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You wash your stone gods and worship them.

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You offer saffron, sandalwood and flowers.

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Falling at their feet, you try so hard to appease them.

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Begging, begging from other people, you get things to wear and eat.

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For your blind deeds, you will be blindly punished.

1241 : 1632
Your idol does not feed the hungry, or save the dying.

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The blind assembly argues in blindness. ||1||

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First Mehl:

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All intuitive understanding, all Yoga, all the Vedas and Puraanas.

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All actions, all penances, all songs and spiritual wisdom.

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All intellect, all enlightenment, all sacred shrines of pilgrimage.

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All kingdoms, all royal commands, all joys and all delicacies.

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All mankind, all divinites, all Yoga and meditation.

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All worlds, all celestial realms; all the beings of the universe.

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According to His Hukam, He commands them. His Pen writes out the account of their actions.

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O Nanak, True is the Lord, and True is His Name. True is His Congregation and His Court. ||2||

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Pauree:

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With faith in the Name, peace wells up; the Name brings emancipation.

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With faith in the Name, honor is obtained. The Lord is enshrined in the heart.

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With faith in the Name, one crosses over the terrifying world-ocean, and no obstructions are ever again encountered.

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With faith in the Name, the Path is revealed; through the Name, one is totally enlightened.

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O Nanak, meeting with the True Guru, one comes to have faith in the Name; he alone has faith, who is blessed with it. ||9||

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Shalok, First Mehl:

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The mortal walks on his head through the worlds and realms; he meditates, balaced on one foot.

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Controlling the wind of the breath, he meditates within his mind, tucking his chin down into his chest.

1241 : 1652
What does he lean on? Where does he get his power?

1241 : 1653
What can be said, O Nanak? Who is blessed by the Creator?

1241 : 1654
God keeps all under His Command, but the fool shows off himself. ||1||

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First Mehl:

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He is, He is - I say it millions upon millions, millions upon millions of times.

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With my mouth I say it, forever and ever; there is no end to this speech.

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I do not get tired, and I will not be stopped; this is how great my determination is.

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O Nanak, this is tiny and insignificant. To say that it is more, is wrong. ||2||

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Pauree:

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With faith in the Name, all one's ancestors and family are saved.

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With faith in the Name, one's associates are saved; enshrine it within your heart.

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With faith in the Name, those who hear it are saved; let your tongue delight in it.

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With faith in the Name, pain and hunger are dispelled; let your consciousness be attached to the Name.

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O Nanak, they alone Praise the Name, who meet with the Guru. ||10||

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Shalok, First Mehl:

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All nights, all days, all dates, all days of the week;

1241 : 1668
All seasons, all months, all the earth and everything on it.

1241 : 1669
All waters, all winds, all fires and underworlds.

1241 : 1670
All solar systems and galaxies, all worlds, people and forms.

1241 : 1671
No one knows how great the Hukam of His Command is; no one can describe His actions.

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Mortals may utter, chant, recite and contemplate His Praises until they grow weary.

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The poor fools, O Nanak, cannot find even a tiny bit of the Lord. ||1||

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First Mehl:

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If I were to walk around with my eyes wide open, gazing at all the created forms;

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I could ask the spiritual teachers and religious scholars, and those who contemplate the Vedas;