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90 IV It is the fourth watch; the sun riseth. They who night and day are watchful have saved their homes. Night is pleasant for those who under the Guru's instruction watch and apply themselves to the Name. They who act according to the instruction of the Guru shall not be born again; the Lord will befriend them. In the fourth watch hands shake, feet and frames totter, eyes grow dim, and men s bodies become like ashes. Nanak, without God's name abiding in the mind man is unhappy during the four watches.

V The knot of life is open; arise, thine allotted time hath come. All pleasures and happiness are at an end; Death will lead thee captive away. Without being seen or heard he will lead thee captive, when it so pleaseth God. His turn shall come to every one; the ripe field shall ever be cut down. An account of every ghari and moment shall be taken, and the soul shall obtain punishment or reward. Nanak, God made everything, demigods and men are herein agreed.

When the Guru and Shaikh Brahm left the forest the villager returned to fetch his basin. On lifting it up, it is said, he found that it had become gold, and was filled with gold coins. Then he began to repent of his suspicions, and confessed to himself that they were religious men. If he had come with

attached to forms of existence. Whenever any one of the three qualities predominates, it causes the embodied spirit to abound in that quality. The aim of the soul apparently should be to divest itself of all three qualities. Compare Plato's distinction of the three parts of the mind corresponding to the three classes of his ideal state.