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1The Perfect Guru is honored and celebrated; He has taken away the pains of my mind. ||2||

2I am the servant and slave of my Master; what glorious greatness of His can I describe?

3The Perfect Master, by the Pleasure of His Will, forgives, and then one practices Truth.

4I am a sacrifice to my Guru, who re-unites the separated ones. ||3||

5The intellect of His servant and slave is noble and true; it is made so by the Guru's intellect.

6The intuition of those who are true is beautiful; the intellect of the self-willed manmukh is insipid.

7My mind and body belong to You, God; from the very beginning, Truth has been my only support. ||4||

8In Truth I sit and stand; I eat and speak the Truth.

9With Truth in my consciousness, I gather the wealth of Truth, and drink in the sublime essence of Truth.

10In the home of Truth, the True Lord protects me; I speak the Words of the Guru's Teachings with love. ||5||

11The self-willed manmukh is very lazy; he is trapped in the wilderness.

12He is drawn to the bait, and continually pecking at it, he is trapped; his link to the Lord is ruined.

13By Guru's Grace, one is liberated, absorbed in the primal trance of Truth. ||6||

14His slave remains continually pierced through with love and affection for God.

15Without the True Lord, the soul of the false, corrupt person is burnt to ashes.

16Abandoning all evil actions, he crosses over in the boat of Truth. ||7||

17Those who have forgotten the Naam have no home, no place of rest.

18The Lord's slave renounces greed and attachment, and obtains the Lord's Name.

19If You forgive him, Lord, then He is united with You; Nanak is a sacrifice. ||8||4||

20Maaroo, First Mehla:

21The Lord's slave renounces his egotistical pride, through the Guru's Fear, intuitively and easily.

22The slave realizes his Lord and Master; glorious is his greatness!

23Meeting with his Lord and Master, he finds peace; His value cannot be desribed. ||1||

24I am the slave and servant of my Lord and Master; all glory is to my Master.

25By Guru's Grace, I am saved, in the Sanctuary of the Lord. ||1||Pause||

26The slave has been given the most excellent task, by the Primal Command of the Master.

27The slave realizes the Hukam of His Command, and submits to His Will forever.

28The Lord King Himself grants forgiveness; how glorious is His greatness! ||2||

29He Himself is True, and everything is True; this is revealed through the Word of the Guru's Shabad.

30He alone serves You, whom You have enjoined to do so.

31Without serving Him, no one finds Him; in duality and doubt, they are ruined. ||3||

32How could we forget Him from our minds? The gifts which he bestows increase day by day.

33Soul and body, all belong to Him; He infused the breath into us.

34If he shows His Mercy, then we serve Him; serving Him, we merge in Truth. ||4||

35He alone is the Lord's slave, who remains dead while yet alive, and eradicates egotism from within.

36His bonds are broken, the fire of his desire is quenched, and he is liberated.

37The treasure of the Naam, the Name of the Lord, is within all, but how rare are those who, as Gurmukh, obtain it. ||5||

38Within the Lord's slave, there is no virtue at all; the Lord's slave is totally unworthy.

39There is no Giver as great as You, Lord; You alone are the Forgiver.

40Your slave obeys the Hukam of Your Command; this is the most excellent action. ||6||

41The Guru is the pool of nectar in the world-ocean; whatever one desires, that fruit is obtained.

42The treasure of the Naam brings immortality; enshrine it in your heart and mind.