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LIFE OF GURU NANAK
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B.God began to play by making the four ages His chaupar board.[1]

He made men and lower animals His dice, and began to throw them Himself.

BH.They who search and feel fear by the favour of the Guru obtain the fruit thereof.

The perverse, fools that they are, wander and heed not, and so transmigrate in the eighty-four lakhs of animals.

M.God destroyeth worldly love; is it only at death man is to remember Him?

Other thoughts possess man and he forgetteth the letter M.[2]

Y.If man recognize the True One, he shall not be born again.

The holy man uttereth, the holy man understandeth, the holy man knoweth but the one God.

R.God pervadeth all the creatures He hath made.

Having created creatures He appointed them all to their duties; they to whom He is kind take His name.

L.He who appointed creatures to their duties, made worldly love sweet.

He giveth eating and drinking equally to all, and ordereth them as He pleaseth.

W.The Supreme Being who created the vesture of the world to behold it,

Seeth, tasteth, and knoweth everything; He is contained within and without the world.

R.Why quarrel, O mortal? meditate on God, under whose order is creation.

Meditate on Him; be absorbed in the True One; and be a sacrifice unto Him.

H.There is no other Giver than He who created creatures and gave them sustenance.

Meditate on God's name; be absorbed in God's
  1. Chaupar is the Indian draughts.
  2. The initial of Madhusūdan, one of the names applied to God. It may also be the initial of the Arabic word maut, death.