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1Todee, Fifth Mehla:

2I have enshrined the Lord's Feet within my heart.

3Contemplating my Lord and Master, my True Guru, all my affairs have been resolved. ||1||Pause||

4The merits of giving donations to charity and devotional worship come from the Kirtan of the Praises of the Transcendent Lord; this is the true essence of wisdom.

5Singing the Praises of the unapproachable, infinite Lord and Master, I have found immeasurable peace. ||1||

6The Supreme Lord God does not consider the merits and demerits of those humble beings whom He makes His own.

7Hearing, chanting and meditating on the jewel of the Naam, I live; Nanak wears the Lord as his necklace. ||2||11||30||

8Todee, Ninth Mehla:

9One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

10What can I say about my base nature?

11I am entangled in the love of gold and women, and I have not sung the Kirtan of God's Praises. ||1||Pause||

12I judge the false world to be true, and I have fallen in love with it.

13I have never contemplated the friend of the poor, who shall be my companion and helper in the end. ||1||

14I remain intoxicated by Maya, night and day, and the filth of my mind will not depart.

15Says Nanak, now, without the Lord's Sanctuary, I cannot find salvation in any other way. ||2||1||31||

16Todee, The Word Of The Devotees:

17One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

18Some say that He is near, and others say that He is far away.

19We might just as well say that the fish climbs out of the water, up the tree. ||1||

20Why do you speak such nonsense?

21One who has found the Lord, keeps quiet about it. ||1||Pause||

22Those who become Pandits, religious scholars, recite the Vedas,

23but foolish Naam Dayv knows only the Lord. ||2||1||

24Whose blemishes remain, when one chants the Lord's Name?

25Sinners become pure, chanting the Lord's Name. ||1||Pause||

26With the Lord, servant Naam Dayv has come to have faith.

27I have stopped fasting on the eleventh day of each month; why should I bother to go on pilgrimages to sacred shrines? ||1||

28Prays Naam Dayv, I have become a man of good deeds and good thoughts.

29Chanting the Lord's Name, under Guru's Instructions, who has not gone to heaven? ||2||2||

30Here is a verse with a three-fold play on words. ||1||Pause||

31In the potter's home there are pots, and in the king's home there are camels.

32In the Brahmin's home there are widows. So here they are: haandee, saandee, raandee. ||1||

33In the home of the grocer there is asafoetida; on the forehead of the buffalo there are horns.

34In the temple of Shiva there are lingams. So here they are: heeng, seeng, leeng. ||2||

35In the house of the oil-presser there is oil; in the forest there are vines.

36In the gardener's home there are bananas. So here they are: tayl, bayl, kayl. ||3||

37The Lord of the Universe, Govind, is within His Saints; Krishna, Shyaam, is in Gokal.

38The Lord, Raam, is in Naam Dayv. So here they are: Raam, Shyaam, Govind. ||4||3||