PRINCIPLES OF BELIEF. ETC. XIX \PP 8. O Nanak he, ! 333 Grace on whom God looks, finds the Lord. Nanak, Adi Granth, Asa Rag. he on whom God looks, will fix his mind on the Lord. Amar Das, Adi Granth, Bilawal. O Nanak ! 9. Predestination According to the fate of each, dependent on his actions, are his coming and going determined. Nanak, Adi Granth, Asa. can Truth be told ? how can falsehood be unravelled ? Nanak by following the will of God, as by Him How O ! ordained. » Nanak, Adi Granth, Japji. The Vedas, the Purans, and the Koran. 10. Pothis, Simrats Vedas, Purans, Are all as nothing, if unleavened by God. Nanak, Adi Granth, Gauri Rag. Give ear to Shastars and Vedas, and Korans, And thou may'st reach 'Swarg and Nark'. (i.e. to the necessity of coming back again.) Without God, salvation is unattainable. Nanak, Ratan Mala (an Extra book of the Adi Granth). Since he fell at the feet of God, no one has appeared great in his eyes. Ram and Rahim, the Purans, and the Koran, have many votaries, but neither does he regard. Simrats, Shastars, and Vedas, differ in many things; not one does he heed. O God under Thy favour has all been done; naught Gk>BiND, Rah Ras. is of myself. ! 11. Asceticism A householder who does no evil, ^ Who is ever intent upon good, 1 I.e. in English idiom, one of the laity; one who fulfils the ordinary duties of life.