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1The wealth of the self-willed manmukhs is false, and false is their ostentatious display.

2They practice falsehood, and suffer terrible pain.

3Deluded by doubt, they wander day and night; through birth and death, they lose their lives. ||7||

4My True Lord and Master is very dear to me.

5The Shabad of the Perfect Guru is my Support.

6O Nanak, one who obtains the Greatness of the Naam, looks upon pain and pleasure as one and the same. ||8||10||11||

7Maajh, Third Mehla:

8The four sources of creation are Yours; the spoken word is Yours.

9Without the Name, all are deluded by doubt.

10Serving the Guru, the Lord's Name is obtained. Without the True Guru, no one can receive it. ||1||

11I am a sacrifice, my soul is a sacrifice, to those who focus their consciousness on the Lord.

12Through devotion to the Guru, the True One is found; He comes to abide in the mind, with intuitive ease. ||1||Pause||

13Serving the True Guru, all things are obtained.

14As are the desires one harbors, so are the rewards one receives.

15The True Guru is the Giver of all things; through perfect destiny, He is met. ||2||

16This mind is filthy and polluted; it does not meditate on the One.

17Deep within, it is soiled and stained by the love of duality.

18The egotists may go on pilgrimages to holy rivers, sacred shrines and foreign lands, but they only gather more of the dirt of egotism. ||3||

19Serving the True Guru, filth and pollution are removed.

20Those who focus their consciousness on the Lord remain dead while yet alive.

21The True Lord is Pure; no filth sticks to Him. Those who are attached to the True One have their filth washed away. ||4||

22Without the Guru, there is only pitch darkness.

23The ignorant ones are blind-there is only utter darkness for them.

24The maggots in manure do filthy deeds, and in filth they rot and putrefy. ||5||

25Serving the Lord of Liberation, liberation is achieved.

26The Word of the Shabad eradicates egotism and possessiveness.

27So serve the Dear True Lord, night and day. By perfect good destiny, the Guru is found. ||6||

28He Himself forgives and unites in His Union.

29From the Perfect Guru, the Treasure of the Naam is obtained.

30By the True Name, the mind is made true forever. Serving the True Lord, sorrow is driven out. ||7||

31He is always close at hand-do not think that He is far away.

32Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, recognize the Lord deep within your own being.

33O Nanak, through the Naam, glorious greatness is received. Through the Perfect Guru, the Naam is obtained. ||8||11||12||

34Maajh, Third Mehla:

35Those who are True here, are True hereafter as well.

36That mind is true, which is attuned to the True Shabad.

37They serve the True One, and practice Truth; they earn Truth, and only Truth. ||1||

38I am a sacrifice, my soul is a sacrifice, to those whose minds are filled with the True Name.

39They serve the True One, and are absorbed into the True One, singing the Glorious Praises of the True One. ||1||Pause||

40The Pandits, the religious scholars read, but they do not taste the essence.

41In love with duality and Maya, their minds wander, unfocused.

42The love of Maya has displaced all their understanding; making mistakes, they live in regret. ||2||

43But if they should meet the True Guru, then they obtain the essence of reality;

44the Name of the Lord comes to dwell in their minds.