Salok Vaaraan Te Vadheek (Mehl 3), Salok 79 — the fight is with your own mind
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Whoever does bad things — how can they ever win through?
By their own anger, they only burn themselves.
The manmukh — the one who follows only their own wants — goes half-crazy, grinding away in worry and quarrels.
Whoever turns to the Guru comes to understand everything.
Nanak says: the Gurmukh wrestles with their own mind.
Anger burns the one who holds it; the one who turns to the Guru wrestles with their own mind instead.
Buraa karay so kayhaa sijhai: whoever does wrong, how can they come out well? Aapnai rohi aapay hee dajhai: their own anger burns them. Ragrhai lujhai: the self-willed grind and quarrel with everything around them.
Gurmukh man si-o lujhai: the one who turns to the Guru takes up a different struggle, with their own mind. That is where the understanding comes from.
What is one thing your own mind tells you that is not true?
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