They remain awake and aware in spiritual wisdom and meditation, and the true way of life. ||4||

They remain absorbed in the fear of God; they never leave it.

Who can estimate their value? They remain lovingly absorbed in the Lord. ||5||

The Lord unites them with Himself, dispelling their doubts.

By Guru's Grace, the supreme status is obtained. ||6||

In the Guru's service is reflection upon the Shabad.

Subduing ego, practice pure actions. ||7||

Chanting, meditation, austere self-discipline and the reading of the Puraanas,

says Nanak, are contained in surrender to the Unlimited Lord. ||8||6||

Gauree, First Mehl:

To practice forgiveness is the true fast, good conduct and contentment.

Disease does not afflict me, nor does the pain of death.

I am liberated, and absorbed into God, who has no form or feature. ||1||

What fear does the Yogi have?

The Lord is among the trees and the plants, within the household and outside as well. ||1||Pause||

The Yogis meditate on the Fearless, Immaculate Lord.

Night and day, they remain awake and aware, embracing love for the True Lord.

Those Yogis are pleasing to my mind. ||2||

The trap of death is burnt by the Fire of God.

Old age, death and pride are conquered.

They swim across, and save their ancestors as well. ||3||

Those who serve the True Guru are the Yogis.

Those who remain immersed in the Fear of God become fearless.

They become just like the One they serve. ||4||

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The Name makes a man pure and fearless.

It makes the masterless become the master of all. I am a sacrifice to him.

Such a person is not reincarnated again; he sings the Glories of God. ||5||

Inwardly and outwardly, he knows the One Lord;

through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, he realizes himself.

He bears the Banner and Insignia of the True Shabad in the Lord's Court. ||6||

One who dies in the Shabad abides in his own home within.

He does not come or go in reincarnation, and his hopes are subdued.

Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, his heart-lotus blossoms forth. ||7||

Whoever is seen, is driven by hope and despair,

by sexual desire, anger, corruption, hunger and thirst.

O Nanak, those detached recluses who meet the Lord are so very rare. ||8||7||

Gauree, First Mehl:

Meeting such a slave, peace is obtained.

Pain is forgotten, when the True Lord is found. ||1||

Beholding the blessed vision of his darshan, my understanding has become perfect.

The cleansing baths at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage are in the dust of his feet. ||1||Pause||

My eyes are contented with the constant love of the One Lord.

My tongue is purified by the most sublime essence of the Lord. ||2||