Swarn Singh Bains - Siree Guru Granth Sahib (Sikh Religion Scriptures 1)

Siree Guru Granth Sahib
(Sikh Religion Scriptures 1)

Gurmukhi to English Translation

Swarn Singh Bains

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God is limitless, unfathomable, beyond imagination and beyond comprehension. His praise and the way to attain salvation described in Siree Guru Granth Sahib is also beyond comprehension. To translate Siree Guru Granth Sahib is also beyond comprehension. Siree Guru Granth Sahib is the scripture of Sikh religion. It is the original writings of Sikh Masters (guru) and Hindu and Muslim saints. It is a divine book. It has no stories. It is written Gurmukhi (Punjabi) alphabets. Written in 31 Indian classical tunes and fully balanced book. It does not differentiate between religion gender creed and race. People have the longing to know about God and to become divine. Therefore the devotees try to interpret Siree Guru Granth Sahib depending upon their knowledge and devotion. By the grace of guru the God; Swarn Singh Bains has attempted with devotion and best intentions and completed the translation of Siree Guru Granth Sahib in English to the best of his humble ability with the help of Mahaan Kosh and borrowing some English words from computer programme. What I learned during my effort? The guru is God. Worshipping guru the God devotionally attains salvation. I hope the learned masters; the scholars and the Godly people will accept his humble attempt. Names of tunes, lunar dates, name of days, letter of alphabets used in certain places cannot be changed or translated. The original page numbers and stanza numbers are kept for reference purpose.

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God is one. It is true. He is the Creator. He is carefree. He has no enemy. He is immortal. He does not take birth. He came into existence on His own. He is realized by gurus (divine teacher) grace reciting Gods name.

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M entioned above is true from the beginning, for a long time. It is true now. Nanak says it will always be true. No one can realize God by thinking, you may think forever. Divinity cannot be achieved by being quiet even if you never speak. A greedy person is never content; he may have the wealth of the whole world. Contentment is a must to realize God. The intelligence does not count for attaining divinity. How to find the truth? How to lift the veil of falsehood? Nanak says everything happens by Gods grace. It is pre-ordained. The universe is created by Gods command. His command cannot be described. Birth takes place by His command; get recognition by His command. Higher or lower status comes by His command; Happiness and sorrow come by His command. Rags and riches come with His command. Everyone is subject to His command; no one is beyond His command. Nanak says if you understand Gods command, you do not talk loud, become humble instead. ||2|| No one can be as great as God. The universe is the proof of his greatness. He has all the virtues that are worthy of admiration. God has supreme knowledge and know how, to understand everything. God is the Creator and destroyer. God takes away life and gives it back as well. It appears that God is far away Page 2. God is the nearest and watches everything. No one can explain virtues of God. Millions have tried to explain in vain. God keeps giving and the recipients get tired of accepting. The creation keeps begging forever. Whatever happens in the universe happens with Gods command. Nanak says the carefree God gets satisfaction by doing everything. ||3|| It is true that there is God. His creation and His values are incomparable. The beggars keep begging. The bestowal keeps giving. Then what should I do? By which I can find the way to Him! What should I speak that He listens with love? When you discuss and praise God that is the sacred time. O ne takes birth as a human as a result of previous deeds ? The salvation is achieved by Gods grace. Nanak says if you take it at its face value, you can realize your dream. No one can take Gods place. It cannot be done. He only can occupy that seat. The devotees are respected there. Nanak says, you too praise God. Miss and listen His name with intent. It will fill you with joy by eliminating sorrows. You can become divine by listening, praying by missing. God is in you. Divinity is achieved by the grace of a guru. People have achieved it. Such as Shiva, Brahma, Parvati etc. Even if I know about God, still I cannot explain, because God is beyond comprehension. Guru has explained one thing clearly. There is only one who gives to everyone. I do not forget Him. ||5|| I miss Him by His grace only. I cannot do it without His grace. Whatever anyone achieves in this world cannot be done without own effort. Most precious jewels are in the mind, can only be exploited by gurus teaching. Guru has explained one thing clearly. There is only one who gives to everyone, I do not forget Him! ||6|| If life becomes as long as the creation or even ten