O Nanak, he acts in accordance with the Will of God; he endures whatever he is given. ||1||

First Mehl:

Says Nanak, listen, O mind, to the True Teachings.

Opening His ledger, God will call you to account.

Those rebels who have unpaid accounts shall be called out.

Azraa-eel, the Angel of Death, shall be appointed to punish them.

They will find no way to escape coming and going in reincarnation; they are trapped in the narrow path.

Falsehood will come to an end, O Nanak, and Truth will prevail in the end. ||2||

Pauree:

The body and everything belongs to the Lord; the Lord Himself is all-pervading.

The Lord's value cannot be estimated; nothing can be said about it.

By Guru's Grace, one praises the Lord, imbued with feelings of devotion.

The mind and body are totally rejuvenated, and egotism is eradicated.

Everything is the play of the Lord. The Gurmukh understands this. ||13||

Shalok, First Mehl:

Branded with a thousand marks of disgrace, Indra cried in shame.

Paras Raam returned home crying.

Ajai cried and wept, when he was made to eat the manure he had given, pretending it was charity.

Such is the punishment received in the Court of the Lord.

Rama wept when he was sent into exile,

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and separated from Sita and Lakhshman.

The ten-headed Raawan, who stole away Sita with the beat of his tambourine, wept when he lost Sri Lanka.

The Paandavas once lived in the Presence of the Lord; they were made slaves, and wept.

Janmayjaa wept, that he had lost his way.

One mistake, and he became a sinner.

The Shaykhs, Pirs and spiritual teachers weep;

at the very last instant, they suffer in agony.

The kings weep - their ears are cut;

they go begging from house to house.

The miser weeps; he has to leave behind the wealth he has gathered.

The Pandit, the religious scholar, weeps when his learning is gone.

The young woman weeps because she has no husband.

O Nanak, the whole world is suffering.

He alone is victorious, who believes in the Lord's Name.

No other action is of any account. ||1||

Second Mehl:

Meditation, austerity and everything come through belief in the Lord's Name. All other actions are useless.

O Nanak, believe in the One who is worth believing in. By Guru's Grace, he is realized. ||2||

Pauree:

The union of the body and the soul-swan was pre-ordained by the Creator Lord.

He is hidden, and yet pervading all. He is revealed to the Gurmukh.

Singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord, and chanting His Praises, one merges in His Glories.

True is the True Word of the Guru's Bani. One unites in Union with the True Lord.

He Himself is everything; He Himself grants glorious greatness. ||14||