Maaroo, Third Mehl:
Serve the True Creator Lord.
The Word of the Shabad is the Destroyer of pain.
He is inaccessible and unfathomable; He cannot be evaluated. He Himself is inaccessible and immeasurable. ||1||
The True Lord Himself makes Truth pervasive.
He attaches some humble beings to the Truth.
They serve the True Lord and practice Truth; through the Name, they are absorbed in the True Lord. ||2||
The Primal Lord unites His devotees in His Union.
He attaches them to true devotional worship.
One who sings forever the Glorious Praises of the Lord, through the True Word of His Bani, earns the profit of this life. ||3||
The Gurmukh trades, and understands his own self.
He knows no other than the One Lord.
True is the banker, and True are His traders, who buy the merchandise of the Naam. ||4||
He Himself fashions and creates the Universe.
He inspires a few to realize the Word of the Guru's Shabad.
Those humble beings who serve the True Guru are true. He snaps the noose of death from around their necks. ||5||
He destroys, creates, embellishes and fashions all beings,
and attaches them to duality, attachment and Maya.
The self-willed manmukhs wander around forever, acting blindly. Death has strung his noose around their necks. ||6||
He Himself forgives, and enjoins us to serve the Guru.
Through the Guru's Teachings, the Naam comes to dwell within the mind.
Night and day, meditate on the Naam, the Name of the True Lord, and earn the profit of the Naam in this world. ||7||
He Himself is True, and True is His Name.
The Gurmukh bestows it, and enshrines it within the mind.
Noble and exalted are those, within whose mind the Lord abides. Their heads are free of strife. ||8||
He is inaccessible and unfathomable; His value cannot be appraised.
By Guru's Grace, He dwells within the mind.
No one calls that person to account, who praises the Word of the Shabad, the Giver of virtue. ||9||
Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva serve Him.
Even they cannot find the limits of the unseen, unknowable Lord.
Those who are blessed by Your Glance of Grace, become Gurmukh, and comprehend the incomprehensible. ||10||
The Perfect True Guru has imparted this understanding.
I have enshrined the Naam, the One Name, within my mind.
I chant the Naam, and meditate on the Naam. Singing His Glorious Praises, I enter the Mansion of the Lord's Presence. ||11||
The servant serves, and obeys the Command of the Infinite Lord.
The self-willed manmukhs do not know the value of the Lord's Command.
By the Hukam of the Lord's Command, one is exalted; by His Hukam, one is glorified; by His Hukam, one becomes carefree. ||12||
By Guru's Grace, one recognizes the Lord's Hukam.
The wandering mind is restrained, and brought back to the home of the One Lord.
Imbued with the Naam, one remains forever detached; the jewel of the Naam rests within the mind. ||13||
The One Lord is pervasive throughout all the world.
By Guru's Grace, He is revealed.
Those humble beings who praise the Shabad are immaculate; they dwell within the home of their own inner self. ||14||
The devotees abide forever in Your Sanctuary, Lord.
You are inaccessible and unfathomable; Your value cannot be estimated.
As it pleases Your Will, You keep us; the Gurmukh meditates on the Naam. ||15||
Forever and ever, I sing Your Glorious Praises.
O my True Lord and Master, may I become pleasing to Your Mind.
Nanak offers this true prayer: O Lord, please bless me with Truth, that I may merge in the Truth. ||16||1||10||
Maru was traditionally sung on the battlefield in preparation for war. This Raag has an aggressive nature, which creates an inner strength and power to express and emphasise the truth, regardless of the consequences. Maru’s nature conveys the fearlessness and strength that ensures the truth is spoken, no matter what the cost.