{"collection":"skh","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/skh/granth/gr34.htm","path":"skh/granth/gr34.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/skh/granth/gr34.htm","text":"One 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:\nRaag Parbhaatee Bibhaas, First Mehl, Chau-Padas, First House:\nYour Name carries us across; Your Name brings respect and worship.\nYour Name embellishes us; it is the object of the awakened mind.\nYour Name brings honor to everyone's name.\nWithout Your Name, no one is ever respected. ||1||\nAll other clever tricks are just for show.\nWhoever the Lord blesses with forgiveness - his affairs are perfectly resolved. ||1||Pause||\nYour Name is my strength; Your Name is my support.\nYour Name is my army; Your Name is my king.\nYour Name brings honor, glory and approval.\nBy Your Grace, one is blessed with the banner and the insignia of Your Mercy. ||2||\nYour Name brings intuitive peace and poise; Your Name brings praise.\nYour Name is the Ambrosial Nectar which cleans out the poison.\nThrough Your Name, all peace and comfort comes to abide in the mind.\nWithout the Name, they are bound and gagged, and dragged off to the City of Death. ||3||\nMan is involved with his wife, hearth and home, land and country,\nthe pleasures of the mind and fine clothes;\nbut when the call comes, he cannot delay.\nO Nanak, in the end, the false turn out to be false. ||4||1||\nPrabhaatee, First Mehl:\nYour Name is the Jewel, and Your Grace is the Light. In awareness, there is Your Light.\nDarkness fills the dark, and then everything is lost. ||1||\nThis whole world is corrupt.\nYour Name is the only cure; nothing else works, O Infinite Creator Lord. ||1||Pause||\nOne side of the scale holds tens of thousands, millions of nether regions and realms.\nO my Beloved, Your Worth could only be estimated if something else could be placed on the other side of the scale. ||2||\nSection 34 - Raag Prabhaatee - Part 002\nOut of pain, pleasure is produced, and out of pleasure comes pain.\nThat mouth which praises You - what hunger could that mouth ever suffer? ||3||\nO Nanak, you alone are foolish; all the rest of the world is good.\nThat body in which the Naam does not well up - that body becomes miserable. ||4||2||\nPrabhaatee, First Mehl:\nFor His sake, Brahma uttered the Vedas, and Shiva renounced Maya.\nFor His sake, the Siddhas became hermits and renunciates; even the gods have not realized His Mystery. ||1||\nO Baba, keep the True Lord in your mind, and utter the Name of the True Lord with your mouth; the True Lord will carry you across.\nEnemies and pain shall not even approach you; only a rare few realize the Wisdom of the Lord. ||1||Pause||\nFire, water and air make up the world; these three are the slaves of the Naam, the Name of the Lord.\nOne who does not chant the Naam is a thief, dwelling in the fortress of the five thieves. ||2||\nIf someone does a good deed for someone else, he totally puffs himself up in his conscious mind.\nThe Lord bestows so many virtues and so much goodness; He does not ever regret it. ||3||\nThose who praise You gather the wealth in their laps; this is Nanak's wealth.\nWhoever shows respect to them is not summoned by the Messenger of Death. ||4||3||\nPrabhaatee, First Mehl:\nOne who has no beauty, no social status, no mouth, no flesh\n- meeting with the True Guru, he finds the Immaculate Lord, and dwells in Your Name. ||1||\nO detached Yogi, contemplate the essence of reality,\nand you shall never again come to be born into the world. ||1||Pause||\nOne who does not have good karma or Dharmic faith, sacred rosary or mala\n- through the Light of God, wisdom is bestowed; the True Guru is our Protector. ||2||\nOne who does not observe any fasts, make religious vows or chant\n- he does not have to worry about good luck or bad, if he obeys the Command of the True Guru. ||3||\nOne who is not hopeful, nor hopeless, who has trained his intuitive consciousness\n- his being blends with the Supreme Being. O Nanak, his awareness is awakened. ||4||4||\nPrabhaatee, First Mehl:\nWhat he says is approved in the Court of the Lord.\nHe looks upon poison and nectar as one and the same. ||1||\nWhat can I say? You are permeating and pervading all.\nWhatever happens, is all by Your Will. ||1||Pause||\nThe Divine Light shines radiantly, and egotistical pride is dispelled.\nThe True Guru bestows the Ambrosial Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||2||\nIn this Dark Age of Kali Yuga, one's birth is approved,\nif one is honored in the True Court. ||3||\nSpeaking and listening, one goes to the Celestial Home of the Indescribable Lord.\nMere words of mouth, O Nanak, are burnt away. ||4||5||\nPrabhaatee, First Mehl:\nOne who bathes in the Ambrosial Water of spiritual wisdom takes with him the virtues of the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage.\nThe Guru's Teachings are the gems and jewels; the Sikh who serves Him searches and finds them. ||1||\nThere is no sacred shrine equal to the Guru.\nThe Guru encompasses the ocean of contentment. ||1||Pause||\nSection 34 - Raag Prabhaatee - Part 003\nThe Guru is the River, from which the Pure Water is obtained forever; it washes away the filth and pollution of evil-mindedness.\nFinding the True Guru, the perfect cleansing bath is obtained, which transforms even beasts and ghosts into gods. ||2||\nHe is said to be the Guru, with the scent of sandalwood, who is imbued with the True Name to the bottom of His Heart.\nBy His Fragrance, the world of vegetation is perfumed. Lovingly focus yourself on His Feet. ||3||\nThe life of the soul wells up for the Gurmukh; the Gurmukh goes to the House of God.\nThe Gurmukh, O Nanak, merges in the True One; the Gurmukh attains the exalted state of the self. ||4||6||\nPrabhaatee, First Mehl:\nBy Guru's Grace, contemplate spiritual knowledge; read it and study it, and you shall be honored.\nWithin the self, the self is revealed, when one is blessed with the Ambrosial Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||1||\nO Creator Lord, You alone are my Benefactor.\nI beg for only one blessing from You: please bless me with Your Name. ||1||Pause||\nThe five wandering thieves are captured and held, and the egotistical pride of the mind is subdued.\nVisions of corruption, vice and evil-mindedness run away. Such is the spiritual wisdom of God. ||2||\nPlease bless me with the rice of truth and self-restraint, the wheat of compassion, and the leaf-plate of meditation.\nBless me with the milk of good karma, and the clarified butter, the ghee, of compassion. Such are the gifts I beg of You, Lord. ||3||\nLet forgiveness and patience be my milk-cows, and let the calf of my mind intuitively drink in this milk.\nI beg for the clothes of modesty and the Lord's Praise; Nanak chants the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||4||7||\nPrabhaatee, First Mehl:\nNo one can hold anyone back from coming; how could anyone hold anyone back from going?\nHe alone thoroughly understands this, from whom all beings come; all are merged and immersed in Him. ||1||\nWaaho! - You are Great, and Wondrous is Your Will.\nWhatever You do, surely comes to pass. Nothing else can happen. ||1||Pause||\nThe buckets on the chain of the Persian wheel rotate; one empties out to fill another.\nThis is just like the Play of our Lord and Master; such is His Glorious Greatness. ||2||\nFollowing the path of intuitive awareness, one turns away from the world, and one's vision is enlightened.\nContemplate this in your mind, and see, O spiritual teacher. Who is the householder, and who is the renunciate? ||3||\nHope comes from the Lord; surrendering to Him, we remain in the state of nirvaanaa.\nWe come from Him; surrendering to Him, O Nanak, one is approved as a householder, and a renunciate. ||4||8||\nPrabhaatee, First Mehl:\nI am a sacrifice to that one who binds in bondage his evil and corrupted gaze.\nOne who does not know the difference between vice and virtue wanders around uselessly. ||1||\nSpeak the True Name of the Creator Lord.\nThen, you shall never again have to come into this world. ||1||Pause||\nThe Creator transforms the high into the low, and makes the lowly into kings.\nThose who know the All-knowing Lord are approved and certified as perfect in this world. ||2||\nIf anyone is mistaken and fooled, you should go to instruct him.\nSection 34 - Raag Prabhaatee - Part 004\nThe Creator Himself plays all the games; only a few understand this. ||3||\nMeditate on the Name, and the Word of the Shabad, in the early hours before dawn; leave your worldly entanglements behind.\nPrays Nanak, the slave of God's slaves: the world loses, and he wins. ||4||9||\nPrabhaatee, First Mehl:\nThe mind is Maya, the mind is a chaser; the mind is a bird flying across the sky.\nThe thieves are overpowered by the Shabad, and then the body-village prospers and celebrates.\nLord, when You save someone, he is saved; his capital is safe and sound. ||1||\nSuch is my Treasure, the Jewel of the Naam;\nplease bless me with the Guru's Teachings, so that I may fall at Your Feet. ||1||Pause||\nThe mind is a Yogi, the mind is a pleasure-seeker; the mind is foolish and ignorant.\nThe mind is the giver, the mind is the beggar; the mind is the Great Guru, the Creator.\nThe five thieves are conquered, and peace is attained; such is the contemplative wisdom of God. ||2||\nThe One Lord is said to be in each and every heart, but no one can see Him.\nThe false are cast upside-down into the womb of reincarnation; without the Name, they lose their honor.\nThose whom You unite, remain united, if it is Your Will. ||3||\nGod does not ask about social class or birth; you must find your true home.\nThat is your social class and that is your status - the karma of what you have done.\nThe pains of death and rebirth are eradicated; O Nanak, salvation is in the Lord's Name. ||4||10||\nPrabhaatee, First Mehl:\nHe is awake, and even happy, but he is being plundered - he is blind!\nThe noose is around his neck, and yet, his head is busy with worldly affairs.\nIn hope, he comes and in desire, he leaves.\nThe strings of his life are all tangled up; he is utterly helpless. ||1||\nThe Lord of Awareness, the Lord of Life is awake and aware.