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Rh Woman is making supplication and praising His qualities: ‘I shall be pleasing to the Lord if I utter His praises. ‘The Bairagi liveth in the true palace; if He allow me to go to Him, I will go. ‘Without God I am without honour and strength; how shall I obtain comfort in His palace?’ Nanak, in Jeth if a woman know God and embrace virtue, she shall by His favour become like unto Him.

The month of Har is sultry; the sun is burning in the sky; The earth is suffering; it is parched and heated like fire; The heat is drying up moisture; men die in anguish, yet the sun wearieth not of his toil. When his chariot turneth towards the south, woman looketh for the shade; the grasshoppers chirp in the forest. She who hath departed with her sins shall suffer in the next world, while she who remembereth the True One shall obtain comfort. Nanak, with God, to whom I gave my heart, are death and life.

In Sawan be happy, O my soul; it is the season of clouds and rain. ‘I love my Spouse with my soul and body, but the Dear One hath gone abroad; ‘My Spouse cometh not home; I am dying with the pang of separation; the flash of the lightning terrifieth me. ‘I am alone on my couch and greatly grieved; O mother, my pain is as bad as death. ‘Say how can sleep and appetite come to me without God? Raiment affordeth my body no comfort.’