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1Those who serve their True Guru are certified and accepted.

2They eradicate selfishness and conceit from within; they remain lovingly absorbed in the True One.

3Those who do not serve the True Guru waste away their lives in vain.

4O Nanak, the Lord does just as He pleases. No one has any say in this. ||1||

5Third Mehla:

6With the mind encircled by wickedness and evil, people do evil deeds.

7The ignorant worship the love of duality; in the Lord's Court they shall be punished.

8So worship the Lord, the Light of the soul; without the True Guru, understanding is not obtained.

9Meditation, penance and austere self-discipline are found by surrendering to the True Guru's Will. By His Grace this is received.

10O Nanak, serve with this intuitive awareness; only that which is pleasing to the Lord is approved. ||2||

11Pauree:

12Chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, O my mind; it will bring you eternal peace, day and night.

13Chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, O my mind; meditating on it, all sins and misdeeds shall be erased.

14Chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, O my mind; through it, all poverty, pain and hunger shall be removed.

15Chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, O my mind; as Gurmukh, declare your love.

16One who has such pre-ordained destiny inscribed upon his forehead by the True Lord, chants the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||13||

17Shalok, Third Mehla:

18Those who do not serve the True Guru, and who do not contemplate the Word of the Shabad

19-spiritual wisdom does not enter into their hearts; they are like dead bodies in the world.

20They go through the cycle of 8.4 million reincarnations, and they are ruined through death and rebirth.

21He alone serves the True Guru, whom the Lord Himself inspires to do so.

22The Treasure of the Naam is within the True Guru; by His Grace, it is obtained.

23Those who are truly attuned to the Word of the Guru's Shabad-their love is forever True.

24O Nanak, those who are united with Him shall not be separated again. They merge imperceptibly into God. ||1||

25Third Mehla:

26One who knows the Benevolent Lord God is the true devotee of Bhagaautee.

27By Guru's Grace, he is self-realized.

28He restrains his wandering mind, and brings it back to its own home within the self.

29He remains dead while yet alive, and he chants the Name of the Lord.

30Such a Bhagaautee is most exalted.

31O Nanak, he merges into the True One. ||2||

32Third Mehla:

33He is full of deceit, and yet he calls himself a devotee of Bhagaautee.

34Through hypocrisy, he shall never attain the Supreme Lord God.

35He slanders others, and pollutes himself with his own filth.

36Outwardly, he washes off the filth, but the impurity of his mind does not go away.

37He argues with the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation.

38Night and day, he suffers, engrossed in the love of duality.

39He does not remember the Name of the Lord, but still, he performs all sorts of empty rituals.

40That which is pre-ordained cannot be erased.

41O Nanak, without serving the True Guru, liberation is not obtained. ||3||

42Pauree:

43Those who meditate on the True Guru shall not be burnt to ashes.

44Those who meditate on the True Guru are satisfied and fulfilled.

45Those who meditate on the True Guru are not afraid of the Messenger of Death.