Salok Mardana

First Salok states: Shalok Mardana 1: The Dark Age of Kali Yuga is the vessel, filled with the wine of sexual desire; the mind is the drunkard.

Make virtue your bread, good conduct the ghee, and modesty the meat to eat.

Second Salok states: Marḏānā 1:The human body is the vat, self-conceit is the wine, and desire is the company of drinking buddies.

||2|| Third Stanza of Second shalok states: If the human body is the vat, and self-realization is the wine, then a stream of Ambrosial Nectar is produced.

Meeting with the Society of the Saints, the cup of the Lord's Love is filled with this Ambrosial Nectar; drinking it in, one's corruptions and sins are wiped away.

Painting of Guru Nanak and Mardana from a Janamsakhi Manuscript