{"collection":"skh","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/skh/granth/gr31.htm","path":"skh/granth/gr31.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/skh/granth/gr31.htm","text":"Raag Malaar, Chau-Padas, First Mehl, First House:\nOne Universal Creator God. Truth Is The Name. Creative Being Personified. No Fear. No Hatred. Image Of The Undying. Beyond Birth. Self-Existent. By Guru's Grace:\nEating, drinking, laughing and sleeping, the mortal forgets about dying.\nForgetting his Lord and Master, the mortal is ruined, and his life is cursed. He cannot remain forever. ||1||\nO mortal, meditate on the One Lord.\nYou shall go to your true home with honor. ||1 Pause||\nThose who serve You - what can they give You? They beg for and receive what cannot remain.\nYou are the Great Giver of all souls; You are the Life within all living beings. ||2||\nThe Gurmukhs meditate, and receive the Ambrosial Nectar; thus they become pure.\nDay and night, chant the Naam, the Name of the Lord, O mortal. It makes the filthy immacuate. ||3||\nAs is the season, so is the comfort of the body, and so is the body itself.\nO Nanak, that season is beautiful; without the Name, what season is it? ||4||1||\nMalaar, First Mehl:\nI offer prayers to my Beloved Guru, that He may unite me with my Husband Lord.\nI hear the thunder in the clouds, and my mind is cooled and soothed; imbued with the Love of my Dear Beloved, I sing His Glorious Praises. ||1||\nThe rain pours down, and my mind is drenched with His Love.\nThe drop of Ambrosial Nectar pleases my heart; the Guru has fascinated my mind, which is drenched in the sublime essence of the Lord. ||1||Pause||\nWith intuitive peace and poise, the soul-bride is loved by her Husband Lord; her mind is pleased and appeased by the Guru's Teachings.\nShe is the happy soul-bride of her Husband Lord; her mind and body are filled with joy by His Love. ||2||\nDiscarding her demerits, she becomes detached; with the Lord as her Husband, her marriage is eternal.\nShe never suffers separation or sorrow; her Lord God showers her with His Grace. ||3||\nHer mind is steady and stable; she does not come and go in reincarnation.\nShe takes the Shelter of the Perfect Guru. O Nanak, as Gurmukh, chant the Naam; you shall be accepted as the true soul-bride of the Lord. ||4||2||\nMalaar, First Mehl:\nThey pretend to understand the Truth, but they are not satisfied by the Naam; they waste their lives in egotism.\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 002\nCaught in slander and attachment to the wealth and women of others, they eat poison and suffer in pain.\nThey think about the Shabad, but they are not released from their fear and fraud; the minds and mouths are filled with Maya, Maya.\nLoading the heavy and crushing load, they die, only to be reborn, and waste their lives again. ||1||\nThe Word of the Shabad is so very beautiful; it is pleasing to my mind.\nThe mortal wanders lost in reincarnation, wearing various robes and clothes; when he is saved and protected by the Guru, then he finds the Truth. ||1||Pause||\nHe does not try to wash away his angry passions by bathing at sacred shrines. He does not love the Name of the Lord.\nHe abandons and discards the priceless jewel, and he goes back from where he came.\nAnd so he becomes a maggot in manure, and in that, he is absorbed.\nThe more he tastes, the more he is diseased; without the Guru, there is no peace and poise. ||2||\nFocusing my awareness on selfless service, I joyfully sing His Praises. As Gurmukh, I contemplate spiritual wisdom.\nThe seeker comes forth, and the debater dies down; I am a sacrifice, a sacrifice to the Guru, the Creator Lord.\nI am low and wretched, with shallow and false understanding; You embellish and exalt me through the Word of Your Shabad.\nAnd wherever there is self-realization, You are there; O True Lord Savior, You save us and carry us across. ||3||\nWhere should I sit to chant Your Praises; which of Your Infinite Praises should I chant?\nThe Unknown cannot be known; O Inaccessible, Unborn Lord God, You are the Lord and Master of masters.\nHow can I compare You to anyone else I see? All are beggars - You are the Great Giver.\nLacking devotion, Nanak looks to Your Door; please bless him with Your One Name, that he may enshrine it in his heart. ||4||3||\nMalaar, First Mehl:\nThe soul-bride who has not known delight with her Husband Lord, shall weep and wail with a wretched face.\nShe becomes hopeless, caught in the noose of her own karma; without the Guru, she wanders deluded by doubt. ||1||\nSo rain down, O clouds. My Husband Lord has come home.\nI am a sacrifice to my Guru, who has led me to meet my Lord God. ||1||Pause||\nMy love, my Lord and Master is forever fresh; I am embellished with devotional worship night and day.\nI am liberated, gazing on the Blessed Vision of the Guru's Darshan. Devotional worship has made me glorious and exalted throughout the ages. ||2||\nI am Yours; the three worlds are Yours as well. You are mine, and I am Yours.\nMeeting with the True Guru, I have found the Immaculate Lord; I shall not be consigned to this terrifying world-ocean ever again. ||3||\nIf the soul-bride is filled with delight on seeing her Husband Lord, then her decorations are true.\nWith the Immaculate Celestial Lord, she becomes the truest of the true. Following the Guru's Teachings, she leans on the Support of the Naam. ||4||\nShe is liberated; the Guru has untied her bonds. Focusing her awareness on the Shabad, she attains honor.\nO Nanak, the Lord's Name is deep within her heart; as Gurmukh, she is united in His Union. ||5||4||\nFirst Mehl, Malaar:\nOthers' wives, others' wealth, greed, egotism, corruption and poison;\nevil passions, slander of others, sexual desire and anger - give up all these. ||1||\nThe Inaccessible, Infinite Lord is sitting in His Mansion.\nThat humble being, whose conduct is in harmony with the jewel of the Guru's Shabad, obtains the Ambrosial Nectar. ||1||Pause||\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 003\nHe sees pleasure and pain as both the same, along with good and bad in the world.\nWisdom, understanding and awareness are found in the Name of the Lord. In the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation, embrace love for the Guru. ||2||\nDay and night, profit is obtained through the Lord's Name. The Guru, the Giver, has given this gift.\nThat Sikh who becomes Gurmukh obtains it. The Creator blesses him with His Glance of Grace. ||3||\nThe body is a mansion, a temple, the home of the Lord; He has infused His Infinite Light into it.\nO Nanak, the Gurmukh is invited to the Mansion of the Lord's Presence; the Lord unites him in His Union. ||4||5||\nMalaar, First Mehl, Second House:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nKnow that the creation was formed through air and water;\nhave no doubt that the body was made through fire.\nAnd if you know where the soul comes from,\nyou shall be known as a wise religious scholar. ||1||\nWho can know the Glorious Praises of the Lord of the Universe, O mother?\nWithout seeing Him, we cannot say anything about Him.\nHow can anyone speak and describe Him, O mother? ||1||Pause||\nHe is high above the sky, and beneath the nether worlds.\nHow can I speak of Him? Let me understand.\nWho knows what sort of Name is chanted, in the heart, without the tongue? ||2||\nUndoubtedly, words fail me.\nHe alone understands, who is blessed.\nDay and night, deep within, he remains lovingly attuned to the Lord.\nHe is the true person, who is merged in the True Lord. ||3||\nIf someone of high social standing becomes a selfless servant,\nthen his praises cannot even be expressed.\nAnd if someone from a low social class becomes a selfless servant,\nO Nanak, he shall wear shoes of honor. ||4||1||6||\nMalaar, First Mehl:\nThe pain of separation - this is the hungry pain I feel.\nAnother pain is the attack of the Messenger of Death.\nAnother pain is the disease consuming my body.\nO foolish doctor, don't give me medicine. ||1||\nO foolish doctor, don't give me medicine.\nThe pain persists, and the body continues to suffer.\nYour medicine has no effect on me. ||1||Pause||\nForgetting his Lord and Master, the mortal enjoys sensual pleasures;\nthen, disease rises up in his body.\nThe blind mortal receives his punishment.\nO foolish doctor, don't give me medicine. ||2||\nThe value of sandalwood lies in its fragrance.\nThe value of the human lasts only as long as the breath in the body.\nWhen the breath is taken away, the body crumbles into dust.\nAfter that, no one takes any food. ||3||\nThe mortal's body is golden, and the soul-swan is immaculate and pure,\nif even a tiny particle of the Immaculate Naam is within.\nAll pain and disease are eradicated.\nO Nanak, the mortal is saved through the True Name. ||4||2||7||\nMalaar, First Mehl:\nPain is the poison. The Lord's Name is the antidote.\nGrind it up in the mortar of contentment, with the pestle of charitable giving.\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 004\nTake it each and every day, and your body shall not waste away.\nAt the very last instant, you shall strike down the Messenger of Death. ||1||\nSo take such medicine, O fool,\nby which your corruption shall be taken away. ||1||Pause||\nPower, wealth and youth are all just shadows,\nas are the vehicles you see moving around.\nNeither your body, nor your fame, nor your social status shall go along with you.\nIn the next world it is day, while here, it is all night. ||2||\nLet your taste for pleasures be the firewood, let your greed be the ghee,\nand your sexual desire and anger the cooking oil; burn them in the fire.\nSome make burnt offerings, hold sacred feasts, and read the Puraanas.\nWhatever pleases God is acceptable. ||3||\nIntense meditation is the paper, and Your Name is the insignia.\nThose for whom this treasure is ordered,\nlook wealthy when they reach their true home.\nO Nanak, blessed is that mother who gave birth to them. ||4||3||8||\nMalaar, First Mehl:\nYou wear white clothes, and speak sweet words.\nYour nose is sharp, and your eyes are black.\nHave you ever seen your Lord and Master, O sister? ||1||\nO my All-powerful Lord and Master, by Your power, I fly and soar, and ascend to the heavens.\nI see Him in the water, on the land, in the mountains, on the river-banks,\nin all places and interspaces, O brother. ||2||\nHe fashioned the body, and gave it wings;\nHe gave it great thirst and desire to fly.\nWhen He bestows His Glance of Grace, I am comforted and consoled.\nAs He makes me see, so do I see, O brother. ||3||\nNeither this body, nor its wings, shall go to the world hereafter.\nIt is a fusion of air, water and fire.\nO Nanak, if it is in the mortal's karma, then he meditates on the Lord, with the Guru as his Spiritual Teacher.\nThis body is absorbed in the Truth. ||4||4||9||\nMalaar, Third Mehl, Chau-Padas, First House:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nThe Formless Lord is formed by Himself. He Himself deludes in doubt.\nCreating the Creation, the Creator Himself beholds it; He enjoins us as He pleases.\nThis is the true greatness of His servant, that he obeys the Hukam of the Lord's Command. ||1||\nOnly He Himself knows His Will. By Guru's Grace, it is grasped.\nWhen this play of Shiva and Shakti comes to his home, he remains dead while yet alive. ||1||Pause||\nThey read the Vedas, and read them again, and engage in arguments about Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.\nThis three-phased Maya has deluded the whole world into cynicism about death and birth.\nBy Guru's Grace, know the One Lord, and the anxiety of your mind will be allayed. ||2||\nI am meek, foolish and thoughtless, but still, You take care of me.\nPlease be kind to me, and make me the slave of Your slaves, so that I may serve You.\nPlease bless me with the treasure of the One Name, that I may chant it, day and night. ||3||\nSays Nanak, by Guru's Grace, understand. Hardly anyone considers this.\nLike foam bubbling up on the surface of the water, so is this world.\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 005\nIt shall eventually merge back into that from which it came, and all its expanse shall be gone. ||4||1||\nMalaar, Third Mehl:\nThose who realize the Hukam of the Lord's Command are united with Him; through the Word of His Shabad, their egotism is burnt away.\nThey perform true devotional worship day and night; they remain lovingly attuned to the True Lord.\nThey gaze on their True Lord forever, through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, with loving ease. ||1||\nO mortal, accept His Will and find peace.\nGod is pleased by the Pleasure of His Own Will. Whomever He forgives, meets no obstacles on the way. ||1||Pause||\nUnder the influence of the three gunas, the three dispositions, the mind wanders everywhere, without love or devotion to the Lord.\nNo one is ever saved or liberated, by doing deeds in ego.\nWhatever our Lord and Master wills, comes to pass. People wander according to their past actions. ||2||\nMeeting with the True Guru, the mind is overpowered; the Lord's Name comes to abide in the mind.\nThe value of such a person cannot be estimated; nothing at all can be said about him.\nHe comes to dwell in the fourth state; he remains merged in the True Lord. ||3||\nMy Lord God is Inaccessible and Unfathomable. His value cannot be expressed.\nBy Guru's Grace, he comes to understand, and live the Shabad.\nO Nanak, praise the Naam, the Name of the Lord, Har, Har; you shall be honored in the Court of the Lord. ||4||2||\nMalaar, Third Mehl:\nRare is that person who, as Gurmukh, understands; the Lord has bestowed His Glance of Grace.\nThere is no Giver except the Guru. He grants His Grace and forgives.\nMeeting the Guru, peace and tranquility well up; chant the Naam, the Name of the Lord, day and night. ||1||\nO my mind, meditate on the Ambrosial Name of the Lord.\nMeeting with the True Guru and the Primal Being, the Name is obtained, and one remains forever absorbed in the Lord's Name. ||1||Pause||\nThe self-willed manmukhs are forever separated from the Lord; no one is with them.\nThey are stricken with the great disease of egotism; they are hit on the head by the Messenger of Death.\nThose who follow the Guru's Teachings are never separated from the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation. They dwell on the Naam, night and day. ||2||\nYou are the One and Only Creator of all. You continually create, watch over and contemplate.\nSome are Gurmukh - You unite them with Yourself. You bless then with the treasure of devotion.\nYou Yourself know everything. Unto whom should I complain? ||3||\nThe Name of the Lord, Har, Har, is Ambrosial Nectar. By the Lord's Grace, it is obtained.\nChanting the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, night and day, the intuitive peace and poise of the Guru is obtained.\nO Nanak, the Naam is the greatest treasure. Focus your consciousness on the Naam. ||4||3||\nMalaar, Third Mehl:\nI praise the Guru, the Giver of peace, forever. He truly is the Lord God.\nBy Guru's Grace, I have obtained the supreme status. His glorious greatness is glorious!\nOne who sings the Glorious Praises of the True Lord, merges in the True Lord. ||1||\nO mortal, contemplate the Guru's Word in your heart.\nAbandon your false family, poisonous egotism and desire; remember in your heart, that you will have to leave. ||1||Pause||\nThe True Guru is the Giver of the Lord's Name. There is no other giver at all.\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 006\nBestowing the gift of the soul, He satisfies the mortal beings, and merges them in the True Name.\nNight and day, they ravish and enjoy the Lord within the heart; they are intuitively absorbed in Samaadhi. ||2||\nThe Shabad, the Word of the True Guru, has pierced my mind. The True Word of His Bani permeates my heart.\nMy God is Unseen; He cannot be seen. The Gurmukh speaks the Unspoken.\nWhen the Giver of peace grants His Grace, the mortal being meditates on the Lord, the Life of the Universe. ||3||\nHe does not come and go in renicarnation any longer; the Gurmukh meditates intuitively.