\nHe is the Ocean of peace, the Treasure of Ambrosial Nectar. ||1||Pause||\nHe does not understand what he is told; he is blind - he does not see, and so he does his evil deeds.\nThe Transcendent Lord Himself showers His Love and Affection; by His Grace, He bestows glorious greatness. ||2||\nWith the coming of each and every day, his life is wearing away, bit by bit; but still, his heart is attached to Maya.\nWithout the Guru, he is drowned, and finds no place of rest, as long as he is caught in duality. ||3||\nDay and night, God watches over and takes care of His living beings; they receive pleasure and pain according to their past actions.\nNanak, the unfortunate one, begs for the charity of Truth; please bless him with this glory. ||4||11||\nPrabhaatee, First Mehl:\nIf I remain silent, the world calls me a fool.\nIf I talk too much, I miss out on Your Love.\nMy mistakes and faults will be judged in Your Court.\nWithout the Naam, the Name of the Lord, how can I maintain good conduct? ||1||\nSuch is the falsehood which is plundering the world.\nThe slanderer slanders me, but even so, I love him. ||1||Pause||\nHe alone knows the way, who has been slandered.\nThrough the Word of the Guru's Shabad, he is stamped with the Lord's Insignia in His Court.\nHe realizes the Naam, the Cause of causes, deep within himself.\nHe alone knows the way, who is blessed by the Lord's Glance of Grace. ||2||\nI am filthy and polluted; the True Lord is Immaculate and Sublime.\nCalling oneself sublime, one does not become exalted.\nThe self-willed manmukh openly eats the great poison.\nBut one who becomes Gurmukh is absorbed in the Name. ||3||\nI am blind, deaf, foolish and ignorant,\nSection 34 - Raag Prabhaatee - Part 005\nthe lowest of the low, the worst of the worst.\nI am poor, but I have the Wealth of Your Name, O my Beloved.\nThis is the most excellent wealth; all else is poison and ashes. ||4||\nI pay no attention to slander and praise; I contemplate the Word of the Shabad.\nI celebrate the One who blesses me with His Bounty.\nWhomever You forgive, O Lord, is blessed with status and honor.\nSays Nanak, I speak as He causes me to speak. ||5||12||\nPrabhaatee, First Mehl:\nEating too much, one's filth only increases; wearing fancy clothes, one's home is disgraced.\nTalking too much, one only starts arguments. Without the Name, everything is poison - know this well. ||1||\nO Baba, such is the treacherous trap which has caught my mind;\nriding out the waves of the storm, it will be enlightened by intuitive wisdom. ||1||Pause||\nThey eat poison, speak poison and do poisonous deeds.\nBound and gagged at Death's door, they are punished; they can be saved only through the True Name. ||2||\nAs they come, they go. Their actions are recorded, and go along with them.\nThe self-willed manmukh loses his capital, and is punished in the Court of the Lord. ||3||\nThe world is false and polluted; only the True One is Pure. Contemplate Him through the Word of the Guru's Shabad.\nThose who have God's spiritual wisdom within, are known to be very rare. ||4||\nThey endure the unendurable, and the Nectar of the Lord, the Embodiment of Bliss, trickles into them continuously.\nO Nanak, the fish is in love with the water; if it pleases You, Lord, please enshrine such love within me. ||5||13||\nPrabhaatee, First Mehl:\nSongs, sounds, pleasures and clever tricks;\njoy, love and the power to command;\nfine clothes and food - these have no place in one's consciousness.\nTrue intuitive peace and poise rest in the Naam. ||1||\nWhat do I know about what God does?\nWithout the Naam, the Name of the Lord, nothing makes my body feel good. ||1||Pause||\nYoga, thrills, delicious flavors and ecstasy;\nwisdom, truth and love all come from devotion to the Lord of the Universe.\nMy own occupation is to work to praise the Lord.\nDeep within, I dwell on the Lord of the sun and the moon. ||2||\nI have lovingly enshrined the love of my Beloved within my heart.\nMy Husband Lord, the Lord of the World, is the Master of the meek and the poor.\nNight and day, the Naam is my giving in charity and fasting.\nThe waves have subsided, contemplating the essence of reality. ||3||\nWhat power do I have to speak the Unspoken?\nI worship You with devotion; You inspire me to do so.\nYou dwell deep within; my egotism is dispelled.\nSo whom should I serve? There is no other than You. ||4||\nThe Word of the Guru's Shabad is utterly sweet and sublime.\nSuch is the Ambrosial Nectar I see deep within.\nThose who taste this, attain the state of perfection.\nO Nanak, they are satisfied, and their bodies are at peace. ||5||14||\nPrabhaatee, First Mehl:\nDeep within, I see the Shabad, the Word of God; my mind is pleased and appeased. Nothing else can touch and imbue me.\nDay and night, God watches over and cares for His beings and creatures; He is the Ruler of all. ||1||\nMy God is dyed in the most beautiful and glorious color.\nMerciful to the meek and the poor, my Beloved is the Enticer of the mind; He is so very sweet, imbued with the deep crimson color of His Love. ||1||Pause||\nThe Well is high up in the Tenth Gate; the Ambrosial Nectar flows, and I drink it in.\nThe creation is His; He alone knows its ways and means. The Gurmukh contemplates spiritual wisdom. ||2||\nSection 34 - Raag Prabhaatee - Part 006\nThe rays of light spread out, and the heart-lotus joyfully blossoms forth; the sun enters into the house of the moon.\nI have conquered death; the desires of the mind are destroyed. By Guru's Grace, I have found God. ||3||\nI am dyed in the deep crimson color of His Love. I am not colored by any other color.\nO Nanak, my tongue is saturated with the taste of God, who is permeating and pervading everywhere. ||4||15||\nPrabhaatee, First Mehl:\nThe Yogis are divided into twelve schools, the Sannyaasees into ten.\nThe Yogis and those wearing religious robes, and the Jains with their all hair plucked out - without the Word of the Shabad, the noose is around their necks. ||1||\nThose who are imbued with the Shabad are the perfectly detached renunciates.\nThey beg to receive charity in the hands of their hearts, embracing love and affection for the One. ||1||Pause||\nThe Brahmins study and argue about the scriptures; they perform ceremonial rituals, and lead others in these rituals.\nWithout true understanding, those self-willed manmukhs understand nothing. Separated from God, they suffer in pain. ||2||\nThose who receive the Shabad are sanctified and pure; they are approved in the True Court.\nNight and day, they remain lovingly attuned to the Naam; throughout the ages, they are merged in the True One. ||3||\nGood deeds, righteousness and Dharmic faith, purification, austere self-discipline, chanting, intense meditation and pilgrimages to sacred shrines - all these abide in the Shabad.\nO Nanak, united in union with the True Guru, suffering, sin and death run away. ||4||16||\nPrabhaatee, First Mehl:\nThe dust of the feet of the Saints, the Company of the Holy, and the Praises of the Lord carry us across to the other side.\nWhat can the wretched, terrified Messenger of Death do to the Gurmukhs? The Lord abides in their hearts. ||1||\nWithout the Naam, the Name of the Lord, life might just as well be burnt down.\nThe Gurmukh chants and meditates on the Lord, chanting the chant on the mala; the Flavor of the Lord comes into the mind. ||1||Pause||\nThose who follow the Guru's Teachings find true peace - how can I even describe the glory of such a person?\nThe Gurmukh seeks and finds the gems and jewels, diamonds, rubies and treasures. ||2||\nSo center yourself on the treasures of spiritual wisdom and meditation; remain lovingly attuned to the One True Lord, and the Word of His Shabad.\nRemain absorbed in the Primal State of the Fearless, Immaculate, Independent, Self-sufficient Lord. ||3||\nThe seven seas are overflowing with the Immaculate Water; the inverted boat floats across.\nThe mind which wandered in external distractions is restrained and held in check; the Gurmukh is intuitively absorbed in God. ||4||\nHe is a householder, he is a renunciate and God's slave, who, as Gurmukh, realizes his own self.\nSays Nanak, his mind is pleased and appeased by the True Word of the Shabad; there is no other at all. ||5||17||\nRaag Prabhaatee, Third Mehl, Chau-Padas:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nThose who become Gurmukh and understand are very rare; God is permeating and pervading through the Word of His Shabad.\nThose who are imbued with the Naam, the Name of the Lord, find everlasting peace; they remain lovingly attuned to the True One. ||1||\nSection 34 - Raag Prabhaatee - Part 007\nChant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, O Siblings of Destiny.\nBy Guru's Grace, the mind becomes steady and stable; night and day, it remains satisfied with the Sublime Essence of the Lord. ||1||Pause||\nNight and day, perform devotional worship service to the Lord, day and night; this is the profit to be obtained in this Dark Age of Kali Yuga, O Siblings of Destiny.\nThe humble beings are forever immaculate; no filth ever sticks to them. They focus their consciousness on the True Name. ||2||\nThe True Guru has revealed the ornamentation of peace; the Glorious Greatness of the Naam is Great!\nThe Inexhaustible Treasures are overflowing; they are never exhausted. So serve the Lord forever, O Siblings of Destiny. ||3||\nThe Creator comes to abide in the minds of those whom He Himself has blessed.\nO Nanak, meditate forever on the Naam, which the True Guru has revealed. ||4||1||\nPrabhaatee, Third Mehl:\nI am unworthy; please forgive me and bless me, O my Lord and Master, and unite me with Yourself.\nYou are Endless; no one can find Your limits. Through the Word of Your Shabad, You bestow understanding. ||1||\nO Dear Lord, I am a sacrifice to You.\nI dedicate my mind and body and place them in offering before You; I shall remain in Your Sanctuary forever. ||1||Pause||\nPlease keep me forever under Your Will, O my Lord and Master; please bless me with the Glorious Greatness of Your Name.\nThrough the Perfect Guru, God's Will is revealed; night and day, remain absorbed in peace and poise. ||2||\nThose devotees who accept Your Will are pleasing to You, Lord; You Yourself forgive them, and unite them with Yourself.