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1Be Merciful, and attach me to the hem of Your robe.

2Nanak meditates on the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||1||

3O Merciful Master of the meek, You are my Lord and Master, O Merciful Master of the meek.

4I yearn for the dust of the feet of the Saints. ||1||Pause||

5The world is a pit of poison,

6filled with the utter darkness of ignorance and emotional attachment.

7Please take my hand, and save me, Dear God.

8Please bless me with Your Name, Lord.

9Without You, God, I have no place at all.

10Nanak is a sacrifice, a sacrifice to You. ||2||

11The human body is in the grip of greed and attachment.

12Without meditating and vibrating upon the Lord, it is reduced to ashes.

13The Messenger of Death is dreadful and horrible.

14The recording scribes of the conscious and the unconscious, Chitr and Gupt, know all actions and karma.

15Day and night, they bear witness.

16Nanak seeks the Sanctuary of the Lord. ||3||

17O Lord, Destroyer of fear and egotism,

18be merciful, and save the sinners.

19My sins cannot even be counted.

20Without the Lord, who can hide them?

21I thought of Your Support, and seized it, O my Lord and Master.

22Please, give Nanak Your hand and save him, Lord! ||4||

23The Lord, the treasure of virtue, the Lord of the world,

24cherishes and sustains every heart.

25My mind is thirsty for Your Love, and the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan.

26O Lord of the Universe, please fulfill my hopes.

27I cannot survive, even for an instant.

28By great good fortune, Nanak has found the Lord. ||5||

29Without You, God, there is no other at all.

30My mind loves You, as the partridge loves the moon,

31as the fish loves the water,

32as the bee and the lotus cannot be separated.

33As the chakvi bird longs for the sun,

34so does Nanak thirst for the Lord's feet. ||6||

35As the young bride places the hopes of her life in her husband,

36as the greedy person looks upon the gift of wealth,

37as milk is joined to water,

38as food is to the very hungry man,

39and as the mother loves her son,

40so does Nanak constantly remember the Lord in meditation. ||7||

41As the moth falls into the lamp,

42as the thief steals without hesitation,

43as the elephant is trapped by its sexual urges,

44as the sinner is caught in his sins,

45as the gambler's addiction does not leave him,

46so is this mind of Nanak's attached to the Lord. ||8||

47As the deer loves the sound of the bell,

48and as the song-bird longs for the rain,

49the Lord's humble servant lives in the Society of the Saints,

50lovingly meditating and vibrating upon the Lord of the Universe.

51My tongue chants the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

52Please bless Nanak with the gift of the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan. ||9||

53One who sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord, and hears them, and writes them,

54receives all fruits and rewards from the Lord.

55He saves all his ancestors and generations,

56and crosses over the world-ocean.

57The Lord's Feet are the boat to carry him across.

58Joining the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, he sings the Praises of the Lord.

59The Lord protects his honor.

60Nanak seeks the Sanctuary of the Lord's door. ||10||2||

61Bilaaval, First Mehla, T'hitee ~ The Lunar Days, Tenth House, To The Drum-Beat Jat:

62One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

63The First Day: The One Universal Creator is unique,

64immortal, unborn, beyond social class or involvement.

65He is inaccessible and unfathomable, with no form or feature.

66Searching, searching, I have seen Him in each and every heart.