The following was addressed to a mixed assembly of professedly religious men:--

I have searched in every direction, but found no friend.

If it please Thee, O Lord, Thou art mine and I am Thine.

I have no other gate than Thine; whom shall I salute?

I possess Thee alone, O Lord; Thy true name is in my mouth.

The Sidhs strive for supernatural power; Pirs also desire wealth and supernatural power.

May I not forget the one Name under the true Guru's instruction 1

Why do the Jogis, the Bhogis,[1] and the Kaprias wander in foreign lands?

They heed not the Guru's instruction or the Real Thing that is within them.

Pandits, preceptors, and astrologers ever read the Purans,

But know not the Thing within them--God who is concealed within the heart.

Some anchorets perform austerities in forests, others ever dwell at places of pilgrimages.

Those benighted people know not themselves; why have they become ascetics?

Some who are called Jatis try to restrain their seed:

Without the word of the Guru they shall not be saved, but shall wander in transmigration.

Different persons are family men, worshippers, penitents; but it is only they who are attached to the Guru's instructions,

Who hold fast the Name, charity, -and ablutions, and who awake in God's service.

[1. A sect of Indian Sybarites.]

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Through the Guru the gate of Thy house, O Lord, is known; when men go there they recognize it.

Saith Nanak, may I not forget Thy name, and may my heart be reconciled with the True One!

Precepts for salvation:--

By restraining his mental desires man shall assuredly cross the terrible ocean.

Thou, O Lord, wast in the beginning and in the primal age; Thou art the Merciful; I have entered Thine asylum.

Thou art the Giver; we are Thy beggars; O God, grant us a sight of Thee.

O man, meditate on the Name under the Guru's instruction, and thou shalt be happy in the temple of thy heart.

Renounce falsehood and avarice; and then shalt thou recognize the True One.

Be absorbed in the Guru's instruction, and thou shalt know what is best for thee.

This mind is a grasping tyrant enamoured of greed:

Under the Guru's instruction greed is removed, and man arriveth at an understanding with God.

If man sow a barren field, how shall he obtain profit?

The obstinate man is not pleased with the truth; he is buried in falsehood.

Renounce avarice, ye blind; it bringeth great unhappiness.

If the true Lord dwell in the heart, the poison of pride shall be removed.

Forsake the evil way of mammon, my brethren, or ye shall be plundered.

Day and night praise the Name under the protection of the true Guru.

The mind of the perverse is a stone or a rock; accursed and vain is his life.