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1In all places, You are the One and Only. As it pleases You, Lord, please save and protect me!

2Through the Guru's Teachings, the True One abides within the mind. The Companionship of the Naam brings the most excellent honor.

3Eradicate the disease of egotism, and chant the True Shabad, the Word of the True Lord. ||8||

4You are pervading throughout the Akaashic Ethers, the nether regions and the three worlds.

5You Yourself are bhakti, loving devotional worship. You Yourself unite us in Union with Yourself.

6O Nanak, may I never forget the Naam! As is Your Pleasure, so is Your Will. ||9||13||

7Siree Raag, First Mehla:

8My mind is pierced through by the Name of the Lord. What else should I contemplate?

9Focusing your awareness on the Shabad, happiness wells up. Attuned to God, the most excellent peace is found.

10As it pleases You, please save me, Lord. The Name of the Lord is my Support. ||1||

11O mind, the Will of our Lord and Master is true.

12Focus your love upon the One who created and adorned your body and mind. ||1||Pause||

13If I cut my body into pieces, and burn them in the fire,

14and if I make my body and mind into firewood, and night and day burn them in the fire,

15and if I perform hundreds of thousands and millions of religious rituals-still, all these are not equal to the Name of the Lord. ||2||

16If my body were cut in half, if a saw was put to my head,

17and if my body were frozen in the Himalayas-even then, my mind would not be free of disease.

18None of these are equal to the Name of the Lord. I have seen and tried and tested them all. ||3||

19If I made a donation of castles of gold, and gave lots of fine horses and wondrous elephants in charity,

20and if I made donations of land and cows-even then, pride and ego would still be within me.

21The Name of the Lord has pierced my mind; the Guru has given me this true gift. ||4||

22There are so many stubborn-minded intelligent people, and so many who contemplate the Vedas.

23There are so many entanglements for the soul. Only as Gurmukh do we find the Gate of Liberation.

24Truth is higher than everything; but higher still is truthful living. ||5||

25Call everyone exalted; no one seems lowly.

26The One Lord has fashioned the vessels, and His One Light pervades the three worlds.

27Receiving His Grace, we obtain Truth. No one can erase His Primal Blessing. ||6||

28When one Holy person meets another Holy person, they abide in contentment, through the Love of the Guru.

29They contemplate the Unspoken Speech, merging in absorption in the True Guru.

30Drinking in the Ambrosial Nectar, they are contented; they go to the Court of the Lord in robes of honor. ||7||

31In each and every heart the Music of the Lord's Flute vibrates, night and day, with sublime love for the Shabad.

32Only those few who become Gurmukh understand this by instructing their minds.

33O Nanak, do not forget the Naam. Practicing the Shabad you shall be saved. ||8||14||

34Siree Raag, First Mehla:

35There are painted mansions to behold, white-washed, with beautiful doors;

36they were constructed to give pleasure to the mind, but this is only for the sake of the love of duality.

37The inner being is empty without love. The body shall crumble into a heap of ashes. ||1||

38O Siblings of Destiny, this body and wealth shall not go along with you.

39The Lord's Name is the pure wealth; through the Guru, God bestows this gift. ||1||Pause||

40The Lord's Name is the pure wealth; it is given only by the Giver.

41One who has the Guru, the Creator, as his Friend, shall not be questioned hereafter.

42He Himself delivers those who are delivered. He Himself is the Forgiver. ||2||