times more. Everyone knows you and follows you. Earn the respect of everyone by doing good deeds. No one cares for you without the grace of God. God finds every sin by dissecting and puts the blame on the guilty. Nanak says God guides the ignorant and bestows more on the learned. No one can match His deeds ||7|| Heard about the people such as mystics, divine teachers, gods and meditating yogis. Heard about someone carrying the earth and sky. Heard about the life on different continents and the underworld. Heard about someone can control death. Nanak says those who miss God are always content. The sins and sufferings are eradicated by reciting the name of God. ||8|| Heard about Shiva, Brahma and Indra highly revered people. They have achieved this by singing Your praises. Heard about the people who do yoga to find the secrets of body. Heard about religious scriptures explaining how to become God like. Nanak says those who miss God are always content. Page 3 The sins and sufferings are eradicated by reciting the name of God. ||9|| Heard about people who speak the truth, are content, have knowledge of God. Heard about people that go to pilgrimages to bathe to become divine. Heard about people achieving higher status by acquiring higher education. Heard about people get contentment by concentration. Nanak says those who miss God are always content. The sins and sufferings are eradicated by reciting the name of God. ||10|| Heard about people having every quality. Heard about scholars, spiritual teachers and emperors. Heard about people who guide the ignorant. Heard about people with divine knowledge. Nanak says those who miss God are always content. The sins and sufferings are eradicated by reciting the name of God. ||11|| No one can explain the virtues of God. If anyone tries will repent later. There is not enough paper or pen to write about God. People do talk about God in congregation. The taste of reciting the name of God is such. One who gets it; is the only one who knows it. ||12|| To realize God is just to straighten the mind. If anyone can do it, can solve the mystery of the universe. Those who miss God do not have to repent. They become immortal. They do not die again. The taste of reciting the name of God is such. One who gets it; is the only one who knows it. ||13|| If you start missing God, nothing can stop you. Instead it guides you gracefully. Those who miss God do not worship anyone else. Those who miss God talk about God and spirituality only. The taste of reciting the name of God is such. One who gets it; is the only one who knows it. ||14|| Those who miss God attain salvation. Their families also get the benefit. Those who miss God achieve salvation and guide the followers to achieve salvation as well. Nanak says those who miss God do not have to beg door to door. The taste of reciting the name of God is such. One who gets it; is the only one who knows. ||15|| Those who miss God are accepted, bestowed higher status by God. They are respected in Gods court. They are respected in kings courts. They have only one resolve to miss God by the grace of a guru. Someone may think and talk about God. There is no limit to Gods deeds. The soul can only be cleansed by the grace of God. God created the creation with patience and systematically. Is it true and someone knows the weight of earth and someone is carrying it! The earth is too big to be carried by someone. Who is so strong to be able to carry the weight of the earth? This is how society satisfies its ego. Everyone writes the way he thinks about it. Only he can write about God; who knows how much there is to write. How much strength and technique someone has? How much food someone eats to be able to carry the earth. God commanded once and the universe was created. Many species were born from that. Who has the knowledge to understand and explain the nature? I admire Thee. Whatever pleases You is a good deed. O my Lord; You always care for everything! ||16|| There are many techniques and ways of reciting the name of God. People do many types of worship and meditation to become divine. Countless scriptures are recited to learn about God. Many use different methods to detach themselves from the world. Page 4 Countless devotees contemplate the ways to become divine. Countless are truthful, countless are those who give awns. Countless brave warriors that are always ready to perform. Many are sitting quiet and meditating. Who knows about the nature? I admire Thee. Whatever pleases You is a good deed. O my Lord; You always care for everything. ||17|| There are many ignorant who are spiritually blind. There are many thieves and embezzlers. Countless impose their will by force. Countless cut throat and kill. Countless sinners keep committing sins. Countless liars keep telling lies. Countless feel pain of bad deeds. Countless become sinners by slandering others. Humble Nanak says by witnessing. I admire Thee. Whatever pleases You is a good deed. O my Lord, You always care for everything ||18|| People call God by many names and use many different