\nFrom the mind, the mind merges into our Lord and Master; the mind is absorbed into the Mind.\nIn truth, the True Lord is pleased with truth; eradicate egotism from within yourself. ||4||\nOur One and Only Lord and Master dwells within the mind; there is no other at all.\nThe One Name is Sweet Ambrosial Nectar; it is Immaculate Truth in the world.\nO Nanak, the Name of God is obtained, by those who are so predestined. ||5||4||\nMalaar, Third Mehl:\nAll the heavenly heralds and celestial singers are saved through the Naam, the Name of the Lord.\nThey contemplate the Word of the Guru's Shabad. Subduing their ego, the Name abides in their minds; they keep the Lord enshrined in their hearts.\nHe alone understands, whom the Lord causes to understand; the Lord unites him with Himself.\nNight and day, he sings the Word of the Shabad and the Guru's Bani; he remains lovingly attuned to the True Lord. ||1||\nO my mind, each and every moment, dwell on the Naam.\nThe Shabad is the Guru's Gift. It shall bring you lasting peace deep within; it shall always stand by you. ||1||Pause||\nThe self-willed manmukhs never give up their hypocrisy; in the love of duality, they suffer in pain.\nForgetting the Naam, their minds are imbued with corruption. They waste away their lives uselessly.\nThis opportunity shall not come into their hands again; night and day, they shall always regret and repent.\nThey die and die again and again, only to be reborn, but they never understand. They rot away in manure. ||2||\nThe Gurmukhs are imbued with the Naam, and are saved; they contemplate the Word of the Guru's Shabad.\nMeditating on the Name of the Lord, they are Jivan-mukta, liberated while yet alive. They enshrine the Lord within their hearts.\nTheir minds and bodies are immaculate, their intellect is immaculate and sublime. Their speech is sublime as well.\nThey realize the One Primal Being, the One Lord God. There is no other at all. ||3||\nGod Himself is the Doer, and He Himself is the Cause of causes. He Himself bestows His Glance of Grace.\nMy mind and body are imbued with the Word of the Guru's Bani. My consciousness is immersed in His service.\nThe Unseen and Inscrutable Lord dwells deep within. He is seen only by the Gurmukh.\nO Nanak, He gives to whomever He pleases. According to the Pleasure of His Will, He leads the mortals on. ||4||5||\nMalaar, Third Mehl, Du-Tukas:\nThrough the True Guru, the mortal obtains the special place, the Mansion of the Lord's Presence in his own home.\nThrough the Word of the Guru's Shabad, his egotistical pride is dispelled. ||1||\nThose who have the Naam inscribed on their foreheads,\nmeditate on the Naam night and day, forever and ever. They are honored in the True Court of the Lord. ||1||Pause||\nFrom the True Guru, they learn the ways and means of the mind. Night and day, they focus their meditation on the Lord forever.\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 007\nImbued with the Word of the Guru's Shabad, they remain forever detached. They are honored in the True Court of the Lord. ||2||\nThis mind plays, subject to the Lord's Will; in an instant, it wanders out in the ten directions and returns home again.\nWhen the True Lord God Himself bestows His Glance of Grace, then this mind is instantly brought under control by the Gurmukh. ||3||\nThe mortal comes to know the ways and means of the mind, realizing and contemplating the Shabad.\nO Nanak, meditate forever on the Naam, and cross over the terrifying world-ocean. ||4||6||\nMalaar, Third Mehl:\nSoul, body and breath of life are all His; He is permeating and pervading each and every heart.\nExcept the One Lord, I do not know any other at all. The True Guru has revealed this to me. ||1||\nO my mind, remain lovingly attuned to the Naam, the Name of the Lord.\nThrough the Word of the Guru's Shabad, I meditate on the Lord, the Unseen, Unfathomable and Infinite Creator. ||1||Pause||\nMind and body are pleased, lovingly attuned to the One Lord, intuitively absorbed in peace and poise.\nBy Guru's Grace, doubt and fear are dispelled, being lovingly attuned to the One Name. ||2||\nWhen the mortal follows the Guru's Teachings, and lives the Truth, then he attains the state of emancipation.\nAmong millions, how rare is that one who understands, and is lovingly attuned to the Name of the Lord. ||3||\nWherever I look, there I see the One. This understanding has come through the Guru's Teachings.\nI place my mind, body and breath of life in offering before Him; O Nanak, self-conceit is gone. ||4||7||\nMalaar, Third Mehl:\nMy True Lord God, the Eradicator of suffering, is found through the Word of the Shabad.\nImbued with devotional worship, the mortal remains forever detached. He is honored in the True Court of the Lord. ||1||\nO mind, remain absorbed in the Mind.\nThe mind of the Gurmukh is pleased with the Lord's Name, lovingly attuned to the Lord. ||1||Pause||\nMy God is totally Inaccessible and Unfathomable; through the Guru's Teachings, He is understood.\nTrue self-discipline rests in singing the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises, lovingly attuned to the Lord. ||2||\nHe Himself is the Shabad, and He Himself is the True Teachings; He merges our light into the Light.\nThe breath vibrates through this frail body; the Gurmukh obtains the ambrosial nectar. ||3||\nHe Himself fashions, and He Himself links us to our tasks; the True Lord is pervading everywhere.\nO Nanak, without the Naam, the Name of the Lord, no one is anything. Through the Naam,we are blessed with glory. ||4||8||\nMalaar, Third Mehl:\nThe mortal is enticed by the poison of corruption, burdened with such a heavy load.\nThe Lord has placed the magic spell of the Shabad into his mouth, and destroyed the poison of ego. ||1||\nO mortal, egotism and attachment are such heavy loads of pain.\nThis terrifying world-ocean cannot be crossed; through the Lord's Name, the Gurmukh crosses over to the other side. ||1||Pause||\nAttachment to the three-phased show of Maya pervades all the created forms.\nIn the Sat Sangat, the Society of the Saints, the state of supreme awareness is attained. The Merciful Lord carries us across. ||2||\nThe smell of sandalwood is so sublime; its fragrance spreads out far and wide.\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 008\nThe lifestyle of the Lord's humble servant is exalted and sublime. He spreads the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises throughout the world. ||3||\nO my Lord and Master, please be merciful, merciful to me, that I may enshrine the Lord, Har, Har, Har, within my heart.\nNanak has found the Perfect True Guru; in his mind, he chants the Name of the Lord. ||4||9||\nMalaar, Third Mehl, Second House:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nIs this mind a householder, or is this mind a detached renunciate?\nIs this mind beyond social class, eternal and unchanging?\nIs this mind fickle, or is this mind detached?\nHow has this mind been gripped by possessiveness? ||1||\nO Pandit, O religious scholar, reflect on this in your mind.\nWhy do you read so many other things, and carry such a heavy load? ||1||Pause||\nThe Creator has attached it to Maya and possessiveness.\nEnforcing His Order, He created the world.\nBy Guru's Grace, understand this, O Siblings of Destiny.\nRemain forever in the Sanctuary of the Lord. ||2||\nHe alone is a Pandit, who sheds the load of the three qualities.\nNight and day, he chants the Name of the One Lord.\nHe accepts the Teachings of the True Guru.\nHe offers his head to the True Guru.\nHe remains forever unattached in the state of Nirvaanaa.\nSuch a Pandit is accepted in the Court of the Lord. ||3||\nHe preaches that the One Lord is within all beings.\nAs he sees the One Lord, he knows the One Lord.\nThat person, whom the Lord forgives, is united with Him.\nHe finds eternal peace, here and hereafter. ||4||\nSays Nanak, what can anyone do?\nHe alone is liberated, whom the Lord blesses with His Grace.\nNight and day, he sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord.\nThen, he no longer bothers with the proclamations of the Shaastras or the Vedas. ||5||1||10||\nMalaar, Third Mehl:\nThe self-willed manmukhs wander lost in reincarnation, confused and deluded by doubt.\nThe Messenger of Death constantly beats them and disgraces them.\nServing the True Guru, the mortal's subservience to Death is ended.\nHe meets the Lord God, and enters the Mansion of His Presence. ||1||\nO mortal, as Gurmukh, meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord.\nIn duality, you are ruining and wasting this priceless human life. You trade it away in exchange for a shell. ||1||Pause||\nThe Gurmukh falls in love with the Lord, by His Grace.\nHe enshrines loving devotion to the Lord, Har, Har, deep within his heart.\nThe Word of the Shabad carries him across the terrifying world-ocean.\nHe appears true in the True Court of the Lord. ||2||\nPerforming all sorts of rituals, they do not find the True Guru.\nWithout the Guru, so many wander lost and confused in Maya.\nEgotism, possessiveness and attachment rise up and increase within them.\nIn the love of dualty, the self-willed manmukhs suffer in pain. ||3||\nThe Creator Himself is Inaccessible and Infinite.\nChant the Word of the Guru's Shabad, and earn the true profit.\nThe Lord is Independent, Ever-present, here and now.\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 009\nO Nanak, the Gurmukh merges in the Naam. ||4||2||11||\nMalaar, Third Mehl:\nThose who are attached to the Guru's Teachings, are Jivan-mukta, liberated while yet alive.\nThey remain forever awake and aware night and day, in devotional worship of the Lord.\nThey serve the True Guru, and eradicate their self-conceit.\nI fall at the feet of such humble beings. ||1||\nConstantly singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord, I live.\nThe Word of the Guru's Shabad is such totally sweet elixir. Through the Name of the Lord, I have attained the state of liberation. ||1||Pause||\nAttachment to Maya leads to the darkness of ignorance.\nThe self-willed manukhs are attached, foolish and ignorant.\nNight and day, their lives pass away in worldly entanglements.\nThey die and die again and again, only to be reborn and receive their punishment. ||2||\nThe Gurmukh is lovingly attuned to the Name of the Lord.\nHe does not cling to false greed.\nWhatever he does, he does with intuitive poise.\nHe drinks in the sublime essence of the Lord; his tongue delights in its flavor. ||3||\nAmong millions, hardly any understand.\nThe Lord Himself forgives, and bestows His glorious greatness.\nWhoever meets with the Primal Lord God, shall never be separated again.\nNanak is absorbed in the Name of the Lord, Har, Har. ||4||3||12||\nMalaar, Third Mehl:\nEveryone speaks the Name of the Lord with the tongue.\nBut only by serving the True Guru does the mortal receive the Name.\nHis bonds are shattered, and he stays in the house of liberation.\nThrough the Word of the Guru's Shabad, he sits in the eternal, unchanging house. ||1||\nO my mind, why are you angry?\nIn this Dark Age of Kali Yuga, the Lord's Name is the source of profit. Contemplate and appreciate the Guru's Teachings within your heart, night and day. ||1||Pause||\nEach and every instant, the rainbird cries and calls.\nWithout seeing her Beloved, she does not sleep at all.\nShe cannot endure this separation.\nWhen she meets the True Guru, then she intuitively meets her Beloved. ||2||\nLacking the Naam, the Name of the Lord, the mortal suffers and dies.\nHe is burnt in the fire of desire, and his hunger does not depart.\nWithout good destiny, he cannot find the Naam.\nHe performs all sorts of rituals until he is exhausted. ||3||\nThe mortal thinks about the Vedic teachings of the three gunas, the three dispositions.\nHe deals in corruption, filth and vice.\nHe dies, only to be reborn; he is ruined over and over again.\nThe Gurmukh enshrines the glory of the supreme state of celestial peace. ||4||\nOne who has faith in the Guru - everyone has faith in him.\nThrough the Guru's Word, the mind is cooled and soothed.\nThroughout the four ages, that humble being is known to be pure.\nO Nanak, that Gurmukh is so rare. ||5||4||13||9||13||22||\nRaag Malaar, Fourth Mehl, First House, Chau-Padas:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nNight and day, I meditate on the Lord, Har, Har, within my heart; through the Guru's Teachings, my pain is forgotten.\nThe chains of all my hopes and desires have been snapped; my Lord God has showered me with His Mercy. ||1||\nMy eyes gaze eternally on the Lord, Har, Har.\nGazing on the True Guru, my mind blossoms forth. I have met with the Lord, the Lord of the World. ||1||Pause||\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 010\nOne who forgets such a Name of the Lord, Har, Har - his family is dishonored.\nHis family is sterile and barren, and his mother is made a widow. ||2||\nO Lord, let me meet the Holy Guru, who night and day keep the Lord enshrined in his heart.\nSeeing the Guru, the GurSikh blossoms forth, like the child seeing his mother. ||3||\nThe soul-bride and the Husband Lord live together as one, but the hard wall of egotism has come between them.\nThe Perfect Guru demolishes the wall of egotism; servant Nanak has met the Lord, the Lord of the World. ||4||1||\nMalaar, Fourth Mehl:\nThe Ganges, the Jamunaa, the Godaavari and the Saraswati - these rivers strive for the dust of the feet of the Holy.\nOverflowing with their filthy sins, the mortals take cleansing baths in them; the rivers' pollution is washed away by the dust of the feet of the Holy. ||1||\nInstead of bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage, take your cleansing bath in the Name.\nWhen the dust of the feet of the Sat Sangat rises up into the eyes, all filthy evil-mindedness is removed. ||1||Pause||\nBhaageerat'h the penitent brought the Ganges down, and Shiva established Kaydaar.\nKrishna grazed cows in Kaashi; through the humble servant of the Lord, these places became famous. ||2||\nAnd all the sacred shrines of pilgrimage established by the gods, long for the dust of the feet of the Holy.\nMeeting with the Lord's Saint, the Holy Guru, I apply the dust of His feet to my face. ||3||\nAnd all the creatures of Your Universe, O my Lord and Master, long for the dust of the feet of the Holy.\nO Nanak, one who has such destiny inscribed on his forehead, is blessed with the dust of the feet of the Holy; the Lord carries him across. ||4||2||\nMalaar, Fourth Mehl:\nThe Lord seems sweet to that humble being who is blessed by the Grace of the Lord.\nHis hunger and pain are totally taken away; he chants the Glorious Praises of the Lord, Har, Har. ||1||\nMeditating on the Lord, Har, Har, Har, the mortal is emancipated.\nOne who listens to the Guru's Teachings and meditates on them, is carried across the terrifying world-ocean. ||1||Pause||\nI am the slave of that humble being, who is blessed by the Grace of the Lord, Har, Har.\nMeeting with the Lord's humble servant, peace is obtained; all the pollution and filth of evil-mindedness is washed away. ||2||\nThe humble servant of the Lord feels hunger only for the Lord. He is satisfied only when he chants the Lord's Glories.\nThe humble servant of the Lord is a fish in the Water of the Lord. Forgetting the Lord, he would dry up and die. ||3||\nHe alone knows this love, who enshrines it within his mind.\nServant Nanak gazes upon the Lord and is at peace; The hunger of his body is totally satisfied. ||4||3||\nMalaar, Fourth Mehl:\nAll the beings and creatures which God has created - on their foreheds, He has written their destiny.\nThe Lord blesses His humble servant with glorious greatness. The Lord enjoins him to his tasks. ||1||\nThe True Guru implants the Naam, the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, within.\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 011\nChant the Name of the Lord, O Sikhs of the Guru, O my Siblings of Destiny. Only the Lord will carry you across the terrifying world-ocean. ||1||Pause||\nThat humble being who worships, adores and serves the Guru is pleasing to my Lord God.