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1Why do you irrigate the barren, alkaline soil? You are wasting your life away!

2This wall of mud is crumbling. Why bother to patch it with plaster? ||1||Pause||

3Let your hands be the buckets, strung on the chain, and yoke the mind as the ox to pull it; draw the water up from the well.

4Irrigate your fields with the Ambrosial Nectar, and you shall be owned by God the Gardener. ||2||

5Let sexual desire and anger be your two shovels, to dig up the dirt of your farm, O Siblings of Destiny.

6The more you dig, the more peace you shall find. Your past actions cannot be erased. ||3||

7The crane is again transformed into a swan, if You so will, O Merciful Lord.

8Prays Nanak, the slave of Your slaves: O Merciful Lord, have mercy on me. ||4||1||9||

9Basant, First Mehla, Hindol:

10In the House of the Husband Lord - in the world hereafter, everything is jointly owned; but in this world - in the house of the soul-bride's parents, the soul-bride owns them separately.

11She herself is ill-mannered; how can she blame anyone else? She does not know how to take care of these things. ||1||

12O my Lord and Master, I am deluded by doubt.

13I sing the Word which You have written; I do not know any other Word. ||1||Pause||

14She alone is known as the Lord's bride, who embroiders her gown in the Name.

15She who preserves and protects the home of her own heart and does not taste of evil, shall be the Beloved of her Husband Lord. ||2||

16If you are a learned and wise religious scholar, then make a boat of the letters of the Lord's Name.

17Prays Nanak, the One Lord shall carry you across, if you merge in the True Lord. ||3||2||10||

18Basant Hindol, First Mehla:

19The king is just a boy, and his city is vulnerable. He is in love with his wicked enemies.

20He reads of his two mothers and his two fathers; O Pandit, reflect on this. ||1||

21O Master Pandit, teach me about this.

22How can I obtain the Lord of life? ||1||Pause||

23There is fire within the plants which bloom; the ocean is tied into a bundle.

24The sun and the moon dwell in the same home in the sky. You have not obtained this knowledge. ||2||

25One who knows the All-pervading Lord, eats up the one mother - Maya.

26Know that the sign of such a person is that he gathers the wealth of compassion. ||3||

27The mind lives with those who do not listen, and do not admit what they eat.

28Prays Nanak, the slave of the Lord's slave: one instant the mind is huge, and the next instant, it is tiny. ||4||3||11||

29Basant Hindol, First Mehla:

30The Guru is the True Banker, the Giver of peace; He unites the mortal with the Lord, and satisfies his hunger.

31Granting His Grace, He implants devotional worship of the Lord within; and then night and day, we sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||1||

32O my mind, do not forget the Lord; keep Him in your consciousness.

33Without the Guru, no one is liberated anywhere in the three worlds. The Gurmukh obtains the Lord's Name. ||1||Pause||

34Without devotional worship, the True Guru is not obtained. Without good destiny, devotional worship of the Lord is not obtained.

35Without good destiny, the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation, is not obtained. By the grace of one's good karma, the Lord's Name is received. ||2||

36In each and every heart, the Lord is hidden; He creates and watches over all. He reveals Himself in the humble, Saintly Gurmukhs.

37Those who chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, are drenched with the Lord's Love. Their minds are drenched with the Ambrosial Water of the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||3||