ways to realize God. There are many knowledgeable ones. Many say that you can become divine by the knowledge of mind. People call God by different names and worship different ways. People talk about God their own way and explain virtues of God their own way. People write about God differently, talk about God differently. What they think, they write about God. Whoever writes, does not understand. Whatever He guides them, they understand that much only. Whatever knowledge anyone achieves is due to missing God. No one understands anything without missing God. All I can say about nature is! I admire Thee. Whatever pleases You is a good deed. O my Lord, You always care for everything. ||19|| If hands feet or body become dirty! You can remove the dirt washing with water. If clothes become dirty. You can clean them by washing with soap. If the mind becomes dirty with sins. It can only be cleansed by the dye of the name of God. No one stops you from doing good or bad. Whatever you do is recorded automatically. As you sow so shall you reap? Nanak says birth and death take place with His command. ||20|| By going to pilgrimage doing meditation being considerate by giving awns. If you get any recognition it does not mean you have become divine. If it has captured your mind by hearing or by saying the name of God! The mind and soul get cleansed. All virtues are Your, I have none. Cannot miss God without doing good deeds. Whatever I am saying is with your blessing. You are sacred and beautiful. I always enjoy reciting Your name. What was the time, the moment? What was the day, and what was the date? What were the season and the month, when the universe was created? The Pandits (scholars) would not have found it even if it was written in Vedas, Puraanas (scriptures). The Qazis would not have known either even if it was mentioned in Quran. The yogis do not know the day or the month or the season. God who created the creation is the only one who knows when it was created. How can I say and admire? How can I understand and explain? Page 5. Nanak also says what everyone else says. Everyone claims to be wiser than the next. God is great. His name is greater. Everything happens by His grace. Nanak says if anyone claims that he knows how the universe was created, is not appreciated in Gods court. ||21|| There are hundreds of thousands of earths and skies. Many have exhausted the means of searching. Vedas are unable to describe; some scriptures say, 1800. God who created them knows the count. You understand it if God bestows, if not then you cannot understand. Nanak says, admire Thee. He only understands Him. ||22|| I can only admire. I do not know any more than that. You only find out when you deal with it. As rivers flow into the ocean and find out the vastness of ocean. The ocean is very large and full of precious jewels. Knowing all this has no value if it does not quench your thirst. ||23|| God is beyond praise and talking about. Endless are His actions endless are His gifts. No limit to seeing his creation and hearing about it. Cannot understand the secrets of the carefree. Cannot understand how God created the universe. No end to the boundaries of his creation. Many are struggling to understand the secrets of his creation. Still cannot unlock the mystery. No one can know the limits of it. The more you say more there is to say. God is great. His power is greater. He is great. His name is greater. If someone is as great as God! Then only he can understand Him. God only knows His greatness. Nanak says if you understand anything. It happens by His grace only. ||24|| You get credit for what you earn. God does not change the result of your deeds. Many warriors are begging for Gods grace. Cannot count how many more are begging. Many let their horses run wild. Many receive gifts and then deny receiving. Many ignorant keep asking for more and more. Some are always suffering the pain of hunger and greed. It also happens with Gods grace. Salvation is attained by the grace of God. No one else has any say in it. If someone says any different! He only knows what happens to him or her. He knows all and gives accordingly. Only a few understand it. One who achieves Gods blessing. Nanak says he or she has achieved everything. ||25|| Priceless is Gods grace. To achieve His grace is also priceless. Those who miss God are priceless. What they achieve is also priceless. God gives God takes away. If God thinks you worthy of it then He guides you. Gods code of conduct and the court of justice are priceless. The weights and measures of justice are absolutely correct. Priceless are the ways of Gods grace. Priceless are His deeds and command. His deeds grace and virtues cannot be explained. Many have tried in vain. It is mentioned in the scriptures. The scholars read, explain and preach also. Demy gods talk about God. Page 6. The prophets and their followers talk about God. Shiva and mystics talk about God. Many scholars talk about God. The demons, the demy gods speak about God. The gods, warriors, saints, public servants talk