This body is immersed in the waves of the world; O True One, my hope is in Thee.
CXXVI
What is that word, what those virtues, what that priceless spell;
What dress shall I wear that I may captivate the Spouse?
CXXVII
Humility is the word, forbearance the virtue, civility the priceless spell;
Make these three thy dress, O sister, and the Spouse shall come into thy power.[1]
CXXVIII
There are few saints
Who, though wise, are simple,
Though strong, are weak,
And, though having not, divide what they have.
CXXIX
Utter not one disagreeable word, since the true Lord is in all men.
Distress no one s heart; every heart is a priceless jewel.
CXXX
All men's hearts are jewels; to distress them is by no means good:
If thou desire the Beloved, distress no one's heart.
BHIKAN
Bhikan was most probably Shaikh Bhikan of Kakori who died in the early part of the Emperor Akbar's reign. The Persian historian Badauni has the following account of him:—'Kakori is a pargana town in the Sarkar of Lakhnau. Shaik Bhikan was the most learned of the learned men of his time,
- ↑ In the oldest Janamsākhi this reply is attributed to Guru Nānak.
