Salok Vaaraan Te Vadheek (Mehl 3), Salok 55 — the antidote to the world's poison
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Maya — the pull of the world — is a poisonous snake; O mother, it has wrapped the world in its poison.
The cure for the poison is the Naam of the One; the Guru places the Word in the mouth like a healing charm.
Those for whom it was written from the start — the True Guru comes and meets them.
Meeting the True Guru, they become clean, and the poison of ego melts away.
The faces of the Gurmukhs — those who turn to the Guru — shine bright; they are honored in the court of the One.
Nanak says: I am forever devoted to those who walk in the True Guru's Will.
The pull of the world works like snake poison, and the Naam is its cure.
Maa-i-aa bhu-i-angam sarap hai: Maya is a snake that has coiled around the world. Gur garurh sabad: in old India, a garurh charm, named after Garuda, the great eagle that eats snakes, was said to cure snakebite. The Guru's Word is that charm, placed in the mouth.
Those who meet the Guru become nirmal, clean, and bikh ha-umai, the poison of ego, melts away. Haumai, ego, is the feeling of being a separate self. The faces of those who turn to the Guru shine in the court of the One.
What is one thing you call "mine" that has a grip on you?
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