Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
This body is put together out of air and water.
It suffers from ego, the feeling of being a separate self, a hard and painful sickness.
The one who turns toward the Guru has the medicine: singing the praises of the One's Naam.
Out of kindness, the Guru has taken the sickness away.
Ego is a painful sickness, and singing the Naam is the medicine.
Haumai rog, the fever of thinking you are separate, is the hardest pain the body carries. Crucially, it is a sickness, not a crime, and there is a clear cure: raam naam daaroo, the Name as medicine, sung. And the healing is finished by grace (kar kirpaa gur rog gavaa-i-aa). It is a hopeful, doctor-and-patient picture: the trouble is serious, and the cure is sure.
When you feel sick or upset, what is the medicine that helps you feel better?
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