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1Following the Guru's Teachings, I cannot be touched by the Messenger of Death. I am absorbed in the True Name.

2The Creator Himself is All-pervading everywhere; He links those with whom He is pleased to His Name.

3Servant Nanak chants the Naam, and so he lives. Without the Name, he would die in an instant. ||2||

4Pauree:

5One who is accepted at the Court of the Lord shall be accepted in courts everywhere.

6Wherever he goes, he is recognized as honorable. Seeing his face, all sinners are saved.

7Within him is the Treasure of the Naam, the Name of the Lord. Through the Naam, he is exalted.

8He worships the Name, and believes in the Name; the Name erases all his sinful mistakes.

9Those who meditate on the Name, with one-pointed mind and focused consciousness, remain forever stable in the world. ||11||

10Shalok, Third Mehla:

11Worship the Divine, Supreme Soul, with the intuitive peace and poise of the Guru.

12If the individual soul has faith in the Supreme Soul, then it shall obtain realization within its own home.

13The soul becomes steady, and does not waver, by the natural inclination of the Guru's Loving Will.

14Without the Guru, intuitive wisdom does not come, and the filth of greed does not depart from within.

15If the Lord's Name abides within the mind, for a moment, even for an instant, it is like bathing at all the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage.

16Filth does not stick to those who are true, but filth attaches itself to those who love duality.

17This filth cannot be washed off, even by bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage.

18The self-willed manmukh does deeds in egotism; he earns only pain and more pain.

19O Nanak, the filthy ones become clean only when they meet and surrender to the True Guru. ||1||

20Third Mehla:

21The self-willed manmukhs may be taught, but how can they really be taught?

22The manmukhs do not fit in at all. Because of their past actions, they are condemned to the cycle of reincarnation.

23Loving attention to the Lord and attachment to Maya are the two separate ways; all act according to the Hukam of the Lord's Command.

24The Gurmukh has conquered his own mind, by applying the Touchstone of the Shabad.

25He fights with his mind, he settles with his mind, and he is at peace with his mind.

26All obtain the desires of their minds, through the Love of the True Word of the Shabad.

27They drink in the Ambrosial Nectar of the Naam forever; this is how the Gurmukhs act.

28Those who struggle with something other than their own mind, shall depart having wasted their lives.

29The self-willed manmukhs, through stubborn-mindedness and the practice of falsehood, lose the game of life.

30Those who conquer their own mind, by Guru's Grace, lovingly focus their attention on the Lord.

31O Nanak, the Gurmukhs practice Truth, while the self-willed manmukhs continue coming and going in reincarnation. ||2||

32Pauree:

33O Saints of the Lord, O Siblings of Destiny, listen, and hear the Lord's Teachings, through the True Guru.

34Those who have good destiny pre-ordained and inscribed on their foreheads, grasp it and keep it enshrined in the heart.

35Through the Guru's Teachings, they intuitively taste the sublime, exquisite and ambrosial sermon of the Lord.

36The Divine Light shines in their hearts, and like the sun which removes the darkness of night, it dispels the darkness of ignorance.

37As Gurmukh, they behold with their eyes the Unseen, Imperceptible, Unknowable, Immaculate Lord. ||12||

38Shalok, Third Mehla: