Salok Sehskritee, Salok 16 — Everything Has Two Sides
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Where there is birth, there is death. Where there is joy, there is sorrow. Where there is pleasure, there is sickness.
Where there is high, there is low. What is small becomes great.
Where there is power, there is pride. Where there is pride, there is a fall.
Lost in the ways of the world, a person is ruined.
Singing of the Lord of the World in the Sangat, you become steady. Nanak says: I sing of the One and remember the One.
Every high in life comes with its low, and a heart rooted in the One stops being thrown about by them.
The salok sets pairs side by side: janma ta marna, birth and death; harkha ta soga, joy and sorrow; bhoga ta roga, pleasure and sickness; raaja ta maana, power and pride; abhimaana ta heena, pride and a fall. Parvirat maargan: living only by these swings, a person is ruined.
Gobind bhajan saaDh sangayn asthiran: singing of the One in the Sangat, a person becomes steady. The waves still come, and they no longer throw you.
When your feelings swing high and low, where could you drop an anchor so the swings do not throw you?
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