 Section 44 of Sikh Religion, Volume 4. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Sikh Religion, Volume 4 by Max Arthur McAuliffe. Life of Guru Tegh Bahadur, Chapter 12. The Emperor on hearing of the Guru's execution became sad and repentant. His mind is said to have been agitated like leaves moved by the wind. He reflected, as the Guru by his death have fixed a stain on me, so I think that my own life will now be my guest for only a few days. His courtiers on hearing this endeavored to console him. O mighty monarch, the Guru disobeyed thine orders. So what sin was there in killing him? Thou disflay and put to death such a great man as Sarmad, so why be distressed in the Guru's case? Why trouble regarding an accomplished fact? On hearing this, the Emperor outwardly appeared consoled but could never really regain his peace of mind. A Sikh of the Labana tribe on happening to see the Guru's dead body was greatly grieved and said to himself, a curse on the Sikhs who look on and allow this dishonor to the corpse of their Guru. The Labana went home and reproached his tribesmen on the subject. They collected oxen on which they loaded sacks and carts on which they loaded cotton and drove them in the direction of the Guru's corpse. In this way they hoped that they're removing it for the performance of the last sad rites would not be noticed. They also hoped to elude pursuit in the dust storm which arose after the Guru's death. The city guards were greatly troubled by the storm and dispersed in different directions. Five, six then took up the Guru's body, put it on a cart and succeeded in taking it unobserved through the crowd. When they had taken it outside the city the dust storm subsided. The six houses were all thatched so when the pyre was lighted in them they would take fire and in this way the Guru's body would not be discovered. When it was newly reduced to ashes they cried out that their houses had caught fire and called on their neighbors to assist them in extinguishing it. The houses however were soon burnt to ashes and the call to their neighbors to help them was futile as it had been intended. Next day they collected the Guru's remains and buried them in a copper vessel in the earth immediately under his funeral pyre. Over his remains at a spot now known as Rakab, Ganj, a shrine was subsequently erected. The Emperor centered his staff for allowing the Guru's head and body to disappear and deemed his own object frustrated in having put the Guru to death. In his general distress at what had occurred he was not able to take his dinner and retired hungry. He dreamt that by Madi Das appeared to him, upturned his bed and ordered him to leave Dili. The Emperor was unable to sleep for the remainder of the night and endeavored to lull his conscience by a repetition of the creed and the prayers of his religion. While all this was taking place the Guru's family heard of his death, the efforts made to convert him and his noble replies to all the overtures made. The messenger told how the Guru had sent for five país and a coconut, bowed to his son Gobin, made him his successor and infused his light into him. His message to his son was to extend the true religion and destroy the wicked. The whole assembly began to weep but the young Guru endeavored to console them. He said that there should be no mourning for true men like his father who on seeing the decline of religion had assumed human birth and having placed religion on a firm basis but turned to his heavenly home. According to the words of Guru Arjan, Philanthropic men have come who are beyond birth and death, they give their lives, turn men to devotion and cause them to meet God. Consequently, my brethren, your mourning is vain. The young Guru who knew that his father's head was being brought to Anampur by the last messenger sent to Dili dispatched two, six to meet and escorted. The six fell in with its bearer about a mile from Anampur. He told them to return and ask Guru Gobind Rai if his father's head was to be cremated at Anampur or Karapur where were the shrines of the sixth and seventh Gurus and relations of theirs. The young Guru decided that Guru Teg Bahadur's head should be taken to Anampur for the last rites. A pyre of sandalwood was constructed and a tar of roses sprinkled on the head which the young Guru took and solemnly placed on the pyre. He then repeated the preamble of the Japji and ignited the pyre with his own hands. While the head was being cremated, the Sikh congregation sang hymns of the Guru. They called to memory and spoke of Guru Teg Bahadur's philanthropic and self-sacrificing deeds. The Sahila was then read with a concluding benediction and sacred food distributed. When Guru Gobind Rai reached home, he caused the reading of the Guru's hymns to be begun and this was continued for ten days when alms were freely distributed. Guru Gobind Rai was in due time proclaimed the 10th Guru. There were great rejoicings on the occasion. Bards and poets assembled to sing the new Guru's praises while certain Sikhs were sad at heart as they thought of the late Guru Teg Bahadur. The memory of their kind friend and spiritual leader ever occurred to them. After the death of Guru Teg Bahadur, the Mohammedans set at liberty his faithful attendant, Gurdita, a lineal descendant of Bhai Buddha. He then went to where Bhai Buddha used to graze the 6th Guru's horses and thereafter seeing the seat of his ancestors gave up his spirit. His son Ram Kaur, who was then only 13 years of age, became a very learned Guru Muki