How can I attain the Mansion of the Lord's Presence? How can I get Him to call me inside? You are the Great Merchant; You have millions of traders. Who is the benefactor? Who can take me to Him? |
How can I describe the Glories of the Saints? Their knowledge is unfathomable; their limits cannot be known. |
How can I describe the Greatness of Your Name? O Nanak, if I had hundreds of thousands of stacks of paper, and if ink were never to fail me, and if my pen were able to move like the wind, and if I were to read and recite and embrace love for the Lord - even so, I could not estimate Your Value. |
How can I go and meet the Lord? My mind and body are so thirsty for the Blessed Vision of His Darshan. Won't someone please come and lead me to him, O my mother. |
How can I measure the happiness of meditating on the Lord of the Universe? Those who taste it are satisfied and fulfilled; their souls know this Sublime Essence. |
How can I meet my Beloved True Guru? Each and every moment, I humbly bow to Him. How will I meet my Perfect Guru? |
How can I protect my hearth and home, O my mind? They are beating and plundering me over and over again; unto whom can I complain? |
How can one cross over the difficult world-ocean? |
How can one's pre-ordained destiny be erased? It is written in accordance with the Lord's Will. |
How can the ignorant soul-bride obtain the Blessed Vision of the Lord's Darshan, while she is in this world of her father's home? |
How can the Lord be obtained, O Saints? Seeing Him, my life is sustained. |
How can we know where we came from? Where did we originate, and where will we go and merge? How are we bound, and how do we obtain liberation? How do we merge with intuitive ease into the Eternal, Imperishable Lord? |
How could we ever forget Him from our minds? He is the Support of all beings. |
How is one bound, and how is one freed of his bonds? How can one escape from the cycle of coming and going in reincarnation? Who is subject to karma, and who is beyond karma? Who chants the Name, and inspires others to chant it? |
How rare is that person who understands his own self. |