But what good will it do to repent at that time? I cannot escape by running away. ||1||

When this anxiety arises in the heart, then, one comes to love the Guru's feet.

My life becomes fruitful, O Nanak, only when I am absorbed in the Praises of God. ||2||3||

Maaroo, Ashtapadees, First Mehl, First House:

One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

Reciting and listening to the Vedas and the Puraanas, countless wise men have grown weary.

So many in their various religious robes have grown weary, wandering to the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage.

The True Lord and Master is immaculate and pure. The mind is satisfied only by the One Lord. ||1||

You are eternal; You do not grow old. All others pass away.

One who lovingly focuses on the Naam, the source of nectar - his pains are taken away. ||1||Pause||

Section 25 - Raag Maaroo - Part 021

Study the Lord's Name, and understand the Lord's Name; follow the Guru's Teachings, and through the Naam, you shall be saved.

Perfect are the Teachings of the Perfect Guru; contemplate the Perfect Word of the Shabad.

The Lord's Name is the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage, and the Eradicator of sins. ||2||

The blind ignorant mortal stirs the water and churns the water, wishing to obtain butter.

Following the Guru's Teachings, one churns the cream, and the treasure of the Ambrosial Naam is obtained.

The self-willed manmukh is a beast; he does not know the essence of reality that is contained within himself. ||3||

Dying in egotism and self-conceit, one dies, and dies again, only to be reincarnated over and over again.

But when he dies in the Word of the Guru's Shabad, then he does not die, ever again.

When he follows the Guru's Teachings, and enshrines the Lord, the Life of the World, within his mind, he redeems all his generations. ||4||

The Naam, the Name of the Lord, is the true object, the true commodity.

The Naam is the only true profit in this world. Follow the Guru's Teachings, and contemplate it.

To work in the love of duality, brings constant loss in this world. ||5||

True is one's association, true is one's place, and true is one's hearth and home, when one has the support of the Naam.

Contemplating the True Word of the Guru's Bani, and the True Word of the Shabad, one becomes content. ||6||

Enjoying princely pleasures, one shall be destroyed in pain and pleasure.

Adopting a name of greatness, one strings heavy sins around his neck.

Mankind cannot give gifts; You alone are the Giver of everything. ||7||

You are inaccessible and unfathomable; O Lord, You are imperishable and infinite.

Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, seeking at the Lord's Door, one finds the treasure of liberation.