333 Appendix 5 Within it is the restless agitation of the mind. It has nine dooiways The tenth is the one thtough which one goes to meet God. 0 learned one, have you thought of this? Every one can discourse, speak, and listen. Only he who knows himself understands the narure of the soul And is a learned d.ivine. The body is made of clay The sounds that emerge are of substance airy. Know you, 0 learned one What dies when a man dies? Consciousness dies Then dies the Ego But the soul dies not. What seek you in pilgrimage to sacred rivers? The priceless jewel is within your bTeast. The learned Pandit reads much, declaims much But knows not. the treasUre within himself. h is not I who die But the demon of ignorance who is destroyed; The soul that sustains dies not. Says Nanak, this is what the Lord the Creator has shown me Now I know there is no birth nor death. jiil<> jat /taha!J: 14 iivai Know you whence comes life? How we are born? Where go we when we die? Why some are caught in the cycle of birth and rebirth While Olhers are freed to merge in the Deathless One? Those who have Him in their hearts And have His Name ever on their lips.; Those who worship Him but seek no gain To them come birth and death peacefully. Thoughts rise in the mind, in the mind do they subside. Only the Guru's word gives us freedom Contemplating upon it we achieve liberation.