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You cannot wash or think your way to purity, even if you try a hundred thousand times.

There is one God, and the Name is Truth. God made everything and is present in everything. God has nothing to fear and no one to hate. God is untouched by time, never born, and exists of itself. You come to know God through the Guru's grace.

Air is our teacher, water our father, and the vast earth our mother.

What kind of door is yours, and what kind of house, from which you watch over everyone?

The house where the Creator's praise is spoken and the Creator is pondered:

Our own deeds have parted us from you. Be kind, Lord, and bring us back.

I bow to the Guru who was there at the beginning.

Anyone who wants to be called a Sikh of the true Guru gets up early and turns their mind to God's Name.

The city is called Begampura, where no sorrow comes.

Khurasan was taken in hand, and Hindustan was put in terror.

Whatever you send, I find it sweet.

We are conceived in a woman and born of a woman, and to a woman we are engaged and married.

In this first round the Lord settles you in the work of active life. I give myself to you, Lord.

People who know they must leave: why would they build so much here?

Mother, I am overjoyed: I have found the true Guru.

The Siddhas have made their assembly and sit in their places. A greeting to this company of the holy.

Kabir, there is none worse than I, and every other person is better.

Farid, speak no ill of the dust. There is nothing to match it.

Whoever frightens no one, and is frightened by no one:

One becomes a shaven monk, one a sannyasi, another a yogi, one takes a vow of celibacy, another is counted an ascetic.

Grant me this, Lord: may I never turn away from doing right.

The generous Lord heard the world's cry and sent Guru Nanak into it.

Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji, protector of those without help, and under God's own protection,