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Shri Guru Granth Sahib: Raag Dhanaasaree

Section 14 - Raag Dhanaasaree - Part 001

Dhanaasaree, First Mehl, First House, Chau-Padas:

One Universal Creator God. Truth Is The Name. Creative Being Personified. No Fear. No Hatred. Image Of The Undying. Beyond Birth. Self-Existent. By Guru's Grace:

My soul is afraid; to whom should I complain?

I serve Him, who makes me forget my pains; He is the Giver, forever and ever. ||1||

My Lord and Master is forever new; He is the Giver, forever and ever. ||1||Pause||

Night and day, I serve my Lord and Master; He shall save me in the end.

Hearing and listening, O my dear sister, I have crossed over. ||2||

O Merciful Lord, Your Name carries me across.

I am forever a sacrifice to You. ||1||Pause||

In all the world, there is only the One True Lord; there is no other at all.

He alone serves the Lord, upon whom the Lord casts His Glance of Grace. ||3||

Without You, O Beloved, how could I even live?

Bless me with such greatness, that I may remain attached to Your Name.

There is no other, O Beloved, to whom I can go and speak. ||1||Pause||

I serve my Lord and Master; I ask for no other.

Nanak is His slave; moment by moment, bit by bit, he is a sacrifice to Him. ||4||

O Lord Master, I am a sacrifice to Your Name, moment by moment, bit by bit. ||1||Pause||4||1||

Dhanaasaree, First Mehl:

We are human beings of the briefest moment; we do not know the appointed time of our departure.

Prays Nanak, serve the One, to whom our soul and breath of life belong. ||1||

You are blind - see and consider, how many days your life shall last. ||1||Pause||

My breath, my flesh and my soul are all Yours, Lord; You are so very dear to me.

Nanak, the poet, says this, O True Lord Cherisher. ||2||

If you gave nothing, O my Lord and Master, what could anyone pledge to You?

Nanak prays, we receive that which we are pre-destined to receive. ||3||

The deceitful person does not remember the Lord's Name; he practices only deceit.

When he is marched in chains to Death's door, then, he regrets his actions. ||4||

Section 14 - Raag Dhanaasaree - Part 002

As long as we are in this world, O Nanak, we should listen, and speak of the Lord.

I have searched, but I have found no way to remain here; so, remain dead while yet alive. ||5||2||

Dhanaasaree, First Mehl, Second House:

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

How can I remember the Lord in meditation? I cannot meditate on Him in remembrance.

My heart is burning, and my soul is crying out in pain.

The True Lord creates and adorns.

Forgetting Him, how can one be good? ||1||

By clever tricks and commands, He cannot be found.