Ang 1136

BHAIRAO, FIFTH MEHL, FIRST HOUSE: ONE UNIVERSAL CREATOR GOD. BY THE GRACE OF THE TRUE GURU: Setting aside all other days, it is said that the Lord was born on the eighth lunar day. ||1|| Deluded and confused by doubt, the mortal practices falsehood. The Lord is beyond birth and death. ||1|| Pause|| You prepare sweet treats and feed them to your stone god. God is not born, and He does not die, you foolish, faithless cynic! ||2|| You sing lullabyes to your stone god — this is the source of all your mistakes. Let that mouth be burnt, which says that our Lord and Master is subject to birth. ||3|| He is not born, and He does not die; He does not come and go in reincarnation. The God of Nanak is pervading and permeating everywhere. ||4||1||

BHAIRAO, FIFTH MEHL: Standing up, I am at peace; sitting down, I am at peace. I feel no fear, because this is what I understand. ||1|| The One Lord, my Lord and Master, is my Protector. He is the Inner-knower, the Searcher of Hearts. ||1|| Pause|| I sleep without worry, and I awake without worry. You, O God, are pervading everywhere. ||2|| I dwell in peace in my home, and I am at peace outside. Says Nanak, the Guru has implanted His Mantra within me. ||3||2||

BHAIRAO, FIFTH MEHL: I do not keep fasts, nor do I observe the month of Ramadaan. I serve only the One, who will protect me in the end. ||1|| The One Lord, the Lord of the World, is my God Allah. He adminsters justice to both Hindus and Muslims. ||1|| Pause|| I do not make pilgrimages to Mecca, nor do I worship at Hindu sacred shrines. I serve the One Lord, and not any other. ||2|| I do not perform Hindu worship services, nor do I offer the Muslim prayers. I have taken the One Formless Lord into my heart; I humbly worship Him there. ||3|| I am not a Hindu, nor am I a Muslim. My body and breath of life belong to Allah — to Raam — the God of both. ||4|| Says Kabeer, this is what I say: meeting with the Guru, my Spiritual Teacher, I realize God, my Lord and Master. ||5||3||

BHAIRAO, FIFTH MEHL: I easily tied up the deer — the ten sensory organs. I shot five of the desires with the Word of the Lord’s Bani. ||1|| I go out hunting with the Saints, and we capture the deer without horses or weapons. ||1|| Pause|| My mind used to run around outside hunting. But now, I have found the game within the home of my body-village. ||2|| I caught the deer and brought them home. Dividing them up, I shared them, bit by bit. ||3|| God has given this gift. Nanak’s home is filled with the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||4||4||

BHAIRAO, FIFTH MEHL: Even though he may be fed with hundreds of longings and yearnings, still the faithless cynic does not remember the Lord, Har, Har. ||1|| Take in the teachings of the humble Saints. In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, you shall obtain the supreme status. ||1|| Pause|| Stones may be kept under water for a long time. Even so, they do not absorb the water; they remain hard and dry. ||2|| The six Shaastras may be read to a fool, but it is like the wind blowing in the ten directions. ||3|| It is like threshing a crop without any corn — nothing is gained. In the same way, no benefit comes from the faithless cynic. ||4|| As the Lord attaches them, so are all attached. Says Nanak, God has formed such a form. ||5||5||