Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The kitchen is made of gold, and the cooking pots are gold.
Silver lines mark the cooking square.
The water comes from the Ganges, the holy river, and the firewood is blessed.
The food is soft rice cooked in milk.
A kitchen can be perfect and spotless, all gold and silver.
Su-inay kaa cha-ukaa means the kitchen is made of gold. The cooking pots are gold too. Silver lines mark the cooking square, a space kept extra clean for holy cooking. The water comes from the Ganges, the holy river. The firewood is blessed. The food is soft rice cooked in milk.
This is the careful kitchen of a Brahmin, or priestly, family in Guru Nanak's time. It is meant to sound beautiful, and nothing here is being made fun of.
Think of a stage set up perfectly before a play. The lights are ready and everything shines. But the play has not started yet. Next, Guru Nanak will ask what all this is worth without the one thing that matters: a heart soaked in the Naam.
Can something look completely perfect on the outside and still be missing something important?
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