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1Take your bath in the seven seas, O my mind, and become pure.

2One bathes in the water of purity when it is pleasing to God, and obtains the five virtues by reflective meditation.

3Renouncing sexual desire, anger, deceit and corruption, he enshrines the True Name in his heart.

4When the waves of ego, greed and avarice subside, he finds the Lord Master, Merciful to the meek.

5O Nanak, there is no place of pilgrimage comparable to the Guru; the True Guru is the Lord of the world. ||3||

6I have searched the jungles and forests, and looked upon all the fields.

7You created the three worlds, the entire universe, everything.

8You created everything; You alone are permanent. Nothing is equal to You.

9You are the Giver - all are Your beggars; without You, who should we praise?

10You bestow Your gifts, even when we do not ask for them, O Great Giver; devotion to You is a treasure over-flowing.

11Without the Lord's Name, there is no liberation; so says Nanak, this is the teaching of the Lord. ||4||2||

12Aasaa, First Mehla:

13My mind, my mind is attuned to the Love of my Beloved Lord.

14The True Lord Master, the Primal Being, the Infinite One, is the Support of the earth.

15He is unfathomable, unapproachable, infinite and incomparable. He is the Supreme Lord God, the Lord above all.

16He is the Lord, from the beginning, throughout the ages, now and forevermore; know that all else is false.

17If one does not appreciate the value of good deeds and Dharmic faith, how can one obtain clarity of consciousness and liberation?

18O Nanak, the Gurmukh realizes the Word of the Shabad; night and day, he meditates on the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||1||

19My mind, my mind has come to accept, that the Naam is our only Friend.

20Egotism, worldly attachment, and the lures of Maya shall not go with you.

21Mother, father, famliy, children, cleverness, property and spouses - none of these shall go with you.

22I have renounced Maya, the daughter of the ocean; reflecting upon reality, I have trampled it under my feet.

23The Primal Lord has revealed this wondrous show; wherever I look, there I see Him.

24O Nanak, I shall not forsake the Lord's devotional worship; in the natural course, what shall be, shall be. ||2||

25My mind, my mind has become immaculately pure, contemplating the True Lord.

26I have dispelled my vices, and now I walk in the company of the virtuous.

27Discarding my vices, I do good deeds, and in the True Court, I am judged as true.

28My coming and going has come to an end; as Gurmukh, I reflect upon the nature of reality.

29O my Dear Friend, You are my all-knowing companion; grant me the glory of Your True Name.

30O Nanak, the jewel of the Naam has been revealed to me; such are the Teachings I have received from the Guru. ||3||

31I have carefully applied the healing ointment to my eyes, and I am attuned to the Immaculate Lord.

32He is permeating my mind and body, the Life of the world, the Lord, the Great Giver.

33My mind is imbued with the Lord, the Great Giver, the Life of the world; I have merged and blended with Him, with intuitive ease.

34In the Company of the Holy, and the Saints' Society, by God's Grace, peace is obtained.

35The renunciates remain absorbed in devotional worship to the Lord; they are rid of emotional attachment and desire.

36O Nanak, how rare is that unattached servant, who conquers his ego, and remains pleased with the Lord. ||4||3||