In the third watch when hunger and thirst are both barking, food is put into the mouth.

What is eaten becometh filth, yet man again desireth food.

In the fourth watch drowsiness cometh, man closeth his eyes and goeth into dreamland.[1]

Again rising in the morning he engageth in turmoil, and yet maketh preparations to live a hundred years.

If man feel love for God every moment during the eight watches of the day,

O Nanak, God will dwell in his heart and true shall be his ablution.

Man's continual thought should be devotion to his Maker:--

When Thou art near, what more do I desire? I speak verily.

He who is deceived by false worldly occupations reacheth not God's palace:

His heart is hard and he loseth his service.

The house which containeth not the True One, should be destroyed and rebuilt.

When its owner is weighed, how shall he be found of full weight?

If he lose his pride, no one will say he is of short weight.

The genuine shall be assayed, and selected at the gate of the All-seeing.

The true goods are only in one shop; they are obtained from the perfect Guru.

The advantages conferred on men by the True One:--

Without the True One all are false and practise falsehood.

Without the True One the false shall be bound and led away;

[1. Pawâr properly means trance, or suspended animation.]

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Without the True One the body is dust and shall be rolled in the dust

Without the True One dress and food are all hunger

Without the True One the false shall not attain God's court.

The false attached to avarice miss God's palace.

The whole world is deceived, and cometh and goeth in deception.

In the heart is the fire of greed which is quenched by the Guru's instruction.

The advantages of the Guru, who is likened to a life-giving tree --

Nanak, the Guru is the tree of contentment, whose blossom is religion and whose fruit is divine knowledge.

It aboundeth in succulence and is ever green; it ripeneth by good works and meditation.

Honour is obtained by partaking of its relish; it is the greatest of gifts.

There is a tree of gold; its leaves are corals; its blossoms, jewels and rubies.

It beareth gems for fruit, and the heart of him who eateth it rejoiceth.

Nanak, it is obtained by him on whose forehead such destiny hath been recorded.

The sixty-eight places of pilgrimage are at the Guru's feet, and ever specially worship them.

Cruelty, worldly love, avarice, and wrath are four streams of fire:

They who fall into them are burnt. O Nanak, but deliverance is obtained by cleaving to good works.

The evil of forgetting God:--

In the heart and mouth of the perverse who never remember Thee,.