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Sri Guru Granth SahibAng 13

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Ang 13

ਰਾਗੁ ਧਨਾਸਰੀ ਮਹਲਾ ੧ ॥

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English · Max Arthur Macauliffe

Guru Nanak, Rāg Dhanasari

The sun and moon, O Lord, are Thy lamps; the firmament Thy salver; the orbs of the stars the pearls enchased in it. The perfume of the sandal is Thine incense, the wind is Thy fan, all the forests are Thy flowers, O Lord of light. What worship is this, O Thou Destroyer of birth? Unbeaten strains of ecstasy are the trumpets of Thy worship. Thou hast a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou hast a thousand forms and yet not one form; Thou hast a thousand stainless feet and yet not one foot; Thou hast a thousand organs of smell and yet not one organ. I am fascinated by this play of Thine. The light which is in everything is Thine, O Lord of light. From its brilliancy everything is brilliant; By the Guru's teaching the light becometh manifest. What pleaseth Thee is the real worship. O God, my mind is fascinated with Thy lotus feet as the bumble-bee with the flower: night and day I thirst for them. Give the water of Thy favour to the sarang Nanak, so that he may dwell in Thy name.

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Guru Ram Das, Rāg Gauri

The city is greatly filled with lust and wrath; but these are destroyed on meeting the saints. By predestination the Guru is found, and the soul is absorbed in the region of God's love. Salute the saint with clasped hands—this is a greatly meritorious act. Prostrate thyself before him—this is a greatly religious act. The infidel knoweth not the taste of God's essence; he beareth the thorn of pride in his heart. The more he moveth, the more it pricketh him, and the more pain he feeleth: his head shall feel death's mace. The saints of God are absorbed in God's name, and have destroyed the pain and fear of transmigration. They have found God the imperishable Being, and great honour is theirs in the earth's continents and the universe. God, we poor, and wretched, are Thine; preserve us, preserve us, Thou greatest of the great! The Name is Nanak's support and prop; I have obtained happiness through being absorbed only in God's name.

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Guru Arjan, Rāg Gauri

I pray you hear me, my friends, it is time to serve the saints. Earn here the profit of God's name, and in the next world ye shall abide in happiness. Human life groweth shorter every day and night; O man, meet the Guru and arrange thine affairs. This world is involved in wickedness and superstition; they who know God are saved. He whom God awakeneth and causeth to drink the essence of His word, knoweth the story of the Ineffable. Purchase that for which thou hast come into the world, and God by the Guru's favour will dwell in thy heart. Thou shalt find a home with comfort and peace in God's own palace, and not return again to this world. God, Searcher of hearts, Arranger, fulfil the desires of my heart. The slave Nanak craveth the happiness of being made the dust of the saints feet.

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Gurmukhi text of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji from the Shabad OS Database (release v5.0.0-next.0), digitised from Shabadaarth (SGPC, Sri Amritsar, 2009-2012). Identified by Shabad OS as public domain (Public Domain Mark 1.0). · Source ↗

Max Arthur Macauliffe's translation (1909), made with Sikh scholars, of the daily prayers: the Japji, the Rahiras and the Sohila (angs 1–13), each pauri or hymn set beside its Gurmukhi. The rest of the Guru Granth Sahib has no English here yet.

Max Arthur Macauliffe, The Sikh Religion, its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, vol. 1 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909). Public domain. Text from English Wikisource's transcription of the scan, checked word by word against Internet Archive scans (thesikhreligion01macauoft, in.ernet.dli.2015.85504); Macauliffe's notes omitted. · Source ↗

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