Unto Him I bow and offer my reverence; His Royal Court is eternal.

O Nanak, without the True Name, of what use is the frontal mark of the Hindus, or their sacred thread? ||1||

First Mehl:

Hundreds of thousands of virtues and good actions, and hundreds of thousands of blessed charities,

hundreds of thousands of penances at sacred shrines, and the practice of Sehj Yoga in the wilderness,

hundreds of thousands of courageous actions and giving up the breath of life on the field of battle,

hundreds of thousands of divine understandings, hundreds of thousands of divine wisdoms and meditations and readings of the Vedas and the Puraanas

- before the Creator who created the creation, and who ordained coming and going,

O Nanak, all these things are false. True is the Insignia of His Grace. ||2||

Pauree:

You alone are the True Lord. The Truth of Truths is pervading everywhere.

He alone receives the Truth, unto whom You give it; then, he practices Truth.

Meeting the True Guru, Truth is found. In His Heart, Truth is abiding.

The fools do not know the Truth. The self-willed manmukhs waste their lives away in vain.

Why have they even come into the world? ||8||

Shalok, First Mehl:

You may read and read loads of books; you may read and study vast multitudes of books.

You may read and read boat-loads of books; you may read and read and fill pits with them.

You may read them year after year; you may read them as many months are there are.

You may read them all your life; you may read them with every breath.

O Nanak, only one thing is of any account: everything else is useless babbling and idle talk in ego. ||1||

First Mehl:

The more one write and reads,

the more one burns.

The more one wanders at sacred shrines of pilgrimage,

the more one talks uselessly.

The more one wears religious robes, the more pain he causes his body.

O my soul, you must endure the consequences of your own actions.

One who does not eat the corn, misses out on the taste.

One obtains great pain, in the love of duality.

One who does not wear any clothes,

suffers night and day.

Through silence, he is ruined.

How can the sleeping one be awakened without the Guru?

One who goes barefoot

suffers by his own actions.

One who eats filth and throws ashes on his head

- the blind fool loses his honor.

Without the Name, nothing is of any use.

One who lives in the wilderness, in cemetaries and cremation grounds

- that blind man does not know the Lord; he regrets and repents in the end.

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One who meets the True Guru finds peace.

He enshrines the Name of the Lord in his mind.

O Nanak, when the Lord grants His Grace, He is obtained.