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1As is their awareness, so is their way.

2According to the account of our actions, we come and go in reincarnation. ||1||

3Why, O soul, do you try such clever tricks?

4Taking away and giving back, God does not delay. ||1||Pause||

5All beings belong to You; all beings are Yours. O Lord and Master,

6how can You become angry with them?

7Even if You, O Lord and Master, become angry with them,

8still, You are theirs, and they are Yours. ||2||

9We are foul-mouthed; we spoil everything with our foul words.

10You weigh us in the balance of Your Glance of Grace.

11When one's actions are right, the understanding is perfect.

12Without good deeds, it becomes more and more deficient. ||3||

13Prays Nanak, what is the nature of the spiritual people?

14They are self-realized; they understand God.

15By Guru's Grace, they contemplate Him;

16such spiritual people are honored in His Court. ||4||30||

17Siree Raag, First Mehla, Fourth House:

18You are the River, All-knowing and All-seeing. I am just a fish-how can I find Your limit?

19Wherever I look, You are there. Outside of You, I would burst and die. ||1||

20I do not know of the fisherman, and I do not know of the net.

21But when the pain comes, then I call upon You. ||1||Pause||

22You are present everywhere. I had thought that You were far away.

23Whatever I do, I do in Your Presence.

24You see all my actions, and yet I deny them.

25I have not worked for You, or Your Name. ||2||

26Whatever You give me, that is what I eat.

27There is no other door-unto which door should I go?

28Nanak offers this one prayer:

29this body and soul are totally Yours. ||3||

30He Himself is near, and He Himself is far away; He Himself is in-between.

31He Himself beholds, and He Himself listens. By His Creative Power, He created the world.

32Whatever pleases Him, O Nanak-that Command is acceptable. ||4||31||

33Siree Raag, First Mehla, Fourth House:

34Why should the created beings feel pride in their minds?

35The Gift is in the Hands of the Great Giver.

36As it pleases Him, He may give, or not give.

37What can be done by the order of the created beings? ||1||

38He Himself is True; Truth is pleasing to His Will.

39The spiritually blind are unripe and imperfect, inferior and worthless. ||1||Pause||

40The One who owns the trees of the forest and the plants of the garden

41according to their nature, He gives them all their names.

42The Flower and the Fruit of the Lord's Love are obtained by pre-ordained destiny.

43As we plant, so we harvest and eat. ||2||

44The wall of the body is temporary, as is the soul-mason within it.

45The flavor of the intellect is bland and insipid without the Salt.

46O Nanak, as He wills, He makes things right.

47Without the Name, no one is approved. ||3||32||

48Siree Raag, First Mehla, Fifth House:

49The Undeceiveable is not deceived by deception. He cannot be wounded by any dagger.

50As our Lord and Master keeps us, so do we exist. The soul of this greedy person is tossed this way and that. ||1||

51Without the oil, how can the lamp be lit? ||1||Pause||

52Let the reading of your prayer book be the oil, and let the Fear of God be the wick for the lamp of this body.

53Light this lamp with the understanding of Truth. ||2||

54Use this oil to light this lamp.

55Light it, and meet your Lord and Master. ||1||Pause||

56This body is softened with the Word of the Guru's Bani;

57you shall find peace, doing seva (selfless service).