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As shall produce the unbeaten strain and abiding love of God.
Make patience thy wallet, truth thy platter, put the ambrosial Name thereon as food.
Make meditation thy staff, O Jogi, and remembrance of God the horn thou blowest.
Make the fixing of thy mind on God thy sitting posture,^[1] O Jogi, so shall thine injuries depart.
Go beg in the city of the body,^[2] O Jogi, and thou shalt obtain the Name.
It is not by means of this kinguri; O Jogi, that thou shalt meditate upon or obtain the True One;
It is not by means of this kinguri, O Jogi, that thou shalt find peace, or that pride shall depart from thy heart.
Make the fear and love of God the two gourds of thy kinguri, O Jogi, and thy body its frame.
Be holy and the strings will play; thus shall thine avarice depart.
He who understandeth God's order and applieth his heart to the one God is properly called a Jogi:
His doubts are dispelled, he becometh pure, and thus obtaineth the way of union with God.
All that is visible shall be destroyed; wherefore fix thy mind on God.
If thou bear love to the true Guru, thou shalt understand this.
Union with God consisteth not, O Jogi, in leaving one's family and wandering abroad.
By the Guru's favour thou shalt obtain God's name in the mansion of thy body.
This body is an earthen puppet, O Jogi, and in it is a dire disease—the craving for mammon.
This disease will not be cured, O Jogi, by thy many efforts or by wearing sectarial dresses.
God's name, O Jogi, in whatever heart He implanteth it, is the medicine.
Wherever there is a holy man he obtaineth divine knowledge, and findeth the way of union with Him.

1. Eighty-four postures of the Jogis are enumerated.
2. That is, practise contemplation.