Their hearts are false while they perform ablutions after their meals.
Saith Nanak, meditate on the True One ;
If thou art pure, thou shalt obtain Him.
Pauri XVI
All are within Thy ken, O Lord ; Thou seest all, and Thou movest them beneath Thy glance.
God himself bestoweth greatness ; He Himself causeth men to do good works.
He is the greatest of the great ; great is His world ; He appointeth all men to their respective duties.
If He cast a backward glance, He maketh monarchs as grass ;[1]
They may beg from door to door and receive no alms.
Guru Nanak composed the following slok on being invited by a dishonest shopkeeper to attend a shradh, or religious service, for his deceased father:—
Slok XVII
If a robber break a house and sacrifice the fruits of that robbery to his ancestors,
The sacrifice shall be known in the next world, and make out the ancestors to be thieves.
The hand of the Brahman go-between shall be cut off ; thus will God do justice.
Nanak, it is only the fruit of what man giveth from his earnings and toil that shall be obtained in the next world.
Guru Nanak
As a woman hath her recurring courses, so falsehood dwelleth in the mouth of the false one, and he is ever despised.
He should not be called pure who sitteth and washeth his body ;
Rather is he pure, Nanak, in whose heart God dwelleth.
- ↑ Ghāh. Generally translated 'grass-cutters' by the gyānis : a third interpretation too is current. In former times men of position appeared before conquerors with grass in their mouths, implying that they were the conquerors cows whose lives should be saved. Accordingly, the phrase is also translated - and He would cause kings to put grass in their mouths.