about God. Many more talk about God. Many have left this world after trying to explain God. As many as have talked about God, that many more will yet do so. Even then, they cannot describe Him. Whatever pleases Him that is how it happens? Nanak says God only knows about it. If anyone talks about God with his ego. He shall be called the ignorant of ignorant! ||26|| What kind of door and house is where God sits and administers everything? Many divine tunes are played there and there are many who play them. Many divine songs are sung in love and there are many who sing them. Air water fire; sing your praises. The justice of destiny sings your praises. Those who read minds, who write and preach religion, sing your praises. Shiva, Brahma and the Goddesses, who are perceived as gods and worshipped by others, sing your praises. Kings seated on their throne, along with theirs courtiers worship you. The mystics sing Your praises in trance; humble devotees sing Your praises. The celibates, the truthful, the content and great warriors worship You. The scholars sing Your praises by reading from the scriptures from ages. The enchanting heavenly beauties that can captivate hearts sing Your praises. Those in heaven and the fish deep in ocean sing Your praises. Your precious jewels (devotees) sitting at places of worship sing your praises. The brave warriors sing Your praises. The four sources of creation sing Your praises. The planets, solar systems and galaxies, created by You sing Your praises. In essence those who miss You can do so with Your grace only. Your devotees dyed in Your tint sing Your praises. Many more worship You whom I do not remember. What else can Nanak say? God is omnipresent. It is true there is God and will always be true. He who created the creation, is, will be, neither gone nor will go. The way God thought correct, that is how He created the creation. He creates and checks for quality, the way it feels perfect to Him. He does whatever He pleases. No one can order Him. Nanak says! God the emperor of emperors is happy in Himself. ||27|| Be content, humble, and dye your mind with the tint Gods name. Try your utmost by keeping faith in the process of missing God. Respect everyone, guide and conquer your mind. Who conquers the mind conquers the world. Listen; my friend listen. God exists from beginning, sacred, beyond imagination and destruction; will always remain the same. ||28|| God the fountain of knowledge and treasure of mercy; resides in everyone. He owns and controls everything. The taste of mysticism is something else. The world is run by gain and loss. you get what you earn. Page 7. Listen; my friend listen. God exists from beginning, sacred, beyond imagination and destruction; will always remain the same. ||29|| God created the creation such a way that He cares for those! Who earn, care for and miss Him. The way He thinks right, that is how He commands and runs the creation. The strange thing is that He watches your activities but you cannot see Him! Listen; my friend listen. God exists from the beginning, sacred, beyond imagination and destruction; will always remain the same. ||30|| God is omnipresent and cares for everything. Everything, every system is created with one command. The Creator checks the quality after creating. Nanak says, God created everything thoughtfully and flawless. Listen; my friend listen. God exists from beginning, sacred, beyond imagination and destruction; will always remain the same. ||31|| If you have the unlimited number of tongues! Repeat His name millions of times with each tongue! This is how divinity is achieved. It is a very difficult task. Everyone cannot do it. Nanak says it happens only by Gods grace. The liars boast by telling lies. Cannot achieve divinity by talking or by being quiet. Cannot become divine by giving awns or begging. Cannot become divine by living or dieing. Cannot become divine by being a king or wealthy. Its like building a castle in the air. Cannot become divine by concentrating or discussing about God. Cannot straighten your mind by giving up worldly pleasures. He, who has the grace of bestowing, is the only one who can do it. Nanak says God does not differentiate between one and the other. ||33|| God created the day night season lunar and solar calendars. Air water fire and the underworld. Created the earth in the middle for the creation to flourish. Created many species many ways systematically. They are many of different variety and are called by different names. Every individual is judged by the deeds he performs. God is truthful and true is His court. Those with good deeds are respected there. God blesses them. Good or bad deeds are differentiated there. Nanak says, you only can find out if you can go there; ||34|| The purpose of the religious centre is. To talk about and praise God! There are many galaxies with their own atmosphere. There are many prophets and gods. God created many species with their own features race and creed! It is said that the deeds performed at certain places are rewarded in the next