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1Modesty, humility and intuitive understanding are my mother-in-law and father-in-law;

2I have made good deeds my spouse. ||2||

3Union with the Holy is my wedding date, and separation from the world is my marriage.

4Says Nanak, Truth is the child born of this Union. ||3||3||

5Gauree, First Mehla:

6The union of air, water and fire

7the body is the play-thing of the fickle and unsteady intellect.

8It has nine doors, and then there is the Tenth Gate.

9Reflect upon this and understand it, O wise one. ||1||

10The Lord is the One who speaks, teaches and listens.

11One who contemplates his own self is truly wise. ||1||Pause||

12The body is dust; the wind speaks through it.

13Understand, O wise one, who has died.

14Awareness, conflict and ego have died,

15but the One who sees does not die. ||2||

16For the sake of it, you journey to sacred shrines and holy rivers;

17but this priceless jewel is within your own heart.

18The Pandits, the religious scholars, read and read endlessly; they stir up arguments and controversies,

19but they do not know the secret deep within. ||3||

20I have not died - that evil nature within me has died.

21The One who is pervading everywhere does not die.

22Says Nanak, the Guru has revealed God to me,

23and now I see that there is no such thing as birth or death. ||4||4||

24Gauree, First Mehla, Dakhanee:

25I am forever a sacrifice to the one who listens and hears, who understands and believes in the Name.

26When the Lord Himself leads us astray, there is no other place of rest for us to find.

27You impart understanding, and You unite us in Your Union. ||1||

28I obtain the Naam, which shall go along with me in the end.

29Without the Name, all are held in the grip of Death. ||1||Pause||

30My farming and my trading are by the Support of the Name.

31The seeds of sin and virtue are bound together.

32Sexual desire and anger are the wounds of the soul.

33The evil-minded ones forget the Naam, and then depart. ||2||

34True are the Teachings of the True Guru.

35The body and mind are cooled and soothed, by the touchstone of Truth.

36This is the true mark of wisdom: that one remains detached, like the water-lily, or the lotus upon the water.

37Attuned to the Word of the Shabad, one becomes sweet, like the juice of the sugar cane. ||3||

38By the Hukam of the Lord's Command, the castle of the body has ten gates.

39The five passions dwell there, together with the Divine Light of the Infinite.

40The Lord Himself is the merchandise, and He Himself is the trader.

41O Nanak, through the Naam, the Name of the Lord, we are adorned and rejuvenated. ||4||5||

42Gauree, First Mehla:

43How can we know where we came from?

44Where did we originate, and where will we go and merge?

45How are we bound, and how do we obtain liberation?

46How do we merge with intuitive ease into the Eternal, Imperishable Lord? ||1||

47With the Naam in the heart and the Ambrosial Naam on our lips,

48through the Name of the Lord, we rise above desire, like the Lord. ||1||Pause||

49With intuitive ease we come, and with intuitive ease we depart.

50From the mind we originate, and into the mind we are absorbed.

51As Gurmukh, we are liberated, and are not bound.

52Contemplating the Word of the Shabad, we are emancipated through the Name of the Lord. ||2||

53At night, lots of birds settle on the tree.

54Some are happy, and some are sad. Caught in the desires of the mind, they perish.

55And when the life-night comes to its end, then they look to the sky.

56They fly away in all ten directions, according to their pre-ordained destiny. ||3||