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O Nanak, they alone are wealthy, who are imbued with the Naam; the rest of the world is poor. ||26||
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The Lord's Name is the Support of the Lord's humble servants. Without the Lord's Name, the there is no other place, no place of rest.
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Following the Guru's Teachings, the Name abides in the mind, and one is intuitively, automatically absorbed in the Lord.
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Those with great good fortune meditate on the Naam; night and day, they embrace love for the Name.
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Servant Nanak begs for the dust of their feet; I am forever a sacrifice to them. ||27||
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The 8.4 million species of beings burn in desire and cry in pain.
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All this show of emotional attachment to Maya shall not go with you at that very last instant.
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Without the Lord, peace and tranquility do not come; unto whom should we go and complain?
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By great good fortune, one meets the True Guru, and comes to understand the contemplation of God.
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The fire of desire is totally extinguished, O servant Nanak, enshrining the Lord within the heart. ||28||
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I make so many mistakes, there is no end or limit to them.
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O Lord, please be merciful and forgive me; I am a sinner, a great offender.
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O Dear Lord, if You made an account of my mistakes, my turn to be forgiven would not even come. Please forgive me, and unite me with Yourself.
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The Guru, in His Pleasure, has united me with the Lord God; He has cut away all my sinful mistakes.
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Servant Nanak celebrates the victory of those who meditate on the Name of the Lord, Har, Har. ||29||
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Those who have been separated and alienated from the Lord are united with Him again, through the Fear and the Love of the True Guru.
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They escape the cycle of birth and death, and, as Gurmukh, they meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord.
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Joining the Saadh Sangat, the Guru's Congregation, the diamonds and jewels are obtained.
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O Nanak, the jewel is priceless; the Gurmukhs seek and find it. ||30||
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The self-willed manmukhs do not even think of the Naam. Cursed are their lives, and cursed are their homes.
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That Lord who gives them so much to eat and wear - they do not enshrine that Lord, the Treasure of Virtue, in their minds.
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This mind is not pierced by the Word of the Shabad; how can it come to dwell in its true home?
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The self-willed manmukhs are like discarded brides, ruined by coming and going in the cycle of reincarnation.
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The Gurmukhs are embellished and exalted by the Naam, the Name of the Lord; the jewel of destiny is engraved upon their foreheads.
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They enshrine the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, within their hearts; the Lord illumines their heart-lotus.
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I am forever a sacrifice to those who serve their True Guru.
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O Nanak, radiant and bright are the faces of those whose inner beings are illuminated with the Light of the Naam. ||31||
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Those who die in the Word of the Shabad are saved. Without the Shabad, no one is liberated.
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They wear religious robes and perform all sorts of rituals, but they are ruined; in the love of duality, their world is ruined.
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O Nanak, without the True Guru, the Name is not obtained, even though one may long for it hundreds of times. ||32||
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The Name of the Lord is utterly great, lofty and high, the highest of the high.
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No one can climb up to it, even though one may long for it, hundreds of times.
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Speaking about self-discipline, no one become pure; everyone walks around wearing religious robes.
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Those blessed by the karma of good deeds go and climb the ladder of the Guru.
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The Lord comes and dwells within that one who contemplates the Word of the Guru's Shabad.