Guru Nanak
If a man, foul within and fair without, puff himself up
in the world,
His filth will not depart even though he bathe at the sixty-
eight places of pilgrimage.
They who wear silk within and rags without, are good
in this world.
They have conceived love for God and contemplate
beholding Him.
In God's love they weep, in God's love they laugh, or are
even silent.
They care not for anything except the true Master.
They beg for food at God's door, and only eat when He
giveth it to them.
For them there is but one court as there is but one pen;[1]
we and you shall meet for justice.
The accounts of the wicked shall be examined in God's court,
and they shall be pressed, O Nanak, like oil in a mill.[2]
Pauri XX
Thou Thyself didst create the world, and Thou Thyself
didst infuse power into it.
Thou beholdest Thine own work, the losing and winning
dice[3] upon earth.
Whatever hath come shall depart; his turn shall come to
every one.
Why forget that Lord who owneth life and soul
With thine own hands arrange thine own affairs.
- ↑ That is, there is no mediator between God and man. It is God Himself who decides man's fate.
- ↑ This with half the last line is also translated—They who confound meum and tuum shall have their accounts examined in God's court, and shall be pressed, O Nānak, like oil in a mill.
- ↑ That is, the sinners and the virtuous. The game of chausar or chaupar is played with sixteen pieces, called sāris, and three dice, called pāsā. The sāris while being moved round the board, like creatures in transmigration, are called kachi, unripe; when they reach their goal, they are called pakki or ripe.
