ਜੋ ਜਨਮੇ ਸੇ ਰੋਗਿ ਵਿਆਪੇ ॥
jo janmay say rog vi-aapay.
Whoever is born is afflicted by disease,
ਹਉਮੈ ਮਾਇਆ ਦੂਖਿ ਸੰਤਾਪੇ ॥
ha-umai maa-i-aa dookh santaapay.
tortured by the pain of egotism and Maya.
ਸੇ ਜਨ ਬਾਚੇ ਜੋ ਪ੍ਰਭਿ ਰਾਖੇ ॥
say jan baachay jo parabh raakhay.
They alone are saved, who are protected by God.
ਸਤਿਗੁਰੁ ਸੇਵਿ ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤ ਰਸੁ ਚਾਖੇ ॥੩॥
satgur sayv amrit ras chaakhay. ||3||
Serving the True Guru, they drink in the Amrit, the Ambrosial Nectar. ||3||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Everyone who is born is touched by the sickness of ego and the fever of grasping.
Only those the One protects are saved;
serving the True Guru, they drink the Ambrosial Nectar.
Ego and grasping are a sickness everyone is born with — and the Name is the medicine.
Egotism and Maya are framed as a universal disease — no one is born immune. This is not despair but honesty: the cure (the Amrit, the Nectar of the Name) is offered precisely because the sickness is universal. "Drinking the Nectar" is the Har Ras of contact, not the dry reading of theory.
A Question to Sit With
What would it mean to treat your own ego gently, like an illness to heal rather than a crime?
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