ਕੂੜੁ ਕਮਾਵੈ ਆਵੈ ਜਾਵੈ ॥
koorh kamaavai aavai jaavai.
One who practices falsehood comes and goes.
ਕਹਣਿ ਕਥਨਿ ਵਾਰਾ ਨਹੀ ਆਵੈ ॥
kahan kathan vaaraa nahee aavai.
By speaking and talking, His limits cannot be found.
ਕਿਆ ਦੇਖਾ ਸੂਝ ਬੂਝ ਨ ਪਾਵੈ ॥
ki-aa daykhaa soojh boojh na paavai.
Whatever one sees, is not understood.
ਬਿਨੁ ਨਾਵੈ ਮਨਿ ਤ੍ਰਿਪਤਿ ਨ ਆਵੈ ॥੨॥
bin naavai man taripat na aavai. ||2||
Without the Name, satisfaction does not enter into the mind. ||2||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Whoever lives in falsehood keeps coming and going.
No amount of talk can find the One's limits.
Whatever the eye sees, it does not really understand; and without the Name, the mind never settles into contentment.
Without the Name, the mind never settles — no amount of seeing or talking fills it.
Three failures of the false life: it keeps cycling, it cannot talk its way to the One, and it sees without understanding. The diagnosis lands on restlessness — "without the Name, satisfaction does not enter the mind." Contentment is not produced by getting more; it arrives only with the Name.
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