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1The Guru has shown me that my Sovereign Lord God is with me. ||1||

2Joining together with my friends and companions, I am adorned with the Lord's Glorious Virtues.

3The sublime soul-brides play with their Lord God. The Gurmukhs look within themselves; their minds are filled with faith. ||1||Pause||

4The self-willed manmukhs, suffering in separation, do not understand this mystery.

5The Beloved Lord of all celebrates in each and every heart.

6The Gurmukh is stable, knowing that God is always with him.

7The Guru has implanted the Naam within me; I chant it, and meditate on it. ||2||

8Without the Guru, devotional love does not well up within.

9Without the Guru, one is not blessed with the Society of the Saints.

10Without the Guru, the blind cry out, entangled in worldly affairs.

11That mortal who becomes Gurmukh becomes immaculate; the Word of the Shabad washes away his filth. ||3||

12Uniting with the Guru, the mortal conquers and subdues his mind.

13Day and night, he savors the Yoga of devotional worship.

14Associating with the Saint Guru, suffering and sickness are ended.

15Servant Nanak merges with his Husband Lord, in the Yoga of intuitive ease. ||4||6||

16Basant, First Mehla:

17By His Creative Power, God fashioned the creation.

18The King of kings Himself adminsters true justice.

19The most sublime Word of the Guru's Teachings is always with us.

20The wealth of the Lord's Name, the source of nectar, is easily acquired. ||1||

21So chant the Name of the Lord; do not forget it, O my mind.

22The Lord is Infinite, Inaccessible and Incomprehensible; His weight cannot be weighed, but He Himself allows the Gurmukh to weigh Him. ||1||Pause||

23Your GurSikhs serve at the Guru's Feet.

24Serving the Guru, they are carried across; they have abandoned any distinction between 'mine' and 'yours'.

25The slanderous and greedy people are hard-hearted.

26Those who do not love to serve the Guru are the most thieving of thieves. ||2||

27When the Guru is pleased, He blesses the mortals with loving devotional worship of the Lord.

28When the Guru is pleased, the mortal obtains a place in the Mansion of the Lord's Presence.

29So renounce slander, and awaken in devotional worship of the Lord.

30Devotion to the Lord is wonderful; it comes through good karma and destiny. ||3||

31The Guru unites in union with the Lord, and grants the gift of the Name.

32The Guru loves His Sikhs, day and night.

33They obtain the fruit of the Naam, when the Guru's favor is bestowed.

34Says Nanak, those who receive it are very rare indeed. ||4||7||

35Basant, Third Mehla, Ek-Thukay:

36When it pleases our Lord and Master, His servant serves Him.

37He remains dead while yet alive, and redeems all his ancestors. ||1||

38I shall not renounce Your devotional worship, O Lord; what does it matter if people laugh at me?

39The True Name abides within my heart. ||1||Pause||

40Just as the mortal remains engrossed in attachment to Maya,

41so does the Lord's humble Saint remain absorbed in the Lord's Name. ||2||

42I am foolish and ignorant, O Lord; please be merciful to me.

43May I remain in Your Sanctuary. ||3||

44Says Nanak, worldly affairs are fruitless.

45Only by Guru's Grace does one receive the Nectar of the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||4||8||

46First Mehla, Basant Hindol, Second House:

47One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

48O Brahmin, you worship and believe in your stone-god, and wear your ceremonial rosary beads.

49Chant the Name of the Lord. Build your boat, and pray, ""O Merciful Lord, please be merciful to me.""||1||