The status of the minstrel is exalted; he loves the Name of the Lord.

The service of the minstrel is to meditate on the Lord; he is emancipated by the Lord. ||18||

Shalok, Third Mehl:

The milkmaid's status is very low, but she attains her Husband Lord

when she reflects upon the Word of the Guru's Shabad, and chants the Lord's Name, night and day.

She who meets the True Guru, lives in the Fear of God; she is a woman of noble birth.

She alone realizes the Hukam of her Husband Lord's Command, who is blessed by the Creator Lord's Mercy.

She who is of little merit and ill-mannered, is discarded and forsaken by her Husband Lord.

By the Fear of God, filth is washed off, and the body becomes immaculately pure.

The soul is enlightened, and the intellect is exalted, meditating on the Lord, the ocean of excellence.

One who dwells in the Fear of God, lives in the Fear of God, and acts in the Fear of God.

He obtains peace and glorious greatness here, in the Lord's Court, and at the Gate of Salvation.

Through the Fear of God, the Fearless Lord is obtained, and one's light merges in the Infinite Light.

O Nanak, that bride alone is good, who is pleasing to her Lord and Master, and whom the Creator Lord Himself forgives. ||1||

Third Mehl:

Praise the Lord, forever and ever, and make yourself a sacrifice to the True Lord.

O Nanak, let that tongue be burnt, which renounces the One Lord, and attaches itself to another. ||2||

Pauree:

From a single particle of His greatness, He created His incarnations, but they indulged in the love of duality.

They ruled like kings, and fought for pleasure and pain.

Those who serve Shiva and Brahma do not find the limits of the Lord.

The Fearless, Formless Lord is unseen and invisible; He is revealed only to the Gurmukh.

There, one does not suffer sorrow or separation; he becomes stable and immortal in the world. ||19||

Shalok, Third Mehl:

All these things come and go, all these things of the world.

One who knows this written account is acceptable and approved.

O Nanak, anyone who takes pride in himself is foolish and unwise. ||1||

Third Mehl:

The mind is the elephant, the Guru is the elephant-driver, and knowledge is the whip. Wherever the Guru drives the mind, it goes.

O Nanak, without the whip, the elephant wanders into the wilderness, again and again. ||2||

Pauree:

I offer my prayer to the One, from whom I was created.

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Serving my True Guru, I have obtained all the fruits.

I meditate continually on the Ambrosial Name of the Lord.

In the Society of the Saints, I am rid of my pain and suffering.

O Nanak, I have become care-free; I have obtained the imperishable wealth of the Lord. ||20||