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English translation of
Holy Guru Granth Sahib

English translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
taken from http://www.gurbanifiles.com/

Raag Bilaaval - Part 064

858 : 2569
My pain is forgotten, and I have found peace deep within myself. ||1||

858 : 2570
The Guru has blessed me with the ointment of spiritual wisdom.

858 : 2571
Without the Lord's Name, life is mindless. ||1||Pause||

858 : 2572
Meditating in remembrance, Naam Dayv has come to know the Lord.

858 : 2573
His soul is blended with the Lord, the Life of the World. ||2||1||

858 : 2574
Bilaaval, The Word Of Devotee Ravi Daas:

858 : 2575
One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

858 : 2576
Seeing my poverty, everyone laughed. Such was my condition.

858 : 2577
Now, I hold the eighteen miraculous spiritual powers in the palm of my hand; everything is by Your Grace. ||1||

858 : 2578
You know, and I am nothing, O Lord, Destroyer of fear.

858 : 2579
All beings seek Your Sanctuary, O God, Fulfiller, Resolver of our affairs. ||1||Pause||

858 : 2580
Whoever enters Your Sanctuary, is relieved of his burden of sin.

858 : 2581
You have saved the high and the low from the shameless world. ||2||

858 : 2582
Says Ravi Daas, what more can be said about the Unspoken Speech?

858 : 2583
Whatever You are, You are, O Lord; how can anything compare with Your Praises? ||3||1||

858 : 2584
BILAAVAL:

858 : 2585
That family, into which a holy person is born,

858 : 2586
whether of high or low social class, whether rich or poor, shall have its pure fragrance spread all over the world. ||1||Pause||

Continued...

858 : 2587
Whether he is a Brahmin, a Vaishya, a Soodra, or a Kh'shaatriya; whether he is a poet, an outcaste, or a filthy-minded person,

858 : 2588
he becomes pure, by meditating on the Lord God. He saves himself, and the families of both his parents. ||1||

858 : 2589
Blessed is that village, and blessed is the place of his birth; blessed is his pure family, throughout all the worlds.

858 : 2590
One who drinks in the sublime essence abandons other tastes; intoxicated with this divine essence, he discards sin and corruption. ||2||

858 : 2591
Among the religious scholars, warriors and kings, there is no other equal to the Lord's devotee.

858 : 2592
As the leaves of the water lily float free in the water, says Ravi Daas, so is their life in the world. ||3||2||

858 : 2593
The Word Of Sadhana, Raag Bilaaval:

858 : 2594
One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

858 : 2595
For a king's daughter, a man disguised himself as Vishnu.

858 : 2596
He did it for sexual exploitation, and for selfish motives, but the Lord protected his honor. ||1||

858 : 2597
What is Your value, O Guru of the world, if You will not erase the karma of my past actions?

858 : 2598
Why seek safety from a lion, if one is to be eaten by a jackal? ||1||Pause||

858 : 2599
For the sake of a single rain-drop, the rainbird suffers in pain.

858 : 2600
When its breath of life is gone, even an ocean is of no use to it. ||2||

858 : 2601
Now, my life has grown weary, and I shall not last much longer; how can I be patient?

858 : 2602
If I drown and die, and then a boat comes along, tell me, how shall I climb aboard? ||3||

858 : 2603
I am nothing, I have nothing, and nothing belongs to me.

858 : 2604
Now, protect my honor; Sadhana is Your humble servant. ||4||1||

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