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If you focus your consciousness on the Feet of the One Lord, what reason would you have to chase after greed? ||3||
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Meditate on the Immaculate Lord, and saturate your mind with Him.
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Why, O Yogi, do you make so many false and deceptive claims? ||1||Pause||
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The body is wild, and the mind is foolish. Practicing egotism, selfishness and conceit, your life is passing away.
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Prays Nanak, when the naked body is cremated, then you will come to regret and repent. ||4||3||15||
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O mind, there is only the One medicine, mantra and healing herb - center your consciousness firmly on the One Lord.
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Take to the Lord, the Destroyer of the sins and karma of past incarnations. ||1||
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The One Lord and Master is pleasing to my mind.
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In Your three qualities, the world is engrossed; the Unknowable cannot be known. ||1||Pause||
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Maya is so sweet to the body, like sugar or molasses. We all carry loads of it.
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In the dark of the night, nothing can be seen. The mouse of death is gnawing away at the rope of life, O Siblings of Destiny! ||2||
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As the self-willed manmukhs act, they suffer in pain. The Gurmukh obtains honor and greatness.
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Whatever He does, that alone happens; past actions cannot be erased. ||3||
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Those who are imbued with, and committed to the Lord's Love, are filled to overflowing; they never lack anything.
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If Nanak could be the dust of their feet, then he, the ignorant one, might also obtain some. ||4||4||16||
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Who is our mother, and who is our father? Where did we come from?
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We are formed from the fire of the womb within, and the bubble of water of the sperm. For what purpose are we created? ||1||
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O my Master, who can know Your Glorious Virtues?
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My own demerits cannot be counted. ||1||Pause||
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I took the form of so many plants and trees, and so many animals.
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Many times I entered the families of snakes and flying birds. ||2||
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I broke into the shops of the city and well-guarded palaces; stealing from them, I snuck home again.
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I looked in front of me, and I looked behind me, but where could I hide from You? ||3||
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I saw the banks of sacred rivers, the nine continents, the shops and bazaars of the cities.
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Taking the scale, the merchant begins to weigh his actions within his own heart. ||4||
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As the seas and the oceans are overflowing with water, so vast are my own sins.
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Please, shower me with Your Mercy, and take pity upon me. I am a sinking stone - please carry me across! ||5||
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My soul is burning like fire, and the knife is cutting deep.
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Prays Nanak, recognizing the Lord's Command, I am at peace, day and night. ||6||5||17||
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The nights are wasted sleeping, and the days are wasted eating.
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Human life is such a precious jewel, but it is being lost in exchange for a mere shell. ||1||
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You do not know the Name of the Lord.
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You fool - you shall regret and repent in the end! ||1||Pause||
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You bury your temporary wealth in the ground, but how can you love that which is temporary?
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Those who have departed, after craving for temporary wealth, have returned home without this temporary wealth. ||2||
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If people could gather it in by their own efforts, then everyone would be so lucky.