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1The lifestyle of the Lord's humble servant is exalted and sublime. He spreads the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises throughout the world. ||3||

2O my Lord and Master, please be merciful, merciful to me, that I may enshrine the Lord, Har, Har, Har, within my heart.

3Nanak has found the Perfect True Guru; in his mind, he chants the Name of the Lord. ||4||9||

4Malaar, Third Mehla, Second House:

5One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

6Is this mind a householder, or is this mind a detached renunciate?

7Is this mind beyond social class, eternal and unchanging?

8Is this mind fickle, or is this mind detached?

9How has this mind been gripped by possessiveness? ||1||

10O Pandit, O religious scholar, reflect on this in your mind.

11Why do you read so many other things, and carry such a heavy load? ||1||Pause||

12The Creator has attached it to Maya and possessiveness.

13Enforcing His Order, He created the world.

14By Guru's Grace, understand this, O Siblings of Destiny.

15Remain forever in the Sanctuary of the Lord. ||2||

16He alone is a Pandit, who sheds the load of the three qualities.

17Night and day, he chants the Name of the One Lord.

18He accepts the Teachings of the True Guru.

19He offers his head to the True Guru.

20He remains forever unattached in the state of Nirvaanaa.

21Such a Pandit is accepted in the Court of the Lord. ||3||

22He preaches that the One Lord is within all beings.

23As he sees the One Lord, he knows the One Lord.

24That person, whom the Lord forgives, is united with Him.

25He finds eternal peace, here and hereafter. ||4||

26Says Nanak, what can anyone do?

27He alone is liberated, whom the Lord blesses with His Grace.

28Night and day, he sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord.

29Then, he no longer bothers with the proclamations of the Shaastras or the Vedas. ||5||1||10||

30Malaar, Third Mehla:

31The self-willed manmukhs wander lost in reincarnation, confused and deluded by doubt.

32The Messenger of Death constantly beats them and disgraces them.

33Serving the True Guru, the mortal's subservience to Death is ended.

34He meets the Lord God, and enters the Mansion of His Presence. ||1||

35O mortal, as Gurmukh, meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

36In duality, you are ruining and wasting this priceless human life. You trade it away in exchange for a shell. ||1||Pause||

37The Gurmukh falls in love with the Lord, by His Grace.

38He enshrines loving devotion to the Lord, Har, Har, deep within his heart.

39The Word of the Shabad carries him across the terrifying world-ocean.

40He appears true in the True Court of the Lord. ||2||

41Performing all sorts of rituals, they do not find the True Guru.

42Without the Guru, so many wander lost and confused in Maya.

43Egotism, possessiveness and attachment rise up and increase within them.

44In the love of dualty, the self-willed manmukhs suffer in pain. ||3||

45The Creator Himself is Inaccessible and Infinite.

46Chant the Word of the Guru's Shabad, and earn the true profit.

47The Lord is Independent, Ever-present, here and now.