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1Chant the Praises of the Lord; Kali Yuga has come.

2The justice of the previous three ages is gone. One obtains virtue, only if the Lord bestows it. ||1||Pause||

3In this turbulent age of Kali Yuga, Muslim law decides the cases, and the blue-robed Qazi is the judge.

4The Guru's Bani has taken the place of Brahma's Veda, and the singing of the Lord's Praises are good deeds. ||5||

5Worship without faith; self-discipline without truthfulness; the ritual of the sacred thread without chastity - what good are these?

6You may bathe and wash, and apply a ritualistic tilak mark to your forehead, but without inner purity, there is no understanding. ||6||

7In Kali Yuga, the Koran and the Bible have become famous.

8The Pandit's scriptures and the Puraanas are not respected.

9O Nanak, the Lord's Name now is Rehmaan, the Merciful.

10Know that there is only One Creator of the creation. ||7||

11Nanak has obtained the glorious greatness of the Naam, the Name of the Lord. There is no action higher than this.

12If someone goes out to beg for what is already in his own home, then he should be chastised. ||8||1||

13Raamkalee, First Mehla:

14You preach to the world, and set up your house.

15Abandoning your Yogic postures, how will you find the True Lord?

16You are attached to possessiveness and the love of sexual pleasure.

17You are not a renunciate, nor a man of the world. ||1||

18Yogi, remain seated, and the pain of duality will run away from you.

19You beg from door to door, and you don't feel ashamed. ||1||Pause||

20You sing the songs, but you do not understand your own self.

21How will the burning pain within be relieved?

22Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, let your mind be absorbed in the Lord's Love,

23and you will intuitively experience the charity of contemplation. ||2||

24You apply ashes to your body, while acting in hypocrisy.

25Attached to Maya, you will be beaten by Death's heavy club.

26Your begging bowl is broken; it will not hold the charity of the Lord's Love.

27Bound in bondage, you come and go. ||3||

28You do not control your seed and semen, and yet you claim to practice abstinence.

29You beg from Maya, lured by the three qualities.

30You have no compassion; the Lord's Light does not shine in you.

31You are drowned, drowned in worldly entanglements. ||4||

32You wear religious robes, and your patched coat assumes many disguises.

33You play all sorts of false tricks, like a juggler.

34The fire of anxiety burns brightly within you.

35Without the karma of good actions, how can you cross over? ||5||

36You make ear-rings of glass to wear in your ears.

37But liberation does not come from learning without understanding.

38You are lured by the tastes of the tongue and sex organs.

39You have become a beast; this sign cannot be erased. ||6||

40The people of the world are entangled in the three modes; the Yogis are entangled in the three modes.

41Contemplating the Word of the Shabad, sorrows are dispelled.

42Through the Shabad, one becomes radiant, pure and truthful.

43One who contemplates the true lifestyle is a Yogi. ||7||

44The nine treasures are with You, Lord; You are potent, the Cause of causes.

45You establish and disestablish; whatever You do, happens.

46One who practices celibacy, chastity, self-control, truth and pure consciousness

47- O Nanak, that Yogi is the friend of the three worlds. ||8||2||

48Raamkalee, First Mehla:

49Above the six chakras of the body dwells the detached mind.

50Awareness of the vibration of the Word of the Shabad has been awakened deep within.

51The unstruck melody of the sound current resonates and resounds within; my mind is attuned to it.

52Through the Guru's Teachings, my faith is confirmed in the True Name. ||1||

53O mortal, through devotion to the Lord, peace is obtained.

54The Lord, Har, Har, seems sweet to the Gurmukh, who merges in the Name of the Lord, Har, Har. ||1||Pause||