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1Gauree, Fifth Mehla:

2They wear and eat the gifts from the Lord;

3how can laziness help them, O mother? ||1||

4Forgetting her Husband Lord, and attaching herself to other affairs,

5the soul-bride throws away the precious jewel in exchange for a mere shell. ||1||Pause||

6Forsaking God, she is attached to other desires.

7But who has gained honor by saluting the slave? ||2||

8They consume food and drink, delicious and sublime as ambrosial nectar.

9But the dog does not know the One who has bestowed these. ||3||

10Says Nanak, I have been unfaithful to my own nature.

11Please forgive me, O God, O Searcher of hearts. ||4||76||145||

12Gauree, Fifth Mehla:

13I meditate on the Feet of God within my mind.

14This is my cleansing bath at all the sacred shrines of pilgrimage. ||1||

15Meditate in remembrance on the Lord every day, O my Siblings of Destiny.

16Thus, the filth of millions of incarnations shall be taken away. ||1||Pause||

17Enshrine the Lord's Sermon within your heart,

18and you shall obtain all the desires of your mind. ||2||

19Redeemed is the life, death and birth of those,

20within whose hearts the Lord God abides. ||3||

21Says Nanak, those humble beings are perfect,

22who are blessed with the dust of the feet of the Holy. ||4||77||146||

23Gauree, Fifth Mehla:

24They eat and wear what they are given, but still, they deny the Lord.

25The messengers of the Righteous Judge of Dharma shall hunt them down. ||1||

26They are unfaithful to the One, who has given them body and soul.

27Through millions of incarnations, for so many lifetimes, they wander lost. ||1||Pause||

28Such is the lifestyle of the faithless cynics;

29everything they do is evil. ||2||

30Within their minds, they have forgotten that Lord and Master, who created the soul, breath of life, mind and body. ||3||

31Their wickedness and corruption have increased - they are recorded in volumes of books.

32O Nanak, they are saved only by the Mercy of God, the Ocean of peace. ||4||

33O Supreme Lord God, I have come to Your Sanctuary.

34Break my bonds, and carry me across, with the Lord's Name. ||1||Second Pause||78||147||

35Gauree, Fifth Mehla:

36For their own advantage, they make God their friend.

37He fulfills all their desires, and blesses them with the state of liberation. ||1||

38Everyone should make Him such a friend.

39No one goes away empty-handed from Him. ||1||Pause||

40For their own purposes, they enshrine the Lord in the heart;

41all pain, suffering and disease are taken away. ||2||

42Their tongues learn the habit of chanting the Lord's Name,

43and all their works are brought to perfection. ||3||

44So many times, Nanak is a sacrifice to Him;

45fruitful is the Blessed Vision, the Darshan, of my Lord of the Universe. ||4||79||148||

46Gauree, Fifth Mehla:

47Millions of obstacles are removed in an instant,

48for those who listen to the Sermon of the Lord, Har, Har, in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy. ||1||

49They drink in the sublime essence of the Lord's Name, the Ambrosial Elixir.

50Meditating on the Lord's Feet, hunger is taken away. ||1||Pause||

51The treasure of all happiness, celestial peace and poise,

52are obtained by those, whose hearts are filled with the Lord God. ||2||