ਸੋ ਲਾਲਾ ਜੀਵਤੁ ਮਰੈ ॥
so laalaa jeevat marai.
He alone is the Lord's slave, who remains dead while yet alive.
ਸੋਗੁ ਹਰਖੁ ਦੁਇ ਸਮ ਕਰਿ ਜਾਣੈ ਗੁਰ ਪਰਸਾਦੀ ਸਬਦਿ ਉਧਰੈ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥
sog harakh du-ay sam kar jaanai gur parsaadee sabad uDhrai. ||1|| rahaa-o.
He looks upon pleasure and pain alike; by Guru's Grace, he is saved through the Word of the Shabad. ||1||Pause||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Only that person is truly the One's servant who stays dead-to-self while still alive.
He treats pleasure and pain just the same; by grace, the Word carries him safely across.
Die to the self, and pleasure and pain stop tossing you back and forth.
The Pause defines the real servant by jeevat marnaa — "dead while yet alive" — and by the equanimity that follows: he "looks upon pleasure and pain alike." The ego's death produces a soul no longer tossed between delight and dread, carried across by the Word.
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