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One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

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Aasaa, Third House, First Mehl:

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You may have thousands of armies, thousands of marching bands and lances, and thousands of men to rise and salute you.

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Your rule may extend over thousands of miles, and thousands of men may rise to honor you.

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But, if your honor is of no account to the Lord, then all of your ostentatious show is useless. ||1||

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Without the Name of the Lord, the world is in turmoil.

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Even though the fool may be taught again and again, he remains the blindest of the blind. ||1||Pause||

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You may earn thousands, collect thousands, and spend thousands of dollars; thousands may come, and thousands may go.

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But, if your honor is of no account to the Lord, then where will you go to find a safe haven? ||2||

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Thousands of Shaastras may be explained to the mortal, and thousands of Pandits may read the Puraanas to him;

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but, if his honor is of no account to the Lord, then all of this is unacceptable. ||3||

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Honor comes from the True Name, the Name of the Merciful Creator.

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If it abides in the heart, day and night, O Nanak, then the mortal shall swim across, by His Grace. ||4||1||31||

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Aasaa, First Mehl:

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The One Name is my lamp; I have put the oil of suffering into it.

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Its flame has dried up this oil, and I have escaped my meeting with the Messenger of Death. ||1||

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O people, do not make fun of me.

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Thousands of wooden logs, piled up together, need only a tiny flame to burn. ||1||Pause||

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The Lord is my festive dish, of rice balls on leafy plates; the True Name of the Creator Lord is my funeral ceremony.

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Here and hereafter, in the past and in the future, this is my support. ||2||

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The Lord's Praise is my River Ganges and my city of Benares; my soul takes its sacred cleansing bath there.

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That becomes my true cleansing bath, if night and day, I enshrine love for You. ||3||

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The rice balls are offered to the gods and the dead ancestors, but it is the Brahmins who eat them!

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O Nanak, the rice balls of the Lord are a gift which is never exhausted. ||4||2||32||

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Aasaa, Fourth House, First Mehl:

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One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

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The Gods, yearning for the Blessed Vision of the Lord's Darshan, suffered through pain and hunger at the sacred shrines.

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The yogis and the celibates live their disciplined lifestyle, while others wear saffron robes and become hermits. ||1||

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For Your sake, O Lord Master, they are imbued with love.

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Your Names are so many, and Your Forms are endless. No one can tell how may Glorious Virtues You have. ||1||Pause||

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Leaving behind hearth and home, palaces, elephants, horses and native lands, mortals have journeyed to foreign lands.

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The spiritual leaders, prophets, seers and men of faith renounced the world, and became acceptable. ||2||

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Renouncing tasty delicacies, comfort, happiness and pleasures, some have abandoned their clothes and now wear skins.

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Those who suffer in pain, imbued with Your Name, have become beggars at Your Door. ||3||

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Some wear skins, and carry begging bowls, bearing wooden staffs, and sitting on deer skins. Others raise their hair in tufts and wear sacred threads and loin-cloths.

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You are the Lord Master, I am just Your puppet. Prays Nanak, what is my social status to be? ||4||1||33||