\nTo worship and adore the True Guru is to serve the Lord. In His Mercy, He saves us and carries us across. ||2||\nThe ignorant and the blind wander deluded by doubt; deluded and confused, they pick flowers to offer to their idols.\nThey worship lifeless stones and serve the tombs of the dead; all their efforts are useless. ||3||\nHe alone is said to be the True Guru, who realizes God, and proclaims the Sermon of the Lord, Har, Har.\nOffer the Guru sacred foods, clothes, silk and satin robes of all sorts; know that He is True. The merits of this shall never leave you lacking. ||4||\nThe Divine True Guru is the Embodiment, the Image of the Lord; He utters the Ambrosial Word.\nO Nanak, blessed and good is the destiny of that humble being, who focuses his consciousness on the Feet of the Lord. ||5||4||\nMalaar, Fourth Mehl:\nThose whose hearts are filled with my True Guru - those Saints are good and noble in every way.\nSeeing them, my mind blossoms forth in bliss; I am forever a sacrifice to them. ||1||\nO spiritual teacher, chant the Name of the Lord, day and night.\nAll hunger and thirst are satisfied, for those who partake of the sublime essence of the Lord, through the Guru's Teachings. ||1||Pause||\nThe slaves of the Lord are our Holy companions. Meeting with them, doubt is taken away.\nAs the swan separates the milk from the water, the Holy Saint removes the fire of egotism from the body. ||2||\nThose who do not love the Lord in their hearts are deceitful; they continually practice deception.\nWhat can anyone give them to eat? Whatever they themselves plant, they must eat. ||3||\nThis is the Quality of the Lord, and of the Lord's humble servants as well; the Lord places His Own Essence within them.\nBlessed, blessed, is Guru Nanak, who looks impartially on all; He crosses over and transcends both slander and praise. ||4||5||\nMalaar, Fourth Mehl:\nThe Name of the Lord is inaccessible, unfathomable, exalted and sublime. It is chanted by the Lord's Grace.\nBy great good fortune, I have found the True Congregation, and in the Company of the Holy, I am carried across. ||1||\nMy mind is in ecstasy, night and day.\nBy Guru's Grace, I chant the Name of the Lord. Doubt and fear are gone from my mind. ||1||Pause||\nThose who chant and meditate on the Lord - O Lord, in Your Mercy, please unite me with them.\nGazing upon them, I am at peace; the pain and disease of egotism are gone. ||2||\nThose who meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord in their hearts - their lives become totally fruitful.\nThey themselves swim across, and carry the world across with them. Their ancestors and family cross over as well. ||3||\nYou Yourself created the whole world, and You Yourself keep it under Your control.\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 012\nGod has showered His Mercy on servant Nanak; He has lifted him up, and rescued him from the ocean of poison. ||4||6||\nMalaar, Fourth Mehl:\nThose who do not drink in the Ambrosial Nectar by Guru's Grace - their thirst and hunger are not relieved.\nThe foolish self-willed manmukh burns in the fire of egotistical pride; he suffers painfully in egotism.\nComing and going, he wastes his life uselessly; afflicted with pain, he regrets and repents.\nHe does not even think of the One, from whom he originated. Cursed is his life, and cursed is his food. ||1||\nO mortal, as Gurmukh, meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord.\nThe Lord, Har, Har, in His Mercy leads the mortal to meet the Guru; he is absorbed in the Name of the Lord, Har, Har. ||1||Pause||\nThe life of the self-willed manmukh is useless; he comes and goes in shame.\nIn sexual desire and anger, the proud ones are drowned. They are burnt in their egotism.\nThey do not attain perfection or understanding; their intellect is dimmed. Tossed by the waves of greed, they suffer in pain.\nWithout the Guru, they suffer in terrible pain. Seized by Death, they weep and wail. ||2||\nAs Gurmukh, I have attained the Unfathomable Name of the Lord, with intuitive peace and poise.\nThe treasure of the Naam abides deep within my heart. My tongue sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord.\nI am forever in bliss, day and night, lovingly attuned to the One Word of the Shabad.\nI have obtained the treasure of the Naam with intuitive ease; this is the glorious greatness of the True Guru. ||3||\nThrough the True Guru, the Lord, Har, Har, comes to dwell within my mind. I am forever a sacrifice to the True Guru.\nI have dedicated my mind and body to Him, and placed everything before Him in offering. I focus my consciousness on His Feet.\nPlease be merciful to me, O my Perfect Guru, and unite me with Yourself.\nI am just iron; the Guru is the boat, to carry me across. ||4||7||\nMalaar, Fourth Mehl, Partaal, Third House:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nThe humble servant of the Lord chants the Name of the Supreme Lord; he joins the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Lord's Holy. ||1||Pause||\nDeal only in the wealth of the Lord, and gather only the wealth of the Lord. No thief can ever steal it. ||1||\nThe rainbirds and the peacocks sing day and night, hearing the thunder in the clouds. ||2||\nWhatever the deer, the fish and the birds sing, they chant to the Lord, and no other. ||3||\nServant Nanak sings the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises; the sound and fury of Death has totally gone away. ||4||1||8||\nMalaar, Fourth Mehl:\nThey speak and chant the Name of the Lord, Raam, Raam; the very fortunate ones seek Him.\nWhoever shows me the Way of the Lord - I fall at his feet. ||1||Pause||\nThe Lord is my Friend and Compansion; I am in love with the Lord.\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 013\nI sing of the Lord, and I speak of the Lord; I have discarded all other loves. ||1||\nMy Beloved is the Enticer of the mind; The Detached Lord God is the Embodiment of Supreme bliss.\nNanak lives by gazing upon the Lord; may I see Him for a moment, for even just an instant. ||2||2||9||9||13||9||31||\nRaag Malaar, Fifth Mehl, Chau-Padas, First House:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nWhat are you so worried about? What are you thinking? What have you tried?\nTell me - the Lord of the Universe - who controls Him? ||1||\nThe rain showers down from the clouds, O companion. The Guest has come into my home.\nI am meek; my Lord and Master is the Ocean of Mercy. I am absorbed in the nine treasures of the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||1||Pause||\nI have prepared all sorts of foods in various ways, and all sorts of sweet deserts.\nI have made my kitchen pure and sacred. Now, O my Sovereign Lord King, please sample my food. ||2||\nThe villains have been destroyed, and my friends are delighted. This is Your Own Mansion and Temple, O Lord.\nWhen my Playful Beloved came into my household, then I found total peace. ||3||\nIn the Society of the Saints, I have the Support and Protection of the Perfect Guru; this is the pre-ordained destiny inscribed upon my forehead.\nServant Nanak has found his Playful Husband Lord. He shall never suffer in sorrow again. ||4||1||\nMalaar, Fifth Mehl:\nWhen the baby's only food is milk, it cannot survive without its milk.\nThe mother takes care of it, and pours milk into its mouth; then, it is satisfied and fulfilled. ||1||\nI am just a baby; God, the Great Giver, is my Father.\nThe child is so foolish; it makes so many mistakes. But it has nowhere else to go. ||1||Pause||\nThe mind of the poor child is fickle; he touches even snakes and fire.\nHis mother and father hug him close in their embrace, and so he plays in joy and bliss. ||2||\nWhat hunger can the child ever have, O my Lord and Master, when You are his Father?\nThe treasure of the Naam and the nine treasures are in Your celestial household. You fulfill the desires of the mind. ||3||\nMy Merciful Father has issued this Command: whatever the child asks for, is put into his mouth.\nNanak, the child, longs for the Blessed Vision of God's Darshan. May His Feet always dwell within my heart. ||4||2||\nMalaar, Fifth Mehl:\nI tried everything, and gathered all devices together; I have discarded all my anxieties.\nI have begun to set all my household affairs right; I have placed my faith in my Lord and Master. ||1||\nI listen to the celestial vibrations resonating and resounding.\nSunrise has come, and I gaze upon the Face of my Beloved. My household is filled with peace and pleasure. ||1||Pause||\nI focus my mind, and embellish and adorn the place within; then I go out to speak with the Saints.\nSeeking and searching, I have found my Husband Lord; I bow at His Feet and worship Him with devotion. ||2||\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 014\nWhen my Beloved came to live in my house, I began to sing the songs of bliss.\nMy friends and companions are happy; God leads me to meet the Perfect Guru. ||3||\nMy friends and companions are in ecstasy; the Guru has completed all my projects.\nSays Nanak, I have met my Husband, the Giver of peace; He shall never leave me and go away. ||4||3||\nMalaar, Fifth Mehl:\nFrom a king to a worm, and from a worm to the lord of gods, they engage in evil to fill their bellies.\nThey renounce the Lord, the Ocean of Mercy, and worship some other; they are thieves and killers of the soul. ||1||\nForgetting the Lord, they suffer in sorrow and die.\nThey wander lost in reincarnation through all sorts of species; they do not find shelter anywhere. ||1||Pause||\nThose who abandon their Lord and Master and think of some other, are foolish, stupid, idiotic donkeys.\nHow can they cross over the ocean in a paper boat? Their eogtistical boasts that they will cross over are meaningless. ||2||\nShiva, Brahma, angels and demons, all burn in the fire of death.\nNanak seeks the Sanctuary of the Lord's Lotus Feet; O God, Creator, please do not send me into exile. ||3||4||\nRaag Malaar, Fifth Mehl, Du-Padas, First House:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nMy God is detached and free of desire.\nI cannot survive without Him, even for an instant. I am so in love with Him. ||1||Pause||\nAssociating with the Saints, God has come into my consciousness. By their Grace, I have been awakened.\nHearing the Teachings, my mind has become immaculate. Imbued with the Lord's Love, I sing His Glorious Praises. ||1||\nDedicating this mind, I have made friends with the Saints. They have become merciful to me; I am very fortunate.\nI have found absolute peace - I cannot describe it. Nanak has obtained the dust of the feet of the humble. ||2||1||5||\nMalaar, Fifth Mehl:\nO mother, please lead me to union with my Beloved.\nAll my friends and companions sleep totally in peace; their Beloved Lord has come into the homes of their hearts. ||1||Pause||\nI am worthless; God is forever Merciful. I am unworthy; what clever tricks could I try?\nI claim to be on a par with those who are imbued with the Love of their Beloved. This is my stubborn egotism. ||1||\nI am dishonored - I seek the Sanctuary of the One, the Guru, the True Guru, the Primal Being, the Giver of peace.\nIn an instant, all my pains have been taken away; Nanak passes the night of his life in peace. ||2||2||6||\nMalaar, Fifth Mehl:\nRain down, O cloud; do not delay.\nO beloved cloud, O support of the mind, you bring lasting bliss and joy to the mind. ||1||Pause||\nI take to Your Support, O my Lord and Master; how could You forget me?\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 015\nI am Your beautiful bride, Your servant and slave. I have no nobility without my Husband Lord. ||1||\nWhen my Lord and Master listened to my prayer, He hurried to shower me with His Mercy.\nSays Nanak, I have become just like my Husband Lord; I am blessed with honor, nobility and the lifestyle of goodness. ||2||3||7||\nMalaar, Fifth Mehl:\nMeditate on the True Name of your Beloved.\nThe pains and sorrows of the terrifying world-ocean are dispelled, by enshrining the Image of the Guru within your heart. ||1||Pause||\nYour enemies shall be destroyed, and all the evil-doers shall perish, when you come to the Sanctuary of the Lord.\nThe Savior Lord has given me His Hand and saved me; I have obtained the wealth of the Naam. ||1||\nGranting His Grace, He has eradicated all my sins; He has placed the Immaculate Naam within my mind.\nO Nanak, the Treasure of Virtue fills my mind; I shall never again suffer in pain. ||2||4||8||\nMalaar, Fifth Mehl:\nMy Beloved God is the Lover of my breath of life.\nPlease bless me with the loving devotional worship of the Naam, O Kind and Compassionate Lord. ||1||Pause||\nI meditate in remembrance on Your Feet, O my Beloved; my heart is filled with hope.\nI offer my prayer to the humble Saints; my mind thirsts for the Blssed Vision of the Lord's Darshan. ||1||\nSeparation is death, and Union with the Lord is life. Please bless Your humble servant with Your Darshan.\nO my God, please be Merciful, and bless Nanak with the support, the life and wealth of the Naam. ||2||5||9||\nMalaar, Fifth Mehl:\nNow, I have become just like my Beloved.\nDwelling on my Sovereign Lord King, I have found peace. Rain down, O peace-giving cloud. ||1||Pause||\nI cannot forget Him, even for an instant; He is the Ocean of peace. Through the Naam, the Name of the Lord, I have obtained the nine treasures.\nMy perfect destiny has been activated, meeting with the Saints, my help and support. ||1||\nPeace has welled up, and all pain has been dispelled, lovingly attuned to the Supreme Lord God.\nThe arduous and terrifying world-ocean is crossed over, O Nanak, by meditating on the Feet of the Lord. ||2||6||10||\nMalaar, Fifth Mehl:\nThe clouds have rained down all over the world.\nMy Beloved Lord God has become merciful to me; I am blessed with ecstasy, bliss and peace. ||1||Pause||\nMy sorrows are erased, and all my thirsts are quenched, meditating on the Supreme Lord God.\nIn the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, death and birth come to an end, and the mortal does not wander anywhere, ever again. ||1||\nMy mind and body are imbued with the Immaculate Naam, the Name of the Lord; I am lovingly attuned to His Lotus Feet.\nGod has made Nanak His Own; slave Nanak seeks His Sanctuary. ||2||7||11||\nMalaar, Fifth Mehl:\nSeparated from the Lord, how can any living being live?\nMy consciousness is filled with yearning and hope to meet my Lord, and drink in the sublime essence of His Lotus Feet. ||1||Pause||\nThose who are thirsty for You, O my Beloved, are not separated from You.\nThose who forget my Beloved Lord are dead and dying. ||1||\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 016\nThe Lord of the Universe is permeating and pervading my mind and body; I see Him Ever-present, here and now\n. O Nanak, He is permeating the inner being of all; He is all-pervading everywhere. ||2||8||12||\nMalaar, Fifth Mehl:\nVibrating and meditating on the Lord, who has not been carried across?\nThose reborn into the body of a bird, the body of a fish, the body of a deer, and the body of a bull - in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, they are saved. ||1||Pause||\nThe families of gods, the families of demons, titans, celestial singers and human beings are carried across the ocean.\nWhoever meditates and vibrates on the Lord in the Saadh Sangat - his pains are taken away. ||1||\nSexual desire, anger and the pleasures of terrible corruption - he keeps away from these.\nHe meditates on the Lord, Merciful to the meek, the Embodiment of Compassion; Nanak is forever a sacrifice to Him. ||2||9||13||\nMalaar, Fifth Mehl:\nToday, I am seated in the Lord's store.\nWith the wealth of the Lord, I have entered into partnership with the humble; I shall not have take the Highway of Death. ||1||Pause||\nShowering me with His Kindness, the Supreme Lord God has saved me; the doors of doubt have been opened wide.\nI have found God, the Banker of Infinity; I have earned the profit of the wealth of His Feet. ||1||\nI have grasped the protection of the Sanctuary of the Unchanging, Unmoving, Imperishable Lord; He has picked up my sins and thrown them out.