|m J UJ v F| H J v H M|| N J|U v U H8F

MU|m UJ |U v |m H| N H|N v UJ N |N v
When the hands and the feet and the body are dirty, water can wash away the dirt. When the
clothes are soiled and stained by urine, soap can wash them clean. But when the intellect is
stained and polluted by sins and karmas, it can only be cleansed by Naam.

HM N HH| H N| J | | HKN |J v HH HKN H U|U || ||
H| m|J v
If salvation can be obtained by bathing in water, then what about the frog, which is always bathing
in water? As is the frog, so is that human being; he is reincarnated, over and over again.

m| HM H | |H 8N Hl v MN |F N J J| H mU
With filth within the heart, even if one bathes at sacred places, still, he shall not go to heaven.
Nothing is gained by trying to please others You can not fool the Lord by doing these kind of
acts.

H|m |UH' NJ| v |H U UU | HJ| v9v H H H | J|
v H| H |U N HJ| v9v J v
Those who take their ritual baths in the evening and the morning are like the frogs in the water.
When people do not love the Lord's Name, they must all go to the court of Dharam Rai.

N | W H 8 H N 8J U v NJ N8| J J| H 8
J J| N| H v
There are so many holy places in which to bathe, O crazy mind, and so many gods to worship.
Says Kabeer, you shall not be saved like this, O crazy mind; only by serving the Lord will you find
release.

NU| Jm NH NU| | |Um v UH| J| N H |m|Um v
Some love rituals, and some bathe at sacred places.But the Lord's slaves meditate on His Naam.

|| F H | H J v | H8U 8|8 m| |Nm J v
Why should I bathe at sacred places? The Naam, is the sacred place for me. My sacred place is
reflecting upon the Shabad within, and contemplation on the Shabad within this body.

|| |U m | H mN v J N|H m |UJ |8| UJ MN
J| |m v 8 8U H 88| 8 mN HJM U|m v 8 J| UN H
UJ HNM| U|m vv N NJ |UJ 8|8 |H NH H NH| v N
HJ m H |mJ |mNJ HJ NH| v
Those who bathe at sacred places, and wander over the earth, find no place of rest hereafter.
There, these are of no use at all. By these things, they only please other people.
Reciting the four Vedas from memory, they do not obtain the Mansion of the Lord's Presence
hereafter. Those who do not understand the One Pure Word (The Shabad), utter total nonsense.
Nanak voices this opinion: those who practice it, swim across. Serve the Guru, and meditate on
the Naam; renounce the egotistical pride from your mind.

HH 8U |H|H| H| H H UN 8 N| v |8 N HN| N H| J
N| 8|8| v7v mH| HH N| |UH |H mU H| v m|N H8 N|J
|U | |8 H|N m|m| vv
I have searched all the Shaastras, the Vedas and the Simritees, and they all affirm one thing:
without the Guru, no one obtains liberation; see, and reflect upon this in your mind. Even if one
takes cleansing baths at the sixty-eight sacred places, and wanders over the whole planet, and
performs all the rituals of purification day and night, still, without the True Guru, there is only
darkness.

JH HM |UJ HH v | || H|U mJN v
This world is polluted with egotism. By taking cleansing baths daily at sacred places, egotism is
not eliminated.

U mN F |N m HM v
How can giving donations to charities and countless cleansing baths wash off the filth within the
heart?

|m |m | |UH| v HHN mH |Um| v H H H|N H| J|
J v H N N| H m v m H N 8KM v N |HJ H| 8H|J
NM v
He may practice religious wisdom, pilgrimages to sacred shrines and ritual cleansing baths. He
may cook his own food, and never touch anyone else's; he may live in the wilderness like a
hermit. But if he does not enshrine love for the Lord's Naam within his heart, then everything he
does is temporary. Even an untouchable Chandal is superior to him, O Nanak, if the Lord of the
World abides in his mind.

HJ H UN J| U v H8 F N N| H v
Worship the One Divine Lord. The true cleansing bath is service to the Guru.

m J |HHJ H v m|N | HH |UH v
Twenty-four hours a day, meditate in remembrance on God's Naam. In it are the many sacred
places and cleansing baths.

H N UH |UH v H |N H|m H v9v
The Blessed Vision of the Saint is the perfect cleansing bath. By the Grace of the Saint, one
comes to meditate on the Naam.

N |HH| | |UH| v N |HH| UNJ H| v
In the Simran of God are purifying baths at sacred places. In the Simran of God, one attains
honor in the Court of the Lord.