scholar. It was he who gave the 10th Guru the talak or patch of spiritual sovereignty in the presence of the descendants of all the Gurus. The enthronement of Guru Gobind Rai was performed on the 5th day of the first half of Fagan, February, AD 1676 with great state in a lofty building erected for the occasion. One day the Labbana who had cremated Guru Teg Bahadur's body paid Guru Gobind Rai a visit and detailed all the circumstances subsequent to Guru Teg Bahadur's death. When the Labbana said that the 6th were afraid to touch the body, Guru Gobind Rai vowed that he would make 6 such that one of them could hold his ground against 100,000 others. When the Labbana told the Guru that he had buried the ashes of his father, the Guru ordered him to leave them where they were for the present. He would go there himself one day and erect a temple on the spot. The Labbana continued to describe the mental state of Aurangzeb after the execution of the Guru. When Aurangzeb imprisoned his own father, the latter gave him three councils not to try to convert the Hindus to pay his state servants well and not to engage in war in the daqan. All these councils Aurangzeb disregarded the first two through bigotry and greed and the third through the advice of a wandering paqir who told him it would now be impossible for him to remain in Delhi. Aurangzeb therefore decided to make an expedition against King Tana Shah in the daqan. From that moment Aurangzeb's power declined and now no traces left of his imperial line. Such is the account of the death of Guru Tegh Bahadur given by the Sikh historians. The Muhammadan author of the Sayyar-U-Mataq Karan states that Aurangzeb had the Guru's body cut up into pieces and suspended in different parts of the imperial capital. Whether this be true or not it is certain that the other circumstances related by the Muhammadan writer are utterly incompatible with the whole tenor of Guru Tegh Bahadur's life and writings and cannot be accepted as even an approach to history. Guru Gobind Rai thus writes of his father. He protected the frontal marks and sacrificial threads of the Hindus and displayed great bravery in this Kaal age. When he put an end to his life for the sake of holy men he gave his head but uttered not a groan. He suffered martyrdom for the sake of his religion. He gave his head but swerved not from his determination. God's people would be ashamed to perform the tricks of mount the banks and cheats. Having broken his pot-sert on the head of the king of Delhi he departed to paradise. No one else coming into the world acted like Tegh Bahadur. The world was in mourning for the demise of Tegh Bahadur that was weeping for him in the whole world but rejoicing in paradise. The following hymn of Guru Tegh Bahadur is frequently sung in Assemblies of Six. Put the support of God's lotus feet into thy heart and unite it with them. The mind desires evil but it should be restrained by the Guru's instruction. Give thy head rather than forsake those whom thou hast undertaken to protect. Guru Tegh Bahadur said give thy life but relinquish not thy faith. End of Chapter 12, Section 45 of Sikh Religion Volume 4. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Sikh Religion Volume 4 by Max Arthur McAuliffe. Hymns of Guru Tegh Bahadur. Gauri, one, O good people, renounce your mental pride. Day and night flee from lust, wrath, and the company of the evil. He who recognizes the pleasure and pain, honor and dishonor as the same, and to keepeth aloof from joy and sorrow, knoweth the real thing in the world. One should renounce praise and blame and search for the dignity of nirvana. Nanak, this is a difficult part to play. Only a few pious men know how to do so. Two, O good people, God hath thus made creation. Some perish, others think that they shall live forever. This is a wonderful thing and cannot be understood. Mortal is in the power of lust, anger, and worldly love, and hath forgotten God. The body which like a nightly dream is unreal, man dimeth real. Whatever is visible shall all vanish like the shadows of the clouds. Nanak, they who know that the world is unreal shall abide under God's protection. Three, the praise of God entereth not into the heart of man. Day and night he remaineth absorbed in mammon. Say, how shall he sing God's praises? In this way he bindeth himself to children, friends, mammon, and selfishness. This world is false as a mirage, yet man on beholding it fleeth after it. The Lord, the cause of happiness in this world and the next, is forgotten by the fool. The knock among millions view there are who find the way to worship God. Four, O good people, the heart cannot be restrained. It is fickle, greed abideth with it, therefore it cannot be kept stable. Within it is violent rage which causeth all wisdom to be forgotten, and which hath stolen the jewel of divine knowledge from all men. Nothing can withstand it. All the yogis making efforts and the eulogists singing God's praises have failed to steady their minds. Nanak, when God is merciful everything is successful. Five, O good people, seeing God's praises you have obtained priceless human life. Why waste it in vain? Enter into the sanctuary of God, who is the purifier of sinners and the friend of the poor. Why forget him by remembering whom the elephants fear departed? Lay aside pride, worldly love, and self, and then apply your minds to God's worship. The nakse, if this is the way of salvation, become a follower of the guru, and you shall attain it. Six, O mother, let someone instruct this eurig