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1That Gurmukh, whom You have blessed with greatness - that humble being is known in Your True Court. ||11||

2Shalok, Mardaanaa:

3The Dark Age of Kali Yuga is the vessel, filled with the wine of sexual desire; the mind is the drunkard.

4Anger is the cup, filled with emotional attachment, and egotism is the server.

5Drinking too much in the company of falsehood and greed, one is ruined.

6So let good deeds be your distillery, and Truth your molasses; in this way, make the most excellent wine of Truth.

7Make virtue your bread, good conduct the ghee, and modesty the meat to eat.

8As Gurmukh, these are obtained, O Nanak; partaking of them, one's sins depart. ||1||

9Mardaanaa:

10The human body is the vat, self-conceit is the wine, and desire is the company of drinking buddies.

11The cup of the mind's longing is overflowing with falsehood, and the Messenger of Death is the cup-bearer.

12Drinking in this wine, O Nanak, one takes on countless sins and corruptions.

13So make spiritual wisdom your molasses, the Praise of God your bread, and the Fear of God the meat you eat.

14O Nanak, this is the true food; let the True Name be your only Support. ||2||

15If the human body is the vat, and self-realization is the wine, then a stream of Ambrosial Nectar is produced.

16Meeting with the Society of the Saints, the cup of the Lord's Love is filled with this Ambrosial Nectar; drinking it in, one's corruptions and sins are wiped away. ||3||

17Pauree:

18He Himself is the angelic being, the heavenly herald, and the celestial singer. He Himself is the one who explains the six schools of philosophy.

19He Himself is Shiva, Shankara and Mahaysh; He Himself is the Gurmukh, who speaks the Unspoken Speech.

20He Himself is the Yogi, He Himself is the Sensual Enjoyer, and He Himself is the Sannyaasee, wandering through the wilderness.

21He discusses with Himself, and He teaches Himself; He Himself is discrete, graceful and wise.

22Staging His own play, He Himself watches it; He Himself is the Knower of all beings. ||12||

23Shalok, Third Mehla:

24That evening prayer alone is acceptable, which brings the Lord God to my consciousness.

25Love for the Lord wells up within me, and my attachment to Maya is burnt away.

26By Guru's Grace, duality is conquered, and the mind becomes stable; I have made contemplative meditation my evening prayer.

27O Nanak, the self-willed manmukh may recite his evening prayers, but his mind is not centered on it; through birth and death, he is ruined. ||1||

28Third Mehla:

29I wandered over the whole world, crying out, ""Love, O Love!"", but my thirst was not quenched.

30O Nanak, meeting the True Guru, my desires are satisfied; I found my Beloved, when I returned to my own home. ||2||

31Pauree:

32He Himself is the supreme essence, He Himself is the essence of all. He Himself is the Lord and Master, and He Himself is the servant.

33He Himself created the people of the eighteen castes; God Himself acquired His domain.

34He Himself kills, and He Himself redeems; He Himself, in His Kindness, forgives us. He is infallible

35- He never errs; the justice of the True Lord is totally True.

36Those whom the Lord Himself instructs as Gurmukh - duality and doubt depart from within them. ||13||

37Shalok, Fifth Mehla:

38That body, which does not remember the Lord's Name in meditation in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, shall be reduced to dust.

39Cursed and insipid is that body, O Nanak, which does not know the One who created it. ||1||