From the true Name--the kind Creator's name--honour is obtained.

If it dwell day and night in the heart, O Nanak, man shall be delivered by God's favouring glance.

The temptations to which man is exposed by his senses:--

The five evil passions dwell concealed within the heart;

Wherefore it remaineth not fixed, but wandereth like a pilgrim.

My mind remaineth not fixed on the Merciful One

Avaricious, deceitful, sinful, and hypocritical, it is excessively attached to worldly love.

When I meet my Beloved I will adorn myself,

And put on necklaces of flowers.

1 have five companions and one husband.[1]

It is ordained from the beginning that the soul depart.

The five senses shall weep in unison,

Saith Nanak, when the soul is arrested to give its account.

ASA ASHTAPADI

Guru Nanak expatiates on the advantage of the Guru's instruction and the repetition of God's name:--

Man may perform all. devotion, all penance, and resort to every expedient;

Yet he is as if he wandered in a wilderness, and could not find the way.

Without knowing God, no one is acceptable.

[1. This is the relation of the soul to the five senses or organs of perception.]

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Without the Name man is despised.[1]

The Lord is permanent; the world cometh and goeth.

Mortals shall be emancipated by being the holy man's slaves.

The world is bound by worldly love and many desires;

Yet some reject it under the Guru's instruction.

The lotuses of the hearts of those who have the Name within them bloom,

And they fear not Death

The world which loveth women is overcome by them.

Men attached to sons and wives forget God's name.

They waste in vain their human lives and lose their game.

To serve the true Guru is the best thing.

They who utter words of pride in public,

Never apply the unction of salvation to their hearts

They who burn worldly love under the Guru's instruction,

And ever meditate on the pure Name in their hearts,

Hold and restrain their wandering minds.

By God's favour the Guru associateth such persons with the congregation of the Sikhs.

Without a guru man forgetteth God and suffereth transmigration.

Him whom God regardeth favourably He blendeth with Himself.

If I speak of the beautiful One, I cannot describe Him.

If I discourse of the Ineffable, I cannot find His worth.

All pain and pleasure depend on Thy will, O God.

All pain shall be erased by the True Name,

And men shall hear instruments played without hands and anklets without feet.

If man understand the Word, he shall behold the True One.

When the True One is in the heart, all happiness is there also.

The Preserver preserveth men by His favouring glance.