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Rh Then were no Veds or Muhammadan books, 1 no Simritis, no Shastars ;

No reading of the Purans, no sunrise, no sunset.

The Imperceptible God was Himself the speaker and preacher ; Himself unseen He saw everything.

When He pleased He created the world ;

Without supports He sustained the sky.

He created Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiv, and extended the love of mammon.

He communicated the Guru s words to some few persons.

He issued His order and watched over all.

He began with the continents, the universe, and the nether regions, and brought forth what had been hidden. His limit no one knoweth.

From the True Guru I have learned,

Nanak, that they who are imbued with the truth are wonderful, and delight in singing God s praises. Upon this Brahm Das again fell at the Guru s feet, cast away the idol from his neck, and, becoming a worshipper of God, performed service for the Guru. His evil desires, however, departed not. Whatever service he performed was brief and per functory, for he thought to himself that he had performed similar service before ; but whatever he did was of no avail on account of his pride.

At one of their meetings the Guru told him to take a guru. He inquired, What guru shall I take ? The Guru bade him go to a certain house in the wilderness where he should find four faqirs, and they would inform him. The pandit went to them, and they, after some delay, pointed out a temple in which they said he should find his guru. The pandit pro ceeded thither, but instead of receiving a courteous reception, was shoe-beaten in a piteous manner by a woman in red who guarded the temple. Crying bitterly he returned to the four men who had dis-

1 They are described as the Psalms of David, the Old Testa ment, the New Testament, and the Quran.