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Raag Goojaree: Fourth Mehl, Chau-Padas, First House

One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

Raag Goojaree, Fourth Mehl, Chau-Padas, First House:

O Servant of the Lord, O True Guru, O True Primal Being, I offer my prayers to You, O Guru.

I am an insect and a worm; O True Guru, I seek Your Sanctuary; please, be merciful and bestow upon me the Light of the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||1||

O my Best Friend, O Divine Guru, please illuminate me with the Light of the Lord.

By Guru’s Instructions, the Naam is my breath of life, and the Praise of the Lord is my occupation. ||1||Pause||

The Lord’s servants have the greatest good fortune; they have faith in the Lord, Har, Har, and a thirst for the Lord.

Obtaining the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, they are satisfied; joining the Company of the Holy, their virtues shine forth. ||2||

Those who have not obtained the essence of the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, are most unfortunate; they are taken away by the Messenger of Death.

Those who have not sought the Sanctuary of the True Guru and the Company of the Holy - cursed are their lives, and cursed are their hopes of life. ||3||

Those humble servants of the Lord, who have obtained the Company of the True Guru, have such pre-ordained destiny written on their foreheads.

Blessed, blessed is the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation, where the sublime essence of the Lord is obtained. Meeting with His humble servant, O Nanak, the Naam shines forth. ||4||1||

Goojaree, Fourth Mehl:

The Lord, the Lord of the Universe is the Beloved of the minds of those who join the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation. The Shabad of His Word fascinates their minds.

Chant, and meditate on the Lord, the Lord of the Universe; God is the One who gives gifts to all. ||1||

O my Siblings of Destiny, the Lord of the Universe, Govind, Govind, Govind, has enticed and fascinated my mind.

I sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord of the Universe, Govind, Govind, Govind; joining the Holy Society of the Guru, Your humble servant is beautified. ||1||Pause||

Devotional worship to the Lord is an ocean of peace; through the Guru’s Teachings, wealth, prosperity and the spiritual powers of the Siddhas fall at our feet.

The Lord’s Name is the Support of His humble servant; he chants the Lord’s Name, and with the Lord’s Name he is adorned. ||2||

Section 09 - Raag Goojaree - Part 005 Evil-minded, unfortunate and shallow-minded are those who feel anger in their minds, when they hear the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

You may place ambrosial nectar before crows and ravens, but they will be satisfied only by eating manure and dung with their mouths. ||3||

The True Guru, the Speaker of Truth, is the pool of Ambrosial Nectar; bathing within it, the crow becomes a swan.

O Nanak, blessed, blessed and very fortunate are those who, through the Guru’s Teachings, with the Naam, wash away the filth of their hearts. ||4||2||

Goojaree, Fourth Mehl:

The humble servants of the Lord are exalted, and exalted is their speech. With their mouths, they speak for the benefit of others.

Those who listen to them with faith and devotion, are blessed by the Lord; showering His Mercy, He saves them. ||1||

Lord, please, let me meet the beloved servants of the Lord.

The True Guru, the Perfect Guru, is my Beloved, my very breath of life; the Guru has saved me, the sinner. ||1||Pause||

The Gurmukhs are fortunate, so very fortunate; their Support is the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.

They obtain the Ambrosial Nectar of the Name of the Lord, Har, Har; through the Guru’s Teachings, they obtain this treasure-house of devotional worship. ||2||

Those who do not obtain the Blessed Vision of the Darshan of the True Guru, the True Primal Being, are most unfortunate; they are destroyed by the Messenger of Death.

They are like dogs, pigs and jackasses; they are cast into the womb of reincarnation, and the Lord strikes them down as the worst of murderers. ||3||

O Lord, Kind to the poor, please shower Your mercy upon Your humble servant, and save him.

Servant Nanak has entered the Lord’s Sanctuary; if it pleases You, Lord, please save him. ||4||3||

Goojaree, Fourth Mehl:

Be Merciful and attune my mind, so that I might meditate continually on the Lord’s Name, night and day.

The Lord is all peace, all virtue and all wealth; remembering Him, all misery and hunger depart. ||1||

O my mind, the Lord’s Name is my companion and brother.

Under Guru’s Instruction, I sing the Praises of the Lord’s Name; it shall be my help and support in the end, and it shall deliver me in the Court of the Lord. ||1||Pause||

You Yourself are the Giver, O God, Inner-knower, Searcher of hearts; by Your Grace, You have infused longing for You in my mind.

My mind and body long for the Lord; God has fulfilled my longing. I have entered the Sanctuary of the True Guru. ||2||

Human birth is obtained through good actions; without the Name, it is cursed, totally cursed, and it passes away in vain.

Without the Naam, the Name of the Lord, one obtains only suffering for his delicacies to eat. His mouth is insipid, and his face is spat upon, again and again. ||3||

Those humble beings, who have entered the Sanctuary of the Lord God, Har, Har, are blessed with glory in the Court of the Lord, Har, Har.

Blessed, blessed and congratulations, says God to His humble servant. O servant Nanak, He embraces him, and blends him with Himself. ||4||4||

Goojaree, Fourth Mehl:

O Gurmukhs, O my friends and companions, give me the gift of the Lord’s Name, the life of my very life.

I am the slave, the servant of the Guru’s Sikhs, who meditate on the Lord God, the Primal Being, night and day. ||1||

Within my mind and body, I have enshrined love for the feet of the Guru’s Sikhs.

O my life-mates, O Sikhs of the Guru, O Siblings of Destiny, instruct me in the Teachings, that I might merge in the Lord’s Merger. ||1||Pause||

Section 09 - Raag Goojaree - Part 006 When it pleases the Lord God, he causes us to meet the Gurmukhs; the Hymns of the Guru, the True Guru, are very sweet to their minds.

Very fortunate are the beloved Sikhs of the Guru; through the Lord, they attain the supreme state of Nirvaanaa. ||2||

The Sat Sangat, the True Congregation of the Guru, is loved by the Lord. The Naam, the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, is sweet and pleasing to their minds.

One who does not obtain the Association of the True Guru, is a most unfortunate sinner; he is consumed by the Messenger of Death. ||3||

If God, the Kind Master, Himself shows His kindness, then the Lord causes the Gurmukh to merge into Himself.

Servant Nanak chants the Glorious Words of the Guru’s Bani; through them, one is absorbed into the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||4||5||

Goojaree, Fourth Mehl:

One who has found the Lord God through the True Guru, has made the Lord seem so sweet to me, through the His Teachings.

My mind and body have been cooled and soothed, and totally rejuvenated; by great good fortune, I meditate on the Name of the Lord. ||1||

O Siblings of Destiny, let anyone who can implant the Lord’s Name within me, come and meet with me.

Unto my Beloved, I give my mind and body, and my very breath of life. He speaks to me of the sermon of my Lord God. ||1||Pause||

Through the Guru’s Teachings, I have obtained courage, faith and the Lord. He keeps my mind focused continually on the Lord, and the Name of the Lord.

The Words of the True Guru’s Teachings are Ambrosial Nectar; this Amrit trickles into the mouth of the one who chants them. ||2||

Immaculate is the Naam, which cannot be stained by filth. Through the Guru’s Teachings, chant the Naam with love.

That man who has not found the wealth of the Naam is most unfortunate; he dies over and over again. ||3||

The source of bliss, the Life of the world, the Great Giver brings bliss to all who meditate on the Lord.

You are the Great Giver, all beings belong to You. O servant Nanak, You forgive the Gurmukhs, and merge them into Yourself. ||4||6||