mind. Man hath heard the vets and the parans and the ways of holy men, yet he singeth not God's praises even for a moment. Having obtained a human body so difficult to obtain, he passeth his life in vain. Worldly love is a very torreous and forest, yet man conceiveth love for it. He feeleth no love for God who is ever with him at home and abroad. Nanak consider him in whose heart God is contained as delivered. Seven, O good people, in God's asylum there is rest. The advantage of the study of the vets and the parans is to remember God's name. The man who is untouched by covetousness, worldly love, selfishness, joy, and sorrow, and who is not a slave to his passion, is the image of God. So is he who demeth heaven and hell, ambrosia and poison, gold and copper as the same. And so also is he who demeth praise and blame as the same, and who is not enslaved by avarice and worldly love. Recognize him as possessed of divine knowledge, who hath not the entanglements of pain and pleasure. Nanak admit that such a mortal is saved. Eight, O man, why hast thou become crazy? Knowest thou not that life decreeseth day and night, and that thou art degraded by avarice, in the body and the beautiful house and wife, which thou demest thine own, thou hast no share. Seeing carefully reflect on this, thou hast lost the jewel of human life, and thou knowest not God's way. Thou hast not been absorbed in the feet of the Lord, even for a moment, and thou hast passed thy life in vain. Say of Nanak that man is happy, who singeth God's name and praises. Mammon hath bewitched all the rest of men, they shall not obtain the fearless dignity. Nine, O heedless man, fear sin, enter the protection of him, who is compassionate to the poor, and the destroyer of every fear. Clasp to the heart the name of him, whose praises the vets and parans sing. Pure is the name of God in the world, by ever remembering it, all filth of sin shall be cleansed. Thou shalt not again obtain a human body, make some efforts now, for thy deliverance. The knock saith by lauding him, who is full of mercy, thou shalt cross the terrible ocean. Asa, to whom shall I describe man's troubles? The prayer of avarice, he hasteth in every direction in the hope of wealth. For the sake of pleasure, he undergoeth much suffering, and is the slave of every individual. Like a dog, he wandereth from door to door, and he doth not God's worship. He looseth his human life in vain, and is not ashamed of men's laughter. The knock widest thou not sing God's praises, so that thine evil inclinations may depart. Dev Gandhari 1. Man doeth not a particle of my bidding. I have been instructing him, yet he abstaineth not from wickedness. He hath gone mad by the intoxication of mammon, and repeateth not God's praises. My fraud, he deceiveth the world and filleth his own belly. Like a dog's tail, he is never straight, and lendeth not an ear to what I tell him. Sayeth not continually, repeat the name of God, so shalt thou be successful. 2. All thy relations are only for life. Thy mother, father, brothers, sons, kinsmen, and the wife of thy house. When the soul parteth from thy body, cry out, and call thee a ghost. Nobody keepeth thee even half a garry. They expel thee from the house. The structure of the world is like a mirage. Understand this and ponder on it in thy heart. Sayeth not ever repeat God's name, by which deliverance is obtained. 3. I have seen that the love of the world is false. Everybody, whether wife or friend, is intent on his own happiness. Everybody speaketh of his relations, and attacheth his heart to them with love. At the last moment, nobody will accompany him. This is a strange custom. Stupid man, as yet understandeth nothing, though I have grown weary of continually instructing him. Now knock, if man sing the praises of God, he shall cross over the terrible ocean. 4. Nobody knoweth God's ways. Yogis, Yadis, penitents, and several wise men have grown weary thinking of him. He can, in a moment, make a beggar a king, or a king a beggar. What is empty he filleth, and what is full he emptyeth. This is a practice of God. He hath spread his own illusion, and he himself beholdeth it. He assumeeth many shapes and playeth many sports, yet is distinct from everything. Incomputable, illimitable, unseen, and spotless is he who hath unsettled all men's minds. Say of Manak, O mortal, lay aside all doubt, and think upon God's feet. Soar out. 1. O man, love God, hear his praises with thine ears, and sing his songs with thy tongue. Associate with holy men, remember God, and thou shalt be cleansed from sin. Death wandereth about, O friend, like a serpent with protruding fangs. And it will seize thee sooner or later. Understand this in thy heart. Say of Manak, worship God, and an opportunity is passing away. 2. Man's intentions are never carried out. He neither adores God nor worshipeth at places of pilgrimage. So death seeseth him by the top lock. Know that wives, friends, sons, carriages property, wealth, the whole world, and everything else is false. Only adoration of God is true. Grown weary of wandering about for many ages, man hath at last obtained a human body. Manak, say of O man, it is now thy turn to meet God. Why not remember him? 3. O man, what evil inclinations hast thou entertained? Thou hast found pleasure in other men's wives, and in column me, and God thou hast not served. Thou hast not known the way of deliverance, but hast hurried to amass wealth. At last nothing shall accompany thee, and vain hast thou entangled thyself. Thou hast not worshiped God nor served holy men, nor hath any divine knowledge sprung up in thy heart. God is in thy heart, yet thou surgesed for him in the wilderness. Thou hast grown weary of wandering in many births, and hast not acquired a stable mind. Having now acquired a human body, worship God's feet, and not give it thee this advice. 