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With false mouths, people speak falsehood. How can they be made pure?

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Without the Holy Water of the Shabad, they are not cleansed. From the True One alone comes Truth. ||1||

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O soul-bride, without virtue, what happiness can there be?

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The Husband Lord enjoys her with pleasure and delight; she is at peace in the love of the True Word of the Shabad. ||1||Pause||

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When the Husband goes away, the bride suffers in the pain of separation,

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like the fish in shallow water, crying for mercy.

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As it pleases the Will of the Husband Lord, peace is obtained, when He Himself casts His Glance of Grace. ||2||

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Praise your Husband Lord, together with your bridesmaids and friends.

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The body is beautified, and the mind is fascinated. Imbued with His Love, we are enraptured.

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Adorned with the Shabad, the beautiful bride enjoys her Husband with virtue. ||3||

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The soul-bride is of no use at all, if she is evil and without virtue.

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She does not find peace in this world or the next; she burns in falsehood and corruption.

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Coming and going are very difficult for that bride who is abandoned and forgotten by her Husband Lord. ||4||

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The beautiful soul-bride of the Husband Lord-by what sensual pleasures has she been doomed?

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She is of no use to her Husband if she babbles in useless arguments.

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At the Door of His Home, she finds no shelter; she is discarded for seeking other pleasures. ||5||

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The Pandits, the religious scholars, read their books, but they do not understand the real meaning.

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They give instructions to others, and then walk away, but they deal in Maya themselves.

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Speaking falsehood, they wander around the world, while those who remain true to the Shabad are excellent and exalted. ||6||

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There are so many Pandits and astrologers who ponder over the Vedas.

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They glorify their disputes and arguments, and in these controversies they continue coming and going.

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Without the Guru, they are not released from their karma, although they speak and listen and preach and explain. ||7||

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They all call themselves virtuous, but I have no virtue at all.

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With the Lord as her Husband, the soul-bride is happy; I, too, love that God.

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O Nanak, through the Shabad, union is obtained; there is no more separation. ||8||5||

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Siree Raag, First Mehl:

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You may chant and meditate, practice austerities and self-restraint, and dwell at sacred shrines of pilgrimage;

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you may give donations to charity, and perform good deeds, but without the True One, what is the use of it all?

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As you plant, so shall you harvest. Without virtue, this human life passes away in vain. ||1||

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O young bride, be a slave to virtue, and you shall find peace.

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Renouncing wrongful actions, following the Guru's Teachings, you shall be absorbed into the Perfect One. ||1||Pause||

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Without capital, the trader looks around in all four directions.

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He does not understand his own origins; the merchandise remains within the door of his own house.

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Without this commodity, there is great pain. The false are ruined by falsehood. ||2||

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One who contemplates and appraises this Jewel day and night reaps new profits.

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He finds the merchandise within his own home, and departs after arranging his affairs.

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So trade with the true traders, and as Gurmukh, contemplate God. ||3||

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In the Society of the Saints, He is found, if the Uniter unites us.

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One whose heart is filled with His Infinite Light meets with Him, and shall never again be separated from Him.

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True is his position; he abides in Truth, with love and affection for the True One. ||4||

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One who understands himself finds the Mansion of the Lord's Presence within his own home.

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Imbued with the True Lord, Truth is gathered in.