\nAccepting Your Will, I have found everlasting peace; the Guru has extinguished the fire of desire. ||3||\nWhatever You do comes to pass, O Creator; nothing else can be done.\nO Nanak, nothing is as great as the Blessing of the Name; it is obtained through the Perfect Guru. ||4||2||\nPrabhaatee, Third Mehl:\nThe Gurmukhs praise the Lord; praising the Lord, they know Him.\nDoubt and duality are gone from within; they realize the Word of the Guru's Shabad. ||1||\nO Dear Lord, You are my One and Only.\nI meditate on You and praise You; salvation and wisdom come from You. ||1||Pause||\nThe Gurmukhs praise You; they receive the most excellent and sweet Ambrosial Nectar.\nThis Nectar is forever sweet; it never loses its taste. Contemplate the Word of the Guru's Shabad. ||2||\nHe makes it seem so sweet to me; I am a sacrifice to Him.\nThrough the Shabad, I praise the Giver of peace forever. I have eradicated self-conceit from within. ||3||\nMy True Guru is forever the Giver. I receive whatever fruits and rewards I desire.\nO Nanak, through the Naam, glorious greatness is obtained; through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, the True One is found. ||4||3||\nPrabhaatee, Third Mehl:\nThose who enter Your Sanctuary, Dear Lord, are saved by Your Protective Power.\nI cannot even conceive of any other as Great as You. There never was, and there never shall be. ||1||\nO Dear Lord, I shall remain in Your Sanctuary forever.\nAs it pleases You, You save me, O my Lord and Master; this is Your Glorious Greatness. ||1||Pause||\nO Dear Lord, You cherish and sustain those who seek Your Sanctuary.\nSection 34 - Raag Prabhaatee - Part 008\nO Dear Lord, the Messenger of Death cannot even touch those whom You, in Your Mercy, protect. ||2||\nTrue Is Your Sanctuary, O Dear Lord; it never diminishes or goes away.\nThose who abandon the Lord, and become attached to the love of duality, shall continue to die and be reborn. ||3||\nThose who seek Your Sanctuary, Dear Lord, shall never suffer in pain or hunger for anything.\nO Nanak, praise the Naam, the Name of the Lord forever, and merge in the True Word of the Shabad. ||4||4||\nPrabhaatee, Third Mehl:\nAs Gurmukh, meditate on the Dear Lord forever, as long as there is the breath of life.\nThrough the Word of the Guru's Shabad, the mind becomes immaculate, and egotistical pride is expelled from the mind.\nFruitful and prosperous is the life of that mortal being, who is absorbed in the Name of the Lord. ||1||\nO my mind, listen to the Teachings of the Guru.\nThe Name of the Lord is the Giver of peace forever. With intuitive ease, drink in the Sublime Essence of the Lord. ||1||Pause||\nThose who understand their own origin dwell within the home of their inner being, in intuitive peace and poise.\nThrough the Word of the Guru's Shabad, the heart-lotus blossoms forth, and egotism and evil-mindedness are eradicated.\nThe One True Lord is pervading amongst all; those who realize this are very rare. ||2||\nThrough the Guru's Teachings, the mind becomes immaculate, speaking the Ambrosial Essence.\nThe Name of the Lord dwells in the mind forever; within the mind, the mind is pleased and appeased.\nI am forever a sacrifice to my Guru, through whom I have realized the Lord, the Supreme Soul. ||3||\nThose human beings who do not serve the True Guru - their lives are uselessly wasted.\nWhen God bestows His Glance of Grace, then we meet the True Guru, merging in intuitive peace and poise.\nO Nanak, by great good fortune, the Naam is bestowed; by perfect destiny, meditate. ||4||5||\nPrabhaatee, Third Mehl:\nGod Himself fashioned the many forms and colors; He created the Universe and staged the play.\nCreating the creation, He watches over it. He acts, and causes all to act; He gives sustenance to all beings. ||1||\nIn this Dark Age of Kali Yuga, the Lord is All-pervading.\nThe One God is pervading and permeating each and every heart; the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, is revealed to the Gurmukh. ||1||Pause||\nThe Naam, the Name of the Lord, is hidden, but it is pervasive in the Dark Age. The Lord is totally pervading and permeating each and every heart.\nThe Jewel of the Naam is revealed within the hearts of those who hurry to the Sanctuary of the Guru. ||2||\nWhoever overpowers the five sense organs, is blessed with forgiveness, patience and contentment, through the Guru's Teachings.\nBlessed, blessed, perfect and great is that humble servant of the Lord, who is inspired by the Fear of God and detached love, to sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||3||\nIf someone turns his face away from the Guru, and does not enshrine the Guru's Words in his consciousness\n- he may perform all sorts of rituals and accumulate wealth, but in the end, he will fall into hell. ||4||\nThe One Shabad, the Word of the One God, is prevailing everywhere. All the creation came from the One Lord.\nO Nanak, the Gurmukh is united in union. When the Gurmukh goes, he blends into the Lord, Har, Har. ||5||6||\nPrabhaatee, Third Mehl:\nO my mind, praise your Guru.\nSection 34 - Raag Prabhaatee - Part 009\nPerfect destiny is inscribed upon your forehead and face; sing the Praises of the Lord forever. ||1||Pause||\nThe Lord bestows the Ambrosial Food of the Naam.\nOut of millions, only a rare few receive it\n- only those who are blessed by God's Glance of Grace. ||1||\nWhoever enshrines the Guru's Feet within his mind,\nis rid of pain and darkness from within.\nThe True Lord unites him with Himself. ||2||\nSo embrace love for the Word of the Guru's Bani.\nHere and hereafter, this is your only Support.\nThe Creator Lord Himself bestows it. ||3||\nOne whom the Lord inspires to accept His Will,\nis a wise and knowing devotee.\nNanak is forever a sacrifice to him. ||4||7||17||7||24||\nPrabhaatee, Fourth Mehl, Bibhaas:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nThrough the Guru's Teachings, I sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord with joyous love and delight; I am enraptured, lovingly attuned to the Naam, the Name of the Lord.\nThrough the Word of the Guru's Shabad, I drink in the Ambrosial Essence; I am a sacrifice to the Naam. ||1||\nThe Lord, the Life of the World, is my Breath of Life.\nThe Lofty and Exalted Lord became pleasing to my heart and my inner being, when the Guru breathed the Mantra of the Lord into my ears. ||1||Pause||\nCome, O Saints: let us join together, O Siblings of Destiny; let us meet and chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.\nHow am I to find my God? Please bless me with the Gift of the Lord's Teachings. ||2||\nThe Lord, Har, Har, abides in the Society of the Saints; joining this Sangat, the Lord's Glories are known.\nBy great good fortune, the Society of the Saints is found. Through the Guru, the True Guru, I receive the Touch of the Lord God. ||3||\nI sing the Glorious Praises of God, my Inaccessible Lord and Master; singing His Praises, I am enraptured.\nThe Guru has showered His Mercy on servant Nanak; in an instant, He blessed him with the Gift of the Lord's Name. ||4||1||\nPrabhaatee, Fourth Mehl:\nWith the rising of the sun, the Gurmukh speaks of the Lord. All through the night, he dwells upon the Sermon of the Lord.\nMy God has infused this longing within me; I seek my Lord God. ||1||\nMy mind is the dust of the feet of the Holy.\nThe Guru has implanted the Sweet Name of the Lord, Har, Har, within me. I dust the Guru's Feet with my hair. ||1||Pause||\nDark are the days and nights of the faithless cynics; they are caught in the trap of attachment to Maya.\nThe Lord God does not dwell in their hearts, even for an instant; every hair of their heads is totally tied up in debts. ||2||\nJoining the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation, wisdom and understanding are obtained, and one is released from the traps of egotism and possessiveness.\nThe Lord's Name, and the Lord, seem sweet to me. Through the Word of His Shabad, the Guru has made me happy. ||3||\nI am just a child; the Guru is the Unfathomable Lord of the World. In His Mercy, He cherishes and sustains me.\nI am drowning in the ocean of poison; O God, Guru, Lord of the World, please save Your child, Nanak. ||4||2||\nPrabhaatee, Fourth Mehl:\nThe Lord God showered me with His Mercy for an instant; I sing His Glorious Praises with joyous love and delight.\nSection 34 - Raag Prabhaatee - Part 010\nBoth the singer and the listener are liberated, when, as Gurmukh, they drink in the Lord's Name, even for an instant. ||1||\nThe Sublime Essence of the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, is enshrined within my mind.\nAs Gurmukh, I have obtained the cooling, soothing Water of the Naam. I eagerly drink in the sublime essence of the Name of the Lord, Har, Har. ||1||Pause||\nThose whose hearts are imbued with the Love of the Lord have the mark of radiant purity upon their foreheads.\nThe Glory of the Lord's humble servant is manifest throughout the world, like the moon among the stars. ||2||\nThose whose hearts are not filled with the Lord's Name - all their affairs are worthless and insipid.\nThey may adorn and decorate their bodies, but without the Naam, they look like their noses have been cut off. ||3||\nThe Sovereign Lord permeates each and every heart; the One Lord is all-pervading everywhere.\nThe Lord has showered His Mercy upon servant Nanak; through the Word of the Guru's Teachings, I have meditated on the Lord in an instant. ||4||3||\nPrabhaatee, Fourth Mehl:\nGod, the Inaccessible and Merciful, has showered me with His Mercy; I chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, with my mouth.\nI meditate on the Name of the Lord, the Purifier of sinners; I am rid of all my sins and mistakes. ||1||\nO mind, chant the Name of the All-pervading Lord.\nI sing the Praises of the Lord, Merciful to the meek, Destroyer of pain. Following the Guru's Teachings, I gather in the Wealth of the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||1||Pause||\nThe Lord abides in the body-village; through the Wisdom of the Guru's Teachings, the Lord, Har, Har, is revealed.\nIn the lake of the body, the Lord's Name has been revealed. Within my own home and mansion, I have obtained the Lord God. ||2||\nThose beings who wander in the wilderness of doubt - those faithless cynics are foolish, and are plundered.