Classic Poem

Remember Rama — remember Rama: this thy one task.
Renounce the company of Maya: rest on the protection of the Lord.
Know the world's pleasure to be vanity: false is all the fashion of it.
Know wealth to be but as a dream: wherefore dost thou boast thyself?
As a wall of sand, so is the kingdom of this world.
Says Nanak the sage — the body wastes away.
Second by second the past has gone: even so to-day will go.