\nSlave Nanak's sorrow and suffering has ended. He shall never again be squeezed into the mold of reincarnation. ||2||10||14||\nMalaar, Fifth Mehl:\nIn so many ways, attachment to Maya leads to ruin.\nAmong millions, it is very rare to find a selfless servant who remains a perfect devotee for very long. ||1||Pause||\nRoaming and wandering here and there, the mortal finds only trouble; his body and wealth become strangers to himself.\nHiding from people, he practices deception; he does not know the One who is always with him. ||1||\nHe wanders through troubled incarnations of low and wretched species as a deer, a bird and a fish.\nSays Nanak, O God, I am a stone - please carry me across, that I may enjoy peace in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy. ||2||11||15||\nMalaar, Fifth Mehl:\nThe cruel and evil ones died after taking poison, O mother.\nAnd the One, to whom all creatures belong, has saved us. God has granted His Grace. ||1||Pause||\nThe Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts, is contained within all; why should I be afraid, O Siblings of Destiny?\nGod, my Help and Support, is always with me. He shall never leave; I see Him everywhere. ||1||\nHe is the Master of the masterless, the Destroyer of the pains of the poor; He has attached me to the hem of His robe.\nO Lord, Your slaves live by Your Support; Nanak has come to the Sanctuary of God. ||2||12||16||\nMalaar, Fifth Mehl:\nO my mind, dwell on the Feet of the Lord.\nMy mind is enticed by thirst for the Blessed Vision of the Lord; I would take wings and fly out to meet Him. ||1||Pause||\nSearching and seeking, I have found the Path, and now I serve the Holy.\nO my Lord and Master, please be kind to me, that I may drink in Your most sublime essence. ||1||\nBegging and pleading, I have come to Your Sanctuary; I am on fire - please shower me with Your Mercy!\nPlease give me Your Hand - I am Your slave, O Lord. Please make Nanak Your Own. ||2||13||17||\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 017\nMalaar, Fifth Mehl:\nIt is God's Nature to love His devotees.\nHe destroys the slanderers, crushing them beneath His Feet. His Glory is manifest everywhere. ||1||Pause||\nHis Victory is celebrated all throughout the world. He blesses all creatures with compassion.\nHugging him close in His Embrace, the Lord saves and protects His slave. The hot winds cannot even touch him. ||1||\nMy Lord and Master has made me His Own; dispelling my doubts and fears, He has made me happy.\nThe Lord's slaves enjoy ultimate ecstasy; O Nanak, faith has welled up in my mind. ||2||14||18||\nRaag Malaar, Fifth Mehl, Chau-Padas, Second House:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nThe Gurmukh sees God pervading everywhere.\nThe Gurmukh knows that the universe is the extension of the three gunas, the three dispositions.\nThe Gurmukh reflects on the Sound-current of the Naad, and the wisdom of the Vedas.\nWithout the Perfect Guru, there is only pitch-black darkness. ||1||\nO my mind, calling on the Guru, eternal peace is found.\nFollowing the Guru's Teachings, the Lord comes to dwell within the heart; I meditate on my Lord and Master with every breath and morsel of food. ||1||Pause||\nI am a sacrifice to the Guru's Feet.\nNight and day, I continually sing the Glorious Praises of the Guru.\nI take my cleansing bath in the dust of the Guru's Feet.\nI am honored in the True Court of the Lord. ||2||\nThe Guru is the boat, to carry me across the terrifying world-ocean.\nMeeting with the Guru, I shall not be reincarnated ever again.\nThat humble being serves the Guru,\nwho has such karma inscribed on his forehead by the Primal Lord. ||3||\nThe Guru is my life; the Guru is my support.\nThe Guru is my way of life; the Guru is my family.\nThe Guru is my Lord and Master; I seek the Sanctuary of the True Guru.\nO Nanak, the Guru is the Supreme Lord God; His value cannot be estimated. ||4||1||19||\nMalaar, Fifth Mehl:\nI enshrine the Lord's Feet within my heart;\nin His Mercy, God has united me with Himself.\nGod enjoins His servant to his tasks.\nHis worth cannot be expressed. ||1||\nPlease be merciful to me, O Perfect Giver of peace.\nBy Your Grace, You come to mind; I am imbued with Your Love, twenty-four hours a day. ||1||Pause||\nSinging and listening, it is all by Your Will.\nOne who understands the Hukam of Your Command is absorbed in Truth.\nChanting and meditating on Your Name, I live.\nWithout You, there is no place at all. ||2||\nPain and pleasure come by Your Command, O Creator Lord.\nBy the Pleasure of Your Will You forgive, and by the Pleasure of Your Will You award punishment.\nYou are the Creator of both realms.\nI am a sacrifice to Your Glorious Grandeur. ||3||\nYou alone know Your value.\nYou alone understand, You Yourself speak and listen.\nThey alone are devotees, who are pleasing to Your Will.\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 018\nNanak is forever a sacrifice to them. ||4||2||20||\nMalaar, Fifth Mehl:\nThe Transcendent Lord God has become merciful;\nAmbrosial Nectar is raining down from the clouds.\nAll beings and creatures are satisfied;\ntheir affairs are perfectly resolved. ||1||\nO my mind, dwell on the Lord, forever and ever.\nServing the Perfect Guru, I have obtained it. It shall stay with me both here and hereafter. ||1||Pause||\nHe is the Destroyer of pain, the Eradicator of fear.\nHe takes care of His beings.\nThe Savior Lord is kind and compassionate forever.\nI am a sacrifice to Him, forever and ever. ||2||\nThe Creator Himself has eliminated death.\nMeditate on Him forever and ever, O my mind.\nHe watches all with His Glance of Grace and protects them.\nContinually and continuously, sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord God. ||3||\nThe One and Only Creator Lord is Himself by Himself.\nThe Lord's devotees know His Glorious Grandeur.\nHe preserves the Honor of His Name.\nNanak speaks as the Lord inspires him to speak. ||4||3||21||\nMalaar, Fifth Mehl:\nAll treasures are found in the Sanctuary of the Guru.\nHonor is obtained in the True Court of the Lord.\nDoubt, fear, pain and suffering are taken away,\nforever singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy. ||1||\nO my mind, praise the Perfect Guru.\nChant the treasure of the Naam, the Name of the Lord, day and night. You shall obtain the fruits of your mind's desires. ||1||Pause||\nNo one else is as great as the True Guru.\nThe Guru is the Supreme Lord, the Transcendent Lord God.\nHe saves us from the pains of death and birth,\nand we will not have to taste the poison of Maya ever again. ||2||\nThe Guru's glorious grandeur cannot be described.\nThe Guru is the Transcendent Lord, in the True Name.\nTrue is His self-discipline, and True are all His actions.\nImmaculate and pure is that mind, which is imbued with love for the Guru. ||3||\nThe Perfect Guru is obtained by great good fortune.\nDrive out sexual desire, anger and greed from your mind.\nBy His Grace, the Guru's Feet are enshrined within.\nNanak offers his prayer to the True Lord God. ||4||4||22||\nRaag Malaar, Fifth Mehl, Partaal, Third House:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nPleasing the Guru, I have fallen in love with my Merciful Beloved Lord.\nI have made all my decorations,\nand renounced all corruption;\nmy wandering mind has become steady and stable. ||1||Pause||\nO my mind, lose your self-conceit by associating with the Holy, and you shall find Him.\nThe unstruck celestial melody vibrates and resounds; like a song-bird, chant the Lord's Name, with words of sweetness and utter beauty. ||1||\nSuch is the glory of Your Darshan, so utterly inifinte and fruitful, O my Love; so do we become by associating with the Saints.\nVibrating, chanting Your Name, we cross over the terrifying world-ocean.\nThey dwell on the Lord, Raam, Raam, chanting on their malas;\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 019\ntheir minds are turned towards the Lord in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy.\nO servant Nanak, their Beloved Lord seems so sweet to them. ||2||1||23||\nMalaar, Fifth Mehl:\nMy mind wanders through the dense forest.\nIt walks with eagerness and love,\nhoping to meet God. ||1||Pause||\nMaya with her three gunas - the three dispositions - has come to entice me; whom can I tell of my pain? ||1||\nI tried everything else, but nothing could rid me of my sorrow.\nSo hurry to the Sanctuary of the Holy, O Nanak; joining them, sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord of the Universe. ||2||2||24||\nMalaar, Fifth Mehl:\nThe glory of my Beloved is noble and sublime.\nThe celestial singers and angels sing His Sublime Praises in ecstasy, happiness and joy. ||1||Pause||\nThe most worthy beings sing God's Praises in beautiful harmonies, in all sorts of ways, in myriads of sublime forms. ||1||\nThroughout the mountains, trees, deserts, oceans and galaxies, permeating each and every heart, the sublime grandeur of my Love is totally pervading.\nIn the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, the Love of the Lord is found; O Nanak, sublime is that faith. ||2||3||25||\nMalaar, Fifth Mehl:\nWith love for the Guru, I enshrine the Lotus Feet of my Lord deep within my heart. ||1||Pause||\nI gaze on the Blessed Vision of His Fruitful Darshan; my sins are erased and taken away.\nMy mind is immaculate and enlightened. ||1||\nI am wonderstruck, stunned and amazed.\nChanting the Naam, the Name of the Lord, millions of sins are destroyed.\nI fall at His Feet, and touch my forehead to them.\nYou alone are, You alone are, O God.\nYour devotees take Your Support.\nServant Nanak has come to the Door of Your Sanctuary. ||2||4||26||\nMalaar, Fifth Mehl:\nRain down with happiness in God's Will.\nBless me with total bliss and good fortune. ||1||Pause||\nMy mind blossoms forth in the Society of the Saints; soaking up the rain, the earth is blessed and beautified. ||1||\nThe peacock loves the thunder of the rain clouds.\nThe rainbird's mind is drawn to the rain-drop\n- so is my mind enticed by the Lord.\nI have renounced Maya, the deceiver.\nJoining with the Saints, Nanak is awakened. ||2||5||27||\nMalaar, Fifth Mehl:\nSing forever the Glorious Praises of the Lord of the World.\nEnshrine the Lord's Name in your consciousness. ||1||Pause||\nForsake your pride, and abandon your ego; join the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy.\nMeditate in loving remembrance on the One Lord; your sorrows shall be ended, O friend. ||1||\nThe Supreme Lord God has become merciful;\ncorrupt entanglements have come to an end.\nGrasping the feet of the Holy,\nNanak sings forever the Glorious Praises of the Lord of the World. ||2||6||28||\nMalaar, Fifth Mehl:\nThe Embodiment of the Lord of the Universe roars like the thunder-cloud.\nSinging His Glorious Praises brings peace and bliss. ||1||Pause||\nThe Sanctuary of the Lord's Feet carries us across the world-ocean. His Sublime Word is the unstruck celestial melody. ||1||\nThe thirsty traveller's consciousness obtains the water of the soul from the pool of nectar.\nServant Nanak loves the Blessed Vision of the Lord; in His Mercy, God has blessed him with it. ||2||7||29||\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 020\nMalaar, Fifth Mehl:\nO Lord of the Universe, O Lord of the World, O Dear Merciful Beloved. ||1||Pause||\nYou are the Master of the breath of life, the Companion of the lost and forsaken, the Destroyer of the pains of the poor. ||1||\nO All-powerful, Inaccessible, Perfect Lord, please shower me with Your Mercy. ||2||\nPlease, carry Nanak across the terrible, deep dark pit of the world to the other side. ||3||8||30||\nMalaar, First Mehl, Ashtapadees, First House:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nThe chakvi bird does not long for sleepy eyes; without her beloved, she does not sleep.\nWhen the sun rises, she sees her beloved with her eyes; she bows and touches his feet. ||1||\nThe Love of my Beloved is pleasing; it is my Companion and Support.\nWithout Him, I cannot live in this world even for an instant; such is my hunger and thirst. ||1||Pause||\nThe lotus in the pool blossoms forth intuitively and naturally, with the rays of the sun in the sky.\nSuch is the love for my Beloved which imbues me; my light has merged into the Light. ||2||\nWithout water, the rainbird cries out, \"Pri-o! Pri-o! - Beloved! Beloved!\" It cries and wails and laments.\nThe thundering clouds rain down in the ten directions; its thirst is not quenched until it catches the rain-drop in its mouth. ||3||\nThe fish lives in water, from which it was born. It finds peace and pleasure according to its past actions.\nIt cannot survive without water for a moment, even for an instant. Life and death depend on it. ||4||\nThe soul-bride is separated from her Husband Lord, who lives in His Own Country. He sends the Shabad, His Word, through the True Guru.\nShe gathers virtues, and enshrines God within her heart. Imbued with devotion, she is happy. ||5||\nEveryone cries out, \"Beloved! Beloved!\" But she alone finds her Beloved, who is pleasing to the Guru.\nOur Beloved is always with us; through the Truth, He blesses us with His Grace, and unites us in His Union. ||6||\nHe is the life of the soul in each and every soul; He permeates and pervades each and every heart.\nBy Guru's Grace, He is revealed within the home of my heart; I am intuitively, naturally, absorbed into Him. ||7||\nHe Himself shall resolve all your affairs, when you meet with the Giver of peace, the Lord of the World.\nBy Guru's Grace, you shall find your Husband Lord within your own home; then, O Nanak, the fire within you shall be quenched. ||8||1||\nMalaar, First Mehl:\nRemain awake and aware, serving the Guru; except for the Lord, no one is mine.\nEven by making all sorts of efforts, you shall not remain here; it shall melt like glass in the fire. ||1||\nTell me - why are you so proud of your body and wealth?\nThey shall vanish in an instant; O madman, this is how the world is wasting away, in egotism and pride. ||1||Pause||\nHail to the Lord of the Universe, God, our Saving Grace; He judges and saves the mortal beings.\nAll that is, belongs to You. No one else is equal to You. ||2||\nCreating all beings and creatures, their ways and means are under Your control; You bless the Gurmukhs with the ointment of spiritual wisdom.\nMy Eternal, Unmastered Lord is over the heads of all. He is the Destroyer of death and rebirth, doubt and fear. ||3||\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 021\nThis wretched world is a fortress of paper, of color and form and clever tricks.\nA tiny drop of water or a little puff of wind destroys its glory; in an instant, its life is ended. ||4||\nIt is like a tree-house near the bank of a river, with a serpent's den in that house.\nWhen the river overflows, what happens to the tree house? The snake bites, like duality in the mind. ||5||\nThrough the magic spell of the Guru's spiritual wisdom, and meditation on the Word of the Guru's Teachings, vice and corruption are burnt away.\nThe mind and body are cooled and soothed and Truth is obtained, through the wondrous and unique devotional worship of the Lord. ||6||\nAll that exists begs of You; You are merciful to all beings.\nI seek Your Sanctuary; please save my honor, O Lord of the World, and bless me with Truth. ||7||\nBound in worldly affairs and entanglements, the blind one does not understand; he acts like a murderous butcher.\nBut if he meets with the True Guru, then he comprehends and understands, and his mind is imbued with true spiritual wisdom. ||8||\nWithout the Truth, this worthless body is false; I have consulted my Guru on this.