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114 No one can kill him, O Kind One, whom Thou preserves!. How can Thy praises be numbered ? Thou savest countless beings.

Preserve me, O Beloved, preserve me ! I am Thy slave. My true Lord pervadeth sea and land, the nether and the upper regions.

Thou didst preserve Jaidev and Nama, Thy beloved saints Thou didst save those on whom Thou didst bestow Thy name Thou didst preserve Sain, Kabir, and Trilochan who loved Thy name.

Thou didst preserve Ravdas, the tanner, who is numbered among Thy saints.

Nanak, who is without honour or family, uttereth supplication.

Extricate him, O Lord, from the ocean of the world, and make him Thine own.

It is said that the Emperor, on hearing this, fell at Nanak s feet, and declared that God appeared on his face. Upon this all the courtiers saluted Nanak.

The Emperor asked him to accept a present from him. The Guru replied that he wanted nothing for himself, but he requested that the captives of Saiyidpur might be released. Upon this the Emperor ordered that they should be set free and their property restored to them. The captives, however, refused to depart without the Guru. He was then allowed to go with them, and they went to their homes in the city. They found that all the people who had remained in Saiyidpur had been put to death. Mardana told his master that it had all hap pened as God had willed it. Upon this the Guru, to the accompaniment of Mardana’s rebeck, sang the following lamentation :