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1Practicing egotism and possessiveness, you have come into the world.

2Hope and desire bind you and lead you on.

3Indulging in egotism and self-conceit, what will you be able to carry with you, except the load of ashes from poison and corruption? ||15||

4Worship the Lord in devotion, O humble Siblings of Destiny.

5Speak the Unspoken Speech, and the mind will merge back into the Mind.

6Restrain your restless mind within its own home, and the Lord, the Destroyer, shall destroy your pain. ||16||

7I seek the support of the Perfect Guru, the Lord.

8The Gurmukh loves the Lord; the Gurmukh realizes the Lord.

9O Nanak, through the Lord's Name, the intellect is exalted; granting His forgiveness, the Lord carries him across to the other side. ||17||4||10||

10Maaroo, First Mehla:

11O Divine Guru, I have entered Your Sanctuary.

12You are the Almighty Lord, the Merciful Lord.

13No one knows Your wondrous plays; You are the perfect Architect of Destiny. ||1||

14From the very beginning of time, and throughout the ages, You cherish and sustain Your beings.

15You are in each and every heart, O Merciful Lord of incomparable beauty.

16As You will, You cause all to walk; everyone acts according to Your Command. ||2||

17Deep within the nucleus of all, is the Light of the Life of the World.

18The Lord enjoys the hearts of all, and drinks in their essence.

19He Himself gives, and He himself takes; He is the generous father of the beings of the three worlds. ||3||

20Creating the world, He has set His play into motion.

21He placed the soul in the body of air, water and fire.

22The body-village has nine gates; the Tenth Gate remains hidden. ||4||

23There are four horrible rivers of fire.

24How rare is that Gurmukh who understands this, and through the Word of the Shabad, remains unattached.

25The faithless cynics are drowned and burnt through their evil-mindedness. The Guru saves those who are imbued with the Love of the Lord. ||5||

26Water, fire, air, earth and ether

27in that house of the five elements, they dwell.

28Those who remain imbued with the Word of the True Guru's Shabad, renounce Maya, egotism and doubt. ||6||

29This mind is drenched with the Shabad, and satisfied.

30Without the Name, what support can anyone have?

31The temple of the body is being plundered by the thieves within, but this faithless cynic does not even recognize these demons. ||7||

32They are argumentative demons, terrifying goblins.

33These demons stir up conflict and strife.

34Without awareness of the Shabad, one comes and goes in reincarnation; he loses his honor in this coming and going. ||8||

35The body of the false person is just a pile of barren dirt.

36Without the Name, what honor can you have?

37Bound and gagged throughout the four ages, there is no liberation; the Messenger of Death keeps such a person under his gaze. ||9||

38At Death's door, he is tied up and punished;

39such a sinner does not obtain salvation.

40He cries out in pain, like the fish pierced by the hook. ||10||

41The faithless cynic is caught in the noose all alone.

42The miserable spiritually blind person is caught in the power of Death.

43Without the Lord's Name, liberation is not known. He shall waste away, today or tomorrow. ||11||

44Other than the True Guru, no one is your friend.

45Here and hereafter, God is the Savior.

46He grants His Grace, and bestows the Lord's Name. He merges with Him, like water with water. ||12||