940 : 2855
How have you subdued your hopes and desires?

940 : 2856
How have you found the Light deep within your nucleus?

940 : 2857
Without teeth, how can you eat iron?

940 : 2858
Give us your true opinion, Nanak."||19||

940 : 2859
Born into the House of the True Guru, my wandering in reincarnation ended.

940 : 2860
My mind is attached and attuned to the unstruck sound current.

940 : 2861
Through the Word of the Shabad, my hopes and desires have been burnt away.

940 : 2862
As Gurmukh, I found the Light deep within the nucleus of my self.

940 : 2863
Eradicating the three qualities, one eats iron.

940 : 2864
O Nanak, the Emancipator emancipates. ||20||

940 : 2865
"What can you tell us about the beginning? In what home did the absolute dwell then?

940 : 2866
What are the ear-rings of spiritual wisdom? Who dwells in each and every heart?

940 : 2867
How can one avoid the attack of death? How can one enter the home of fearlessness?

940 : 2868
How can one know the posture of intuition and contentment, and overcome one's adversaries?"

940 : 2869
Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, egotism and corruption are conquered, and then one comes to dwell in the home of the self within.

940 : 2870
One who realizes the Shabad of the One who created the creation - Nanak is his slave. ||21||

940 : 2871
"Where did we come from? Where are we going? Where will we be absorbed?

940 : 2872
One who reveals the meaning of this Shabad is the Guru, who has no greed at all.

940 : 2873
How can one find the essence of the unmanifest reality? How does one become Gurmukh, and enshrine love for the Lord?

940 : 2874
He Himself is consciousness, He Himself is the Creator; share with us, Nanak, your wisdom."

940 : 2875
By His Command we come, and by His Command we go; by His Command, we merge in absorption.

940 : 2876
Through the Perfect Guru, live the Truth; through the Word of the Shabad, the state of dignity is attained. ||22||

940 : 2877
We can only express a sense of wonder about the beginning. The absolute abided endlessly deep within Himself then.

940 : 2878
Consider freedom from desire to be the ear-rings of the Guru's spiritual wisdom. The True Lord, the Soul of all, dwells within each and every heart.

940 : 2879
Through the Guru's Word, one merges in the absolute, and intuitively receives the immaculate essence.

940 : 2880
O Nanak, that Sikh who seeks and finds the Way does not serve any other.

940 : 2881
Wonderful and amazing is His Command; He alone realizes His Command and knows the true way of life of His creatures.

940 : 2882
One who eradicates his self-conceit becomes free of desire; he alone is a Yogi, who enshrines the True Lord deep within. ||23||

940 : 2883
From His state of absolute existence, He assumed the immaculate form; from formless, He assumed the supreme form.

940 : 2884
By pleasing the True Guru, the supreme status is obtained, and one is absorbed in the True Word of the Shabad.

940 : 2885
He knows the True Lord as the One and only; he sends his egotism and duality far away.

940 : 2886
He alone is a Yogi, who realizes the Word of the Guru's Shabad; the lotus of the heart blossoms forth within.

940 : 2887
If one remains dead while yet alive, then he understands everything; he knows the Lord deep within himself, who is kind and compassionate to all.

940 : 2888
O Nanak, he is blessed with glorious greatness; he realizes himself in all beings. ||24||

940 : 2889
We emerge from Truth, and merge into Truth again. The pure being merges into the One True Lord.

940 : 2890
The false come, and find no place of rest; in duality, they come and go.

940 : 2891
This coming and going in reincarnation is ended through the Word of the Guru's Shabad; the Lord Himself analyzes and grants His forgiveness.

940 : 2892
One who suffers from the disease of duality, forgets the Naam, the source of nectar.