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1Think of the Lord, who shall be your Help and Support in the end.

2The Lord is Inaccessible and Incomprehensible. He has no master, and He is not born. He is obtained through love of the True Guru. ||1||

3I am a sacrifice, my soul is a sacrifice, to those who eliminate selfishness and conceit.

4They eradicate selfishness and conceit, and then find the Lord; they are intuitively immersed in the Lord. ||1||Pause||

5According to their pre-ordained destiny, they act out their karma.

6Serving the True Guru, a lasting peace is found.

7Without good fortune, the Guru is not found. Through the Word of the Shabad, they are united in the Lord's Union. ||2||

8The Gurmukhs remain unaffected in the midst of the world.

9The Guru is their cushion, and the Naam, the Name of the Lord, is their Support.

10Who can oppress the Gurmukh? One who tries shall perish, writhing in pain. ||3||

11The blind self-willed manmukhs have no understanding at all.

12They are the assassins of the self, and the butchers of the world.

13By continually slandering others, they carry a terrible load, and they carry the loads of others for nothing. ||4||

14This world is a garden, and my Lord God is the Gardener.

15He always takes care of it-nothing is exempt from His Care.

16As is the fragrance which He bestows, so is the fragrant flower known. ||5||

17The self-willed manmukhs are sick and diseased in the world.

18They have forgotten the Giver of peace, the Unfathomable, the Infinite.

19These miserable people wander endlessly, crying out in pain; without the Guru, they find no peace. ||6||

20The One who created them, knows their condition.

21And if He inspires them, then they realize the Hukam of His Command.

22Whatever He places within them, that is what prevails, and so they outwardly appear. ||7||

23I know of no other except the True One.

24Those, whom the Lord attaches to Himself, become pure.

25O Nanak, the Naam, the Name of the Lord, abides deep within the heart of those, unto whom He has given it. ||8||14||15||

26Maajh, Third Mehla:

27Enshrining the Ambrosial Naam, the Name of the Lord, in the mind,

28all the pains of egotism, selfishness and conceit are eliminated.

29By continually praising the Ambrosial Bani of the Word, I obtain the Amrit, the Ambrosial Nectar. ||1||

30I am a sacrifice, my soul is a sacrifice, to those who enshrine the Ambrosial Bani of the Word within their minds.

31Enshrining the Ambrosial Bani in their minds, they meditate on the Ambrosial Naam. ||1||Pause||

32Those who continually chant the Ambrosial Words of Nectar see and behold this Amrit everywhere with their eyes.

33They continually chant the Ambrosial Sermon day and night; chanting it, they cause others to hear it. ||2||

34Imbued with the Ambrosial Love of the Lord, they lovingly focus their attention on Him.

35By Guru's Grace, they receive this Amrit.

36They chant the Ambrosial Name with their tongues day and night; their minds and bodies are satisfied by this Amrit. ||3||

37That which God does is beyond anyone's consciousness;

38no one can erase the Hukam of His Command.

39By His Command, the Ambrosial Bani of the Word prevails, and by His Command, we drink in the Amrit. ||4||

40The actions of the Creator Lord are marvellous and wonderful.

41This mind is deluded, and goes around the wheel of reincarnation.

42Those who focus their consciousness on the Ambrosial Bani of the Word, hear the vibrations of the Ambrosial Word of the Shabad. ||5||