if the Lord is not cherished in the heart! ||1||

Why should someone care for anything else,

if throughout his life, he gathers in that which is truly worth gathering? ||1||Pause||

The intellect of the mind is like a drunken elephant.

Whatever one utters is totally false, the most false of the false.

So what face should we put on to offer our prayer,

when both virtue and vice are close at hand as witnesses? ||2||

As You make us, so we become.

Without You, there is no other at all.

As is the understanding which You bestow, so do we receive.

As it pleases Your Will, so do You lead us. ||3||

The divine crystalline harmonies, their consorts, and their celestial families

- from them, the essence of Ambrosial Nectar is produced.

O Nanak, this is the wealth and property of the Creator Lord.

If only this essential reality were understood! ||4||9||

Aasaa, First Mehl:

When by His Grace He came to my home, then my companions met together to celebrate my marriage.

Beholding this play, my mind became blissful; my Husband Lord has come to marry me. ||1||

So sing - yes, sing the songs of wisdom and reflection, O brides.

My spouse, the Life of the world, has come into my home. ||1||Pause||

When I was married within the Gurdwara, the Guru's Gate, I met my Husband Lord, and I came to know Him.

The Word of His Shabad is pervading the three worlds; when my ego was quieted, my mind became happy. ||2||

He Himself arranges His own affairs; His affairs cannot be arranged by anyone else.

By the affair of this marriage, truth, contentment, mercy and faith are produced; but how rare is that Gurmukh who understands it! ||3||

Says Nanak, that Lord alone is the Husband of all.

She, upon whom He casts His Glance of Grace, becomes the happy soul-bride. ||4||10||

Aasaa, First Mehl:

Home and forest are the same, for one who dwells in the balance of intuitive peace and poise.

His evil-mindedness departs, and the Praises of God take its place.

To chant the True Name with one's mouth is the true ladder.

Section 08 - Raag Aasaa - Part 006

Serving the True Guru, one finds one's own place within the self. ||1||

To conquer the mind is the knowledge of the six Shaastras.

The Divine Light of the Lord God is perfectly pervading. ||1||Pause||

Excessive thirst for Maya makes people wear all sorts of religious robes.

The pain of corruption destroys the body's peace.

Sexual desire and anger steal the wealth of the self within.

But by abandoning duality, one is emancipated through the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||2||

In the Lord's Praise and adoration is intuitive peace, poise and bliss.

The Love of the Lord God is one's family and friends.