Salok Vaaraan Te Vadheek (Mehl 3), Salok 75 — waking up with a jolt
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The mind does not understand coming and going, birth and death, and it does not see the court of the One.
Wrapped up in attachment to Maya — the pull of the world — it is dark inside with not-knowing.
The sleeping person wakes up only when a heavy blow lands on the head.
The Gurmukhs — those who turn to the Guru — remember the One, and find the door of freedom.
Nanak says: they themselves are saved, and their whole family is carried across too.
A mind asleep in the world's pull often wakes only with a hard blow; those who remember the One find the door.
Maa-i-aa mohi palayti-aa: wrapped up in Maya, the mind is dark inside, agi-aan gubaar, the darkness of not-knowing. Sir dand lagaa baho bhaar: the sleeper wakes only when a heavy club strikes the head, an old picture of the hard knocks that finally shake a person awake.
Those who turn to the Guru remember the One and find mokh du-aar, the door of freedom. They are saved, and their families are carried across with them.
Has a difficult moment ever woken you up to something important?
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