Salok Vaaraan Te Vadheek (Mehl 3), Salok 61 — the fire of wanting goes quiet
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
All the 8.4 million kinds of beings on earth burn with wanting and cry out.
All this spread-out attachment to Maya — the pull of the world — will not go along at the very last moment.
Without the One, peace does not come; to whom else could we cry out?
By great good fortune, one finds the True Guru and comes to understand the wisdom of the One.
Nanak says: when the One is held in the heart, the fire of wanting goes out completely.
The whole living world burns with wanting, and only the One held in the heart puts that fire out.
Lakh cha-oraaseeh maydnee: the "8.4 million" kinds of beings, the old count of every form of life. All of them burn with tisnaa, the fire of wanting, and cry out. The show of Maya does not go along antee vaar, at the last moment.
Bin har saa(n)t na aavee: without the One there is no peace. By good fortune a person meets the Guru, and tisnaa agan, the fire of wanting, goes out.
What is something you wanted badly once that does not matter to you at all now?
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