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1Summer is now behind us, and the winter season is ahead. Gazing upon this play, my shaky mind wavers.

2In all ten directions, the branches are green and alive. That which ripens slowly, is sweet.

3O Nanak, in Assu, please meet me, my Beloved. The True Guru has become my Advocate and Friend. ||11||

4In Katak, that alone comes to pass, which is pleasing to the Will of God.

5The lamp of intuition burns, lit by the essence of reality.

6Love is the oil in the lamp, which unites the soul-bride with her Lord. The bride is delighted, in ecstasy.

7One who dies in faults and demerits - her death is not successful. But one who dies in glorious virtue, really truly dies.

8Those who are blessed with devotional worship of the Naam, the Name of the Lord, sit in the home of their own inner being. They place their hopes in You.

9Nanak: please open the shutters of Your Door, O Lord, and meet me. A single moment is like six months to me. ||12||

10The month of Maghar is good, for those who sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord, and merge in His Being.

11The virtuous wife utters His Glorious Praises; my Beloved Husband Lord is Eternal and Unchanging.

12The Primal Lord is Unmoving and Unchanging, Clever and Wise; all the world is fickle.

13By virtue of spiritual wisdom and meditation, she merges in His Being; she is pleasing to God, and He is pleasing to her.

14I have heard the songs and the music, and the poems of the poets; but only the Name of the Lord takes away my pain.

15O Nanak, that soul-bride is pleasing to her Husband Lord, who performs loving devotional worship before her Beloved. ||13||

16In Poh, the snow falls, and the sap of the trees and the fields dries up.

17Why have You not come? I keep You in my mind, body and mouth.

18He is permeating and pervading my mind and body; He is the Life of the World. Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, I enjoy His Love.

19His Light fills all those born of eggs, born from the womb, born of sweat and born of the earth, each and every heart.

20Grant me the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan, O Lord of Mercy and Compassion. O Great Giver, grant me understanding, that I might find salvation.

21O Nanak, the Lord enjoys, savors and ravishes the bride who is in love with Him. ||14||

22In Maagh, I become pure; I know that the sacred shrine of pilgrimage is within me.

23I have met my Friend with intuitive ease; I grasp His Glorious Virtues, and merge in His Being.

24O my Beloved, Beauteous Lord God, please listen: I sing Your Glories, and merge in Your Being. If it is pleasing to Your Will, I bathe in the sacred pool within.

25The Ganges, Jamunaa, the sacred meeting place of the three rivers, the seven seas, charity, donations, adoration and worship all rest in the Transcendent Lord God; throughout the ages, I realize the One.

26O Nanak, in Maagh, the most sublime essence is meditation on the Lord; this is the cleansing bath of the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage. ||15||

27In Phalgun, her mind is enraptured, pleased by the Love of her Beloved.

28Night and day, she is enraptured, and her selfishness is gone.

29Emotional attachment is eradicated from her mind, when it pleases Him; in His Mercy, He comes to my home.

30I dress in various clothes, but without my Beloved, I shall not find a place in the Mansion of His Presence.

31I have adorned myself with garlands of flowers, pearl necklaces, scented oils and silk robes.

32O Nanak, the Guru has united me with Him. The soul-bride has found her Husband Lord, within the home of her own heart. ||16||

33The twelve months, the seasons, the weeks, the days, the hours, the minutes and the seconds are all sublime, when the True Lord comes and meets her with natural ease.

34God, my Beloved, has met me, and my affairs are all resolved. The Creator Lord knows all ways and means.

35I am loved by the One who has embellished and exalted me; I have met Him, and I savor His Love.

36The bed of my heart becomes beautiful, when my Husband Lord ravishes me. As Gurmukh, the destiny on my forehead has been awakened and activated.