Salok Sheikh Farid, Salok 101 — the birds of the wild
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Farid says: I give my whole heart to those birds that live in the wild.
They peck at pebbles and grit and live on the bare ground, yet they never leave the One's side.
The wild birds live on almost nothing and still never leave the One's side.
Ha-o balihaaree: I am a sacrifice, an old way of saying "I give myself wholly" in love and admiration. Farid says this to the pankhee-aa jangal, the birds of the wild.
Kakar chugan thal vasan: they peck at grit and live on the ground. They own nothing and ask for little, yet rab na chhodan paas, they do not leave the Lord's side. Farid would gladly live like them.
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