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1O Nanak, Waaho! Waaho! This is obtained by the Gurmukhs, who hold tight to the Naam, night and day. ||1||

2Third Mehla:

3Without serving the True Guru, peace is not obtained, and the sense of duality does not depart.

4No matter how much one may wish, without the Lord's Grace, He is not found.

5Those who are filled with greed and corruption are ruined by the love of duality.

6They cannot escape birth and death, and with egotism within them, they suffer in misery.

7Those who center their consciousness on the True Guru, never go empty-handed.

8They are not summoned by the Messenger of Death, and they do not suffer in pain.

9O Nanak, the Gurmukhs are saved; they merge in the True Lord. ||2||

10Pauree:

11He alone is called a minstrel, who enshrines love for his Lord and Master.

12Standing at the Lord's Door, he serves the Lord, and reflects upon the Word of the Guru's Shabad.

13The minstrel attains the Lord's Gate and Mansion, and he keeps the True Lord clasped to his heart.

14The status of the minstrel is exalted; he loves the Name of the Lord.

15The service of the minstrel is to meditate on the Lord; he is emancipated by the Lord. ||18||

16Shalok, Third Mehla:

17The milkmaid's status is very low, but she attains her Husband Lord

18when she reflects upon the Word of the Guru's Shabad, and chants the Lord's Name, night and day.

19She who meets the True Guru, lives in the Fear of God; she is a woman of noble birth.

20She alone realizes the Hukam of her Husband Lord's Command, who is blessed by the Creator Lord's Mercy.

21She who is of little merit and ill-mannered, is discarded and forsaken by her Husband Lord.

22By the Fear of God, filth is washed off, and the body becomes immaculately pure.

23The soul is enlightened, and the intellect is exalted, meditating on the Lord, the ocean of excellence.

24One who dwells in the Fear of God, lives in the Fear of God, and acts in the Fear of God.

25He obtains peace and glorious greatness here, in the Lord's Court, and at the Gate of Salvation.

26Through the Fear of God, the Fearless Lord is obtained, and one's light merges in the Infinite Light.

27O Nanak, that bride alone is good, who is pleasing to her Lord and Master, and whom the Creator Lord Himself forgives. ||1||

28Third Mehla:

29Praise the Lord, forever and ever, and make yourself a sacrifice to the True Lord.

30O Nanak, let that tongue be burnt, which renounces the One Lord, and attaches itself to another. ||2||

31Pauree:

32From a single particle of His greatness, He created His incarnations, but they indulged in the love of duality.

33They ruled like kings, and fought for pleasure and pain.

34Those who serve Shiva and Brahma do not find the limits of the Lord.

35The Fearless, Formless Lord is unseen and invisible; He is revealed only to the Gurmukh.

36There, one does not suffer sorrow or separation; he becomes stable and immortal in the world. ||19||

37Shalok, Third Mehla:

38All these things come and go, all these things of the world.

39One who knows this written account is acceptable and approved.

40O Nanak, anyone who takes pride in himself is foolish and unwise. ||1||

41Third Mehla:

42The mind is the elephant, the Guru is the elephant-driver, and knowledge is the whip. Wherever the Guru drives the mind, it goes.

43O Nanak, without the whip, the elephant wanders into the wilderness, again and again. ||2||

44Pauree:

45I offer my prayer to the One, from whom I was created.