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1I bow to Him, I humbly bow.

2The Primal One, the Pure Light, without beginning, without end. Throughout all the ages, He is One and the Same. ||29||

3The One Divine Mother conceived and gave birth to the three deities.

4One, the Creator of the World; One, the Sustainer; and One, the Destroyer.

5He makes things happen according to the Pleasure of His Will. Such is His Celestial Order.

6He watches over all, but none see Him. How wonderful this is!

7I bow to Him, I humbly bow.

8The Primal One, the Pure Light, without beginning, without end. Throughout all the ages, He is One and the Same. ||30||

9On world after world are His Seats of Authority and His Storehouses.

10Whatever was put into them, was put there once and for all.

11Having created the creation, the Creator Lord watches over it.

12O Nanak, True is the Creation of the True Lord.

13I bow to Him, I humbly bow.

14The Primal One, the Pure Light, without beginning, without end. Throughout all the ages, He is One and the Same. ||31||

15If I had 100,000 tongues, and these were then multiplied twenty times more, with each tongue,

16I would repeat, hundreds of thousands of times, the Name of the One, the Lord of the Universe.

17Along this path to our Husband Lord, we climb the steps of the ladder, and come to merge with Him.

18Hearing of the etheric realms, even worms long to come back home.

19O Nanak, by His Grace He is obtained. False are the boastings of the false. ||32||

20No power to speak, no power to keep silent.

21No power to beg, no power to give.

22No power to live, no power to die.

23No power to rule, with wealth and occult mental powers.

24No power to gain intuitive understanding, spiritual wisdom and meditation.

25No power to find the way to escape from the world.

26He alone has the Power in His Hands. He watches over all.

27O Nanak, no one is high or low. ||33||

28Nights, days, weeks and seasons;

29wind, water, fire and the nether regions

30in the midst of these, He established the earth as a home for Dharma.

31Upon it, He placed the various species of beings.

32Their names are uncounted and endless.

33By their deeds and their actions, they shall be judged.

34God Himself is True, and True is His Court.

35There, in perfect grace and ease, sit the self-elect, the self-realized Saints.

36They receive the Mark of Grace from the Merciful Lord.

37The ripe and the unripe, the good and the bad, shall there be judged.

38O Nanak, when you go home, you will see this. ||34||

39This is righteous living in the realm of Dharma.

40And now we speak of the realm of spiritual wisdom.

41So many winds, waters and fires; so many Krishnas and Shivas.

42So many Brahmas, fashioning forms of great beauty, adorned and dressed in many colors.

43So many worlds and lands for working out karma. So very many lessons to be learned!

44So many Indras, so many moons and suns, so many worlds and lands.

45So many Siddhas and Buddhas, so many Yogic masters. So many goddesses of various kinds.

46So many demi-gods and demons, so many silent sages. So many oceans of jewels.

47So many ways of life, so many languages. So many dynasties of rulers.

48So many intuitive people, so many selfless servants. O Nanak, His limit has no limit! ||35||

49In the realm of wisdom, spiritual wisdom reigns supreme.

50The Sound-current of the Naad vibrates there, amidst the sounds and the sights of bliss.