Without the Guru how shall God's name be obtained?

God's name is wealth which accompanieth and assisteth us.

Day and night he is pure who fixeth his attention on God.

What have we but God's name?

Treating pleasure and pain as the same I forsake not the Name: God will pardon and blend me with Himself.

The fool loveth gold and woman;

Attached to mammon he forgetteth the Name.

Him whom Thou, O God, pardonest Thou causest to repeat Thy name.

Death's myrmidons cannot overtake him who singeth Thy praises.

O Hari, who art God., the great Giver,

Mercifully preserve us as Thou pleasest.

Under the Guru's instruction God is pleasing to my mind

Disease is removed and pain averted.

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There is no other medicine, charm, or spell.

By remembering God, sin is destroyed.

As I behold creation I am amazed and astonished

God is contained in the hearts of demigods and men.

God who filleth every place, I hold in my heart.

There is none equal to Thee, O Lord.

He who loveth worship hath God's name in his mouth.

In the company of such saints and worshippers

Man breaketh his shackles and meditateth on God.

Pious men are emancipated by a knowledge of God through the Guru.

Death's myrmidons cannot inflict pain on him

Who awaketh in the love of God's name.

God to whom His saints are dear, abideth with them.

Nanak, salvation is obtained by bearing love to God.

The following on the disregard of worldly things was addressed to a selfish Brahman:--

He who serveth the Guru knoweth the Lord;

His pain is erased who recognizeth the True Word.

Repeat God's. name, my friends and companions.

On serving the true Guru ye shall behold God with your eyes.

Entanglements are mother, father, and the whole world

Entanglements are sons, daughters, and women;

Entanglements are religious ceremonies performed through ostentation;

Entanglements are sons, wives, and worldly love in the mind;

An entanglement is the tillage done by the tiller--

He suffereth for his selfishness when the King demandeth revenue--

An entanglement is traffic without meditating on God.

Man is never satisfied; worldly love is everywhere, diffused.[1]

An entanglement is the perishable wealth which merchants amass.

[1. Also translated--Man is not satisfied with the extension of his wealth.]

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Without devotion to God man findeth no place.

Entanglements are Veds, religious discussions, and pride.

By the entanglements of worldly love and sin man perisheth--

Nanak taketh shelter in God's name--

He whom the true Guru preserveth is freed from his entanglements.