They are born, and they die, but they do not understand the Lord.

Night and day, they wander, in love with duality.

The lives of the self-willed manmukhs are useless; in the end, they die, regretting and repenting. ||6||

The Husband is away, and the wife is getting dressed up.

This is what the blind, self-willed manmukhs are doing.

They are not honored in this world, and they shall find no shelter in the world hereafter. They are wasting their lives in vain. ||7||

How rare are those who know the Name of the Lord!

Through the Shabad, the Word of the Perfect Guru, the Lord is realized.

Night and day, they perform the Lord's devotional service; day and night, they find intuitive peace. ||8||

That One Lord is pervading in all.

Only a few, as Gurmukh, understand this.

O Nanak, those who are attuned to the Naam are beautiful. Granting His Grace, God unites them with Himself. ||9||29||30||

Section 06 - Raag Maajh - Part 035

Maajh, Third Mehl:

The self-willed manmukhs read and recite; they are called Pandits-spiritual scholars.

But they are in love with duality, and they suffer in terrible pain.

Intoxicated with vice, they understand nothing at all. They are reincarnated, over and over again. ||1||

I am a sacrifice, my soul is a sacrifice, to those who subdue their ego, and unite with the Lord.

They serve the Guru, and the Lord dwells within their minds; they intuitively drink in the sublime essence of the Lord. ||1||Pause||

The Pandits read the Vedas, but they do not obtain the Lord's essence.

Intoxicated with Maya, they argue and debate.

The foolish intellectuals are forever in spiritual darkness. The Gurmukhs understand, and sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||2||

The Indescribable is described only through the beauteous Word of the Shabad.

Through the Guru's Teachings, the Truth becomes pleasing to the mind.

Those who speak of the truest of the true, day and night-their minds are imbued with the Truth. ||3||

Those who are attuned to Truth, love the Truth.

The Lord Himself bestows this gift; He shall not take it back.

Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, the True Lord is known forever; meeting the True One, peace is found. ||4||

The filth of fraud and falsehood does not stick to those who, by Guru's Grace, remain awake and aware, night and day.

The Immaculate Naam, the Name of the Lord, abides deep within their hearts; their light merges into the Light. ||5||

They read about the three qualities, but they do not know the essential reality of the Lord.

They forget the Primal Lord, the Source of all, and they do not recognize the Word of the Guru's Shabad.