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1Shalok:

2Perfect is the intellect, and most distinguished is the reputation, of those whose minds are filled with the Mantra of the Perfect Guru.

3Those who come to know their God, O Nanak, are very fortunate. ||1||

4Pauree:

5MAMMA: Those who understand God's mystery are satisfied, joining the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy.

6They look upon pleasure and pain as the same.

7They are exempt from incarnation into heaven or hell.

8They live in the world, and yet they are detached from it.

9The Sublime Lord, the Primal Being, is totally pervading each and every heart.

10In His Love, they find peace.

11O Nanak, Maya does not cling to them at all. ||42||

12Shalok:

13Listen, my dear friends and companions: without the Lord, there is no salvation.

14O Nanak, one who falls at the Feet of the Guru, has his bonds cut away. ||1||

15Pauree:

16YAYYA: People try all sorts of things,

17but without the One Name, how far can they succeed?

18Those efforts, by which emancipation may be attained

19those efforts are made in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy.

20Everyone has this idea of salvation,

21but without meditation, there can be no salvation.

22The All-powerful Lord is the boat to carry us across.

23O Lord, please save these worthless beings!

24Those whom the Lord Himself instructs in thought, word and deed

25- O Nanak, their intellect is enlightened. ||43||

26Shalok:

27Do not be angry with anyone else; look within your own self instead.

28Be humble in this world, O Nanak, and by His Grace you shall be carried across. ||1||

29Pauree:

30RARRA: Be the dust under the feet of all.

31Give up your egotistical pride, and the balance of your account shall be written off.

32Then, you shall win the battle in the Court of the Lord, O Siblings of Destiny.

33As Gurmukh, lovingly attune yourself to the Lord's Name.

34Your evil ways shall be slowly and steadily blotted out, by the Shabad, the Incomparable Word of the Perfect Guru.

35You shall be imbued with the Lord's Love, and intoxicated with the Nectar of the Naam.

36O Nanak, the Lord, the Guru, has given this gift. ||44||

37Shalok:

38The afflictions of greed, falsehood and corruption abide in this body.

39Drinking in the Ambrosial Nectar of the Lord's Name, Har, Har, O Nanak, the Gurmukh abides in peace. ||1||

40Pauree:

41LALLA: One who takes the medicine of the Naam, the Name of the Lord,

42is cured of his pain and sorrow in an instant.

43One whose heart is filled with the medicine of the Naam,

44is not infested with disease, even in his dreams.

45The medicine of the Lord's Name is in all hearts, O Siblings of Destiny.

46Without the Perfect Guru, no one knows how to prepare it.

47When the Perfect Guru gives the instructions to prepare it,

48then, O Nanak, one does not suffer illness again. ||45||

49Shalok:

50The All-pervading Lord is in all places. There is no place where He does not exist.

51Inside and outside, He is with you. O Nanak, what can be hidden from Him? ||1||

52Pauree:

53WAWWA: Do not harbor hatred against anyone.

54In each and every heart, God is contained.

55The All-pervading Lord is permeating and pervading the oceans and the land.

56How rare are those who, by Guru's Grace, sing of Him.

57Hatred and alienation depart from those

58who, as Gurmukh, listen to the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises.

59O Nanak, one who becomes Gurmukh chants the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, and rises above all social classes and status symbols. ||46||