All medicines and remedies, mantras and tantras are nothing more than ashes.
Enshrine the Creator Lord within your heart. ||3||
Renounce all your doubts, and vibrate upon the Supreme Lord God.
Says Nanak, this path of Dharma is eternal and unchanging. ||4||80||149||
Gauree, Fifth Mehl:
The Lord bestowed His Mercy, and led me to meet the Guru.
By His power, no disease afflicts me. ||1||
Remembering the Lord, I cross over the terrifying world-ocean.
In the Sanctuary of the spiritual warrior, the account books of the Messenger of Death are torn up. ||1||Pause||
The True Guru has given me the Mantra of the Lord's Name.
By this Support, my affairs have been resolved. ||2||
Meditation, self-discipline, self-control and perfect greatness were obtained when the Merciful Lord,
The Guru, became my Help and Support. ||3||
The Guru has dispelled pride, emotional attachment and superstition.
Nanak sees the Supreme Lord God pervading everywhere. ||4||81||150||
Gauree, Fifth Mehl:
The blind beggar is better off than the vicious king.
Overcome by pain, the blind man invokes the Lord's Name. ||1||
You are the glorious greatness of Your slave.
The intoxication of Maya leads the others to hell. ||1||Pause||
Gripped by disease, they invoke the Name.
But those who are intoxicated with vice shall find no home, no place of rest. ||2||
One who is in love with the Lord's Lotus Feet,
does not think of any other comforts. ||3||
Forever and ever, meditate on God, your Lord and Master.
O Nanak, meet with the Lord, the Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts. ||4||82||151||
Gauree, Fifth Mehl:
Twenty-four hours a day, the highway robbers are my companions.
Granting His Grace, God has driven them away. ||1||
Everyone should dwell on the Sweet Name of such a Lord.
God is overflowing with all power. ||1||Pause||
The world-ocean is burning hot!
In an instant, God saves us, and carries us across. ||2||
There are so many bonds, they cannot be broken.
Remembering the Naam, the Name of the Lord, the fruit of liberation is obtained. ||3||
By clever devices, nothing is accomplished.
Grant Your Grace to Nanak, that he may sing the Glories of God. ||4||83||152||
Gauree, Fifth Mehl:
Those who obtain the wealth of the Lord's Name
move freely in the world; all their affairs are resolved. ||1||
By great good fortune, the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises are sung.
O Supreme Lord God, as You give, so do I receive. ||1||Pause||
Enshrine the Lord's Feet within your heart.
Get aboard this boat, and cross over the terrifying world-ocean. ||2||
Everyone who joins the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy,
obtains eternal peace; pain does not afflict them any longer. ||3||
With loving devotional worship, meditate on the treasure of excellence.
O Nanak, you shall be honored in the Court of the Lord. ||4||84||153||
Gauree, Fifth Mehl:
The Lord, our Friend, is totally pervading the water, the land and the skies.
Doubts are dispelled by continually singing the Lord's Glorious Praises. ||1||
While rising up, and while lying down in sleep, the Lord is always with you, watching over you.
Remembering Him in meditation, the fear of Death departs. ||1||Pause||
With God's Lotus Feet abiding in the heart,