True One, the false ones are bound and gagged and driven off.

Without the True One, the body is just ashes, and it mingles again with ashes.

Without the True Ome, all food and clothes are unsatisfying.