4. O man, think of seeking God's protection. Fix his praises in thy heart by meditating on whom such a person as the courtesan was saved. By remembering him, drew, became immovable, and obtained the fearless dignity. Why hast thou forgotten the Lord, who is such a remover of sorrow? When the elephant took the protection of the ocean of mercy, he escaped from the crocodile. How far, shall I describe the praises of the name? He who repeated it bursteth his bonds. The sinner, Ajammal, the world knoweth, was saved in a moment. The knock saith, Think upon the fulfiller of desires, and thou too shall be saved. 5. What efforts shall mortal make by which he may obtain God's service and dispel the fear of death? Say what science shall he study, and then what acts and religious ceremonies shall he perform? What is that great name by remembering which man may cross the dreaded ocean? In the call age there is one name that of the ocean of mercy by repeating which man may obtain deliverance. There is no other religious ceremony equal to that as shown by sacred writings. He who is called the Lord of the earth, remaineth ever free from joy and sorrow, uncontaminated by the world, and unaffected by it own a knock like a mirror, he dwelleth within thee. 6. O mother, how shall I behold the Lord of the earth? In the darkness of great worldly love and spiritual ignorance my heart hath been entangled. I have lost the hold of my life in wandering and not obtained a stable mind. I have night and day pursued sinful pleasures and have not abandoned sinful habits. I have never associated with saints or sung God's praises. The knock in me is no virtue. Take me, O God, under thy protection. 7. O mother, my heart is not under my control. Night and day it chase sith sinful pleasures. How shall I restrain it? Although I have heard the teachings of the vets, the parans, and the symmetries, yet I have not given them a place in my heart for an instant. I have coveted others' goods and others' wives, and have passed my life in vain. I have become mad with the intoxication of mammon, and I know not any divine knowledge. The pure one dwelleth in my heart, yet I know not his secret. Since I have entered the asylum of the saints, my evil thoughts have all dispersed. When I thought upon the fulfiler of desires, death's noose was cut. 8. O man, hold this for certain in my heart. The whole world is like a dream, and in its destruction there shall be no delay. As a wall of sand, even when elaborately built, lasteth not four days, so is the pleasure of mammon. Why art thou entangled in it, O ignorant man? This very day come to thy senses. No harm is yet done. Repeat God's name. Save the knock I have proclaimed unto thee, O man, the special teaching of holy men. 9. I have seen no friend in this world. The whole world is attached to one for its own interest. The man will have no companion in adversity. Wives, friends, sons and relatives are all attached to will. When they see a man poor, they all forsake his company and flee. What shall I say to this demented heart which is attached to them? I have forgotten the praises of the Lord of the poor and the destroyer of fear. However much I have striven my heart, remaineth as crooked as a dog's tail, and will not straighten. Save the knock, O God, have regard for thy practice of forgiveness. I have uttered thy name. 10. O man, thou hast not embraced the Guru's instruction. What a day like thee to shave thy head and put on an ochre-dyed garment. Having abandoned truth, thou hast attached thyself to falsehood and lost thy human life in vain. Thou hast filled thy belly, thy deceit, and slept like a beast. Thou knowest now how to worship God, and thou hast sold thyself to mammon. O madman, thou hast remained entangled with sin and forgotten the jewel of the name. Thou hast been thoughtless, thou hast not thought of God, thou hast passed thy life in vain. Save the knock, O God, recognize thy daily practice of forgiveness. Mortal Ever-Earth. 11. He who in adversity heeded it not, who in prosperity feeleth neither affection nor fear, and who deemeth gold as dross, who uttereth neither praise nor blame, and who suffered not from avarice, worldly love or pride, who is unaffected by joy or sorrow by honor or dishonor, who hath renounced all hopes and desires and expected nothing from the world, whom lust and wrath touch not in such a person's heart God dwelleth. He to whom the Guru hath shown favor knoweth the way to this, and shall be blended with God, O Nanak, as water with water. 