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False are kings, false their subjects, false the whole world;

False are mansions, false palaces, false those who dwell therein;

False is gold; false silver; false he who weareth them;

False the body; false raiment; false peerless beauty;

False husbands; false wives; they waste away and become dust.

Man who is false loveth what is false, and forgetteth the Creator.

With whom contract friendship? The whole world passeth away.

False is sweetness; false honey; in falsehood shiploads are drowned.

Nanak humbly asserteth—except Thee, O God, everything is thoroughly false.

Man is known as true when truth is in his heart;

When the filth of falsehood departeth, man washeth his body clean.

Man is known as true when he beareth love to the True One;

When the mind is enraptured on hearing the Name, man attaineth the door of salvation.

Man shall be known as true when he knoweth the true way;

Having prepared the field of the body, put into it the seed of the Creator.

Man shall be known as true when he receiveth true instruction;

Let man show mercy to living things and perform some works of charity.

Man shall be known as true, when he dwelleth in the pilgrimage of his heart;