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1You wash your stone gods and worship them.

2You offer saffron, sandalwood and flowers.

3Falling at their feet, you try so hard to appease them.

4Begging, begging from other people, you get things to wear and eat.

5For your blind deeds, you will be blindly punished.

6Your idol does not feed the hungry, or save the dying.

7The blind assembly argues in blindness. ||1||

8First Mehla:

9All intuitive understanding, all Yoga, all the Vedas and Puraanas.

10All actions, all penances, all songs and spiritual wisdom.

11All intellect, all enlightenment, all sacred shrines of pilgrimage.

12All kingdoms, all royal commands, all joys and all delicacies.

13All mankind, all divinites, all Yoga and meditation.

14All worlds, all celestial realms; all the beings of the universe.

15According to His Hukam, He commands them. His Pen writes out the account of their actions.

16O Nanak, True is the Lord, and True is His Name. True is His Congregation and His Court. ||2||

17Pauree:

18With faith in the Name, peace wells up; the Name brings emancipation.

19With faith in the Name, honor is obtained. The Lord is enshrined in the heart.

20With faith in the Name, one crosses over the terrifying world-ocean, and no obstructions are ever again encountered.

21With faith in the Name, the Path is revealed; through the Name, one is totally enlightened.

22O Nanak, meeting with the True Guru, one comes to have faith in the Name; he alone has faith, who is blessed with it. ||9||

23Shalok, First Mehla:

24The mortal walks on his head through the worlds and realms; he meditates, balanced on one foot.

25Controlling the wind of the breath, he meditates within his mind, tucking his chin down into his chest.

26What does he lean on? Where does he get his power?

27What can be said, O Nanak? Who is blessed by the Creator?

28God keeps all under His Command, but the fool shows off himself. ||1||

29First Mehla:

30He is, He is - I say it millions upon millions, millions upon millions of times.

31With my mouth I say it, forever and ever; there is no end to this speech.

32I do not get tired, and I will not be stopped; this is how great my determination is.

33O Nanak, this is tiny and insignificant. To say that it is more, is wrong. ||2||

34Pauree:

35With faith in the Name, all one's ancestors and family are saved.

36With faith in the Name, one's associates are saved; enshrine it within your heart.

37With faith in the Name, those who hear it are saved; let your tongue delight in it.

38With faith in the Name, pain and hunger are dispelled; let your consciousness be attached to the Name.

39O Nanak, they alone Praise the Name, who meet with the Guru. ||10||

40Shalok, First Mehla:

41All nights, all days, all dates, all days of the week;

42All seasons, all months, all the earth and everything on it.

43All waters, all winds, all fires and underworlds.

44All solar systems and galaxies, all worlds, people and forms.

45No one knows how great the Hukam of His Command is; no one can describe His actions.

46Mortals may utter, chant, recite and contemplate His Praises until they grow weary.

47The poor fools, O Nanak, cannot find even a tiny bit of the Lord. ||1||

48First Mehla:

49If I were to walk around with my eyes wide open, gazing at all the created forms;

50I could ask the spiritual teachers and religious scholars, and those who contemplate the Vedas;