2. This is understood to be meant for neighbour's wife.]

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Our souls and bodies are all His capital; He it is who killeth and re-animateth.

The Guru reflects on the power of the deadly sins which lead men to destruction:--

The others[1] are five, I am but one; how shall I protect my house?

They ever assail and plunder me; to whom shall I complain?

Utter God's holy name, O my soul;

Before thee is Death's army fierce and numerous.

God erected a palace,[2] put doors to it, and the woman[3] sitteth within.

Deeming the world sweet, she ever sporteth, but these five men rob her.

When Death destroyeth the palace, her chamber is sacked, and she being alone is captured.

She is beaten by Death's mace, and his chains are riveted on her neck; the five men have taken flight.

The housewife wanteth gold and silver; friends want banquets.

Nanak, they who commit sin for these things shall go bound to Death's city.

Kinganath Jogi pressed Guru Nanak to become his disciple; the Guru replied that he had already learned the science of Jog. He composed the following hymn on the occasion:--

Make restraint of thine inmost heart thine earrings, thy body the patched coat;

Reduce thy five senses to subjection, O Jogi, and make a pure heart thy staff -

In this way shalt thou obtain the way of jog.

Make the fact that there is but one Word and none other thy devotion to tubers and roots.

If God could be obtained by merely shaving the head, we should make a god of the Ganges.[4]

[1. The deadly sins which rob the body.

2. The body.

3. The soul.

4 Where pilgrims shave their heads.]

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It is the one Lord who saveth the three worlds; thou thinkest not of Him, O fool.

If thou apply thy mind to words through hypocrisy, thy doubts shall never leave thee.

If thou turn thy thoughts to the feet of the one God, why pursue avarice and greed?

If thou repeat the Name of the Bright One, thy soul shall be absorbed in Him.

O Jogi, why utterest thou so much deceit?

Thy body is mad,[1] thy mind is silly, thou passest thy life talking of thy property.

Nanak representeth, it is after the naked body is burnt the soul regretteth lost opportunities.

Man's precious life should not be wasted, but should be devoted to God's service and not to the acquisition of wealth:--

Man loseth his nights in sleeping and his days in eating His human life, valuable as a diamond, he parteth with for a kauri.

Thou knowest not God's name; O fool, thou shalt here after regret.

Thou buriest endless wealth in the earth, yet thy desire for it departeth not.[2]

They who departed desiring endless wealth lost the Endless One.

If all were to obtain according to their desires, they would be happy.