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1Serving the True Guru, I have found the Treasure of Excellence. Its value cannot be estimated.

2The Dear Lord God is my Best Friend. In the end, He shall be my Companion and Support. ||3||

3In this world of my father's home, the Great Giver is the Life of the World. The self-willed manmukhs have lost their honor.

4Without the True Guru, no one knows the Way. The blind find no place of rest.

5If the Lord, the Giver of Peace, does not dwell within the mind, then they shall depart with regret in the end. ||4||

6In this world of my father's house, through the Guru's Teachings, I have cultivated within my mind the Great Giver, the Life of the World.

7Night and day, performing devotional worship, day and night, ego and emotional attachment are removed.

8And then, attuned to Him, we become like Him, truly absorbed in the True One. ||5||

9Bestowing His Glance of Grace, He gives us His Love, and we contemplate the Word of the Guru's Shabad.

10Serving the True Guru, intuitive peace wells up, and ego and desire die.

11The Lord, the Giver of Virtue, dwells forever within the minds of those who keep Truth enshrined within their hearts. ||6||

12My God is forever Immaculate and Pure; with a pure mind, He can be found.

13If the Treasure of the Name of the Lord abides within the mind, egotism and pain are totally eliminated.

14The True Guru has instructed me in the Word of the Shabad. I am forever a sacrifice to Him. ||7||

15Within your own conscious mind, you may say anything, but without the Guru, selfishness and conceit are not eradicated.

16The Dear Lord is the Lover of His devotees, the Giver of Peace. By His Grace, He abides within the mind.

17O Nanak, God blesses us with the sublime awakening of consciousness; He Himself grants glorious greatness to the Gurmukh. ||8||1||18||

18Siree Raag, Third Mehla:

19Those who go around acting in egotism are struck down by the Messenger of Death with his club.

20Those who serve the True Guru are uplifted and saved, in love with the Lord. ||1||

21O mind, become Gurmukh, and meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

22Those who are so pre-destined by the Creator are absorbed into the Naam, through the Guru's Teachings. ||1||Pause||

23Without the True Guru, faith does not come, and love for the Naam is not embraced.

24Even in dreams, they find no peace; they sleep immersed in pain. ||2||

25Even if you chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, with great longing, your past actions are still not erased.

26The Lord's devotees surrender to His Will; those devotees are accepted at His Door. ||3||

27The Guru has lovingly implanted the Word of His Shabad within me. Without His Grace, it cannot be attained.

28Even if the poisonous plant is watered with ambrosial nectar a hundred times, it will still bear poisonous fruit. ||4||

29Those humble beings who are in love with the True Guru are pure and true.

30They act in harmony with the Will of the True Guru; they shed the poison of ego and corruption. ||5||

31Acting in stubborn-mindedness, no one is saved; go and study the Simritees and the Shaastras.

32Joining the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, and practicing the Shabads of the Guru, you shall be saved. ||6||

33The Name of the Lord is the Treasure, which has no end or limitation.

34The Gurmukhs are beauteous; the Creator has blessed them with His Mercy. ||7||

35O Nanak, the One Lord alone is the Giver; there is no other at all.

36By Guru's Grace, He is obtained. By His Mercy, He is found. ||8||2||19||