world. There are many mountains. There are many schools of thought to give up worldly pleasures. There are many gods, moons and suns, many planets and countries. There are many mystics scholars saints and many temples of goddesses. There are many demons, gods and sages. Many jewel your devotees as well. Many females worthy of giving sacred birth! Many kings and kingdoms! Many ways of reshaping the mind and many followers as well! Nanak says There is no end to what all there is; ||35|| In places of Godly learning, people talk about spirituality only. Many different ways and means are adopted to cleanse the soul. Page 8. The aura of reality where God considers you worthy of his grace is? How transformation takes place is beyond imagination and comprehension. What happens there cannot be described. One who tries to explain will regret later. Intelligence, learning, mind and knowledge are shaped there. Supreme knowledge is taught there. ||36|| Where Gods grace is attained; only Gods name is recited there. Nothing else takes place there. Only great heroes reach there. Who have achieved divinity! In Gods realm there are many of many a kind. Cannot explain their creed or race. They die no more and cannot be cheated of it. Whose soul is dyed in Gods name! The devotees of God live there. They enjoy singing Gods praises. There is no evil in Gods realm. He creates, manages with His grace and enjoys fruit of His creation. There are planets, solar systems and galaxies with their own atmosphere. If anyone counts, there is no limit to it. There is life further and far beyond their own atmosphere. They function the way they have been designed to. He administers and enjoys watching the flawless function of His creation. Nanak says it is very difficult to explain. ||37|| Be stable like a mountain, patience like a goldsmith. Be humble like an anvil; repeat the name of God like the repetition of a hammer. Intent like bellows and repeat the name of God from within, as fire gives heat. Make sincerity a pot; mint your mind with the name of God. That is how divinity is achieved. Blessed by God is the only one who can do this. Nanak says, only with Gods grace you can miss God and enjoy the fruit. ||38|| Hymn: Using air as a culture, life has been created by the reaction of water and earth. The way, day and night begin and end. Same way the whole creation takes birth and dies. Good or bad whatever they do are accounted for in Gods court. Everyone gets the fruit of their deeds, some soon others late. Whoever worked hard to recite the name of God? Nanak says, they have attained salvation and many more have accompanied them. ||1|| So Dar; That Door. Tune Aasaa, First Master: God is one. He is realized by gurus grace. What kind of doors and house is where You sit and administer everything? Many divine musical tunes are played there; there are many who play them. Many divine songs are sung there. There are many who sing them. Air, water, fire sing Your praises. Justice of destiny sings Your praises. Those who read mind, those who write and preach religion sing your praises. Shiva, Brahma and the Goddesses who are perceived as gods and worshipped by others sing your praises. Kings sitting on the throne along with their courtiers worship You. The mystics sing your praises in trance. Humble devotees sing your praises. Page 9. Celibates, truthful, content also worship You. Great warriors sing Your praises. The scholars sing your praises by reading from scriptures from ages. The enchanting heavenly beauties that captivate hearts sing your praises. That in heaven, the fish deep in the ocean sing your praises. Your precious jewels (devotees) sitting at places of worship sing your praises. The brave warriors sing your praises. Four sources of creation sing your praises. Planets, earth, moon, sun, the whole universe created by You sing Your praises. In essence those who recite Your name can do so with Your grace only. Many more worship You, which I cannot remember. It is true that there is God. It will always be true. God who created the creation, is, will be, neither gone nor will go. The way He thought correct, that is how he created the creation. He creates and checks the quality, the way it feels perfect to Him. He does whatever He pleases. No one can order Him. God the emperor of emperors is happy within Himself. ||1|| Aasaa, First Master: Everyone calls Him great by hearing about His greatness. His greatness can be felt by witnessing only. Cannot put value and cannot describe Gods greatness. Those who describe Him are committed to it. ||1|| O my great Lord, You are unfathomable and treasure of virtues. No one knows what Your vastness and boundaries are. ||1||Pause|| By putting all intellects together. Putting all values together. Putting all knowledge and teachings together. Still cannot describe even a little bit of Your greatness. ||2|| All truth, all austere discipline, all goodness! Admiration of mystics and saints No one can reach that stage without Your grace. They receive only what they earn. No one can change it. ||3|| What