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Raag Gauree: Third Mehl (II)
Third Mehl:
The egotistical, self-willed manmukh does not know the Mansion of the Lord’s Presence; one moment he is here, and the next moment he is there.
He is always invited, but he does not go to the Mansion of the Lord’s Presence. How shall he be accepted in the Court of the Lord?
How rare are those who know the Mansion of the True Guru; they stand with their palms pressed together.
If my Lord grants His Grace, O Nanak, He restores them to Himself. ||2||
Pauree:
Fruitful and rewarding is that service, which is pleasing to the Guru’s Mind.
When the Mind of the True Guru is pleased, then sins and misdeeds run away.
The Sikhs listen to the Teachings imparted by the True Guru.
Those who surrender to the True Guru’s Will are imbued with the four-fold Love of the Lord.
This is the unique and distinct life-style of the Gurmukhs: listening to the Guru’s Teachings, their minds blossom forth. ||25||
Shalok, Third Mehl:
Those who do not affirm their Guru shall have no home or place of rest.
They lose both this world and the next; they have no place in the Court of the Lord.
This opportunity to bow at the Feet of the True Guru shall never come again.
If they miss out on being counted by the True Guru, they shall pass their lives in pain and misery.
The True Guru, the Primal Being, has no hatred or vengeance; He unites with Himself those with whom He is pleased.
O Nanak, those who behold the Blessed Vision of His Darshan, are emancipated in the Court of the Lord. ||1||
Third Mehl:
The self-willed manmukh is ignorant, evil-minded and egotistical.
He is filled with anger within, and he loses his mind in the gamble.
He commits the sins of fraud and unrighteousness.
What can he hear, and what can he tell others?
He is blind and deaf; he loses his way, and wanders lost in the wilderness.
The blind, self-willed manmukh comes and goes in reincarnation;
without meeting the True Guru, he finds no place of rest.
O Nanak, he acts according to his pre-ordained destiny. ||2||
Pauree:
Those who have hearts as hard as stone, do not sit near the True Guru.
Truth prevails there; the false ones do not attune their consciousness to it.
By hook or by crook, they pass their time, and then they go back to sit with the false ones again.
Falsehood does not mix with the Truth; O people, check it out and see.
The false go and mingle with the false, while the truthful Sikhs sit by the side of the True Guru. ||26||
Section 07 - Raag Gauree - Part 165 Shalok, Fifth Mehl:
By their own efforts, the slanderers have destroyed all remnants of themselves.
The Support of the Saints, O Nanak, is manifest, pervading everywhere. ||1||
Fifth Mehl:
Those who went astray from the Primal Being in the very beginning - where can they find refuge?
O Nanak, they are struck down by the All-powerful, the Cause of causes. ||2||
Pauree, Fifth Mehl:
They take the noose in their hands, and go out at night to strangle others, but God knows everything, O mortal.
They spy on other men’s women, concealed in their hiding places.
They break into well-protected places, and revel in sweet wine.
But they shall come to regret their actions - they create their own karma.
Azraa-eel, the Angel of Death, shall crush them like sesame seeds in the oil-press. ||27||
Shalok, Fifth Mehl:
The servants of the True King are acceptable and approved.
Those ignorant ones who serve duality, O Nanak, rot, waste away and die. ||1||
Fifth Mehl:
That destiny which was pre-ordained by God from the very beginning cannot be erased.
The wealth of the Lord’s Name is Nanak’s capital; he meditates on it forever. ||2||
Pauree, Fifth Mehl:
One who has received a kick from the Lord God - where can he place his foot?
He commits countless sins, and continually eats poison.
Slandering others, he wastes away and dies; within his body, he burns.
One who has been struck down by the True Lord and Master - who can save him now?
Nanak has entered the Sanctuary of the Unseen Lord, the Primal Being. ||28||