Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The real way to remember the One is something else entirely.
Smashing the snake's hole does not kill the snake; a deaf man does not hear the Name.
This one says the real way to remember the One is different from just going through the motions.
This is the Rahao, the "pause" line. It is the center of the shabad. Guru Arjan gives two sharp pictures of missing the point.
First: varmee maaree saap na mar-ee — smash the snake's hole, and the snake is not killed. Think of wiping your phone screen when the problem is a virus inside. You attack the outside, while the real danger lives on. That danger is the ego and the strong pulls inside us.
Second: the deaf person does not hear the Name. He goes through the motions, but nothing reaches him.
The true way, the verse says, is different from these empty swaps.
Where might you be fixing the outside while the real issue lives on inside?
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