☬ Pauri XXV - His Bounties

His many bounties cannot be recorded. He is a great giver and hath not a particle of covetousness. How many, yea countless heroes beg of Him! How many others whose number cannot be conceived! How many pine away in sin! How many persons receive yet deny God's gifts! How many fools there are who merely eat! How many are ever dying in distress and hunger! O Giver, these are also Thy gifts. Rebirth and deliverance depend on Thy will: nobody can interfere with it. If any fool try to interfere with it, he shall himself know the punishment he shall suffer. God Himself knoweth to whom He may give, and He Himself giveth. Very few acknowledge this. He to whom God hath given the boon of praising and lauding Him, O Nanak, is the King of kings.