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MARU, ANJULEE ~ WITH HANDS CUPPED IN PRAYER, FIFTH MEHL, SEVENTH HOUSE: ONE UNIVERSAL CREATOR GOD. BY THE GRACE OF THE TRUE GURU: Union and separation are ordained by the Primal Lord God. The puppet is made from the five elements. By the Command of the Dear Lord King, the soul came and entered into the body. ||1|| In that place, where the fire rages like an oven, in that darkness where the body lies face down — there, one remembers his Lord and Master with each and every breath, and then he is rescued. ||2|| Then, one comes out from within the womb, and forgetting his Lord and Master, he attaches his consciousness to the world. He comes and goes, and wanders in reincarnation; he cannot remain anywhere. ||3|| The Merciful Lord Himself emancipates. He created and established all beings and creatures. Those who depart after having been victorious in this priceless human life — O Nanak, their coming into the world is approved. ||4||1||31|| The One Lord alone is our help and support; neither physician nor friend, nor sister nor brother can be this. ||1|| His actions alone come to pass; He washes off the filth of sins. Meditate in remembrance on that Supreme Lord. ||2|| He abides in each and every heart, and dwells in all; His seat and place are eternal. ||3|| He does not come or go, and He is always with us. His actions are perfect. ||4|| He is the Savior and the Protector of His devotees. The Saints live by meditating on God, the support of the breath of life. The Almighty Lord and Master is the Cause of causes; Nanak is a sacrifice to Him. ||5||2||32||

ONE UNIVERSAL CREATOR GOD. BY THE GRACE OF THE TRUE GURU: MARU, NINTH MEHL: The Name of the Lord is forever the Giver of peace. Meditating in remembrance on it, Ajaamal was saved, and Ganika the prostitute was emancipated. ||1|| Pause|| Dropadi the princess of Panchaala remembered the Lord’s Name in the royal court. The Lord, the embodiment of mercy, removed her suffering; thus His own glory was increased. ||1|| That man, who sings the Praise of the Lord, the treasure of mercy, has the help and support of the Lord. Says Nanak, I have come to rely on this. I seek the Sanctuary of the Lord. ||2||1||

MARU, NINTH MEHL: What should I do now, O mother? I have wasted my whole life in sin and corruption; I never remembered the Lord. ||1|| Pause|| When Death places the noose around my neck, then I lose all my senses. Now, in this disaster, other than the Name of the Lord, who will be my help and support? ||1|| That wealth, which he believes to be his own, in an instant, belongs to another. Says Nanak, this still really bothers my mind — I never sang the Praises of the Lord. ||2||2||

MARU, NINTH MEHL: O my mother, I have not renounced the pride of my mind. I have wasted my life intoxicated with Maya; I have not focused myself in meditation on the Lord. ||1|| Pause|| When Death’s club falls on my head, then I will be wakened from my sleep. But what good will it do to repent at that time? I cannot escape by running away. ||1|| When this anxiety arises in the heart, then, one comes to love the Guru’s feet. My life becomes fruitful, O Nanak, only when I am absorbed in the Praises of God. ||2||3||

MARU, ASHTAPADEES, FIRST MEHL, FIRST HOUSE: ONE UNIVERSAL CREATOR GOD. BY THE GRACE OF THE TRUE GURU: Reciting and listening to the Vedas and the Puraanas, countless wise men have grown weary. So many in their various religious robes have grown weary, wandering to the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage. The True Lord and Master is immaculate and pure. The mind is satisfied only by the One Lord. ||1|| You are eternal; You do not grow old. All others pass away. One who lovingly focuses on the Naam, the source of nectar — his pains are taken away. ||1|| Pause|| Study the Lord’s Name, and understand the Lord’s Name; follow the Guru’s Teachings, and through the Naam, you shall be saved. Perfect are the Teachings of the Perfect Guru; contemplate the Perfect Word of the Shabad. The Lord’s Name is the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage, and the Eradicator of sinful residues. ||2|| The blind ignorant mortal stirs the water and churns the water, wishing to obtain butter. Following the Guru’s Teachings, one churns the cream, and the treasure of the Ambrosial Naam is obtained. The self-willed manmukh is a beast; he does not know the essence of reality that is contained within himself. ||3|| Dying in egotism and self-conceit, one dies, and dies again, only to be reincarnated over and over again. But when he dies in the Word of the Guru’s Shabad, then he does not die, ever again. When he follows the Guru’s Teachings, and enshrines the Lord, the Life of the World, within his mind, he redeems all his generations. ||4|| The Naam, the Name of the Lord, is the true object, the true commodity. The Naam is the only true profit in this world. Follow the Guru’s Teachings, and contemplate it. To work in the love of duality, brings constant loss in this world. ||5|| True is one’s association, true is one’s place, and true is one’s hearth and home, when one has the support of the Naam. Contemplating the True Word of the Guru’s Bani, and the True Word of the Shabad, one becomes content. ||6|| Enjoying princely pleasures, one shall be destroyed in pain and pleasure. Adopting a name of greatness, one strings heavy sins around his neck. Mankind cannot give gifts; You alone are the Giver of everything. ||7|| You are inaccessible and unfathomable; O Lord, You are imperishable and infinite. Through the Word of the Guru’s Shabad, seeking at the Lord’s Door, one finds the treasure of liberation. O Nanak, this union is not broken, if one deals in the merchandise of Truth. ||8||1||