A history of the Sikhs, from the origin of the nation to the battles of the Sutlej.

360 HISTORY OF THE SIKHS APP. XIX
Remember the primal Truth; Truth which was before the
world began,
Truth which is, and Truth, O Nanak! which will remain.
By reflection it cannot be understood, if times innumerable
it be considered.
By meditation it cannot be attained, how much soever the
attention be fixed.
A hundred wisdoms, even a hundred thousand, not one
accompanies the dead.
How can Truth be told, how can falsehood be unravelled?
O Nanak! by following the will of God, as by Him ordained.
NANAK, Adi Granth, Japji (commencement of).
One, Self-existent, Himself the Creator.
O Nanak! one continueth, another never was and never
will be. NANAK, Adi Granth, Gauri Rag.
Thou art in each thing, and in all places.
O God! thou art the one Existent Being.
RAM DAS, Adi Granth, Asa Rag.
My mind dwells upon One,
He who gave the Soul and the body.
ARJCN, Adi Granth, Sri Rag.
Time is the only God; the First and the Last, the Endless
Being; the Creator, the Destroyer; He who can make
and unmake.
God who created Angels and Demons, who created the East
and the West, the North and the South, how can He
be expressed by words?
GOBIND, Hazara Shabd.
God is one image (or Being), how can He be conceived in
another form? GOBIND, Vichitr Ndtak.
2. Incarnations, Saints, and Prophets; the Hindu Avatars,
Muhammad, and Sidhs, and PZrs
Numerous Muhammads have there been, and multitudes of
Brahmas, Vishnus, and Sivas,
Thousands of Pirs and Prophets, and tens of thousands of
Saints and Holy men:
But the Chief of Lords is the One Lord, the true Name of
God.
O Nanak! of God, His qualities, without end, beyond
reckoning, who can understand?
NXNAK, Ratan Mala (extra to the Granth).