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1How have you subdued your hopes and desires?

2How have you found the Light deep within your nucleus?

3Without teeth, how can you eat iron?

4Give us your true opinion, Nanak.""||19||

5Born into the House of the True Guru, my wandering in reincarnation ended.

6My mind is attached and attuned to the unstruck sound current.

7Through the Word of the Shabad, my hopes and desires have been burnt away.

8As Gurmukh, I found the Light deep within the nucleus of my self.

9Eradicating the three qualities, one eats iron.

10O Nanak, the Emancipator emancipates. ||20||

11"What can you tell us about the beginning? In what home did the absolute dwell then?

12What are the ear-rings of spiritual wisdom? Who dwells in each and every heart?

13How can one avoid the attack of death? How can one enter the home of fearlessness?

14How can one know the posture of intuition and contentment, and overcome one's adversaries?""

15Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, egotism and corruption are conquered, and then one comes to dwell in the home of the self within.

16One who realizes the Shabad of the One who created the creation - Nanak is his slave. ||21||

17"Where did we come from? Where are we going? Where will we be absorbed?

18One who reveals the meaning of this Shabad is the Guru, who has no greed at all.

19How can one find the essence of the unmanifest reality? How does one become Gurmukh, and enshrine love for the Lord?

20He Himself is consciousness, He Himself is the Creator; share with us, Nanak, your wisdom.""

21By His Command we come, and by His Command we go; by His Command, we merge in absorption.

22Through the Perfect Guru, live the Truth; through the Word of the Shabad, the state of dignity is attained. ||22||

23We can only express a sense of wonder about the beginning. The absolute abided endlessly deep within Himself then.

24Consider freedom from desire to be the ear-rings of the Guru's spiritual wisdom. The True Lord, the Soul of all, dwells within each and every heart.

25Through the Guru's Word, one merges in the absolute, and intuitively receives the immaculate essence.

26O Nanak, that Sikh who seeks and finds the Way does not serve any other.

27Wonderful and amazing is His Command; He alone realizes His Command and knows the true way of life of His creatures.

28One who eradicates his self-conceit becomes free of desire; he alone is a Yogi, who enshrines the True Lord deep within. ||23||

29From His state of absolute existence, He assumed the immaculate form; from formless, He assumed the supreme form.

30By pleasing the True Guru, the supreme status is obtained, and one is absorbed in the True Word of the Shabad.

31He knows the True Lord as the One and only; he sends his egotism and duality far away.

32He alone is a Yogi, who realizes the Word of the Guru's Shabad; the lotus of the heart blossoms forth within.

33If one remains dead while yet alive, then he understands everything; he knows the Lord deep within himself, who is kind and compassionate to all.

34O Nanak, he is blessed with glorious greatness; he realizes himself in all beings. ||24||

35We emerge from Truth, and merge into Truth again. The pure being merges into the One True Lord.

36The false come, and find no place of rest; in duality, they come and go.

37This coming and going in reincarnation is ended through the Word of the Guru's Shabad; the Lord Himself analyzes and grants His forgiveness.

38One who suffers from the disease of duality, forgets the Naam, the source of nectar.