U.Praise Him whose limit cannot be found.
They who practise truth and perform service shall obtain their reward.
N.He who knoweth divine knowledge is the learned pandit.[1]
He who knoweth the one God in all creatures would never say 'I exist by myself'.
K.When the hair groweth white, it shineth without soap.
King Death's hunters follow him who is bound by the chain of mammon.[2]
KH.The Creator, Lord of the world, giveth sustenance to His slaves.
All the world is bound in His bonds; no other authority prevaileth.
G.He who hath renounced the singing of God's word, is arrogant in his language.
He who fashioned vessels made kilns in which He put them and burnt them.
GH.The servant who performeth the Guru's[3] work, who remaineth obedient to His commands,
Who deemeth bad and good as the same, shall in this way be absorbed in Him.
CH.He who made the four Veds,[4] the four mines,[5] and the four ages,[6]
Hath been in every age a Jogi, a worldly man, or a learned pandit.
- ↑ Pandit means a learned man, but the title is now appropriated by Brāhmans versed in Sanskrit literature.
- ↑ Māyā. In the sacred writings of the Sikhs this word has two meanings—one is mammon, as the word is here translated; the other is illusion or God's mystic power by which He created matter.
- ↑ The word Guru means great. Here it stands for God. In a secondary sense it is applied to a great religious teacher.
- ↑ They are the Rig, Sām, Yajur, and Atharv, composed in the most ancient form of the Sanskrit language. In Sikh literature they are named the white, the red, the yellow, and the black Veds.
- ↑ In the East four sources of life are enumerated. It is there said that animals are born from eggs, wombs, the earth, and perspiration.
- ↑ The Sat, Tretā, Dwāpar, and Kal, corresponding to the golden, silver, brass, and iron ages of Greece and Rome.
