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1The Guru is the River, from which the Pure Water is obtained forever; it washes away the filth and pollution of evil-mindedness.

2Finding the True Guru, the perfect cleansing bath is obtained, which transforms even beasts and ghosts into gods. ||2||

3He is said to be the Guru, with the scent of sandalwood, who is imbued with the True Name to the bottom of His Heart.

4By His Fragrance, the world of vegetation is perfumed. Lovingly focus yourself on His Feet. ||3||

5The life of the soul wells up for the Gurmukh; the Gurmukh goes to the House of God.

6The Gurmukh, O Nanak, merges in the True One; the Gurmukh attains the exalted state of the self. ||4||6||

7Prabhaatee, First Mehla:

8By Guru's Grace, contemplate spiritual knowledge; read it and study it, and you shall be honored.

9Within the self, the self is revealed, when one is blessed with the Ambrosial Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||1||

10O Creator Lord, You alone are my Benefactor.

11I beg for only one blessing from You: please bless me with Your Name. ||1||Pause||

12The five wandering thieves are captured and held, and the egotistical pride of the mind is subdued.

13Visions of corruption, vice and evil-mindedness run away. Such is the spiritual wisdom of God. ||2||

14Please bless me with the rice of truth and self-restraint, the wheat of compassion, and the leaf-plate of meditation.

15Bless me with the milk of good karma, and the clarified butter, the ghee, of compassion. Such are the gifts I beg of You, Lord. ||3||

16Let forgiveness and patience be my milk-cows, and let the calf of my mind intuitively drink in this milk.

17I beg for the clothes of modesty and the Lord's Praise; Nanak chants the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||4||7||

18Prabhaatee, First Mehla:

19No one can hold anyone back from coming; how could anyone hold anyone back from going?

20He alone thoroughly understands this, from whom all beings come; all are merged and immersed in Him. ||1||

21Waaho! - You are Great, and Wondrous is Your Will.

22Whatever You do, surely comes to pass. Nothing else can happen. ||1||Pause||

23The buckets on the chain of the Persian wheel rotate; one empties out to fill another.

24This is just like the Play of our Lord and Master; such is His Glorious Greatness. ||2||

25Following the path of intuitive awareness, one turns away from the world, and one's vision is enlightened.

26Contemplate this in your mind, and see, O spiritual teacher. Who is the householder, and who is the renunciate? ||3||

27Hope comes from the Lord; surrendering to Him, we remain in the state of nirvaanaa.

28We come from Him; surrendering to Him, O Nanak, one is approved as a householder, and a renunciate. ||4||8||

29Prabhaatee, First Mehla:

30I am a sacrifice to that one who binds in bondage his evil and corrupted gaze.

31One who does not know the difference between vice and virtue wanders around uselessly. ||1||

32Speak the True Name of the Creator Lord.

33Then, you shall never again have to come into this world. ||1||Pause||

34The Creator transforms the high into the low, and makes the lowly into kings.

35Those who know the All-knowing Lord are approved and certified as perfect in this world. ||2||

36If anyone is mistaken and fooled, you should go to instruct him.