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1O Nanak, they alone are wealthy, who are imbued with the Naam; the rest of the world is poor. ||26||

2The Lord's Name is the Support of the Lord's humble servants. Without the Lord's Name, the there is no other place, no place of rest.

3Following the Guru's Teachings, the Name abides in the mind, and one is intuitively, automatically absorbed in the Lord.

4Those with great good fortune meditate on the Naam; night and day, they embrace love for the Name.

5Servant Nanak begs for the dust of their feet; I am forever a sacrifice to them. ||27||

6The 8.4 million species of beings burn in desire and cry in pain.

7All this show of emotional attachment to Maya shall not go with you at that very last instant.

8Without the Lord, peace and tranquility do not come; unto whom should we go and complain?

9By great good fortune, one meets the True Guru, and comes to understand the contemplation of God.

10The fire of desire is totally extinguished, O servant Nanak, enshrining the Lord within the heart. ||28||

11I make so many mistakes, there is no end or limit to them.

12O Lord, please be merciful and forgive me; I am a sinner, a great offender.

13O Dear Lord, if You made an account of my mistakes, my turn to be forgiven would not even come. Please forgive me, and unite me with Yourself.

14The Guru, in His Pleasure, has united me with the Lord God; He has cut away all my sinful mistakes.

15Servant Nanak celebrates the victory of those who meditate on the Name of the Lord, Har, Har. ||29||

16Those who have been separated and alienated from the Lord are united with Him again, through the Fear and the Love of the True Guru.

17They escape the cycle of birth and death, and, as Gurmukh, they meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

18Joining the Saadh Sangat, the Guru's Congregation, the diamonds and jewels are obtained.

19O Nanak, the jewel is priceless; the Gurmukhs seek and find it. ||30||

20The self-willed manmukhs do not even think of the Naam. Cursed are their lives, and cursed are their homes.

21That Lord who gives them so much to eat and wear - they do not enshrine that Lord, the Treasure of Virtue, in their minds.

22This mind is not pierced by the Word of the Shabad; how can it come to dwell in its true home?

23The self-willed manmukhs are like discarded brides, ruined by coming and going in the cycle of reincarnation.

24The Gurmukhs are embellished and exalted by the Naam, the Name of the Lord; the jewel of destiny is engraved upon their foreheads.

25They enshrine the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, within their hearts; the Lord illumines their heart-lotus.

26I am forever a sacrifice to those who serve their True Guru.

27O Nanak, radiant and bright are the faces of those whose inner beings are illuminated with the Light of the Naam. ||31||

28Those who die in the Word of the Shabad are saved. Without the Shabad, no one is liberated.

29They wear religious robes and perform all sorts of rituals, but they are ruined; in the love of duality, their world is ruined.

30O Nanak, without the True Guru, the Name is not obtained, even though one may long for it hundreds of times. ||32||

31The Name of the Lord is utterly great, lofty and high, the highest of the high.

32No one can climb up to it, even though one may long for it, hundreds of times.

33Speaking about self-discipline, no one become pure; everyone walks around wearing religious robes.

34Those blessed by the karma of good deeds go and climb the ladder of the Guru.

35The Lord comes and dwells within that one who contemplates the Word of the Guru's Shabad.