\nO Nanak, that God has revealed God to me; without the Truth, all the world is just a dream. ||9||2||\nMalaar, First Mehl:\nThe rainbird and the fish find peace in water; the deer is pleased by the sound of the bell. ||1||\nThe rainbird chirps in the night, O my mother. ||1||Pause||\nO my Beloved, my love for You shall never end, if it is Your Will. ||2||\nSleep is gone, and egotism is exhausted from my body; my heart is permeated with the Teachings of Truth. ||3||\nFlying among the trees and plants, I remain hungry; lovingly drinking in the Naam, the Name of the Lord, I am satisfied. ||4||\nI stare at You, and my tongue cries out to You; I am so thirsty for the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan. ||5||\nWithout my Beloved, the more I decorate myself, the more my body burns; these clothes do not look good on my body. ||6||\nWithout my Beloved, I cannot survive even for an instant; without meeting Him, I cannot sleep. ||7||\nHer Husband Lord is nearby, but the wretched bride does not know it. The True Guru reveals Him to her. ||8||\nWhen she meets Him with intuitive ease, she finds peace; the Word of the Shabad quenches the fire of desire. ||9||\nSays Nanak, through You, O Lord, my mind is pleased and appeased; I cannot express Your worth. ||10||3||\nMalaar, First Mehl, Ashtapadees, Second House:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nThe earth bends under the weight of the water,\nthe lofty mountains and the caverns of the underworld.\nContemplating the Word of the Guru's Shabad, the oceans become calm.\nThe path of liberation is found by subduing the ego. ||1||\nI am blind; I seek the Light of the Name.\nI take the Support of the Naam, the Name of the Lord. I walk on the path of mystery of the Guru's Fear. ||1||Pause||\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 022\nThrough the Shabad, the Word of the True Guru, the Path is known.\nWith the Guru's Support, one is blessed with the strength of the True Lord.\nDwell on the Naam, and realize the Beauteous Word of His Bani.\nIf it is Your Will, Lord, You lead me to find Your Door. ||2||\nFlying high or sitting down, I am lovingly focused on the One Lord.\nThrough the Word of the Guru's Shabad, I take the Naam as my Suppport.\nThere is no ocean of water, no mountain ranges rising up.\nI dwell within the home of my own inner being, where there is no path and no one travelling on it. ||3||\nYou alone know the way to that House in which You dwell. No one else knows the Mansion of Your Presence.\nWithout the True Guru, there is no understanding. The whole world is buried under its nightmare.\nThe mortal tries all sorts of things, and weeps and wails, but without the Guru, he does not know the Naam, the Name of the Lord.\nIn the twinkling of an eye, the Naam saves him, if he realizes the Word of the Guru's Shabad. ||4||\nSome are foolish, blind, stupid and ignorant.\nSome, through fear of the True Guru, take the Support of the Naam.\nThe True Word of His Bani is sweet, the source of ambrosial nectar.\nWhoever drinks it in, finds the Door of Salvation. ||5||\nOne who, through the love and fear of God, enshrines the Naam within his heart, acts according to the Guru's Instructions and knows the True Bani.\nWhen the clouds release their rain, the earth becomes beautiful; God's Light permeates each and every heart.\nThe evil-minded ones plant their seed in the barren soil; such is the sign of those who have no Guru.\nWithout the True Guru, there is utter darkness; they drown there, even without water. ||6||\nWhatever God does, is by His Own Will.\nThat which is pre-ordained cannot be erased.\nBound to the Hukam of the Lord's Command, the mortal does his deeds.\nPermeated by the One Word of the Shabad, the mortal is immersed in Truth. ||7||\nYour Command, O God, rules in the four directions; Your Name pervades the four corners of the nether regions as well.\nThe True Word of the Shabad is pervading amongst all. By His Grace, the Eternal One unites us with Himself.\nBirth and death hang over the heads of all beings, along with hunger, sleep and dying.\nThe Naam is pleasing to Nanak's mind; O True Lord, Source of bliss, please bless me with Your Grace. ||8||1||4||\nMalaar, First Mehl:\nYou do not understand the nature of death and liberation.\nYou are sitting on the river-bank; realize the Word of the Guru's Shabad. ||1||\nYou stork! - how were you caught in the net?\nYou do not remember in your heart the Unseen Lord God. ||1||Pause||\nFor your one life, you consume many lives.\nYou were supposed to swim in the water, but you are drowning in it instead. ||2||\nYou have tormented all beings.\nWhen Death seizes you, then you shall regret and repent. ||3||\nWhen the heavy noose is placed around your neck,\nyou may spread your wings, but you shall not be able to fly. ||4||\nYou enjoy the tastes and flavors, you foolish self-willed manmukh.\nYou are trapped. You can only be saved by virtuous conduct, spiritual wisdom and contemplation. ||5||\nServing the True Guru, you will shatter the Messenger of Death.\nIn your heart, dwell on the True Word of the Shabad. ||6||\nThe Guru's Teachings, the True Word of the Shabad, is excellent and sublime.\nKeep the Name of the Lord enshrined in your heart. ||7||\nOne who is obsessed with enjoying pleasures here, shall suffer in pain hereafter.\nO Nanak, there is no liberation without the True Name. ||8||2||5||\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 023\nMalaar, Third Mehl, Ashtapadees, First House:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nIf it is in his karma, then he finds the True Guru; without such karma, He cannot be found.\nHe meets the True Guru, and he is transformed into gold, if it is the Lord's Will. ||1||\nO my mind, focus your consciousness on the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.\nThe Lord is found through the True Guru, and then he remains merged with the True Lord. ||1||Pause||\nSpiritual wisdom wells up through the True Guru, and then this cynicism is dispelled.\nThrough the True Guru, the Lord is realized, and then, he is not consigned to the womb of reincarnation ever again. ||2||\nBy Guru's Grace, the mortal dies in life, and by so dying, lives to practice the Word of the Shabad.\nHe alone finds the Door of Salvation, who eradicates self-conceit from within himself. ||3||\nBy Guru's Grace, the mortal is reincarnated into the Home of the Lord, having eradicated Maya from within.\nHe eats the uneatable, and is blessed with a discriminating intellect; he meets the Supreme Person, the Primal Lord God. ||4||\nThe world is unconscious, like a passing show; the mortal departs, having lost his capital.\nThe profit of the Lord is obtained in the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation; by good karma, it is found. ||5||\nWithout the True Guru, no one finds it; see this in your mind, and consider this in your heart.\nBy great good fortune, the mortal finds the Guru, and crosses over the terrifying world-ocean. ||6||\nThe Name of the Lord is my Anchor and Support. I take only the Support of the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.\nO Dear Lord, please be kind and lead me to meet the Guru, that I may find the Door of Salvation. ||7||\nThe pre-ordained destiny inscribed on the mortal's forehead by our Lord and Master cannot be erased.\nO Nanak, those humble beings are perfect, who are pleased by the Lord's Will. ||8||1||\nMalaar, Third Mehl:\nThe world is involved with the words of the Vedas, thinking about the three gunas - the three dispositions.\nWithout the Name, it suffers punishment by the Messenger of Death; it comes and goes in reincarnation, over and over again.\nMeeting with the True Guru, the world is liberated, and finds the Door of Salvation. ||1||\nO mortal, immerse yourself in service to the True Guru.\nBy great good fortune, the mortal finds the Perfect Guru, and meditates on the Name of the Lord, Har, Har. ||1||Pause||\nThe Lord, by the Pleasure of His Own Will, created the Universe, and the Lord Himself gives it sustenance and support.\nThe Lord, by His Own Will, makes the mortal's mind immaculate, and lovingly attunes him to the Lord.\nThe Lord, by His Own Will, leads the mortal to meet the True Guru, the Embellisher of all his lives. ||2||\nWaaho! Waaho! Blessed and Great is the True Word of His Bani. Only a few, as Gurmukh, understand.\nWaaho! Waaho! Praise God as Great! No one else is as Great as He.\nWhen God's Grace is received, He Himself forgives the mortal, and unites him with Himself. ||3||\nThe True Guru has revealed our True, Supreme Lord and Master.\nThe Ambrosial Nectar rains down and the mind is satisfied, remaining lovingly attuned to the True Lord.\nIn the Lord's Name, it is forever rejuvenated; it shall never wither and dry up again. ||4||\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 024\nWithout the True Guru, no one finds the Lord; anyone can try and see.\nBy the Lord's Grace, the True Guru is found, and then the Lord is met with intuitive ease.\nThe self-willed manmukh is deluded by doubt; without good destiny, the Lord's wealth is not obtained. ||5||\nThe three dispositions are completely distracting; people read and study and contemplate them.\nThose people are never liberated; they do not find the Door of Salvation.\nWithout the True Guru, they are never released from bondage; they do not embrace love for the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||6||\nThe Pandits, the religious scholars, and the silent sages, reading and studying the Vedas, have grown weary.\nThey do not even think of the Lord's Name; they do not dwell in the home of their own inner being.\nThe Messenger of Death hovers over their heads; they are ruined by the deceit within themselves. ||7||\nEveryone longs for the Name of the Lord; without good destiny, it is not obtained.\nWhen the Lord bestows His Glance of Grace, the mortal meets the True Guru, and the Lord's Name comes to dwell within the mind.\nO Nanak, through the Name, honor wells up, and the mortal remains immersed in the Lord. ||8||2||\nMalaar, Third Mehl, Ashtapadees, Second House:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nWhen the Lord shows His Mercy, He enjoins the mortal to work for the Guru.\nHis pains are taken away, and the Lord's Name comes to dwell within.\nTrue deliverance comes by focusing one's consciousness on the True Lord.\nListen to the Shabad, and the Word of the Guru's Bani. ||1||\nO my mind, serve the Lord, Har, Har, the true treasure.\nBy Guru's Grace, the wealth of the Lord is obtained. Night and day, focus your meditation on the Lord. ||1||Pause||\nThe soul-bride who adorns herself without her Husband Lord,\nis ill-mannered and vile, wasted away into ruin.\nThis is the useless way of life of the self-willed manmukh.\nForgetting the Naam, the Name of the Lord, he performs all sorts of empty rituals. ||2||\nThe bride who is Gurmukh is beautifully embellished.\nThrough the Word of the Shabad, she enshrines her Husband Lord within her heart.\nShe realizes the One Lord, and subdues her ego.\nThat soul-bride is virtuous and noble. ||3||\nWithout the Guru, the Giver, no one finds the Lord.\nThe greedy self-willed manmukh is attracted and engrossed in duality.\nOnly a few spiritual teachers realize this,\nthat without meeting the Guru, liberation is not obtained. ||4||\nEveryone tells the stories told by others.\nWithout subduing the mind, devotional worship does not come.\nWhen the intellect achieves spiritual wisdom, the heart-lotus blossoms forth.\nThe Naam, the Name of the Lord, comes to abide in that heart. ||5||\nIn egotism, everyone can pretend to worship God with devotion.\nBut this does not soften the mind, and it does not bring peace.\nBy speaking and preaching, the mortal only shows off his self-conceit.\nHis devotional worship is useless, and his life is a total waste. ||6||\nThey alone are devotees, who are pleasing to the Mind of the True Guru.\nNight and day, they remain lovingly attuned to the Name.\nThey behold the Naam, the Name of the Lord, ever-present, near at hand.\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 025\nThrough the Word of the Guru's Shabad, He is pervading and permeating everywhere. ||7||\nGod Himself forgives, and bestows His Love.\nThe world is suffering from the terrible disease of egotism.\nBy Guru's Grace, this disease is cured.\nO Nanak, through the Truth, the mortal remains immersed in the True Lord. ||8||1||3||5||8||\nRaag Malaar, Chhant, Fifth Mehl:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nMy Beloved Lord is the Giver of loving devotional worship.\nHis humble servants are imbued with His Love.\nHe is imbued with His servants, day and night; He does not forget them from His Mind, even for an instant.\nHe is the Lord of the World, the Treasure of virtue; He is always with me. All glorious virtues belong to the Lord of the Universe.\nWith His Feet, He has fascinated my mind; as His humble servant, I am intoxicated with love for His Name.\nO Nanak, my Beloved is forever Merciful; out of millions, hardly anyone realizes Him. ||1||\nO Beloved, Your state is inaccessible and infinite.\nYou save even the worst sinners.\nHe is the Purifier of sinners, the Lover of His devotees, the Ocean of mercy, our Lord and Master.\nIn the Society of the Saints, vibrate and meditate on Him with commitment forever; He is the Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts.\nThose who wander in reincarnation through millions of births, are saved and carried across, by meditating in remembrance on the Naam.\nNanak is thirsty for the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan, O Dear Lord; please take care of him. ||2||\nMy mind is absorbed in the Lotus Feet of the Lord.\nO God, You are the water; Your humble servants are fish.\nO Dear God, You alone are the water and the fish. I know that there is no difference between the two.\nPlease take hold of my arm and bless me with Your Name. I am honored only by Your Grace.\nIn the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, vibrate and meditate with love on the One Lord of the Universe, who is Merciful to the meek.\nNanak, the lowly and helpless, seeks the Sanctuary of the Lord, who in His Kindness has made him His Own. ||3||\nHe unites us with Himself.\nOur Sovereign Lord King is the Destroyer of fear.\nMy Wondrous Lord and Master is the Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts. My Beloved, the Treasure of virtue, has met me.\nSupreme happiness and peace well up, as I cherish the Glorious Virtues of the Lord of the Universe.\nMeeting with Him, I am embellished and exalted; gazing on Him, I am fascinated, and I realize my pre-ordained destiny.\nPrays Nanak, I seek the Sanctuary of those who meditate on the Lord, Har, Har. ||4||1||\nVaar Of Malaar, First Mehl, Sung To The Tune Of Rana Kailaash And Malda:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nShalok, Third Mehl:\nMeeting with the Guru, the mind is delighted, like the earth embellished by the rain.\nEverything becomes green and lush; the pools and ponds are filled to overflowing.\nThe inner self is imbued with the deep crimson color of love for the True Lord.\nThe heart-lotus blossoms forth and the mind becomes true; through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, it is ecstatic and exalted.\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 026\nThe self-willed manmukh is on the wrong side. You can see this with your own eyes.\nHe is caught in the trap like the deer; the Messenger of Death hovers over his head.\nHunger, thirst and slander are evil; sexual desire and anger are horrible.\nThese cannot be seen with your eyes, until you contemplate the Word of the Shabad.\nWhoever is pleasing to You is content; all his entanglements are gone.\nServing the Guru, his capital is preserved. The Guru is the ladder and the boat.\nO Nanak, whoever is attached to the Lord receives the essence; O True Lord, You are found when the mind is true. ||1||\nFirst Mehl:\nThere is one path and one door. The Guru is the ladder to reach one's own place.\nOur Lord and Master is so beautiful, O Nanak; all comfort and peace are in the Name of the True Lord. ||2||\nPauree:\nHe Himself created Himself; He Himself understands Himself.\nSeparating the sky and the earth, He has spread out His canopy.\nWithout any pillars, He supports the sky, through the insignia of His Shabad.\nCreating the sun and the moon, He infused His Light into them.\nHe created the night and the day; Wondrous are His miraculous plays.