1243 : 1725
Whatever is predestined, happens, O Nanak; whatever the Creator does, comes to pass. ||1||

1243 : 1726
First Mehl:

1243 : 1727
Women have become advisors, and men have become hunters.

1243 : 1728
Humility, self-control and purity have run away; people eat the uneatable, forbidden food.

1243 : 1729
Modesty has left her home, and honor has gone away with her.

1243 : 1730
O Nanak, there is only One True Lord; do not bother to search for any other as true. ||2||

1243 : 1731
Pauree:

1243 : 1732
You smear your outer body with ashes, but within, you are filled with darkness.

1243 : 1733
You wear the patched coat and all the right clothes and robes, but you are still egotistical and proud.

1243 : 1734
You do not chant the Shabad, the Word of Your Lord and Master; you are attached to the expanse of Maya.

1243 : 1735
Within, you are filled with greed and doubt; you wander around like a fool.

1243 : 1736
Says Nanak, you never even think of the Naam; you have lost the game of life in the gamble. ||14||

1243 : 1737
Shalok, First Mehl:

1243 : 1738
You may be in love with tens of thousands, and live for thousands of years; but what good are these pleasures and occupations?

1243 : 1739
And when you must separate from them, that separation is like poison, but they will be gone in an instant.

1243 : 1740
You may eat sweets for a hundred years, but eventually, you will have to eat the bitter as well.

1243 : 1741
Then, you will not remember eating the sweets; bitterness will permeate you.

1243 : 1742
The sweet and the bitter are both diseases.

1243 : 1743
O Nanak, eating them, you will come to ruin in the end.

1243 : 1744
It is useless to worry and struggle to death.

1243 : 1745
Entangled in worries and struggles, people exhaust themselves. ||1||

1243 : 1746
First Mehl:

1243 : 1747
They have fine clothes and furniture of various colors.

1243 : 1748
Their houses are painted beautifully white.

1243 : 1749
In pleasure and poise, they play their mind games.

1243 : 1750
When they approach You, O Lord, they shall be spoken to.

Continued...

1243 : 1751
They think it is sweet, so they eat the bitter.

1243 : 1752
The bitter disease grows in the body.

1243 : 1753
If, later on, they receive the sweet,

1243 : 1754
then their bitterness shall be gone, O mother.

1243 : 1755
O Nanak, the Gurmukh is blessed to receive

1243 : 1756
what he is predestined to receive. ||2||

1243 : 1757
Pauree:

1243 : 1758
Those whose hearts are filled with the filth of deception, may wash themselves on the outside.

1243 : 1759
They practice falsehood and deception, and their falsehood is revealed.

1243 : 1760
That which is within them, comes out; it cannot be concealed by concealment.

1243 : 1761
Attached to falsehood and greed, the mortal is consigned to reincarnation over and over again.

1243 : 1762
O Nanak, whatever the mortal plants, he must eat. The Creator Lord has written our destiny. ||15||

1243 : 1763
Shalok, Second Mehl:

1243 : 1764
The Vedas bring forth stories and legends, and thoughts of vice and virtue.

1243 : 1765
What is given, they receive, and what is received, they give. They are reincarnated in heaven and hell.

1243 : 1766
High and low, social class and status - the world wanders lost in superstition.

1243 : 1767
The Ambrosial Word of Gurbani proclaims the essence of reality. Spiritual wisdom and meditation are contained within it.

1243 : 1768
The Gurmukhs chant it, and the Gurmukhs realize it. Intuitively aware, they meditate on it.

1243 : 1769
By the Hukam of His Command, He formed the Universe, and in His Hukam, He keeps it. By His Hukam, He keeps it under His Gaze.

1243 : 1770
O Nanak, if the mortal shatters his ego before he departs, as it is pre-ordained, then he is approved. ||1||

1243 : 1771
First Mehl:

1243 : 1772
The Vedas proclaim that vice and virtue are the seeds of heaven and hell.

1243 : 1773
Whatever is planted, shall grow. The soul eats the fruits of its actions, and understands.

1243 : 1774
Whoever praises spiritual wisdom as great, becomes truthful in the True Name.

1243 : 1775
When Truth is planted, Truth grows. In the Court of the Lord, you shall find your place of honor.

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