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1I remained under the influence of corruption, night and day; I did whatever I pleased. ||1||Pause||

2I never listened to the Guru's Teachings; I was entangled with others' spouses.

3I ran all around slandering others; I was taught, but I never learned. ||1||

4How can I even describe my actions? This is how I wasted my life.

5Says Nanak, I am totally filled with faults. I have come to Your Sanctuary - please save me, O Lord! ||2||4||3||13||139||4||159||

6Raag Saarang, Ashtpadheeyaa, First Mehla, First House:

7One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

8O my mother, how can I live without the Supreme Soul?

9Hail to the Lord of the Universe. I ask to sing Your Praises; without You, O Lord, I cannot even survive. ||1||Pause||

10I am thirsty, thirsty for the Lord; the soul-bride gazes upon Him all through the night.

11My mind is absorbed into the Lord, my Lord and Master. Only God knows the pain of another. ||1||

12My body suffers in pain, without the Lord; through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, I find the Lord.

13O Dear Lord, please be kind and compassionate to me, that I might remain merged in You, O Lord. ||2||

14Follow such a path, O my conscious mind, that you may remain focused on the Feet of the Lord.

15I am wonder-struck, singing the Glorious Praises of my Fascinating Lord; I am intuitively absorbed in the Fearless Lord. ||3||

16That heart, in which the Eternal, Unchanging Naam vibrates and resounds, does not diminish, and cannot be evaluated.

17Without the Name, everyone is poor; the True Guru has imparted this understanding. ||4||

18My Beloved is my breath of life - listen, O my companion. The demons have taken poison and died.

19As love for Him welled up, so it remains. My mind is imbued with His Love. ||5||

20I am absorbed in celestial samaadhi, lovingly attached to the Lord forever. I live by singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord.

21Imbued with the Word of the Guru's Shabad, I have become detached from the world. In the profound primal trance, I dwell within the home of my own inner being. ||6||

22The Naam, the Name of the Lord, is sublimely sweet and supremely delicious; within the home of my own self, I understand the essence of the Lord.

23Wherever You keep my mind, there it is. This is what the Guru has taught me. ||7||

24Sanak and Sanandan, Brahma and Indra, were imbued with devotional worship, and came to be in harmony with Him.

25O Nanak, without the Lord, I cannot live, even for an instant. The Name of the Lord is glorious and great. ||8||1||

26Saarang, First Mehla:

27Without the Lord, how can my mind be comforted?

28The guilt and sin of millions of ages is erased, and one is released from the cycle of reincarnation, when the Truth is implanted within. ||1||Pause||

29Anger is gone, egotism and attachment have been burnt away; I am imbued with His ever-fresh Love.

30Other fears are forgotten, begging at God's Door. The Immaculate Lord is my Companion. ||1||

31Forsaking my fickle intellect, I have found God, the Destroyer of fear; I am lovingly attuned to the One Word, the Shabad.

32Tasting the sublime essence of the Lord, my thirst is quenched; by great good fortune, the Lord has united me with Himself. ||2||

33The empty tank has been filled to overflowing. Following the Guru's Teachings, I am enraptured with the True Lord.