Bat, on being imbued with the Guru's word and teaching, God's name and service become firmly implanted in the heart.

Doubts which ruin the world by the disease of transmigration, cease not by wandering to places of pilgrimage.

The place of God is the abode of unmixed happiness; he who is truly wise repeateth God's name as his penance.

Every one is saturated with worldly love, and therefore endureth the great pain of birth and death.

Man shall be saved by hastening to the asylum of the true Guru and repeating God's name in his heart.

Man's mind becometh stable, and he practiseth divine meditation under the Guru's instruction.

Pure is the heart which containeth truth and the excellent jewel of divine knowledge.

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O man, by fear, love, and service, and by fixing thine attention on God's feet shalt thou cross the terrible ocean.

O God, put into my heart Thy name which is the purest of the pure; my body is in Thy sanctuary.

Extricate me, O God, from the waves of avarice and covetousness, and put Thy name as capital into my heart.

Chasten my mind, Thou spotless One, saith Nanak, I seek Thy protection.

BIHAGRE KI WAR

Reflections on the Hindu idol-worshippers:--

The Hindus have forgotten God, and are going the wrong way.

They worship according to the instruction of Narad.[1]

They are blind and dumb, the blindest of the blind.

The ignorant fools take stones and worship them.

O Hindus, how shall the stone which itself sinketh carry you across?

RAG WADHANS

The Guru enjoyed a vision of God in his dreams, and on awaking felt the pain of separation from Him --

The peacocks are crying with joy; O sisters, the rainy season hath come.

The fervent woman, O God, is enamoured of Thy glances which bind her like a rope.

I am a sacrifice to a sight of Thee, O God, to Thy name I am a sacrifice.

Since Thou art my Master I am proud; without Thee what pride should I have?

O woman, break thy couch with its frame and thine arm with their bracelets,[2]

Since, notwithstanding thy decorations, the. Lord is enamoured of others.

Thou needest not a bracelet-dealer, or silver, or glass bracelets:

[1. Nârad's Pancharâtrâ inculcates idolatry.

2. Literally--break thy bracelets on thy couch and along with them its frame and thine arms.]

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Burn the arm which embraceth not the Bridegroom.

All my companions went to enjoy the Bridegroom; whose door shall I, wretched that I am, approach?

O Lord, I think myself well behaved and very clever, yet I have no charm to please Thee.

I plaited my tresses With cosmetic and filled the parting of my hair with vermilion;

Yet when I went before Thee I was not accepted; I shall die of excessive grief.