There is pleasure in gold, pleasure in silver and in women, pleasure in the perfume of sandal;
There is pleasure in horses, pleasure in couches and in palaces, pleasure in sweets, and pleasure in meats.
When such are the pleasures of the body, how shall God's name obtain a dwelling therein?
It is proper to utter the words by which honour is obtained.
Injury resulteth from uttering harsh words; hearken, O foolish and ignorant man.
They who please God are good; what more can be said?
They in whose heart God is contained possess wisdom, honour, and wealth.
What need is there of praising them? What further decoration can they obtain?
By the following the Guru recommended agricultural labour:—
The oxen are disciples,[2] the ploughman is their Shaikh;[3]
The earth is a book, the furrow the writing.
The sweat of the ploughman's brow falleth to his heels,
And every one eateth of his earning.[4]
They who eat the fruit of their earning and bestow a little from it,
O Nanak, recognize the true way.
Then the Guru departed thence.