H N| | NJ |UH v H | HU|m N8 v
Take your cleansing bath in the dust of the feet of the Saadh. To the Saadh, make your life a
sacrifice.

HNM H | |UH v H H|J 8 |8H |Nm v J| J| H N H|N
v H| |m N H J| |N vcv
All Dharmic virtues, sacred purifying baths, the most lofty and sublime spiritual wisdom all these
are obtained by meditating upon the Lord, in the Company of the Perfect Guru. You shall be
saved, O Nanak, by lovingly meditating upon the Lord's Naam

|| mW H8 |U v mH| HH H |U v7v
I am satisfied and satiated by the True Naam. My cleansing bath at the sixty-eight sacred shrines
of pilgrimage is the dust of the Saints.

|U |H|m |N H|F J N8 N v N | | H M N|J |N v
Those who forget the Naam - their lives are cursed, and broken like thin strands of thread.
O Nanak, the dust of the feet of the Saadh is more sacred than hundreds of thousands, even
millions of cleansing baths at sacred places.

HH U 8|NmU|m U| UNJ H |H v
In the Court of the Lord, Naam is far superior to cleansing baths, charity and good deeds, O
Brother.

F 8M || H| J | 8 v |UN M| |m U|U 8|mH J v
8J| | H| mU| |H |N v H M mF|m 8 |H 8 8 v
They go and bathe at sacred places, but their minds are still evil, and their bodies are thieves.
Some of their outer filth is washed off by these baths, but they only accumulate twice as much
internally. Like a gourd, they may be washed off on the outside, but on the inside, they are still
filled with poison. The Saadh is blessed, even without such bathing, while a thief is a thief, no
matter how much he bathes.

| |U |H HM v NH H H| JH M v MN 8 N| J| J|U v
H |8JF 8MH|J |U v |8 J| H JJ|H JM v H HH |H|H| HNM v H
H H |HH m| HU v HNM M H H| HHU v
Bathing at sacred places, inner filth of sins is not washed off. Religious rituals are all just
egotistical displays. By pleasing and appeasing people, no one is saved. Without the Naam, they
shall depart weeping. Without the Naam, the screen is not torn away. I have studied all the
Shaastras and Simritees. He alone meditates upon Naam, whom the Lord Himself inspires to
meditate. He obtains all fruits and rewards, and merges in peace.

HN H|U H8|U MN |m v |UH U H N|J UH |U m v
They do not have faith in the True Guru, and do not enshrine love for the Shabad. They take their
cleansing baths, and give to charity again and again, but they are ultimately consumed by their
love of duality.

HM JH | |N H H | |U v 8J |8| NH NHU UF| HM MN|
m|U v |m HM J |Nm|m H|U v9v H H N H|F m
|HM J|U v
This filth of egotism cannot be washed away, even by taking cleansing baths at hundreds of
sacred places. Performing all sorts of rituals, people are smeared with twice as much filth.
This filth is not removed by reading scriptures either. Go ahead, and ask the wise ones (who have
spent lives in reading holy books). O my mind, coming to the Sanctuary of the Guru, you shall
become immaculate and pure.

U| HM J| |HM H|M |U v |HM H8 UN J HM | H H|U v
O Brother, filth is washed away by bathing in the Pure Water of the Naam. You alone are
Perfectly Pure, O True Lord; all other places are filled with filth.

m | | M|m | 8J m|H v | |Nm N H H|J HM NH v
Reading their books over and over again, people continue making mistakes; they are so proud of
their religious robes. And what is the use of bathing at sacred places, when the filth of stubborn
pride is within the mind?

|H HN|m || N N v J NH UNF H N |U v N
MN| 8JH H N H|U v
they may be ascetics, great, self-disciplined Yogis; they may visit sacred placesand perform the
six ceremonial rituals, over and over again, performing worship services and ritual bathings. Even
so, if they have not embraced love for the Supreme Lord God, then they shall surely go to hell.

| H|M H mH| | |U v | M J| H H| H H mH|
| |U v
This filth cannot be washed off, even by bathing at the sixty-eight sacred places. If the Lord's
Naam abides within the mind, for a moment, even for an instant, it is like bathing at all the sixty-
eight sacred places.

