They who have meditated on God as the truest of the true,
have done real worship and are contented;
They have refrained from evil,[1] done good deeds, and
practised honesty;
They have lived on a little corn and water, and burst the
entanglements of the world.
Thou art the great Bestower; ever Thou givest gifts which
increase a quarterfold.
They who have magnified the great God have found Him.
Men, trees, the banks of sacred streams, clouds, fields,
Islands, peoples, countries, continents, the universe,
The sources of production from eggs, wombs, the earth,
and perspiration,
Lakes, mountains, animals—O Nanak, God knoweth their
condition.
Nanak, God having created animals taketh care of them
all.
The Creator who created the world hath to take thought
for it also.
It is the same Creator who made the world who taketh
thought for it.
To Him be obeisance; blessings be on Him! His court
is imperishable.
Nanak, without the true Name what is a sacrificial mark?
what a sacrificial thread?
Man may perform hundreds of thousands of good acts
and deeds, hundreds of thousands of approved charities,
Hundreds of thousands of penances at sacred places,
sahaj jog[2] in the wilderness,
- ↑ Literally—Have not put their feet into evil.
- ↑ There are two forms of Jog or exercise for the union of the soul with God. Sahaj jog or rāj jog is the repetition of God's name with fixed attention and association with the holy, as contradistinguished from the hath jog of Patanjali, the severest and most painful form of a Jogi's austerities.
