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LIFE OF GURU NANAK
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CHH.God's shadow is over everything; doubt is His doing.

O God, having created doubt, Thou Thyself leadest man astray. They whom Thou favourest meet the Guru.

J.Thy slave, who wandered in the eighty-four lakhs[1] of existences, beggeth and prayeth for divine knowledge.

There is One who taketh, One who giveth; I have heard of none other.

JH.Why die of grief, O mortal? What God hath to give He continueth to give.

He giveth, beholdeth and issueth His orders how living things are to obtain sustenance.

N.When I look carefully I see no other than God.

The one God pervadeth all places; the one God dwelleth in the heart.

T.O mortals, why practise deceit? Ye shall have to depart in a ghari[2] or two.

Lose not the play of your lives, run and fall under God's protection.

TH.Comfort pervadeth the hearts of those whose minds are attached to God s feet.

They whose minds are so attached are saved, O Lord, and obtain happiness by Thy favour.

D.O mortal, why make display? all that existeth is transitory.

Serve Him who pervadeth all things, and thou shalt obtain happiness.

DH.He Himself destroyeth and buildeth; He acteth as He pleaseth.

He beholdeth the work of His hands, issueth His orders, and saveth those on whom He looketh with favour.

N.He in whose heart God dwelleth singeth His praises.

  1. It is believed in the East that there are 8,400,000 species of animal life through which the soul may wander in transmigration. A lākh is one hundred thousand.
  2. A ghari is a period of twenty-four minutes.