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1When the True Guru, the Tester, observes with His Glance, the selfish ones are all exposed.

2As one thinks, so does he receive, and so does the Lord make him known.

3O Nanak, the Lord and Master is pervading at both ends; He continually acts, and beholds His own play. ||1||

4Fourth Mehla:

5The mortal is of one mind - whatever he dedicates it to, in that he is successful.

6Some talk a lot, but they eat only that which is in their own homes.

7Without the True Guru, understanding is not obtained, and egotism does not depart from within.

8Suffering and hunger cling to the egotistical people; they hold out their hands and beg from door to door.

9Their falsehood and fraud cannot remain concealed; their false appearances fall off in the end.

10One who has such pre-ordained destiny comes to meet God through the True Guru.

11Just as iron is transmuted into gold by the touch of the Philosopher's Stone, so are people transformed by joining the Sangat, the Holy Congregation.

12O God, You are the Master of servant Nanak; as it pleases You, You lead him. ||2||

13Pauree:

14One who serves the Lord with all his heart - the Lord Himself unites him with Himself.

15He enters into a partnership with virtue and merit, and burns off all his demerits with the fire of the Shabad.

16Demerits are purchased cheap, like straw; he alone gathers merit, who is so blessed by the True Lord.

17I am a sacrifice to my Guru, who has erased my demerits, and revealed my virtuous merits.

18The Gurmukh chants the glorious greatness of the great Lord God. ||7||

19Shalok, Fourth Mehla:

20Great is the greatness within the True Guru, who meditates night and day on the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.

21The repetition of the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, is his purity and self-restraint; with the Name of the Lord, He is satisfied.

22The Lord's Name is His power, and the Lord's Name is His Royal Court; the Lord's Name protects Him.

23One who centers his consciousness and worships the Guru, obtains the fruits of his mind's desires.

24But one who slanders the Perfect True Guru, shall be killed and destroyed by the Creator.

25This opportunity shall not come into his hands again; he must eat what he himself has planted.

26He shall be taken to the most horrible hell, with his face blackened like a thief, and a noose around his neck.

27But if he should again take to the Sanctuary of the True Guru, and meditate on the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, then he shall be saved.

28Nanak speaks and proclaims the Lord's Story; as it pleases the Creator, so does he speak. ||1||

29Fourth Mehla:

30One who does not obey the Hukam, the Command of the Perfect Guru - that self-willed manmukh is plundered by his ignorance and poisoned by Maya.

31Within him is falsehood, and he sees everyone else as false; the Lord has tied these useless conflicts around his neck.

32He babbles on and on, but the words he speaks please no one.

33He wanders from house to house like an abandoned woman; whoever associates with him is stained by the mark of evil as well.

34Those who become Gurmukh avoid him; they forsake his company and sit near the Guru.