Ang 1328

PRABHAATEE, FIRST MEHL: Your Name is the Jewel, and Your Grace is the Light. In awareness, there is Your Light. Darkness fills the dark, and then everything is lost. ||1|| This whole world is corrupt. Your Name is the only cure; nothing else works, O Infinite Creator Lord. ||1|| Pause|| One side of the scale holds tens of thousands, millions of nether regions and realms. O my Beloved, Your Worth could only be estimated if something else could be placed on the other side of the scale. ||2|| Out of pain, pleasure is produced, and out of pleasure comes pain. That mouth which praises You — what hunger could that mouth ever suffer? ||3|| O Nanak, you alone are foolish; all the rest of the world is good. That body in which the Naam does not well up — that body becomes miserable. ||4||2||

PRABHAATEE, FIRST MEHL: For His sake, Brahma uttered the Vedas, and Shiva renounced Maya. For His sake, the Siddhas became hermits and renunciates; even the gods have not realized His Mystery. ||1|| O Baba, keep the True Lord in your mind, and utter the Name of the True Lord with your mouth; the True Lord will carry you across. Enemies and pain shall not even approach you; only a rare few realize the Wisdom of the Lord. ||1|| Pause|| Fire, water and air make up the world; these three are the slaves of the Naam, the Name of the Lord. One who does not chant the Naam is a thief, dwelling in the fortress of the five thieves. ||2|| If someone does a good deed for someone else, he totally puffs himself up in his conscious mind. The Lord bestows so many virtues and so much goodness; He does not ever regret it. ||3|| Those who praise You gather the wealth in their laps; this is Nanak’s wealth. Whoever shows respect to them is not summoned by the Messenger of Death. ||4||3||

PRABHAATEE, FIRST MEHL: One who has no beauty, no social status, no mouth, no flesh — meeting with the True Guru, he finds the Immaculate Lord, and dwells in Your Name. ||1|| O detached Yogi, contemplate the essence of reality, and you shall never again come to be born into the world. ||1|| Pause|| One who does not have good karma or Dharmic faith, sacred rosary or mala — through the Light of God, wisdom is bestowed; the True Guru is our Protector. ||2|| One who does not observe any fasts, make religious vows or chant — he does not have to worry about good luck or bad, if he obeys the Command of the True Guru. ||3|| One who is not hopeful, nor hopeless, who has trained his intuitive consciousness — his being blends with the Supreme Being. O Nanak, his awareness is awakened. ||4||4||

PRABHAATEE, FIRST MEHL: What he says is approved in the Court of the Lord. He looks upon poison and nectar as one and the same. ||1|| What can I say? You are permeating and pervading all. Whatever happens, is all by Your Will. ||1|| Pause|| The Divine Light shines radiantly, and egotistical pride is dispelled. The True Guru bestows the Ambrosial Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||2|| In this Dark Age of Kali Yuga, one’s birth is approved, if one is honored in the True Court. ||3|| Speaking and listening, one goes to the Celestial Home of the Indescribable Lord. Mere words of mouth, O Nanak, are burnt away. ||4||5||

PRABHAATEE, FIRST MEHL: One who bathes in the Ambrosial Water of spiritual wisdom takes with him the virtues of the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage. The Guru’s Teachings are the gems and jewels; the Sikh who serves Him searches and finds them. ||1|| There is no sacred shrine equal to the Guru. The Guru encompasses the ocean of contentment. ||1|| Pause|| The Guru is the River, from which the Pure Water is obtained forever; it washes away the filth and pollution of evil-mindedness. Finding the True Guru, the perfect cleansing bath is obtained, which transforms even beasts and ghosts into gods. ||2|| He is said to be the Guru, with the scent of sandalwood, who is imbued with the True Name to the bottom of His Heart. By His Fragrance, the world of vegetation is perfumed. Lovingly focus yourself on His Feet. ||3|| The life of the soul wells up for the Gurmukh; the Gurmukh goes to the House of God. The Gurmukh, O Nanak, merges in the True One; the Gurmukh attains the exalted state of the self. ||4||6||