ਵਿਣੁ ਨਾਵੈ ਦੁਖੁ ਦਰਦੁ ਸਰੀਰਿ ॥
vin naavai dukh darad sareer.
Without the Name, the body suffers in pain;
ਸਤਿਗੁਰੁ ਭੇਟੇ ਤਾ ਉਤਰੈ ਪੀਰ ॥
satgur bhaytay taa utrai peer.
but when one meets the True Guru, then that pain is removed.
ਬਿਨੁ ਗੁਰ ਭੇਟੇ ਦੁਖੁ ਕਮਾਇ ॥
bin gur bhaytay dukh kamaa-ay.
Without meeting the Guru, the mortal earns only pain.
ਮਨਮੁਖਿ ਬਹੁਤੀ ਮਿਲੈ ਸਜਾਇ ॥੩॥
manmukh bahutee milai sajaa-ay. ||3||
The self-willed manmukh receives only more punishment. ||3||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Without the Name the body aches; meet the true Guru, and that ache is lifted.
Without meeting the Guru, a person earns only pain;
the self-willed only pile up more suffering.
Living cut off from your source is its own kind of ache — and reconnecting is the relief.
A plain diagnosis: "without the Name, the body suffers in pain." The pain is not arbitrary punishment but the natural ache of living cut off from one's source — and the manmukh (self-willed) compounds it by staying turned away. Meeting the Guru lifts it not by magic but by reconnecting the soul to the Name.
A Question to Sit With
What kind of ache eases the moment you reconnect with something you'd drifted from?
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