\nHe created the sacred shrines of pilgrimage, where people contemplate righteousness and Dharma, and take cleansing baths on special occasions.\nThere is no other equal to You; how can we speak and describe You?\nYou are seated on the throne of Truth; all others come and go in reincarnation. ||1||\nShalok, First Mehl:\nO Nanak, when it rains in the month of Saawan, four are delighted:\nthe snake, the deer, the fish and the wealthy people who seek pleasure. ||1||\nFirst Mehl:\nO Nanak, when it rains in the month of Saawan, four suffer the pains of separation:\nthe cow's calves, the poor, the travellers and the servants. ||2||\nPauree:\nYou are True, O True Lord; You dispense True Justice.\nLike a lotus, You sit in the primal celestial trance; You are hidden from view.\nBrahma is called great, but even he does not know Your limits.\nYou have no father or mother; who gave birth to You?\nYou have no form or feature; You transcend all social classes.\nYou have no hunger or thirst; You are satisfied and satiated.\nYou have merged Yourself into the Guru; You are pervading through the Word of Your Shabad.\nWhen he is pleasing to the True Lord, the mortal merges in Truth. ||2||\nShalok, First Mehl:\nThe physician was called in; he touched my arm and felt my pulse.\nThe foolish physician did not know that the pain was in the mind. ||1||\nSecond Mehl:\nO physician, you are a competent physician, if you first diagnose the disease.\nPrescribe such a remedy, by which all sorts of illnesses may be cured.\nAdminister that medicine, which will cure the disease, and allow peace to come and dwell in the body.\nOnly when you are rid of your own disease, O Nanak, will you be known as a physician. ||2||\nPauree:\nBrahma, Vishnu, Shiva and the deities were created.\nBrahma was given the Vedas, and enjoined to worship God.\nThe ten incarnations, and Rama the king, came into being.\nAccording to His Will, they quickly killed all the demons.\nShiva serves Him, but cannot find His limits.\nHe established His throne on the principles of Truth.\nHe enjoined all the world to its tasks, while He keeps Himself hidden from view.\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 027\nThe Primal Lord has ordained that mortals must practice righteousness. ||3||\nShalok, Second Mehl:\nThe month of Saawan has come, O my companions; think of your Husband Lord.\nO Nanak, the discarded bride is in love with another; now she weeps and wails, and dies. ||1||\nSecond Mehl:\nThe month of Saawan has come, O my companions; the clouds have burst forth with rain.\nO Nanak, the blessed soul-brides sleep in peace; they are in love with their Husband Lord. ||2||\nPauree:\nHe Himself has staged the tournament, and arranged the arena for the wrestlers.\nThey have entered the arena with pomp and ceremony; the Gurmukhs are joyful.\nThe false and foolish self-willed manmukhs are defeated and overcome.\nThe Lord Himself wrestles, and He Himself defeats them. He Himself staged this play.\nThe One God is the Lord and Master of all; this is known by the Gurmukhs.\nHe writes the inscription of His Hukam on the foreheads of all, without pen or ink.\nIn the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation, Union with Him is obtained; there, the Glorious Praises of the Lord are chanted forever.\nO Nanak, praising the True Word of His Shabad, one comes to realize the Truth. ||4||\nShalok, Third Mehl:\nHanging low, low and thick in the sky, the clouds are changing color.\nHow do I know whether my love for my Husband Lord shall endure?\nThe love of those soul-brides endures, if their minds are filled with the Love and the Fear of God.\nO Nanak, she who has no Love and Fear of God - her body shall never find peace. ||1||\nThird Mehl:\nHanging low, low and thick in the sky, the clouds come, and pure water rains down.\nO Nanak, that soul-bride suffers in pain, whose mind is torn away from her Husband Lord. ||2||\nPauree:\nThe One Lord created both sides and pervades the expanse.\nThe words of the Vedas became pervasive, with arguments and divisions.\nAttachment and detachment are the two sides of it; Dharma, true religion, is the guide between the two.\nThe self-willed manmukhs are worthless and false. Without a doubt, they lose in the Court of the Lord.\nThose who follow the Guru's Teachings are the true spiritual warriors; they have conquered sexual desire and anger.\nThey enter into the True Mansion of the Lord's Presence, embellished and exalted by the Word of the Shabad.\nThose devotees are pleasing to Your Will, O Lord; they dearly love the True Name.\nI am a sacrifice to those who serve their True Guru. ||5||\nShalok, Third Mehl:\nHanging low, low and thick in the sky, the clouds come, and water rains down in torrents.\nO Nanak, she walks in harmony with the Will of her Husband Lord; she enjoys peace and pleasure forever. ||1||\nThird Mehl:\nWhy are you standing up, standing up to look? You poor wretch, this cloud has nothing in its hands.\nThe One who sent this cloud - cherish Him in your mind.\nHe alone enshrines the Lord in his mind, upon whom the Lord bestows His Glance of Grace.\nO Nanak, all those who lack this Grace, cry and weep and wail. ||2||\nPauree:\nServe the Lord forever; He acts in no time at all.\nHe stretched the sky across the heavens; in an instant, He creates and destroys.\nHe Himself created the world; He contemplates His Creative Omnipotence.\nThe self-willed manmukh will be called to account hereafter; he will be severely punished.\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 028\nThe Gurmukh's account is settled with honor; the Lord blesses him with the treasure of His Praise.\nNo one's hands can reach there; no one will hear anyone's cries.\nThe True Guru will be your best friend there; at the very last instant, He will save you.\nThese beings should serve no other than the True Guru or the Creator Lord above the heads of all. ||6||\nShalok, Third Mehl:\nO rainbird, the One unto whom you call - everyone longs for that Lord.\nWhen He grants His Grace, it rains, and the forests and fields blossom forth in their greenery.\nBy Guru's Grace, He is found; only a rare few understand this.\nSitting down and standing up, meditate continually on Him, and be at peace forever and ever.\nO Nanak, the Ambrosial Nectar rains down forever; the Lord gives it to the Gurmukh. ||1||\nThird Mehl:\nWhen the people of the world are suffering in pain, they call upon the Lord in loving prayer.\nThe True Lord naturally listens and hears and gives comfort.\nHe commands the god of rain, and the rain pours down in torrents.\nCorn and wealth are produced in great abundance and prosperity; their value cannot be estimated.\nO Nanak, praise the Naam, the Name of the Lord; He reaches out and gives sustenance to all beings.\nEating this, peace is produced, and the mortal never again suffers in pain. ||2||\nPauree:\nO Dear Lord, You are the Truest of the True. You blend those who are truthful into Your Own Being.\nThose caught in duality are on the side of duality; entrenched in falsehood, they cannot merge into the Lord.\nYou Yourself unite, and You Yourself separate; You display Your Creative Omnipotence.\nAttachment brings the sorrow of separation; the mortal acts in accordance with pre-ordained destiny.\nI am a sacrifice to those who remain lovingly attached to the Lord's Feet.\nThey are like the lotus which remains detached, floating upon the water.\nThey are peaceful and beautiful forever; they eradicate self-conceit from within.\nThey never suffer sorrow or separation; they are merged in the Being of the Lord. ||7||\nShalok, Third Mehl:\nO Nanak, praise the Lord; everything is in His power.\nServe Him, O mortal beings; there is none other than Him.\nThe Lord God abides within the mind of the Gurmukh, and then he is at peace, forever and ever.\nHe is never cynical; all anxiety has been taken out from within him.\nWhatever happens, happens naturally; no one has any say about it.\nWhen the True Lord abides in the mind, then the mind's desires are fulfilled.\nO Nanak, He Himself hears the words of those, whose accounts are in His Hands. ||1||\nThird Mehl:\nThe Ambrosial Nectar rains down continually; realize this through realization.\nThose who, as Gurmukh, realize this, keep the Lord's Ambrosial Nectar enshrined within their hearts.\nThey drink in the Lord's Ambrosial Nectar, and remain forever imbued with the Lord; they conquer egotism and thirsty desires.\nThe Name of the Lord is Ambrosial Nectar; the Lord showers His Grace, and it rains down.\nO Nanak, the Gurmukh comes to behold the Lord, the Supreme Soul. ||2||\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 029\nPauree:\nHow can the unweighable be weighed? Without weighing Him, He cannot be obtained.\nReflect on the Word of the Guru's Shabad, and immerse yourself in His Glorious Virtues.\nHe Himself weighs Himself; He unites in Union with Himself.\nHis value cannot be estimated; nothing can be said about this.\nI am a sacrifice to my Guru; He has made me realize this true realization.\nThe world has been deceived, and the Ambrosial Nectar is being plundered. The self-willed manmukh does not realize this.\nWithout the Name, nothing will go along with him; he wastes his life, and departs.\nThose who follow the Guru's Teachings and remain awake and aware, preserve and protect the home of their heart; demons have no power against them. ||8||\nShalok, Third Mehl:\nO rainbird, do not cry out. Do not let this mind of yours be so thirsty for a drop of water. Obey the Hukam, the Command of your Lord and Master,\nand your thirst shall be quenched. Your love for Him shall increase four-fold. ||1||\nThird Mehl:\nO rainbird, your place is in the water; you move around in the water.\nBut you do not appreciate the water, and so you cry out.\nIn the water and on the land, it rains down in the ten directions. No place is left dry.\nWith so much rain, those who are die of thirst are very unfortunate.\nO Nanak, the Gurmukhs understand; the Lord abides within their minds. ||2||\nPauree:\nThe Yogic Masters, celibates, Siddhas and spiritual teachers - none of them has found the limits of the Lord.\nThe Gurmukhs meditate on the Naam, and merge in You, O Lord.\nFor thirty-six ages, God remained in utter darkness, as He pleased.\nThe vast expanse of water swirled around.\nThe Creator of all is Infinite, Endless and Inaccessible.\nHe formed fire and conflict, hunger and thirst.\nDeath hangs over the heads of the people of the world, in the love of duality.\nThe Savior Lord saves those who realize the Word of the Shabad. ||9||\nShalok, Third Mehl:\nThis rain pours down on all; it rains down in accordance with God's Loving Will.\nThose trees become green and lush, which remain immersed in the Guru's Word.\nO Nanak, by His Grace, there is peace; the pain of these creatures is gone. ||1||\nThird Mehl:\nThe night is wet with dew; lightning flashes, and the rain pours down in torrents.\nFood and wealth are produced in abundance when it rains, if it is the Will of God.\nConsuming it, the minds of His creatures are satisfied, and they adopt the lifestyle of the way.\nThis wealth is the play of the Creator Lord. Sometimes it comes, and sometimes it goes.\nThe Naam is the wealth of the spiritually wise. It is permeating and pervading forever.\nO Nanak, those who are blessed with His Glance of Grace receive this wealth. ||2||\nPauree:\nHe Himself does, and causes all to be done. Unto whom can I complain?\nHe Himself calls the mortal beings to account; He Himself causes them to act.\nWhatever pleases Him happens. Only a fool issues commands.\nHe Himself saves and redeems; He Himself is the Forgiver.\nHe Himself sees, and He Himself hears; He gives His Support to all.\nHe alone is pervading and permeating all; He considers each and every one.\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 030\nThe Gurmukh reflects on the self, lovingly attached to the True Lord.\nO Nanak, whom can we ask? He Himself is the Great Giver. ||10||\nShalok, Third Mehl:\nThis world is a rainbird; let no one be deluded by doubt.\nThis rainbird is an animal; it has no understanding at all.\nThe Name of the Lord is Ambrosial Nectar; drinking it in, thirst is quenched.\nO Nanak, those Gurmukhs who drink it in shall never again be afflicted by thirst. ||1||\nThird Mehl:\nMalaar is a calming and soothing raga; meditating on the Lord brings peace and tranquility.\nWhen the Dear Lord grants His Grace, then the rain falls on all the people of the world.\nFrom this rain, all creatures find the ways and means to live, and the earth is embellished.\nO Nanak, this world is all water; everything came from water.\nBy Guru's Grace, a rare few realize the Lord; such humble beings are liberated forever. ||2||\nPauree:\nO True and Independent Lord God, You alone are my Lord and Master.\nYou Yourself are everything; who else is of any account?\nFalse is the pride of man. True is Your glorious greatness.\nComing and going in reincarnation, the beings and species of the world came into being.\nBut if the mortal serves his True Guru, his coming into the world is judged to be worthwhile.\nAnd if he eradicates eogtism from within himself, then how can he be judged?\nThe self-willed manmukh is lost in the darkness of emotional attachment, like the man lost in the wilderness.\nCountless sins are erased, by even a tiny particle of the Lord's Name. ||11||\nShalok, Third Mehl:\nO rainbird, you do not know the Mansion of your Lord and Master's Presence. Offer your prayers to see this Mansion.\nYou speak as you please, but your speech is not accepted.\nYour Lord and Master is the Great Giver; whatever you desire, you shall receive from Him.\nNot only the thirst of the poor rainbird, but the thirst of the whole world is quenched. ||1||\nThird Mehl:\nThe night is wet with dew; the rainbird sings the True Name with intuitive ease.\nThis water is my very soul; without water, I cannot survive.\nThrough the Word of the Guru's Shabad, this water is obtained, and egotism is eradicated from within.\nO Nanak, I cannot live without Him, even for a moment; the True Guru has led me to meet Him. ||2||\nPauree:\nThere are countless worlds and nether regions; I cannot calculate their number.\nYou are the Creator, the Lord of the Universe; You create it, and You destroy it.\nThe 8.4 million species of beings issued forth from You.\nSome are called kings, emperors and nobles.\nSome claim to be bankers and accumulate wealth, but in duality they lose their honor.\nSome are givers, and some are beggars; God is above the heads of all.\nWithout the Name, they are vulgar, dreadful and wretched.\nFalsehood shall not last, O Nanak; whatever the True Lord does, comes to pass. ||12||\nShalok, Third Mehl:\nO rainbird, the virtuous soul-bride attains the Mansion of her Lord's Presence; the unworthy, unvirtuous one is far away.\nDeep within your inner being, the Lord abides. The Gurmukh beholds Him ever-present.\nWhen the Lord bestows His Glance of Grace, the mortal no longer weeps and wails.\nO Nanak, those who are imbued with the Naam intuitively merge with the Lord; they practice the Word of the Guru's Shabad. ||1||\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 031\nThird Mehl:\nThe rainbird prays: O Lord, grant Your Grace, and bless me with the gift of the life of the soul.\nWithout the water, my thirst is not quenched, and my breath of life is ended and gone.\nYou are the Giver of peace, O Infinite Lord God; You are the Giver of the treasure of virtue.\nO Nanak, the Gurmukh is forgiven; in the end, the Lord God shall be your only friend. ||2||\nPauree:\nHe created the world; He considers the merits and demerits of the mortals.\nThose who are entangled in the three gunas - the three dispositions - do not love the Naam, the Name of the Lord.\nForsaking virtue, they practice evil; they shall be miserable in the Court of the Lord.\nThey lose their life in the gamble; why did they even come into the world?\nBut those who conquer and subdue their minds, through the True Word of the Shabad - night and day, they love the Naam.\nThose people enshrine the True, Invisible and Infinite Lord in their hearts.