145 : 2206
When it pleases You, we smear our bodies with ashes, and blow the horn and the conch shell.

145 : 2207
When it pleases You, we read the Islamic Scriptures, and are acclaimed as Mullahs and Shaykhs.

145 : 2208
When it pleases You, we become kings, and enjoy all sorts of tastes and pleasures.

145 : 2209
When it pleases You, we wield the sword, and cut off the heads of our enemies.

145 : 2210
When it pleases You, we go out to foreign lands; hearing news of home, we come back again.

145 : 2211
When it pleases You, we are attuned to the Name, and when it pleases You, we become pleasing to You.

145 : 2212
Nanak utters this one prayer; everything else is just the practice of falsehood. ||1||

145 : 2213
First Mehl:

145 : 2214
You are so Great-all Greatness flows from You. You are So Good-Goodness radiates from You.

145 : 2215
You are True-all that flows from You is True. Nothing at all is false.

145 : 2216
Talking, seeing, speaking, walking, living and dying-all these are transitory.

145 : 2217
By the Hukam of His Command, He creates, and in His Command, He keeps us. O Nanak, He Himself is True. ||2||

145 : 2218
Pauree:

145 : 2219
Serve the True Guru fearlessly, and your doubt shall be dispelled.

145 : 2220
Do that work which the True Guru asks you to do.

145 : 2221
When the True Guru becomes merciful, we meditate on the Naam.

145 : 2222
The profit of devotional worship is excellent. It is obtained by the Gurmukh.

145 : 2223
The self-willed manmukhs are trapped in the darkness of falsehood; they practice nothing but falsehood.

145 : 2224
Go to the Gate of Truth, and speak the Truth.

145 : 2225
The True Lord calls the true ones to the Mansion of His Presence.

145 : 2226
O Nanak, the true ones are forever true; they are absorbed in the True Lord. ||15||

145 : 2227
Shalok, First Mehl:

145 : 2228
The Dark Age of Kali Yuga is the knife, and the kings are butchers; righteousness has sprouted wings and flown away.

Continued...

145 : 2229
In this dark night of falsehood, the moon of Truth is not visible anywhere.

145 : 2230
I have searched in vain, and I am so confused; in this darkness, I cannot find the path.

145 : 2231
In egotism, they cry out in pain.

145 : 2232
Says Nanak, how will they be saved? ||1||

145 : 2233
Third Mehl:

145 : 2234
In this Dark Age of Kali Yuga, the Kirtan of the Lord's Praise has appeared as a Light in the world.

145 : 2235
How rare are those few Gurmukhs who swim across to the other side!

145 : 2236
The Lord bestows His Glance of Grace;

145 : 2237
O Nanak, the Gurmukh receives the jewel. ||2||

145 : 2238
Pauree:

145 : 2239
Between the Lord's devotees and the people of the world, there can never be any true alliance.

145 : 2240
The Creator Himself is infallible. He cannot be fooled; no one can fool Him.

145 : 2241
He blends His devotees with Himself; they practice Truth, and only Truth.

145 : 2242
The Lord Himself leads the people of the world astray; they tell lies, and by telling lies, they eat poison.

145 : 2243
They do not recognize the ultimate reality, that we all must go; they continue to cultivate the poisons of sexual desire and anger.

145 : 2244
The devotees serve the Lord; night and day, they meditate on the Naam.

145 : 2245
Becoming the slaves of the Lord's slaves, they eradicate selfishness and conceit from within.

145 : 2246
In the Court of their Lord and Master, their faces are radiant; they are embellished and exalted with the True Word of the Shabad. ||16||

145 : 2247
Shalok, First Mehl:

145 : 2248
Those who praise the Lord in the early hours of the morning and meditate on Him single-mindedly,

145 : 2249
are the perfect kings; at the right time, they die fighting.

145 : 2250
In the second watch, the focus of the mind is scattered in all sorts of ways.

145 : 2251
So many fall into the bottomless pit; they are dragged under, and they cannot get out again.

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