I have dispelled hopes and desires, and I no more long for mammon.

The holy man who hath found shelter in the society of the saints, obtaineth the fourth state.[1]

He in whose heart the invisible and inscrutable God dwelleth, possesseth all divine knowledge, meditation, devotion, and penance.

Nanak, he whose heart is dyed with God's name shall readily obtain devotion under the Guru's instruction.

The following is supposed to have been composed by the Guru on the death of his father:--

Abandon love of family and love of everything.

Abandon worldly love; it is all sinful.

Abandon worldly love and superstition, O my friends.

Repeat the true Name with your tongues and your hearts.

His children weep not and his mother afflicteth not herself for him[2]

Who possesseth the nine treasures of the true Name.

The world is ruined by such love as the worldly feel;

Only some rare pious man may be saved.

Through such love as that one is born again

He who feeleth such love goeth to the city of Death.

Practise acceptance of the Guru's. instruction as thy devotion and penance.

He who breaketh not with worldly love shall not be accepted.

If God look on man with favour such love shall depart,

O Nanak, and he shall be absorbed in God.

When Guru Nanak went to Gorakhmata-the present Nanakmata--he found religious men of

[1. Ancient Indian writers enumerate four states of life--jâgrat, waking; swapan, dreaming; sukhupati, deep sleep--{Greek e?peid'an tis kaðeu'dwn mhd? o?'nar mhde`n o!ra^j}(Plato, Apology); and turiya, mental absorption in God, in which state man is said to have obtained salvation during life. He then forgets the troubles of the world and is immersed in happiness.

2 The gyânis also translate--His heart crieth not or longeth for mammon.]

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several sects assembled there. The following was composed after a discussion with them:--

He who meditateth on knowledge conferreth favour on others;

When he correcteth his evil passions he dwelleth at a place of pilgrimage;

The tinkling bells of ecstasy resound for him when he turneth his heart to God.

What can Death do to me in the next world?

When man hath abandoned desires he is a Sanyasi.

If a Jogi be continent, he enjoyeth his body.[1]

He who in his heart meditateth mercy, is a Digambar:[2]

He tortureth himself, but not others.

Thou, O Lord, art one, but many are Thy manifestations.

Nanak knoweth not Thy wonderful play.

As a wife fears that she is forgotten by her spouse, so the holy man fears that he is neglected by God:---

I am not possessed of one virtue to cleanse my polluted body.

My Lord awaketh; I sleep the livelong night.

How shall I thus become dear to my Spouse?