\nThey are like the deer: the scent of musk comes from its own navel, but it wanders and roams around, searching for it in the bushes. ||3||\nYou are Great and Unfathomable; Your Wisdom, God, is Profound and Incomprehensible. Please bless me with that wisdom, by which I might attain You, O Lord God.\nThe Guru has placed His Hand upon servant Nanak; he chants the Name of the Lord. ||4||4||\nPrabhaatee, Fourth Mehl:\nMy mind is in love with the Name of the Lord, Har, Har; I meditate on the Great Lord God.\nThe Word of the True Guru has become pleasing to my heart. The Lord God has showered me with His Grace. ||1||\nO my mind, vibrate and meditate on the Lord's Name every instant.\nThe Perfect Guru has blessed me with the gift of the Name of the Lord, Har, Har. The Lord's Name abides in my mind and body. ||1||Pause||\nThe Lord abides in the body-village, in my home and mansion. As Gurmukh, I meditate on His Glory.\nHere and hereafter, the Lord's humble servants are embellished and exalted; their faces are radiant; as Gurmukh, they are carried across. ||2||\nI am lovingly attuned to the Fearless Lord, Har, Har, Har; through the Guru, I have enshrined the Lord within my heart in an instant.\nMillions upon millions of the faults and mistakes of the Lord's humble servant are all taken away in an instant. ||3||\nYour humble servants are known only through You, God; knowing You, they becomes supreme.\nThe Lord, Har, Har, has enshrined Himself within His humble servant. O Nanak, the Lord God and His servant are one and the same. ||4||5||\nSection 34 - Raag Prabhaatee - Part 011\nPrabhaatee, Fourth Mehl:\nThe Guru, the True Guru, has implanted the Naam, the Name of the Lord within me. I was dead, but chanting the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, I have been brought back to life.\nBlessed, blessed is the Guru, the Guru, the Perfect True Guru; He reached out to me with His Arm, and pulled me up and out of the ocean of poison. ||1||\nO mind, meditate and worship the Lord's Name.\nGod is never found, even by making all sorts of new efforts. The Lord God is obtained only through the Perfect Guru. ||1||Pause||\nThe Sublime Essence of the Lord's Name is the source of nectar and bliss; drinking in this Sublime Essence, following the Guru's Teachings, I have become happy.\nEven iron slag is transformed into gold, joining the Lord's Congregation. Through the Guru, the Lord's Light is enshrined within the heart. ||2||\nThose who are continually lured by greed, egotism and corruption, who are lured away by emotional attachment to their children and spouse\n- they never serve at the feet of the Saints; those self-willed manmukhs are filled with ashes. ||3||\nO God, You alone know Your Glorious Virtues; I have grown weary - I seek Your Sanctuary.\nAs You know best, You preserve and protect me, O my Lord and Master; servant Nanak is Your slave. ||4||6||\nFirst Set Of Six||\nPrabhaatee, Bibhaas, Partaal, Fourth Mehl:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nO mind, meditate on the Treasure of the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.\nYou shall be honored in the Court of the Lord.\nThose who chant and meditate shall be carried across to the other shore. ||1||Pause||\nListen, O mind: meditate on the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.\nListen, O mind: the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises is equal to bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage.\nListen, O mind: as Gurmukh, you shall be blessed with honor. ||1||\nO mind, chant and meditate on the Supreme Transcendent Lord God.\nMillions of sins shall be destroyed in an instant.\nO Nanak, you shall meet with the Lord God. ||2||1||7||\nPrabhaatee, Fifth Mehl, Bibhaas:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nThe Lord created the mind, and fashioned the entire body.\nFrom the five elements, He formed it, and infused His Light within it.\nHe made the earth its bed, and water for it to use.\nDo not forget Him for an instant; serve the Lord of the World. ||1||\nO mind, serve the True Guru, and obtain the supreme status.\nIf you remain unattached and unaffected by sorrow and joy, then you shall find the Lord of Life. ||1||Pause||\nHe makes all the various pleasures, clothes and foods for you to enjoy.\nHe made your mother, father and all relatives.\nHe provides sustenance to all, in the water and on the land, O friend.\nSo serve the Lord, forever and ever. ||2||\nHe shall be your Helper and Support there, where no one else can help you.\nHe washes away millions of sins in an instant.\nHe bestows His Gifts, and never regrets them.\nHe forgives, once and for all, and never asks for one's account again. ||3||\nSection 34 - Raag Prabhaatee - Part 012\nBy pre-ordained destiny, I have searched and found God.\nIn the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, the Lord of the World abides.\nMeeting with the Guru, I have come to Your Door.\nO Lord, please bless servant Nanak with the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan. ||4||1||\nPrabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:\nServing God, His humble servant is glorified.\nUnfulfilled sexual desire, unresolved anger and unsatisfied greed are eradicated.\nYour Name is the treasure of Your humble servant.\nSinging His Praises, I am in love with the Blessed Vision of God's Darshan. ||1||\nYou are known, O God, by Your devotees.\nBreaking their bonds, You emancipate them. ||1||Pause||\nThose humble beings who are imbued with God's Love\nfind peace in God's Congregation.\nThey alone understand this, to whom this subtle essence comes.\nBeholding it, and gazing upon it, in their minds they are wonderstruck. ||2||\nThey are at peace, the most exalted of all,\nwithin whose hearts God dwells.\nThey are stable and unchanging; they do not come and go in reincarnation.\nNight and day, they sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord God. ||3||\nAll bow down in humble respect to those\nwhose minds are filled with the Formless Lord.\nShow mercy unto me, O my Divine Lord and Master.\nMay Nanak be saved, by serving these humble beings. ||4||2||\nPrabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:\nSinging His Glorious Praises, the mind is in ecstasy.\nTwenty-four hours a day, I meditate in remembrance on God.\nRemembering Him in meditation, the sins go away.\nI fall at the Feet of that Guru. ||1||\nO beloved Saints, please bless me with wisdom;\nlet me meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord, and be emancipated. ||1||Pause||\nThe Guru has shown me the straight path;\nI have abandoned everything else. I am enraptured with the Name of the Lord.\nI am forever a sacrifice to that Guru;\nI meditate in remembrance on the Lord, through the Guru. ||2||\nThe Guru carries those mortal beings across, and saves them from drowning.\nBy His Grace, they are not enticed by Maya;\nin this world and the next, they are embellished and exalted by the Guru.\nI am forever a sacrifice to that Guru. ||3||\nFrom the most ignorant, I have been made spiritually wise,\nthrough the Unspoken Speech of the Perfect Guru.\nThe Divine Guru, O Nanak, is the Supreme Lord God.\nBy great good fortune, I serve the Lord. ||4||3||\nPrabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:\nEradicating all my pains, He has blessed me with peace, and inspired me to chant His Name.\nIn His Mercy, He has enjoined me to His service, and has purged me of all my sins. ||1||\nI am only a child; I seek the Sanctuary of God the Merciful.\nErasing my demerits and faults, God has made me His Own. My Guru, the Lord of the World, protects me. ||1||Pause||\nMy sicknesses and sins were erased in an instant, when the Lord of the World became merciful.\nWith each and very breath, I worship and adore the Supreme Lord God; I am a sacrifice to the True Guru. ||2||\nMy Lord and Master is Inaccessible, Unfathomable and Infinite. His limits cannot be found.\nWe earn the profit, and become wealthy, meditating on our God. ||3||\nSection 34 - Raag Prabhaatee - Part 013\nTwenty-four hours a day, I meditate on the Supreme Lord God; I sing His Glorious Praises forever and ever.\nSays Nanak, my desires have been fulfilled; I have found my Guru, the Supreme Lord God. ||4||4||\nPrabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:\nMeditating in rememberance on the Naam, all my sins have been erased.\nThe Guru has blessed me with the Capital of the True Name.\nGod's servants are embellished and exalted in His Court;\nserving Him, they look beauteous forever. ||1||\nChant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, O my Siblings of Destiny.\nAll sickness and sin shall be erased; your mind shall be rid of the darkness of ignorance. ||1||Pause||\nThe Guru has saved me from death and rebirth, O friend;\nI am in love with the Name of the Lord.\nThe suffering of millions of incarnations is gone;\nwhatever pleases Him is good. ||2||\nI am forever a sacrifice to the Guru;\nby His Grace, I meditate on the Lord's Name.\nBy great good fortune, such a Guru is found;\nmeeting Him, one is lovingly attuned to the Lord. ||3||\nPlease be merciful, O Supreme Lord God, O Lord and Master,\nInner-knower, Searcher of Hearts.\nTwenty-four hours a day, I am lovingly attuned to You.\nServant Nanak has come to the Sanctuary of God. ||4||5||\nPrabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:\nIn His Mercy, God has made me His Own.\nHe has blessed me with the Naam, the Name of the Lord.\nTwenty-four hours a day, I sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord of the Universe.\nFear is dispelled, and all anxiety has been alleviated. ||1||\nI have been saved, touching the Feet of the True Guru.\nWhatever the Guru says is good and sweet to me. I have renounced the intellectual wisdom of my mind. ||1||Pause||\nThat Lord God abides within my mind and body.\nThere are no conflicts, pains or obstacles.\nForever and ever, God is with my soul.\nFilth and pollution are washed away by the Love of the Name. ||2||\nI am in love with the Lotus Feet of the Lord;\nI am no longer consumed by sexual desire, anger and egotism.\nNow, I know the way to meet God.