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1Remembering Him in meditation, happiness comes, and all sorrows and pains simply vanish. ||2||

2Pauree:

3He is without relatives, immaculate, all-powerful, unapproachable and infinite.

4Truly, the True Lord is seen to be the Truest of the True.

5Nothing established by You appears to be false.

6The Great Giver gives sustenance to all those He has created.

7He has strung all on only one thread; He has infused His Light in them.

8By His Will, some drown in the terrifying world-ocean, and by His Will, some are carried across.

9O Dear Lord, he alone meditates on You, upon whose forehead such blessed destiny is inscribed.

10Your condition and state cannot be known; I am a sacrifice to You. ||1||

11Shalok, Fifth Mehla:

12When You are pleased, O Merciful Lord, you automatically come to dwell within my mind.

13When You are pleased, O Merciful Lord, I find the nine treasures within the home of my own self.

14When You are pleased, O Merciful Lord, I act according to the Guru's Instructions.

15When You are pleased, O Merciful Lord, then Nanak is absorbed in the True One. ||1||

16Fifth Mehla:

17Many sit on thrones, to the sounds of musical instruments.

18O Nanak, without the True Name, no one's honor is safe. ||2||

19Pauree:

20The followers of the Vedas, the Bible and the Koran, standing at Your Door, meditate on You.

21Uncounted are those who fall at Your Door.

22Brahma meditates on You, as does Indra on his throne.

23Shiva and Vishnu, and their incarnations, chant the Lord's Praise with their mouths,

24as do the Pirs, the spiritual teachers, the prophets and the Shaykhs, the silent sages and the seers.

25Through and through, the Formless Lord is woven into each and every heart.

26One is destroyed through falsehood; through righteousness, one prospers.

27Whatever the Lord links him to, to that he is linked. ||2||

28Shalok, Fifth Mehla:

29He is reluctant to do good, but eager to practice evil.

30O Nanak, today or tomorrow, the feet of the careless fool shall fall into the trap. ||1||

31Fifth Mehla:

32No matter how evil my ways are, still, Your Love for me is not concealed.

33Nanak: You, O Lord, conceal my short-comings and dwell within my mind; You are my true friend. ||2||

34Pauree:

35I beg of You, O Merciful Lord: please, make me the slave of Your slaves.

36I obtain the nine treasures and royalty; chanting Your Name, I live.

37The great ambrosial treasure, the Nectar of the Naam, is in the home of the Lord's slaves.

38In their company, I am in ecstasy, listening to Your Praises with my ears.

39Serving them, my body is purified.

40I wave the fans over them, and carry water for them; I grind the corn for them, and washing their feet, I am over-joyed.

41By myself, I can do nothing; O God, bless me with Your Glance of Grace.

42I am worthless - please, bless me with a seat in the place of worship of the Saints. ||3||

43Shalok, Fifth Mehla:

44O Friend, I pray that I may remain forever the dust of Your Feet.

45Nanak has entered Your Sanctuary, and beholds You ever-present. ||1||

46Fifth Mehla:

47Countless sinners become pure, by fixing their minds on the Feet of the Lord.

48The Name of God is the sixty-eight holy places of pilgrimage, O Nanak, for one who has such destiny written upon his forehead. ||2||

49Pauree:

50With every breath and morsel of food, chant the Name of the Lord, the Cherisher.

51The Lord does not forget one upon whom He has bestowed His Grace.

52He Himself is the Creator, and He Himself destroys.