12. My dear friends, know this in your hearts. The whole world is entangled in its own pleasures. Nobody is anyone else's friend. In prosperity many persons come and sit together by one, encircling him on all sides. When adversity befalleth him, all abandon him, and nobody cometh near him. The wife of one's home who hath been dearly loved, and who hath ever been attached to her husband, on the departure of his soul from his body, fleeeth away crying ghost, ghost, such is the conduct of those whom we love. At the last moment the knock, none but God, is of any avail. Don Asari, one, O sir, why goest thou to search in the forest? God, though ever apart, dwelleth everywhere, and is contained even in thee. As in flowers there is odor, and in a mirror reflection, so God dwelleth continually in thy heart, search for him there, O brother. Whether thou art abroad or at home, know that there is, but one God, this knowledge the Guru hath given me. The knock, without knowing thyself, the scum of doubt, shall not be removed. Two. O good people, this world hath been led astray by superstition. It hath forsaken the memory of God's name, and it hath been sold to mammon. It is involved in the love of mother, father, brother, son, and wife. Day and night it is mad with the intoxication of youth, wealth and splendor. It is not attached to him who is compassionate to the poor, and ever the destroyer of sorrow. In a knock among millions, few there are, who become attached to the Guru and recognize God. Three. Think not that the yogi in his heart thou recognizeest, covetousness, worldly love, and selfishness, is united with God. He who neither columniated nor flattereth others, to whom gold and iron are the same, and who is free from joy or sorrow, is properly called a yogi. The restless mind of man hasteth in every direction, but whoever steadily fixeth it, saith and knock, thou mayest rest assured is saved. Four. What effort shall I now make, that my mental anxiety may be at an end, and I may cross the terrible ocean? I've done nothing good since I was born, wherefore I fear the more. I have not sung God's praises in thought, word or deed. In my heart I feel anxious regarding this, although I have heard the Guru's instruction, yet no spiritual knowledge hath resulted. I feel my belly like a beast, saith and knock, O God, adopt thy daily practice of forgiveness, and I, a sinner, shall be saved. Jayit, sorry. My e'ering mind hath been entangled with mammon. The more works I performed when devoted to avarice, the more I entangled myself. I have no understanding. I devoted myself to sinful pleasures, and I forgot God's praises. The Lord who was with me, I did not recognize. I began searching for Him into the forest. The jewel of God was in my heart, but I knew it not. The knock without worshiping God life is lost in vain. Two, O God, preserve my honor. When the fear of death entered my heart, I clung to thine asylum, O ocean of mercy. I was a great sinner, stupid and avaricious, but I have now grown weary of committing sin. I have not forgotten the fear of death. In my anxiety, my body hath wasted away. I have been running in every direction, contriving plans for my salvation. But though the pure God dwelt in my heart, I knew it not. I have no virtues nor have I performed devotion or penance. What work shall I now perform? The knock I have grown weary and have sought thy protection. O God, grant me salvation. Three, O man, embrace true instruction. Admit that without the name of God, all this world is false. Know that the Lord for whom the yogis grow weary is searching without finding his limit. Is near thee but without form or outline. God's name is the purifier of the world, yet thou hast never remembered it. Say of the knock I have entered thine asylum. O thou to whom the world bowed down, preserve me as is thy practice. Toadie, what shall I say of my baseness? I have been entangled in the love of golden women, and am not some God's praises. Believing this false world to be true, I conceived an attachment for it. I never remembered the protector of the poor, who is my companion and helper. I remained night and day, absorbed in worldly affairs and the filth of my heart, for search me not. Say of the knock I have now nowhere salvation except in the protection of God. To long one, O mortal, if thou have wisdom, then think of God night and day. Every moment life is passing away, like water from a cracked vessel, while I sing as thou not the praises of God, thou ignorant fool, attached to false avarice, thou hast not thought of death. No harm hath yet been done, if thou even now sing God's praises. Say of the knock by singing them, thou shalt obtain the fearless dignity. To awake, O man, awake, why dost thou heedlessly sleep? The body which was born with thee shall not depart with thee. The mother, father, sons, and relatives whom thou lovest will throw thy body into the fire when the soul departed from it. Know that the affairs of the world last only during light. The knock, sing God's praises, everything is like a dream. Three, O man, sing the praises of God who is with thee. The opportunity is passing away, obey my words. Thou hast loved to well, well, equipages, women, and empire. When death's noose falleth on thy neck, all shall become the property of others. O madman, thou hast intentionally ruined thine affairs. Thou didst not shrink from the commission of sin or disness pride. Here, O my brother, how the guru hath instructed me to knock loudly proclaimeth, seek God's protection. Villawall, one, recognize God's name as the remover of sorrow. Know in thy heart that by remembering him, Ajammal and the courtesan were saved. The elephant's fear departed directly. He muttered God's name. The boy drew, listened to Mered's instruction and became engrossed in worship. He obtained the durable, immortal, and fearless rank, and the world was amazed. The knock, sayeth, admit that God the protector of saints is near thee. Two, without God's name, thou shalt suffer. Without piety, doubts are not at an end. The guru gave me this secret. If thou enter not God's asylum, thou art shalt pilgrimage and fasting avail thee. Be assured that the practice of yoga and sacrificial feasts are fruitless