Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The truest people are the ones whose love is deep and real, all the way through.
If someone feels one thing in their heart but says another with their mouth, that split is what makes them false.
The raag turns to the voice traditionally counted its earliest — Shaykh Fareed, a great Sufi (Muslim mystic) saint of the 12th–13th century, whose hymns the Guru Granth Sahib holds as scripture alongside the Gurus' and the other Bhagats'. His theme here is sincerity: they alone are true whose love for God is deep and heart-felt, while those who have one thing in the heart and another in the mouth are false. The mark of a true person, Fareed says, is wholeness — the inside and the outside matching, no gap between what you feel and what you say. To be false isn't about lying now and then; it's about being split — pretending on the outside to be what you're not on the inside. For a child, it's a clear and central teaching about integrity: let your words and your heart be one. Say what you truly mean, and mean what you say.
What does it feel like to be around someone whose words truly match what's in their heart?
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