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1Please bless me with the dust of the feet of Your slaves; Nanak is a sacrifice. ||4||3||33||

2Bilaaval, Fifth Mehla:

3Keep me under Your Protection, God; shower me with Your Mercy.

4I do not know how to serve You; I am just a low-life fool. ||1||

5I take pride in You, O my Darling Beloved.

6I am a sinner, continuously making mistakes; You are the Forgiving Lord. ||1||Pause||

7I make mistakes each and every day. You are the Great Giver;

8I am worthless. I associate with Maya, your hand-maiden, and I renounce You, God; such are my actions. ||2||

9You bless me with everything, showering me with Mercy; And I am such an ungrateful wretch!

10I am attached to Your gifts, but I do not even think of You, O my Lord and Master. ||3||

11There is none other than You, O Lord, Destroyer of fear.

12Says Nanak, I have come to Your Sanctuary, O Merciful Guru; I am so foolish - please, save me! ||4||4||34||

13Bilaaval, Fifth Mehla:

14Don't blame anyone else; meditate on your God.

15Serving Him, great peace is obtained; O mind, sing His Praises. ||1||

16O Beloved, other than You, who else should I ask?

17You are my Merciful Lord and Master; I am filled with all faults. ||1||Pause||

18As You keep me, I remain; there is no other way.

19You are the Support of the unsupported; You Name is my only Support. ||2||

20One who accepts whatever You do as good - that mind is liberated.

21The entire creation is Yours; all are subject to Your Ways. ||3||

22I wash Your Feet and serve You, if it pleases You, O Lord and Master.

23Be Merciful, O God of Compassion, that Nanak may sing Your Glorious Praises. ||4||5||35||

24Bilaaval, Fifth Mehla:

25Death hovers over his head, laughing, but the beast does not understand.

26Entangled in conflict, pleasure and egotism, he does not even think of death. ||1||

27So serve your True Guru; why wander around miserable and unfortunate?

28You gaze upon the transitory, beautiful safflower, but why do you get attached to it? ||1||Pause||

29You commit sins again and again, to gather wealth to spend.

30But your dust shall mix with dust; you shall arise and depart naked. ||2||

31Those for whom you work, will become your spiteful enemies.

32In the end, they will run away from you; why do you burn for them in anger? ||3||

33He alone becomes the dust of the Lord's slaves, who has such good karma upon his forehead.

34Says Nanak, he is released from bondage, in the Sanctuary of the True Guru. ||4||6||36||

35Bilaaval, Fifth Mehla:

36The cripple crosses over the mountain, the fool becomes a wise man,

37and the blind man sees the three worlds, by meeting with the True Guru and being purified. ||1||

38This is the Glory of the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy; listen, O my friends.

39Filth is washed away, millions of sins are dispelled, and the consciousness becomes immaculate and pure. ||1||Pause||

40Such is devotional worship of the Lord of the Universe, that the ant can overpower the elephant.

41Whoever the Lord makes His own, is blessed with the gift of fearlessness. ||2||

42The lion becomes a cat, and the mountain looks like a blade of grass.