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1Shalok, Fifth Mehla:

2By their own efforts, the slanderers have destroyed all remnants of themselves.

3The Support of the Saints, O Nanak, is manifest, pervading everywhere. ||1||

4Fifth Mehla:

5Those who went astray from the Primal Being in the very beginning - where can they find refuge?

6O Nanak, they are struck down by the All-powerful, the Cause of causes. ||2||

7Pauree, Fifth Mehla:

8They take the noose in their hands, and go out at night to strangle others, but God knows everything, O mortal.

9They spy on other men's women, concealed in their hiding places.

10They break into well-protected places, and revel in sweet wine.

11But they shall come to regret their actions - they create their own karma.

12Azraa-eel, the Angel of Death, shall crush them like sesame seeds in the oil-press. ||27||

13Shalok, Fifth Mehla:

14The servants of the True King are acceptable and approved.

15Those ignorant ones who serve duality, O Nanak, rot, waste away and die. ||1||

16Fifth Mehla:

17That destiny which was pre-ordained by God from the very beginning cannot be erased.

18The wealth of the Lord's Name is Nanak's capital; he meditates on it forever. ||2||

19Pauree, Fifth Mehla:

20One who has received a kick from the Lord God - where can he place his foot?

21He commits countless sins, and continually eats poison.

22Slandering others, he wastes away and dies; within his body, he burns.

23One who has been struck down by the True Lord and Master - who can save him now?

24Nanak has entered the Sanctuary of the Unseen Lord, the Primal Being. ||28||

25Shalok, Fifth Mehla:

26In the most horrible hell, there is terrible pain and suffering. It is the place of the ungrateful.

27They are struck down by God, O Nanak, and they die a most miserable death. ||1||

28Fifth Mehla:

29All kinds of medicines may be prepared, but there is no cure for the slanderer.

30Those whom the Lord Himself misleads, O Nanak, putrefy and rot in reincarnation. ||2||

31Pauree, Fifth Mehla:

32By His Pleasure, the True Guru has blessed me with the inexhaustible wealth of the Name of the True Lord.

33All my anxiety is ended; I am rid of the fear of death.

34Sexual desire, anger and other evils have been subdued in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy.

35Those who serve another, instead of the True Lord, die unfulfilled in the end.

36The Guru has blessed Nanak with forgiveness; he is united with the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||29||

37Shalok, Fourth Mehla:

38He is not a penitent, who is greedy within his heart, and who constantly chases after Maya like a leper.

39When this penitent was first invited, he refused our charity; but later he repented and sent his son, who was seated in the congregation.

40The village elders all laughed, saying that the waves of greed have destroyed this penitent.

41If he sees only a little wealth, he does not bother to go there; but when he sees a lot of wealth, the penitent forsakes his vows.

42O Siblings of Destiny, he is not a penitent - he is only a stork. Sitting together, the Holy Congregation has so decided.

43The penitent slanders the True Primal Being, and sings the praises of the material world. For this sin, he is cursed by the Lord.

44Behold the fruit the penitent gathers, for slandering the Great Primal Being; all his labors have gone in vain.

45When he sits outside among the elders, he is called a penitent;

46but when he sits within the congregation, the penitent commits sin.