\nThrough loving devotional worship, my mind is pleased and appeased with the Lord. ||3||\nListen, O friends, Saints, my exalted companions.\nThe Jewel of the Naam, the Name of the Lord, is unfathomable and immeasurable.\nForever and ever, sing the Glories of God, the Treasure of Virtue.\nSays Nanak, by great good fortune, He is found. ||4||6||\nPrabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:\nThey are wealthy, and they are the true merchants,\nwho have the credit of the Naam in the Court of the Lord. ||1||\nSo chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, in your mind, my friends.\nThe Perfect Guru is found by great good fortune, and then one's lifestyle becomes perfect and immaculate. ||1||Pause||\nThey earn the profit, and the congratulations pour in;\nby the Grace of the Saints, they sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||2||\nTheir lives are fruitful and prosperous, and their birth is approved;\nby Guru's Grace, they enjoy the Love of the Lord. ||3||\nSexuality, anger and egotism are wiped away;\nO Nanak, as Gurmukh, they are carried across to the other shore. ||4||7||\nPrabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:\nThe Guru is Perfect, and Perfect is His Power.\nSection 34 - Raag Prabhaatee - Part 014\nThe Word of the Guru's Shabad is unchanging, forever and ever.\nAll pains and afflictions run away from those, whose minds are filled with the Word of the Guru's Bani. ||1||\nImbued with the Lord's Love, they sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord.\nThey are liberated, bathing in the dust of the feet of the Holy. ||1||Pause||\nBy Guru's Grace, they are carried across to the other shore;\nthey are rid of fear, doubt and corruption.\nThe Guru's Feet abide deep within their minds and bodies.\nThe Holy are fearless; they take to the Sanctuary of the Lord. ||2||\nThey are blessed with abundant bliss, happiness, pleasure and peace.\nEnemies and pains do not even approach them.\nThe Perfect Guru makes them His Own, and protects them.\nChanting the Lord's Name, they are rid of all their sins. ||3||\nThe Saints, spiritual companions and Sikhs are exalted and uplifted.\nThe Perfect Guru leads them to meet God.\nThe painful noose of death and rebirth is snapped.\nSays Nanak, the Guru covers their faults. ||4||8||\nPrabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:\nThe Perfect True Guru has bestowed the Naam, the Name of the Lord.\nI am blessed with bliss and happiness, emancipation and eternal peace. All my affairs have been resolved. ||1||Pause||\nThe Lotus Feet of the Guru abide within my mind.\nI am rid of pain, suffering, doubt and fraud. ||1||\nRise early, and sing the Glorious Word of God's Bani.\nTwenty-four hours a day, meditate in remembrance on the Lord, O mortal. ||2||\nInwardly and outwardly, God is everywhere.\nWherever I go, He is always with me, my Helper and Support. ||3||\nWith my palms pressed together, I offer this prayer.\nO Nanak, I meditate forever on the Lord, the Treasure of Virtue. ||4||9||\nPrabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:\nThe Supreme Lord God is All-wise and All-knowing.\nThe Perfect Guru is found by great good fortune. I am a sacrifice to the Blessed Vision of His Darshan. ||1||Pause||\nMy sins are cut away, through the Word of the Shabad, and I have found contentment.\nI have become worthy of worshipping the Naam in adoration.\nIn the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, I have been enlightened.\nThe Lord's Lotus Feet abide within my mind. ||1||\nThe One who made us, protects and preserves us.\nGod is Perfect, the Master of the masterless.\nThose, upon whom He showers His Mercy\n- they have perfect karma and conduct. ||2||\nThey sing the Glories of God, continually, continuously, forever fresh and new.\nThey do not wander in the 8.4 million incarnations.\nHere and hereafter, they worship the Lord's Feet.\nTheir faces are radiant, and they are honored in the Court of the Lord. ||3||\nThat person, upon whose forehead the Guru places His Hand\n- out of millions, how rare is that slave.\nHe sees God pervading and permeating the water, the land and the sky.\nNanak is saved by the dust of the feet of such a humble being. ||4||10||\nPrabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:\nI am a sacrifice to my Perfect Guru.\nBy His Grace, I chant and meditate on the Lord, Har, Har. ||1||Pause||\nListening to the Ambrosial Word of His Bani, I am exalted and enraptured.\nMy corrupt and poisonous entanglements are gone. ||1||\nI am in love with the True Word of His Shabad.\nThe Lord God has come into my consciousness. ||2||\nChanting the Naam, I am enlightened.\nSection 34 - Raag Prabhaatee - Part 015\nThe Word of the Guru's Shabad has come to dwell within my heart. ||3||\nThe Guru is All-powerful and Merciful forever.\nChanting and meditating on the Lord, Nanak is exalted and enraptured. ||4||11||\nPrabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:\nChanting Guru, Guru, I have found eternal peace.\nGod, Merciful to the meek, has become kind and compassionate; He has inspired me to chant His Name. ||1||Pause||\nJoining the Society of the Saints, I am illumined and enlightened.\nChanting the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, my hopes have been fulfilled. ||1||\nI am blessed with total salvation, and my mind is filled with peace.\nI sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord; O Nanak, the Guru has been gracious to me. ||2||12||\nPrabhaatee, Fifth Mehl, Second House, Bibhaas:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nThere is no other place of rest,\nnone at all, without the Lord's Name.\nThere is total success and salvation,\nand all affairs are perfectly resolved. ||1||\nConstantly chant the Name of the Lord.\nSexuality, anger and egotism are wiped away; let yourself fall in love with the One Lord. ||1||Pause||\nAttached to the Naam, the Name of the Lord, pain runs away. In His Sanctuary, He cherishes and sustains us.\nWhoever has such pre-ordained destiny meets with the True Guru; the Messenger of Death cannot grab him. ||2||\nNight and day, meditate on the Lord, Har, Har; abandon the doubts of your mind.\nOne who has perfect karma joins the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, and meets the Lord. ||3||\nThe sins of countless lifetimes are erased, and one is protected by the Lord Himself.\nHe is our Mother, Father, Friend and Sibling; O servant Nanak, meditate on the Lord, Har, Har. ||4||1||13||\nPrabhaatee, Fifth Mehl, Bibhaas, Partaal:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nChant the Name of the Lord, Raam, Raam, Raam.\nConflict, suffering, greed and emotional attachment shall be dispelled, and the fever of egotism shall be relieved. ||1||Pause||\nRenounce your selfishness, and grasp the feet of the Saints; your mind shall be sanctified, and your sins shall be taken away. ||1||\nNanak, the child, does not know anything at all. O God, please protect me; You are my Mother and Father. ||2||1||14||\nPrabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:\nI have taken the Shelter and Support of the Lord's Lotus Feet.\nYou are Lofty and Exalted, Grand and Infinite, O my Lord and Master; You alone are above all. ||1||Pause||\nHe is the Support of the breath of life, the Destroyer of pain, the Giver of discriminating understanding. ||1||\nSo bow down in respect to the Savior Lord; worship and adore the One God.\nBathing in the dust of the feet of the Saints, Nanak is blessed with countless comforts. ||2||2||15||\nSection 34 - Raag Prabhaatee - Part 016\nPrabhaatee, Ashtapadees, First Mehl, Bibhaas:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nThe insanity of duality has driven the mind insane.\nIn false greed, life is wasting away.\nDuality clings to the mind; it cannot be restrained.\nThe True Guru saves us, implanting the Naam, the Name of the Lord within. ||1||\nWithout subduing the mind, Maya cannot be subdued.\nThe One who created this, He alone understands. Contemplating the Word of the Shabad, one is carried across the terrifying world-ocean. ||1||Pause||\nGathering the wealth of Maya, kings become proud and arrogant.\nBut this Maya that they love so much shall not go along with them in the end.\nThere are so many colors and flavors of attachment to Maya.\nExcept for the Name, no one has any friend or companion. ||2||\nAccording to one's own mind, one sees the minds of others.\nAccording to one's desires, one's condition is determined.\nAccording to one's actions, one is focused and tuned in.\nSeeking the advice of the True Guru, one finds the home of peace and poise. ||3||\nIn music and song, the mind is caught by the love of duality.\nFilled with deception deep within, one suffers in terrible pain.\nMeeting with the True Guru, one is blessed with clear understanding,\nand remains lovingly attuned to the True Name. ||4||\nThrough the True Word of the Shabad, one practices Truth.\nHe sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord, through the True Word of His Bani.\nHe dwells in the home of his own heart deep within, and obtains the immortal status.\nThen, he is blessed with honor in the Court of the True Lord. ||5||\nWithout serving the Guru, there is no devotional worship,\neven though one may make all sorts of efforts.\nIf one eradicates egotism and selfishness through the Shabad,\nthe Immaculate Naam comes to abide in the mind. ||6||\nIn this world, the practice of the Shabad is the most excellent occupation.\nWithout the Shabad, everything else is the darkness of emotional attachment.\nThrough the Shabad, the Naam is enshrined within the heart.\nThrough the Shabad, one obtains clear understanding and the door of salvation. ||7||\nThere is no other Creator except the All-seeing Lord God.\nThe True Lord Himself is Infinite and Incomparably Beautiful.\nThrough the Lord's Name, one obtains the most sublime and exalted state.\nO Nanak, how rare are those humble beings, who seek and find the Lord. ||8||1||\nPrabhaatee, First Mehl:\nEmotional attachment to Maya is spread out all over the world.\nSeeing a beautiful woman, the man is overcome with sexual desire.\nHis love for his children and gold steadily increases.