Meditate on the Name and thou shalt obtain happiness without the Name man is not victorious in the arena of the world.

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He who established the world knoweth its ways; what shall any one say?

He who established the world spread the net of mammon; accept that Lord with thy heart.

WADHANS KI WAR

Guru Nanak as usual pays no attention to ceremonial:--

Perish the ritual by which 1 forgot my Beloved!

Nanak, that is the true love which preserveth me in honour with the Lord.

RAG SORATH

The Guru's reflections on death and future punishment:--

Death must come to all and all must part company

Go and ask the wise if men shall meet hereafter or not.

They who have forgotten my God shall suffer great pain.

Certainly praise that true Being,

From whose glance of favour happiness ever resulteth.

Praise Him, for He is Great. He is, was, and ever shall be.

Thou alone, O God, art the Benefactor of all; no gifts are obtained from man.

What pleaseth Thee taketh place; what avail womanly tears?

How many kings have departed having exercised sovereignty over millions of fortresses on earth?

They whom the world could not contain have had rings put on their noses.[1]

If man thought of future torments why should he devote himself to enjoyment?[2]

Nanak, man shall have to wear on his neck as many chains as he hath sins.

If he possess virtues, which are as brothers and friends, his chains shall be cut off.

They who have no Guru shall not be accepted hereafter they shall be beaten and expelled.

[1. Have been made slaves.

2 Literally--Why should he eat sweet things?]

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The following is in opposition to all except deistic forms of religion:--

There appeareth no partner of Thine; then whom shall I praise but Thee?

Nanak, the slave of slaves representeth, God is known by the Guru's teaching.

The Guru's conception of God:--

The Unseen, Infinite, Inaccessible, Inapprehensible God is not subject to death or destiny.[1]

He is of no caste, unborn, self-existent, without fear or doubt.

I am a sacrifice to the Truest of the true.

He hath no form, or colour, or outline; He becometh manifest by the true Word.

He hath no mother, father, son, or kinsman; He feeleth not lust, and hath no wife

Or family; He is pure, endless, and infinite; all light is Thine, O Lord.

God is concealed in every heart; His light is in every heart.

He whose understanding's adamantine doors are opened by the Guru's instruction, fixeth his gaze on the Fearless One.

God having created animals made them subject to death, and retained all contrivances in his own power.

He who serveth the True Guru obtaineth the real boon, and is delivered by repeating the Word.