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1The Pandit, the religious scholar, proclaims the Vedas, but he is slow to act on them.

2Another person on silence sits alone, but his heart is tied in knots of desire.

3Another becomes an Udaasi, a renunciate; he abandons his home and walks out on his family, but his wandering impulses do not leave him. ||1||

4Who can I tell about the state of my soul?

5Where can I find such a person who is liberated, and who can unite me with my God? ||1||Pause||

6Someone may practice intensive meditation, and discipline his body, but his mind still runs around in ten directions.

7The celibate practices celibacy, but his heart is filled with pride.

8The Sannyaasi wanders around at sacred shrines of pilgrimage, but his mindless anger is still within him. ||2||

9The temple dancers tie bells around their ankles to earn their living.

10Others go on fasts, take vows, perform the six rituals and wear religious robes for show.

11Some sing songs and melodies and hymns, but their minds do not sing of the Lord, Har, Har. ||3||

12The Lord's Saints are immaculately pure; they are beyond pleasure and pain, beyond greed and attachment.

13My mind obtains the dust of their feet, when the Lord God shows mercy.

14Says Nanak, I met the Perfect Guru, and then the anxiety of my mind was removed. ||4||

15My Sovereign Lord is the Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts.

16The Beloved of my soul knows everything; all trivial talk is forgotten. ||1||Second Pause||6||15||

17Maaroo, Fifth Mehla:

18One who has Your Name in his heart is the king of all the hundreds of thousands and millions of beings.

19Those, whom my True Guru has not blessed with Your Name, are poor idiots, who die and are reborn. ||1||

20My True Guru protects and preserves my honor.

21When You come to mind, Lord, then I obtain perfect honor. Forgetting You, I roll in the dust. ||1||Pause||

22The mind's pleasures of love and beauty bring just as many blames and sins.

23The Name of the Lord is the treasure of Emancipation; it is absolute peace and poise. ||2||

24The pleasures of Maya fade away in an instant, like the shade of a passing cloud.

25They alone are dyed in the deep crimson of the Lord's Love, who meet the Guru, and sing the Praises of the Lord, Har, Har. ||3||

26My Lord and Master is lofty and exalted, grand and infinite. The Darbaar of His Court is inaccessible.

27Through the Naam, glorious greatness and respect are obtained; O Nanak, my Lord and Master is my Beloved. ||4||7||16||

28Maaroo, Fifth Mehla, Fourth House:

29One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

30The One Universal Creator Lord created the creation.

31He made all the days and the nights.

32The forests, meadows, three worlds, water,

33the four Vedas, the four sources of creation,

34the countries, the continents and all the worlds,

35have all come from the One Word of the Lord. ||1||

36Hey - understand the Creator Lord.

37If you meet the True Guru, then you'll understand. ||1||Pause||

38He formed the expanse of the entire universe from the three gunas, the three qualities.

39People are incarnated in heaven and in hell.

40In egotism, they come and go.

41The mind cannot hold still, even for an instant.