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1One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

2Aasaa, Third House, First Mehla:

3You may have thousands of armies, thousands of marching bands and lances, and thousands of men to rise and salute you.

4Your rule may extend over thousands of miles, and thousands of men may rise to honor you.

5But, if your honor is of no account to the Lord, then all of your ostentatious show is useless. ||1||

6Without the Name of the Lord, the world is in turmoil.

7Even though the fool may be taught again and again, he remains the blindest of the blind. ||1||Pause||

8You may earn thousands, collect thousands, and spend thousands of dollars; thousands may come, and thousands may go.

9But, if your honor is of no account to the Lord, then where will you go to find a safe haven? ||2||

10Thousands of Shaastras may be explained to the mortal, and thousands of Pandits may read the Puraanas to him;

11but, if his honor is of no account to the Lord, then all of this is unacceptable. ||3||

12Honor comes from the True Name, the Name of the Merciful Creator.

13If it abides in the heart, day and night, O Nanak, then the mortal shall swim across, by His Grace. ||4||1||31||

14Aasaa, First Mehla:

15The One Name is my lamp; I have put the oil of suffering into it.

16Its flame has dried up this oil, and I have escaped my meeting with the Messenger of Death. ||1||

17O people, do not make fun of me.

18Thousands of wooden logs, piled up together, need only a tiny flame to burn. ||1||Pause||

19The Lord is my festive dish, of rice balls on leafy plates; the True Name of the Creator Lord is my funeral ceremony.

20Here and hereafter, in the past and in the future, this is my support. ||2||

21The Lord's Praise is my River Ganges and my city of Benares; my soul takes its sacred cleansing bath there.

22That becomes my true cleansing bath, if night and day, I enshrine love for You. ||3||

23The rice balls are offered to the gods and the dead ancestors, but it is the Brahmins who eat them!

24O Nanak, the rice balls of the Lord are a gift which is never exhausted. ||4||2||32||

25Aasaa, Fourth House, First Mehla:

26One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

27The Gods, yearning for the Blessed Vision of the Lord's Darshan, suffered through pain and hunger at the sacred shrines.

28The yogis and the celibates live their disciplined lifestyle, while others wear saffron robes and become hermits. ||1||

29For Your sake, O Lord Master, they are imbued with love.

30Your Names are so many, and Your Forms are endless. No one can tell how may Glorious Virtues You have. ||1||Pause||

31Leaving behind hearth and home, palaces, elephants, horses and native lands, mortals have journeyed to foreign lands.

32The spiritual leaders, prophets, seers and men of faith renounced the world, and became acceptable. ||2||

33Renouncing tasty delicacies, comfort, happiness and pleasures, some have abandoned their clothes and now wear skins.

34Those who suffer in pain, imbued with Your Name, have become beggars at Your Door. ||3||

35Some wear skins, and carry begging bowls, bearing wooden staffs, and sitting on deer skins. Others raise their hair in tufts and wear sacred threads and loin-cloths.

36You are the Lord Master, I am just Your puppet. Prays Nanak, what is my social status to be? ||4||1||33||