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Countless devotees contemplate the Wisdom and Virtues of the Lord.

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Countless the holy, countless the givers.

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Countless heroic spiritual warriors, who bear the brunt of the attack in battle (who with their mouths eat steel).

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Countless silent sages, vibrating the String of His Love.

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How can Your Creative Potency be described?

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I cannot even once be a sacrifice to You.

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Whatever pleases You is the only good done,

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You, Eternal and Formless One. ||17||

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Countless fools, blinded by ignorance.

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Countless thieves and embezzlers.

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Countless impose their will by force.

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Countless cut-throats and ruthless killers.

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Countless sinners who keep on sinning.

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Countless liars, wandering lost in their lies.

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Countless wretches, eating filth as their ration.

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Countless slanderers, carrying the weight of their stupid mistakes on their heads.

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Nanak describes the state of the lowly.

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I cannot even once be a sacrifice to You.

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Whatever pleases You is the only good done,

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You, Eternal and Formless One. ||18||

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Countless names, countless places.

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Inaccessible, unapproachable, countless celestial realms.

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Even to call them countless is to carry the weight on your head.

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From the Word, comes the Naam; from the Word, comes Your Praise.

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From the Word, comes spiritual wisdom, singing the Songs of Your Glory.

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From the Word, come the written and spoken words and hymns.

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From the Word, comes destiny, written on one's forehead.

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But the One who wrote these Words of Destiny-no words are written on His Forehead.

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As He ordains, so do we receive.

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The created universe is the manifestation of Your Name.

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Without Your Name, there is no place at all.

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How can I describe Your Creative Power?

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I cannot even once be a sacrifice to You.

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Whatever pleases You is the only good done,

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You, Eternal and Formless One. ||19||

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When the hands and the feet and the body are dirty,

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water can wash away the dirt.

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When the clothes are soiled and stained by urine,

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soap can wash them clean.

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But when the intellect is stained and polluted by sin,

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it can only be cleansed by the Love of the Name.

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Virtue and vice do not come by mere words;

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actions repeated, over and over again, are engraved on the soul.

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You shall harvest what you plant.

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O Nanak, by the Hukam of God's Command, we come and go in reincarnation. ||20||

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Pilgrimages, austere discipline, compassion and charity

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-these, by themselves, bring only an iota of merit.

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Listening and believing with love and humility in your mind,

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cleanse yourself with the Name, at the sacred shrine deep within.

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All virtues are Yours, Lord, I have none at all.

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Without virtue, there is no devotional worship.

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I bow to the Lord of the World, to His Word, to Brahma the Creator.

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He is Beautiful, True and Eternally Joyful.

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What was that time, and what was that moment? What was that day, and what was that date?

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What was that season, and what was that month, when the Universe was created?

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The Pandits, the religious scholars, cannot find that time, even if it is written in the Puraanas.

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That time is not known to the Qazis, who study the Koran.

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The day and the date are not known to the Yogis, nor is the month or the season.

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The Creator who created this creation-only He Himself knows.

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How can we speak of Him? How can we praise Him? How can we describe Him? How can we know Him?

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