HYMNS OF GURU AMAR DAS 169
He who quarrelleth with the guild of the saints,
Who is smitten with worldly love, and who remembereth not the Name,
Shall, even though he perform many religious ceremonies, be unhappy night and day.
What is destined from the beginning cannot be effaced.
Nanak, deliverance is not obtained without serving the true Guru.
Hypocrisy is as vain as the external decorations of an evil woman :—
The woman whose conduct is bad, and whose heart is counterfeit, may decorate herself, but she shall still be ugly.
She acteth not as pleaseth her Spouse, nay, the foolish woman giveth Him orders.
She who acteth as her Guru desireth shall escape all misery. The writing which the Creator wrote in the beginning cannot be effaced.
Let woman devote her soul and body to her Spouse and love His word.
Without repeating His name no one hath obtained God ; reflect on this in thy heart.
Nanak, that woman whom the Creator enjoyeth, shall become beautiful and well-conducted.
The worldly grope in mental darkness, and are miserable without the Guru :—
Worldly love is darkness whose limits cannot be seen.
The perverse, the spiritually ignorant, and those who forget God's name perish in great misery.
After rising in the morning they perform many hollow ceremonies for the love of mammon ;
But, if they serve their true Guru, they shall cross the terrible ocean.
Nanak, the believers by clasping the true Name to their hearts shall become absorbed in the True One.
He who turns to idolatry falls to the level of an abandoned woman :—
The perverse woman is filthy, ill-conducted, and evil ;
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