if man forget the praises of God. Such man as layeth aside both pride and worldly love and singeth God's praises, sayeth, the knock shall be said to have obtained salvation during life. Three, he in whom there is no devotion to God hath lost his life in vain. Bear this in mind. I speak verily unto you, believe his piety to be fruitless, who performeth pilgrimage and even fasting, but who hath not control over his heart. As water penetrated, not stone immersed in it, so deem that mortal who worshipeth not. In the call age salvation is obtained by the name of God. The guru disclosed this secret. Sayeth, the knock, he is a great man who singeth God's praises. I call it one. O my soul, take shelter in God's name by remembering it evil thoughts are dispelled and the rank of nirvan obtained. Know that that man is very fortunate who singeth God's praises. Having lost the sins of different births, he shall go to heaven. At the last moment, Ajah Maul fought of God and obtained in an instant the state which superior yogis desire. The elephant had no merits, no learning, and what religious ceremonies had he performed. Yet, oh, no knock, behold the daily practice of God which granted him safety. To, O my good people, what way shall man now adopt by which all evil thoughts may be dispelled and his heart be steeped in devotion to God? Thy heart remain entangled by mammon and knoweth not of divine knowledge. Whose name is that in the world by remembering which thou shalt obtain the rank of nirvan? When the saints were compassionate and kind, they taught me this. Know that he who hath sung God's praises hath performed all religious duties. And he who night and day claspeth God's name to his heart even for a moment shall lose all fear of death and reform his life. Three, oh, mortal, think of God. Every moment life decreseth. Night and day it passeth away in vain. Thou hast lost thy youth and sensual pleasures and thy childhood in ignorance. Thou hast grown old and even now thou understandest not in what folly thou art entangled. Why hast thou forgotten God in birth? Thou hast not sung for a moment the praises of him by remembering whom man obtaineth salvation. Why art thou proud of worldly wealth? He will not depart with anyone. The noxive, think upon the fulfiller of desires, he will be our helper at last. Maru, one, God's name ever bestowed with comfort by remembering it. Ajman was saved and the courtesan also obtained deliverance. Panchali at the royal assembly to remember the name of God. The merciful one removed her suffering and enhanced his own renown. The ocean of mercy assisted whomsoever hath sung his praises. Say of Nanak, relying on this I have come and sought his protection. Two, now what shall I do, oh mother? I have lost my whole life in sensual pleasures and have not remembered God. When death throweth his halter on my neck I shall have lost all my reason. Except the name of God, the wealth thou assist me in that affliction. The wealth thou dimest thine own becomeeth in one moment and others. Say of Nanak, I have been reflecting in my mind, that I have never sung God's praises. Three, oh mother, I have not renounced the pride of my heart. I have passed my life in the intoxication of worldly love and have not applied myself to the worship of God. When death's mace fell upon my head then I awoke from my slumber for what availeth present repentance and hope even by running. When this thought arose in my mind I fell in love with the Guru's feet. Life is only profitable in Nanak when we are absorbed in God's praises. Passant, one, oh good people, know that this body is temporary, the God who dwelleth within it, recognized as permanent. This world is like wealth obtained in a dream. Why be elated on beholding it? Why are you wrapped up in it? Nothing shall depart with you. When slander take God's praises to thy heart, the knock, the one God filleth all things. Two, the sinner hath given lust a seed in his heart, wherefore his lustous mind is not restrained. This net of lust is cast over yogis, young goms, and sannyasis, they who remember the name of God cross over the terrible ocean. The slave and knock hath taken refuge in God, grant me thy name on God that I may continue to sing these praises. Three, oh mother, I have obtained God's name as my wealth, my heart hath ceased to wander and lain down to rest. Worldly love and selfishness hath led from my body, and pure spiritual knowledge hath sprung up in me. Averse and worldly love cannot touch me, I have embraced God's service. When I acquired the jewel of the name, the fear of continual birth was at an end. In special happiness, he to whom the ocean of mercy is compassionate singeth his praises. Say of the knock, this form of wealth, some rare holy man, obtain it. Four, oh my soul, why hath thou forgotten God's name? When the body perisheth, thou shalt have to do with death. This world is a hill of smoke, but induce thee to consider it real. Understand that wealth, wife, property, and home will not depart with thee. The worship of God alone will accompany thee. Say of the knock, adore him with our next love. Five, why hath thou gone astray and attached thyself to false avarice? There's no harm done if even today thou awake. Know that this world is like a dream. It will be destroyed in a moment, except this is true. Adore that God day and night, O my friend who dwelleth continually with thee, sing the praises of him. Say of the knock, who will assist thee in this world? So wrong, one, thou hast no helper but God, who hath a