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1Let us form a partnership, and share our virtues; let us abandon our faults, and walk on the Path.

2Let us wear our virtues like silk clothes; let us decorate ourselves, and enter the arena.

3Let us speak of goodness, wherever we go and sit; let us skim off the Ambrosial Nectar, and drink it in.

4One who has a basket of fragrant virtues, should enjoy its fragrance. ||3||

5He Himself acts; unto whom should we complain? No one else does anything.

6Go ahead and complain to Him, if He makes a mistake.

7If He makes a mistake, go ahead and complain to Him; but how can the Creator Himself make a mistake?

8He sees, He hears, and without our asking, without our begging, He gives His gifts.

9The Great Giver, the Architect of the Universe, gives His gifts. O Nanak, He is the True Lord.

10He Himself acts; unto whom should we complain? No one else does anything. ||4||1||4||

11Soohee, First Mehla:

12My mind is imbued with His Glorious Praises; I chant them, and He is pleasing to my mind.

13Truth is the ladder to the Guru; climbing up to the True Lord, peace is obtained.

14Celestial peace comes; the Truth pleases me. How could these True Teachings ever be erased?

15He Himself is Undeceivable; how could He ever be deceived by cleansing baths, charity, spiritual wisdom or ritual bathings?

16Fraud, attachment and corruption are taken away, as are falsehood, hypocrisy and duality.

17My mind is imbued with His Glorious Praises; I chant them, and He is pleasing to my mind. ||1||

18So praise your Lord and Master, who created the creation.

19Filth sticks to the polluted mind; how rare are those who drink in the Ambrosial Nectar.

20Churn this Ambrosial Nectar, and drink it in; dedicate this mind to the Guru, and He will value it highly.

21I intuitively realized my God, when I linked my mind to the True Lord.

22I will sing the Lord's Glorious Praises with Him, if it pleases Him; how could I meet Him by being a stranger to Him?

23So praise your Lord and Master, who created the creation. ||2||

24When He comes, what else remains behind? How can there be any coming or going then?

25When the mind is reconciled with its Beloved Lord, it is blended with Him.

26True is the speech of one who is imbued with the Love of his Lord and Master, who fashioned the body fortress from a mere bubble.

27He is the Master of the five elements; He Himself is the Creator Lord. He embellished the body with Truth.

28I am worthless; please hear me, O my Beloved! Whatever pleases You is True.

29One who is blessed with true understanding, does not come and go. ||3||

30Apply such an ointment to your eyes, which is pleasing to your Beloved.

31I realize, understand and know Him, only if He Himself causes me to know Him.

32He Himself shows me the Way, and He Himself leads me to it, attracting my mind.

33He Himself causes us to do good and bad deeds; who can know the value of the Mysterious Lord?

34I know nothing of Tantric spells, magical mantras and hypocritical rituals; enshrining the Lord within my heart, my mind is satisfied.

35The ointment of the Naam, the Name of the Lord, is only understood by one who realizes the Lord, through the Word of the Guru's Shabad. ||4||

36I have my own friends; why should I go to the home of a stranger?

37My friends are imbued with the True Lord; He is with them, in their minds.

38In their minds, these friends celebrate in happiness; all good karma, righteousness and Dharma, the sixty-eight holy places of pilgrimage, charity and worship, are found in the love of the True Name.