\nYou, O Lord, are the Giver, the Treasure of virtue; I am unvirtuous and unworthy.\nHe alone finds You, whom You bless and forgive, and inspire to contemplate the Word of the Guru's Shabad. ||13||\nShalok, Fifth Mehl:\nThe faithless cynics forget the Name of the Lord; the night of their lives does not pass in peace.\nTheir days and nights become comfortable, O Nanak, singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||1||\nFifth Mehl:\nAll sorts of jewels and gems, diamonds and rubies, shine forth from their foreheads.\nO Nanak, those who are pleasing to God, look beautiful in the Court of the Lord. ||2||\nPauree:\nServing the True Guru, I dwell on the True Lord.\nThe work you have done for the True Guru shall be very useful in the end.\nThe Messenger of Death cannot even touch that person who is protected by the True Lord.\nLighting the lamp of the Guru's Teachings, my awareness has been awakened.\nThe self-willed manmukhs are false; without the Name, they wander around like demons.\nThey are nothing more than beasts, wrapped up in human skin; they are black-hearted within.\nThe True Lord is pervading all; through the True Word of the Shabad, He is seen.\nO Nanak, the Naam is the greatest treasure. The Perfect Guru has revealed it to me. ||14||\nShalok, Third Mehl:\nThe rainbird realizes the Hukam of the Lord's Command with intuitive ease through the Guru.\nThe clouds mercifully burst forth, and the rain pours down in torrents.\nThe cries and wailings of the rainbird have ceased, and peace has come to abide in its mind.\nO Nanak, praise that Lord, who reaches out and gives sustenance to all beings and creatures. ||1||\nThird Mehl:\nO rainbird, you do not know what thirst is within you, or what you can drink to quench it.\nYou wander in the love of duality, and you do not obtain the Ambrosial Water.\nWhen God casts His Glance of Grace, then the mortal automatically meets the True Guru.\nO Nanak, the Ambrosial Water is obtained from the True Guru, and then the mortal remains merged in the Lord with intuitive ease. ||2||\nPauree:\nSome go and sit in the forest realms, and do not answer any calls.\nSome, in the dead of winter, break the ice and immerse themselves in freezing water.\nSome rub ashes on their bodies, and never wash off their dirt.\nSome look hideous, with their uncut hair matted and dishevelled. They bring dishonor to their family and ancestry.\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 032\nSome wander naked day and night and never sleep.\nSome burn their limbs in fire, damaging and ruining themselves.\nWithout the Name, the body is reduced to ashes; what good is it to speak and cry then?\nThose who serve the True Guru, are embellished and exalted in the Court of their Lord and Master. ||15||\nShalok, Third Mehl:\nThe rainbird chirps in the ambrosial hours of the morning before the dawn; its prayers are heard in the Court of the Lord.\nThe order is issued to the clouds, to let the rains of mercy shower down.\nI am a sacrifice to those who enshrine the True Lord within their hearts.\nO Nanak, through the Name, all are rejuvenated, contemplating the Word of the Guru's Shabad. ||1||\nThird Mehl:\nO rainbird, this is not the way to quench your thirst, even though you may cry out a hundred times.\nBy God's Grace, the True Guru is found; by His Grace, love wells up.\nO Nanak, when the Lord and Master abides in the mind, corruption and evil leave from within. ||2||\nPauree:\nSome are Jains, wasting their time in the wilderness; by their pre-ordained destiny, they are ruined.\nThe Naam, the Name of the Lord, is not on their lips; they do not bathe at sacred shrines of pilgrimage.\nThey pull out their hair with their hands, instead of shaving.\nThey remain unclean day and night; they do not love the Word of the Shabad.\nThey have no status, no honor, and no good karma. They waste away their lives in vain.\nTheir minds are false and impure; that which they eat is impure and defiled.\nWithout the Shabad, no one achieves a lifestyle of good conduct.\nThe Gurmukh is absorbed in the True Lord God, the Universal Creator. ||16||\nShalok, Third Mehl:\nIn the month of Saawan, the bride is happy, contemplating the Word of the Guru's Shabad.\nO Nanak, she is a happy soul-bride forever; her love for the Guru is unlimited. ||1||\nThird Mehl:\nIn Saawan, she who has no virtue is burned, in attachment and love of duality.\nO Nanak, she does not appreciate the value of her Husband Lord; all her decorations are worthless. ||2||\nPauree:\nThe True, Unseen, Mysterious Lord is not won over by stubbornness.\nSome sing according to traditional ragas, but the Lord is not pleased by these ragas.\nSome dance and dance and keep the beat, but they do not worship Him with devotion.\nSome refuse to eat; what can be done with these fools?\nThirst and desire have greatly increased; nothing brings satisfaction.\nSome are tied down by rituals; they hassle themselves to death.\nIn this world, profit comes by drinking in the Ambrosial Nectar of the Naam.\nThe Gurmukhs gather in loving devotional worship of the Lord. ||17||\nShalok, Third Mehl:\nThose Gurmukhs who sing in the Raga of Malaar - their minds and bodies become cool and calm.\nThrough the Word of the Guru's Shabad, they realize the One, the One True Lord.\nTheir minds and bodies are true; they obey the True Lord, and they are known as true.\nTrue devotional worship is deep within them; they are automatically blessed with honor.\nIn this Dark Age of Kali Yuga, there is utter darkness; the self-willed manmukh cannot find the way.\nO Nanak, very blessed are those Gurmukhs, unto whom the Lord is revealed. ||1||\nThird Mehl:\nThe clouds rain down mercifully, and joy wells up in the minds of the people.\nI am forever a sacrifice to the One, by whose Command the clouds burst forth with rain.\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 033\nThe Gurmukhs dwell on the Word of the Shabad. They sing the Glorious Praises of the True Lord.\nO Nanak, those humble beings who are imbued with the Naam are pure and immaculate. They are intuitively merged in the True Lord. ||2||\nPauree:\nServing the Perfect True Guru, I have found the Perfect Lord.\nMeditating on the Perfect Lord, by perfect karma, I have enshrined the Shabad within my mind.\nThrough perfect spiritual wisdom and meditation, my filth has been washed away.\nThe Lord is my sacred shrine of pilgrimage and pool of purification; I wash my mind in Him.\nOne who dies in the Shabad and conquers his mind - blessed is the mother who gave birth to him.\nHe is true in the Court of the Lord, and his coming into this world is judged to be true.\nNo one can challenge that person, with whom our Lord and Master is pleased.\nO Nanak, praising the True Lord, his pre-ordained destiny is activated. ||18||\nShalok, Third Mehl:\nThose who give out ceremonial hats of recognition are fools; those who receive them have no shame.\nThe mouse cannot enter its hole with a basket tied around its waist.\nThose who give out blessings shall die, and those that they bless shall also depart.\nO Nanak, no one knows the Lord's Command, by which all must depart.\nThe spring harvest is the Name of the One Lord; the harvest of autumn is the True Name.\nI receive a letter of pardon from my Lord and Master, when I reach His Court.\nThere are so many courts of the world, and so many who come and go there.\nThere are so many beggars begging; so many beg and beg until death. ||1||\nFirst Mehl:\nThe elephant eats a hundred pounds of ghee and molasses, and five hundred pounds of corn.\nHe belches and grunts and scatters dust, and when the breath leaves his body, he regrets it.\nThe blind and arrogant die insane.\nSubmitting to the Lord, one become pleasing to Him.\nThe sparrow eats only half a grain, then it flies through the sky and chirps.\nThe good sparrow is pleasing to her Lord and Master, if she chirps the Name of the Lord.\nThe powerful tiger kills hundreds of deer, and all sorts of other animals eat what it leaves.\nIt becomes very strong, and cannot be contained in its den, but when it must go, it regrets.\nSo who is impressed by the roar of the blind beast?\nHe is not pleasing at all to his Lord and Master.\nThe insect loves the milkweed plant; perched on its branch, it eats it.\nIt becomes good and pleasing to its Lord and Master, if it chirps the Name of the Lord.\nO Nanak, the world lasts for only a few days; indulging in pleasures, pain is produced.\nThere are many who boast and brag, but none of them can remain detached from the world.\nThe fly dies for the sake of sweets.\nO Lord, death does not even approach those whom You protect. You carry them across the terrifying world-ocean. ||2||\nPauree:\nYou are Inaccessible and Unfathomable, O Invisible and Infinite True Lord Master.\nYou are the Giver, all are beggars of You. You alone are the Great Giver.\nThose who serve You find peace, reflecting on the Guru's Teachings.\nSome, according to Your Will, are in love with Maya.\nThrough the Word of the Guru's Shabad, praise the Lord with love and affection within.\nWithout love, there is no devotion. Without the True Guru, love is not enshrined.\nYou are the Lord God; everyone serves You. This is the prayer of Your humble minstrel.\nPlease bless me with the gift of contentment, that I may receive the True Name as my Support. ||19||\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 034\nShalok, First Mehl:\nThrough the night the time ticks away; through the day the time ticks away.\nThe body wears away and turns to straw.\nAll are involved and entangled in worldly entanglements.\nThe mortal has mistakenly renounced the way of service.\nThe blind fool is caught in conflict, bothered and bewildered.\nThose who weep after someone has died - can they bring him back to life?\nWithout realization, nothing can be understood.\nThe weepers who weep for the dead shall themselves die as well.\nO Nanak, this is the Will of our Lord and Master.\nThose who do not remember the Lord, are dead. ||1||\nFirst Mehl:\nLove dies, and affection dies; hatred and strife die.\nThe color fades, and beauty vanishes; the body suffers and collapses.\nWhere did he come from? Where is he going? Did he exist or not?\nThe self-willed manmukh made empty boasts, indulging in parties and pleasures.\nO Nanak, without the True Name, his honor is torn away, from head to foot. ||2||\nPauree:\nThe Ambrosial Naam, the Name of the Lord, is forever the Giver of peace. It shall be your Help and Support in the end.\nWithout the Guru, the world is insane. It does not appreciate the worth of the Name.\nThose who serve the True Guru are accepted and approved. Their light merges into the Light.\nThat servant who enshrines the Lord's Will within his mind, becomes just like his Lord and Master.\nTell me, who has ever found peace by following his own will? The blind act in blindness.\nNo one is ever satisfied and fulfilled by evil and corruption. The hunger of the fool is not satisfied.\nAttached to duality, all are ruined; without the True Guru, there is no understanding.\nThose who serve the True Guru find peace; they are blessed with Grace by the Will of the Lord. ||20||\nShalok, First Mehl:\nModesty and righteousness both, O Nanak, are qualities of those who are blessed with true wealth.\nDo not refer to that wealth as your friend, which leads you to get your head beaten.\nThose who possess only this worldly wealth are known as paupers.\nBut those, within whose hearts You dwell, O Lord - those people are oceans of virtue. ||1||\nFirst Mehl:\nWorldly possessions are obtained by pain and suffering; when they are gone, they leave pain and suffering.\nO Nanak, without the True Name, hunger is never satisfied.\nBeauty does not satisfy hunger; when the man sees beauty, he hungers even more.\nAs many as are the pleasures of the body, so many are the pains which afflict it. ||2||\nFirst Mehl:\nActing blindly, the mind becomes blind. The blind mind makes the body blind.\nWhy make a dam with mud and plaster? Even a dam made of stones gives way.\nThe dam has burst. There is no boat. There is no raft. The water's depth is unfathomable.\nO Nanak, without the True Name, many multitudes have drowned. ||3||\nFirst Mehl:\nThousands of pounds of gold, and thousands of pounds of silver; the king over the heads of thousands of kings.\nThousands of armies, thousands of marching bands and spearmen; the emperor of thousands of horsemen.\nThe unfathomable ocean of fire and water must be crossed.\nThe other shore cannot be seen; only the roar of pitiful cries can be heard.\nO Nanak, there, it shall be known, whether anyone is a king or an emperor. ||4||\nPauree:\nSome have chains around their necks, in bondage to the Lord.\nThey are released from bondage, realizing the True Lord as True.\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 035\nOne whose pre-ordained destiny is activated, comes to know the True Lord.\nBy God's Command, it is ordained. When the mortal goes, he knows.\nRealize the Word of the Shabad, and cross over the terrifying world-ocean.\nThieves, adulterers and gamblers are pressed like seeds in the mill.\nSlanderers and gossipers are hand-cuffed.\nThe Gurmukh is absorbed in the True Lord, and is famous in the Court of the Lord. ||21||\nShalok, Second Mehl:\nThe beggar is known as an emperor, and the fool is known as a religious scholar.\nThe blind man is known as a seer; this is how people talk.\nThe trouble-maker is called a leader, and the liar is seated with honor.\nO Nanak, the Gurmukhs know that this is justice in the Dark Age of Kali Yuga. ||1||\nFirst Mehl:\nDeer, falcons and government officials are known to be trained and clever.\nWhen the trap is set, they trap their own kind; hereafter they will find no place of rest.\nHe alone is learned and wise, and he alone is a scholar, who practices the Name.\nFirst, the tree puts down its roots, and then it spreads out its shade above.\nThe kings are tigers, and their officials are dogs;\nthey go out and awaken the sleeping people to harass them.\nThe public servants inflict wounds with their nails.\nThe dogs lick up the blood that is spilled.\nBut there, in the Court of the Lord, all beings will be judged.\nThose who have violated the people's trust will be disgraced; their noses will be cut off. ||2||\nPauree:\nHe Himself creates the world, and He himself takes care of it.\nWithout the Fear of God, doubt is not dispelled, and love for the Name is not embraced.\nThrough the True Guru, the Fear of God wells up, and the Door of Salvation is found.\nThrough the Fear of God, intuitive ease is obtained, and one's light merges into the Light of the Infinite.\nThrough the Fear of God, the terrifying world-ocean is crossed over, reflecting on the Guru's Teachings.\nThrough the Fear of God, the Fearless Lord is found; He has no end or limitation.\nThe self-willed manmukhs do not appreciate the value of the Fear of God. Burning in desire, they weep and wail.\nO Nanak, through the Name, peace is obtained, by enshrining the Guru's Teachings within the heart. ||22||\nShalok, First Mehl:\nBeauty and sexual desire are friends; hunger and tasty food are tied together.\nGreed is bound up in its search for wealth, and sleep will use even a tiny space as a bed.\nAnger barks and brings ruin on itself, blindly pursuing useless conflicts.\nIt is good to be silent, O Nanak; without the Name, one's mouth spews forth only filth. ||1||\nFirst Mehl:\nRoyal power, wealth, beauty, social status and youth are the five thieves.\nThese thieves have plundered the world; no one's honor has been spared.\nBut these thieves themselves are robbed, by those who fall at the Guru's Feet.\nO Nanak, the multitudes who do not have good karma are plundered. ||2||\nPauree:\nThe learned and educated are called to account for their actions.\nWithout the Name, they are judged false; they become miserable and suffer hardship.\nTheir path becomes treacherous and difficult, and their way is blocked.\nThrough the Shabad, the Word of the True and Independent Lord God, one becomes content.\nThe Lord is deep and profound and unfathomable; His depth cannot be measured.