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She distributed the Guru's wealth in his kitchen—rice boiled in milk and ghi tasting like ambrosia.

The faces of the Guru's Sikhs were bright; those of the perverse grew pale.

The disciples who toil are accepted in company with their master.

Mother Khivi's spouse is he who supporteth the earth.

Guru Nanak, in bowing to Guru Angad, reversed the order of things, and everybody said ‘What is this he hath done?’

King Nanak, the lord of the earth, uttered sublime sentiments.

Taking a mountain as his churning staff and the snake as its rope he churned God's word.

He extracted the fourteen gems and illumined the world.

He displayed such power when he tested so great a man as Angad.

He put his umbrella over the head of Lahina who then was exalted to the skies.

Guru Nanak's light blended with Guru Angad's, and Guru Nanak became absorbed in him.

He tested his Sikhs and his sons, and the whole sect saw what he had done.

It was when Lahina was purified that Guru Nanak consecrated him.

After Guru Nanak, Pheru's son the true Guru, went and inhabited Khadur.

Devotion, penance, and austerities abide with thee, O Lahina; great pride with other people.

Greed spoileth men as slime doth water.

Natural light streameth into the Guru's court.

They who can find no shelter elsewhere find it in thee, O Lahina.