can the poor who describes say? There is no limit to Your graciousness. Whatever You bestow on anyone; he has no say in it. Nanak says he does whatever he pleases. ||4||2|| Aasaa, Master first: I live by reciting Your name. I will die if I forget. It is very difficult to recite the true name. If someone feels hungry for the true name. The pain of hunger shall disappear by reciting Your name. ||1|| O my mother, why should I forget to recite His name? God is realized by reciting the name of the true God. ||1||Pause|| No one can describe God. People have tried in vain to describe but are unable to do so. Even if everyone gets together and speaks of Him! It does not increase or decrease His greatness. ||2|| Neither he dies nor there is any reason to mourn. He continues to give and never runs short. This is His greatness, nothing else. There never was, never will be anyone like Him. ||3|| As great as You are, so are Your gifts. Page 10. One who created the day and night? Those who forget their master are despicable. Nanak says those who do not recite Gods name are miserable outcaste. ||4||3|| Tune Goojaree, Fourth Master; O truthful Godly the true guru I request you humbly. I the lowest of low O guru, seek Your sanctuary. Please be kind and bless me with reciting the name of God. ||1|| O my friend guru, please enlighten me with the name of God. Gurus teaching is my lifetime companion. Reciting Gods name is my prayer. ||1||Pause|| The Godly person is lucky, who is devotional to God and thirsty for His name. I quench my thirst by reciting Gods name and get enlightened in the company of devotees. ||2|| Those who do not enjoy reciting Gods name are unfortunate; they will face the devil of death. Those who have not sought the refuge and congregation of true guru. Their life and their way of living are worthless. ||3|| Those Godly persons who join gurus congregation have preordained destiny inscribed in their fate. Blessed is the congregation where you enjoy reciting Gods name and get enlightened! O Nanak. ||4||4|| Tune Goojaree, Master 5: O mind, why do you worry so much; God already allocated You with your food. God creates life in rocks and stones and provides them with food. ||1|| O my Lord whoever has joined the true congregation has attained salvation. Salvation obtains by gurus grace. It is like dry wood becoming green. ||1||Pause|| Mother father friends children and spouse; no one cares for anyone else. God has allocated ration for everyone, why worry! The birds fly hundreds of miles away leaving their chicks behind. Who feeds them they recite God in the mind and are content ||3|| All precious treasures and eighteen mystic powers are in the palm of Gods hand. Nanak says I admire Thee, nobody knows Your boundaries. ||4||5|| Tune Aasaa, Fourth Master, So Purakh ~ that Primal Being God is one. He is realized by gurus grace. That primal Being, The Lord, is beyond comprehension and is unlimited. Everyone recites Your name O my true Lord the Creator! All souls are Yours. You are the giver to everyone. O saints, recite the name of God, He eliminates all sufferings. God is the master and a devotee as well. What else can Nanak say? ||1||Page 11. You are omnipresent and live in every heart, O God, you are everywhere. Some are givers some are beggars. This is all Your wonderful play. You are the giver and the enjoyer. I know no other than You. You the supreme Lord are limitless and infinite. What virtues of Your can I say and describe? Nanak says; I admire those who miss You and serve You. ||2|| Those who recite You O Lord; live in peace in this world. Those who recite You achieve salvation. Their noose of devil death is broken. Whoever recites the name of unconcerned God, gives up his concern. Whoever has missed God from the heart, they have merged in God. Those who miss God are blessed, Nanak says; I admire them; ||3|| The treasures of Your worship are full to the brim and overflowing. Your devotees are many; they praise You O Lord in many and various ways. Many worship You in many different ways. Many read from the scriptures and do everything in order to understand You. The devotees who please God are r eal devotees O Nanak. ||4|| You are there from the beginning, beyond imagination. No one is as great as You. You are one and only one from ages O Creator; will always be the same. Whatever pleases You happens whatever You do happens. You created the universe. You create and destroy as well. Nanak sings the praises of the Creator, who knows everything. ||5||1|| Aasaa, Fourth Master: You the true Creator are my master. Whatever appeals to You happens. I get what You give. ||1||Pause|| Everything is Your and everyone recites Your name. Whoever You bless, they receive Your precious name. The guru-willed (gurus follower) find it. The self-willed (follows own will) lose it. You separate them and reunite them with You also. ||1|| You are the river; everything is in You. There is no one else but You. All living beings are Your doing. Separation after uniting is painful; Union with You is by Your