\nHe sees everything as his own, but he does not own the One Lord. ||1||\nI meditate as I chant on such a mala,\nthat I rise above pleasure and pain; I attain the most wondrous devotional worship of the Lord. ||1||Pause||\nO Treasure of Virtue, Your limits cannot be found.\nThrough the True Word of the Shabad, I am absorbed into You.\nYou Yourself created the comings and goings of reincarnation.\nThey alone are devotees, who focus their consciousness on You. ||2||\nSpiritual wisdom and meditation on the Lord, the Lord of Nirvaanaa\n- without meeting the True Guru, no one knows this.\nThe Lord's Light fills the sacred pools of all beings.\nI am a sacrifice to the Embodiment of Bliss. ||3||\nThrough the Guru's Teachings, one achieves loving devotional worship.\nThe Shabad burns away egotism from within.\nSection 34 - Raag Prabhaatee - Part 017\nThe wandering mind is restrained and held in its place.\nThe True Name is enshrined in the mind. ||4||\nThe exciting and intoxicating worldly plays come to an end,\nfor those who accept the Guru's Teachings, and become lovingly attuned to the One Lord.\nSeeing this, the fire in the water is extinguished.\nThey alone realize this, who are blessed by great good fortune. ||5||\nServing the True Guru, doubt is dispelled.\nThose who are lovingly attuned to the True Lord remain awake and aware night and day.\nThey know the One Lord, and no other.\nServing the Giver of peace, they become immaculate. ||6||\nSelfless service and intuitive awareness come by reflecting upon the Word of the Shabad.\nChanting, intensive meditation and austere self-discipline come by subduing the ego.\nOne becomes Jivan-mukta - liberated while yet alive, by listening to the Shabad.\nLiving a truthful way of life, one finds true peace. ||7||\nThe Giver of peace is the Eradicator of pain.\nI cannot conceive of serving any other.\nI place my body, mind and wealth in offering before Him.\nSays Nanak, I have tasted the supreme, sublime Essence of the Lord. ||8||2||\nPrabhaatee, First Mehl:\nYou may perform exercises of inner purification, and fire up the furnace of the Kundalini, inhaling and exhaling and holding the breath.\nWithout the True Guru, you will not understand; deluded by doubt, you shall drown and die.\nThe spiritually blind are filled with filth and pollution; they may wash, but the filth within shall never depart.\nWithout the Naam, the Name of the Lord, all their actions are useless, like the magician who deceives through illuions. ||1||\nThe merits of the six religious rituals are obtained through the Immaculate Naam.\nYou, O Lord, are the Ocean of virtue; I am so unworthy. ||1||Pause||\nRunning around chasing the entanglements of Maya is an evil-minded act of corruption.\nThe fool makes a show of his self-conceit; he does not know how to behave.\nThe self-willed manmukh is enticed by his desires for Maya; his words are useless and empty.\nThe ritual cleansings of the sinner are fradulent; his rituals and decorations are useless and empty. ||2||\nFalse is the wisdom of the mind; its actions inspire useless disputes.\nThe false are filled with egotism; they do not obtain the sublime taste of their Lord and Master.\nWithout the Name, whatever else they do is tasteless and insipid.\nAssociating with their enemies, they are plundered and ruined. Their speech is poison, and their lives are useless. ||3||\nDo not be deluded by doubt; do not invite your own death.\nServe the True Guru, and you shall be at peace forever.\nWithout the True Guru, no one is liberated.\nThey come and go in reincarnation; they die, only to be reborn and die again. ||4||\nThis body wanders, caught in the three dispositions.\nIt is afflicted by sorrow and suffering.\nSo serve the One who has no mother or father.\nDesire and selfishness shall depart from within. ||5||\nWherever I look, I see Him.\nWithout meeting the True Guru, no one is liberated.\nEnshrine the True One in your heart; this is the most excellent action.\nAll other hypocritical actions and devotions bring only ruin. ||6||\nWhen one is rid of duality, then he realizes the Word of the Shabad.\nInside and out, he knows the One Lord.\nThis is the most Excellent Wisdom of the Shabad.\nAshes fall on the heads of those who are in duality. ||7||\nTo praise the Lord through the Guru's Teachings is the most excellent action.\nIn the Society of the Saints, contemplate the Glories of God and His spiritual wisdom.\nWhoever subdues his mind, knows the state of being dead while yet alive.\nO Nanak, by His Grace, the Gracious Lord is realized. ||8||3||\nSection 34 - Raag Prabhaatee - Part 018\nPrabhaatee, First Mehl, Dakhnee:\nAhalyaa was the wife of Gautam the seer. Seeing her, Indra was enticed.\nWhen he received a thousand marks of disgrace on his body, then he felt regret in his mind. ||1||\nO Siblings of Destiny, no one knowingly makes mistakes.\nHe alone is mistaken, whom the Lord Himself makes so. He alone understands, whom the Lord causes to understand. ||1||Pause||\nHarichand, the king and ruler of his land, did not appreciate the value of his pre-ordained destiny.\nIf he had known that it was a mistake, he would not have made such a show of giving in charity, and he would not have been sold in the market. ||2||\nThe Lord took the form of a dwarf, and asked for some land.\nIf Bal the king has recognized Him, he would not have been deceived, and sent to the underworld. ||3||\nVyaas taught and warned the king Janmayjaa not to do three things.\nBut he performed the sacred feast and killed eighteen Brahmins; the record of one's past deeds cannot be erased. ||4||\nI do not try to calculate the account; I accept the Hukam of God's Command. I speak with intuitive love and respect.\nNo matter what happens, I will praise the Lord. It is all Your Glorious Greatness, O Lord. ||5||\nThe Gurmukh remains detached; filth never attaches itself to him. He remains forever in God's Sanctuary.\nThe foolish self-willed manmukh does not think of the future; he is overtaken by pain, and then he regrets. ||6||\nThe Creator who created this creation acts, and causes all to act.\nO Lord, egotistical pride does not depart from the soul. Falling into egotistical pride, one is ruined. ||7||\nEveryone makes mistakes; only the Creator does not make mistakes.\nO Nanak, salvation comes through the True Name. By Guru's Grace, one is released. ||8||4||\nPrabhaatee, First Mehl:\nTo chant and listen to the Naam, the Name of the Lord, is my Support.\nWorthless entanglements are ended and gone.\nThe self-willed manmukh, caught in duality, loses his honor.\nExcept for the Name, I have no other at all. ||1||\nListen, O blind, foolish, idiotic mind.\nAren't you ashamed of your comings and goings in reincarnation? Without the Guru, you shall drown, over and over again. ||1||Pause||\nThis mind is ruined by its attachment to Maya.\nThe Command of the Primal Lord is pre-ordained. Before whom should I cry?\nOnly a few, as Gurmukh, understand this.\nWithout the Naam, no one is liberated. ||2||\nPeople wander lost, staggering and stumbling through 8.4 million incarnations.\nWithout knowing the Guru, they cannot escape the noose of Death.\nThis mind, from one moment to the next, goes from the heavens to the underworld.\nThe Gurmukh contemplates the Naam, and is released. ||3||\nWhen God sends His Summons, there is no time to delay.\nWhen one dies in the Word of the Shabad, he lives in peace.\nWithout the Guru, no one understands.\nThe Lord Himself acts, and inspires all to act. ||4||\nInner conflict comes to an end, singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord.\nThrough the Perfect True Guru, one is intuitively absorbed into the Lord.\nThis wobbling, unsteady mind is stabilized,\nand one lives the lifestyle of true actions. ||5||\nIf someone is false within his own self, then how can he be pure?\nHow rare are those who wash with the Shabad.\nHow rare are those who, as Gurmukh, live the Truth.\nTheir comings and goings in reincarnation are over and done. ||6||\nSection 34 - Raag Prabhaatee - Part 019\nThose who eat and drink the Fear of God, find the most excellent peace.\nAssociating with the humble servants of the Lord, they are carried across.\nThey speak the Truth, and lovingly inspire others to speak it as well.\nThe Word of the Guru's Shabad is the most excellent occupation. ||7||\nThose who take the Lord's Praises as their karma and Dharma, their honor and worship service\n- their sexual desire and anger are burnt off in the fire.\nThey taste the sublime essence of the Lord, and their minds are drenched with it.\nPrays Nanak, there is no other at all. ||8||5||\nPrabhaatee, First Mehl:\nChant the Lord's Name, and worship Him deep within your being.\nContemplate the Word of the Guru's Shabad, and no other. ||1||\nThe One is pervading all places.\nI do not see any other; unto whom should I offer worship? ||1||Pause||\nI place my mind and body in offering before You; I dedicate my soul to You.\nAs it pleases You, You save me, Lord; this is my prayer. ||2||\nTrue is that tongue which is delighted by the sublime essence of the Lord.\nFollowing the Guru's Teachings, one is saved in the Sanctuary of God. ||3||\nMy God created religious rituals.\nHe placed the glory of the Naam above these rituals. ||4||\nThe four great blessings are under the control of the True Guru.\nWhen the first three are put aside, one is blessed with the fourth. ||5||\nThose whom the True Guru blesses with liberation and meditation\nrealize the Lord's State, and become sublime. ||6||\nTheir minds and bodies are cooled and soothed; the Guru imparts this understanding.\nWho can estimate the value of those whom God has exalted? ||7||\nSays Nanak, the Guru has imparted this understanding;\nwithout the Naam, the Name of the Lord, no one is emancipated. ||8||6||\nPrabhaatee, First Mehl:\nSome are forgiven by the Primal Lord God; the Perfect Guru makes the true making.\nThose who are attuned to the Love of the Lord are imbued with Truth forever; their pains are dispelled, and they obtain honor. ||1||\nFalse are the clever tricks of the evil-minded.\nThey shall disappear in no time at all. ||1||Pause||\nPain and suffering afflict the self-willed manmukh. The pains of the self-willed manmukh shall never depart.\nThe Gurmukh recognizes the Giver of pleasure and pain. He merges in His Sanctuary. ||2||\nThe self-willed manmukhs do not know loving devotional worship; they are insane, rotting away in their egotism.