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Nanak, the slave of Your slaves, says, I am the water-carrier of Your slaves. ||8||1||

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Nat, Fourth Mehl:

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O Lord, I am an unworthy stone.

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The Merciful Lord, in His Mercy, has led me to meet the Guru; through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, this stone is carried across. ||1||Pause||

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The True Guru has implanted within me the exceedingly sweet Naam, the Name of the Lord; it is like the most fragrant sandalwood.

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Through the Name, my awareness extends in the ten directions; the fragrance of the fragrant Lord permeates the air. ||1||

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Your unlimited sermon is the most sweet sermon; I contemplate the most Sublime Word of the Guru.

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Singing, singing, I sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord; singing His Glorious Praises, the Guru saves me. ||2||

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The Guru is wise and clear; the Guru looks upon all alike. Meeting with Him, doubt and skepticism are removed.

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Meeting with the True Guru, I have obtained the supreme status. I am a sacrifice to the True Guru. ||3||

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Practicing hypocrisy and deception, people wander around in confusion. Greed and hypocrisy are evils in this world.

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In this world and the next, they are miserable; the Messenger of Death hovers over their heads, and strikes them down. ||4||

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At the break of day, they take care of their affairs, and the poisonous entanglements of Maya.

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When night falls, they enter the land of dreams, and even in dreams, they take care of their corruptions and pains. ||5||

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Taking a barren field, they plant falsehood; they shall harvest only falsehood.

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The materialistic people shall all remain hungry; the brutal Messenger of Death stands waiting at their door. ||6||

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The self-willed manmukh has accumulated a tremendous load of debt in sin; only by contemplating the Word of the Shabad, can this debt be paid off.

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As much debt and as many creditors as there are, the Lord makes them into servants, who fall at his feet. ||7||

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All the beings which the Lord of the Universe created - He puts the rings through their noses, and leads them all along.

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O Nanak, as God drives us on, so do we follow; it is all the Will of the Beloved Lord. ||8||2||

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Nat, Fourth Mehl:

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The Lord has bathed me in the pool of Ambrosial Nectar.

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The spiritual wisdom of the True Guru is the most excellent cleansing bath; bathing in it, all the filthy sins are washed away. ||1||Pause||

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The virtues of the Sangat, the Holy Congregation, are so very great. Even the prostitute was saved, by teaching the parrot to speak the Lord's Name.

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Krishna was pleased, and so he touched the hunch-back Kubija, and she was transported to the heavens. ||1||

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Ajaamal loved his son Naaraayan, and called out his name.

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His loving devotion pleased my Lord and Master, who struck down and drove off the Messengers of Death. ||2||

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The mortal speaks and by speaking, makes the people listen; but he does not reflect upon what he himself says.

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But when he joins the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation, he is confirmed in his faith, and he is saved by the Name of the Lord. ||3||

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As long as his soul and body are healthy and strong, he does not remember the Lord at all.

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But when his home and mansion catch fire, then, he wants to dig the well to draw water. ||4||

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O mind, do not join with the faithless cynic, who has forgotten the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.

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The word of the faithless cynic stings like a scorpion; leave the faithless cynic far, far behind. ||5||

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