grace. ||2|| Whoever You bless; only they understand You! They always recite and praise Your virtues. Those who serve You find peace. They enshrine Your name in the mind intuitively. Page 12 You are the Creator. Everything happens by Your grace. There is no one else but You. You create and check out the quality and know the makeup. Nanak says those who follow gurus teaching, attain enlightenment. ||4||2|| Aasaa, First Master. Where You reside; You created water and fire there. Nothing bothers You. I will drown even if I take a glance at it. ||1|| O ignorant mind, why do not you miss one God. All of your virtues disappear forgetting God. ||1||Pause|| I am not celibate, truthful or a scholar. I was born ignorant and fools. Nanak prays; I seek the refuge of those who do not forget You, O Lord! ||2||3|| Aasaa, Master 5: You have obtained this human body. This is the time for you to meet the Lord. Nothing else will help you. Join the Company of devotees and recite His name. ||1|| Make every effort to swim across the terrifying world ocean. You are wasting this life by falling in love with worldly wealth; ||1||Pause|| You never meditated, no self-discipline, never performed the human code of conduct. You did not serve or recite God the Lord. Says Nanak, I do bad deeds! I am at Your service; please, preserve my honour! ||2||4|| Sohilaa! The Song of Praise. Tune Gauree Deepakee, Master First: God is one. He is realized by gurus grace. The house where people praise and talk about the Creator! In that house people sing praises and recite the name of the Creator. ||1|| You too sing praises of the carefree Lord. I admire the song of praise that brings eternal peace. ||1||Pause|| Always keep Him in your mind. The bestowal will look after. Cannot put a price to Your gifts, there is no limit to Your giving. ||2|| Death is pre-ordained. Be happy, pay your regards to the friend, who shall unite you with God. ||3|| Whichever house I go to, I hear that the invitation has come. Recite the name of the invitee O Nanak, may that day come upon him! ||4||1|| Tune Aasaa, First Master: There are six schools of philosophy, six teachers, and six sets of teachings. But the guru is one, in different forms. ||1|| O elder: The house where people praise the Creator! May You protect that house, it is Your greatness. ||1||Pause|| By adding seconds, minutes and hours, days, weeks add to a months and so on. There is one sun and various seasons originate from it. Page 13 O Nanak, God exists in many disguises. ||2||2|| Tune Dhanaasaree, First Master: In the sky the sun and the moon are the lamps and galaxies of stars shine like priceless jewels. The wind blows and offers fragrance of flowers of the whole world to You O Lord. ||1|| What a worship O Lord the destroyer of birth and death! This is Your worship service! The infinite divine music is playing to the drumbeat. ||1||Pause|| All beings are yours. None is without You. You abide in every being. Everyone becomes pure worshipping You. No one can without worshipping You. Everything happens by Your grace. So I worship You. ||2|| Your divine light shines in everyone. The whole world is lit by that light. By gurus teachings, the divine light is revealed. Whatever pleases the Lord is the true worship service. ||3|| My soul is enticed by the honey-sweet lotus feet of the Lord night and day, I am thirsty for them. Bless the thirsty swan Nanak with that water that Your name enshrines in his mind. ||4|| Tune Gauree Poorbee, Master 4: The world is full of lust and anger which gets eliminated in the company of devotees of God. You meet the guru due to previous deeds; mind becomes dignified by reciting Gods name. ||1|| Greet the devotee of God with love; it is a great act of respect. Bow down in front of Him; this is a great deed. ||1||Pause|| The faithless does not enjoy the taste of Gods name, because the thorn of ego is embedded in his mind. More he walks more it pinches and gives pain. He suffers the pain of the club hit over the head by the devil of death. ||2|| The devotees of God are absorbed in the name of God. The pain of birth and death is eliminated. They realize indestructible God who is admired in the whole universe! ||3|| I the poor humble person am yours, protect me, O greatest of great! Nanak has the support of Gods name. Reciting Gods name obtains eternal peace. Tune Gauree Poorbee, Master 5: My friends; listen to my request. It is time to serve the saints! Get the benefit of reciting Gods name here and live in peace hereafter. ||1|| This life is decreasing day and night. Solve the problems of your mind by meeting the guru. ||1||Pause|| This world is engrossed in doubts. Only the divine person can swim across. Whoever He wakes up; drinks this nectar and realizes the unknown story; ||2|| Whoever is born should do it. It enshrines in the mind by guru the Gods grace! That is how you reach the destiny in peace; not to be born again. ||3|| O inner-knower God; please fulfill the yearning of my mind. Servant Nanak begs for this peace. Let me be the dust of the feet of saints. ||4||5||