\nThis mind flies in an instant from the heavens to the underworld, as long as it does not know the Word of the Shabad. ||3||\nThe world has become hungry and thirsty; without the True Guru, it is not satisfied.\nMerging intuitively in the Celestial Lord, peace is obtained, and one goes to the Lord's Court wearing robes of honor. ||4||\nThe Lord in His Court is Himself the Knower and Seer; the Word of the Guru's Bani is Immaculate.\nHe Himself is the Awareness of Truth; He Himself understands the state of nirvaanaa. ||5||\nHe made the waves of water, the fire and the air, and then joined the three together to form the world.\nHe blessed these elements with such power, that they remain subject to His Command. ||6||\nHow rare are those humble beings in this world, whom the Lord tests and places in His Treasury.\nThey rise above social status and color, and rid themselves of possessiveness and greed. ||7||\nAttuned to the Naam, the Name of the Lord, they are like immaculate sacred shrines; they are rid of the pain and pollution of egotism.\nNanak washes the feet of those who, as Gurmukh, love the True Lord. ||8||7||\nSection 34 - Raag Prabhaatee - Part 020\nPrabhaatee, Third Mehl, Bibhaas:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nBy Guru's Grace, see that the Temple of the Lord is within you.\nThe Temple of the Lord is found through the Word of the Shabad; contemplate the Lord's Name. ||1||\nO my mind, be joyfully attuned to the Shabad.\nTrue is devotional worship, and True is the Temple of the Lord; True is His Manifest Glory. ||1||Pause||\nThis body is the Temple of the Lord, in which the jewel of spiritual wisdom is revealed.\nThe self-willed manmukhs do not know anything at all; they do not believe that the Lord's Temple is within. ||2||\nThe Dear Lord created the Temple of the Lord; He adorns it by His Will.\nAll act according to their pre-ordained destiny; no one can erase it. ||3||\nContemplating the Shabad, peace is obtained, loving the True Name.\nThe Temple of the Lord is embellished with the Shabad; it is an Infinite Fortress of God. ||4||\nThis world is the Temple of the Lord; without the Guru, there is only pitch darkness.\nThe blind and foolish self-willed manmukhs worship in the love of duality. ||5||\nOne's body and social status do not go along to that place, where all are called to account.\nThose who are attuned to Truth are saved; those in the love of duality are miserable. ||6||\nThe treasure of the Naam is within the Temple of the Lord. The idiotic fools do not realize this.\nBy Guru's Grace, I have realized this. I keep the Lord enshrined within my heart. ||7||\nThose who are attuned to the love of the Shabad know the Guru, through the Word of the Guru's Bani.\nSacred, pure and immaculate are those humble beings who are absorbed in the Name of the Lord. ||8||\nThe Temple of the Lord is the Lord's Shop; He embellishes it with the Word of His Shabad.\nIn that shop is the merchandise of the One Name; the Gurmukhs adorn themselves with it. ||9||\nThe mind is like iron slag, within the Temple of the Lord; it is lured by the love of duality.\nMeeting with the Guru, the Philosopher's Stone, the mind is transformed into gold. Its value cannot be described. ||10||\nThe Lord abides within the Temple of the Lord. He is pervading in all.\nO Nanak, the Gurmukhs trade in the merchandise of Truth. ||11||1||\nPrabhaatee, Third Mehl:\nThose who remain awake and aware in the Love and Fear of God, rid themselves of the filth and pollution of egotism.\nThey remain awake and aware forever, and protect their homes, by beating and driving out the five thieves. ||1||\nO my mind, as Gurmukh, meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord.\nO mind, do only those deeds which will lead you to the Path of the Lord. ||1||Pause||\nThe celestial melody wells up in the Gurmukh, and the pains of egotism are taken away.\nThe Name of the Lord abides in the mind, as one intuitively sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||2||\nThose who follow the Guru's Teachings - their faces are radiant and beautiful. They keep the Lord enshrined in their hearts.\nHere and hereafter, they find absolute peace; chanting the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, they are carried across to the other shore. ||3||\nSection 34 - Raag Prabhaatee - Part 021\nIn egotism, one cannot remain awake and aware, and one's devotional worship of the Lord is not accepted.\nThe self-willed manmukhs find no place in the Court of the Lord; they do their deeds in the love of duality. ||4||\nCursed is the food, and cursed are the clothes, of those who are attached to the love of duality.\nThey are like maggots in manure, sinking into manure. In death and rebirth, they are wasted away to ruin. ||5||\nI am a sacrifice to those who meet with the True Guru.\nI shall continue to associate with them; devoted to Truth, I am absorbed in Truth. ||6||\nBy perfect destiny, the Guru is found. He cannot be found by any efforts.\nThrough the True Guru, intuitive wisdom wells up; through the Word of the Shabad, egotism is burnt away. ||7||\nO my mind, hurry to the Sanctuary of the Lord; He is Potent to do everything.\nO Nanak, never forget the Naam, the Name of the Lord. Whatever He does, comes to pass. ||8||2||7||2||9||\nBibhaas, Prabhaatee, Fifth Mehl, Ashtapadees:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nMother, father, siblings, children and spouse\n- involved with them, people eat the food of bliss.\nThe mind is entangled in sweet emotional attachment.\nThose who seek God's Glorious Virtues are the support of my breath of life. ||1||\nMy One Lord is the Inner-Knower, the Searcher of hearts.\nHe alone is my Support; He is my only Protection. My Great Lord and Master is over and above the heads of kings. ||1||Pause||\nI have broken my ties to that deceitful serpent.\nThe Guru has told me that it is false and fraudulent.\nIts face is sweet, but it tastes very bitter.\nMy mind remains satisfied with the Ambrosial Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||2||\nI have broken my ties with greed and emotional attachment.\nThe Merciful Guru has rescued me from them.\nThese cheating thieves have plundered so many homes.\nThe Merciful Guru has protected and saved me. ||3||\nI have no dealings whatsoever with sexual desire and anger.\nI listen to the Guru's Teachings.\nWherever I look, I see the most horrible goblins.\nMy Guru, the Lord of the World, has saved me from them. ||4||\nI have made widows of the ten sensory organs.\nThe Guru has told me that these pleasures are the fires of corruption.\nThose who associate with them go to hell.\nThe Guru has saved me; I am lovingly attuned to the Lord. ||5||\nI have forsaken the advice of my ego.\nThe Guru has told me that this is foolish stubbornness.\nThis ego is homeless; it shall never find a home.\nThe Guru has saved me; I am lovingly attuned to the Lord. ||6||\nI have become alienated from these people.\nWe cannot both live together in one home.\nGrasping the hem of the Guru's Robe, I have come to God.\nPlease be fair with me, All-knowing Lord God. ||7||\nGod smiled at me and spoke, passing judgement.\nHe made all the demons perform service for me.\nYou are my Lord and Master; all this home belongs to You.\nSays Nanak, the Guru has passed judgement. ||8||1||\nPrabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:\nSection 34 - Raag Prabhaatee - Part 022\nWithin the mind dwell anger and massive ego.\nWorship services are performed with great pomp and ceremony.\nRitual cleansing baths are taken, and sacred marks are applied to the body.\nBut still, the filth and pollution within never depart. ||1||\nNo one has ever found God in this way.\nThe sacred mudras - ritualistic hand gestures - are made, but the mind remains enticed by Maya. ||1||Pause||\nThey commit sins, under the influence of the five thieves.\nThey bathe at sacred shrines, and claim that everything has been washed off.\nThen they commit them again, without fear of the consequences.\nThe sinners are bound and gagged, and taken to the City of Death. ||2||\nThe ankle-bells shake and the cymbals vibrate,\nbut those who have deception within wander lost like demons.\nBy destroying its hole, the snake is not killed.\nGod, who created you, knows everything. ||3||\nYou worship fire and wear saffron colored robes.\nStung by your misfortune, you abandon your home.\nLeaving your own country, you wander in foreign lands.\nBut you bring the five rejects with you. ||4||\nYou have split your ears, and now you steal crumbs.\nYou beg from door to door, but you fail to be satisfied.\nYou have abandoned your own wife, but now you sneak glances at other women.\nGod is not found by wearing religious robes; you are utterly miserable! ||5||\nHe does not speak; he is on silence.\nBut he is filled with desire; he is made to wander in reincarnation.\nAbstaining from food, his body suffers in pain.\nHe does not realize the Hukam of the Lord's Command; he is afflicted by possessiveness. ||6||\nWithout the True Guru, no one has attained the supreme status.\nGo ahead and ask all the Vedas and the Simritees.\nThe self-willed manmukhs do useless deeds.\nThey are like a house of sand, which cannot stand. ||7||\nOne unto whom the Lord of the Universe becomes Merciful,\nsews the Word of the Guru's Shabad into his robes.\nOut of millions, it is rare that such a Saint is seen.\nO Nanak, with him, we are carried across. ||8||\nIf one has such good destiny, then the Blessed Vision of His Darshan is obtained.\nHe saves himself, and carries across all his family as well. ||1||SECOND PAUSE||2||\nPrabhaatee, Fifth Mehl:\nMeditating in remembrance on the Naam, all the sins are erased.\nThe accounts held by the Righteous Judge of Dharma are torn up.\nJoining the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy,\nI have found the Sublime Essence of the Lord. The Supreme Lord God has melted into my heart. ||1||\nDwelling on the Lord, Har, Har, I have found peace.\nYour slaves seek the Sanctuary of Your Feet. ||1||Pause||\nThe cycle of reincarnation is ended, and darkness is dispelled.\nThe Guru has revealed the door of liberation.\nMy mind and body are forever imbued with loving devotion to the Lord.