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And then, it is placed between the wooden rollers and crushed.

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What punishment is inflicted upon it! Its juice is extracted and placed in the cauldron; as it is heated, it groans and cries out.

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And then, the crushed cane is collected and burnt in the fire below.

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Nanak: come, people, and see how the sweet sugar-cane is treated! ||2||

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Pauree:

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Some do not think of death; they entertain great hopes.

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They die, and are re-born, and die, over and over again. They are of no use at all!

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In their conscious minds, they call themselves good.

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The King of the Angels of Death hunts down those self-willed manmukhs, over and over again.

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The manmukhs are false to their own selves; they feel no gratitude for what they have been given.

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Those who merely perform rituals of worship are not pleasing to their Lord and Master.

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Those who attain the True Lord and chant His Name are pleasing to the Lord.

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They worship the Lord and bow at His Throne. They fulfill their pre-ordained destiny. ||11||

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First Mehl, Shalok:

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What can deep water do to a fish? What can the vast sky do to a bird?

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What can cold do to a stone? What is married life to a eunuch?

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You may apply sandalwood oil to a dog, but he will still be a dog.

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You may try to teach a deaf person by reading the Simritees to him, but how will he learn?

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You may place a light before a blind man and burn fifty lamps, but how will he see?

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You may place gold before a herd of cattle, but they will pick out the grass to eat.

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You may add flux to iron and melt it, but it will not become soft like cotton.

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O Nanak, this is the nature of a fool-everything he speaks is useless and wasted. ||1||

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First Mehl:

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When pieces of bronze or gold or iron break,

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the metal-smith welds them together again in the fire, and the bond is established.

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If a husband leaves his wife,

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their children may bring them back together in the world, and the bond is established.

Continued...

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When the king makes a demand, and it is met, the bond is established.

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When the hungry man eats, he is satisfied, and the bond is established.

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In the famine, the rain fills the streams to overflowing, and the bond is established.

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There is a bond between love and words of sweetness.

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When one speaks the Truth, a bond is established with the Holy Scriptures.

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Through goodness and truth, the dead establish a bond with the living.

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Such are the bonds which prevail in the world.

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The fool establishes his bonds only when he is slapped in the face.

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Nanak says this after deep reflection:

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through the Lord's Praise, we establish a bond with His Court. ||2||

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Pauree:

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He Himself created and adorned the Universe, and He Himself contemplates it.

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Some are counterfeit, and some are genuine. He Himself is the Appraiser.

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The genuine are placed in His Treasury, while the counterfeit are thrown away.

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The counterfeit are thrown out of the True Court-unto whom should they complain?

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They should worship and follow the True Guru-this is the lifestyle of excellence.

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The True Guru converts the counterfeit into genuine; through the Word of the Shabad, He embellishes and exalts us.

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Those who have enshrined love and affection for the Guru, are honored in the True Court.

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Who can estimate the value of those who have been forgiven by the Creator Lord Himself? ||12||

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Shalok, First Mehl:

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All the spiritual teachers, their disciples and the rulers of the world shall be buried under the ground.

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The emperors shall also pass away; God alone is Eternal.

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You alone, Lord, You alone. ||1||

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First Mehl:

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Neither the angels, nor the demons, nor human beings, nor the Siddhas, nor the seekers shall remain on the earth.

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Who else is there?

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