J HH |88 H| |Nm v H |MN | |UH v |M| NH mH
8H|J |U H|J Hl| m H| v7v N| |N H|J H |HM|Um v H
H|M |H |Um v m|8H| 8|Hm WJ || J| HNM N N H| v
People recite from memory the wisdom of the six schools of philosophy; they perform worship
services, wear ceremonial religious marks on their foreheads, and take ritual cleansing baths at
sacred places. They perform the cleansing practice with water and adopt the eighty-four Yogic
postures; but still, they find no peace in any of these.
By His Mercy, I have met the Holy Saint. My mind and body have been cooled and soothed; I
have been blessed with patience and composure. The Immortal Lord God has come to dwell
within my heart. Nanak sings the songs of joy to the Lord.

8U |J H H v |MN N|J |UH N| m| NM v M
H|N H |HH | HH|N M v || HH H|m mF |H| N m| U
Those who read the holy scriptures in their entirety, still do not see the sublime essence of reality.
They apply ceremonial marks to their foreheads, and take cleansing baths, but they are
blackened within. One who had strayed, finds the Path again, if such pre-ordained destiny is
written on his forehead. One who sees the Guru with his eyes, embellishes and exalts his human
life.

H|W | U| | m| H|m v N H|W HJ H J| H| mH| |
v
In the month of Maagh, I become pure by knowing that the sacred shrine of pilgrimage is within
me. O Nanak, in the month of Maagh, the most sublime essence is meditation on the Lord; this is
the cleansing bath of the sixty-eight sacred places.

HH HN N|J 8U| v |U U| vHJ m|Um J HH| N|
mNF |Fm v7vHH m |N H vHF |M|U mU J| 8 v
HH NH N J| U |8 HH N|Fm vvH8 NF| H8U J H v
N| U|m H Um vm|U 8F| H8|U HFU H|8 |N N|Fm v0v
The idiotic manmukhs try to be clever, but in spite of their bathing and washing, they shall not be
acceptable. As they came, so shall they go, regretting the mistakes they made.
The blind manmukhs do not understand anything; death was pre-ordained for them when they
came into the world, but they do not understand. The self-willed manmukhs may practice religious
rituals, but they do not obtain Naam; without Naam, they lose this life in vain. The practice of
Truth is the Shabad. Through the Perfect Guru, the gate of salvation is found. So, night and day,
listen to the Bani of that Shabad. Let yourself be colored by this love.

mH| | HH N| H | v
Bathing in the dust of the feet of the Saadh, is equal to taking cleansing baths at the sixty-eight
sacred places.

H JH HH |UH v H JH U v H| | N J| NF N v
HH|N |HH U v
The Naam is my cleansing bath and purification. The Naam is my perfect donation of charity.
O Nanak, sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord with your mind and body. In the company of
Saadh, the Lord bestows His Naam.

N HHU U| H| |H| |H |KmU| v
The Guru is the ocean, and His Teachings are the river. Bathing within it, glorious greatness is
obtained.

|H|M H UH| U v | | H JU v HU|H H v H M
NH v
Meeting with the Saadhu, my evil-mindedness was eradicated. All the sins are purified. Similarly
When I met Guru Ram Das (or Bathed in his company), all the sins were washed away.

HJ HUH H |N v H H NM Jm J H| N v9v J v
H H v H H H N| v
O Saints, the purifying pool of Ram Das is sublime (Sangat of Guru Ram Das is as if bathing in
sacred pools of ambrosial nector). Whoever bathes in it (meets Guru Ram Das), his family and
ancestry are saved, and his soul is saved as well. ||1||Pause|| One who bathes in the pool of the
Saint, that humble being obtains the supreme status.

H N| | v m H m U|m v NFJ | M|m vv
They bathe in the dust of the feet of the Sadhus. He Himself bestows His Naam on them. God,
the Creator, saves us.

H|N m|H H KN| |J m|U v HH HH N| HM |HM
H |U|U v
The True Guru, the Primal Being, is the Pool of Ambrosial Nectar. The very fortunate ones come
to bathe in it. The filth of many incarnations is washed away, and the Immaculate Naam is
implanted within.

N| HN| H N| mH| | v
Be in the company of a Saadh, This is your real cleansing bath at the sixty-eight sacred places.

H N F H | |Um v HU| |88F H |H| J| |m|Um v m|H H
| H |Um v H H N| | HH|N M|Um v N U | J| ||
|Um v
That Saint, that devotee, is acceptable, who is loved by God. Those beings are wise, who
meditate on the Lord. They eat the food, the treasure of the Ambrosial Naam. They apply the dust
of the feet of the Saints to their foreheads. O Nanak, they are purified, bathing in the sacred
shrine of the Lord.

