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1With false mouths, people speak falsehood. How can they be made pure?

2Without the Holy Water of the Shabad, they are not cleansed. From the True One alone comes Truth. ||1||

3O soul-bride, without virtue, what happiness can there be?

4The Husband Lord enjoys her with pleasure and delight; she is at peace in the love of the True Word of the Shabad. ||1||Pause||

5When the Husband goes away, the bride suffers in the pain of separation,

6like the fish in shallow water, crying for mercy.

7As it pleases the Will of the Husband Lord, peace is obtained, when He Himself casts His Glance of Grace. ||2||

8Praise your Husband Lord, together with your bridesmaids and friends.

9The body is beautified, and the mind is fascinated. Imbued with His Love, we are enraptured.

10Adorned with the Shabad, the beautiful bride enjoys her Husband with virtue. ||3||

11The soul-bride is of no use at all, if she is evil and without virtue.

12She does not find peace in this world or the next; she burns in falsehood and corruption.

13Coming and going are very difficult for that bride who is abandoned and forgotten by her Husband Lord. ||4||

14The beautiful soul-bride of the Husband Lord-by what sensual pleasures has she been doomed?

15She is of no use to her Husband if she babbles in useless arguments.

16At the Door of His Home, she finds no shelter; she is discarded for seeking other pleasures. ||5||

17The Pandits, the religious scholars, read their books, but they do not understand the real meaning.

18They give instructions to others, and then walk away, but they deal in Maya themselves.

19Speaking falsehood, they wander around the world, while those who remain true to the Shabad are excellent and exalted. ||6||

20There are so many Pandits and astrologers who ponder over the Vedas.

21They glorify their disputes and arguments, and in these controversies they continue coming and going.

22Without the Guru, they are not released from their karma, although they speak and listen and preach and explain. ||7||

23They all call themselves virtuous, but I have no virtue at all.

24With the Lord as her Husband, the soul-bride is happy; I, too, love that God.

25O Nanak, through the Shabad, union is obtained; there is no more separation. ||8||5||

26Siree Raag, First Mehla:

27You may chant and meditate, practice austerities and self-restraint, and dwell at sacred shrines of pilgrimage;

28you may give donations to charity, and perform good deeds, but without the True One, what is the use of it all?

29As you plant, so shall you harvest. Without virtue, this human life passes away in vain. ||1||

30O young bride, be a slave to virtue, and you shall find peace.

31Renouncing wrongful actions, following the Guru's Teachings, you shall be absorbed into the Perfect One. ||1||Pause||

32Without capital, the trader looks around in all four directions.

33He does not understand his own origins; the merchandise remains within the door of his own house.

34Without this commodity, there is great pain. The false are ruined by falsehood. ||2||

35One who contemplates and appraises this Jewel day and night reaps new profits.

36He finds the merchandise within his own home, and departs after arranging his affairs.

37So trade with the true traders, and as Gurmukh, contemplate God. ||3||

38In the Society of the Saints, He is found, if the Uniter unites us.

39One whose heart is filled with His Infinite Light meets with Him, and shall never again be separated from Him.

40True is his position; he abides in Truth, with love and affection for the True One. ||4||

41One who understands himself finds the Mansion of the Lord's Presence within his own home.

42Imbued with the True Lord, Truth is gathered in.