Predestination

1. The year and moment of my death are fore ordained,

Come and anoint me with the oil of Love.
(Guru I, GauriI Rag)

2. As God has written in your account So you get.

(Guru I, Sri Rag)

3. Nanak, what can one get, If it is not ordained?

(Guru III, Sorath Rag)

4. What has been written in your fate, None can change;

Brother, as the Creator ordains, so it happens.
(Guru III, SorathRag)

5. One may try one's utmost, Yet without His decree nothing can be obtained.
(Guru I, Tilang Rag)

6. One gets according to What is in one's destiny.

(Guru III, Sorath Rag)

7. Through the eternal decree of Providence, The Guru has been attained,
And now my mind is absorbed in the love of the Lord.
(Guru IV, GauriI Rag)

8. How could writ of Eternity be obliterated,

When the writ is by His Will.
(Guru I, Sri Rag)