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1O Nanak, the Gurmukhs are saved; the Creator Lord unites them with Himself. ||2||

2Pauree:

3The devotees look beauteous in the True Court of the Lord; they abide in the True Word of the Shabad.

4The Lord's Love wells up in them; they are attracted by the Lord's Love.

5They abide in the Lord's Love, they remain imbued with the Lord's Love forever, and with their tongues, they drink in the sublime essence of the Lord.

6Fruitful are the lives of those Gurmukhs who recognize the Lord and enshrine Him in their hearts.

7Without the Guru, they wander around crying out in misery; in the love of duality, they are ruined. ||11||

8Shalok, Third Mehla:

9In the Dark Age of Kali Yuga, the devotees earn the treasure of the Naam, the Name of the Lord; they obtain the supreme status of the Lord.

10Serving the True Guru, they enshrine the Lord's Name in their minds, and they meditate on the Naam, night and day.

11Within the home of their own selves, they remain unattached, through the Guru's Teachings; they burn away egotism and emotional attachment.

12They save themselves, and they save the whole world. Blessed are the mothers who gave birth to them.

13He alone finds such a True Guru, upon whose forehead the Lord inscribed such pre-ordained destiny.

14Servant Nanak is a sacrifice to his Guru; when he was wandering in doubt, He placed him on the Path. ||1||

15Third Mehla:

16Beholding Maya with her three dispositions, he goes astray; he is like the moth, which sees the flame, and is consumed.

17The mistaken, deluded Pandits gaze upon Maya, and watch to see whether anyone has offered them something.

18In the love of duality, they read continually about sin, while the Lord has withheld His Name from them.

19The Yogis, the wandering hermits and the Sannyaasees have gone astray; their egotism and arrogance have increased greatly.

20They do not accept the true donations of clothes and food, and their lives are ruined by their stubborn minds.

21Among these, he alone is a man of poise, who, as Gurmukh, meditates on the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

22Unto whom should servant Nanak speak and complain? All act as the Lord causes them to act. ||2||

23Pauree:

24Emotional attachment to Maya, sexual desire, anger and egotism are demons.

25Because of them, mortals are subject to death; above their heads hangs the heavy club of the Messenger of Death.

26The self-willed manmukhs, in love with duality, are led onto the path of Death.

27In the City of Death, they are tied up and beaten, and no one hears their cries.

28One who is blessed by the Lord's Grace meets the Guru; as Gurmukh, he is emancipated. ||12||

29Shalok, Third Mehla:

30By egotism and pride, the self-willed manmukhs are enticed, and consumed.

31Those who center their consciousness on duality are caught in it, and remain stuck.

32But when it is burnt away by the Word of the Guru's Shabad, only then does it depart from within.

33The body and mind become radiant and bright, and the Naam, the Name of the Lord, comes to dwell within the mind.

34O Nanak, the Lord's Name is the antidote to Maya; the Gurmukh obtains it. ||1||

35Third Mehla:

36This mind has wandered through so many ages; it has not remained stable - it continues coming and going.

37When it is pleasing to the Lord's Will, then He causes the soul to wander; He has set the world-drama in motion.

38When the Lord forgives, then one meets the Guru, and becoming stable, he remains absorbed in the Lord.