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All medicines and remedies, mantras and tantras are nothing more than ashes.

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Enshrine the Creator Lord within your heart. ||3||

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Renounce all your doubts, and vibrate upon the Supreme Lord God.

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Says Nanak, this path of Dharma is eternal and unchanging. ||4||80||149||

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Gauree, Fifth Mehl:

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The Lord bestowed His Mercy, and led me to meet the Guru.

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By His power, no disease afflicts me. ||1||

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Remembering the Lord, I cross over the terrifying world-ocean.

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In the Sanctuary of the spiritual warrior, the account books of the Messenger of Death are torn up. ||1||Pause||

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The True Guru has given me the Mantra of the Lord's Name.

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By this Support, my affairs have been resolved. ||2||

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Meditation, self-discipline, self-control and perfect greatness were obtained when the Merciful Lord, the Guru, became my Help and Support. ||3||

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The Guru has dispelled pride, emotional attachment and superstition.

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Nanak sees the Supreme Lord God pervading everywhere. ||4||81||150||

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Gauree, Fifth Mehl:

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The blind beggar is better off than the vicious king.

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Overcome by pain, the blind man invokes the Lord's Name. ||1||

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You are the glorious greatness of Your slave.

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The intoxication of Maya leads the others to hell. ||1||Pause||

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Gripped by disease, they invoke the Name.

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But those who are intoxicated with vice shall find no home, no place of rest. ||2||

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One who is in love with the Lord's Lotus Feet,

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does not think of any other comforts. ||3||

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Forever and ever, meditate on God, your Lord and Master.

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O Nanak, meet with the Lord, the Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts. ||4||82||151||

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Gauree, Fifth Mehl:

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Twenty-four hours a day, the highway robbers are my companions.

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Granting His Grace, God has driven them away. ||1||

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Everyone should dwell on the Sweet Name of such a Lord.

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God is overflowing with all power. ||1||Pause||

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The world-ocean is burning hot!

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In an instant, God saves us, and carries us across. ||2||

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There are so many bonds, they cannot be broken.

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Remembering the Naam, the Name of the Lord, the fruit of liberation is obtained. ||3||

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By clever devices, nothing is accomplished.

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Grant Your Grace to Nanak, that he may sing the Glories of God. ||4||83||152||

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Gauree, Fifth Mehl:

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Those who obtain the wealth of the Lord's Name

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move freely in the world; all their affairs are resolved. ||1||

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By great good fortune, the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises are sung.

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O Supreme Lord God, as You give, so do I receive. ||1||Pause||

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Enshrine the Lord's Feet within your heart.

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Get aboard this boat, and cross over the terrifying world-ocean. ||2||

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Everyone who joins the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy,

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obtains eternal peace; pain does not afflict them any longer. ||3||

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With loving devotional worship, meditate on the treasure of excellence.

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O Nanak, you shall be honored in the Court of the Lord. ||4||84||153||

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Gauree, Fifth Mehl:

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The Lord, our Friend, is totally pervading the water, the land and the skies.

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Doubts are dispelled by continually singing the Lord's Glorious Praises. ||1||

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While rising up, and while lying down in sleep, the Lord is always with you, watching over you.

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Remembering Him in meditation, the fear of Death departs. ||1||Pause||

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With God's Lotus Feet abiding in the heart,