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1Shalok, Third Mehla:

2One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

3Do not call the wandering beggars holy men, if their minds are filled with doubt.

4Whoever gives to them, O Nanak, earns the same sort of merit. ||1||

5One who begs for the supreme status of the Fearless and Immaculate Lord

6- how rare are those who have the opportunity, O Nanak, to give food to such a person. ||2||

7If I were a religious scholar, an astrologer, or one who could recite the four Vedas,

8I could be famous throughout the nine regions of the earth, for my wisdom and thoughtful contemplation. ||3||

9The four Hindu cardinal sins of murdering a Brahmin, a cow, a female infant, and acceptance of the offerings of an evil person,

10cursed by the world and diseased by leprosy; he is forever and ever filled with egotistical pride.

11One who forgets the Naam, O Nanak, is covered by these sins.

12Let all wisdom be burnt away, except for the essence of spiritual wisdom. ||4||

13No one can erase that primal destiny written upon one's forehead.

14O Nanak, whatever is written there, comes to pass. He alone understands, who is blessed by God's Grace. ||5||

15Those who forget the Naam, the Name of the Lord, and become attached to greed and fraud,

16are engrossed in the entanglements of Maya the enticer, with the fire of desire within them.

17Those who, like the pumpkin vine, are too stubborn climb the trellis, are cheated by Maya the cheater.

18The self-willed manmukhs are bound and gagged and led away; the dogs do not join the herd of cows.

19The Lord Himself misleads the misguided ones, and He Himself unites them in His Union.

20O Nanak, the Gurmukhs are saved; they walk in harmony with the Will of the True Guru. ||6||

21I praise the Praiseworthy Lord, and sing the Praises of the True Lord.

22O Nanak, the One Lord alone is True; stay away from all other doors. ||7||

23O Nanak, wherever I go, I find the True Lord.

24Wherever I look, I see the One Lord. He reveals Himself to the Gurmukh. ||8||

25The Word of the Shabad is the Dispeller of sorrow, if one enshrines it in the mind.

26By Guru's Grace, it dwells in the mind; by God's Mercy, it is obtained. ||9||

27O Nanak, acting in egotism, countless thousands have wasted away to death.

28Those who meet with the True Guru are saved, through the Shabad, the True Word of the Inscrutable Lord. ||10||

29Those who serve the True Guru single-mindedly - I fall at the feet of those humble beings.

30Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, the Lord abides in the mind, and the hunger for Maya departs.

31Immaculate and pure are those humble beings, who, as Gurmukh, merge in the Naam.

32O Nanak, other empires are false; they alone are true emperors, who are imbued with the Naam. ||11||

33The devoted wife in her husband's home has a great longing to perform loving devotional service to him;

34she prepares and offers to him all sorts of sweet delicacies and dishes of all flavors.

35In the same way, the devotees praise the Word of the Guru's Bani, and focus their consciousness on the Lord's Name.

36They place mind, body and wealth in offering before the Guru, and sell their heads to Him.

37In the Fear of God, His devotees yearn for His devotional worship; God fulfills their desires, and merges them with Himself.