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Shalok, Third Mehl:

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One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

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Do not call the wandering beggars holy men, if their minds are filled with doubt.

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Whoever gives to them, O Nanak, earns the same sort of merit. ||1||

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One who begs for the supreme status of the Fearless and Immaculate Lord

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- how rare are those who have the opportunity, O Nanak, to give food to such a person. ||2||

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If I were a religious scholar, an astrologer, or one who could recite the four Vedas,

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I could be famous throughout the nine regions of the earth, for my wisdom and thoughtful contemplation. ||3||

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If a Brahmin kills a cow or a female infant, and accepts the offerings of an evil person,

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he is cursed with the leprosy of curses and criticism; he is forever and ever filled with egotistical pride.

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One who forgets the Naam, O Nanak, is covered by countless sins.

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Let all wisdom be burnt away, except for the essence of spiritual wisdom. ||4||

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No one can erase that primal destiny written upon one's forehead.

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O Nanak, whatever is written there, comes to pass. He alone understands, who is blessed by God's Grace. ||5||

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Those who forget the Naam, the Name of the Lord, and become attached to greed and fraud,

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are engrossed in the entanglements of Maya the enticer, with the fire of desire within them.

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Those who, like the pumpkin vine, are too stubborn climb the trellis, are cheated by Maya the cheater.

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The self-willed manmukhs are bound and gagged and led away; the dogs do not join the herd of cows.

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The Lord Himself misleads the misguided ones, and He Himself unites them in His Union.

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O Nanak, the Gurmukhs are saved; they walk in harmony with the Will of the True Guru. ||6||

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I praise the Praiseworthy Lord, and sing the Praises of the True Lord.

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O Nanak, the One Lord alone is True; stay away from all other doors. ||7||

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O Nanak, wherever I go, I find the True Lord.

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Wherever I look, I see the One Lord. He reveals Himself to the Gurmukh. ||8||

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The Word of the Shabad is the Dispeller of sorrow, if one enshrines it in the mind.

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By Guru's Grace, it dwells in the mind; by God's Mercy, it is obtained. ||9||

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O Nanak, acting in egotism, countless thousands have wasted away to death.

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Those who meet with the True Guru are saved, through the Shabad, the True Word of the Inscrutable Lord. ||10||

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Those who serve the True Guru single-mindedly - I fall at the feet of those humble beings.

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Through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, the Lord abides in the mind, and the hunger for Maya departs.

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Immaculate and pure are those humble beings, who, as Gurmukh, merge in the Naam.

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O Nanak, other empires are false; they alone are true emperors, who are imbued with the Naam. ||11||

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The devoted wife in her husband's home has a great longing to perform loving devotional service to him;

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she prepares and offers to him all sorts of sweet delicacies and dishes of all flavors.

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In the same way, the devotees praise the Word of the Guru's Bani, and focus their consciousness on the Lord's Name.

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They place mind, body and wealth in offering before the Guru, and sell their heads to Him.

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In the Fear of God, His devotees yearn for His devotional worship; God fulfills their desires, and merges them with Himself.

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