mother, father, son, or wife, who hath a brother of all the wealth, land, and property, which thou dimest thine own, nothing shall depart with thee when thou dietest. Why art thou wrapped up in them? Thou hast not increased thy love for him who is compassionate to the poor and never the destroyer of misery? The knock saith the whole world is unreal, like a nightly dream. Why art thou entangled in central pleasures? In this world none may remain one cometh and another goeth. Who hath body and wealth? Who hath property? What shall one love? Everything which is visible shall vanish like the shadow of a cloud. Lay aside pride, grasp the protection of the saints, and thou shalt at once obtain salvation. The knock without worshiping God, there is no happiness even in one's dreams. Three, why, O man, hast thou wasted thy life intoxicated by worldly love? Thou hast attached thyself to central pleasures and not entered God's protection. This world is all a dream. So why art thou covetous? Everything that was created shall perish. Nothing shall be allowed to remain. This temporary body thou dimest permanent. In this way hast thou entangled thyself. The knock only he who applied his mind to the adoration of God shall obtain the world. Four, I never heartily sang the praises of God. I remained attached to central pleasures night and day and did what pleased myself. I never carefully listened to the Guru's instruction. I became entangled with others' wives. I busyed myself greatly in culminating others and understood not the counsels I received. How far shall I describe my acts? How I have wasted my life. Sayeth the knock, and me are all God. I have come to thy sanctuary. Ja, Jawanti. One, remember God. Remember God. This is thy duty. Abandon the companionship of worldly love. Cling to God's sanctuary. Admit that the pleasures of the world are false. Everything is unreal. Consider wealth as a dream. Of what art thou proud? The empire of the earth is as a wall of sand. The slave to knock sayeth thy body shall be destroyed. Yesterday passed away moment by moment, so also shall today to adore God, adore God. Thy life passeth away. Why should I warn thee every moment? Why understandest thou not O fool? The body is like hail, it vanishes in a moment. Reject all doubt and repeat God's name. At the last moment, this alone will depart with thee. For sake's central poison. Take the praise of God to thy heart and not proclaim it. The opportunity is passing away. Three, O man, what shall be thy condition? In this world the only means of salvation is God's name to which thou hast not attentively listened. Thou hast been excessively addicted to central pleasures and not diverted thy thoughts from them. Thou hast obtained human life yet. Thou hast not remembered God for a moment. Thou hast been in love to the charms of woman, and thy feet are fettered. And not proclaim it. The extension of the world is like a dream. Why thinkest thou not upon God to whom man and his butter handmaiden for? Thy life shall pass away, shall pass away in vain. Though thou hearest night and day the ancient histories, yet O silly man, thou understandest them not. Death hath arrived, whither shalt thou flee. That body that I think is permanent shall become dust. Why repeatest thou not the name of God, thou shameless fool? Introduce the service of God into thy heart renounce mental pride. So, shalt thou not assert it, be illustrious in the world. Slocks of Guru Tegh Bahadur One, he who singeth not God's praises, rendereth his life useless. Sayeth not worship God, O my soul, as the fish loveth water. Two, why art thou enamored of the deadly sins? Thou renounces them not for a moment. Sayeth not repeat God's name, O my soul, so that death's noose may not fall on thee. Three, youth hath passed away in vain. Old age hath overcome the body. Sayeth not worship God, O my soul, that life passeth away. Four, thou hast become old. Knowest thou not that thy time hath arrived? Sayeth not, O crazy man, why worshipest thou not God? Five, wealth, wife, riches all that thou deemest thine own. None of these shall depart with thee and not know this as true. Six, God is the Savior of sinners, the dispeller of fear, the Lord of the helpless. Sayeth not know him, he dwelleth ever with thee. Seven, thou hast not loved him who gave thee our human body and wealth. Sayeth not, O crazy man, why rememberest thou abjectly tremble? Eight, sayeth not here, O man, why rememberest thou not God who gave the human body, wife, wealth, prosperity and commodious mansions? Nine, God, and no other is the bestower of all happiness. Sayeth not here, O man, by remembering him deliverance is obtained? Ten, adore God, O my friend, by remembering him deliverance is obtained. Sayeth not here, O man, life is ever growing shorter? Eleven, O clever and wise man, know that thy body is composed of five elements. Be sure, Menach, that thou shalt blend with that from which thou hast sprung. Twelve, the saints proclaim that God dwelleth in every heart. Sayeth Menach, adore him, O man, and thou shalt cross over the terrible ocean. Thirteen, sayeth Menach, here, O man, in God's image who is unaffected by will or woe, by covetousness, worldly love or pride. Fourteen, sayeth Menach, here, O man, know that he is saved who uttereth neither praise nor blame, and to whom gold and iron are the same. Fifteen, sayeth Menach, here, O man, know that he is saved who feeleth neither joy nor sorrow and who treateth an enemy and a friend as the same. Sixteen, sayeth Menach, here, O man, call