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1So many lifetimes are wasted in these ways.

2Nanak: uplift them, and redeem them, O Lord - show Your Mercy! ||7||

3You are our Lord and Master; to You, I offer this prayer.

4This body and soul are all Your property.

5You are our mother and father; we are Your children.

6In Your Grace, there are so many joys!

7No one knows Your limits.

8O Highest of the High, Most Generous God,

9the whole creation is strung on Your thread.

10That which has come from You is under Your Command.

11You alone know Your state and extent.

12Nanak, Your slave, is forever a sacrifice. ||8||4||

13Shalok:

14One who renounces God the Giver, and attaches himself to other affairs

15- O Nanak, he shall never succeed. Without the Name, he shall lose his honor. ||1||

16Ashtapadee:

17He obtains ten things, and puts them behind him;

18for the sake of one thing withheld, he forfeits his faith.

19But what if that one thing were not given, and the ten were taken away?

20Then, what could the fool say or do?

21Our Lord and Master cannot be moved by force.

22Unto Him, bow forever in adoration.

23That one, unto whose mind God seems sweet

24all pleasures come to abide in his mind.

25One who abides by the Lord's Will,

26O Nanak, obtains all things. ||1||

27God the Banker gives endless capital to the mortal,

28who eats, drinks and expends it with pleasure and joy.

29If some of this capital is later taken back by the Banker,

30the ignorant person shows his anger.

31He himself destroys his own credibility,

32and he shall not again be trusted.

33When one offers to the Lord, that which belongs to the Lord,

34and willingly abides by the Will of God's Order,

35the Lord will make him happy four times over.

36O Nanak, our Lord and Master is merciful forever. ||2||

37The many forms of attachment to Maya shall surely pass away - know that they are transitory.

38People fall in love with the shade of the tree,

39and when it passes away, they feel regret in their minds.

40Whatever is seen, shall pass away;

41and yet, the blindest of the blind cling to it.

42One who gives her love to a passing traveler

43nothing shall come into her hands in this way.

44O mind, the love of the Name of the Lord bestows peace.

45O Nanak, the Lord, in His Mercy, unites us with Himself. ||3||

46False are body, wealth, and all relations.

47False are ego, possessiveness and Maya.

48False are power, youth, wealth and property.

49False are sexual desire and wild anger.

50False are chariots, elephants, horses and expensive clothes.

51False is the love of gathering wealth, and reveling in the sight of it.

52False are deception, emotional attachment and egotistical pride.

53False are pride and self-conceit.

54Only devotional worship is permanent, and the Sanctuary of the Holy.

55Nanak lives by meditating, meditating on the Lotus Feet of the Lord. ||4||

56False are the ears which listen to the slander of others.

57False are the hands which steal the wealth of others.