\nNow I know God, because He has made me know Him. ||2||\nHe is contained in each and every heart.\nWithout Him, there is no one at all.\nHatred, conflict, fear and doubt have been eliminated.\nGod, the Soul of Pure Goodness, has manifested His Righteousness. ||3||\nHe has rescued me from the most dangerous waves.\nSeparated from Him for countless lifetimes, I am united with Him once again.\nChanting, intense meditation and strict self-discipline are the contemplation of the Naam.\nMy Lord and Master has blessed me with His Glance of Grace. ||4||\nBliss, peace and salvation are found in that place,\nSection 34 - Raag Prabhaatee - Part 023\nwhere the servants of the Lord of the World abide.\nGod, the Lord of the World, is pleased and satisfied with me.\nMy disharmony with Him of so many lifetimes is ended. ||5||\nBurnt offerings, sacred feasts, intense meditations with the body upside-down, worship services\nand taking millions of cleansing baths at sacred shrines of pilgrimage\n- the merits of all these are obtained by enshrining the Lord's Lotus Feet within the heart, even for an instant.\nMeditating on the Lord of the Universe, all one's affairs are resolved. ||6||\nGod's Place is the highest of the high.\nThe Lord's humble servants intuitively focus their meditation on Him.\nI long for the dust of the slaves of the Lord's slaves.\nMy Beloved Lord is overflowing with all powers. ||7||\nMy Beloved Lord, my Mother and Father, is always near.\nO my Friend and Companion, You are my Trusted Support.\nGod takes His slaves by the hand, and makes them His Own.\nNanak lives by meditating on the Lord, the Treasure of Virtue. ||8||3||2||7||12||\nBibhaas, Prabhaatee, The Word Of Devotee Kabeer Jee:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nMy anxious fears of death and rebirth have been taken away.\nThe Celestial Lord has shown His Love for me. ||1||\nThe Divine Light has dawned, and darkness has been dispelled.\nContemplating the Lord, I have obtained the Jewel of His Name. ||1||Pause||\nPain runs far away from that place where there is bliss.\nThe jewel of the mind is focused and attuned to the essence of reality. ||2||\nWhatever happens is by the Pleasure of Your Will.\nWhoever understands this, is intuitively merged in the Lord. ||3||\nSays Kabeer, my sins have been obliterated.\nMy mind has merged into the Lord, the Life of the World. ||4||1||\nPRABHAATEE:\nIf the Lord Allah lives only in the mosque, then to whom does the rest of the world belong?\nAccording to the Hindus, the Lord's Name abides in the idol, but there is no truth in either of these claims. ||1||\nO Allah, O Raam, I live by Your Name.\nPlease show mercy to me, O Master. ||1||Pause||\nThe God of the Hindus lives in the southern lands, and the God of the Muslims lives in the west.\nSo search in your heart - look deep into your heart of hearts; this is the home and the place where God lives. ||2||\nThe Brahmins observe twenty-four fasts during the year, and the Muslims fast during the month of Ramadaan.\nThe Muslims set aside eleven months, and claim that the treasure is only in the one month. ||3||\nWhat is the use of bathing at Orissa? Why do the Muslims bow their heads in the mosque?\nIf someone has deception in his heart, what good is it for him to utter prayers? And what good is it for him to go on pilgrimage to Mecca? ||4||\nYou fashioned all these men and women, Lord. All these are Your Forms.\nKabeer is the child of God, Allah, Raam. All the Gurus and prophets are mine. ||5||\nSays Kabeer, listen, O men and women: seek the Sanctuary of the One.\nChant the Naam, the Name of the Lord, O mortals, and you shall surely be carried across. ||6||2||\nPRABHAATEE:\nFirst, Allah created the Light; then, by His Creative Power, He made all mortal beings.\nFrom the One Light, the entire universe welled up. So who is good, and who is bad? ||1||\nSection 34 - Raag Prabhaatee - Part 024\nO people, O Siblings of Destiny, do not wander deluded by doubt.\nThe Creation is in the Creator, and the Creator is in the Creation, totally pervading and permeating all places. ||1||Pause||\nThe clay is the same, but the Fashioner has fashioned it in various ways.\nThere is nothing wrong with the pot of clay - there is nothing wrong with the Potter. ||2||\nThe One True Lord abides in all; by His making, everything is made.\nWhoever realizes the Hukam of His Command, knows the One Lord. He alone is said to be the Lord's slave. ||3||\nThe Lord Allah is Unseen; He cannot be seen. The Guru has blessed me with this sweet molasses.\nSays Kabeer, my anxiety and fear have been taken away; I see the Immaculate Lord pervading everywhere. ||4||3||\nPRABHAATEE:\nDo not say that the Vedas, the Bible and the Koran are false. Those who do not contemplate them are false.\nYou say that the One Lord is in all, so why do you kill chickens? ||1||\nO Mullah, tell me: is this God's Justice?\nThe doubts of your mind have not been dispelled. ||1||Pause||\nYou seize a living creature, and then bring it home and kill its body; you have killed only the clay.\nThe light of the soul passes into another form. So tell me, what have you killed? ||2||\nAnd what good are your purifications? Why do you bother to wash your face? And why do you bother to bow your head in the mosque?\nYour heart is full of hypocrisy; what good are your prayers or your pilgrimage to Mecca? ||3||\nYou are impure; you do not understand the Pure Lord. You do not know His Mystery.\nSays Kabeer, you have missed out on paradise; your mind is set on hell. ||4||4||\nPRABHAATEE:\nHear my prayer, Lord; You are the Divine Light of the Divine, the Primal, All-pervading Master.\nThe Siddhas in Samaadhi have not found Your limits. They hold tight to the Protection of Your Sanctuary. ||1||\nWorship and adoration of the Pure, Primal Lord comes by worshipping the True Guru, O Siblings of Destiny.\nStanding at His Door, Brahma studies the Vedas, but he cannot see the Unseen Lord. ||1||Pause||\nWith the oil of knowledge about the essence of reality, and the wick of the Naam, the Name of the Lord, this lamp illluminates my body.\nI have applied the Light of the Lord of the Universe, and lit this lamp. God the Knower knows. ||2||\nThe Unstruck Melody of the Panch Shabad, the Five Primal Sounds, vibrates and resounds. I dwell with the Lord of the World.\nKabeer, Your slave, performs this Aartee, this lamp-lit worship service for You, O Formless Lord of Nirvaanaa. ||3||5||\nPrabhaatee, The Word Of Devotee Naam Dayv Jee:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nThe mind alone knows the state of the mind; I tell it to the Knowing Lord.\nI chant the Name of the Lord, the Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts - why should I be afraid? ||1||\nMy mind is pierced through by the love of the Lord of the World.\nMy God is All-pervading everywhere. ||1||Pause||\nThe mind is the shop, the mind is the town, and the mind is the shopkeeper.\nThe mind abides in various forms, wandering all across the world. ||2||\nThis mind is imbued with the Word of the Guru's Shabad, and duality is easily overcome.\nSection 34 - Raag Prabhaatee - Part 025\nHe Himself is the Commander; all are under His Command. The Fearless Lord looks on all alike. ||3||\nThat humble being who knows, and meditates on the Supreme Primal Being - his word becomes eternal.\nSays Naam Dayv, I have found the Invisible, Wondrous Lord, the Life of the World, within my heart. ||4||1||\nPRABHAATEE:\nHe existed in the beginning, in the primeval age, and all throughout the ages; His limits cannot be known.\nThe Lord is pervading and permeating amongst all; this is how His Form can be described. ||1||\nThe Lord of the Universe appears when the Word of His Shabad is chanted.\nMy Lord is the Embodiment of Bliss. ||1||Pause||\nThe beautiful fragrance of sandalwood emanates from the sandalwood tree, and attaches to the other trees of the forest.\nGod, the Primal Source of everything, is like the sandalwood tree; He transforms us woody trees into fragrant sandalwood. ||2||\nYou, O Lord, are the Philosopher's Stone, and I am iron; associating with You, I am transformed into gold.\nYou are Merciful; You are the gem and the jewel. Naam Dayv is absorbed in the Truth. ||3||2||\nPRABHAATEE:\nThe Primal Being has no ancestry; He has staged this play.\nGod is hidden deep within each and every heart. ||1||\nNo one knows the Light of the soul.\nWhatever I do, is known to You, Lord. ||1||Pause||\nJust as the pitcher is made from clay,\neverything is made from the Beloved Divine Creator Himself. ||2||\nThe mortal's actions hold the soul in the bondage of karma.\nWhatever he does, he does on his own. ||3||\nPrays Naam Dayv, whatever this soul wants, it obtains.\nWhoever abides in the Lord, becomes immortal. ||4||3||\nPrabhaatee, The Word Of Devotee Baynee Jee:\nOne Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:\nYou rub your body with sandalwood oil, and place basil leaves on your forehead.\nBut you hold a knife in the hand of your heart.\nYou look like a thug; pretending to meditate, you pose like a crane.\nYou try to look like a Vaishnaav, but the breath of life escapes through your mouth. ||1||\nYou pray for hours to God the Beautiful.\nBut your gaze is evil, and your nights are wasted in conflict. ||1||Pause||\nYou perform daily cleansing rituals,\nwear two loin-cloths, perform religious rituals and put only milk in your mouth.\nBut in your heart, you have drawn out the sword.\nYou routinely steal the property of others. ||2||\nYou worship the stone idol, and paint ceremonial marks of Ganesha.\nYou remain awake throughout the night, pretending to worship God.\nYou dance, but your consciousness is filled with evil.\nYou are lewd and depraved - this is such an unrighteous dance! ||3||\nYou sit on a deer-skin, and chant on your mala.\nYou put the sacred mark, the tilak, on your forehead.\nYou wear the rosary beads of Shiva around your neck, but your heart is filled with falsehood.\nYou are lewd and depraved - you do not chant God's Name. ||4||\nWhoever does not realize the essence of the soul\n- all his religious actions are hollow and false.\nSays Baynee, as Gurmukh, meditate.\nWithout the True Guru, you shall not find the Way. ||5||1||","title":"Raag Prabhaatee","type":"page"}