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Your servant offers this prayer, O Beloved: I live by meditating on Your Feet, God. || 1 || Pause || O my Merciful Lord God, O Great Giver: they alone know, whom You bless with realization. || 2 || Forever and ever, I am a sacrifice to You. Here and hereafter, I seek Your Protection. || 3 || I am without virtue; I know none of Your Glorious Virtues. O Nanak, seeing the Holy Saint, my mind is imbued with You. || 4 || 3 || WADAHANS, FIFTH MEHL: God is perfect — He is the Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts. He blesses us with the gift of the dust of the feet of the Holy. || 1 || Please bless me with Your Grace, O God, Merciful to the meek. I seek Your Shelter, O Perfect Lord of the World. || 1 || Pause || He is totally pervading and permeating the water, the land and the sky. He dwells near at hand; God is not far away. || 2 || One whom He blesses with His Glance of Grace, meditates on Him. Twenty-four hours a day, he sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord. || 3 || God cherishes all beings and creatures. Nanak seeks the Sanctuary of the Lord's Door. || 4 || 4 || WADAHANS, FIFTH MEHL: You are the Great Giver, the Inner-knower, the Searcher of hearts. God, the Perfect Lord and Master, is permeating and pervading in all. || 1 || The Name of my Beloved God is my only support. I live by hearing, continually hearing Your Name. || 1 || Pause || I seek Your Sanctuary, O my Perfect True Guru. My mind is purified by the dust of the Saints. || 2 || I have enshrined His Lotus Feet within my heart. I am a sacrifice to the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan. || 3 || Grant Your Grace, that I may sing Your Glorious Praises. O Nanak, chanting the Naam, the Name of the Lord, I find peace. || 4 || 5 || WADAHANS, FIFTH MEHL: In the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, drink in the Ambrosial Nectar of the Lord. The soul does not die; it ever wastes away. || 1 || By great good fortune, one meets the Perfect Guru. By Guru's Grace, one meditates on God. || 1 || Pause || The Lord is the jewel, the pearl, the gem, the diamond. Meditating, meditating in remembrance on God, I am enraptured. || 2 || Wherever I look, I see the Sanctuary of the Holy. Singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord, my mind becomes immaculate and pure. || 3 || Deep within the nucleus of each and every heart, my Lord and Master dwells. O Nanak, one obtains the Naam, the Name of the Lord, when God grants His Grace. || 4 || 6 || WADAHANS, FIFTH MEHL: Do not forget me, O God, Merciful to the meek. I seek Your Sanctuary, O Perfect, Compassionate Lord. || 1 || Pause | Wherever You come to mind, that place is blessed. The moment I forget You, I am stricken with regret. || 1 || All beings are Yours; You are their constant companion. Please, give me Your hand, and lift me up, out of this world-ocean. || 2 II Coming and going are by Your making. One whom You save is not afflicted with suffering. || 3 || You are the One Lord and Master; there is no other at all. Nanak offers this prayer with his palms pressed together. || 4 || 7 || WADAHANS, FIFTH MEHL: When You allow Yourself to be known, then we know You. We chant Your Name, which You have given to us. || 1 ||