him a person possessed of divine knowledge who inspireeth no fear and who hath no fear of others. Seventeen, sayeth Menach, here, O man, good fortune is inscribed on that man's forehead who hath abandoned all evil passions and donned the garb of retirement. Eighteen, sayeth Menach, here, O man, God dwelleth in the heart of him who hath abandoned mammon and selfishness and renounced everything. Nineteen, the man who, having selfishness, recognizeeth God as the Creator. Sayeth Menach, here, O man, thou shalt not then be put into death's prison. Twenty, in the call of age, God's name is the destroyer of fear and the banisher of evil thoughts. He who, night and day, repeated it, Menach shall be successful in his undertakings. Twenty-one, utter God's praises with thy tongue and hear God's name with thine ears. Sayeth Menach shall be put into death's prison. Twenty-two, the mortal who renounced selfishness, covetousness, worldly love and conceit. Sayeth Menach shall be saved himself and shall save others. Twenty-three, know that the world is like a dream or a play. There is nothing real in it. Menach but God. Twenty-four, day and night, mortal wandereth after wealth. Among millions are Menach, few there are who remember God. Twenty-five, as bubbles are formed from water and continually disappear. So was this world constructed. Sayeth Menach, hear this, O my friend. Twenty-six, mortal blinded by the intoxication of mammon. Payeth no heed to anything. Sayeth Menach, without uttering God's name, death's news shall fall on him. Twenty-seven, without desire, eternal happiness take God's protection. Sayeth Menach, hear, O man, difficult of attainment is human birth. Twenty-eight, fools and ignorant people run after wealth. Sayeth Menach, without repeating God's name, their lives pass in vain. Twenty-nine, know that that mortal is like God who worships at night and day. Between God's saint and God, there is no difference. Menach, recognize that this is true. Thirty, man is entangled with mammon and forgive God's name. Sayeth Menach, without repeating God's name, of what avail is life. Thirty-one, mortal blinded by the intoxication of mammon, remembereth not God. Sayeth Menach, without worshiping God, death's news shall fall on man. Thirty-two, man shall find many companions in wheel, but none in woe. Sayeth Menach, worship God, O man, and he will assist thee at the last moment. Thirty-three, man wandereth about in various births, without having his fear of death removed. Sayeth Menach, O man, worship God, and thou shalt dwell in the fearless age. Thirty-four, I've made many efforts, but have not effaced the pride of my heart. I am bound by my evil thoughts. Sayeth Menach, preserve me from them, O God. Thirty-five, know that there are three stages of life, childhood, youth, and then old age. Sayeth Menach, admit that they are all in vain without worshiping God. Thirty-six, what thou oughtest to have done, thou hast not done. Thou hast fallen into the net of covetousness. The opportunity hath now passed away while weepest thou, O blind man. Thirty-seven, the heart is absorbed in mammon and cannot escape from it. O my friend, as a picture painted on a wall, O Menach, leave it if not. Thirty-eight, man desireth one thing, but something different happeneth. He meditated, deceiving others, O Menach, and a halter is put round his neck. Thirty-nine, man make of many efforts to obtain happiness, but none to obtain misery. Sayeth Menach, hear, O man, what pleaseth God happeneth. Forty, the world goeth about begging. God is the bestower of all. Sayeth Menach, remember him, O man, and thy desires shall be fulfilled. Forty-one, why entertainest thou false pride? Know that the world is like a dream. In it there is nothing which is thine. Menach, preacheth. Forty-two, man is proud of his body, which perisheth in a moment. My friend, the man who God's praises, Menach hath conquered the world. Forty-three, know that he in whose heart there is recollection of God hath obtained salvation. Between that man and God there is no difference. Menach accept this as a fact. Forty-four, consider that person O Menach as a hog or a dog in whose heart there is no devotion to the one God. Forty-five, as a dog never abandoneth his master's house. Menach in the same way worship God with mind and single heart. Forty-six, going on pilgrimages, fasting and giving alms, while pride is in the heart. Menach, these things are as fruitless as an elephant's bathing. Forty-seven, the head shakeeth, thy legs totter, thine eyes are devoid of luster. Say of Menach, this is the case with thee, yet thou art not absorbed in God's love. Forty-eight, I have particularly observed that in this world no one is another's friend. Menach, only devotion to God is permanent. Preserve that in thy heart. Forty-nine, know, my friend, that the structure of the world is all unstable. Say of Menach, like a wall of sand, it is not permanent. Fifty, Ram passed away, Ravan passed away with his large family. Say of Menach, nothing is permanent. The world is like a dream. Fifty-one, be anxious only regarding what is not expected. It is the way of the world Menach, but nothing is permanent. Fifty-two, what is born? Die of today, tomorrow, or the next day. Menach, sing God's praises and lay aside all entanglements. Fifty-seven, God's name to which nothing is equal. I have classed through my heart by remembering it. My troubles are at an end, and I behold thee, O God. End of Hymns of Guru Tegh Bahadur. End of Sick Religion, Volume 4, by Max Arthur McAuliffe.