HN 8J| H| HHF| HN | MU|m v HN U|H |UH| |m HN ||
U|m v mH H|J |H| J|m HN HN| |U U|m v7v H|N J HJH
J |H JU|m v | HJH | MN W J| 8 U|m v mH
H|J |H| J|m HN HN| |U U|m vv N H||m H| J|m mH HN
NHU|m v H 8J |H| H | U U|m v mH H|J |H| J|m
HN HN| U|m v
Yoga is not wandering to the tombs of the dead; Yoga is not sitting in trances. Yoga is not
wandering through foreign lands; Yoga is not bathing at sacred places. Remaining detached in
the midst of the filth of the world - this is the way to attain Yoga. Meeting with the True Guru,
doubt is dispelled, and the wandering mind is restrained. Nectar rains down continuously as the
celestial music (Shabad) resounds, and deep within, by listening to that Shabad, wisdom is
obtained. Remaining detached in the midst of the filth of the world - this is the way to attain Yoga.
O Nanak, remain dead while yet alive - practice such a Yoga. The horn (of Shabad) is blowing on
its own without being blown by anybody, by listening to it, you shall attain the state of fearless
dignity. Remaining detached in the midst of the filth of the world - this is the way to attain Yoga.

mH| | N H8|U |UU | HM HU v
Listening to the Guru's Shabad within, I have seen all the sixty-eight sacred places; bathing in
the Shabad, filth is washed away (not by bathing outside).

m|J |H 8J |WFF v m|J |H 8U F v m|J |H
|| U|m v m|J |H | U|m v m|J |H |N |HmF v
m|J |H 8J U U v H N |H mNH mN8 v N N |H N
F v
No one can bring You under control, by despising the world. No one can bring You under control,
by studying holy scriptures. No one can bring You under control, by bathing at the holy places. No
one can bring You under control, by wandering all over the world. No one can bring You under
control, by any clever tricks. No one can bring You under control, by giving huge donations to
charities. Everyone is under Your power, O inaccessible, unfathomable Lord. You are under the
control of Your Bhagats; You are the strength of Your Bhagats.

HH HH N| HM N | v
The filth of countless incarnations is washed away, bathing in the dust of the Guru's feet.

m|H H H|N H|U| |H Nm JH JJ v N K KN| |H
NH| H |U HM J v
The True Guru, the Speaker of Truth, is the pool of Ambrosial Nectar; bathing within Him, the
crow becomes a swan. O Nanak, blessed, blessed and very fortunate are those who, through the
Guru's Teachings, obtain Naam, and wash away the filth of their hearts.

|| |U NJ H|8 HM v H N |m JH HM v N|J NH 8 N HM v J|
N H |8 |8 M v MH H H H M v H |8J H| |N H v J|
|HH |K H N| 8J v HM |8 H N mJ v
How can a stone be purified by bathing at a sacred place? The filth of egotism clings to the mind.
Millions of rituals and actions taken are the root of entanglements. Without meditating on the
Lord, the mortal gathers only worthless bundles of straw.
One who does not repeat the Naam, shall die of shame. Without Naam, how can he ever sleep in
peace? The mortal abandons Simran, and then wishes for the state of supreme salvation; but
without roots (of Simran), how can there be any branches (of salvation)?

|HH H N |UN H v NMHM UN J|J | m| N|J U |UH v
Meditate in remembrance on the Naam. In this way, the sins of your past mistakes shall be burnt
off in an instant. It is like giving millions in charity, and bathing at sacred shrines of pilgrimage.

|| mH| HH U| v
Instead of bathing at the sixty-eight sacred places, take your cleansing bath in Naam.

H || HH N v HH HH N |NM|8 J v
Continually bathing in the dust of the feet of the Saints, the sins of countless incarnations are
washed away.

J| |N H H N N v HN H | v
Imbued with the Lord's Love, they sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. They are liberated,
bathing in the dust of the feet of the Holy.

H N HH N H mN v
Bathing in the dust of the feet of the Saints, Nanak is blessed with countless comforts.

HN |UH v H |N |JU H v9v
Perfect is the path; perfect is the cleansing bath. Everything is perfect, if the Naam is in the heart.

mN | H H N m N| JH NU H|U v
Although one may bathe at many places of pilgrimage, still, his ego never departs.