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Study the Lord's Name, and understand the Lord's Name; follow the Guru's Teachings, and through the Naam, you shall be saved.

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Perfect are the Teachings of the Perfect Guru; contemplate the Perfect Word of the Shabad.

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The Lord's Name is the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage, and the Eradicator of sins. ||2||

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The blind ignorant mortal stirs the water and churns the water, wishing to obtain butter.

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Following the Guru's Teachings, one churns the cream, and the treasure of the Ambrosial Naam is obtained.

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The self-willed manmukh is a beast; he does not know the essence of reality that is contained within himself. ||3||

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Dying in egotism and self-conceit, one dies, and dies again, only to be reincarnated over and over again.

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But when he dies in the Word of the Guru's Shabad, then he does not die, ever again.

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When he follows the Guru's Teachings, and enshrines the Lord, the Life of the World, within his mind, he redeems all his generations. ||4||

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The Naam, the Name of the Lord, is the true object, the true commodity.

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The Naam is the only true profit in this world. Follow the Guru's Teachings, and contemplate it.

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To work in the love of duality, brings constant loss in this world. ||5||

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True is one's association, true is one's place, and true is one's hearth and home, when one has the support of the Naam.

1009 : 805
Contemplating the True Word of the Guru's Bani, and the True Word of the Shabad, one becomes content. ||6||

1009 : 806
Enjoying princely pleasures, one shall be destroyed in pain and pleasure.

1009 : 807
Adopting a name of greatness, one strings heavy sins around his neck.

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Mankind cannot give gifts; You alone are the Giver of everything. ||7||

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You are inaccessible and unfathomable; O Lord, You are imperishable and infinite.

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Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, seeking at the Lord's Door, one finds the treasure of liberation.

1009 : 811
O Nanak, this union is not broken, if one deals in the merchandise of Truth. ||8||1||

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Maaroo, First Mehl:

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The boat is loaded with sin and corruption, and launched into the sea.

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The shore cannot be seen on this side, nor on the shore beyond.

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There are no oars, nor any boatmen, to cross over the terrifying world-ocean. ||1||

1009 : 816
O Baba, the world is caught in the great noose.

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By Guru's Grace, they are saved, contemplating the True Name. ||1||Pause||

1009 : 818
The True Guru is the boat; the Word of the Shabad will carry them across.

1009 : 819
There is neither wind nor fire, neither water nor form there.

1009 : 820
The True Name of the True Lord is there; it carries them across the terrifying world-ocean. ||2||

1009 : 821
The Gurmukhs reach the shore beyond, lovingly focusing on the True Lord.

1009 : 822
Their comings and goings are ended, and their light merges into the Light.

1009 : 823
Following the Guru's Teachings, intuitive peace wells up within them, and they remain merged in the True Lord. ||3||

1009 : 824
The snake may be locked in a basket, but it is still poisonous, and the anger within its mind remains.

1009 : 825
One obtains what is pre-ordained; why does he blame others?

1009 : 826
If one, as Gurmukh, hears and believes in the Name, the charm against poison, his mind becomes content. ||4||

1009 : 827
The crocodile is caught by the hook and line;

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caught in the trap of evil-mindedness, he regrets and repents, again and again.

1009 : 829
He does not understand birth and death; the inscription of one's past actions cannot be erased. ||5||

1009 : 830
Injecting the poison of egotism, the world was created; with the Shabad enshrined within, the poison is eliminated.

1009 : 831
Old age cannot torment one who remains lovingly absorbed in the True Lord.

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He alone is called Jivan-Mikta, liberated while yet alive, from within whom egotism is eradicated. ||6||

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