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The Guru and Mardana after their travels in Eastern India returned to the Panjab, and proceeded on a visit to the shr…
Either seek for high position or for God. Put not thy feet on two boats lest thy property founder.
The Guru replied:—
Put thy feet on two boats and thy property also on them: One boat may sink, but the other shall cross over. For me th…
Shaikh Brahm replied:— O Farid, the world is enamoured of the witch who is found to be false when her secret is known…
Upon this the Guru urged:— O Farid, love for the witch hath prevailed from the very beginning. Nanak, the field shall…
Then Shaikh Brahm:— Farid, my body faileth, my heart is broken, and no strength whatever remaineth me. Arise, beloved…
Then the Guru exhorted him:— My friend, examine the truth, lip-worship is hollow. Nanak, the Beloved is not far from …
Then Shaikh Brahm uttered the following:— When thou oughtest to have made thy raft, thou didst not do so; When the fu…
The Guru replied by a hymn in the same measure:—
Make a raft of devotion and penance, so mayest thou cross the stream. There is no lake, no overflowing; such a road i…
Then Shaikh Brahm uttered the following:— They who have heart-felt love for God are the true; But they who have one t…
On this the Guru uttered the hymn called Suchajji, the fortunate, in the Suhi measure:—
When I have Thee I have everything; Thou, O Lord, art my treasure. In Thee I dwell in peace, in Thee to dwell is my p…
Devotion in the beginning of the night is the blossom, in the end of the night the fruit. They who watch obtain gifts…
The Guru responded:—
Gifts are the Lord's; what can prevail against Him? Some who are awake receive them not; others who are asleep He awa…
The Guru then asked Shaikh Brahm to put his hand into the milk and feel what was in it. Farid found that it contained…
O thou with the beautiful eyes, in the first watch of a dark night Watch thy property, O mortal; thy turn shall come …
O Nanak, the fool hath never thought of God; what can he see in a dark night? II
It is the second watch; awake, O heedless one. Watch thy property, O mortal; thy field is being eaten up. Watch thy f…
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It is the third watch, thou art wrapt in slumber. By wealth, children, and wives men are afflicted with sorrow: Yet w…
Nanak, in the third watch men, under the influence of the three qualities, feel worldly love. IV
It is the fourth watch; the sun riseth. They who night and day are watchful have saved their homes. Night is pleasant…
The knot of life is open; arise, thine allotted time hath come. All pleasures and happiness are at an end; Death will…
When the Guru and Shaikh Brahm left the forest the villager returned to fetch his basin. On lifting it up, it is said…
attached to forms of existence. Whenever any one of the three qualities predominates, it causes the embodied spirit t…
Shaikh Brahm remarked that it was difficult for those who attached themselves to mammon to obtain salvation, and inqu…
The union of father and mother produceth a body, On which the Creator hath written its destiny, The gifts, the divine…
Then the people brought them bread, but Shaikh Brahm said that he had already dined. The people, annoyed that their o…
Come, my sisters and dear companions, embrace me. Having embraced me, tell me tales of the Omnipotent Spouse. In the …
The Guru and his companions directed their steps to the East. They went to an island in the ocean where they could ob…
Not long after they found themselves in a lonely desert. Mardana began to feel the pangs of hunger, and thus addresse…
The demigods in order to behold Thee, O God, made pilgrimages in sufferings and hunger. Jogis and Jatis go their own …
The Guru further remonstrated with his attendant: 'We cannot succeed without God's word. Think of some hymn and play …
As they continued their wanderings, Mardana again felt hungry, so he drew forth his stock of fruit. Directly he taste…