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That Gurmukh, whom You have blessed with greatness - that humble being is known in Your True Court. ||11||

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Shalok, Mardaanaa:

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The Dark Age of Kali Yuga is the vessel, filled with the wine of sexual desire; the mind is the drunkard.

553 : 548
Anger is the cup, filled with emotional attachment, and egotism is the server.

553 : 549
Drinking too much in the company of falsehood and greed, one is ruined.

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So let good deeds be your distillery, and Truth your molasses; in this way, make the most excellent wine of Truth.

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Make virtue your bread, good conduct the ghee, and modesty the meat to eat.

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As Gurmukh, these are obtained, O Nanak; partaking of them, one's sins depart. ||1||

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MARDAANAA:

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The human body is the vat, self-conceit is the wine, and desire is the company of drinking buddies.

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The cup of the mind's longing is overflowing with falsehood, and the Messenger of Death is the cup-bearer.

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Drinking in this wine, O Nanak, one takes on countless sins and corruptions.

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So make spiritual wisdom your molasses, the Praise of God your bread, and the Fear of God the meat you eat.

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O Nanak, this is the true food; let the True Name be your only Support. ||2||

553 : 559
If the human body is the vat, and self-realization is the wine, then a stream of Ambrosial Nectar is produced.

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Meeting with the Society of the Saints, the cup of the Lord's Love is filled with this Ambrosial Nectar; drinking it in, one's corruptions and sins are wiped away. ||3||

553 : 561
Pauree:

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He Himself is the angelic being, the heavenly herald, and the celestial singer. He Himself is the one who explains the six schools of philosophy.

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He Himself is Shiva, Shankara and Mahaysh; He Himself is the Gurmukh, who speaks the Unspoken Speech.

553 : 564
He Himself is the Yogi, He Himself is the Sensual Enjoyer, and He Himself is the Sannyaasee, wandering through the wilderness.

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He discusses with Himself, and He teaches Himself; He Himself is discrete, graceful and wise.

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Staging His own play, He Himself watches it; He Himself is the Knower of all beings. ||12||

553 : 567
Shalok, Third Mehl:

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That evening prayer alone is acceptable, which brings the Lord God to my consciousness.

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Love for the Lord wells up within me, and my attachment to Maya is burnt away.

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By Guru's Grace, duality is conquered, and the mind becomes stable; I have made contemplative meditation my evening prayer.

553 : 571
O Nanak, the self-willed manmukh may recite his evening prayers, but his mind is not centered on it; through birth and death, he is ruined. ||1||

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Third Mehl:

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I wandered over the whole world, crying out, "Love, O Love!", but my thirst was not quenched.

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O Nanak, meeting the True Guru, my desires are satisfied; I found my Beloved, when I returned to my own home. ||2||

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Pauree:

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He Himself is the supreme essence, He Himself is the essence of all. He Himself is the Lord and Master, and He Himself is the servant.

553 : 577
He Himself created the people of the eighteen castes; God Himself acquired His domain.

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He Himself kills, and He Himself redeems; He Himself, in His Kindness, forgives us. He is infallible

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- He never errs; the justice of the True Lord is totally True.

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Those whom the Lord Himself instructs as Gurmukh - duality and doubt depart from within them. ||13||

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Shalok, Fifth Mehl:

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That body, which does not remember the Lord's Name in meditation in the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, shall be reduced to dust.

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Cursed and insipid is that body, O Nanak, which does not know the One who created it. ||1||

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