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1I have tasted the Ambrosial Nectar of the Naam, the Name of the Lord, by meeting the True Guru. It is sweet, like the juice of the sugarcane. ||2||

2Those who have not met the Guru, the True Guru, are foolish and insane - they are faithless cynics.

3Those who were pre-ordained to have no good karma at all - gazing into the lamp of emotional attachment, they are burnt, like moths in a flame. ||3||

4Those whom You, in Your Mercy, have met, Lord, are committed to Your Service.

5Servant Nanak chants the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, Har. He is famous, and through the Guru's Teachings, He merges in the Name. ||4||4||18||56||

6Gauree Poorbee, Fourth Mehla:

7O my mind, God is always with you; He is your Lord and Master. Tell me, where could you run to get away from the Lord?

8The True Lord God Himself grants forgiveness; we are emancipated only when the Lord Himself emancipates us. ||1||

9O my mind, chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, Har - chant it in your mind.

10Quickly now, run to the Sanctuary of the True Guru, O my mind; following the Guru, the True Guru, you shall be saved. ||1||Pause||

11O my mind, serve God, the Giver of all peace; serving Him, you shall come to dwell in your own home deep within.

12As Gurmukh, go and enter your own home; anoint yourself with the sandalwood oil of the Lord's Praises. ||2||

13O my mind, the Praises of the Lord, Har, Har, Har, Har, Har, are exalted and sublime. Earn the profit of the Lord's Name, and let your mind be happy.

14If the Lord, Har, Har, in His Mercy, bestows it, then we partake of the ambrosial essence of the Lord's Name. ||3||

15O my mind, without the Naam, the Name of the Lord, and attached to duality, those faithless cynics are strangled by the Messenger of Death.

16Such faithless cynics, who have forgotten the Naam, are thieves. O my mind, do not even go near them. ||4||

17O my mind, serve the Unknowable and Immaculate Lord, the Man-lion; serving Him, your account will be cleared.

18The Lord God has made servant Nanak perfect; he is not diminished by even the tiniest particle. ||5||5||19||57||

19Gauree Poorbee, Fourth Mehla:

20My breath of life is in Your Power, God; my soul and body are totally Yours.

21Be merciful to me, and show me the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan. There is such a great longing within my mind and body! ||1||

22O my Lord, there is such a great longing within my mind and body to meet the Lord.

23When the Guru, the Merciful Guru, showed just a little mercy to me, my Lord God came and met me. ||1||Pause||

24Whatever is in my conscious mind, O Lord and Master - that condition of mine is known only to You, Lord.

25Night and day, I chant Your Name, and I find peace. I live by placing my hopes in You, Lord. ||2||

26The Guru, the True Guru, the Giver, has shown me the Way; my Lord God came and met me.

27Night and day, I am filled with bliss; by great good fortune, all of the hopes of His humble servant have been fulfilled. ||3||

28O Lord of the World, Master of the Universe, everything is under Your control.

29Servant Nanak has come to Your Sanctuary, Lord; please, preserve the honor of Your humble servant. ||4||6||20||58||

30Gauree Poorbee, Fourth Mehla:

31This mind does not hold still, even for an instant. Distracted by all sorts of distractions, it wanders around aimlessly in the ten directions.