Who constructed all the materials of thy body and infused into it immortal light.
O my soul, there is none but God.
Ever remain under God's protection and thou shalt feel no sorrow.
Jewels, wealth, gems, gold, and silver are all dust.
The affinities of mother, father, sons, and kinsmen are all false.
The perverse man, unclean beast that he is, knoweth not Him who made him:
He deemeth that God who is within and around him is distant;
Avarice clingeth to him, and his heart is attached to pride and falsehood.
Boatfuls of persons without devotion or God s name come and go.
God, the Creator, mercifully preserve man and Thine other creatures.
There is no protector but Thee; very unfeeling is the god of death.
Saith Nanak, O God, have mercy on me that I may not forget Thy name.
Nothing can be concealed from the omnipotent God:—
In the dust of the saints' feet are found the merits of hundreds of thousands of pilgrimages, fastings, and mortifications.
From whom canst thou hide thine evil deeds, since God ever present beholdeth thee?
My God pervadeth and filleth every place.
True is His empire, true His authority, and truest of the true[1] His seat.
The True One exerteth true power in the creation of the world.
Nanak, repeat the true Name to which I am for ever and ever a sacrifice.
- ↑ In this hymn as in many passages of the Granth Sāhib the word true means eternal.
