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The comings and goings in reincarnation are ended for the Gurmukh.

The Gurmukh is honored in the Court of the Lord.

The Gurmukh distinguishes the true from the false.

The Gurmukh focuses his meditation on the celestial Lord.

In the Court of the Lord, the Gurmukh is absorbed in His Praises.

O Nanak, the Gurmukh is not bound by bonds. ||41||

The Gurmukh obtains the Name of the Immaculate Lord.

Through the Shabad, the Gurmukh burns away his ego.

The Gurmukh sings the Glorious Praises of the True Lord.

The Gurmukh remains absorbed in the True Lord.

Through the True Name, the Gurmukh is honored and exalted.

O Nanak, the Gurmukh understands all the worlds. ||42||

"What is the root, the source of all? What teachings hold for these times?

Who is your guru? Whose disciple are you?

What is that speech, by which you remain unattached?

Listen to what we say, O Nanak, you little boy.

Give us your opinion on what we have said.

How can the Shabad carry us across the terrifying world-ocean?" ||43||

From the air came the beginning. This is the age of the True Guru's Teachings.

The Shabad is the Guru, upon whom I lovingly focus my consciousness; I am the chaylaa, the disciple.

Speaking the Unspoken Speech, I remain unattached.

O Nanak, throughout the ages, the Lord of the World is my Guru.

I contemplate the sermon of the Shabad, the Word of the One God.

The Gurmukh puts out the fire of egotism. ||44||

"With teeth of wax, how can one chew iron?

What is that food, which takes away pride?

How can one live in the palace, the home of snow, wearing robes of fire?

Where is that cave, within which one may remain unshaken?

Who should we know to be pervading here and there?

What is that meditation, which leads the mind to be absorbed in itself?" ||45||

Eradicating egotism and individualism from within,

and erasing duality, the mortal becomes one with God.

The world is difficult for the foolish, self-willed manmukh;

practicing the Shabad, one chews iron.

Know the One Lord, inside and out.

O Nanak, the fire is quenched, through the Pleasure of the True Guru's Will. ||46||