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1O Nanak, without serving the True Guru, they are bound and beaten in the City of Death; they arise and depart with blackened faces. ||1||

2First Mehla:

3Burn away those rituals which lead you to forget the Beloved Lord.

4O Nanak, sublime is that love, which preserves my honor with my Lord Master. ||2||

5Pauree:

6Serve the One Lord, the Great Giver; meditate on the One Lord.

7Beg from the One Lord, the Great Giver, and you shall obtain your heart's desires.

8But if you beg from another, then you shall be shamed and destroyed.

9One who serves the Lord obtains the fruits of his rewards; all of his hunger is satisfied.

10Nanak is a sacrifice to those, who night and day, meditate within their hearts on the Name of the Lord. ||10||

11Shalok, Third Mehla:

12He Himself is pleased with His humble devotees; my Beloved Lord attaches them to Himself.

13The Lord blesses His humble devotees with royalty; He fashions the true crown upon their heads.

14They are always at peace, and immaculately pure; they perform service for the True Guru.

15They are not said to be kings, who die in conflict, and then enter again the cycle of reincarnation.

16O Nanak, without the Name of the Lord, they wander about with their noses cut off in disgrace; they get no respect at all. ||1||

17Third Mehla:

18Hearing the teachings, he does not appreciate them, as long as he is not Gurmukh, attached to the Word of the Shabad.

19Serving the True Guru, the Naam comes to abide in the mind, and doubts and fears run away.

20As he knows the True Guru, so he is transformed, and then, he lovingly focuses his consciousness on the Naam.

21O Nanak, through the Naam, the Name of the Lord, greatness is obtained; he shall be resplendent in the Court of the Lord hereafter. ||2||

22Pauree:

23The minds of the Gursikhs are filled with the love of the Lord; they come and worship the Guru.

24They trade lovingly in the Lord's Name, and depart after earning the profit of the Lord's Name.

25The faces of the Gursikhs are radiant; in the Court of the Lord, they are approved.

26The Guru, the True Guru, is the treasure of the Lord's Name; how very fortunate are the Sikhs who share in this treasure of virtue.

27I am a sacrifice to those Gursikhs who, sitting and standing, meditate on the Lord's Name. ||11||

28Shalok, Third Mehla:

29O Nanak, the Naam, the Name of the Lord, is the treasure, which the Gurmukhs obtain.

30The self-willed manmukhs are blind; they do not realize that it is within their own home. They die barking and crying. ||1||

31Third Mehla:

32That body is golden and immaculate, which is attached to the True Name of the True Lord.

33The Gurmukh obtains the Pure Light of the Luminous Lord, and his doubts and fears run away.

34O Nanak, the Gurmukhs find lasting peace; night and day, they remain detached, while in the Love of the Lord. ||2||

35Pauree:

36Blessed, blessed are those Gursikhs, who, with their ears, listen to the Guru's Teachings about the Lord.

37The Guru, the True Guru, implants the Naam within them, and their egotism and duality are silenced.

38There is no friend, other than the Name of the Lord; the Lord's humble servants reflect upon this and see.