With the mind caught up in playful pleasures, involved in all sorts of amusements and sights that stagger the eyes, people are led astray.

The emperors sitting on their thrones are consumed by anxiety. ||1||

O Siblings of Destiny, peace is found in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy.

If the Supreme Lord, the Architect of Destiny, writes such an order, then anguish and anxiety are erased. ||1||Pause||

There are so many places-I have wandered through them all.

The masters of wealth and the great land-lords have fallen, crying out, "This is mine! This is mine!"||2||

They issue their commands fearlessly, and act in pride.

They subdue all under their command, but without the Name, they are reduced to dust. ||3||

Even those who are served by the 33 million angelic beings, at whose door the Siddhas and the Saadhus stand,

who live in wondrous affluence and rule over mountains, oceans and vast dominions-O Nanak, in the end, all this vanishes like a dream! ||4||2||72||

Section 05 - Siree Raag - Part 030

Siree Raag, Fifth Mehl:

Arising each day, you cherish your body, but you are idiotic, ignorant and without understanding.

You are not conscious of God, and your body shall be cast into the wilderness.

Focus your consciousness on the True Guru; you shall enjoy bliss forever and ever. ||1||

O mortal, you came here to earn a profit.

What useless activities are you attached to? Your life-night is coming to its end. ||1||Pause||

The animals and the birds frolic and play-they do not see death.

Mankind is also with them, trapped in the net of Maya.

Those who always remember the Naam, the Name of the Lord, are considered to be liberated. ||2||

That dwelling which you will have to abandon and vacate-you are attached to it in your mind.

And that place where you must go to dwell-you have no regard for it at all.

Those who fall at the Feet of the Guru are released from this bondage. ||3||

No one else can save you-don't look for anyone else.

I have searched in all four directions; I have come to find His Sanctuary.

O Nanak, the True King has pulled me out and saved me from drowning! ||4||3||73||

Siree Raag, Fifth Mehl:

For a brief moment, man is a guest of the Lord; he tries to resolve his affairs.

Engrossed in Maya and sexual desire, the fool does not understand.

He arises and departs with regret, and falls into the clutches of the Messenger of Death. ||1||

You are sitting on the collapsing riverbank-are you blind?

If you are so pre-destined, then act according to the Guru's Teachings. ||1||Pause||

The Reaper does not look upon any as unripe, half-ripe or fully ripe.

Picking up and wielding their sickles, the harvesters arrive.

When the landlord gives the order, they cut and measure the crop. ||2||