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Modesty, humility and intuitive understanding are my mother-in-law and father-in-law;

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I have made good deeds my spouse. ||2||

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Union with the Holy is my wedding date, and separation from the world is my marriage.

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Says Nanak, Truth is the child born of this Union. ||3||3||

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Gauree, First Mehl:

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The union of air, water and fire

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- the body is the play-thing of the fickle and unsteady intellect.

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It has nine doors, and then there is the Tenth Gate.

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Reflect upon this and understand it, O wise one. ||1||

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The Lord is the One who speaks, teaches and listens.

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One who contemplates his own self is truly wise. ||1||Pause||

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The body is dust; the wind speaks through it.

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Understand, O wise one, who has died.

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Awareness, conflict and ego have died,

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but the One who sees does not die. ||2||

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For the sake of it, you journey to sacred shrines and holy rivers;

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but this priceless jewel is within your own heart.

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The Pandits, the religious scholars, read and read endlessly; they stir up arguments and controversies,

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but they do not know the secret deep within. ||3||

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I have not died - that evil nature within me has died.

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The One who is pervading everywhere does not die.

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Says Nanak, the Guru has revealed God to me,

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and now I see that there is no such thing as birth or death. ||4||4||

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Gauree, First Mehl, Dakhanee:

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I am forever a sacrifice to the one who listens and hears, who understands and believes in the Name.

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When the Lord Himself leads us astray, there is no other place of rest for us to find.

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You impart understanding, and You unite us in Your Union. ||1||

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I obtain the Naam, which shall go along with me in the end.

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Without the Name, all are held in the grip of Death. ||1||Pause||

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My farming and my trading are by the Support of the Name.

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The seeds of sin and virtue are bound together.

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Sexual desire and anger are the wounds of the soul.

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The evil-minded ones forget the Naam, and then depart. ||2||

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True are the Teachings of the True Guru.

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The body and mind are cooled and soothed, by the touchstone of Truth.

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This is the true mark of wisdom: that one remains detached, like the water-lily, or the lotus upon the water.

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Attuned to the Word of the Shabad, one becomes sweet, like the juice of the sugar cane. ||3||

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By the Hukam of the Lord's Command, the castle of the body has ten gates.

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The five passions dwell there, together with the Divine Light of the Infinite.

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The Lord Himself is the merchandise, and He Himself is the trader.

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O Nanak, through the Naam, the Name of the Lord, we are adorned and rejuvenated. ||4||5||

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Gauree, First Mehl:

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How can we know where we came from?

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Where did we originate, and where will we go and merge?

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How are we bound, and how do we obtain liberation?

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How do we merge with intuitive ease into the Eternal, Imperishable Lord? ||1||

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With the Naam in the heart and the Ambrosial Naam on our lips,

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through the Name of the Lord, we rise above desire, like the Lord. ||1||Pause||

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With intuitive ease we come, and with intuitive ease we depart.

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From the mind we originate, and into the mind we are absorbed.

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As Gurmukh, we are liberated, and are not bound.

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Contemplating the Word of the Shabad, we are emancipated through the Name of the Lord. ||2||

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At night, lots of birds settle on the tree.

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Some are happy, and some are sad. Caught in the desires of the mind, they perish.

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And when the life-night comes to its end, then they look to the sky.

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They fly away in all ten directions, according to their pre-ordained destiny. ||3||

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