Thou art bound by bonds and shalt suffer transmigration.

Thou dost not restrain thy seed, and yet thou callest thyself continent.

While saying 'Mother', thou beggest and fallest in love with woman.

Thou art without compassion and God's light shineth not in thee.

Thou art immersed in every species of entanglement.

With a patched coat and a bag thou assumest many guises.

Like a conjurer thou performest many tricks to deceive men.

The fire of anxiety burneth thy heart--

How shalt thou be saved without good works?

Thou makest rings of crystal for thine ears.

Without the highest divine knowledge there is no emancipation.

Thou art beguiled by the pleasures of the tongue and sensual organs.

Thou hast become a beast, and the mark of it shall not be erased.

[1. That is, go not a-begging.

2. Khapar. A wooden vessel shaped like a skull. It is carried by Jogis for the alms they receive.]

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There are three classes of people and three classes of Jog.[1]

He who meditateth on the Word shall need no mourning.

He who meditateth on the way of Jog is a Jogi

By the true Word he shall become bright.

The Guru in an address to a pandit rejects astrology:--

Thou calculatest auspicious moments, but reflectest not

That God is beyond auspicious moments.

He who meeteth the Guru knoweth them.

When there is the Guru's instruction man recognizeth God's will.

Speak not falsehood; O Pandit, tell the truth,

If pride depart by means of the Word, God's abode shall be attained.

The astrologer after calculating draweth out a horoscope

He readeth it to himself and others, but knoweth not the reality.

Deem the Guru's word the highest of all

Utter no other discourse; it were all in vain.

Thou bathest, and washest, and worshippest stones,

But without being imbued with God thou art the filthiest of the filthy.

Abandon pride, and thou shalt meet God the real. wealth.

Repeat God's name, and thou shalt succeed in obtaining emancipation.

Thou readest not thine epic poems nor reflectest on the Veds:

Drowned thyself, how canst thou save thine ancestors?

Few understand that God is in every heart.

When man meeteth the true Guru, he obtaineth understanding.

By making calculations such as thine doubt and sorrow enter the mind

But, when the Guru's protection is sought, happiness resulteth.

Having sinned we come to him for protection.

[1. People and Jog are subdivided according to the three qualities.]

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According to man's acts in a former state the Guru causeth him to meet God.

God cannot be obtained unless man enter the Guru's protection;

Otherwise he is led astray in superstition and suffereth transmigration.