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Rh By God's mercy men obtain it and not by idle words. One man cometh, another goeth; we give them great names. Some men God created to beg, and some to preside over great courts. When they have departed, they shall know that without the Name they are of no account. I greatly fear Thine anger; O God, my body pineth and wasteth away. They who have been called kings and lords are beheld as ashes. Nanak, when man departeth all false affections are sundered.

Upon this the schoolmaster became astonished, did Nanak homage as a perfect saint, and told him to do what he pleased.

Nanak, having thus shown his scholastic proficiency, left school and took to private study and meditation. He remained for long periods in the same attitude, whether sleeping or waking, and associated continually with religious men.

The scholastic ignorance of the founders of great