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1Nanak: You are near, so very near! ||3||3||156||

2Gauree, Fifth Mehla:

3I am intoxicated, intoxicated with the Love of the Lord. ||1||Pause||

4I drink it in - I am drunk with it. The Guru has given it to me in charity.

5My mind is drenched with it. ||1||

6It is my furnace, it is the cooling plaster. It is my love, it is my longing.

7My mind knows it as peace. ||2||

8I enjoy intuitive peace, and I play in bliss; the cycle of reincarnation is ended for me, and I am merged with the Lord.

9Nanak is pierced through with the Word of the Guru's Shabad. ||3||4||157||

10Raag Gauree Maalwaa, Fifth Mehla:

11One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

12Chant the Lord's Name; O my friend, chant it. Hereafter, the path is terrifying and treacherous. ||1||Pause||

13Serve, serve, forever serve the Lord. Death hangs over your head.

14Do seva, selfless service, for the Holy Saints, and the noose of Death shall be cut away. ||1||

15You may make burnt offerings, sacrificial feasts and pilgrimages to sacred shrines in egotism, but your corruption only increases.

16You are subject to both heaven and hell, and you are reincarnated over and over again. ||2||

17The realm of Shiva, the realms of Brahma and Indra as well - no place anywhere is permanent.

18Without serving the Lord, there is no peace at all. The faithless cynic comes and goes in reincarnation. ||3||

19As the Guru has taught me, so have I spoken.

20Says Nanak, listen, people: sing the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises, and you shall be saved. ||4||1||158||

21Raag Gauree Maalaa, Fifth Mehla:

22One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

23Adopting the innocent mind of a child, I have found peace.

24Joy and sorrow, profit and loss, birth and death, pain and pleasure - they are all the same to my consciousness, since I met the Guru. ||1||Pause||

25As long as I plotted and planned things, I was full of frustration.

26When I met the Kind, Perfect Guru, then I obtained bliss so easily. ||1||

27The more clever tricks I tried, the more bonds I was saddled with.

28When the Holy Saint placed His Hand upon my forehead, then I was liberated. ||2||

29As long as I claimed, ""Mine, mine!"", I was surrounded by wickedness and corruption.

30But when I dedicated my mind, body and intellect to my Lord and Master, then I began to sleep in peace. ||3||

31As long as I walked along, carrying the load, I continued to pay the fine.

32But I threw away that bundle, when I met the Perfect Guru; O Nanak, then I became fearless. ||4||1||159||

33Gauree Maalaa, Fifth Mehla:

34I have renounced my desires; I have renounced them.

35I have renounced them; meeting the Guru, I have renounced them.

36All peace, joy, happiness and pleasures have come since I surrendered to the Will of the Lord of the Universe. ||1||Pause||