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1Pauree:

2You, O Creator, know everything which occurs within our beings.

3You Yourself, O Creator, are incalculable, while the entire world is within the realm of calculation.

4Everything happens according to Your Will; You created all.

5You are the One, pervading in each and every heart; O True Lord and Master, this is Your play.

6One who meets the True Guru meets the Lord; no one can turn him away. ||24||

7Shalok, Fourth Mehla:

8Hold this mind steady and stable; become Gurmukh and focus your consciousness.

9How could you ever forget Him, with each breath and morsel of food, sitting down or standing up?

10My anxiety about birth and death has ended; this soul is under the control of the Lord God.

11If it pleases You, then save servant Nanak, and bless him with Your Name. ||1||

12Third Mehla:

13The egotistical, self-willed manmukh does not know the Mansion of the Lord's Presence; one moment he is here, and the next moment he is there.

14He is always invited, but he does not go to the Mansion of the Lord's Presence. How shall he be accepted in the Court of the Lord?

15How rare are those who know the Mansion of the True Guru; they stand with their palms pressed together.

16If my Lord grants His Grace, O Nanak, He restores them to Himself. ||2||

17Pauree:

18Fruitful and rewarding is that service, which is pleasing to the Guru's Mind.

19When the Mind of the True Guru is pleased, then sins and misdeeds run away.

20The Sikhs listen to the Teachings imparted by the True Guru.

21Those who surrender to the True Guru's Will are imbued with the four-fold Love of the Lord.

22This is the unique and distinct life-style of the Gurmukhs: listening to the Guru's Teachings, their minds blossom forth. ||25||

23Shalok, Third Mehla:

24Those who do not affirm their Guru shall have no home or place of rest.

25They lose both this world and the next; they have no place in the Court of the Lord.

26This opportunity to bow at the Feet of the True Guru shall never come again.

27If they miss out on being counted by the True Guru, they shall pass their lives in pain and misery.

28The True Guru, the Primal Being, has no hatred or vengeance; He unites with Himself those with whom He is pleased.

29O Nanak, those who behold the Blessed Vision of His Darshan, are emancipated in the Court of the Lord. ||1||

30Third Mehla:

31The self-willed manmukh is ignorant, evil-minded and egotistical.

32He is filled with anger within, and he loses his mind in the gamble.

33He commits the sins of fraud and unrighteousness.

34What can he hear, and what can he tell others?

35He is blind and deaf; he loses his way, and wanders lost in the wilderness.

36The blind, self-willed manmukh comes and goes in reincarnation;

37without meeting the True Guru, he finds no place of rest.

38O Nanak, he acts according to his pre-ordained destiny. ||2||

39Pauree:

40Those who have hearts as hard as stone, do not sit near the True Guru.

41Truth prevails there; the false ones do not attune their consciousness to it.

42By hook or by crook, they pass their time, and then they go back to sit with the false ones again.

43Falsehood does not mix with the Truth; O people, check it out and see.

44The false go and mingle with the false, while the truthful Sikhs sit by the side of the True Guru. ||26||