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1Take it each and every day, and your body shall not waste away.

2At the very last instant, you shall strike down the Messenger of Death. ||1||

3So take such medicine, O fool,

4by which your corruption shall be taken away. ||1||Pause||

5Power, wealth and youth are all just shadows,

6as are the vehicles you see moving around.

7Neither your body, nor your fame, nor your social status shall go along with you.

8In the next world it is day, while here, it is all night. ||2||

9Let your taste for pleasures be the firewood, let your greed be the ghee,

10and your sexual desire and anger the cooking oil; burn them in the fire.

11Some make burnt offerings, hold sacred feasts, and read the Puraanas.

12Whatever pleases God is acceptable. ||3||

13Intense meditation is the paper, and Your Name is the insignia.

14Those for whom this treasure is ordered,

15look wealthy when they reach their true home.

16O Nanak, blessed is that mother who gave birth to them. ||4||3||8||

17Malaar, First Mehla:

18You wear white clothes, and speak sweet words.

19Your nose is sharp, and your eyes are black.

20Have you ever seen your Lord and Master, O sister? ||1||

21O my All-powerful Lord and Master, by Your power, I fly and soar, and ascend to the heavens.

22I see Him in the water, on the land, in the mountains, on the river-banks,

23in all places and interspaces, O brother. ||2||

24He fashioned the body, and gave it wings;

25He gave it great thirst and desire to fly.

26When He bestows His Glance of Grace, I am comforted and consoled.

27As He makes me see, so do I see, O brother. ||3||

28Neither this body, nor its wings, shall go to the world hereafter.

29It is a fusion of air, water and fire.

30O Nanak, if it is in the mortal's karma, then he meditates on the Lord, with the Guru as his Spiritual Teacher.

31This body is absorbed in the Truth. ||4||4||9||

32Malaar, Third Mehla, Chau-Padhay, First House:

33One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

34The Formless Lord is formed by Himself. He Himself deludes in doubt.

35Creating the Creation, the Creator Himself beholds it; He enjoins us as He pleases.

36This is the true greatness of His servant, that he obeys the Hukam of the Lord's Command. ||1||

37Only He Himself knows His Will. By Guru's Grace, it is grasped.

38When this play of Shiva and Shakti comes to his home, he remains dead while yet alive. ||1||Pause||

39They read the Vedas, and read them again, and engage in arguments about Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.

40This three-phased Maya has deluded the whole world into cynicism about death and birth.

41By Guru's Grace, know the One Lord, and the anxiety of your mind will be allayed. ||2||

42I am meek, foolish and thoughtless, but still, You take care of me.

43Please be kind to me, and make me the slave of Your slaves, so that I may serve You.

44Please bless me with the treasure of the One Name, that I may chant it, day and night. ||3||

45Says Nanak, by Guru's Grace, understand. Hardly anyone considers this.

46Like foam bubbling up on the surface of the water, so is this world.