Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Lost in the love of separateness, people sit and form their factions.
They pick over other people's faults, while their own pride only swells.
As they plant, so shall they reap. Servant Nanak has joined the One's alliance of truth — which wins the whole world by love.
A piercing portrait of partisanship: "they complain about other peoples' faults, while their own self-conceit only increases." Faction-thinking feeds the ego by lowering others. The law of the harvest applies ("as they plant, so shall they harvest"). Against it, the "alliance of Dharma" — alignment with truth — of which the shabad simply declares that it "shall conquer the whole world."
Have you noticed how criticizing others can quietly make someone feel bigger? What does that cost?
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