858

1My pain is forgotten, and I have found peace deep within myself. ||1||

2The Guru has blessed me with the ointment of spiritual wisdom.

3Without the Lord's Name, life is mindless. ||1||Pause||

4Meditating in remembrance, Naam Dayv has come to know the Lord.

5His soul is blended with the Lord, the Life of the World. ||2||1||

6Bilaaval, The Word Of Devotee Ravi Daas:

7One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

8Seeing my poverty, everyone laughed. Such was my condition.

9Now, I hold the eighteen miraculous spiritual powers in the palm of my hand; everything is by Your Grace. ||1||

10You know, and I am nothing, O Lord, Destroyer of fear.

11All beings seek Your Sanctuary, O God, Fulfiller, Resolver of our affairs. ||1||Pause||

12Whoever enters Your Sanctuary, is relieved of his burden of sin.

13You have saved the high and the low from the shameless world. ||2||

14Says Ravi Daas, what more can be said about the Unspoken Speech?

15Whatever You are, You are, O Lord; how can anything compare with Your Praises? ||3||1||

16Bilaaval:

17That family, into which a holy person is born,

18whether of high or low social class, whether rich or poor, shall have its pure fragrance spread all over the world. ||1||Pause||

19Whether he is a Brahmin, a Vaishya, a Soodra, or a Kh'shaatriya; whether he is a poet, an outcaste, or a filthy-minded person,

20he becomes pure, by meditating on the Lord God. He saves himself, and the families of both his parents. ||1||

21Blessed is that village, and blessed is the place of his birth; blessed is his pure family, throughout all the worlds.

22One who drinks in the sublime essence abandons other tastes; intoxicated with this divine essence, he discards sin and corruption. ||2||

23Among the religious scholars, warriors and kings, there is no other equal to the Lord's devotee.

24As the leaves of the water lily float free in the water, says Ravi Daas, so is their life in the world. ||3||2||

25The Word Of Sadhana, Raag Bilaaval:

26One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

27For a king's daughter, a man disguised himself as Vishnu.

28He did it for sexual exploitation, and for selfish motives, but the Lord protected his honor. ||1||

29What is Your value, O Guru of the world, if You will not erase the karma of my past actions?

30Why seek safety from a lion, if one is to be eaten by a jackal? ||1||Pause||

31For the sake of a single rain-drop, the rainbird suffers in pain.

32When its breath of life is gone, even an ocean is of no use to it. ||2||

33Now, my life has grown weary, and I shall not last much longer; how can I be patient?

34If I drown and die, and then a boat comes along, tell me, how shall I climb aboard? ||3||

35I am nothing, I have nothing, and nothing belongs to me.

36Now, protect my honor; Sadhana is Your humble servant. ||4||1||