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1If you focus your consciousness on the Feet of the One Lord, what reason would you have to chase after greed? ||3||

2Meditate on the Immaculate Lord, and saturate your mind with Him.

3Why, O Yogi, do you make so many false and deceptive claims? ||1||Pause||

4The body is wild, and the mind is foolish. Practicing egotism, selfishness and conceit, your life is passing away.

5Prays Nanak, when the naked body is cremated, then you will come to regret and repent. ||4||3||15||

6Gauree Chaytee, First Mehla:

7O mind, there is only the One medicine, mantra and healing herb - center your consciousness firmly on the One Lord.

8Take to the Lord, the Destroyer of the sins and karma of past incarnations. ||1||

9The One Lord and Master is pleasing to my mind.

10In Your three qualities, the world is engrossed; the Unknowable cannot be known. ||1||Pause||

11Maya is so sweet to the body, like sugar or molasses. We all carry loads of it.

12In the dark of the night, nothing can be seen. The mouse of death is gnawing away at the rope of life, O Siblings of Destiny! ||2||

13As the self-willed manmukhs act, they suffer in pain. The Gurmukh obtains honor and greatness.

14Whatever He does, that alone happens; past actions cannot be erased. ||3||

15Those who are imbued with, and committed to the Lord's Love, are filled to overflowing; they never lack anything.

16If Nanak could be the dust of their feet, then he, the ignorant one, might also obtain some. ||4||4||16||

17Gauree Chaytee, First Mehla:

18Who is our mother, and who is our father? Where did we come from?

19We are formed from the fire of the womb within, and the bubble of water of the sperm. For what purpose are we created? ||1||

20O my Master, who can know Your Glorious Virtues?

21My own demerits cannot be counted. ||1||Pause||

22I took the form of so many plants and trees, and so many animals.

23Many times I entered the families of snakes and flying birds. ||2||

24I broke into the shops of the city and well-guarded palaces; stealing from them, I snuck home again.

25I looked in front of me, and I looked behind me, but where could I hide from You? ||3||

26I saw the banks of sacred rivers, the nine continents, the shops and bazaars of the cities.

27Taking the scale, the merchant begins to weigh his actions within his own heart. ||4||

28As the seas and the oceans are overflowing with water, so vast are my own sins.

29Please, shower me with Your Mercy, and take pity upon me. I am a sinking stone - please carry me across! ||5||

30My soul is burning like fire, and the knife is cutting deep.

31Prays Nanak, recognizing the Lord's Command, I am at peace, day and night. ||6||5||17||

32Gauree Bairaagan, First Mehla:

33The nights are wasted sleeping, and the days are wasted eating.

34Human life is such a precious jewel, but it is being lost in exchange for a mere shell. ||1||

35You do not know the Name of the Lord.

36You fool - you shall regret and repent in the end! ||1||Pause||

37You bury your temporary wealth in the ground, but how can you love that which is temporary?

38Those who have departed, after craving for temporary wealth, have returned home without this temporary wealth. ||2||

39If people could gather it in by their own efforts, then everyone would be so lucky.