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1Wearing blue robes, they seek the approval of the Muslim rulers.

2Accepting bread from the Muslim rulers, they still worship the Puraanas.

3They eat the meat of the goats, killed after the Muslim prayers are read over them,

4but they do not allow anyone else to enter their kitchen areas.

5They draw lines around them, plastering the ground with cow-dung.

6The false come and sit within them.

7They cry out, ""Do not touch our food, or it will be polluted!""

8But with their polluted bodies, they commit evil deeds.

9With filthy minds, they try to cleanse their mouths.

10Says Nanak, meditate on the True Lord.

11If you are pure, you will obtain the True Lord. ||2||

12Pauree:

13All are within Your mind; You see and move them under Your Glance of Grace, O Lord.

14You Yourself grant them glory, and You Yourself cause them to act.

15The Lord is the greatest of the great; great is His world. He enjoins all to their tasks.

16If he should cast an angry glance, He can transform kings into blades of grass.

17Even though they may beg from door to door, no one will give them charity. ||16||

18Shalok, First Mehla:

19The thief robs a house, and offers the stolen goods to his ancestors.

20In the world hereafter, this is recognized, and his ancestors are considered thieves as well.

21The hands of the go-between are cut off; this is the Lord's justice.

22O Nanak, in the world hereafter, that alone is received, which one gives to the needy from his own earnings and labor. ||1||

23First Mehla:

24As a woman has her periods, month after month,

25so does falsehood dwell in the mouth of the false; they suffer forever, again and again.

26They are not called pure, who sit down after merely washing their bodies.

27Only they are pure, O Nanak, within whose minds the Lord abides. ||2||

28Pauree:

29With saddled horses, as fast as the wind, and harems decorated in every way;

30in houses and pavilions and lofty mansions, they dwell, making ostentatious shows.

31They act out their minds' desires, but they do not understand the Lord, and so they are ruined.

32Asserting their authority, they eat, and beholding their mansions, they forget about death.

33But old age comes, and youth is lost. ||17||

34Shalok, First Mehla:

35If one accepts the concept of impurity, then there is impurity everywhere.

36In cow-dung and wood there are worms.

37As many as are the grains of corn, none is without life.

38First, there is life in the water, by which everything else is made green.

39How can it be protected from impurity? It touches our own kitchen.

40O Nanak, impurity cannot be removed in this way; it is washed away only by spiritual wisdom. ||1||

41First Mehla:

42The impurity of the mind is greed, and the impurity of the tongue is falsehood.

43The impurity of the eyes is to gaze upon the beauty of another man's wife, and his wealth.

44The impurity of the ears is to listen to the slander of others.

45O Nanak, the mortal's soul goes, bound and gagged to the city of Death. ||2||

46First Mehla:

47All impurity comes from doubt and attachment to duality.

48Birth and death are subject to the Command of the Lord's Will; through His Will we come and go.

49Eating and drinking are pure, since the Lord gives nourishment to all.

50O Nanak, the Gurmukhs, who understand the Lord, are not stained by impurity. ||3||