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1Slave Nanak asks for the Blessed Vision of God. It is the Support of his mind and body. ||2||78||101||

2Saarang, Fifth Mehla:

3Without the Name of the Lord, the soul is polluted.

4The True Lord God has Himself administered the intoxicating drug of corruption, and led the mortal astray. ||1||Pause||

5Wandering through millions of incarnations in countless ways, he does not find stability anywhere.

6The faithless cynic does not intuitively meet with the Perfect True Guru; he continues coming and going in reincarnation. ||1||

7Please save me, O All-powerful Lord God, O Great Giver; O God, You are Inaccessible and Infinite.

8Slave Nanak seeks Your Sanctuary, to cross over the terrible world-ocean, and reach the other shore. ||2||79||102||

9Saarang, Fifth Mehla:

10To chant the Glorious Praises of the Lord is Sublime.

11In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, meditate on the Transcendent Lord God; The taste of His essence is Ambrosial Nectar. ||1||Pause||

12Meditating in remembrance on the One Unmoving, Eternal, Unchanging Lord God, the intoxication of Maya wears off.

13One who is blessed with intuitive peace and poise, and the vibrations of the Unstruck Celestial Bani, never suffers again. ||1||

14Even Brahma and his sons sing God's Praises; Sukdayv and Prahlaad sing His Praises as well.

15Drinking in the fascinating Ambrosial Nectar of the Lord's sublime essence, Nanak meditates on the Amazing Lord. ||2||80||103||

16Saarang, Fifth Mehla:

17He commits many millions of sins.

18Day and night, he does not get tired of them, and he never finds release. ||1||Pause||

19He carries on his head a terrible, heavy load of sin and corruption.

20In an instant, he is exposed. The Messenger of Death seizes him by his hair. ||1||

21He is consigned to countless forms of reincarnation, into beasts, ghosts, camels and donkeys.

22Vibrating and meditating on the Lord of the Universe in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, O Nanak, you shall never be struck or harmed at all. ||2||81||104||

23Saarang, Fifth Mehla:

24He is so blind! He is eating loads of poison.

25His eyes, ears and body are totally exhausted; he shall lose his breath in an instant. ||1||Pause||

26Making the poor suffer, he fills his belly, but the wealth of Maya shall not go with him.

27Committing sinful mistakes again and again, he regrets and repents, but he can never give them up. ||1||

28The Messenger of Death comes to slaughter the slanderer; he beats him on his head.

29O Nanak, he cuts himself with his own dagger, and damages his own mind. ||2||82||105||

30Saarang, Fifth Mehla:

31The slanderer is destroyed in mid-stream.

32Our Lord and Master is the Saving Grace, the Protector of His humble servants; those who have turned their backs on the Guru are overtaken by death. ||1||Pause||

33No one listens to what he says; he is not allowed to sit anywhere.

34He suffers in pain here, and falls into hell hereafter. He wanders in endless reincarnations. ||1||

35He has become infamous across worlds and galaxies; he receives according to what he has done.

36Nanak seeks the Sanctuary of the Fearless Creator Lord; he sings His Glorious Praises in ecstasy and bliss. ||2||83||106||

37Saarang, Fifth Mehla:

38Desire plays itself out in so many ways.