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1Pauree:

2Deep within the body is the fortress of the Lord, and all lands and countries.

3He Himself sits in primal, profound Samaadhi; He Himself is all-pervading.

4He Himself created the Universe, and He Himself remains hidden within it.

5Serving the Guru, the Lord is known, and the Truth is revealed.

6He is True, the Truest of the True; the Guru has imparted this understanding. ||16||

7Shalok, First Mehla:

8Night is the summer season, and day is the winter season; sexual desire and anger are the two fields planted.

9Greed prepares the soil, and the seed of falsehood is planted; attachment and love are the farmer and hired hand.

10Contemplation is the plow, and corruption is the harvest; this is what one earns and eats, according to the Hukam of the Lord's Command.

11O Nanak, when one is called to give his account, he will be barren and infertile. ||1||

12First Mehla:

13Make the Fear of God the farm, purity the water, truth and contentment the cows and bulls,

14humility the plow, consciousness the plowman, remembrance the preparation of the soil, and union with the Lord the planting time.

15Let the Lord's Name be the seed, and His Forgiving Grace the harvest. Do this, and the whole world will seem false.

16O Nanak, if He bestows His Merciful Glance of Grace, then all your separation will be ended. ||2||

17Pauree:

18The self-willed manmukh is trapped in the darkness of emotional attachment; in the love of duality he speaks.

19The love of duality brings pain forever; he churns the water endlessly.

20The Gurmukh meditates on the Naam, the Name of the Lord; he churns, and obtains the essence of reality.

21The Divine Light illuminates his heart deep within; he seeks the Lord, and obtains Him.

22He Himself deludes in doubt; no one can comment on this. ||17||

23Shalok, Second Mehla:

24O Nanak, don't be anxious; the Lord will take care of you.

25He created the creatures in water, and He gives them their nourishment.

26There are no stores open there, and no one farms there.

27No business is ever transacted there, and no one buys or sells.

28Animals eat other animals; this is what the Lord has given them as food.

29He created them in the oceans, and He provides for them as well.

30O Nanak, don't be anxious; the Lord will take care of you. ||1||

31First Mehla:

32O Nanak, this soul is the fish, and death is the hungry fisherman.

33The blind man does not even think of this. And suddenly, the net is cast.

34O Nanak, his consciousness is unconscious, and he departs, bound by anxiety.

35But if the Lord bestows His Glance of Grace, then He unites the soul with Himself. ||2||

36Pauree:

37They are true, forever true, who drink in the sublime essence of the Lord.

38The True Lord abides in the mind of the Gurmukh; He strikes the true bargain.

39Everything is in the home of the self within; only the very fortunate obtain it.

40The hunger within is conquered and overcome, singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord.

41He Himself unites in His Union; He Himself blesses them with understanding. ||18||

42Shalok, First Mehla:

43The cotton is ginned, woven and spun;

44the cloth is laid out, washed and bleached white.

45The tailor cuts it with his scissors, and sews it with his thread.

46Thus, the torn and tattered honor is sewn up again, through the Lord's Praise, O Nanak, and one lives the true life.

47Becoming worn, the cloth is torn; with needle and thread it is sewn up again.

48It will not last for a month, or even a week. It barely lasts for an hour, or even a moment.