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92 to him: 'You must be a liar from that country where Farid, who wore a wooden cake on his stomach, held religious sway. Whenever any one offered him food he used to say he had taken dinner.' Upon this Shaikh Brahm said: 'What shall be my condition, who am ever saying that I have dined, when I am only fasting?' The Guru was pleased to observe the Shaikh's tender conscience, and said to him: Shaikh Brahm, God is in thee.' The Shaikh then asked the Guru to tell him of God, and by what virtues and merits He was to be found. The Guru replied as follows:—

Come, my sisters and dear companions, embrace me. Having embraced me, tell me tales of the Omnipotent Spouse. In the true Lord are all merits, in us all dements. O Creator, every one is in Thy power. Meditate on the one Word; where Thou, O God, art, what more is required? Go ask the happy wife by what merits she enjoyeth her Spouse— 'Composure, contentment, and sweet discourse are mine ornaments. 'I met my Beloved, who is an abode of pleasure, when I heard the Guru's word.' How great, O God, is Thy power! how great Thy gifts! How many men and lower animals utter Thy praises day and night! How many are Thy forms and colours! how many castes high and low! When the true Guru is found, truth is produced, and man becoming true is absorbed in the truth. When man is filled with fear through the Guru's instructions, then he obtaineth understanding, and honour resulteth. Nanak, the true King then blendeth man with Himself.