\nWithout the Guru, the mortals are beaten and punched in the face and the mouth, and no one is released.\nChanting the Naam, the Name of the Lord, one returns to his true home with honor.\nKnow that the Lord, by the Hukam of His Command, gives sustenance and the breath of life. ||23||\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 036\nShalok, First Mehl:\nLiving beings are formed of air, water and fire. They are subject to pleasure and pain.\nIn this world, in the nether regions of the underworld, and in the Akaashic ethers of the heavens, some remain ministers in the Court of the Lord.\nSome live long lives, while others suffer and die.\nSome give and consume, and still their wealth is not exhausted, while others remain poor forever.\nIn His Will He creates, and in His Will He destroys thousands in an instant.\nHe has harnessed everyone with His harness; when He forgives, he breaks the harness.\nHe has no color or features; He is invisible and beyond calculation.\nHow can He be described? He is known as the Truest of the True.\nAll the actions which are done and described, O Nanak, are done by the Indescribable Lord Himself.\nWhoever hears the description of the indescribable,\nis blessed with wealth, intelligence, perfection, spiritual wisdom and eternal peace. ||1||\nFirst Mehl:\nOne who bears the unbearable, controls the nine holes of the body.\nOne who worships and adores the Lord with his breath of life, gains stability in his body-wall.\nWhere has he come from, and where will he go?\nRemaining dead while yet alive, he is accepted and approved.\nWhoever understands the Hukam of the Lord's Command, realizes the essence of reality.\nThis is known by Guru's Grace.\nO Nanak, know this: egotism leads to bondage.\nOnly those who have no ego and no self-conceit, are not consigned to reincarnation. ||2||\nPauree:\nRead the Praise of the Lord's Name; other intellectual pursuits are false.\nWithout dealing in Truth, life is worthless.\nNo one has ever found the Lord's end or limitation.\nAll the world is enveloped by the darkness of egotistical pride. It does not like the Truth.\nThose who depart from this world, forgetting the Naam, shall be roasted in the frying pan.\nThey pour the oil of duality within, and burn.\nThey come into the world and wander around aimlessly; they depart when the play is finished.\nO Nanak, imbued with Truth, the mortals merge in Truth. ||24||\nShalok, First Mehl:\nFirst, the mortal is conceived in the flesh, and then he dwells in the flesh.\nWhen he comes alive, his mouth takes flesh; his bones, skin and body are flesh.\nHe comes out of the womb of flesh, and takes a mouthful of flesh at the breast.\nHis mouth is flesh, his tongue is flesh; his breath is in the flesh.\nHe grows up and is married, and brings his wife of flesh into his home.\nFlesh is produced from flesh; all relatives are made of flesh.\nWhen the mortal meets the True Guru, and realizes the Hukam of the Lord's Command, then he comes to be reformed.\nReleasing himself, the mortal does not find release; O Nanak, through empty words, one is ruined. ||1||\nFirst Mehl:\nThe fools argue about flesh and meat, but they know nothing about meditation and spiritual wisdom.\nWhat is called meat, and what is called green vegetables? What leads to sin?\nIt was the habit of the gods to kill the rhinoceros, and make a feast of the burnt offering.\nThose who renounce meat, and hold their noses when sitting near it, devour men at night.\nThey practice hypocrisy, and make a show before other people, but they do not understand anything about meditation or spiritual wisdom.\nO Nanak, what can be said to the blind people? They cannot answer, or even understand what is said.\nThey alone are blind, who act blindly. They have no eyes in their hearts.\nThey are produced from the blood of their mothers and fathers, but they do not eat fish or meat.\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 037\nBut when men and women meet in the night, they come together in the flesh.\nIn the flesh we are conceived, and in the flesh we are born; we are vessels of flesh.\nYou know nothing of spiritual wisdom and meditation, even though you call yourself clever, O religious scholar.\nO master, you believe that flesh on the outside is bad, but the flesh of those in your own home is good.\nAll beings and creatures are flesh; the soul has taken up its home in the flesh.\nThey eat the uneatable; they reject and abandon what they could eat. They have a teacher who is blind.\nIn the flesh we are conceived, and in the flesh we are born; we are vessels of flesh.\nYou know nothing of spiritual wisdom and meditation, even though you call yourself clever, O religious scholar.\nMeat is allowed in the Puraanas, meat is allowed in the Bible and the Koran. Throughout the four ages, meat has been used.\nIt is featured in sacred feasts and marriage festivities; meat is used in them.\nWomen, men, kings and emperors originate from meat.\nIf you see them going to hell, then do not accept charitable gifts from them.\nThe giver goes to hell, while the receiver goes to heaven - look at this injustice.\nYou do not understand your own self, but you preach to other people. O Pandit, you are very wise indeed.\nO Pandit, you do not know where meat originated.\nCorn, sugar cane and cotton are produced from water. The three worlds came from water.\nWater says, \"I am good in many ways.\" But water takes many forms.\nForsaking these delicacies, one becomes a true Sannyaasee, a detached hermit. Nanak reflects and speaks. ||2||\nPauree:\nWhat can I say with only one tongue? I cannot find your limits.\nThose who contemplate the True Word of the Shabad are absorbed into You, O Lord.\nSome wander around in saffron robes, but without the True Guru, no one finds the Lord.\nThey wander in foreign lands and countries until they grow weary, but You hide Yourself within them.\nThe Word of the Guru's Shabad is a jewel, through which the Lord shines forth and reveals Himself.\nRealizing one's own self, following the Guru's Teachings, the mortal is absorbed into Truth.\nComing and going, the tricksters and magicians put on their magic show.\nBut those whose minds are pleased by the True Lord, praise the True One, the Ever-stable Lord. ||25||\nShalok, First Mehl:\nO Nanak, the tree of actions done in Maya yields ambrosial fruit and poisonous fruit.\nThe Creator does all deeds; we eat the fruits as He ordains. ||1||\nSecond Mehl:\nO Nanak, burn worldly greatness and glory in the fire.\nThese burnt offerings have caused mortals to forget the Naam, the Name of the Lord. Not even one of them will go along with you in the end. ||2||\nPauree:\nHe judges each and every being; by the Hukam of His Command, He leads us on.\nJustice is in Your Hands, O Lord; You are pleasing to my mind.\nThe mortal is bound and gagged by Death and lead away; no one can rescue him.\nOld age, the tyrant, dances on the mortal's shoulders.\nSo climb aboard the boat of the True Guru, and the True Lord will rescue you.\nThe fire of desire burns like an oven, consuming mortals night and day.\nLike trapped birds, the mortals peck at the corn; only through the Lord's Command will they find release.\nWhatever the Creator does, comes to pass; falsehood shall fail in the end. ||26||\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 038\nShalok, First Mehl:\nThe True Guru is the All-knowing Primal Being; He shows us our true home within the home of the self.\nThe Panch Shabad, the Five Primal Sounds, resonate and resound within; the insignia of the Shabad is revealed there, vibrating gloriously.\nWorlds and realms, nether regions, solar systems and galaxies are wondrously revealed.\nThe strings and the harps vibrate and resound; the true throne of the Lord is there.\nListen to the music of the home of the heart - Sukhmani, peace of mind. Lovingly tune in to His state of celestial ecstasy.\nContemplate the Unspoken Speech, and the desires of the mind are dissolved.\nThe heart-lotus is turned upside-down, and is filled with Ambrosial Nectar. This mind does not go out; it does not get distracted.\nIt does not forget the Chant which is chanted without chanting; it is immersed in the Primal Lord God of the ages.\nAll the sister-companions are blessed with the five virtues. The Gurmukhs dwell in the home of the self deep within.\nNanak is the slave of that one who seeks the Shabad and finds this home within. ||1||\nFirst Mehl:\nThe extravagant glamor of the world is a passing show.\nMy twisted mind does not believe that it will end up in a grave.\nI am meek and lowly; You are the great river.\nPlease, bless me with the one thing; everything else is poison, and does not tempt me.\nYou filled this fragile body with the water of life, O Lord, by Your Creative Power.\nBy Your Omnipotence, I have become powerful.\nNanak is a dog in the Court of the Lord, intoxicated more and more, all the time.\nThe world is on fire; the Name of the Lord is cooling and soothing. ||2||\nNew Pauree, Fifth Mehl:\nHis wonderful play is all-pervading; it is wonderful and amazing!\nAs Gurmukh, I know the the Transcendent Lord, the Supreme Lord God.\nAll my sins and corruption are washed away, through the insignia of the Shabad, the Word of God.\nIn the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, one is saved, and becomes free.\nMeditating, meditating in remembrance on the Great Giver, I enjoy all comforts and pleasures.\nI have become famous throughout the world, under the canopy of His kindness and grace.\nHe Himself has forgiven me, and united me with Himself; I am forever a sacrifice to Him.\nO Nanak, by the Pleasure of His Will, my Lord and Master has blended me with Himself. ||27||\nShalok, First Mehl:\nBlessed is the paper, blessed is the pen, blessed is the inkwell, and blessed is the ink.\nBlessed is the writer, O Nanak, who writes the True Name. ||1||\nFirst Mehl:\nYou Yourself are the writing tablet, and You Yourself are the pen. You are also what is written on it.\nSpeak of the One Lord, O Nanak; how could there be any other? ||2||\nPauree:\nYou Yourself are all-pervading; You Yourself made the making.\nWithout You, there is no other at all; You are permeating and pervading everywhere.\nYou alone know Your state and extent. Only You can estimate Your worth.\nYou are invisible, imperceptible and inaccessible. You are revealed through the Guru's Teachings.\nDeep within, there is ignorance, suffering and doubt; through the spiritual wisdom of the Guru, they are eradicated.\nHe alone meditates on the Naam, whom You unite with Yourself, in Your Mercy.\nYou are the Creator, the Inaccessible Primal Lord God; You are all-pervading everywhere.\nTo whatever You link the mortal, O True Lord, to that he is linked. Nanak sings Your Glorious Praises. ||28||1||\nSUDH||\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 039\nRaag Malaar, The Word Of The Devotee Naam Dayv Jee:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nServe the King, the Sovereign Lord of the World. He has no ancestry; He is immaculate and pure.\nPlease bless me with the gift of devotion, which the humble Saints beg for. ||1||Pause||\nHis Home is the pavilion seen in all directions; His ornamental heavenly realms fill the seven worlds alike.\nIn His Home, the virgin Lakshmi dwells. The moon and the sun are His two lamps; the wretched Messenger of Death stages his dramas, and levies taxes on all.\nSuch is my Sovereign Lord King, the Supreme Lord of all. ||1||\nIn His House, the four-faced Brahma, the cosmic potter lives. He created the entire universe.\nIn His House, the insane Shiva, the Guru of the World, lives; he imparts spiritual wisdom to expain the essence of reality.\nSin and virtue are the standard-bearers at His Door; Chitr and Gupt are the recording angels of the conscious and subconscious.\nThe Righteous Judge of Dharma, the Lord of Destruction, is the door-man.\nSuch is the Supreme Sovereign Lord of the World. ||2||\nIn His Home are the heavenly heralds, celestial singers, Rishis and poor minstrels, who sing so sweetly.\nAll the Shaastras take various forms in His theater, singing beautiful songs.\nThe wind waves the fly-brush over Him;\nHis hand-maiden is Maya, who has conquered the world.\nThe shell of the earth is His fireplace.\nSuch is the Sovereign Lord of the three worlds. ||3||\nIn His Home, the celestial turtle is the bed-frame, woven with the strings of the thousand-headed snake.\nHis flower-girls are the eighteen loads of vegetation; His water-carriers are the nine hundred sixty million clouds.\nHis sweat is the Ganges River.\nThe seven seas are His water-pitchers.\nThe creatures of the world are His household utensils.\nSuch is the Sovereign Lord King of the three worlds. ||4||\nIn His home are Arjuna, Dhroo, Prahlaad, Ambreek, Naarad, Nayjaa, the Siddhas and Buddhas, the ninety-two heavenly heralds and celestial singers in their wondrous play.\nAll the creatures of the world are in His House.\nThe Lord is diffused in the inner beings of all.\nPrays Naam Dayv, seek His Protection.\nAll the devotees are His banner and insignia. ||5||1||\nMALAAR:\nPlease do not forget me; please do not forget me,\nplease do not forget me, O Lord. ||1||Pause||\nThe temple priests have doubts about this, and everyone is furious with me.\nCalling me low-caste and untouchable, they beat me and drove me out; what should I do now, O Beloved Father Lord? ||1||\nIf You liberate me after I am dead, no one will know that I am liberated.\nThese Pandits, these religious scholars, call me low-born; when they say this, they tarnish Your honor as well. ||2||\nYou are called kind and compassionate; the power of Your Arm is absolutely unrivalled.\nThe Lord turned the temple around to face Naam Dayv; He turned His back on the Brahmins. ||3||2||\nSection 31 - Raag Malaar - Part 040\nMalaar, The Word Of The Devotee Ravi Daas Jee:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nO humble townspeople, I am obviously just a shoemaker.\nIn my heart I cherish the Glories of the Lord, the Lord of the Universe. ||1||Pause||\nEven if wine is made from the water of the Ganges, O Saints, do not drink it.\nThis wine, and any other polluted water which mixes with the Ganges, is not separate from it. ||1||\nThe palmyra palm tree is considered impure, and so its leaves are considered impure as well.\nBut if devotional prayers are written on paper made from its leaves, then people bow in reverence and worship before it. ||2||\nIt is my occupation to prepare and cut leather; each day, I carry the carcasses out of the city.\nNow, the important Brahmins of the city bow down before me; Ravi Daas, Your slave, seeks the Sanctuary of Your Name. ||3||1||\nMALAAR:\nThose humble beings who meditate on the Lord's Lotus Feet - none are equal to them.\nThe Lord is One, but He is diffused in many forms. Bring in, bring in, that All-pervading Lord. ||Pause||\nHe who writes the Praises of the Lord God, and sees nothing else at all, is a low-class, untouchable fabric-dyer by trade.\nThe Glory of the Name is seen in the writings of Vyaas and Sanak, throughout the seven continents. ||1||\nAnd he whose family used to kill cows at the festivals of Eed and Bakareed, who worshipped Shayks, martyrs and spiritual teachers,\nwhose father used to do such things - his son Kabeer became so successful that he is now famous throughout the three worlds. ||2||\nAnd all the leather-workers in those families still go around Benares removing the dead cattle\n- the ritualistic Brahmins bow in reverence before their son Ravi Daas, the slave of the Lord's slaves. ||3||2||\nMalaar:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nWhat sort of devotional worship will lead me to meet my Beloved, the Lord of my breath of life?\nIn the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, I have obtained the supreme status. ||Pause||\nHow long shall I wash these dirty clothes?\nHow long shall I remain asleep? ||1||\nWhatever I was attached to, has perished.\nThe shop of false merchandise has closed down. ||2||\nSays Ravi Daas, when the account is called for and given,\nwhatever the mortal has done, he shall see. ||3||1||3||","title":"Raag Malaar","type":"page"}