ਇਕ ਦੂ ਜੀਭੌ ਲਖ ਹੋਹਿ ਲਖ ਹੋਵਹਿ ਲਖ ਵੀਸ ॥
ik dū jībhau lakh hōh lakh hōvah lakh vīs .
If I had 100,000 tongues, and these were then multiplied twenty times more, with each tongue,
ਲਖੁ ਲਖੁ ਗੇੜਾ ਆਖੀਅਹਿ ਏਕੁ ਨਾਮੁ ਜਗਦੀਸ ॥
lakh lakh gērā ākhīah ēk nām jagadīs .
I would repeat, hundreds of thousands of times, the Name of the One, the Lord of the Universe.
ਏਤੁ ਰਾਹਿ ਪਤਿ ਪਵੜੀਆ ਚੜੀਐ ਹੋਇ ਇਕੀਸ ॥
ēt rāh pat pavarīā charīai hōi ikīs .
Along this path to our Husband Lord, we climb the steps of the ladder, and come to merge with Him.
ਸੁਣਿ ਗਲਾ ਆਕਾਸ ਕੀ ਕੀਟਾ ਆਈ ਰੀਸ ॥
sun galā ākās kī kītā āī rīs .
Hearing of the etheric realms, even worms long to come back home.
ਨਾਨਕ ਨਦਰੀ ਪਾਈਐ ਕੂੜੀ ਕੂੜੈ ਠੀਸ ॥੩੨॥
nānak nadarī pāīai kūrī kūrai thīs .32.
O Nanak, by His Grace He is obtained. False are the boastings of the false. ||32||