Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Some are crooked, stained, living in corruption — He Himself has let them stray from the Name.
No intuition, no understanding, no self-restraint — they wander reeling.
This one says even the lost are still in the One's land.
This verse is the dark side of the picture. It shows a soul with three inner tools gone: naa on siDh na buDh hai na sanjmee — no sense of direction, no understanding, no self-control. Think of the compass, the map, and the brakes all missing at once.
The result is utvataa-ay, reeling and swerving. It is the wandering this raag, this musical section of the Guru Granth Sahib, keeps pointing to, now at its worst.
But notice the frame the verse insists on. Even this straying is aap khu-aa-ay, His own letting-stray. The reeling ones do not belong to some other kingdom. They are His, in a far-off corner of His own land. That is why, in this tradition, no one prays about the fallen with scorn.
When you see someone whose life is reeling, what do you feel — and what might this verse ask you to feel?
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